Entry 1 said:Well this is is kind of a difficult thing to project but i came up with a scenario which hopefully gets close to what you asked for. So i made a scenario but i got carried away and well...it's very long.
The Legion of the Underworld(2145-?).
Description & Flag
this makes more sense if you read the scenario first.
The Legion of the Underworld is a regime ruled by fanatic satanists who believe that Satan has finally defeated God and the nuclear war was Satan's call. They force slaves to work to death by digging a pit into hell because of that. They control parts of vault-like bunker under the Area 51 base. They don't believe that anything serves any pupose other than to be destroyed by or at Satan's will and as such they practice ritualistic killings and cannibalism as well as feeding humans to mutants. There are no laws and everyone who isn't a slave is either human cattle or a part of the leading cultists.
The flag they wave was never designed by them. It is actually just a copied design from an antiquity from the 1980s. A painted design on the t-shirt of one of the firsts humans to seek shelter in the bunkers. The only original addition being the words "Satan rules below". The flag is often painted on charred or ragged cloth as part of rituals. As such there are 2 versions.
EDIT: only the complete version counts, the ragged version does not.
Scenario
In a Fallout-esque scenario where the cold war turned hot in the '80s and few were those that survived the hellfire that rained upon them. However at the exact time the war started a small Thrash Metal band was holding a concert somwhere outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Since they were outside the city the band and the fans survived the nuclear bomb that leveled the city.
Within hours however they were found by a recon team from the nearby Nellis Airfield a.k.a. Area 51. That turned out to be actually a gigantic bunker the size of a city capable of sheltering hundreds of thousands of people. Within a year from the nuclear war the Bunker was filled and by the 3rd year it was overcrowded. Local factions started to emerge and the first to do so were the metalheads.
They created their own faction and secretly armed themselves to overthrow the military who were rulling the bunker.
40 years after the war took place the bunker was now divided between the military, which by now declared itself as the Last State of America, the and the metalheads who now started to expand by building new modules underground. However they were not as advanced as the LSA and did not know how properly shield the new spaces and purify and filtrate air. As meds were in short supply and the radion levels were increased a new pathogen quickly developed and infected almost every metalhead which was incredibly infectious. The survivors fled to the LSA-controlled zone and the former zone was quarantined. But whatever was beyond the thick steel gates didn't care.
By now it is the year 2145 and the LSA celebrates 200 years from the end of WW2. The LSA was deeply inflounced by the metalheads and as such it was more permissive. As such in the wake of such an event the LSA allowed a team of researchers to explore the old quarantine, believeing whatever was there would have died long ago. The team of researchers however found out that the quarantine was now a biome in of itself, since decades of radiation took their toll to enhance mutations and therefore evolution. A new food chain had formed unbeknownst to them. They met a new breed mutant predators which, like in the movie Alien, reproduced by infesting hosts. Since mostly everything that would "normally" be a host came from human DNA, the researchers that weren't killed became hosts. After only 2(both hosts) out of the crew of 25 returned and with proof of the horrors that lay beyond an extermination program was proposed. But just weeks after the hosts hatched and insanity ensued. This was used by a group of metalhead descendants called The Legion of the Underworld to take control under the premise that they can save the world. And that's how we got here.
Entry 2 said:The Fylkirate of Midgard
In the late 10th Century, the consolidation of much of the Aesir-worshiping population across Scandinavia, northern Germania, and much of Britannia led to the establishment of the first Fylkirate. "Fylkir" derived from the term fylk, meaning "people", and just as fylke meant a kingdom in the sense of a united people, and fylking in the sense of a united unit of warriors as if they were a people, the Fylkir was the unifying figure for all of Ásatrú. Fylkir Erik I reformed their pagan religion, creating a codified text in the Trúóðr, and for a time the realm began to prosper, albeit through a great deal of war with the Christians to the south, who themselves, fearful of enemies on two fronts, began renewed efforts to vanquish and then convert the nations of Islam. Though the Fylkirate fell, it would be recreated by Fylkir Ragnarr II, and it would last for centuries longer. But in the Second Fylkirate grew the Followers of Loki. Initially, it was a collection of cults, chief among them being that of Hel, daughter of Loki, and the monstrous overseer of Helheim, a land of death. But worshipers of her fathers quickly outgrew and then subsumed them, and it was not long before the Followers established their own proper hierarchy and pantheon; the God of Mischief and Fire lorded over them, ruling from the shadows; his daughter Hel, the Goddess of Death, waited hungrily for their souls to punish and twist to her desires; his son Fenrir, the Dread Wolf, the God of Shadows and Destruction guided their warriors to battle; and his son Jormungandr, the World Serpent, God of the Seas, granted their vessels mercy on the waves, or did not. These fickle deities were worshipped, but not obeyed. To the Followers, obedience to dogma and morality was to confine oneself, not only boring Loki and earning his ire, but worthlessly wasting life before Hel tortured your soul. Hedonistic backstabbers, the Followers remained underground, but grew in power. Those exposed claimed that to favor one of the Aesir was no crime, even if he was not one of those deemed worthy of veneration by the Trúóðr.
When the Plague struck in the late 16th Century, the Fylkirate began to crumble once again. This time, the Followers would be those who rallied to recreate it. In slow, painful conquest that took a century, the Followers carved the Third Fylkirate, under their leadership. The starving and diseased masses followed them, for they brought food from their grainstores and medicine from the Christian south. It also required little motivation to tell the unhappy peasantry that their lords could be killed, for the House of Loki reveled in Chaos and debauchery, in those with ambition seizing power by any means. This anarchic beginning tapered away over time, as the hierarchy of the Followers asserted itself. But it did not vanish. A man that could not fight for his land could see it stolen, a women that could not defend herself could be raped to a cheering crowd, a lord that could not protect his position could be stabbed in broad daylight. Only the presence of the military, whose purpose was the ensurement that ultimately the stability of the Fylkirate (and thus of the Followers and their ways) was not endangered by recklessness and idiocy, as well as the general desire for content stability by communities ever kept the peace. As cunning was seen as perhaps the greatest of traits, those who could cleverly assassinate or simply outmaneuver and embarrass their superiors were valued in the Fylkirate's politics, while the strict obedience of a wolfpack was demanded from soldiers. Unhindered by honor or morality, and valuing knowledge, the Fylkirate quickly began to overtake Christendom, slave labor powering the empire as tactics of brutality prevailed on the battlefield. With the fall and destruction of Rome, Constantinople, Madrid, Tunis, and Jerusalem in the span of only a decade, by the dawn of the 18th Century, Midgard was established, spanning the continent of Europe. With this establishment came a new purpose; the conquest of the globe and the unification of humanity under the banner of the House of Loki, with the purpose of creating an army that will help break the chains of fate and bring about a New Ragnarok; one in which the world would be destroyed and recreated, where the Aesir would be slain, and Loki and his children would sit in the bloodied halls of Asgard, their frothing mass of followers given a lush new Earth to fight and fornicate upon.
Midgard revels against the idea of 'good'. War crimes are points of pride for soldiers, their leadership rise through murder most commonly, but on occasion opponents are left with nothing, being left financially and socially ruined. The government is powerful, holding the ability to do whatever it likes to its citizens, who in turn as constantly told that the system of the Followers grants them more opportunity for power and wealth than any other. That all rebellions in the past have failed also has served to neutralize descent. Humiliations and/or Executions (not always in that order) are public events, crime practically celebrated. The state-controlled industry is perhaps an irony in Midgard; seen as critical to the survival of the Fylkirate and to the successful execution of Ragnarok, sabotage of industry, endangerment of quotas and milestones, and the death or injury of necesarry personnel are seen as grievous offenses, the punishment usually involving the slow murder of one's family before being killed yourself.
The flag of Midgard represents their ambitions and dreams. Jormungandr is displayed as having let go of his tail, a sign of Rangarok, and the Wolfsangel rune, an increasingly common symbol of Fenrir, represents Midgardian military might. Being the two members of the House of Loki that dwell in Midgard (this barrier represented by the gold ring), they are seen as representations of Midgard and Humanity when presented together. The red of the banner is for the blood of humanity, which they will unite by any means, and which they happily spill, and few know if it was originally intended to be red, or if every first iteration of the flag, which was originally a war banner for the army, simply came back covered in blood.
Entry 3 said:Caribbean Pirate State
Originally formed in the Bahaman islands during the 1700s as a response to tightening anti-piracy laws. To protect their way of life many pirates joined together to form a loosely united navy. While the pirates repeatedly lost battle after battle they exhausted the navies in the region making enforcement of the anti-piracy laws in some areas to costly. It was in those areas that the state began to grow. Ports that would routinely supply pirate ships soon had their governors either replaced with pirates or those sympathetic to piracy. Pirates used s code of conduct among themselves to prevent total anarchy. This code however did not apply to members of another nation or to the common populace within the states control. Theft, murder and other actions that would be seen as crimes in other states is perfectly legal with the Caribbean Pirate State, and at time encouraged, as long as it is not conducted against one of the states officially sanctioned pirates.
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