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For information on the city from the re-imagined series, see New Caprica City.

New Cap City was a virtual recreation of Caprica City in the years prior to the First Cylon War. A near identical reproduction of the Caprican city, New Cap city featured a darker atmosphere, and allowed holoband users to engage in violent, gangster-style game play.

Overview

New Cap City grew out of the underground movement on Caprica before the Fall of teenagers hacking pay holoband sites to create free virtual environments like the "V-Club". New Cap was widely known for its violence, a corrupted version of the real life Caprica City that updated to reflect current events in the physical world including the bombing of MagLev 23. Unlike the genuine article, this version of Caprica City reflected a bygone era of propeller aircraft and was patrolled by an enormous, well armed dirigible that would, at times, shoot indiscriminately at users on the streets below (CAP: "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory").

Despite being pure fantasy, New Cap City followed the rules of the physical world (users could not fly for example), but portrayed none of the consequences of drug and alcohol use and promiscuous sex that would be experienced in reality. Death, in New Cap, was also a painful sensation and resulted in the de-resolution of the user's avatar and permanent exile from the game (CAP: "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory").

New Cap City was accessible through a series of virtual tunnels, like sewers. Real world locations including Little Tauron and Atlas Arena - serving as a venue for brutal hand-to-hand combat - were represented in the game, albeit distorted and, at times, severely rundown by its users (CAP: "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory", "Ghosts in the Machine", "End of Line", "Things We Lock Away").

Television personality Baxter Sarno charged the game with contributing to the moral decline of Caprica that led, in part, to the bombing of MagLev 23 by the Soldiers of the One (CAP: "Gravedancing").

In-game Locales^[1]

Mysteries^[2]
Eleusinian Theater
Shooting Range
Airfield
Tattoo parlor

Rise of the Deadwalkers

Following the attack on the Caprica City MagLev train system, wealthy scientist Daniel Graystone created a virtual duplicate of one of the bombing victims, Tamara Adams. Hoping to eventually bring the avatar into the real world by implanting it in a robot body, Graystone allowed the simulation to languish within a private virtual space, unaware of its own demise. Encountering another avatar of a bombing victim, Zoe Graystone, inside the space, the Tamara avatar was released to wander the Virtual World alone (CAP: "Pilot", "The Reins of a Waterfall").

Finding her way to Vesta, a powerful figure in V-World, Tamara pleaded for help in escaping back to the real world. Believing Tamara was simply asleep or in a coma and unable to remove her holoband, Vesta shot her with a virtual gun, thinking she would de-res and awaken. However, the holographic bullet neither de-resed Tamara, nor killed her. Intrigued by the possibility of having a user within her circle ostensibly invulnerable to injury, Vesta promised to help Tamara, but for a price. Sending her with Herecles into New Cap City, Vesta charged Tamara with sneaking into the vault of a wealthy user, Chiron, and stealing his money (CAP: "There is Another Sky").

Successful nabbing Chiron's money, Tamara and Herecles returned to Vesta, who revealed to Tamara that she had died in the real world some time ago. Faced with continued use by Vesta and her cronies, Tamara shot and de-resed Vesta. Sparing Herecles, Tamara instructed him to find her father in the real Caprica City (CAP: "There is Another Sky").

Notes

The concept of the game has been compared to the real-world video game Grand Theft Auto, while its title resembles that of the 1991 crime film New Jack City.

References

[1] ttp://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/the-top-5-entertainment-options-in-new-cap-city.php

[2] ttp://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/new-cap-city-get-thee-to-mysteries.php

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 :''For information on the city from the [[re-imagined series]], see [[New Caprica City]].''
-[[Image:Caprica City.png|thumb|right|A panoramic view of New Cap City|230px]]'''''New Cap City''''' is a [[Virtual world|v-world]] game in which [[holoband]] users participate in various illicit activities.
+[[Image:Caprica City.png|thumb|right|A panoramic view of New Cap City|230px]]
+'''New Cap City''' was a virtual recreation of [[Caprica City]] in the years prior to the [[First Cylon War]].  A near identical reproduction of the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] city, New Cap city featured a darker atmosphere, and allowed [[holoband]] users to engage in violent, gangster-style game play.
-[[Baxter Sarno]] charged the game with contributing to the moral decline of [[Caprica City]] that led, in part, to the bombing of [[Lev|Maglev No. 23]]. ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]")
+==Overview==
+New Cap City grew out of the underground movement on Caprica before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]] of teenagers hacking pay holoband sites to create free virtual environments like the "[[V-Club]]".  New Cap was widely known for its violence, a corrupted version of the real life Caprica City that updated to reflect current events in the physical world including the bombing of [[Metropolitan Levitation Mass Transit|MagLev]] 23.  Unlike the genuine article, this version of Caprica City reflected a bygone era of propeller aircraft and was patrolled by an enormous, well armed dirigible that would, at times, shoot indiscriminately at users on the streets below ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]").
-New Cap City is a virtual recreation of Caprica City, but darker and with a violent mob atmosphere. The simulation is updated to reflect current events, such as the Maglev 23 bombing. The objective of the game, if it has one, is currently unknown.  Some players believe that the goal is to acquire items &ndash; like money and weapons &ndash; which can be converted into points.  Others believe that discovering the objective of the game is, in fact, the objective of the game.  Players who are "killed" in the game subsequently wake up in reality, and are unable to reload their avatars into ''New Cap City''.
+Despite being pure fantasy, New Cap City followed the rules of the physical world (users could not fly for example), but portrayed none of the consequences of drug and alcohol use and promiscuous sex that would be experienced in reality.  Death, in New Cap, was also a painful sensation and resulted in the de-resolution of the user's [[avatar]] and permanent exile from the game ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]").
-==Tamara in New Cap City==
+New Cap City was accessible through a series of virtual tunnels, like sewers.  Real world locations including [[Little Tauron]] and [[Atlas Arena]] - serving as a venue for brutal hand-to-hand combat - were represented in the game, albeit distorted and, at times, severely rundown by its users ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]", "[[End of Line]]", "[[Things We Lock Away]]").
-After the death of [[Tamara Adama]] aboard [[Lev|Maglev No. 23]], [[Daniel Graystone]] used software developed by his own deceased [[Zoe Graystone|daughter]] to create an [[Holographic avatar|avatar]] of Adama at the request of her [[Joseph Adama|father]].  [[Tamara-A|That avatar]] was later found in an unprogrammed space by [[Lacy Rand]] and Zoe Graystone's [[Zoe-A|avatar]], who helped Tamara escape into the larger virtual world, where she sought out the gamer [[Vesta]] in order to wake up.  Discovering Tamara's unique ability to recover from game-inflicted damage, Vesta offered Tamara a trade: If Tamara-A helped Vesta in ''New Cap City'', Vesta would help find a way to wake Tamara in the real world.
+Television personality [[Baxter Sarno]] charged the game with contributing to the moral decline of Caprica that led, in part, to the bombing of MagLev 23 by the [[Soldiers of the One]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]").
-Tamara traveled to the game along with another of Vesta's underlings, [[Tad|Heracles]], in order to "steal" the avatar of another high-ranking gamer named [[Chiron]].  Tamara and Heracles found Chiron at a speakeasy, where Tamara distracted him and his guards by posing as a jilted girlfriend while Heracles took a digital copy of Chiron's avatar.  Tamara was shot in the altercation, but Heracles extracted her from the club, and demonstrated his new ability to shift between his own avatar and Chiron's.  The two later visited a bank where Chiron kept a vault, and after dismissing the guards, Tamara entered a code which Vesta had discovered inscribed on manhole covers around the city.
+===In-game Locales<ref>http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/the-top-5-entertainment-options-in-new-cap-city.php</ref>===
-Heracles proceeded to collect as much of Chiron's money as possible before the bank alarm sounded and two guards rushed into the vault.  Tamara pushed Heracles to the ground as the guards opened fire and was hit with several rounds before summoning her own will to alter the code of the game, forcibly derezzing the guards before collapsing.
-After the robbery, Tamara learned from Vesta that she had died in the Maglev bombing and could not be woken in the real world.  Discovering that Vesta intended to continue using her as a pawn in the game, Tamara used Heracles' weapons to kill everyone in the room except Vesta, then instructed Heracles to return to the real world and tell [[Joseph Adama]] that she was trapped in v-world.  After Heracles removed his holoband, Tamara told Vesta that she was "awake" and shot her, ejecting Vesta from the game. ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]")
-==In-game locales<ref>http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/the-top-5-entertainment-options-in-new-cap-city.php</ref>==
 * [[Mysteries]]<ref>http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/new-cap-city-get-thee-to-mysteries.php</ref>
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 * Tattoo parlor
+===Rise of the Deadwalkers===
+Following the attack on the Caprica City MagLev train system, wealthy scientist [[Daniel Graystone]] created a virtual duplicate of one of the bombing victims, [[Tamara Adams]].  Hoping to eventually bring the [[Tamara-A|avatar]] into the real world by implanting it in a [[U-87|robot]] body, Graystone allowed the simulation to languish within a private virtual space, unaware of its own demise.  Encountering another avatar of a bombing victim, [[Zoe-A|Zoe Graystone]], inside the space, the Tamara avatar was released to wander the Virtual World alone ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]", "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").
+Finding her way to [[Vesta]], a powerful figure in V-World, Tamara pleaded for help in escaping back to the real world.  Believing Tamara was simply asleep or in a coma and unable to remove her holoband, Vesta shot her with a virtual gun, thinking she would de-res and awaken.  However, the holographic bullet neither de-resed Tamara, nor killed her.  Intrigued by the possibility of having a user within her circle ostensibly invulnerable to injury, Vesta promised to help Tamara, but for a price.  Sending her with [[Tad Thorean|Herecles]] into New Cap City, Vesta charged Tamara with sneaking into the vault of a wealthy user, [[Chiron]], and stealing his money ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]").
+Successful nabbing Chiron's money, Tamara and Herecles returned to Vesta, who revealed to Tamara that she had died in the real world some time ago.  Faced with continued use by Vesta and her cronies, Tamara shot and de-resed Vesta.  Sparing Herecles, Tamara instructed him to find her father in the real Caprica City ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]").
 ==Notes==