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UNION OF BLOOD AND IRON
Spiritual successor to Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
A few decades ago the United States was in the biggest downfall seen since the Roman Empire, today its on a comeback and set on the greatest conquest in centuries.
Current Date: September 29th, 1925
Starting Location: Rock Springs, Wyoming, Idaho Territory
OP: Imperial Idaho
Co-op(s): New Grestin
A mere ten years ago the map of North America resembled that of Europe, divided and at each others throats. A failed Manifest Destiny and the aftermath of the wars and revolts that came of it. The start of the First World War after a Nordic bombing of a diplomatic meeting between the Frontier Pact led them to war against the Continental Concord, and a renewed civil war between the North and the South began. The United States began to be the only fighting force for the Concord, as the Idaho Territory, Oregon, and the Nordic Republic began running out of men and supplies to throw at their enemies. Immense pressure was placed on the other Concord members by the United States, determined to restore the Unions place among the sun by crushing the Confederacy and the Frontier Pact. The Nordic Republic collapsed after internal divisions and economy crushing disasters, it descended into Civil War.
The Unions armies marched on its former ally, and absorbed the Republic under the excuse of restoring order to the region. The Confederacy was losing the war, though still determinate for Dixie to triumph in the end of the war, and the other Frontier Pact members grew sick of the war, already winning against Oregon and fighting a Guerilla war in the Rocky Mountains against Idaho and Colorado. The Texans abandoned the Confederacy, and voted them out of the Pact with the intention of setting their own peace without the baggage of the Confederacy. The Continental Concord began a peace without the Union, leading extremist politicians in Philadelphia to justify war against their former allies, and under a false flag operation annexed parts of New England.
The Confederacy was crushed in victory after victory, and the Union marched west, into Lakotah, Idaho, and the Cherokee. Even after the delayed end of the war in Europe the United States continued to march, and absorbed its client state of Kansas City. Union troops entered Texan land for the first time in almost a century. The Union is pushed on the prospect of reclamation and the Hyper Patriotism that followed the renewed Civil War, as its technological advantage over the west and its titanic industry drive it to victory.
Welcome to Union of Blood and Iron! An RP with the intention of telling the ta!e of an America that could've been our own. With a United States hellbent on ruling from sea to sea with a renewed Manifest Destiny, the future of the west seems bleak. However resistance is immense in the Great Plains and the South, and armies continue to march against those of the Union. A goal of the RP is to explore the culture and history of this world and preserve the nations who inhabit it. You as your character will travel across the land and organize its population to fight, coordinate with the rebellions and armies against the that of the Union, and make sure the western powers survive for years to come. The world is on the edge of its seat waiting to see what happens in North America, with any luck, you will be a deciding factor in the fate of the continent.
TIMELINEJuly 4th, 1776: Declaration of Independence was signed by the founding fathers, bring the United States into Sovereignty.
September 3rd, 1783: End of the American war of Independence.
June 16th, 1788: A fire breaks out in Independence Hall during the constitutional convention, killing several of the Founding Fathers and burning the draft of the Constitution.
June 25th, 1788: The Charter of the Union is ratified instead of the Constitution, similar with personal freedoms, and including secession clause and less generous in state rights.
June 1st, 1812: The United States enters the Napoleonic wars with declaring war with Great Britain, starting the War of 1812.
August 19th, 1815: After losing the battle of Albany and Siege of Providence to British forces, the United States surrenders to the British Empire.
December 4th, 1815: The treaty of New Orleans is signed, the UK grants New England independence over their region and part of New York, blocking the USA from Lake Ontario.
March 12th, 1816: The first President of New England is elected, patriotism boosts and American ties sever as they remember the US focus on the west instead of them at home.
October 2nd, 1835: American Settlers in Texas rebel against Mexican authority, and declare the Republic of Texas independent from the Mexican Empire.
May 24th, 1832: The Seminole Tribe of Florida agrees to relocation in Oklahoma, the Seminole wars never happen.
November 5th, 1835: The Trail of Tears occurs, the Cherokee and remaining tribes of the Deep South are forced at gunpoint to move to reservations in Oklahoma.
April 21st, 1836: The Texan Republic becomes fully independent from Mexico, and southerners flock to the newfound nation, bringing slaves and industry with them.
February 14th, 1839: Nationalists win offices in Texas, the movement to join the United States dies out and is replaced with the start of Hyper-Nationalism.
April 25th, 1846: The Mexican-Texan war begins over a border dispute, America joins in on Texas's side against Mexico.
June 14th, 1846: John Fremont raises the Bear Flag over a Mexican outpost in California, and declares the Californian Republic Independent.
July 22nd, 1847: The first Mormons enter the Salt Lake Valley and establish Salt Lake City, hoping it to be the capital of the state of Deseret.
January 29th, 1849: The treaty of Houston is signed, splitting the Northern parts of the Mexican Empire between the United States and Texas.
January 29th, 1849: In the Treaty of Houston Santa Fe becomes an Independent nation, a compromise between the United States of Texas over ownership of it.
March 24th, 1849: The Californian Republic is declared illegitimate by the United States, and John Fremont and his followers go underground, taxing frontier trade routes.
May 30th, 1850: Gold is discovered in the property of a California Republic Movement Member, and Americans migrate to the Gold Rush, and the Movement grows rich off gold.
December 30, 1853: The Gadsden Purchase is never made, as the United States cannot afford to after the expensive war against Mexico from the lack of New England.
October 17th, 1859: The California Republic Movement, influenced by Fremont and wealthy through the Gold Rush, revolts against the United States and Occupies Sacramento.
June 10th, 1860: The California Republic has occupied most of its current borders, and the US Army began losing a war of attrition against them in the deserts and mountains.
November 6th, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States, leading Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Florida to secede.
April 12th, 1861: The Battle of Fort Sumter begins, Virginia and Tennessee join the Fledgling Confederate States, the US army is divided against the CSA and California.
August 9th, 1861: Texas cuts its ties with the United States, and aligns itself with the Confederacy, though retains its independence.
March 2nd, 1862: The US Army of the West is pushed out of California, supplies dwindling with focus on the East, California Declares itself to be Independent once more.
July 4th, 1863: Vicksburg is captured by the US Army of the West, redeployed on the Mississippi campaign, the Mississippi river is now under Union Control.
July 4th, 1863: A stunning defeat is suffered by the Union at Gettysburg, the Confederate Army runs rampant in the North, though is later pushed back into Virginia.
September 1st, 1863: The French court is insulted by the Confederate Diplomat sent to garner allies, and Napoleon the Third declares war on the Confederacy.
September 29th, 1863: With the lack of New England industry, and after a series of defeats the Union Surrenders to the Confederacy, unaware of the French declaration of war.
October 18th, 1863: The Treaty of Boston is signed, granting the CSA Missouri, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and the Cherokee in Oklahoma independence over the region.
November 1st, 1863: The Capital of the United States of America is moved to Philadelphia, away from the Confederate Border.
November 3rd, 1863: The French army lands in New Orleans, originally planing to bolster the Union forces presumably there and march east into Alabama.
February 15th, 1864: France has gained control over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas after beating the Confederate Army, which still hadn't recovered from the Civil War.
June 23rd, 1864: The Treaty of Havana is Signed, returning Northern Missouri and West Virginia to Union control, the three Mississippi states France continued to occupy.
May 25th, 1865: Maximilian the First of Mexico flees the country due to stresses from its populace, France offers him the throne of the Mississippi states it occupied.
May 31st, 1865: Maximilian is crowned Emperor of Louisiana, and moves his court to New Orleans, and starts the process of abolishing slavery.
July 1st, 1867: Canada is split between Columbia and Quebec upon Independence, though remain British Dominions.
June 12th, 1867: The Texan Republic declares war on the Cherokee Nation and seizes southern Oklahoma, a treaty isn't signed but after the first offensive in effect the war ends.
April 28th, 1869: The Mormon population in Utah nearly triples from new converts in the east and migrants tired of war along the Confederate border.
September 13th, 1871: Utah is admitted into the Union, although not holding its desired lands is a sore topic among the Mormons.
December 18th, 1871: A massive blizzard hits Minnesota, the majority of food stores in the state are destroyed by the frost, the United States does nothing to end to the famine.
June 2nd, 1872: Utah secedes from the Union due to religious divides after a Mormon temple was burnt by the backroom orders of a Nevada Senator.
August 16th 1872: Minnesota secedes from the Union, the scars of the recent famine still fresh in their minds and joining the bandwagon of Utah.
October 22nd, 1872: President Grant declares the seccessions illegal, and invades the two fledgling nations, hoping to bolster faith in the Union.
May 3rd, 1873: The Texan Republic joins the Deseret-Minnesota war for Independence against the United States, while the tribes of the plains begin to unite against the US.
June 17th, 1873: Maximilian's efforts in Louisiana result in the outlaw of slavery, he continues efforts to bring equality to the blacks and french of the Kingdom.
July 4th, 1874: The Mormons of Deseret secure their current borders, while the Texan Army cuts into Colorado and distracts the US army from Minnesota.
August 21st, 1875: President Grant is forced to surrender to the Texas-Deseret-Minnesota alliance, their current borders are earned and Colorado is formed as a country.
October 11th, 1875: Ulysses Grant concedes Independence to the Idaho Territory, Oregon, and Washington, in a bid to elevate the status of the United States.
November 16th, 1875: Oregon and Washington merge into the Republic of Oregon, the Idaho Territory pushes for bringing in Population and Industry and native integration.
March 25th, 1879: A border dispute between the United States and Louisiana leads to a compromise, granting Independence to Kansas City as largely a US protectorate.
October 31st, 1882: France and the United Kingdom pressure the Confederate States and Texan Republic into freeing their slaves.
November 13th, 1882: In rural parts of the CSA and Texas a slavery style system is put into place, blacks getting paid just enough to buy food though not enough to leave.
June 27th, 1914: A diplomatic meeting in Lakotah is bombed by a Nordic citizen, killing the Heir to the throne of Louisiana and diplomats from the rest of the Frontier Pact.
June 29th, 1914: After talks break down between the Pact and the Concord, the Confederate Army mobilizes, Texas follows later in the day.
July 1st: 1914: The American Army along with the Idahoan and Nordic Mobilizes.
July 3rd, 1914: Deseret Mobilizes, Louisiana and Oregon do the same.
July 4th 1914: Lakotah and Louisiana declare war on the Nordic Republic, pulling the Frontier Pact and Continental Concord to war.
July 6th, 1914: Nearly every North American army is Mobilized, California spearheads an invasion of Oregon, and Lakotah sends its horselords into the Idaho Territory.
July 11th, 1914: The Neutrality of Colorado is violated as Texan soldiers enter the mountain Republic, preparing for a push through Colorado into the Unions territory.
July 12th, 1914: Europe collectively declares neutrality in the American War, distracted by events in Europe proper.
July 20th, 1914: The Army of the Union defeats the Confederacy at the Third Battle of Bull Run, and carves a path to Richmond.
September 3rd, 1914: Kentucky and West Virginia are secured under Union control, Idaho bottlenecks Deseret troops in the Rocky Mountains.
December 4th, 1914: The Battle of Kansas City ends, a Union counterattack left the city devastated but safe, and talks begin among some of integration.
January 25th, 1915: Deseret Troops break through the Rocky Mountain Stalemate, with Idahoan troops suffering from cold and hypothermia.
March 22nd, 1915: California is beat back in Cascades and routs back to Eureka, Nordic Troops cross the Missouri and force the Lakotah to reroute troops from Idaho.
April 5th, 1915: The Cherokee Nation is sent into Exile in the Union, as their heartland is under Texan Occupation.
May 16th, 1915: The Battle of the Moon is fought at the craters of the moon national park in Idaho, and Idahoan troops push Deseret troops out of the region.
July 4th, 1915: A Confederate attack on the Unions Independence day is won and the Siege of Richmond is lifted.
July 14th, 1915: A Communist revolutionary named Mitchell Riley and his supporters oust Doge Neil Archer of Kansas City, and Install a Communist Regime.
July 19th, 1915: The Communist Regime in Kansas City is declared Illegitimate and Union forces establish a new Mayoral Government under Union occupation.
August 28th, 1915: Coloradoan troops are reinforced by Cherokee exiles, and Union Soldiers carve a path down the Mississippi River against Hapsburg Louisiana.
November 17th, 1915: Californian Ships manage to pull off a port bombardment of Victoria, Oregon, In the most heavily defended bay in the Pacific.
February 11th, 1916: The Hapanese Empire begins to lend lease with Oregon, sending rifles and munitions to Portland.
April 23rd, 1916: Richmond is captured by Union troops, and the Confederate army begins a brief counter-siege though is defeated by reinforcing Union troops from Maryland.
May 5th, 1916: The Second Battle of Little Bighorn is won by Lakotahn Horselords, and the tribes celebrate a victory at the historic battlefield.
June 1st, 1916: The Battle of Independence is fought in Missouri, leaving the Union to run rampant in the Northern lands of Hapsburg Louisiana.
August 13th, 1916: Deseret pushes with Texan Troops into Wyoming, in an attempt to link with Lakotahn supply lines.
November 24th, 1916: Union forces with Coloradan and Cherokee supporters cuts into Nebraska and Kansas, diverting the Frontier Offense into Wyoming to play defense.
December 25th, 1916: A one day ceasefire is declared between California and Oregon for Christmas, its used to pull supplies from Columbia into the Northwestern Republic.
May 30th, 1917: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces while a Confederate-Louisianan counter push begins along the Mississippi River.
June 25th, 1917: Alaska declares Independence from the Russian Empire after the start of the civil war, not wanting to be ruled by either government.
July 19th, 1917: Union ships begin an assault of Charleston, and a Californian push is made into Oregonian Nevada to secure land along the Idahoan border.
September 11th, 1917: A gas attack kills hundreds in Pocatello at the hands of Deseret troops, Idahoan troops are bolstered by the attack and win a stunning victory at Rexburg.
September 24th, 1917: Louisianan Ironclads cut a path down the Mississippi to Lakotah, and Concord supply lines are cut over the river.
December 2nd, 1917: Concord supply lines are restored after defeating the Ironclads at Omaha, and Oregonian troops surround part of the Californian army and defeat them.
February 14th, 1918: An Idahoan push brings them into the Black Hills, while the Nordic Republic moves to cut the Lakotah in two by meeting with the Idahoan Army.
March 12th, 1918: Charleston Falls to Union troops, and a push begins to take Mississippi and Alabama from occupied Tennessee.
April 25th, 1918: Ships built in secret in the Great Lakes are sent through the Chicago Canal and help drive the Union push into the region.
May 16th, 1918: Texan troops reinforce the Louisianan garrison at Little Rock, and a siege begins.
June 22nd, 1918: Colorado withdraws its army from the capital, its government fleeing to Detroit and its soldiers to bolster the Union and Idahoan defenses.
July 1st, 1918: The Californian Army assaults Portland, the Japanese traders reroute to Seattle, however not before conveys are sunk.
July 4th, 1918: The Union forms a state government in Virginia and Kentucky, shadily replacing the military occupation that existed beforehand.
August 16th, 1918: Whatever's left of the Lakotah is scattered and under supplied, most of it is under Nordic, Idahoan, and Union Occupation.
November 27th, 1918: A harsh winter figuratively and in some cases literally froze the frontlines, the Rocky Mountains became a war against the cold instead of the other side.
March 31st, 1919: The Nordic Republic descends into Civil War due to [REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATIVE REQUEST] Union troops within Lakotah occupy the Nordic Occupied lands.
April 16th, 1919: Little Rock is captured by Union troops, Texan soldiers and ships are moved to Louisiana to aid in the defense of the Front line.
May 22nd, 1919: The Union integrates the Nordic Republic under the excuse of restoring order to the region, while establishing a state government in North Carolina.
July 19th, 1919: Deseret troops invade from Nevada into the front line around Boise, and Texan troops loop around into Kansas and Missouri.
August 3rd, 1919: Oregonian Troops are diverted from their original path to aid the Idahoan forces in defending Boise.
November 15th, 1919: The Little Rock is recaptured by Texan soldiers, Union forces are routed from garrisoning Lakotah to countering the Texan offense in Kansas.
February 4th, 1920: Radical Politicians approve of a false flag operation against New England, to hopefully justify annexing parts of the Federation.
February 18th, 1920: A Union Battleship in New York is sunk after a bomb is set off, using New English spies as an excuse, elements of the US army invade.
March 3rd, 1920: Peace is signed in Europe, with the lack of American supplies, manpower, and armor the war grinds out to a perpetual stalemate, until the treaty was signed.
April 14th, 1920: The Battle of Boise is won, with the Oregonian troops returning to their nation and the Idahoan troops entering Nevada to cut around to Salt Lake.
June 26th, 1920: The Battle of Atlanta is won by the Confederacy, the Union troops routed to Nashville where they pushed back to Atlanta once resupplied, capturing the city.
July 8th, 1920: With a win at Eureka by Oregonian troops and Idahoan forces winning a campaign on Salt Lake they begin to push the Union towards signing a peace treaty.
July 13th, 1920: The United States reaffirms its stance of continuing the war, desiring a total victory rather than an agreement, having more blood and iron to spend in the war.
August 25th, 1920: The Annexation of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts by the Union is formalized.
November 1st, 1920: Idahoan Artillery is close enough to do so and fires on Salt Lake, a gas attack wipes out most of the Idahoan offense however.
December 31st, 1920: A Union Fleet blockades Miami and Orlando, and a Texan-Louisianan Fleet is sent to counter attack.
January 12th, 1921: The Frontier Pact fleet is sunk, though the Union fleet takes enough damage to head to port for repairs.
February 1st, 1921: The Confederacy is voted out of the Frontier Pact by Texas, Deseret, and California.
March 26th, 1921: The first widespread resistance forms in the Lakotah as the Union attempts to round up natives into reservations, allowing Americans to settle elsewhere.
April 23rd, 1921: Oregon and the Idaho Territory seek a peace treaty with the Frontier Pact, while the US does not, and so a treaty is negotiated in secret.
April 31st, 1921: The Secret Treaty of Santa Fe is signed, and the Union is outraged by the betrayal.
May 5th, 1921: Radical and Extremist politicians in Philadelphia vote to declare war on Colorado, Oregon, and the Idaho Territory, citing the secret peace as the Casus Belli.
November 21st, 1921: Union forces clash with Idahoan troops in Montana and Coloradan troops in Kansas, both battles are Union victories.
February 2nd, 1922: In a move to open troops from the Confederacy, an assault is made on Montgomery, and it shrinks the border, leaving largely Florida under CSA control.
March 16th, 1922: The Battle of the Ozarks is fought over the entire mountain range, starting the largest battle in the Western Hemisphere to date.
May 25th, 1922: After only two months the battle is a constant slog of Artillery, gas attacks, and trench warfare, the landscape won't recover for years.
June 17th, 1922: Oregonian Troops move through Deseret to link with Idahoan forces fighting in Yellowstone, and the battle is won by their mastery of the unique terrain.
July 15th, 1922: British Firearms and armor are available at mass to the nations of America, the Union prefers its own gear, while the Texan Air force stockpiles Sopwith Camels.
November 26th, 1922: When Union troops enter the Cherokee, it becomes clears its not an act of Liberation.
January 18th, 1923: A Union counter push brings pressure off their lines in the Ozarks, and the battle of won by the United States, leaving them in control of Arkansas.
April 12th, 1923: The Third Battle of Little Bighorn is won by Idahoan troops, in a twist of Irony Lakotahn rebels aided by diverting the Union forces into the Black Hills.
August 28th, 1923: A Confederate mass assault unexpectedly captures Savannah, and elements of the Unions army are rerouted to counter attack.
December 4th, 1923: Missouri Rebels under the leadership of an Albanian man named Portier capture Columbia, though quickly get dispersed by a Union garrison in Kansas City.
March 2nd, 1924: The Army of the Union captures Mobile, and blockades New Orleans, cutting supplies from Hapsburg Louisiana to the Confederacy.
July 16th, 1924: The Texan Air Force performs a stunning air raid on Kansas City using the British imported Sopwith Camels.
June 29th, 1924: A notable population increase is seen amongst the American nations, Canadian and European volunteers begin to flock to the war torn nations to fight.
August 21st, 1924: A considerable troop build up is seen in Kansas, a push is later made into Colorado and Wyoming.
November 17th, 1924: Another Harsh winter freezes the front lines, Its almost as if the OP writing this wanted to rap things up soon so he can get some sleep or something.
March 12th, 1925: The Union forces try a slower strategy of expansion, focusing less on population centers but more on infrastructure and establishing a firm hold on the land.
September 3rd, 1925: The Union makes a push for Savannah and Montana, both relatively successful, with Savannah surrounded and Montana at a slow and steady advance.
September 15th, 1925: The Confederacy withdraws from Savannah, and the Union follows into Florida, while speeding the advance in Wyoming and Montana.These are in anyway listed in levels of importance simply listed. If uou are asked to leave, you will be required to leave if you don't the mods being involved.
- 1. No Godmodding/Meta-Gaming: This can be defined as playing your character without limitations or having your character know things they couldn't possibly know.
- 2. Don't be a dick in the OOC: You can have your character be an aggressive and smarter version of a certain political candidate in the IC. But the moment you act like a dick in the OOC thread you'll get a warning.
- 3. No One Liners: Three full lines of text/a paragraph per each IC post, anything less is frowned upon and is generally laziness and will not be accepted. Anything greater is acceptable and is smiled upon.
- 4. No 'Dick measuring' contests: The moment two of you start arguing over which character is better, and it doesn't contribute to goings on in the IC. You'll both get a warning.
- 5. For the love of god keep it PG-13: This is a general site rule, and while PG-13 is a blurred line nowadays, the rules of thumb are: nothing sexually explicit, and nothing overly violent. This is a place to role play as old timey adventurers, not write out deviant fantasies.(edited)
- 6. No multicolor or odd dialogue: No colored text, it's a legitimate health risk to those with photosensitive epilepsy and you will be reprimanded for doing so (This may actually be punished harsher than godmoding depending on the circumstance). And no italicized/bolded/underlined paragraphs, reserve them for actual use instead of using them for everything.
- 7. If you have a problem with a player, take it to TG. If that does not work, bring it to the OP or a CoOP's attention. Do not turn the OOC thread into chaos.
- 8. You have a 72 hour grace period to post if you're holding someone back, after that your character will be forced to move on by the OP or Co-Op. Failure to return will result in character death.
- 9. Don't just write for yourself, other want to get involved as well. I realize it's human nature, but try to involve other people's ideas, themes, and characters. A major part in RPing is having other people, don't turn them away or cast a blind eye.
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