Introduction
In the years immediately following the collapse of America, cities burned and were torn asunder by a desperate populace. Native terrorists emerged from the shadows and wrought their vengeance on a dying government unable to resist or protect itself, let alone its people.
Threatened with utter destruction, the remnants of the nation coalesced into separate, autonomous regions in their efforts to survive – drawing in on itself for protection from itself.
The lines were drawn. Decentralization was a reality.
Above the blowing, drifting sands of the Wastelands, beyond the grave of Democracy in abandoned, neutron-radiated Washington, DC, lay the Northeast Regional Sovereignty.
The Sovereignty fought its internal conflicts, fought its neighbors in the Central Zone, and battled back the hordes of Wasteland bandits and marauders loosed by Decentralization. The NE Sovereignty staggered to its feet, bloodied but unbowed, and thumbed its nose at the rest of the world before buckling down to the job of rebuilding.
Never to the heights of grandeur past, the Sovereignty nevertheless survived and prospered by current standards. It was a beacon in the hurricane of post-Decentralization, a reminder of what had been and what was possible. It was the lighthouse of a once great nation grounded now on rocky shoals.
Just... no one really knew the way and sometimes the lens and lantern didn’t always work quite right.
