Welcome to the Gordian Plans City Journal, the entirely silly story of four entirely unqualified guys that got shipped out into the middle of deserted nowhere with nothing but a lifetime supply of Ding-Dongs and a huge pile of cash, to colonize it in the holy name of the great Beegle, whose followers are damn well expecting some housing and a job when they arrive.

This game is played in vanilla SC4 Deluxe with only a few of the essential mods: the NAM, the industry quadrupler and IH census fix, and a few dilapidation disablers. The only added building is an underground parking garage lot that probably won't get used much, since the NAM is set to ultra capacity. Technically there's no "cheating" here, but it's being played in Deluxe easy mode, which might as well be cheating. This is not a serious game, just a bit of fun.

The region map is Marinhao by Paulo HB; many thanks for your maps, Paulo. It's downloadable from the STEX, of course.

Our stars are:

  Baron von Awesome has been appointed by the great Beegle as Supreme-Dictator-for-Life. Gets to make all the final decisions, but also has to listen to all the incoming bitching and moaning from citizens and the insane babbling of his advisors.

Willy C is Baron von Awesome's city planner, treasurer, and highly trusted Guy Who Tells You When You're About to Do Something Stupid. He will be busy.

  Mash Wilson fills the roles of Safety Chief and Recreation and Environmental Chief. He only agreed to join this expedition at all because Baron promised he could name everything and because he looks forward to cracking criminal skulls. It doesn't look good for Fairness and Justice. It was also a Bad Idea to put Mash in charge of looking after the environment, but nobody else wanted to do it.

  Null Stanton is Baron's primary advisor on the matters of Education, Health and Transportation. This is a dicey proposition inasmuch as Null hates people. He doesn't especially care for overseeing transportation, either, so he sometimes just gives Mash the maps and tells him to have fun. Hilarity probably will ensue.

And this is your basic snapshot overview of the Gordian Plains before Team Baron arrived to defile it: