Yeah, Holy Friars, sorry. I really wanna delve into that. How popular is pan-Texan Unionism in West Texas? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say not at all
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Yeah it's not exactly the most popular idea with non assimilated cowboy clans, the Holy Friars, Disciples of Chuck Norris and independent township's all calling the place home.
Admittedly the planned sequel did have some good ideas but yeah I get your point.
.Not really. Plenty of surviving towns still see themselves as Texan it's just that some don't want to give up their autonomy. When they can rely on the Friars to keep themselves safe from any serious threats as long as they got an agreement with them. Though are definitely plenty of others who are willing to listen...Well too badStill, I wonder why. Did the Texan identity die, or something? Also, Disciples of Chuck Norris? Tell me more
Oh you will.
You don't have to do this, but maybe have Texas be a confederation of autonomous communities? It'd be very likely after a nuclear fallout, and is in line with Texas, and the current lore already written (plus, as a Texan, a lot of folks here wouldn't mind it if we already had more autonomy)Not really. Plenty of surviving towns still see themselves as Texan it's just that some don't want to give up their autonomy. When they can rely on the Friars to keep themselves safe from any serious threats as long as they got an agreement with them. Though are definitely plenty of others who are willing to listen...
Oh you will.
Yeah I could see Texas at least some what sticking together after the chucking ended.
Maybe not the Holy Friars, I like that idea of the oilmen becoming their own thing
Right I'm currently thinking about there being three major groups with the Republic of Texas; the Sanctuary residents and their descendants who've began interacting with the wider world, the various independent township's that survived the nuke chucking or were formed afterwards and the assimilated cowboy clan who had to join after being decimated after some raider clans moved into their territories.
Though right now they're slowly expanding westward into western Texans where they're encountering and absorbing other groups. With the Friars and a few others being a bit more "difficult" to deal with.
No More Nowhere: The Iron Regime
Margaret Thatchers time in control of the United Kingdom, would be more commonly known as either "The Iron Years" or "The Iron Regime", many comparing it to a dictatorship, or an authoritarian regime, which would bring it at odds with the IRA and even the old monarchy...
Among the many iconic images of the Iron Regime, is the radiation burned traffic warden, who like many lawmen in the fractured country would be given the authority to kill and to make examples of looters and criminals.
A riot within a makeshift prison in 1981, which would see seventeen people killed, and thirty injured.
King Andrew I, known previously as Prince Andrew, would be declared the Monarch of the United Kingdom in 1980 to appease the monarchists. Many critics would point out how he was nothing more than a figure head for Thatchers regime, kept mostly within Wales on a private estate.
Police patrolling the streets after a food and labour riot. Instances like this, as well as multiple large scale labour strikes being broken up (In many cases with lethal force) would see men like Harold Wilson forming the "Labour Army", which would launch a guerrilla war within the streets of London...
Much like how throughout the formerly United Kingdom, guerrilla wars would grow into full scale wars and revolutions.
Margaret Thatchers time in control of the United Kingdom, would be more commonly known as either "The Iron Years" or "The Iron Regime", many comparing it to a dictatorship, or an authoritarian regime, which would bring it at odds with the IRA and even the old monarchy...
Among the many iconic images of the Iron Regime, is the radiation burned traffic warden, who like many lawmen in the fractured country would be given the authority to kill and to make examples of looters and criminals.
A riot within a makeshift prison in 1981, which would see seventeen people killed, and thirty injured.
King Andrew I, known previously as Prince Andrew, would be declared the Monarch of the United Kingdom in 1980 to appease the monarchists. Many critics would point out how he was nothing more than a figure head for Thatchers regime, kept mostly within Wales on a private estate.
Police patrolling the streets after a food and labour riot. Instances like this, as well as multiple large scale labour strikes being broken up (In many cases with lethal force) would see men like Harold Wilson forming the "Labour Army", which would launch a guerrilla war within the streets of London...
Much like how throughout the formerly United Kingdom, guerrilla wars would grow into full scale wars and revolutions.
photo taken from the 1992 “LA Rising” after the “King incident” and “Cruz killing” by the end of the two week rebellion over 500 would be dead from gun battle between gangs and police. It saw police then national guards taking on sniper fire and gang ambushes. This would prove the lay the ground work for what many would call the “American Troubles”
Communist Youth during a May Day celebration in Soviet occupied America.
After the invasion, KGB assets assumed control over many American publications, creating a series of pro-Soviet, pro-socialist propaganda pieces in the Americans' native English.
Communist Youth and Young Pioneer troops stand behind pro-Soviet collaborators during a special event hosted by the occupied government of Texas. The flags of the world's socialist regimes stand in the background.
Actually from the TV series Amerika.
I remember watching that show on YouTube a few months back I might give it a rewatch thanks to this.
It was an interesting scenario. Still like Red Dawn more, but maybe that's just me.
Land of Confusion:
Genesis
When the bombs dropped on that fateful day over a century and a half ago not every soldier of the mighty American Army was fighting overseas in the atomic power blitzkrieg's of Europe and East Asia. Some were back home helping to maintain order in the war torn west coast, training or gearing up for their next deployment, unaware that the nation they swore to protect would die in an instant. One such band was Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mason's and 502nd heavy infrantry battalion, having been deployed back to the states for retraining with thd M-27 series power armor in the Arizona desert when the bombs dropped.
Watching helplessly as Flagstaff was obliterated in nuclear fire Mason made a promise to himself, a promise that his men and their descendants would carry on to this day, never to let the horrors of the apocalypse happen again. With the chain of communication gone and chaos sweeping through the lands of America it fell to Mason alone to keep his men alive. As they made their way through the desert on their long march to the supposed safety of the New Mexico El Vado Bunker complex, an old staging ground that army had used in their push to drive out the Sino-Soviet invaders. Taking in whoever they could on their journey but more often than not being forced to drive them away at gun point, simply not having enough resources at hand to care for them and theirselves. Arriving at El Vado they had found what at first glance appeared to be simply another band of survivors had taken refuge within the complex. Only for them to soon discover to their horror that these survivors were Cannibals, caging and slaughtering their former neighbors for. Disgusted by the sheer inhumanity of what they discovered they slaughtered the monsters in human guises to the last and liberated the prisoners. It was that day that they were no longer the 502 and became the Sentinels of the Wasteland.
The M-13 power armor first introduced in the Liberation of San Francisco it would prove devastatingly against the urban defenders. Becoming the mainstay of Sentinels of the Wasteland, being slightly more common amongst their ranks than the M-27.
Over the generations the Sentinels dug in a consolidated their position while the world was consumed in the deathly grip of nuclear winter. Sending out scouting parties and even the occasional expedition into the wider wasteland in search of valuable pre Armageddon technology. Partially to help preserve it, to make sure that the knowledge of the past isn't forgotten but also to keep it out of the wrong hands, they've scene what happens when say some hopped up tribal gets his hands on a cash of machine guns enough times to know what happens. With the Sentinels believing that it was the irresponsible use of technology in the hands of selfish, violent men that doomed the world to nuclear Armageddon. Viewing it as their responsibility to prevent anything like WW3 and the Apocalypse from ever happening again, seeing themselves as the noble knights of the wasteland defending the weak and defenseless.
Life within the Sentinels is strictly regimented under the leadership of the Council of Elders and their grandmaster. With every member of the Sentinels from a fresh faced initiate to the greatest of the elders living by a strict code of honor, first codified by Alex Mason within the Sentinel Codex. Recently however they've found themselves growing more laxed in terms of recruitment with the encroaching forces of the mutant army, as the two mighty forces clash in the post apocalyptic desert. With them now being willing to recruit any able bodied and willing to join their ranks against the mutated abominations. The majority ending up amongst the ranks of the grunts, the standard infantry of Sentinels equipped with the same standard combat armor and assault rifles their ancestors most likely used in WW3. Though those few recruits who truly show exceptional skill and promise are slated for the chance to join the ranks of the Sentinel Knights and dawn the Sentinels prized power armor, going into battle with the most prized energy weapons of the Old War World. Yet still there is talk amongst the leadership that this may not be enough that it may be time to call for those distant outposts that were established by those brave expeditions generations ago or even approach the much loathed city of Vega. Though fortunately they've been able to count on the Rangers to fight by their side against this threat.
Genesis
When the bombs dropped on that fateful day over a century and a half ago not every soldier of the mighty American Army was fighting overseas in the atomic power blitzkrieg's of Europe and East Asia. Some were back home helping to maintain order in the war torn west coast, training or gearing up for their next deployment, unaware that the nation they swore to protect would die in an instant. One such band was Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mason's and 502nd heavy infrantry battalion, having been deployed back to the states for retraining with thd M-27 series power armor in the Arizona desert when the bombs dropped.
Watching helplessly as Flagstaff was obliterated in nuclear fire Mason made a promise to himself, a promise that his men and their descendants would carry on to this day, never to let the horrors of the apocalypse happen again. With the chain of communication gone and chaos sweeping through the lands of America it fell to Mason alone to keep his men alive. As they made their way through the desert on their long march to the supposed safety of the New Mexico El Vado Bunker complex, an old staging ground that army had used in their push to drive out the Sino-Soviet invaders. Taking in whoever they could on their journey but more often than not being forced to drive them away at gun point, simply not having enough resources at hand to care for them and theirselves. Arriving at El Vado they had found what at first glance appeared to be simply another band of survivors had taken refuge within the complex. Only for them to soon discover to their horror that these survivors were Cannibals, caging and slaughtering their former neighbors for. Disgusted by the sheer inhumanity of what they discovered they slaughtered the monsters in human guises to the last and liberated the prisoners. It was that day that they were no longer the 502 and became the Sentinels of the Wasteland.
The M-13 power armor first introduced in the Liberation of San Francisco it would prove devastatingly against the urban defenders. Becoming the mainstay of Sentinels of the Wasteland, being slightly more common amongst their ranks than the M-27.
Over the generations the Sentinels dug in a consolidated their position while the world was consumed in the deathly grip of nuclear winter. Sending out scouting parties and even the occasional expedition into the wider wasteland in search of valuable pre Armageddon technology. Partially to help preserve it, to make sure that the knowledge of the past isn't forgotten but also to keep it out of the wrong hands, they've scene what happens when say some hopped up tribal gets his hands on a cash of machine guns enough times to know what happens. With the Sentinels believing that it was the irresponsible use of technology in the hands of selfish, violent men that doomed the world to nuclear Armageddon. Viewing it as their responsibility to prevent anything like WW3 and the Apocalypse from ever happening again, seeing themselves as the noble knights of the wasteland defending the weak and defenseless.
Life within the Sentinels is strictly regimented under the leadership of the Council of Elders and their grandmaster. With every member of the Sentinels from a fresh faced initiate to the greatest of the elders living by a strict code of honor, first codified by Alex Mason within the Sentinel Codex. Recently however they've found themselves growing more laxed in terms of recruitment with the encroaching forces of the mutant army, as the two mighty forces clash in the post apocalyptic desert. With them now being willing to recruit any able bodied and willing to join their ranks against the mutated abominations. The majority ending up amongst the ranks of the grunts, the standard infantry of Sentinels equipped with the same standard combat armor and assault rifles their ancestors most likely used in WW3. Though those few recruits who truly show exceptional skill and promise are slated for the chance to join the ranks of the Sentinel Knights and dawn the Sentinels prized power armor, going into battle with the most prized energy weapons of the Old War World. Yet still there is talk amongst the leadership that this may not be enough that it may be time to call for those distant outposts that were established by those brave expeditions generations ago or even approach the much loathed city of Vega. Though fortunately they've been able to count on the Rangers to fight by their side against this threat.
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I'm feeling that I probably could have done better on the Sentinels. Wonder if I should redo them or not.Land of Confusion:
Genesis
When the bombs dropped on that fateful day over a century and a half ago not every soldier of the mighty American Army was fighting overseas in the atomic power blitzkrieg's of Europe and East Asia. Some were back home helping to maintain order in the war torn west coast, training or gearing up for their next deployment, unaware that the nation they swore to protect would die in an instant. One such band was Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mason's and 502nd heavy infrantry battalion, having been deployed back to the states for retraining with thd M-27 series power armor in the Arizona desert when the bombs dropped.
Watching helplessly as Flagstaff was obliterated in nuclear fire Mason made a promise to himself, a promise that his men and their descendants would carry on to this day, never to let the horrors of the apocalypse happen again. With the chain of communication gone and chaos sweeping through the lands of America it fell to Mason alone to keep his men alive. As they made their way through the desert on their long march to the supposed safety of the New Mexico El Vado Bunker complex, an old staging ground that army had used in their push to drive out the Sino-Soviet invaders. Taking in whoever they could on their journey but more often than not being forced to drive them away at gun point, simply not having enough resources at hand to care for them and theirselves. Arriving at El Vado they had found what at first glance appeared to be simply another band of survivors had taken refuge within the complex. Only for them to soon discover to their horror that these survivors were Cannibals, caging and slaughtering their former neighbors for. Disgusted by the sheer inhumanity of what they discovered they slaughtered the monsters in human guises to the last and liberated the prisoners. It was that day that they were no longer the 502 and became the Sentinels of the Wasteland.
The M-13 power armor first introduced in the Liberation of San Francisco it would prove devastatingly against the urban defenders. Becoming the mainstay of Sentinels of the Wasteland, being slightly more common amongst their ranks than the M-27.
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Over the generations the Sentinels dug in a consolidated their position while the world was consumed in the deathly grip of nuclear winter. Sending out scouting parties and even the occasional expedition into the wider wasteland in search of valuable pre Armageddon technology. Partially to help preserve it, to make sure that the knowledge of the past isn't forgotten but also to keep it out of the wrong hands, they've scene what happens when say some hopped up tribal gets his hands on a cash of machine guns enough times to know what happens. With the Sentinels believing that it was the irresponsible use of technology in the hands of selfish, violent men that doomed the world to nuclear Armageddon. Viewing it as their responsibility to prevent anything like WW3 and the Apocalypse from ever happening again, seeing themselves as the noble knights of the wasteland defending the weak and defenseless.
Life within the Sentinels is strictly regimented under the leadership of the Council of Elders and their grandmaster. With every member of the Sentinels from a fresh faced initiate to the greatest of the elders living by a strict code of honor, first codified by Alex Mason within the Sentinel Codex. Recently however they've found themselves growing more laxed in terms of recruitment with the encroaching forces of the mutant army, as the two mighty forces clash in the post apocalyptic desert. With them now being willing to recruit any able bodied and willing to join their ranks against the mutated abominations. The majority ending up amongst the ranks of the grunts, the standard infantry of Sentinels equipped with the same standard combat armor and assault rifles their ancestors most likely used in WW3. Though those few recruits who truly show exceptional skill and promise are slated for the chance to join the ranks of the Sentinel Knights and dawn the Sentinels prized power armor, going into battle with the most prized energy weapons of the Old War World. Yet still there is talk amongst the leadership that this may not be enough that it may be time to call for those distant outposts that were established by those brave expeditions generations ago or even approach the much loathed city of Vega. Though fortunately they've been able to count on the Rangers to fight by their side against this threat.