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Day Two

@Andronicus23

For the current part, while the message was delivered - the Enclave seemed to be dealing with their own things. Thus, the advantage for recovering the beryllium agitator was in the hands of the Institute for the moment.

@Polaris North

While the cost for clearing and security might been sky-high - the Triggermen were willing to cut a good enough deal with Mayor Hancock. Namely in the regard, that Goodneighbor would be getting any 'items' that the people recovered from the surrounding ruins. It was in essence, an empty promise in all honesty - since nobody expected to find much beyond dirt, concrete and rubble.

Although once the bare bones work of clearing the area started getting underhand - the investment started paying off. Namely, Mayor Hancock soon had tales, of stuff popping out of the ruins like glowing fungus. Most of it was the simple Old-War junk that was too busted to be of use, yet they were digging them out by the piles. It gave many people time to pop out the useful junk from the regular junk. The wastelander wasn't anything if creative and innovative.

Plus, once the hidden piles of chems, that some old skeletons had hidden inside cupboards or suitcases started appearing - Hancock would soon start to get a steady supply in. It was natural, many of the workers weren't that hooked on chems like Hancock' group was. But they respected him enough and wide his aid in helping to clear the area - he earned that respect of the people, that they were able and willing to smuggle of chems to him - instead of the other way around. 

As it was, Hancock was getting his investment back rather nicely, and the interest would likely keep on climbing - since they had barely scratched the surface of the area.

@Elgappa

The choice of sending a kid out with a message into the rather chaotic wasteland known as the Commonwealth might have been a stupid one in essence. Although, by this point - the heavy-fighting during the Days of Chaos had produced a rather interesting situation.

Namely it left a Commonwealth that was void of most heavy gangers, raiders or the occasional mad junkie. Nobody planned on staying in the area that was nowadays called 'No-Mans Land'. Namely, if one was quick enough, hid well and didn't stick too long in any particular location - they could move through the wasteland without much issue.

Thus, the young kid wouldn't get into much trouble, he likely wouldn't be trained for and easily would manage to reach the encampment of Church' Regiment.

Nation: Arkhangelsk Socialist Union (ASU)

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The Arkhangelsk Socialist Union, wasn't so much born as it was created due to circumstances surrounding the event of 1952. When the Tsar and what was thought the entire Imperial Family was assassinated everything crumbled into dust - revealing such how fragile the Russian Empire truly was.

Although, the Arkhangelsk Rebellion could be declared as the reason, for Arkhangelsk not being part of the remains of Petrograd. Several other events also helped lead to the situation that the Oblast - key which being the hunt for Socialist elements - that drained more resources, than the Czar or his advisory might have imagined.

In the Oblast, resources and even men were shipped off to serve and enforce the absolutism of the Tsar - in an Empire, where small acts unleashed big and sometimes devastating changes upon the land itself. These acts caused enough resentment to slowly develop in the local people. When the 1952 Assassinations happened, the oblast like many other regions were thrown into chaos.

Arkhangelsk was lucky namely, that their elite and the Governorate didn't try and assert dominance - they merely gathered their wealth and family, then fled over the seas into Finland. This in turn left the entire oblast in disarray, prompting the Arctic Ocean Flotilla to refuse following the orders of the Petrograd Government - assuming that they were trying to take control, like many others.

Thus the various regiments under the command of Polkovnik Vydur, marched onto the city of Arkhangelsk - although, instead of following orders and besieging the city, many of the soldiers mutinied. As they neither wanted to follow the orders of an Imperial officer, kill more of their countrymen nor follow orders of a dead nation. Thus the Rebellion added even more chaos into the fire.

The small civil war that happened, lasted for about seven months - and mostly wasn't so much bloody as it meant several skirmishes happening in the wide open forests and snowy hills. Although numerous artillery guns were utilized thus causing some sense of destruction - mostly in the mills and shipyards.

When the dust cleared, the situation wasn't anything good to begin with - the ruling elite had run off, the Czar was likely dead and due to the Regimental Rebellions they were likely considered traitors by the remaining Imperial Forces. Thus, what few people constituted as leadership-material gathered in the city.

One of the people to step up was Amani Yukarev, the rural poet and Captain Marakov Ruskav. Low-level bureaucrats from Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk alongside a naval officer from the Flotilla also met - as Yukarev had managed to convince the naval element to remain (incase some civilians wished to flee). The situation wasn't dire but would become so in the coming years.

Namely they had no ruler, nor had anybody any ideas on how to build a new national structure from scratch. Except the one espoused by the socialists - namely, during several crushed uprisings many books had been collected and not been burned yet. Plus, they had enough officials to get a system going. After several weeks of negotiations and talks - eventually a semi-socialist system was set in place and a bare-bones constitution was drafted up. Namely establishing the Arkhangelsk Socialist Union and namely the People' Commune the governmental body. 

In the eight years since then the splintering of the Russian Empire, the ACU has had it's hands busy - namely constantly adding and improving upon the Constitution, combining numerous socialist, liberal and democratic elements. From both people like Lenin, Karl Marx, Julius Martov and a few from Yukarev himself. While trying to build up a sustainable community, constructing new infrastructure and keeping the other warlords away from their borders.

Important Figures:

Amani Yukarev was born at the start of the new century, March 1st 1900 - in a rural and poor town. Like many others during that time, Amani and his family lived in poverty - the situation further worsened by the entire of Imperial Russia into the Great War. 

Like several other young men, he had been rather interested in the ideals of Socialism and Communism - namely the notion of equality and prosperity. The young Amani had also been most interest in poetry at the time as well, although when the coup failed in 1917 - people like him were hunted, captured and thrown into vast tundra of Siberia, to pay-out their punishment for treason with hard labour.

While some further radicalized, Amani had his views softened as hard labor tempered his mind and dulled his idealism. Although they didn't erase his beliefs completely. After serving twenty years of his sentence, he was allowed to return home - a man of thirty-seven as he settled into the Arkhangelsk Oblast - which was sparsely populated, had work he had grown accustomed to and less eyes of the Tsar than most regions.

Here Amani continued writing poetry, that criticized both the Tsarist regime and yet also in the years following the ideals of Communism as well. He developed his own ideas, during long nights to ponder in the wilderness - he came to understand that neither Absolutist Tsarism nor Destabilizing Communism was an ideal political agenda for the future. As both sides, discredit each other due to their brutal and bloody nature. As Amani wrote some of his own political ideas under the alias of the Ghostwriter - and distributed some of his ideas around the Oblast to rural communities.

When the events of 1952 happened, Amani Yukarev soon was forced by motion of events, to step up and put his ideas into actual practice.

Marakov was born on April 15, 1929 - into a rather decent family of meager military background behind them, into a suburb in Moscow. During a time, when Russia was both at the edge and as he grew up, recovered from the threat of Communism - afterwards things developed rather calmly. Although, around that time, life was hard and military life seemed a bit more welcoming - despite the failures of the Imperial Army in the Great War, they had developed and had been improved - or so the papers told.

Without many options and by some encouragement - Marakov, joined the Imperial Army around the time that the current Tsar passed away and his son came to power. Although, while Marakov had imagined a slow but steady climb - he, like many other new recruits were forced into service. Instead of a foreign enemy, they were instead sent to fight the only enemy they had experience with - namely their own countrymen.

Marakov was among the many, whom had been deployed into the Caucasus and namely forced to fire and kill civilians. Namely bare boys, sent to enforce order upon people whom didn't look that different than their own parents. While the Czar' idea of absolute order might have been sound to him, many conscripts and a few officers were suffered by it - like the people they had put down. Most suffering mental or physical problems, and turning to alcohol or low-level criminal activity, to help with their scars.

Marakov was the rare kind, to be hardened by his experience yet not let it break him apart. The seven years of service was given, each year his loyalty diminished even further - despite his attaining the rank of Kapitan or Captain. Although in those years, he became more religious to find meaning in his life and absolution. 

Since the brutal crackdowns felt less fighting treacherous socialists and more felt like simply brutality against their own people. It didn't help either, that the few books about socialism they had recovered weren't all burned. Some of the men even started curiously reading about the supposed 'evil' that they were forced to crush several times over.

When the Fall of the Czar happened in 1952 orders came to establish control around St. Petersburg. As it was, the Arctic Ocean Flotilla in Arkhangelsk refused to submit to the recall order, as such one Imperial Polkovnik(Colonel) wanted to lay siege to the very city itself - in a mock attempt of wanting to return to St. Petersburg with a more valuable gift and support.

The then Regiments in Arkhangelsk refused to continue anymore - the last order breaking any loyalty they had to Imperial rule. The infighting was short yet bloody - as thanks to the leadership of Kapitan Marakov were they able to win.

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