By the year 2023, the world was already two horsemen deep. With pre-existing conflicts intensifying, attacks against states from an amorphous and asymmetric foe had blanketed the western world in a near state of war, while the same enemies perpetuated heated war across the Middle East, attracting the attention of the world's great power who in swallowing their prides and willingly turning their back on the old lessons learned put boots on the ground. It was a move that wouldn't lead to the victory they sought to have, and the presence of the foreign enemy at arm's reach galvanized the enemy. In the end, the enraged conflict grew beyond its borders. This was the first Horseman.

Somehow by a miracle and in the tense atmosphere the war never saw the launch of missiles. But it saw the outbreak of something else. While it may have been directed by the invisible hand of the invisible enemy, or simply found the new capability to spread and to do so rapidly familiar diseases that had taken on an unfamiliar and dangerous new trait found its way across the world. Like an influenza, contagious diseases thought exterminated swept the western nations of the world. It could not be stopped with the old antibiotic medicines so often employed. Long incubated in parts of the world where the medicines have been abused beyond the breaking point the world was ravaged. This was the Second.

The Third Horseman though was already there, twisting the strings of trade and cheating the scales of weights. But as his brothers worked with loud and heavy-handed might the roads were opened for new opportunities of disaster. With the costs of war and defense sapping funding of the developed world into defense, and the rising price-tag of dealing with the biological disaster the banks and economy started to cough sputter. Turning anemic as it caught second hand the plague of human discontent. The line was drawn tight, and set ready for the final cut by the Third Horseman.

And the fourth came. Not in nuclear fire. Not from above. But a monster from within. With a great explosion, the sleeping cauldera of Yellowstone erupted in 2023 spewing ash and smoke into the atmosphere. The toxic ash the poured forth from the Earth's mantle spread like a heavy blanket over the United States showing the country the true form of black terror. In a force not since seen since the Black Blizzards of the thirties, and never before exceeded ash fell and blanketed large swathes of the North American continent and completely covering the United States.

This was the ax that fell, the knife that cut the string of sickly economy. The collapse of the United States sent more than ripples through the world's affairs and the nations that rose upon the terrifying crests of the waves formed by its banks falling Europe and Asia so too did fall. The world economy which had so long provided peace let loose unrestrained war and the rest of the world crumbled in the last desperate gasp of man.

But if the Fourth Horseman had intended it, he had failed. Or perhaps it was enough to swing the hammer of justice one time and strike out man's knees for now. Or they wanted to keep them for their own continuing games. For humanity did not die out. And while the US and Canada lay buried under thick ash, with the world smoldering from conflict around it man survived. Man survived to recollect, to rebuild.

This was the wake of the Four Horsemen.

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The Fourth Horseman Came is a proposed NRP to take place in North America, a generation or two after the eruption of Yellowstone plunged the country into darkness and covered it in ash. While weak, man came back around not entirely destroyed. For starters, the blanket of ash was at its heaviest in the west, where it has buried cities and choked the fields and forests in a thick layer of lethal volcanic dust. Nothing survived, and the rich farm lands of the American west are leveled with its cities, its people, and all that stood between.

For that purpose, the bulk of the RP will be focused on lands east of the Mississippi and eastern Canada. I'm still considering whether or not to spread the scope of the RP into the Texas coast and parts of Mexico to provide diversity, hence no map yet. But I'll come to that decision soon.

So, time to address something: what's the effect of the volcanic ash?

Volcanic ash isn't like radiation or any of the other common tropes in apocalyptic literature. In this case its hardly global, but is important to the regional scope of the RP.

The immediate effects of ash would have been a global cooling as the air born dust particles blot out and darken the sun bringing on harder winters and colder weather for some time to come. In a world wrecked by war, biological devastation, and economic collapse the harsher winters and darker sunlight would further stress and reduce foreign society. As a result this means there's no non-American power capable of intervening in the US. They've all fell apart in their own ways and lack the economic and manpower means to do much beyond care about what's immediately around them.

Further, for what it matters for the US the volcanic ash would have fried electrical equipment, jammed the moving parts on mechanical equipment, and contributed the collapse of infrastructure, particularly more in the west. It has a tendency to get almost everywhere and destroy it. It too would have played havoc on the health of man with symptoms akin to the Dust Pneumonia from the Dust Bowl and possibly even long-term health effects.

The RP'll open some time after Yellowstone busts its lid. The world in the east is for all intents and purposes healing and so states are crawling back and taking on the guise of nations.

Also reserving New Yawk.

Reserving Washington DC and environs, as show on this map.

Also reserving the presumed fate of the US government as a natural consequence of that choice.

I'm here and I'll tentatively like to do something with the Outer Banks area off the coast of NC/VA

Could we maybe get a more specific timeline for use in making an app? That way we know how old people should be exactly.

To address the time issue: Let's go with fifty years after the eruption of Yellowstone.

Also, maps:



Map claim:

Why it so quiet? I wanna get my end of the world on.

@Vilageidiotx

tfw it's only us.

Come on, the interests of this section can't all be invested in the same old space operas as before.

@Vilageidiotx

tfw it's only us.

Come on, the interests of this section can't all be invested in the same old space operas as before.

Edit the title to explain whats going on. Also, preface the entire thread with a three or four sentence tl;dr.

Marketing 101: People are lazy and you gotta do the work for them.

Considering taking up Southern Ontario or Ohio, if this get's going.

Might be time to make some apps.

Right, so app and shit:

App

Name:

Location:

History:

Name:
Republic of New York

Location:


History:
The fall of the US financial institutions following the eruption of Yellowstone and the straining of public and private equity came as precursors to the wider systematic collapse that followed. When the final deed was done the scope and severity of the rippling disaster meant that not even the best assurances and insurances by the government and other groups could hold up society. And when the ash fell over New York and the power shut down a rush to consolidate swept the nation as much as the area.

While it was not violent, the people recognizing the danger and actively trying to help one another get through the darkened and colder days the crippling end brought a slow march to the precipice. With the end of mass modern transport of goods and services fresh food in the major urban centers such as New York City began to fall violently short and the major metropolitan jewel of the United States buckeled and heaved from the stress. The failure of local health services to keep up with the sick and injured broke finally when medications and the advanced modern means to treat people failed to work through lack of resources of ultimate lack of power when all things ran out.

The effect on the city was like that of a plague sweeping over that no amount of shelter could soothe. With food having ran out local solidarity fell in to desperation and the city of New York fell to crippling gang-based violence as local war erupted over meager resources and the access to the pantries and storage for the few unspoiled caches of food. For the city, those who held the food held the power and people starved on the whims of man.

Outside, things were rough, but did not necessarily reach such crisis proportions. While crop failures in New Yorks agricultural areas failed due to ash-related damages and live-stock was crippled or itself succumbed the small size of small towns created stronger solidarity among themselves and they held on together. It could have been if the crisis carried on under this state, then things would have worked out alright. But the continuing crisis in New York City boiled over well beyond the metropolitan area and soon threatened the country-side when armed raiders sought to side-step the new inner-city barons by seeking stocks and farms outside.

The response to this sudden new threat came in the form and voice of strongmen from New York's other major – albeit small in comparison to New York – cities and towns who promised protection from New York's fiery invaders if they paid. But the US dollar was dead, the material commodities were sparse among the people. And so they paid with what they had: land. In quick response land-barons emerged from the ash and consolidated themselves in an informal alliance in response to the wild and disorganized threat posed by New York. Following them were the more rural land-barons who had began to consolidate their own power in much the same way and on the same pretenses. Some small, some large.

The war that followed was not so much one in a formal right, but vigilante skirmishes by upstate New Yorkers against the low-state ex-urbanites raiding inland. Large-scale engagements never happened, and the war – as it had become known – was more a series of skirmishes that chased the urbanites back to the shadowy towers in New York were they stay, afraid of the deer rifles and shotguns of the levees the land-barons raised.

The threat of urban raiders was not over permanent, and many of this new aristocracy recognized that. And so they saw to a second consolidation of power, and meeting in Albany, New York formed a congress in which the men met, discussed, and drew up plans for an active and powerful force against the powers that be in New York City.

Some eight years after the eruption of Yellowstone, the Federal State of Albany was declared in response to the continued threat of New York. Its influence spanning from the edge of the New York metro area to Buffalo and Niagra the Albany state was formed on the pretenses of:

That every male owning land, collecting rent in some manner from another – whether in agricultural surplus or commodities – was entitled to membership of a Grand Assembly.
Membership to the Assembly was hereditary, passing down from father to sons provided these sons held rentable land and had tenants.
The Assembly met four times yearly to build and pass upwards a federal plan if otherwise local issues were deemed among them to be a broader state-wide issue.
The permanent House of Landholders formed an upper house, elected from members of the Grand Assembly to replace a member of the House should he pass.
The House of Landholders is the legislative decider for federal plans.
Membership on – like in the Grand Assembly – is for life, and is only given access to by men elected to the position by the Grand Assembly.
A chief executive is additionally elected to rule for life as military chief and to enforce the laws of the realm.
A bench of life-long elected judges from the Grand Assembly is to also be formed.

The hope in the Congress' plan was to form a government of stability and permanence to counteract the perceived anarchy of New York City. And in its way the Albany government worked that way and performed its job well. The situation in New York City eventually resolved itself when an urban warlord assumed power, christening himself as “The State-Emperor”, after the tower he housed himself in.

The consolidation of power in New York sparked heated rivalry between the two as both believed they laid claim to the former state of New York. The rivalry spurred an active hot war that lasted some five years, ending in Albany's favor; but were incapable of annexing New York City itself.

In time, the first State-Emperor died twenty-three years after the eruption of Yellowstone. The second assumed power and staked his power on the claimed discovery of the old US Federal Reserve of gold under the city. While he refused to show anyone from the outside this gold, he acted through his agents to extend lines of credit to the broader world and to the State of Albany, in exchange for agricultural surplus.

By this time, Albany was producing an abundance of food surplus from the soils richly infused with volcanic ash and life was moving along in comfort and conservative predictability. A real economy was developing and the Albany state needed assistance and credit to operate on its grand schemes. Forays into Vermont were being made by the military on insistence from the Grand Assembly to broaden the base of the land-barons and their children, and the military expeditions needed to be paid for.

While cynical of the sudden discovery and what he saw as an unstable time for New York City, then-president Chuck Vanderman complied with the offer on insistence from the House of Landlords and they applied for credit with New York City.

The situation became suspicious for President Vanderman who saw what he believed was an almost infinite extension of credit by the city and he ordered the situation investigated. It took five years for fruits of the espionage work to bare fruit, but it was inevitably revealed that the State-Emperor held no such reserves. Or not at least to the degree he claimed to have been holding.

Breaking the news sent New York City into a panic and it descended into chaos as the State-Emperor was stripped of his title and civil war erupted. Deploying the Albany's military, Vanderman sent the state into war again and this time they occupied the entire city, seizing what small supply of gold the State-Emperor actually had.

The theft of the meager reserves of New York and the deposition of the meager government of the city proved a fatal blow, and after Vanderman was able to seize total control of New York City, but not without a near total purge of much of it, crippling its ability to raise arms. New York City, Manhatten island, and Long Island all fell into the hands of Albany. The seizure of New York was soon followed by the seizure of northern New Jersey for much the same reasons as parts of Vermont.

The holding of Albany called for a re-branding of the state, the Grand Assembly met and proposed to the House of Landlords a proposal to rename the Federal State of Albany to The Republic of New York. The proposal passed and was signed off by Vanderman.

Despite New York City now again being a part of New York State, the city itself was something of a blight on the whole. The ravages of disaster had not weathered it well and despite the blockade by land by the Albany state droves of the population had disappeared to either death or migration by sea to richer land. The Republic of New York found itself owning a large population in a large desolate geographical area impoverished, undernourished, and under-educated. An entire generation had grown up in a city marred by pseudo-tribal conflict between the Burroughs.

And like many things, the Grand Assembly ignored it. Overlooking the people they saw instead the benefits of effectively mining the city to cut it down to a size more in proportion to its population and to use the abundant second-hand resources for its own ends. In the case of this dream, the old citizens of New York City were human resources to acquire, move, and refine the recycled materials to use elsewhere. Socially, the people of New York were considered, “a worse sort than unproductive tenants”. The cosmopolitan nature of New York had moved upstate and into Albany in full.

Still, New York gave the Republic a port from which to operate a navy and designs were proposed for a merchant elite to begin moving mercantile business back to NYC. In the generation after this slowly gave rise to a new class of member to the Grand Assembly, the urban land-lord merchant who counted as his rentors the subsidiary merchants renting space in the factories that became the new centers of the old Burroughs.

To raise the value of an importance of New York as well as extend the markets of all involved designs were proposed and met to rebuild and refurbish the Eerie Canal for trade purposes west-ward. With its completion, the New York Republic was able to win the influence of and dependency of upriver, Great Lake societies through ownership - and the Republic's discretion in its use - of the Eerie Canal.

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If you're like Hugs and you want to make just an individual character the format should be easily reformatted for that purpose. Just replace "location" with the present location of the character you want at the time you plan to write. And as well add a note before hand, even if it should be obvious otherwise.

I'll launch the RP in full sometime this weekend.

Name: État Libre de Québec / Free State of Quebec

Location:


History:

The Foundation:

The Anglo-French relationship was never 'good', but adversity only made them worst as Canada, rather than join together in solidarity seemed to slowly disjoint itself, the population center of the Capital in Ontario bickering with east and west as the Great Plains once again were forced to provide oil and food to both the Vancouver Region and the East for what it saw was no valid reasons. After all, Quebec had plenty of untapped reserves of oil and minerals it didn't want to exploit because of 'Environmental' concerns or not to frustrate the natives. So, with all this potential, it had the guts to come to parliament and expect the hard earned wealth of the west to be handed to them freely?

The federal power was unfortunately stretched thin and it was getting obvious that someone would be left unhappy no matter what so the Prime Minister, an english speaking Ontarian already unpopular in Quebec, decided to force the province to exploit the resources it had to support the rest of Canada. The Quebecers of course saw this as not only a violation of their rights but as pure theft as it was perceived that the resources exploited would go to the rest of Canada! (Rather than the reality, which was stay locally but as such allow the west to concentrate on its own problems.) The Separatists of course saw this as water to their mill and gained popularity significantly, so much it looked like a landslide victory for the next elections.

Before that could happen however, Yellowstone happened.

Though some in Quebec said 'Good riddance' to those they saw as their enemies, most saw this as atrocious and fearing the sympathy vote could cost them the election, the leader of the Partie Quebecois decided at the last minute to moderate his position and show sympathy toward the rest of Canada, postponing any referendum on separation until 'the crisis had passed'. He was elected with a majority, but not nearly as much as he had wanted and with severe strain in his government as hardliners screamed traitor in his ear.

The story however now moves to a Lieutenant at the Valcartier military base in Quebec, LT Etienne Boulanger, who saw his unit, and indeed pretty much all the military forces in Quebec shifted west to help manage the crisis. It was understandable of course as it was the most affected area but the Quebecers, who didn't want to be so far from their home and spoke broken english found themselves disliked by both the Albertan civilians and the other military units, which was fine with them because they began to hate their guts as well and earned a reputation for quickly turning to violence to solve the problems and alienated the natives.

The main problem arose however when rumors reached the French soldiers about what was going on back East about how the Provincial Government had given complete collaboration to federal forces and had outlawed strikes, even forcing people to work in the mines and new oil fields to provide for the Anglo scum while their own people were forced to freeze during electricity shortages because their abundant hydroelectric resources were sent west. This combined with the departure East of Ontarian forces made Lieutenant Boulanger and many others convinced that they had been deployed so far East because the Federal forces knew they would rather be loyal to their French Brothers than them and would have fought back.

It was the Lieutenant that spearheaded the mutiny of the Quebecers and led them back to the province, leaving their post undefended against looters and taking the resources they were supposed to distribute to the civilians with them. It wouldn't be enough however and they had to pillage their way to Quebec, something the Ontarians are to this day extremely resentful of. When they arrived, they found that indeed the Provincial Government had gotten cold feet and was now subordinate to the Federalists completely. The troops deployed East had originally been sent to the maritime provinces but had stopped when the locals, having heard their troops were coming back to liberate them, had taken to the streets in a General Strike paralyzing the entire province.

Isolated, this garrison was quickly forced into surrender when the Lieutenant, now self declared General Boulanger, arrived and promised to send them back to Ontario in exchange for their surrender. He would however do nothing but watch as the forces leaving were lynched by the mob that saw them come out. The provincial government tried to change its tune quickly and thank the 'General' for liberating them and proclaim an independent state of Quebec, but he was shouted down by the crowd who saw him as a filthy collaborator only trying to save his skin. A Kangaroo court was held on the spot, he and his most unpopular subordinates hung for high treason against the people of the province while the hardliners formed a provisional government investing General Boulanger with extraordinary powers to bring back order. The state of emergency would never be ended and the 'Généralissime' would, to this day, be the highest office in what is essentially a populist military dictatorship.

L'État Libre

Although the reason Quebec didn't get its electricity from its dams was that the power lines had been destroyed by the ashes of Yellowstone, the Generalissime was quick to blame that on both the English speakers and the natives. The natives had gotten restless for obvious reasons and were now either living in isolation or outright raiding the French speaking towns and villages next to them. Boulanger at first ordered them to stand down but this was just to boilster his popularity and forge an image of himself being 'reasonable'. He then had the luck to see a Mohawk tribe burn an entire village to the ground, making any opponent of a violent solution shut up. He sent one of his most brutal subordinates to do the job and although he ordered 'moderation', it came to no surprise when the situation had devolved to ethnic cleansing. The commanding officer had been left with the impression that this was what Boulanger wanted and indeed it was, but what he didn't know was that Boulanger felt that he was popular enough and violent enough that he was a disaster waiting to happen and so used the opportunity to trial him and execute him as well. This didn't stop the war with the Natives who tried to wage guerilla warfare but this only prompted the Quebecer forces to use discrimination and force the natives in internment camps based on their skin color. The tactic was effective but since there was some food shortages, the soldiers were ordered to take care of their own first which resulted in malnutrition killing off most of the Natives, the rest being forced to flee persecution.

Ethnic warfare would prove to be the Generalissime's favorite tool of control as he subverted the Quebecer's spirit of independence into hate of the outsiders, which made for a united ethno-state in north America. With the constant influence of the military on all affairs however, it made the soldiery become the elite class of people in the new State since while others warned of excessive influence of the military on the state, Quebecers were wary of bureaucrats and pencil pushers taking control of it, feeling a man, a single man, with experience and who understood the plight of the people, was the ideal man to have a vision the people should strive for.

To this end, the Generalissime, always chosen from a small clique of high ranking officers that were personal friends and trusted by the previous Generalissime, generally points the determination of the Quebecers toward the Outsiders just like how it all started and pushes north to exterminate the inuit population that constantly sabotages the power lines from the hydroelectric damns and south west in Ontario to recapture farmland that 'Historically belong to Quebec'. Surprisingly however, the Generalissimes always do their utmost to enjoy a good relationship with the US remnants down the south since the first Generalissime warned that an ethno-state was easy to paint as an unambiguous enemy of all you were and that Quebec shouldn't become the enemy that unites the Americans.

Interested (if this is still joinable).

I'd like to claim Louisiana (if that hasn't been touched yet)

Name: United States of America

Location:


History:
Okay, so first and foremost I gotta preface this by saying that, because the amount of time that passes between 2016 and the Yellowstone event, I've had to fiddle with recent events to make them work. There just wasn't enough time allotted to pull away from recent history naturally, so I didn't. This means that I've replaced Trump with a fictional character as President-Elect in 2016. It's easier that way, since I don't have to play with real world events that way. So with that in mind...

2016 saw the election of Jerry Hexad as 45th President, tech mogul and multibillioniare who funded his own campaign. His presidency was a tough one despite the popular wave that brought him into office, and he narrowly won reelection in 2020. Incidentally, it was in 2020 that scientists first issued warnings about increased geological activity at Yellowstone. The issue remained buried behind the long list of international troubles until 2022, when Scientists confirmed the caldera was highly likely to blow within a four to five year window, and recommended a methodical evacuation for much of the central-western states. The warning drew criticism as alarmist, especially for the people in the affected region, who sniffed some sort of scam in the warnings, or stupidity among academics that would hurt their lives and lifestyles. It wasn't until 2023 brought earthquakes, rocking the affected area, that any interest in an evacuation became truly serious. By then it was too late. Predating even the most dire warnings, the Yellowstone Caldera blew in 2023, and millions of unevacuated Americans died or were severely injured in the blast. America's breadbasket was wasted.

This event reverberated through the country like a shock wave. 2024 saw a severe weakening of government systems all across the board. The volcano not only damaged millions of lives and miles of property, it crashed the world economy and destroyed the American people's faith in their government. Elections were held with much difficulty. The central-western states, almost entirely devastated, wasn't in any position to participate. Other states were struck with violence at the polls, widespread electoral corruption, and election day riots. Four candidates ran an unusually close race, the partisanship that once made the two-party system drowned out in generalized rage. The confusion sent the election to congress. They chose the ticket that involved the least change: Dale Hexad, the President's son, with his sister and the President's daughter Amanda as his running mate. This almost monarchical ticket would have been unthinkable at any other time, but the stability minded congress accepted it, and a populace already enraged by everything hardly changed rhythm because of it. Dale became 46th POTUS.

Dale Hexad's first act as President was to personally visit devastated parts of the country. This attempt at unity ended tragically when Dale's plane was shot down over Colorado, and the crash was swallowed up by the grey wasteland. Amanda, his sister and Vice President, became the first female President, and the 47th POTUS.

Amanda Hexad's presidency was especially unique. She, with the help of her ex-Presidential father as Secretary of State and her younger brother Ian as Vice President, reformed the government. Constitutional government had became a farce, and she used the panicked influence the Hexad's held at that time to force a complete restructuring. Gone were term limits, and a congress and senate built of representatives from long-lost states (pushed through by exempting the current sitting Representatives and Senators, allowing them to sit out their positions for life, slowly to be replaced by new members brought in on the Hexadic Amendment.) That land still held strong by the United States was allowed to organize themselves as states, smaller and more municipally minded. The Electoral college was scrapped, replaced by Congressional review, with the vote practiced as a method of popularity polling for Congress to follow. It was a blatantly undemocratic system constructed to deal with a world that had rejected the old processes in favor of chaos.

That wasn't what ended the Hexads. Her changes were greeted as a sincere effort to save the United States. They were subject to congressional review as well, to be ended the moment a stable government was put in place over most of the old US. What ruined the Hexads and their status with their fickled people was a string of unfortunate events beyond the control of the Presidency. First came hunger and disease, brought on by the death of trade. Crime went up. Raids from the north, conducted by those sorry survivors of the great northeastern cities, further stressed the remaining parts of the United States, now merely Washington DC and Norfolk Virginia, supplemented by the surrounding countryside. The Presidency, uncertain how to handle these problems, was judged uncaring and aloof. Food riots became anti-government riots. In 2031 the break down was complete. The people stormed the Presidential motorcade, killed the President and much of her family, and dragged their bodies through the streets. It seemed for the moment that the United States was finally over, ended in infamy.

But the people did not destroy congress. With most of the Hexads dead, their anger abated. Congress asked the mob who should lead the country now, and the people chose Bishop Armilio Profano. He had created a system for feeding the poor, and had unusual success at procuring food for his program. His popularity made him the 48th President of the United States.

President Profano became the first of a new type of President. He reformed the military and combined them with the police force. He then took heavy artillery, kept in storage at Norfolk, and used boats and horses to transport it above the city, where he pushed back a wave of urban raiders from the north who had occupied Baltimore and environs. By using heavy artillery in a way that hadn't be applied in anger on this continent since Gettysburg, he created a relatively safe border zone. His war against the raiders, sometimes called "Yankees" or "Yawkas" depending on the person, consumed his presidency and eventually claimed his life. He was last seen personally leading a charge at the Battle of Slate hill, where his forces drove the Yawkas into the Susquehanna river at terrible cost. The death of President Profano, perhaps mixed into a bloody heap at the height of the battle, or perhaps himself swept up by the blood-drenched river, brought his Vice President, Ares James, into office as the 49th President of the United States.

President James spent much of his seven years in office rebuilding Washington DC. The city was undergoing an urban collapse familiar all over the country. The suburban sprawl went largely unoccupied, abandoned houses were taken up by squatters and raiders, and it became very apparent that no post-collapse power could afford the effort of policing such a large urban jungle. James took to this problem the harsh way, preserving only the center of the city anchored between U Street, Rock Creek, and the Anacostia river. The rest of the Washington Metro, that which lay outside of the prescribed area and north of the Potomac, was completely bulldozed. Buildings were methodically deconstructed. Much of the salvage was used to build a massive steel-coated wall around the preserved portions of the city. Useless junk was tossed into empty foundations and caught on fire. Black smoke marked the city for miles all around. What was left of the suburbs was crumbling asphalt and foundations full of carbonized mush. A similar process was conducted south of the River, but with less destruction and a wall that only protected the Arlington area.

President James then went on to do something that hadn't been done by a US President in a while: He died a natural death. He was followed by his Vice President, the man he had appointed to refit the navy at Norfolk, Caden Sumner, now 50th POTUS.

Sumner's presidency has thus far been defined by his interest in returning the United States Government to it's rightful hegemony. Riding on the work of his predecessors, he launched a series of reconquests, completing the subjugation of Maryland, and expanding US influence to Delaware and most of Virginia, as well as parts of West Virginia. With the United States government taking on a more aggressive tone under his control, their neighbors are certain to take notice.

Hurp

I am extremely interested!! I was wondering if it would be possible to reserve New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine? I wasn't entirely sure, since I saw that a part of Vermont was claimed as a part of New York.

Name: The Outer Banks Republic

Location:



History: The Outer Banks formed through a loose confederation of inhabitants on the islands and lands around the North Carolina coast. In the aftermath of the collapse of civilization, raiders and pirates preyed upon the ships and farmers on the islands. Eventually communities united together to put down a threat. At a meeting on Roanoke Island, a quorum of ship captains met to form a posse. This makeshift fleet of fishing vessels set sail and laid waste to the predators in the area. It was known as the First Quorum and broke up soon after the threat passed.

Five years later, more threats required the meeting of the Second Quorum. This time, after the pirate menace was put down the ship captains returned to Roanoke and set up a provisional government. With each island represented by its ship captains, the charter for the Outer Banks Republic was created. Very little has changed since then. Life goes on, the navy repels threats of pirates, and the people of Outer Banks do their best to live in harmony.

The Outer Banks culture is one of Republican ideals, a mostly agrarian society that sprung up in the years since the collapse of the world. In the Outer Banks a man is free to be left alone and live in peace from interference from outside forces. An ideal Jeffersonian Democracy where the power is invested in the people of the countryside. Although a now growing class of wealthy merchants are attempting to change the shape and form of the Republic. As wealth floods into the nation, there are those who are prepared to fight for the very soul of the Republic.

The great divide does not lie in race, religion, or sex, but in seagoing and land lovers. Those that have no taste for the waters are looked down upon by the sailors who earn their living in the ocean. The merchants are viewed with contempt by the fisherman due to their large accumulation of wealth and ownership of many ships, giving them a seemingly unfair advantage in the Captain's Quorum.

I'll make final say on some of the app when the full RP is launched when I'm not a particularly lazy cunt (I did just get back from my dad's birthday party, also half Christmas). But some particular comments:

@Fashy

We're still open.

@Wernher

I'm pretty sure the official demonym is Quebecois, but that's semantic.

My real issue would be the reliance of hydro-power. Really when I launched this RP I was expecting at most electricity would be a rarity on account of the lack of availability in resources, both in running shit and maintaining it with parts.

For the case of hydro-electric the whole system could fall apart rather quickly if something like O-ring seals break and create leakages r cause parts to grind lowering the efficiency or life-expectancy of parts. While a lot of small things can be handled on site or jury-rigged (you could probably use leather as a considerably worse version of vulcanized rubber o-rings), once the big parts of something like turbines fail then the hydro-power dam itself fails, it may not happen all at once but over time there'll be severe drops in efficiency as turbines fail in sequence, and these are giant machines that aren't built on site and there's no infrastructure there to do so; in a post-industrial, post-collapse society there may not be any turbines in mint condition worth obtaining.

Similarly this applies for most of everything else. Major oil producing areas are under a thick carpet of ash and the real supply of gas and oil for making the important industrial components are gone. The world now should be at a position of prioritizing certain jobs. One way to look at the world now is: what would be accomplished in a 18th or early 19th century way, and with equivalent tech?

So I'm going to ask either the importance of hydro-electric is struck, or I have some assurance that the system is failing now it's coming to the end of its life with minimal maintenance.