haiiiii anowaaaaaa you probably don't remember me.
Also if airpowered firearms are a thing, this implies air compression on the level making such a thing even worthwhile is possible. Doesn't this also mean i could have air-powered mortars and artillery?
Sure, made of PVC, or whatever else, and firing pipe bombs not 155mm howitzer shells, but if you can compress air enough to make a bullet travel at lethal velocity, scaling up is all thats left. And IEDS can be any size really.
okay im eating garlic bread now and then stopping being sleep deprived.
Nationstates Name:
Faction Name: Night Witch Battalion
Faction Type: Raiding Clan
Flag (Optional): If i could be assed to find a picture, it'd be a lightning bolt over the moon.
Governing Ideology: Meritocratic Dictatorship
Leader(s): Lairah Kerasis
Territorial Claims: Mariposa County, California
Population: 1,000
Armed Population: 500
500: Night Witches - Warrior Monks, more or less. Train for their whole lives, only basic skills outside things to do with murder and pillaging, have a particular 'God' they resonate with and brand marks of on themselves, and use a variety of weapons for a large variety of roles.
500 Day Walkers - Non-Combat support. Skills are mostly things not to do with murder or pillaging, but all members of the Night Witch Battalion go through "Basic Training" to defend themselves or to be subjected to a rapid intensive regiment in the event ranks need to be filled. In the event you find the NW camp and actually come across them, definitely less dangerous than a Night Witch, probably still worse than your typical shithead bandit with a blowpipe.
Technology Level: Mixed, Metal Age/Post-Collapse
History: Founded at the beginning of the end for Civilization, the Night Witches were created by ex-military who fled their posts when they still could, with their lives intact.Headed by Special Forces operatives of various branches and even nations, though primarily from the United States, the organization became a mixing pot of military specialties, with a quite literal constant gun pointed at their heads to do so.
Night Witches was not the original name, however. Originally, they operated as more of a modern knightly order, The Order of Lightning, often derogatorily refereed to as "TOOLS", given the acronym and their day job as muscle for hire. TOOL found early success in the role, serving under numerous legitimate governments, often simultaneously with all parties putting forward for a group protection fee to keep bandits at bay.
About 27 years after the collapse, TOOL gave up its mercenary roots, and joined one of the first fledgling new Empires in California, as an elite battalion tasked with outgunning and outsmarting the Empire's foes, by conventional or special operations as needed. The Order would perform in this role for the next 54 years, swaying battles and wars, and constantly doubling down on its professionalism as it boiled down its multiple military influences into an increasingly singular training regimen with it's own warrior ideology.
This ends the boring, run of the mill history of TOOL, and also of it's Empire. A three-year long war began between the Empire and multiple, now all hostile, neighbors, which would result in the destruction of this Northern Calfironian Empire, and the rebirth of TOOL into the Night Witches, starting the legends.
Exaggerated though parts of the kept NW history are, large portions are entirely factual. It is said in the fall of the Empire, TOOL got the nickname "Night Witches" by their enemies. As the war turned against them, TOOL switched to almost exclusively special operations missions, particularly in nighttime raids and ambushes, pushing their foes into the killbox with traps, deceptive information, feints, just blowing up random things somewhere, launching attacks on another unit nearish by, you get the idea.
In the final battle for the Empire's capital city, it is claimed that TOOL used the cities sewers connected with built tunnels outside the city to hold a full-scale guerrilla resistance, constantly attacking numerous locations at once, multiple times per day, from different directions, with different types of attacks, weapons and conditions, for 18 days straight. According to the few remaining sources on this battle, partway through TOOL officially re branded to the Night Witch Battalion, and of 882 members at the start, suffered a 91% casualty rate, with only 79 survivors. The source also claims a 40:1 kill rate in favor of the Night Witches, though, this is widely acknowledged as inflated for dramatic effect, with realistic estimates anywhere between 12 and 18 to 1, totaling from 10.7k casualties inflicted to 15.8k, including wounded among the dead.
The survivors fled in the night, and all traces disappeared for 8 years, when the Night Witches finally returned as an army of marauding raiders, with weapons, some new, some new versions of old designs they had, and still use today. Depending on who you ask, the highly mobile, secretive and stealthy raiders have numerous break-down facilities all over the west coast. Some claim they have running factories, and are secretly producing glimmer tech until they have enough to take over! Some say they're already ready and just smoke screening, and that multiple armies across the land exist, just waiting for the signal! Or maybe they have magic, like actual witches, or their gods are real and fighting among them in mortal form! They have giant airships which block out the sun and run on the air itself! They sprint at 70 mph with total silence, and can spot you in darkness 3 miles away! Some even fly! How else do you explain them always being the last one standing every time some "legitimate government" tries to kill them?
Rumors are aplenty for this roving army of elite soldiers, who now specialize in throwing their entire book of tricks and tactics from 2 centuries ago, covered in blood and mud, and all while its so dark you can't even see your hand infront of your face. The morale and willpower of communist guerrillas, survival instincts of Bear Grylls, and the unmitigated badassery of Jason Statham after a line of cocaine. They say Chuck Norris waits, not sleeps. They never tell you, what he's waiting for. Because only he has ever seen them to know they're coming...
Undetected, Unexpected, Flawless Vision, Stealth Perfected. When the Night Witches come, you'll wonder if, infact, it weren't all an act of god instead.
Culture: Full-blooded warrior monks, really. Founded and molded by military and special forces operators, the NW Raiders are, culturally, about what you'd expect if an elite special forces unit were tossed alone into the apocalypse for two centuries, forced to go mercenary and then full rogue. There is little to no indication of Glimmer or Pre-collapse age ideologies at all, with the group focused solely on survival and training. There are numerous 'god' like entities they worship, such as the moon, sky, lightning, fire, water, gaia, and 'essence'. Essence, a fancy way to combine a post-apocalyptic warrior-cult understanding of physics, biology and chemistry,
Religion though, is not required. Sexuality doesn't matter, your gender, or sex, do not matter. Race and ancestry, are also irrelevant here. Nobody cares. The goal is survival, the location is perpetually behind enemy lines. The only things which matter are if you can fight, or back those who can.
According to the surprisingly well-kept historical documents of the NW, even in their bastardized English, the stated operational objective is to use the power given to them by the moon to acquire, conquer and utilize Water, Fire, Lightning, Sky, and Essence, and to combine their use to revive and master Gaia. This isn't quite exactly what the original 200-year old statement said, it talked about rebuilding society in great detail. But, in a very broken sort of way, it reflects the same thing.
Theme: Sabaton is bae
ID TAG 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)
