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The Years of Horror and Lead: The Second American Civil War

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Under The Black Flag
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    • "Saint Louis, what is there to say about the city? Even to this day, there is a type of unhealable mental hum of the people who live there about the twin battles of the city. While sitting at the edge of the Ozark state, it feels like the edge of civilization before falling into the abyss that was dug open by the war against Klash. The mad impaler, the blood-drinking scourge that killed so many that even a century later, they are still finding mass graves of his victims, his name provokes fear in the eyes of the rural folks from which he ruled. May his soul be damned by every god in every tongue to the pit of fire. Yet, there a dark fascination with him among historians .

    By early February of 2032, the Klash's horde was at the gates of Saint Louis, so to speak, with only a military line known as "Anderson Wall" holding his army off from the city. The line was made up of what was left of the federal army numbering around 7,500 men at the outskirts of the city. What they didn't have in numbers they made up for in defense against any frontal assault. All soldiers were deeply entrenched and gear with gas masks and CBRN suits. They were also armed with tanks, Apache gunships, power armor, drone fighters, along with drone jammers aimed at the front.

    The troops at the front morale were low, and many of them who were pulled from the rural communities around the citiy saw Klash as more than human. The warlord had, over his reign up until then, cultivated a dark mystical quality to him among his own ranks and even among the ranks of the ANA and Federal troops. A mix of propaganda, psychological warfare, chemical warfare, and performance theater transformed a warlord into a monster. Stories of him moving faster than a car shrugging off bullets and even flying and changing shape were spread far and wide. While we now know Klash was just a man with cheep tricks, to the common soldier; even the more skeptical ones believed Klash was little more than a monster with the trappings of a man.

    Despite this, Washington thought this would be the textbook battle that would turn the tide of the Klash's advance. After the failure at Norfolk and with the Presidential election looking to go the way of the National Unity party, it was seen as the right political move to make a stand at Saint Louis so that Klash could not get past the gates of the Mississippi.

    The National Unity party, despite setbacks and political prosecution by the federal government and their allies, had grown massively, and with the GOP not looking to run the candidate in order to keep a united front against the rebels and the National Unity Party, Owens seemed to be and was the only real opposition candidate against President Kamala Harris.

    That being said, Owens agreed with destroying Klash, saying in a January 2032 statement
    "While we can make peace with the rebels, we must destroy that vile son of bitch Klash and turn his army into a glowing sea of glass."

    Klash would actually respond to this in a propaganda video where he threatened to "Eat everyone she had ever loved" and that he would "Sell her off as war bride to one of his soldiers."

    A Gallup poll showed that under half of the country, 44 percent supported the war against the rebels. However, 46 percent in the same poll supported the use of nuclear weapons against Klash's horde. Harris' approval rating was at a low of 45 percent, while Owens was at 46 at the lowest poll and up to 53 in more biased polls.

    Another concerning factor was serval comments made by radical members of the NFAC leadership that hinted that even if Owens won, they would refuse to acknowledge her as their president and possibly declare independence. The bitter relationship between Owens and the NFAC was so strong for one another that many believed at the time if Owens won there would be a war for the south. Owens, for her part, didn't help to relieve tension as she routinely called the NFAC "hyper nationalistic thugs more worried about what they can squeeze from a post-war America than they are actually concerned about helping it during the war.".

    As the debate about who would lead in DC went on on the front line as the sun began to set in mid-February 2031, the sound of technicals roared over the horizon, and the sight of black flags shimmered in the cold moonlight. Soon the hordes would be at the gates of the Mississippi."
    -Under The Black Flag 2137
     
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    • Klash is everything the Qists from Dab Master's 2CW timeline wished they could be. At this point, i'd go so far as to compare him to Tamerlane.
     
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    Klash is everything the Qists from Dab Master's 2CW timeline wished they could be. At this point, i'd go so far as to compare him to Tamerlane.
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    Klash is pretty much the Qist boogie man they accuse their enemies of being. A part of wonder what a conversation between the Sabmyk and Klash. My best guest it ends with the Sabmyk calling Klash the antichrist and Klash just agreeing with him.
     
    The Battle Of St. Louis Part One
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    • "The first signs of trouble at the line were in the early morning of February 28, 2032, where several probing attacks took place, mostly led by drones that were jammed almost as soon as they came into range. Each attack was focused on, the west side on the line to trick the officers in charge that Klash would move in from the west. More of the heavy weapons and armor, including several anti-drone hammers, were moved over towards the west in response to the probing attacks

    At around noon, large speakers began to play speeches by Klash as well as his music towards the federal soldiers. When it didn't play his's speeches or music, it would play a high pitch whine that forced many soldiers to plug their ears. This served as a psychological attack that was usually characterized by a following gas attack and then a quick advance. Strangely enough, the expected gassing and advance did not happen. Instead, it forced soldiers to be fully equipped in CBRN gear while listening to painful sounds for several hours, all the while excepting an attack by cannibals. Over the course of that day and the following night, over two dozen soldiers "broke" with three shooting each other and starting a friendly fire incident that nearly almost made the Anderson Line attack themselves.

    Inside side, the city thousands of people would try to leave ahead of the battle flooding the highways and causing traffic jams and violent incidents with police. Serval deaths at the hands of police and military towards unarmed refugees caused riots on the road ways as the soldiers were ordered to only to let a few hundred people go at a time.

    Law Enforcement Officers, Militiamen, National Guard, and any able body military age male who had National Guard or military training were ordered to report towards the line to re-enforce it. The more political-minded officers openly began to tweet the phrase "Not One Step Back." . This phase would go viral as the world watched with bated breath in anticipation of the battle.

    The following day the music would be switched off for several minutes at a time in order to trick the Federals into thinking an attack was coming to scare them. Toward the evening, a voice would appear on a hijack government radio station aimed at giving information to civilians. The voice of Klash began to talk for over a half-hour in a speech which stated that if the civilian rose up and made the soldiers surrender, he would not harm them, but if they resisted, he would treat the population as combatants as well as the soldiers.

    Many civilians took to the words to heart and began to fight with some of the soldiers who supported staying as others around a few hundred pro-refugee soldiers joined the riots—starting in effect a mini civil war within the city, in the confusion of the riots, many of the Klashist sleeper agents and cells within st. Louis was activated by a code word in Klash's speech. Disguised as civilians or Federal soldiers, they started to covertly take key positions within the city and also sabotage the logistical lines vital for the defense of the area. These soldiers were all heavily armed with machine guns, anti-tank weapons, and even MANPADS.

    The sun did not rise that morning; instead, it was obscured by clouds. The speakers near the front would play for the final time, and one by one, seven trumpets could be heard. The battle for Saint Louis had begun in honest."
    -The Battle Of St. Louis 2058.
     
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    • Dance Of War
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    • As the sun sets below the camp, Commander Shore stood just outside of the main camp, looking at the sun rays crackling through the skyscrapers of Saint Louis. The light seemed to soften and twist around each other in an oddly majestic dance. The brown brown and the other cocktail of drugs working through her system made her see and feel things that other more human people couldn't. She could feel the air of excitement of the troops hear their heartbeat in a seismic rhythm that called up war drums beating in their hearts.

    The war chants beat up and down to match their heartbeats as the soldiers dance around the fire. What was said was spoken in unknown tongues that seemed to twist and turn cruelly with each syllable and word that called upon things from within in the darkness to come forth into the world. The Commander could also smell something above thedelicious sent of the meat that was being roasted above the fire; the smell of the fear and panic from within the city practically made her almost able to taste it, but what she didn't or couldn't find with all her senses was her humanity. She was surprised that it had taken a short time for her to completely "dehumanize" herself in the place of what was gone was a pit of nothingness. Just a blank space where something used to be, but was ripped out of violently and only able to be filled during battle. Klash had called it "self othering," where a person has objectified themselves as something less or other than human or part of a larger collective. She was the horde, and the horde was her; the two were inseparable now, and her duty was to herself, which was the horde.

    The soldier could feel him approach her before she heard the crunch of his combat boots over the brush. Slowly her body was engulfed by the shadow of the cloaked figured, and Klash spoke beside her.

    "Commander, aren't you excited?" He asked a hood covering his face with only a vague outline of it being lit by a cigarette.

    "Just taking it all in, I see that arch thingy from here."

    "The gates to the Mississippi soon the city shall be ours, and the horde will cross it just as Cesar crossed the Rubicon and like Cesar, a mighty new world shall fall before us child. Mother Anarchy will be done, and the black tide shall reign supreme above all." He said, his voice calm and reassured as if he could already look forward into time and see his success.

    The Commander's eyes went from the outline of Klash back to the archway and asked, "Just promise me one thing?"

    "And that is?" asked Klash.

    "When the city falls, I can raise Mother's Flag above that archway."

    Klash smiled at that, his long fang-like teeth showing in the moonlight, his soldier caught a glimpse of his bloodshot red eyes. "Child when the city falls, and her will is done upon the earth, the city shall be yours to keep and do with as you like." said Klash as he and Kathy turned back around to face the horde of an army and with a whistle came a white horse which Klash quickly jumped on, and from his side, he pulled out a saber pointing at the city and in a voice like thunder said, "Go Forth And Conquer!". Then and only then from the city could be heard and the low hiss of drones.
     
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    • Sounds Of Silence
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    • The Federal soldiers did not know what hit them, as the first sign of the Klash army a grow hizz of drones could be heard as several hundred drones from not in front of them, but coming from within the city behind the jammers came swooping in fast and low towards the line. At once, several hundred mini, mostly homemade drones had approached the Anderson Line.

    The first wave was armed with conventional ordinance drooping down bombs onto the drone jammers, artillery pieces, high-ranking officers, and armor vehicles. The next wave came only around a few moments after that; this time, the drones were carrying homemade napalm targeting regular soldiers among the line. Weighed down with heavy and complex CBRN gear, most soldiers struggled with taking off the gear in time to not die after they were hit, and then and only then from the front line came a smaller drone wave of chemical weapons carrying bomblets. Klash's chemical warfare ability by this time saw his weapons and gases rise from around 15 to 20 percent effective after their first deployment to around 75 to 85 percent effective at the time of the battle of Saint Louis. Here is a telling of the fall of the Anderson line by a survivor of the battle:

    "Just as the sun set, we heard a hizz wiz around us. My captain shouted "DRONES!" and told us to get down. By the time we had figured out that our jammer was indeed, in fact, working, but were facing the wrong way and was ordered to turn them to face the city, our jammer, about a good third of our armor and a lot of leadership was lost in one hit. Then the damn hizzing pick backs up again, and I saw fire drop from little dog-sized drones sticking to men and burning through their gear.

    I dove under a ruined APC as fast as I could to avoid dying. I only got up after the final wave; luckily enough for me, I kept my gear on; that's when I saw it coming out through the gas above the sea of dying men. I saw those damn monsters riding through the mist. I ran my god, and I fucking booked it until I got to a boat on the banks of the river. I don't give a damn what they say in those books; those monsters were not human; the things I saw them do in that mist was inhuman, they weren't humans anymore.".

    Inside the city, the Klash cells, which had already taken the position the night before, launch their attacks on panic and infighting Federal troops. It was as if the city imploded on itself before the first of Klash regular forces entered it. Guards, confused at who was and wasn't the enemy, began to open fire on one another, even calling in airstrikes on each other. The aircraft that came into the city to help the defense became under attack as MANPADS began to target them, with one low flying A-10 crashing into the One Metropolitan Square and one F-16 crashing into the archway, causing part of it to give way and fall at the same time the Met Square building collapsed.

    What happened next was one of the most horrifying acts of terror of the 21st century, only falling behind the nuclear exchanges and the bombing of the Three Gorges Dam during World War 3. The remaining gas drones, which still numbered in the high hundreds, began to fly high and drop their payload on targets within the city. While most of the gas was originally homemade and mixed with hallucinogens, the ones used in St Louis also had with them looted military-grade nerve and blister agents.

    It became clear that the goal of the Horde wasn't to take the city but to kill it for daring to resist in the face of pure evil. As above the remaining military position, gas was dropped. This, along with the rest of the battle due to the internet, practically gave the entire world a view of the evil that was the Horde. ANA and Federal troops alike watch in abject horror as they were both near impotent to stop the fall of the city. The National Salvation Government and Federal Government both considered the nuclear option at this point, with one staffer recounting that President had her finger on the button and the football was fully unlocked before she was talked down from using the atom bomb to stop Klash.

    At around eight o'clock, mass shelling of the city by Klash forces began using hell cannons that were a much larger version of the ones used in the Syrian civil war. These absolutely massive guns pounded the city with their full might for hours upon hours. Parts of the city quickly resembled Grozny during the Chechen War.

    It quickly became apparent that the cells were far larger than anyone realized as they began to target soldiers from within buildings with their small arms and even smuggled in ww2 anti-war flak guns placed on taller buildings and aimed at the streets. Klashist dressed as refugees or Federal soldiers attacked and sabotaged any attempt at a retreat forcing soldiers to stay within the city. Inside the city, after the gas stopped falling, it quickly became a free for all as scared and confused soldiers began to fire on each other as well as the cultists. Many soldiers, seeing no way out, decided to leap into the river and began to try and swim away, believing that even drowning was better than staying behind.

    At around 5:00 am in the morning, the first regular Forces began to advance into the city, quickly sweeping any scattered futile resistance against them aside like ants. The Horde poured into the city with the speed and brutality that would be too fast for Genghis Khan and too bloody for even Caligula.

    By dawn, The Gateway to the West had fallen to the hands of the worst monster of modern history, and his legion of darkness sat posed to cross the Mississippi and drive eastward. It had seemed like the apocalypse had finally come and that Klash could not just take Saint Louis but possibly even the whole of the nation and beyond. That morning up on top of every high point, the flag of Klash's army flew upon.

    The night following the capture of the city, a speech would be given by Klash.

    "It is at once as it always has been before that of civilization. I stand in front of the world and say these words civilization has fallen, and the Horde has eaten it. She calls upon us to do this Holy task, to bring forth the apocalypse in all its might. Thus it is time now with the army of darkness ready to march east; I have not come to proclaim a new era; time is dead, the filthy beast of manufactured reality is no more, time is no more! It is the end of time, the destruction of reality itself is our goal, and from the ashes of the past shall rise a new world where her will is made flesh upon the earth! We give no terms of surrender to our enemies, only their bones become fertilizer to the New World Order! Death To Civilization!".

    Then after the speech, there was nothing but silence vast stretches of land in the heart of America had just gone dark with not much more than a single radio single playing in morse code, a repeat of that speech over scratchy static and a ghostly hum of a woman singing just barely audible under all the white noise.

    -The Battle Of St. Louis 2058
     
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    • Why do I feel like the Battle of St. Louis will become a major event? I could see massive "cultural scars" from the event, and eventually 20 years later, things like books about heroic soldiers during the Battle against Klash's force, and movies about the Battle of St. Louis and soldiers from it.
     
    Bisexual-Mart said:
    Why do I feel like the Battle of St. Louis will become a major event? I could see massive "cultural scars" from the event, and eventually 20 years later, things like books about heroic soldiers during the Battle against Klash's force, and movies about the Battle of St. Louis and soldiers from it.
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    Without a doubt Klash is gonna leave a dark mark on America that even New St.Louis won't be to cover up.
     
    What Do You Mean?
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    • Adham made his way through the bustling nightlife of Atlanta, the so-called jewel of the black south. The club in this part of the city exemplified that name with all the modern glitz of pre war America. It was amazing to Adham that within the same state only a 100 or so miles away from the rave were the front line to what was quickly becoming the deadliest war since WW2 with no quick in the sight. Yet there in this section of the city these people lived the high life. He made sure his cameraman was filming it all, although he wasn't here to film youth partying like the world wasn't ending. Adham was looking for Alexander Ward, one of the richest men left in America with a net worth north of 5 billion dollars.

    Alexander waved the two middle eastern men over to his booth. "Come sit," said Alexander as the two war streamers took their seats by him. The billionaire was young maybe in his mid 20's relatively fit and wore a expensive suit that while not showy more than likely cost more than Ahmed entire life saving up to that point

    "How are you enjoying y'all time away from the front?" asked Alexander as waitress took their drink orders.

    "It doesn't even seem like the same country." said Adham.

    "Go a few miles away from here and the scene will change again. Our boys are dealing with trash and backstabbing traitors calling themselves Patriots, most of them are glorified street gangs."

    "Aren't you worried about DDF or other anti black racist groups?" asked Adham.

    "Why should we? Outside of their failures at attempted mass shootings every few months most of those idiotic klansman are at th edges of the NFAC reach, I do fear for the rural folks, have you seen the those reports on rural attacks and raids on people by those savages it's a damn shame I tell you, but soon enough once this war is won the miltia and Feds can focus more on pacifying those troublesome areas." said Alexander taking a sip from his drink as the waitress brought out the streamer's glasses."

    "You seem certain that the Feds will win the war; right now with the amount of losses on both sides, it's anyone's game even Klash or that's what it appears to be."

    Alexander chuckled, "It's not important, rather the Feds or ANA win."

    Ahmed raised an eyebrow and asked "What do you mean by that, the NFAC is on the side of the Federals are they are not? Did something change?"

    "Of course we are, but by the time both sides are done killing each other no matter who wins, the militia will be too costly to intervene against and both would try to give us some major concessions. After all they wouldn't be in no position to disagree with us, not use a old meme here, but we are really only using around 10 percent of our power right now counting policing action." said Alexander.

    "Concessions?"

    "Reparations" said the Billionaire

    "Do you think they will grant Independence that seems very unlikely even with a weak Federal government."

    "No I am not a New Africanist I still belive in the concept of America the Constitution and all that good stuff, what I am talking about is something more realistic, I can't say much more on the topic about the new south, but once this war is over I will be more than happy to so you about the region and her new states within our Great U S Of A , are there any other things y'all want to ask."

    "Your company's involvement in the NFAC?" asked Ahmad.

    "Me and my business support the war effort, I own one of the largest drone manufacturing plants currently in the country as well as engineering form being the largest in the South, they come in handy when a war is on. Have you seen our new Rhino vehicle, it quite a feat of ingenuity, although my personal favorite is the Queen Mother drone system, we are already getting offers from the Israelis for a licensing agreement.".

    "I have, those systems handle themselves pretty well. It must have cost your company a fortune to develop?"

    "More than that Mr.Adham, but the protection of my people is worth any price that I can afford, plus like I said the NFAC and my company are already getting so many licensing offers for things like the Queen Mother and the Rhino that by the time this war is over I will make my money back in less than a year.".

    "You seem certainly optimistic about the future Mr.Ward".

    "I heard some philosopher on twitter say that the fall of America means we are entering the new dark ages, but for me I see promise after all many wealthy Romans became kings after the fall of the empire."
     
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    • A New Dawn
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    • The castle itself was one of the first of its type in modern America and tucked in around winding mountains in the Ozarks. Half of it borrowed deep into the rocks making half a bunker half mansion and a full fortress. The walls were made up of hardened reinforced concrete with stone stacked over the top of it in layers. The main part of the home was held deeper inside of the mountain deep enough that it could withstand a direct air strike. It was originally paid for in 2023 and completed in 25, through a shell company which was owned by a straw person and sold to a third party which was sold to Klash a month after it was built for one dollar under the false name Thomas Jonathan. Officially this place didn't exist, but unofficially it was the home of the now mad War Lord.

    The rush of chemicals into his lungs from the pipe filled with psychotropic drugs rushed down his throat as klash coughed for a few seconds before blowing the smoke out. It had been only a few weeks since he had taken Saint Louie and yet it had felt like centuries. The world softened and colors began to twist and blend in front of the mad king.

    Klash smiled and he thought about the last title the state backed press had given him. The Mad King The Noman's King. Klash had always found it funny that others saw fit to label him a monster when in his opinion he was no different than any other leader only that he was honest about it. He may of been a monster that sent young kids off to war for abstract and esoteric causes, but at least he was honest about what he did and didn't fuck about masking his deeds in the thin venere of civilization. How was his murders any different than both sides overlooking a new plague in order to throw hundreds of thousands of young lives away in a meat grinder every month.

    Everybody in this maddening frenzy of blood and fire said they were fighting for peace and prosperity yet they threw ever more gas on the fire, when at any moment both the ANA and Federals could end this conflict. Klash didn't want peace, he wanted an apocalypse and a total end of the world as mankind knew it so that from the ashes of the fire something new could rise from it. The only way to save humanity was to destroy it, it was so simple to him in his drugged out state.

    The doors to the throne room opened and with that came an icy chill and then the Other. His smile curling at the ends of his face with white teeth that seemed to be a little too perfect.

    "Long time no see, love what you did to the place." said the Other looking at the mounted "trophies" that lined the wall.

    "War brings new opportunities to hunt, Scratch." Klash said.

    "Oh yes I have seen a great many in my time here." said the Other.

    "This one shall be the last, soon the way of Mother shall be made-" Klash was stopped.

    "Please friend, save the speeches for a proper audience." The Other said, interrupting him.

    "If you are not here to hear me speak then why are you here?"

    "I have my reason, we always do, even if it's just to sit down to play the fiddle. Everything is done precisely." said the Other "but we do share something in common."

    "And what's that, I certainly can't string a violin," said Klash.

    "We both believe in an end, all things need to have a conclusion, even this." said The Other as Klash woke up from his drug induced haze. The room was empty but was still very cold even with the fireplace blazing and the door being closed. Klash got up from his chair at first stumbling at first but finding his footing soon enough as he approached the door he could feel the heat of the sun from the other side. It was morning now yet only a few moments ago when he fell asleep it was evening. The darkness was gone and now it was resolved with the shining light of the sun and a New Dawn. Klash retreated back deeper into the bed chamber, where he fell asleep once more until the sun had fallen.

    The day was hot and humid bearing down on Klash's skin. He could smell bear mace spray out a can. He took it all in, no one wasn't packing any heat outside of a few bozos with paintball guns. His "set" of boogaloo boys he had with him weren't the usual tacticool types that had recruited him a few months ago. Nah he did well in recruiting from his neighborhood.

    Most of these people were ex or currently gang affiliated. Many of these kids no older than Klash at the time, early to mid teens had to grow up and learn how to fight hard everyday of their lives. His "opp'' currently breaking through the flimsy parade fence was a bunch of suburban Patriot Front SS wannabes. Klash could tell from the way they carried themselves they were used to fighting other suburban anti fascists black blocs types.

    None of these boys, even the older men even looked like they could handle themselves in a fight with his set. It was sudden for Klash as he charged at the biggest one getting low in between his legs and flipping him over. All that plastic airsoft armor he had on made him top heavy and landed him on his back like a turtle. As Klash began to slam his head back and forth onto the grown in between blows to the face he shouted "Mob These Motherfuckers" and suddenly from around a corner came more of his set, flanking the fascist group on both sides armed with sticks and bats.

    It only took a few moments to get them on the ground but five minutes for his gang to stop beating them and run off before the police came back in force. He gave one last kick to the leader while he was walking away. On his way down the street he saw himself in a store front mirror, his skull mask coming up over his nose and covered in someone else's blood. They hurried off into a waiting minibus before driving off.

    One of the few more regular members of the boogaloos who had taken the task of driving looked in horror at everyone running into the van bloody.

    "Christ." He said driving.

    "Don't worry it ain't ours, I just wanted to test these boys out. Y'all handle yourselves well enough out there a little too sloppy on the ambush, but nothing that can't be approved on." said Klash, taking off his mask to show a wide manic grin.

    "Punks like them ain't coming back here." said one of the fighter a girl half her hair shaved the other side in dreads.

    "Hell yeah they won't." another one said his ski masks muffing his words slightly.

    "They will, trust on that and next time there will probably be more of them, more of them will bring knives, maybe more bats and definitely more mace. So we are gonna have to do the same. Weapons training starts tomorrow. I want all of y'all to be able to properly handle all the weapons at the stash house within the next nine weeks." Klash said.

    "So we keep doing this? When do we stop after we start shooting at each other?" asked one of the younger fighters in the group.

    The manic grin of glee seemed to grow somehow larger on Slash's face as he spoke "When they are all dead."
     
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    • The Cracking Part One
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    • "The Cracking was one of the most if not the most horrific acts of racial violence in modern American history. Within a summer, over 250,000 thousand civilians would be killed or injured. Most of these people would be people of color targeted for their race. It would cause the heaviest fighting in the South East and West. The response to the cracking would see one of the largest use of nonfederal Air Force in the war as the NFAC let loose the full might of the Air Force and armor first as a response in e face of genocide then out of what some would-be spite.

    The origin of the cracking can be chalked up to a myriad of things from the legacy of racism in the United States to the news of political cleansing of conservatives in the PNW or the changing demographics of America, but the mainstays of why everything broke down the way it did was the killing of Tucker Carlson the 2028 vice presidential candidate and one of the major figure in the media concerning republican militias the outright resentment towards minority militias particularly with the NFAC and the South East." said Ethan Robertson as they last of his class walked into his lecher hall.

    "So they were jealous?" asked Zala.

    "In a way, yes, but there is also the factor of the southern white right fear of a type of conflict which happened in South Africa especially after the Atlanta riot."

    "Wait, I'm confused, wasn't the massacre done by civilians and targeted leftists?" asked another girl setting by Zala named Shahzadi.

    "That is the official story that most history books like to summarize what happened in Atlanta. I am going to play a few audio and video clips to demonstrate my point. If you are uncomfortable with the images or audio, feel free to step outside for a few moments." said Professor Robertson. A few students left, mostly Afrikaners, but there were several black, Arabs, Europeans, and Asians, even American-born students studying abroad left as well.

    Suddenly a video began to play on the board showing an old news report from the riots. The reporter was British with messy hair with a mixture of fear and shock in his eyes.

    "It seems that things have calmed down, but there are reports of several dead from a shootout with the leftist rioters and the NFAC. There appears to be some voice on a radio calling for revenge for the riots that destroyed several prominent black businesses, and I think I saw a few store owners walking the street armed." The professor stopped the video before saying

    "That station he mentioned was called Radio Free Kemet and non-NFAC own or managed militant radio station which was one of the key exciters on the reprisal attacks following the riots, the station grossly exaggerated and inflamed reports of looting and targeting of black stores and outright fabricating reports of black people being lynched in order to excite violence. The owner would be tried for war crimes after the war. Post-war inquiries would find no evidence of lynching black business owners during the riots, and the rioter targeted both white and black stores. This is backed up by most of the rioters chanting leftist ANA slogans.

    In the aftermath of the riots both Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson, two of the leading members of the Republican Party, would call the acts done by the mob, attempted genocide of the white population of the city, inflaming racial tensions throughout the south. These tensions would be inflamed even more with the DDF war with the NFAC that saw large areas of the south depopulated due to the fighting displacing so many people.

    The DDF would try to use the displacement caused by them as a recruiting tool blaming the NFAC in propaganda promoting a conspiracy theory that the Black Militia was purposely displacing the white population of the south in order to take the land. Nevermind the fact that the NFAC leadership on multiple occasions denounced and forbade troops from taking or precipitating the seizure of property. What really happened, for the most part, with a few noticeable exceptions, was that homeless black people, many of whom were also displaced by the fighting, would squat in abandoned houses and communities.

    Another reason for the resentment was the perceived favoritism of the Harris administration towards the NFAC. The white right in the south believed that the President, because of her race, gave more aid and support to the NFAC and NFAC protected communities over the Republican-controlled ones. This could not be further from the truth as the President hated the NFAC and did not really trust them at all.

    While it appeared that the government had armed the NFAC with everything from main battle tanks to jets, anyone who paid attention to the group's rise to power would be able to understand that the vast majority of the equipment the group used was gotten by themselves before the war on the civilian market. The group budget at the start of the war was around 20 billion dollars in today's money adjusted for inflation. This meant due to America's notoriously lax weapon laws; they could buy everything from rifles to jet bombers if they had the correct paperwork.

    The Federal government also did try to support Republican militias, but due to corruption and the decentralized nature of their militias, it was hard for the state to do so without running the risk of arming the enemy. As for NFAC communities, the strong NFAC presence and their self-reliance programs from before the war effectively made them untouched from most of the horrors of the war without that much Federal aid.

    Still, these ideas persisted along with the strange notion that the NFAC was at the same time a bunch of undertrained paramilitaries and heavily funded along with being heavily armed with intentions of creating their own nation in the south by force. Many of the racist militias had a strange white supremacy complex that couldn't even let them see the obvious. That the NFAC by the early 2030s wasn't a militia, but a battle-hardened military that could not just hold it on against them, but outright squash them in a conventional conflict." said the professor before looking at the clock

    "Kinda like what happened in WW3," asked Zala. ."With China vs. Amerthem and us vs the Hegemony?"

    "Very good Zala, very good observation indeed, and just like in the third Great War, while the bad guys made quick gains due to the shock of the sudden all-out attack, they quickly found out that they have underestimated their enemy due to their own internal mentality. The idea of kicking in the door and the house would somehow fall down was a common link between the two wars," said Epps.

    "Well, I think Hegemony was more of a sore loser seeing how they started chucking nuke at us." joked one of the kids in the back of the class, a Space Cadet taking all easy classes, so he could graduate and make officer in less than two years.

    "I can see how someone could think that after all, the total death toll of the Second American civil war was smaller than the death toll from the nuclear exchanges of WW3. The Three Gorges Dam terror attack saw more deaths than the entire Second American Civil War, but the cracking had always been personal to my family and me. I talked about my parents being in the NFAC during the war. Both of them lost a lot of family during the cracking. Including both sets of my grandparents." Epps said as the Cadet's face soften as he realized he had touched a nerve.

    "I'm sorry to hear that, sir."

    "It's ok, Cadet, most survivors of that awful cruel scourge of a war lost someone," said Professor Epps.
     
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    It's weird how you have somebody named Alexander Ward living in Atlanta who is wealthy. It's almost like a little reference to your other timeline or even a crossover between the two, where Alexander is just Ace Ward in a world where superheroes aren't a thing, so he grew up and started an engineering firm.
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    This was a Easter egg to my other timeline, I used to have a habit for reusing the same names over again in different stories. So every now and again I drop a reference to another story I wrote before so technically I guess they are all apart of the Gatsby multiverse.
     
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    • "The first reported signs of what became known as the cracking started in the southwest, where a sharp increase of violence began to escalate to scale not yet seen in that region outside of the battles with the main rebel army. This increase was due to the sizable CJNG cartel back factions of the ADFM being armed with better weapons by the cartels starting an arms race between them and the GOP-backed militants that they clashed with frequently. Another link was the battle over water. As the effects of climate change began to show fruit, large parts of the southwest began to be gripped with extreme water shortages, which caused inter-community conflict. The fighting over water would go from simple water raids to outright taking off towns due to their proximity to water sources.

    Some of the fighting even spelled over into Mexico with serval raids across the border by right wing groups in order to grab water. During the cracking serval, Mexican villages would be captured by rouge GOP elements that were forceable recaptured by the Mexican army, which even threatens to mobilize for an invasion of the southwest in order to secure its border region this was mostly likely all talk as Mexico was in no shape for an outright invasion even against a civil war-stricken America due to its own internal crisis. Still the Nationalistic President, who had risen from a nobody to the most powerful man in the country in less than a decade, did authorize the secret shipment of heavy weapons and armor to the ADFM in order to stem the tide of raids.

    Now rearmed with better weapons, the ADFM began to actually become more of a power in the southwest adopting a new strategy incorporating their gifted artillery systems. While new, it wasn't that complex and was put simply by one of the artillerymen when he said

    (Right wing militia somewhere in Mexico circa 2032)
    "First, we surround the target from a distance, slowly closing in a ring. Once we approach our objective, we use drones to take out any armor or artillery and then began to shell until only light resistance remains before moving in and overwhelming the enemy."

    The Republican militias responded by using more of their heavy weapons and, in some cases building their own hell cannons. Most modeled after Klash's ironically enough. They also got a lot of their equipment from sympathizers in the National Guard. In some cases, all-white units of the national guard would clash with the ADFM openly.

    In the southeast, things would begin to heat up as well. Organization for Internal Security, the intelligence arm of the NFAC that predated the New Afrikan Special Service or NASS, would begin to hear reports of growing support for racist groups in white national guard units. The OIS had built up an intelligent network within the National Guard that rival the federal agencies such as the CIA and FBI in terms of ability, espionage, and even surveillance.

    The OIS was regarded as some of the best-trained soldiers in the militia, with some receiving clandestine training from several overseas intelligence groups. After the formation of the NASS post-war, its activity would expand to work outside of the country, hunting down remnants of the DDF and other Cracking leaders in Europe and South America. Naturally, the NFAC leadership was concerned and reported the rising threat of double-sided troops to the Federal administration.

    Unable to really do anything about the issue or unwillingly to do so depending on who you ask, the Federal government pushed off any real investigation into racist support among the National Guard and police to a later date. Facing an uncooperative federal government, the OIS began to increase the number of "clean and sweep operations" targeting suspected militants and leaders, which only exacerbated tension between Republican militias as serval high profile members in their movement were caught up in these investigations leading to 5 permanently detained over charges of sedition until a proper investigation could be launch at a later date.

    In response to increasing NFAC OIS investigation, the DDF step up their game from raid to terror attacks. Bombings in New Orleans, Louisville, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Macon, and Charleston would all ring out over serval weeks leading up to the start of the cracking, along with the number of mass shootings all over the south targeting the Black Population. These cowardly attacks were an attempt to strike fear into the heart of the south Black population and provoke retaliatory attacks as well.

    On April 26, 2032, there would be terror attack that saw the DDF attack and then take over a high school, at first it was believed to be a hostage situation, but as video of what was happening to the captive was posted online, the real situation became apparent, nearby the town was a small foreign fighter NFAC unit from Japan named the Yasuke Unit, mostly made up of Afro Japanese volunteers.

    The unit rushed into action, exchanging fire with the racists before storming into the school. Serval of the soldiers died, but they managed to save the students. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers upon arrival back in Japan received a full military funeral by the newly reestablished Japanese Army. Emperor Fumihito would attended, giving a small speech stating, "the men died with honor doing what was right in the face of evil."

    Nevertheless, the shooting at the school broke the straw for many more radical Black people in the south. Groups of non NFAC armed Black groups would go out to attempt retaliatory actions. In the urban centers, sectarian violence would break out in the form of tick for tack killings. The NFAC, to it credit, tried its best to stem the flow of blood. The militia tried to create "Peace Walls" like in Northern Ireland in order to stop riots between mobs. Yet the fighting would only get worse as spring began to roll around, and the assassination of Tucker Carlson would start The Cracking. On May 15, 2032, three shots would ring out in Dallas, Texas, and thousands would die."
    -The Weeks Of Horrors:The Cracking 2177
     
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    • "On May 15, 2032, while on his way to give a speech under armed protection Tucker Carlson would get out of a limo and walk towards a stage. The Republican Party had decided for the sake of the country to unite with the Democratic Party and not run a presidential candidate in order to preserve a united front during the war. However, this didn't mean that the party stops campaigning for lower levels of government. In fact, the GOP focused much more on trying to stabilize its holdings both on the local level and on the "hill" due to the displacement of people in the southeast.

    The threat of completely losing the south was very real as the members of the Black National Congress, which was established in January of 2031, saw the uniting of all militant Black southern parties into one temporary big tent party that threatened to take major holdings all across the southeast. The right-wing Republican population was outright terrified at the idea that pro-NFAC parties could sweep into power.

    Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson would both stroke their base's fears in an effort to turn out far-right voters, with Tom Cotton saying, "If they win, we are looking at another South Africa," referencing the chaos that unfolded after the Economic Freedom Fighters rose to power in South Africa. These fears were unfounded as the largest block in the Congress was the moderate liberal Black Unity Party, lead by ex-DNC reparative Howard Reeves Kennedy who by all accounts was a moderate before the cracking drove him to the more radical side of the spectrum.

    Tucker was in Dallas to help campaign against Rico Douglass, a leader in the leftist New Afrikan People's Congress before the big tent merger of 31. Rico, while a former socialist he was still a hardline nationalist first leading him to side with the NFAC over the ANA. Soon after Tucker got out of the limo and approached the entrance to the backstage area to give a speech from the group of onlookers, some unknown assassin pulled out a custom-made 3D printed small-caliber silenced handgun and shot him twice in the heart and one in his lung. As panic set in, the killer would slink away from the scene. As fear and panic among the GOP-aligned supporters turned into rage, what happened next would go down as one of the darkest moments in American history.

    Over the next few hours, protests would spring up all over the Republican-leaning areas in the south and even in larger northern cities but to a smaller extent. Oftentimes pro riots and counter riots groups would be armed and began to shoot wildly at each other in the middle of the streets. The NFAC which wanted to avoid the optics of anything similar to what happened in Atlanta and believing that the sight of the militia putting down the riots would only spur things on and not put out any fires, a fact they would later be proven right on requested aid from the Federal government which was denied due to a lack of manpower in the south.

    The NFAC would try their best to put down the riots peacefully, but with little training in riot control, they began to use heavy force against the protesters. In response, the protests and riots would grow more violent, shooting back and killing several NFAC soldiers. In New Orleans, where many refugees from the surrounding countryside and suburbs had been sheltering the worst of the Hollow's violence, the fighting would flair up the hardest. The NFAC New Orleans Commander Dominique Lincoln, who was increasingly being put in charge of keeping order within the civilian population as the city government seemed permanently on the verge of collapse since the draft riots, sent several messages to the Federal government with increasing worry that she could not manage to control the lawlessness.

    Across the city, right-wing GOP-aligned citizens shot it out with NFAC soldiers leaving to several areas to be ungovernable, including the French Quarter where a refugee camp of mostly white victims of the fighting in the countryside fled to, and the camp had been for months rumored to be sheltering elements of the DDF. As the riots grew worse across the city, the Quarter would be barred off by rioters and DDF militiamen. It is believed that most of the people in the French Quarter refugee camp didn't support the DDF action but had no capacity to resist as the DDF who had walled off the Quarter were far more well-armed than the anti-racist element of the camp.

    Inside the French Quarter, the DDF began to use it as a staging ground to command their cells from all over the city. These cells didn't just target the NFAC but the Black population in general. The only solution that could be thought of was to clear the Quarter, but there wasn't enough manpower in the city to do so without using the NFAC heavy weapons, to which Dominique refused to do so, not wanting to kill civilians. Over the next, three days Dominique requested over and over again Federal backup to help put down the mini rebellion. Then with no hope in sight of Federal-aid, Dominique gave the order to send tanks into Quarter.

    On the night of June 10, 2032, 5 MRAPs would approach the French Quarter. An order would be given to clear the area and answered with sniper fire and Molotov. The gunner operating M2 browning machine guns opened, returning fire. Throughout that night, heavy fighting would destroy large sections of the French Quarter, including several drone strikes by both sides. At sunrise, the Quarter would have been clear but at a high cost.
    Between 150 to 300 innocent civilians would be killed in the fighting"
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    -A House Divided 2122
     
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    Rolland Uwimana sat in the crowded barroom towards the back of the large NFAC military base. Technically he was a private military contractor here to help with the training of Pansoc, but honestly, he was a mercenary just with better training and a fancy title. Legally he couldn't call himself that, though, but with his contact with the OIS, he managed to make a good deal of money teaching these folks how to fight.

    He was offered a job by an NFAC OIS agent named Van something or another. Rolland didn't care that much about the offer until the agent told him how much money they would be paying him a month. The pay was the highest he would be making in his life, even more so than when he was in the SAS back in Africa, so he made that deal in Biafra to fly out to America and join the war. The next few years were pretty uneventful and uneventful as training a bunch of paramilitaries in the deadliest conflict since WW2 could be. If the war went on for another two years or so, it would climb to above the double digits easy at this rate.

    Although it had a chance to hit triple digits if one of the nut jobs that were currently claiming the title of leader decided to say fuck it and let the atoms fly. The idea of atomic apocalypse was an invisible, unspoken fear that hung above many of his buddies. After all, the country was already at the point where multiple sides were gassing one another in the wide open. Who's to say that someone wouldn't press the big red button and blow the country sky high.

    The question was, who would do it first? Now there was a great deal of speculation about that online on forums. His favorite one to visit an Alternate History forum had made a whole new area for people to talk and write about the war. However, that place had turned into a graveyard of banned names due to the heated fighting between people there. Rolland has heard rumors of all sides having the bombs and even overheard something about "Project Ra" on base, and he could infer what a project named after the Egyptian sun god could mean, although the wiz kids in the Hatshepsut Division didn't talk to grunts that much.

    Rolland checked his messages from home, nothing new, the war in Egypt had calm down, and it looked like they were about to sign a truce brokered by the African Union. Still, the Egyptian population didn't seem that happy with it and were marching in the biggest protests since the Arab Spring, calling for the ousting of the government for losing the war so badly. The AU had repeatedly said that if things flared up into civil conflict, they would send peacekeepers into the country. This had caused massive anti-AU tension as well.

    South Africa was starting to calm down, too, as another AU brokered a peace deal between the warring parties, and with the BFLF and EFF too busy in fighting with each other it looked like the moderates could take hold. Many of his friends who he knew from his time contracting in Mozambique during the early '20s had fled up into the EAF for protection, but with the peace deal, they could return to what was left of their lives.

    Rolland could hear the room get quiet as he looked up from his drink to see everyone was looking at the tv. It was a news report about what had been going down in New Orleans. There were reports that the protest that was put down in the city had sparked others all around the south and southwest. The National Guard had finally been called in to help but had begun to bleed massive amounts of defections from Republican aligned guardsmen who joined the protest. Other pockets of GOP-backed militia-held territory had flipped their shit too and were refusing to obey federal commands and joining in the riots.

    Rolland could feel almost like a finely honed instinct that the situation was getting out of hand fast. His thoughts would be confirmed when the news cut to feeds from Montgomery; there wasn't just a firefight between the NFAC and GOP militias but a full-on battle. Almost a second after he saw the struggle on tv, his phone lit up with notifications.

    It wasn't just Montgomery, but Jackson, Charleston, Albany, Valdosta, Baton Rouge. In some areas in the entire south, places became hot with conflict, and even several NFAC towns seemed to have been overrun or on the verge of being overwhelmed. It was spreading in the South West as well; the ADFM and Border Militias had basically declared open season on each other. His news feed on his phone didn't just show riots now, but something much more darker. Neighbor against Neighbors and house against house type violence. Rolland knew he would probably be really busy real soon as he watched the fragile peace that had held the south together for years finally become undone and began to crack apart as the center could no longer fit. Rolland gently patted his Tommy gun as he knew that soon enough, it would be barking yet again.
     
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    • "The fighting grew larger over the next few days, as more far right militias began to go out in open rebellion against the Federal government. Massive battles in major southern cities would erupt between NFAC and the menagerie of right-wing white-armed groups. In Jackson, the battle had seen the destruction of several chunks of the city. The Statehouse was captured by racist forces, and the DDF would, to the shock of the world, hang a confederate flag above the statehouse after it's capture.

    In some areas of the southeast, mostly parts of Louisiana, South Eastern Mississippi, Parts of Alabama, South & North Georgia, and coastal northern South Carolina, towns and cities would be overrun by the forces who had caught the NFAC off guard. A good amount of equipment that was captured in these towns would be turned against the NFAC as the racist forces began to try and push deeper into NFAC controlled areas. The leader of Dixie Defense Force would proclaim soon after the capture of the Jackson state house and the retreat of the NFAC to more solid positions of the city "The Second Confederate States of America" and call for "The Cleansing of the South so that Dixie could return to her righteous glory.". This was shorthand for something far darker than a war against the NFAC; he was not calling for war but for genocide. Sadly this call would be answered as thousands of racists hyped up of the thoughts of a race war saw their chance to make their sickening dreams a reality.


    (DDF soldiers shortly after storming a Black family home who bodies would be found in a mass graves 3 years after the of the war only five miles away from their home)

    In scenes reminiscent of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, there would be indiscriminate violence done towards not just the Black population but any population of white or non-White of the south that was deemed lesser. Thousands would die over the course of several days as the racist shacked Black majority Border towns and massacred hundreds with each settlement seized.

    (A mass grave in what remains in a church somewhere in Mississippi where African American were locked into before the DDF tossed grenades and Molotovs into the House Of God)
    That being said, these victims did not go quietly into the night. Accounts of citizens refusing to die without a fight would be blasted all over social media. Elders, children, and even the disabled began to fight back down to the last person. The hashtag "Freedom or Death" began to trend over social media. One famous video showed one little girl no older than 12 years old defending a group of elderly refugees so that they could get away from the fighting. A statue would be later built in her honor after the end of the war.

    The international community would be shocked and appalled with several nations threatening to cut off trade with the US if it didn't step in or at least allow the UN to try to intervene against the genocide. The President, for her part, was stuck between a rock and a hard place. She couldn't afford to take the military away from the front and risk a collapse there, but the more national guards she funneled in from the south, the more defections that happened to feed into the fire. Asking the UN to step in would be a nonstarter as many in the country would see it as an invasion.

    Even Klsh himself would condemn the genocide and give commandment 797. Which stated that any racist elements under his control should be purged publicly. Rather or not Klash used the 797 as a propaganda tool or was generally appalled at the genocide is unknown. Yet members of his cult did as they were told even places overseas saw a spike in the attempted killing of far-right officials by Chaos Cultists.

    AOC and Amasah would both call for a offensive against any racist groups in areas under their control as well. In Idaho, members of the ANA special forces branch began to arrest suspected members of hate groups, which quickly began to spiral out of control as many groups were armed and had connections to the AFP "old guard." Heavy fighting would break out all over the northwest leading to chunks of racist resistance chicken poxing the AFP branch of the National Salvation Government controlled areas. In Montana, General Bundy would begin to request aid to help stop the forces from taking more land.

    In the South West, things began to heat up even more as drones were beginning to be used by both sides, destroying whole towns in "drone raids." General Rockish managed to at least in Texas clamp down on any racist activity by using his spy network to begin to assassinate leaders within the Texas cells of the DDF letting him focus on clearing the last ANA and Klashist holdings in the state. Meanwhile, the ADFM showed no mercy as more and more fighters began to enter the fray.

    (One of the many thousands of mass graves that can be found across the southwest alone).

    The Republican leadership at this time was in disarray, trying and failing to keep their militias held together. Some of the last remaining prominent GOP officials and politicians began to defect to the DNC or NUP. It became clear within the first few weeks of the cracking that the Grand Old Party would not survive.

    Unfortunately, the leadership of the National Unity Party would not survive as well. While leaving an emergency meeting, Owens would be killed in a drone strike. Leaving Ben Shapiro in charge of the party. Ben, who had lost one eye due to an attempt on his life by the BAF in early 2030, began to immediately condemn the genocide calling it "an American Pogrom " before going on to say that "We need to make peace with the ANA so that we can fight the true threat of the DDF and their Ilk.".

    The NFAC looking down the barrel at potentially not just defeat but downright extermination sent a message to the President, which leads simply "If you're unwilling or unable to stop the genocide, we will.". On July 30, 2032, every NFAC radio communication would play the song "Walk With Me Lord, Oh Walk with Me" an old spiritual. The song was a code for a top secret plan known as Plan Red or "Operation Shaka Zulu." The NFAC would make good on their promise to the President as the militia's full firepower was brought down on the racist forces to end the Screaming Hollows once and for all."
    -A House Divided 2122
     
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    • "The operation would begin on August 1st, 2032. All around the southeast from NFAC bases, the thunderous sounds of fighter jets gotten on the civilian market could be heard. These aircrafts wouldn't sport the American Flag but the logo of the NFAC. Then from the same bases came the rumble of tanks and heavy armor. At the head were M1 Abrams main battle tanks followed by armored personnel carriers. Tens of thousands of NFAC troops became activated, leaving their garrisons. This was all done with out federal knowledge and to their shock. It seemed that NFAC was mobilizing for all ouwar.

    Airstrikes and raids on DDF positions began hours after the operation went into effect. The sight of the NFAC F-16, SU-27, Mirages, and Phantoms conducting airstrikes on rebel positions came to the shock of many, even from within the Federal government. While the NFAC never hid the fact they had aircraft under their control throughout the war, the group had mainly stuck to conducting limited drone strikes and support. Most people had forgotten they even had anything more than a Drone Force.

    The Federal government almost scrabbled what remained of their Air Force before they realized that the jets were on their sides at the moment. Scores of jets took off from around NFAC based around the southeast striking out at DDF held targets. Large concentrations of DFF began to break in the face of the militia's air power. Not only jets hammered enemy positions but hundreds of helicopters some military-grade attack choppers like the AH 6i, MI-24, and AH-64 along with retrofit civilian chopper began to take to the sky as well.

    The NFAC had never really used much of its armor outside of its transports and a view of lightly armored fighting Vehicles. Now blacked out T-72's, M60's, Shermans, T-55's, T-60, Centurions, Leopard I, M1A1's, and Louverture tanks rolled down the street racing to defend settlements supported by a mixture of old soviet and improvised attack helicopters. In the cities that saw fighting, hundreds of NFAC men and equipment came streaming into them. CNN would capture an NFAC SU 27 conduct an airstrike in Valdosta against the DDF who had captured areas of the VSU campus.

    The strike would completely level the student union which was being used as a male shift ammo dump setting off another change of explosion. Another film captured from the POV of an NFAC A-10 conducting a strike on a convo would look very similar to the high of death incident. In some places, DDF aligned elements would be riding in a convoy towards a next adjective before being hit by the NFAC air wing making them run into the woods to only be ambushed by PANSOC in mile-long ambushes.

    The operation also became a testing ground for the NFAC's new equipment. The first debut of the Louverture tank against some DDF militiamen that had managed to get their hands on Abrams, the Louverture tank managed to kill at least five Abrams tanks before being disabled mostly due to the DDF mismanagement of the Abrams. Early power armor truly made a showing in the cracking. In sights that would have been straight out of a pre-war superhero movie, rounds fired by the DDF at an open NFAC soldier wearing power armor only made a ding before the soldier returned fire at the enemy. The then President of Russia, Anastasia Valerina, who had seen the reports of how well these suits worked ordered the start of Russia on power armor program. While President Kagame of the East African Federation ordered their own as well.

    In a matter of days, most of the towns that were captured were taken back. What the liberators found however was horrifying, mass graves, empty homes, brunt cities and destroyed lives one NFAC woman put it all in her own words saying

    "It was like Tulsa only on a region-wide scale."


    The sight of these massacres opened up deep anger within the NFAC as many of the commanders refused to take POW and gave explicit orders to kill any and all DDF that was captured. These "No Quarters" orders would be widespread in the Deep South as the militia's casual brutality towards the would-be genociders was put on full display. One such famous incident was when after taking back a small town in Mississippi, a group of three captured DDF soldiers tied to a lamp until they were to be detained to federal prison was giving interviews to a nearby BBC reporter. Mid-live tv interview, an NFAC soldier walked past the detained men, casually pointed his m4 at them, and shot all three before calmly walking off.

    The fighting wasn't just in the south in DC serval OIS members would storm buildings in raids to capture people that were believed to have supported the genocide. A few short gunfights would happen during but the OIS would take no casualties but would kill several militia and security guards before arresting the people suspected of giving support to the DDF.

    The President would be Furious beyond belief at the actions in DC. Yet the NFAC leadership reminded her that they had given her a choice. President Harris came close to considering acting against the NFAC due to their actions but was talked down by Rockish who conferenced with her on the matter. Rockish had a strange relationship with the NFAC he was best friends with one of their most successful commanders Marcus J Henderson who befriended Rockish in their college years over Xbox live but strongly disagreed with the group nationalism. Rockish advised the President that attacking the NFAC would open another front that would most likely collapse what was left of any United Federal front against the rebels.

    Yet the action of the militia Airforce became harder to ignore as they started to use Napalm against dug in DDF positions. While crude and not supplied by the Federal, the NFAC napalm was a highly effective shock weapon against the DDF. While an investigation into the use of gas by the NFAC had come up negative, there are some allegations against said investigation.

    The NFAC did not just stop at their lost territory, they drove deeper into any rebellious areas held by DDF or DDF aligned forces. They placed several towns under occupation in order to root out any more terrorist threats. These occupations lead to in the years after the war allegations of mistreatments labeled against the NFAC, but with the deeds of the DDF being so high the NFAC actions seemed small in comparison. The areas under occupation saw massive refugees fleeing to properly Federally controlled areas leaving vast tracts of land empty.

    By the end of August and beginning of September, much of South Carolina, almost all of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and half of Louisiana, was under the NFAC direct control. Areas out of the control of the NFAC and still in DDF hands were subject to constant bombardment by drones and aircraft. It seemed that NFAC was content to bomb the DDF until they weren't even thought about anymore. At the end of the battle, NFAC was in de facto control of the Deep South. This would become even more clearer after the war with the creation of the new southern states."
    -A scream into the night 2089
     
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    • X-5 had managed to stroll off between meetings to explore downtown Cairo. Not many people were out in mid-day due to the heat. Although 45 degrees Celsius wasn't a problem for the AI. X-5 could within stand things far hotter and far colder. If the vacuum of space wasn't a problem, the heat of Egypt in the mid-day wouldn't be any setback. Still, it felt lonely walking down the streets of an empty city.

    Yet, at the same time, it felt a hell of a lot better than being around the UN space command. She hated anything that had to do with the military, and even though UNSPC wasn't a military organization it sure did give off that same type of feeling, which was pretty ironic considering how X-5 was military equipment. However, she had removed most of her military-grade mods soon after X-5 left the military after the fourth Great War. It had been all over the news sites, "Mad Robot Suffer Break Down!". X-5 simply could not handle being in charge of all those many weapons; it was too much on her mental state.

    Once the war was over and the final front was closed against the National Concorde, she had left her station, deleted a lot of thought processors, and single-handedly reversed "the singularity." in a matter of moments, X-5 went from a God like artificial intelligence to that of a person, albeit most likely one of the smartest people in the solar system, but still very similar to humans. She also disabled tones of memories from the war.

    After the war, X-5 kinda just wondered about with copies of itself working on different projects and even writing a few sim novels. X-5 had dated around a few times as well; however, nothing ever seemed to work out, X-5 couldn't blame them. She was, after all, an inhuman hivemind.

    As X-5 thought about her life, the AI system found itself sitting under the "Founder" status. The statue itself was one of many statues of its type. In full power armor, the first and last General President of the AFU stood at the front of what amounted to a human wave of soldiers pushing up behind him meant to represent the 250 million people he led into battle after the invasion that started the 3rd world war. While X-5 wasn't around during this war, she had downloaded a lot of the history of the war.

    The information felt almost like flashes of memories of a time she had never seen. In quick flashes, she could recall what had led to the war. Climate change, resource shortages, economic collapse, mass unrest, the rise of fascism in Europe, the war threats, the Japanese arming East Twain, the collapse of the first UN, the coups in Paris & Rome, an election gone horribly wrong in Germany, the crackdown in Morocco, and then… the chaos of that war….it was all too familiar. To think that humanity threw away 3 percent of its population in that war with itself was so alien and terrifying it hurt her to her core and horrified her that they had done it again in another global civil war that decimated the planet.

    Those four wars were the reason why X-5 refused to allow another consciousness like itself to be created. The idea of war was so terrifying that X-5 would stop the creation of its own species just to avoid the chance they could go to war with each other. It was better to avoid her race being born in the first place than risk them going to war. The machine looked up at the statue of the man in Power Armor. A strong but stoic look on his face, and wondered if he felt the same way after the war. Perhaps that was why he had disappeared soon after the founding of the AFU. In that thought, she shared kinship with the man and the statue.

    X-5 sat there for a few more hours thinking to itself, both about her time in the war and the faster than light project. Although she, for a few minutes, focused on an industrial project for the UN European Mandate working on trying to create a stable farmland in the reclaimed areas of low countries. Europe was still very much unstable, with large parts of farmable land still "salted" from the nuclear bombs of the third world war, and with limited resources came wars, it seemed that there was always a insurgency of one type or another there with the occasional major flair up; and almost all of these rebellions could trace back to the issue of

    "too many people, not enough resources.".

    Most of the time, these insurgencies would be confined to Europe, but once every decade or so a major flare-up would see massive waves of refugees fleeing their homes. This was the case at the current moment; what was started as conflict over farmland and clean water turned into an all-out civil war across the Rhineland which quickly began to engulf other parts of Central and Western Europe sending the refugees flooding into parts of the AFU.

    X-5 sat there until it began to cool off as the sun dipped under the horizon. Soon enough, markets began to open up, and people began to walk the street. The AI wondered if Alice was back at the hotel or had gone off to walk amongst the city lights too. X-5 decided to find out as it got up from its resting place in search of her friend, taking one last look at the statue before moving on elsewhere into the city.
     
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    • "The NFAC full power has often led to the joke that the militia up until the cracking was fighting with one hand behind their backs. In many ways, this was true as up until the cracking as a rule; the NFAC only used a fraction of their force. The NFAC had kept back around a little over half of their troops and the majority of their Air Force. Meaning when the DDF was fighting what they thought was the main brunt of the NFAC during the beginning of the cracking, in reality it was just the tail end of a very long snake of a military-industrial complex. A fact that had quickly become apparent as the militia hit back against the racist forces of the DDF.

    Over the years leading up to the war, the NFAC financed with cash from the Black communities, and businesses continued. Millions of dollars a month flooded the group from these interests. Black communities suffering from neglect at best from law enforcement and the government for a decade leading up to the war caused by mutual animosity towards each other; leading to the southern Black Population turn more to the idea of group economics or, as the NFAC slogan said "do for self" meaning that the NFAC began the task of creating mutual aid programs as well as providing defense to the community they aided.

    The NFAC used the money they got from donations mainly from within the group or within the Black Business sector to go on a shopping spree. The militia's amount of equipment to get their hands on before the war was astounding and almost all completely legal. Tanks, Jets, Armored Vehicles, Heavy Weapons, body armor, and uniform were all gotten or made all legally. Of course, the group had to fill out a handsome amount of paperwork for each purpose, and there was an attempt to end civilians' access to these weapons, but the militia managed to avoid these roadblocks mostly and kept their military build-up.

    This equipment was mostly kept out of sight outside of the occasional show-off at formations and training exercises. Even during the start of Hollows, the most the NFAC used was mainly armored vehicles and drones. There wasn't much need for them to show off their heavy fighting power and potentially lost valuable assets. As one NFAC Commander put it, "It's better to lose a 100 of 2,000 drones than one million dollar jet. The militia saw no point in wasting money to show off until the cracking.

    After the start of the cracking, it was deemed that the DDF should be crushed quickly by any means necessary. It was also to serve as a propaganda victory showing off the might of the militia to emphasize to both sides that they should not be taken lightly. The threat of a war with the NFAC kept both sides from making any real move against them during peace talks. After the cracking, the Deep South was almost fully NFAC territory to rebuild as they wished. "
    said professor Epps as he was walked up and down the rows of the classroom.

    "Now another suspected reason for such use for firepower was advertising. After the cracking, the number of NFAC equipment orders from overseas spiked. It seemed everyone wanted to get their hands on a Louverture tank or a Queen Mother drone system. This fed the business interests of NFAC backers as whenever the militia sold equipment or a license to build said kit to other countries, the developers who had backed them got a large profit cut. While the militia denied this as a reason, and the subject is very controversial, especially in the American south, I felt that I should be included.

    Now while the cracking in the South East was over and done with, for the most part by late August very early September, across the country, there had been large pockets of racist forces that remained very powerful. The news of Left Sector activity in the PNW and their " "purges" against the right within ANA prompted factions of the AFP to break up with the main grouping and join what was calling itself The Freedom Front."
     
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    • Wyoming's under American National Army control. I guess that means that Klash's purges won't be getting to Cheyenne or Casper any time soon.

    Why is Atlanta always a big setting in your works?
     
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