PaxVenire
Wasteland Peacemaker
The Free States:
In 2077, the world was wiped clean. Those lucky enough to be spared, did so in great underground shelters. But what if they weren’t all built by Vault-Tec? What if people had accurately predicted doomsday and prepared for it themselves?
This is the Free States, an armed militia of secessionists from before The Great War. Viewed as radical extremists to their neighbors, the Free States came together with the shared distrust of the American government and its ties to various shadowy entities. They knew something was brewing. But what? The answer would come when a sympathetic whistleblower from the senate confirmed their suspicions. West-Tek, Vault-Tec, Acme, General Atomics, RobCo, etc. All connected. The war going awry and the government at the forefront pushing the world deeper into despair. This was no simple black and white war against communism, it was a war over simple depleting resources, of which there will be no end unless THE end occurs. And so construction began, underground shelters connecting in one big network, hiding in plain sight where the Free States could retreat, not if the bombs fall, but when. Declaring themselves independent from the Union a month before the bombs, they were labeled domestic terrorists by the propaganda-fed media.
In the aftermath, though not as comfortable as a Vault-Tec vault, it did it’s job. While the fires died down above and the fallout passed through, the Free States vowed never to allow such needless corruption result in the glassing of civilization again. When they came out of their bunkers and saw the devastation, they knew what to do. A new world brings new opportunity for a better more unified and incorruptible future. America may have been annihilated, but the Free States would live on.
In 2077, the world was wiped clean. Those lucky enough to be spared, did so in great underground shelters. But what if they weren’t all built by Vault-Tec? What if people had accurately predicted doomsday and prepared for it themselves?
This is the Free States, an armed militia of secessionists from before The Great War. Viewed as radical extremists to their neighbors, the Free States came together with the shared distrust of the American government and its ties to various shadowy entities. They knew something was brewing. But what? The answer would come when a sympathetic whistleblower from the senate confirmed their suspicions. West-Tek, Vault-Tec, Acme, General Atomics, RobCo, etc. All connected. The war going awry and the government at the forefront pushing the world deeper into despair. This was no simple black and white war against communism, it was a war over simple depleting resources, of which there will be no end unless THE end occurs. And so construction began, underground shelters connecting in one big network, hiding in plain sight where the Free States could retreat, not if the bombs fall, but when. Declaring themselves independent from the Union a month before the bombs, they were labeled domestic terrorists by the propaganda-fed media.
In the aftermath, though not as comfortable as a Vault-Tec vault, it did it’s job. While the fires died down above and the fallout passed through, the Free States vowed never to allow such needless corruption result in the glassing of civilization again. When they came out of their bunkers and saw the devastation, they knew what to do. A new world brings new opportunity for a better more unified and incorruptible future. America may have been annihilated, but the Free States would live on.
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