Zelent wrote:Faction/Nation Name: The National Commonwealth of Texas (NCT)
Faction/Nation Territory: The MSA of Houston as labeled on the map, with some degree of influence and presence in surrounding areas.
Capital City/Faction HQ: Downtown Houston
Population: Some 259,000 Citizens in the borders of the NCT.
Government: The structure of the government and the way it is formed can largely be traced to the writings of Founding-Father and 1st President Eugene Stone. Stone was very concerned about the inefficiencies and failures that most Republican Democracies faced, and aimed to completely rectify the system of democracy to something tenable, with a powerful executive that if not for the rights of the citizenry, would be considered an autocrat. The Executive Branch is checked only by the power of the National Court and its 6 Supreme Justices, and in theory by the voting and militant power of the citizenry, who do elect the President, (Along with their local mayors and judges.) The President then appoints various experts to the respective cabinet positions, who determine more specific objectives or policy directives in line with Presidential Decrees. For example, the President might decree the rebuilding of a road, it would be up to the Ministry of Infrastructure to see to it. There is a reason the government is like this, Stone believed that the workings of a representative democracy were far too slow and vulnerable to corruption to stand the tests of the Post-Apocalyptic world, instead a single, powerful executive branch led by a competent autocrat can better manage the tests of the new era, with speed and scientific precision that would otherwise become lost in the language of complicated senatorial bills and the sluggishness of the voting process.
Leaders:
President Rocco "Mad Dog" Maddox
National/Group Ideology: Believes inherently in its natural predestination to expand it's self until satiated, given its belief that the NCT has designed the most efficient system of government in the post-apocalyptic world, it can do a favor both for it's self and outside settlements by expanding, and bringing them into a commercially successful powerful state, free of banditry, corruption and inefficency, with safety and productivity for all.
Military: The Military consists of a 4 branches, with 3,410 citizen troops total, 94 robots and 200 mercenaries supplementing the ranks.
• The National Army, with 3,000 total troops is the bread and butter arm of the Commonwealth. 2,500 troops are spread into 5 different Infantry Battalions of about 500 men each, each soldier equipped with either combat or leather armor and operating a 5.56 chambered assault or service rifle, each consisting of four Infantry Companies (100 men or so), a command squad of 8 men, , a medical detachment of about 12 men, and a reduced sized Weapons Company of about 80 men wich includes a mortarunit, a couple machine gun teams a reconissance squad, and a sniper squad. There is another battalion, the Logistical Battalion which handles all rear line and supply duty's. It consists of:
A command squad, three supply,ammunition and kitchen companies which assign their platoons to infantry battalions, a horse-drawn artilllery battery consisting of two restored pre-war artillery guns, one a artillery howitzer and the other a small Anti-tank gun, a security platoon that tasks troops to work with supply trains and the artillery battery as security, and finally a Communications Company which assigns troops to units to act as Comms Officers. Support troops are typically equipped with leather armor and a .357 Cowboy repeater.
• The Commonwealth Navy, consists of a small task force of 50 men, who operate a small fleet of two armored and weaponized tug boats with multiple LMG's and a 360 degree rotating terminal operated missile launcher, and a collection of three leisure craft with LMG's mounted to the bow and stern, they operate off of a repaired dock in Galveston. However, the Navy can expect great things coming its way, the Commonwealth is in the process of repairing a pre-war cargo ship, but work has been on and off over the last few years.
• Robotics Corps: Consists of 60 Repairmen and the 94 Robots, a random number of Gustys, Handys, Assaultrons, Sentry Bots and a couple E-bots. These troops serve as mostly autonomous assistants to fill various roles for the Army.
• Mercenary Battalion, the Mercs who serve in specialized combat teams to carry out strategic battlefield objectives or fill some technical role alongside regular army troops.
• Ranger Battalion, 300 troopers in a command squad and three companies that serve as special forces troops, part commando and part assault. Good at frontline infiltration and harassment tactics, they will coordinate with frontline troops to attack or harass enemy supply lines and their rear right in the middle or leading up of a frontline assault. Also, largely experts at nigh-time operations.
The overall doctrine of the Commonwealth Military could be described as concerted efforts to wear down the opposing force with overwheliming superiority and to use specialized units to accomplish certain individual battlefield objectives while regular troops break through and intimidate the enemy force into collapse in rapid, over reaching assaults, fallowed by regroupings and lulls to make the enemy unable to predict the Commonwealth troops next move and create uncertainty in the enemy ranks.
Major Towns or Locations: Sugar, Woodlands, Galveston, Conroe, Pasadena
History: Back in 2177, Vault 45, a control vault opened up and let out its inabitants, who formed a community in and around the Vault located in Conroe, just north of the city of Houston. This community swelled in size, accepting in inhabitants who could provide and help with wasteland skills like farming. 20 Years went by, with this community becoming a major and prosperous settlement in the region, its GECK was used to make the land around it fertile and lush. In the year, 2198 however, things took a turn for the worse. Prosperity attracts bad things too, and the community came under threat from raiders. Enter Eugene Stone, Stone had a troubled and interesting background, that produced a very wise, ambitious and resilent man of opportunity. His entire life, he never spoke much of his origin, all that is known is that he was born far away, in Chicago in the Enclave, some events led to his orphaning and seperation from the Enclave at six years old, and at some point he ended up in Missouri for unclear reasons, where he became the chief of a band of tribals, who he built up into a respectable fighting force and brought them on a campaign southward, accumulating more followers until he had built a small army, upon reaching Louisiana he brought his force westward moving down the Gulf of Mexico. It was in Texas that they kept going southwest, gaining in power and experience until they reached the troubled settlement in Conroe. Stone had seen opportunities like this before, but stopped from seizing upon them. Stone offered his services to this settlement, he'd destroy the raider army for them, in exchange for fielty. With this, he led his tribals against the raiders, he had taught them well, and at this point in this trans-nation crusade he had developed a powerful fighting force well equipped and prepared for a fight such as this.
Alas, the raiders proved numerous and fierce, this raider army was routed, but not without losing atleast 65% of Stones own troops. He came back to Conroe, angry with the results but ready for this next stage in his life. The people of Vault 45 fallowed through on their promise, and crowned Stone their Overseer. He scoffed at this, but used it anyway temporairly. He raised them up, and led them on a new journey, conquering much of the region around Houston and annexing eager tribes and settlements. In 2200, Stone decided it was the perfect time to declare a new nation with a new system of government, and the National Commonwealth of Texas was formed, a powerful force in the region that prospered economically and had run off bandits from its lands. It soon came to largely surround the city of Houston, before quickly encroaching inwards. Every five years, Stone was reelected, and he continued to build his life-long mission upwards, in 2206 the Capital was moved to Houston it's self.
By 2210, the NCT largely looked from a map as it does today, with small expansions made over the next thirty years. Stone turned over to his social ambitions, aiming to create a large but corruption free government that used experts who paid attention to minutiae details to make a scientifically managed and successful bureaucracy.
In 2218, Stone passed away from Pancreatic Canncer leaving a permanent legacy as a man of greatness who led his people lovingly and sought nothing more than the Commonwealths success, and was replaced for the next two years by his life-long right hand man, Fredrich Althammer. President Althammer, however declared that he would not run in 2220, in interests of making certain that the Commonwealth not become a monarchy. The 2220 election was the first with any sort of legitimate race with political party's spawning. The Peoples Party, a socialistic faction championing government subsidies for medical treatment and a income tax system with the lowest tax bracket at 1% for most common laborers and sharecroppers to 8% for the welathiest citizens. In these next ten years, under TPP, infrastructure was built up in areas and crime became rare under the creation of The Commonwealth Police, a Federally administered national police force. TPP lost in 2230 to the Right-Wing Conservative Party of Oliver Fist, they continued the popular single-payer medical services policy, while edging taxes downwards as much as the budget would allow, and downsizing the government bureaucracy in certain areas. They famously attempted to expand the power of the Commonwealth Police to near authoritarian levels, but were struck down in the courts.
Oliver First lost the presidency in 2245 to the centristic populist party, The Eagle Party, who's president Henry Damer led until his resignation before the election of 2250 because of his retirement, but during his time pursued policies of economic building, repaving many important roads and encouraging business stimulation through tax breaks for R&D and for increasing production of key goods. Damer was followed by James Depperd, who stepped down in 2265, but had largely followed Damer era policies of economic boom. Depperds left office in 2265, and here comes Rocco Maddox. Maddox proposed expansion as a means to ensure the economy was not expanding too quickly for its own good. Maddox for the first year of his presidency largely continued with traditional Eagle political values, ensuring the commercial success of the nation, however the Department of Defense together with the Department of State could expect much work in the next couple years.
Need exact figures on that robotic corp.
Verore wrote:Faction/Nation Name: The Kingdom of Odessa
Faction/Nation Territory: The Kingdom of Odessa is based in the city of Odessa and have recently taken over what remains of the neighboring city of Midland. Aside from these holdings, the minor settlements around Odessa and Midland are under it's forced protection. (Essentially Midland and Ector County with a tiny sliver of Martin County.)
Capital City/Faction HQ: The City of Odessa is the capitol and namesake of the kingdom.
Population: In total, there are 12,820 people that live in the Kingdom of Odessa but many of the citizens are slaves forced to labor in their settlements.
Government: The nation is a monarchy with various "lords" ruling over the settlements scattered throughout the Kingdom's territory. However, the position of lord is not hereditary with the role an elected position voted on by the free citizenry but the King can overrule the vote. The King holds absolute power over the nation and unlike the lords is a hereditary position however the Advisory Council, a group made up of prominent members of the Kingdom, make the majority of the decisions with the permission of the King.
Leaders:
King
Saul Turner
Advisory Council
Jonas Taylor
Thomas Reed
Davis Straton
Abigail Martin
Sophia Harris
National/Group Ideology: (What is your ideology of your nation or group? What are the goals, ambitions, etc.) The Kingdom believes in the absolutism and rightness of their monarch however they believe that some degree of autonomy is important to prevent the main government to be distracted. The goals of the Kingdom of Odessa, much like their ideals, are very straightforward and somewhat primitive. Survive and Expand.
Military: (I used Fallout: New Vegas for the basis of the army. Mostly because I never actually played much of the other fallouts and I liked how they did their equipment.)
The King's Army is divided into 3 main parts, The Knights, The Pioneers, and The Guardsmen. Weaponry is largely limited to firearms with energy weapons occasionally being used by various members of the three branches. The King's Army is a largely defensive force and relies on the Pioneers to delay the enemy from reaching the fortified settlements where Guardsmen and Knights are prepared to fight to the last man to make sure the enemy does not advance any farther. The fortified settlements play a critical role in defensive plans as they can be used to further slow or even halt the enemies advance by bogging them down in costly sieges. In addition to these scattered forts, the cities of Odessa and Midland have become walled fortress cities by turning damaged or ruined buildings into small forts scattered throughout the cities.
The Knights: These units are the heavy shock infantry of the King's Army and are used to halt the enemies advance in their tracks. Covered in reinforced metal armor and armed with hunting or riot shotguns these living tanks, while not as strong as men in power armor, are the best the Kingdom of Odessa has. Trained from an extremely young age up until their young adulthood, these men are given the important task of protecting the King and Lords during times of peace and during war they are a fearless soldier charging headfirst into the enemy. Only 50 Knights currently serve in the King's Army.
The Pioneers: The Pioneers are another unique element of the king's Army and are the main support and expeditionary units. The average Pioneer is armed with either a scoped hunting rifle or 9mm smg and a machete, are given leather armor for protection, and occasionally accompanied by dogs or horses. Trained to be able to survive large spans of time in the wilderness and communicating with the various tribes in the wastes as well as guerrilla warfare and sometimes horse riding or animal taming. When in combat operations they are the main unit of delaying actions by setting traps on major pathways and laying ambushes against the advancing enemy. Only 100 are available and many are wandering the wastes, looking for new settlements or areas to scavenge.
The Guardsmen: The standard unit of the army, made up of free citizens and slaves who have great combat potential are conscripted to make up the bulk of the army. Armed with battle rifles, and occasionally grenade rifles or automatic rifles, and protected by combat armor, they serve a strictly defensive role in the King's Army, being used as patrols and guards for the settlements. Even in combat they do not act as offensive units, instead they are used as a protective barrier of flesh between home and the enemy while the Knights and Pioneers break the enemies armed forces to give leverage for peace talks. 350 Guardsmen protect the Kingdom from the creatures and inhabitants of the wastelands where the Pioneers roam.
Major Towns or Locations: The only major location aside from the capitol city is the city of Midland. The second largest settlement in the Kingdom and a recent major addition, annexed after a dispute and series of skirmishes between Midland's Pioneers and the King's Army. The city is the main base of the Pioneers and home to a large portion of the population.
History: (How did your nation or group come to be?) The Kingdom of Odessa was formed some time ago when the tribes of the city were united under a single ruler named Arthur Turner. He was inspired by tales of chivalry and the reads of historians about ancient times during the dark ages. Finding parallels between then and now, he decided to take charge of his home tribe and begin to absorb and take over the other tribes. King Arthur's rule showed great expansion for the kingdom as it slowly took over the surrounding territory. Towards the end of his life they came into contact with the tribals of Midland who created a loose alliance between each other in response to Odessa's expansionism. After Arthur's death,
Saul Turner inherited his father's throne at the age of 23 and only 2 years after his rule began the tribes of Midland attacked the kingdom with bands of warriors that would eventually be reorganized into the Pioneers. The fighting was sporadic with skirmishes breaking out from time to time however eventually the King's Army managed a decisive victory against the tribal warriors and managed to force the tribes into peace talks. Using the talks to try to impress the tribes and forcing them to join the leaders eventually agreed with each of the leaders being granted lordships over their tribes and other settlements that now existed in the sphere of influence. 20 years have passed since the peace deal that skyrocketed Odessa's power and with the Pioneers and tribes fully integrated the Kingdom seeks other tribes and settlements to annex.
History needs to be fleshed out more. Can't accept this right now unless it's more indepth. Everything else is fine.
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