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Nation: The Teslaist State of Neo Electros
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Location: Detroit City, Michigan. Capital located within the confines of
Saint Anne's Cathedral.History:
From the transcribed historical records, the truth believed by the majority of the state is that Father Nilsson is the founding father of the Nation of Tesla. In the years following rising tensions, Gabriel Nilsson anticipated the utter demise of the concept of America and immediately conducted plans in motion to set up a new idea, a new nation for the future generations of his friends and family.
Having owned several factories providing for the American War Machine that provided much needed aid to the brass in Operation Anchorage, on top of being well renowned within the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and having contacts in several unions, he proceeded to build in secret a nuclear fallout shelter beneath the church he preached at. Obtaining blueprints bought off bribed Vault Tec representatives, the design had Nilsson hoping it would secure the permanent safety of his future generations. He was wrong, however sooner problems arose before electrical concerns in the vault were apparent.
Colonel Richards, stationed in the nearby army garrison base, noticed right quick exactly what was going on with the construction "around" the church. He was too clever, nonetheless, and opted for a more corrupt approach to the situation. Three weeks before the bombs fell, twenty soldiers and a Colonel Richards went AWOL along with millions of dollars in confiscated equipment. In the middle of the night a cadre of power armored troops, some few donning an advanced tesla variant, stormed into the cathedral along with the rounded up members of the church fellowship and hand picked members within the IBEW. The vault was forced open early before proper final examinations could be done, and it's supposed permanent residents sealed inside of it on that night for what they believed would be forever.
The catholic preachings had become commonplace, for besides occasional recreational baseball, nothing of entertainment was present in the vault. Three weeks after it sealed, however, came an event known as the Shockwave. It had been made apparent that the effects of the nuclear blasts decimating Detroit reached the vault, Nilsson had been betrayed by Vault Tec and handed failed blueprint designs. Electrical surges fried the vault's reactor killing seven people, and within minutes the vault's generator would have run dry, sealing the vault door forever whilst additionally suffocating everyone inside. As the air grew sparse, the electrical workers accomplished miracles in bringing the vault back to life. Regardless, it was a shortly celebrated relief. For the next two hundred odd years, the vault's residents came to rely on the electrical workers for their very survival. Over time people began to revere them, and eventually they began interpreting certain biblical scriptures in a way that revered technological advancement and the powers of electricity being so detrimental to mankind's survival. Four years prior to the current date, the vault's reactor simply couldn't sustain itself anymore. A council was held and they decided to open it up forever, lest they be sealed within forever and doomed to suffocate. It was at this point they had completely replaced Catholicism with their own forged religion of Teslaism. They spoke two languages, the most common being English of course, and a wild perversion of English and Latin spoken rarely by only the most prominent members of the society.
They first laid eyes upon a city entirely in ruin. Vibrant skyscrapers shown in pictures below now had been revealed as a skeletal husk of a dead nation. Regional suburban warlords took the titles of "County Sheriffs" or "Elected Mayors", constantly fighting one another with looted national guard equipment and surplus supplies. They had sharpened poles of rebar into metallic spears, rock slings with seemingly unlimited amounts of debris and concrete, and of course they resorted to firearms as a last resort measure for ammo had become sparse over looting and fighting over the past dozen years. When these common raiders laid eyes upon four men clad in some advanced form of prototype tesla armor, they had witnessed something they'd never seen before. Their primitive weapons could only do so much to put a dent in their plating, and the laser based weaponry turned some of their fellow brothers into cooked and singed piles of flesh. After a few brief confrontations, the drug addled raiders simply began to throw their weapons down and bowed before the awe-spiring presence of the tesla creations.
Things changed quickly after the integration of the locals. The Code of Teslaism practically puts forth the "Ensured Survival of The Human Race" before literally anything else. It was a swift transition growing up within the vault that turned the majority of the male population to view their fellow women merely as breeding cattle. "Strength In Numbers" was yet another common preaching within the church, and so became the degrading mistreatment of women. In the vault they had been assigned to key male figures, as it opened up and they gained a grasp of the outside world, they followed up by simply herding women into boarding houses where they slept on straw piles or animal hides with rarely any clothing or food. Only the most "genetically superior" females that met the mandated requirements had been placed in comfortable accommodations, however had been forced to undergo the most breeding. They've found themselves nearly five years later with a generation of strong and stout children amongst the elitist class, and a sickly generation of malformed children as a byproduct of the lower class females and integrated raiders riddled with drug addictions and STDs. Tensions have brewed among the lower class, but the elitist "Inquisitors" and "Prophets" continue their effective methods of controlling the population through fear, intimidation and systematic torture and brainwashing. Scouts known collectively as "Teslaist Missionaries" continue branching out toward the outskirts of Detroit and exploring outward into the Midwestern and Northern Wastelands.
Other/Misc/Notes for Consideration:
- The Cathedral of Saint Anne was rebuilt atop the vault by the forced labor of the surrendered raider armies within Detroit. It was renamed the
Electros Fort Prophesum of Zeus, or simply known as The Teslaist Cathedral by a majority of locals.
- The vault, having since been forced open, has absolutely no power running through it. It is used as a secret church, fortification and military base as well as a sacred ritualistic ground. It is eerily lit by candles and old pre war lanterns and torches.
- Settlements around Detroit are mostly comprised of shanty town scrapyards, the safest abodes taking shelter within abandoned automobile factories. The largest settlement outside the cathedral is Chryslus, many of it's buildings appearing to be made out of old rusty Chryslus body parts along with other materials like plywood and sheet metal.
- While they haven't made contact with any sizable nation other than "savage" tribals and "uncultured" wasteland settlements, it's not far out to wonder if they might be akin to forging an alliance or even a simple trade agreement with another sizable faction that might rival their own. They do, however, have a crusading mentality about them and would be quick to go to war over their beliefs, leaving their intentions to be easily questioned.
- In actuality, only twelve individuals are known to have donned the advanced tesla armor. Four of which have died since the opening of the vault, having been overwhelmed by a significant force of tribals and literally striped bare as they ran out of ammunition. The remaining eight are reclusive, embarking upon only the most important and conclusive objectives detrimental to the cause.
- Their main fighting force consists of drug addled ex-raiders or brainwashed integrated tribals donning Teslaist symbols on their newly fashioned rusty metallic armor forged from the welding of old Chryslus parts. Occasionally a "Battle Priest" will be seen leading them, adorned in robes and shouting out readings from their scriptures. Only a small percentage of elitists are known to take part in skirmishes donning more standard forms of power armor.
- More to be added later possibly.
