After the 2164 coup d'état, the Northeast Union (NEU) is considered to be a stratocracy and de facto dictatorship. The NEU's capital is Douglass (formerly Washington D.C.), its borders carved out of some parts of pre-war independent Québec and the Northeastern US. NEU citizens lead relatively calm and peaceful lives, trading in certain personal liberties in exchange for a safe and fulfilling life. The NEU uses both the U.S. Reclamation Force (USRF) and internal policing groups to keep a firm grasp on its territories, meshing what is a highly efficient internal security apparatus with a battletested military force. The NEU grows its economy by occupying wasteland territories in the "Federal Fringe", an area under USRF occupation, but not quite considered to be a NEU territory, and gradually draining the natural resources from these areas. Wastelanders who live in occupied territories have an opportunity to get temporary worker's permits, which allows them to work at NEU-owned mines and sawmills, often for horrible pay but with a promise of future citizenship. To the average waster, the NEU is seen as a colonial power wanting to put an end to their unchecked freedoms. To others, it is a chance to stop surviving in a daily struggle and begin leading a normal life, even if it means selling their body and soul for the good of the Union.

French has become an official recognized secondary language in the Union, and in some rural areas on the Northern and Southern borders, also the main language. The NEU saw a spike in French language usage in the weeks following The Flash, when desperate wastelanders from Quebec and some parts of Ontario fled South to seek refuge from the blistering cold. Since then, French has been engrained in NEU culture, attaining similar likeness and usage to Spanish in the pre-Flash Southern US, with a majority of the population speaking French. In the current day NEU, like in Canada, documents, road signs, movies, and more are written in both French and English. French usage has grown so wide that some regions have developed their own dialects, christened by some as American French. The language has also seen official use in USRF, allowing for an extra security barrier when relaying information over radio communication systems. Today, almost all USRF units require their soldiers to speak both English and French fluently with a few exceptions.

The NEU stands as a formidable economic force in the post-flash world, ranking among the wealthiest nations in North America, second only to the Pacific Union. Within the NEU's borders, numerous corporations thrive, spanning industries such as automobile manufacturing, weapons production, textiles, and a myriad of other sectors. These enterprises export their goods not only to neighboring nations but also to the grand wasteland itself. One of the primary sources of wealth for the NEU lies in its abundant mines scattered across its vast territories. These mines yield precious resources, particularly silver and salt. In fact, the NEU's currency, the Northeast Dollar ($ND), is backed by a silver standard, solidifying its value as a currency. 

The exchange rate between $ND and the US Dollar ($USD) stands at a fixed ratio of 1:33, meaning that 1 $ND is equivalent to 33 $USD. This currency enjoys widespread popularity and acceptance, extending its usage beyond the NEU's borders. Even in the wasteland and neighboring nations, the $ND holds sway, exerting its influence and facilitating trade between culturally different societies. It's worth noting that the Southern Union (SU) also recognizes the value and utility of the $ND, as it finds adoption in the northern regions of the nation. This further demonstrates the widespread reach and importance of the NEU's currency in the post-flash world.

Urban Living

Living standards in NEU cities surpass those of the wasteland and other Unions by a significant margin. Many argue that the NEU boasts the highest living standard among all post-Flash states in North America. This achievement can be attributed to the firm iron fist rule of the USRF, which suppresses dissent around every corner. The inner cities of the NEU have largely been rebuilt from ash, but many neighborhoods lay in ruin from the pre-war days, with squatters inhabiting them and creating criminal parallel societies right under the noses of the authorities. Urban decay / rot / blight is present in nearly every major city, with a few exceptions. Even in affluent neighborhoods, public sanitation services neglect to do their job unless an important government official is scheduled to visit, with a sharp smell of sewage and rotting trash ever so omnipresent. Moreover, improvised shops built from old wrecks, plywood, and cloth line the streets, on some roads so densely that it is considered a de facto one-way street. Gendarmerie checkpoints sit on every junction, with regime soldiers patrolling tirelessly to keep the peace.

Rural Living

In stark contrast to urban living, the rural settlements grapple with extreme poverty and endure highly unfavorable living conditions. Despite this, a portion of the NEU population actually prefers living outside the busy cities and view it as a superior alternative to city life. To them, "where the hustle and bustle ends, freedom begins," is a saying commonly attributed to the NEU's rural folk. Not only are building regulations much more lax, but Gendarmerie patrols rarely happen in the countryside, leaving law enforcement up to the local settlements and their locally elected sheriffs. Moreover, citizens who live in the countryside are much more likely to have their own vehicles, whereas the cities rely on public transportation and the extensive pre-war subway system due to the highly congested streets of NEU cities. That is just about where the pros of rural living end, as radiation storms and frequent eldritch mutant attacks lower the rural citizen's life expectancy significantly, coupled with the lack of work opportunities beyond joining the USRF. Buildings are not built to withstand harsh weather, and settlements instead rely on communal underground shelters when under threat from extreme radiation storms and snowstorms.

Early Flash

Mutants have been a controversial topic for as long as the NEU has existed, even predating its existence. When mutants first started appearing post-Flash, long before stasis and eldritchification became widely regarded as fact, mutants were accepted into human settlements under the protection of US military remnants. In fact, it is said that in the earlier days, aid groups existed primarily to help these mutants, who were seen as nothing more but irradiated and sick human beings that needed help. Public perception largely changed when the first eldritch attacks were reported within US military safe zones, and soon, they were quarantined in detention camps for the safety of other Flash survivors. Pressure mounted on the authorities to create guidelines on how to deal with the threat of mutantism, and with the rise of the Eastern Union, and later the NEU, regulations were soon put in place.

Formation of the NEU

Instead of outright expelling mutants from its territories, and fearing mutant persecution from less educated wastelanders, NEU authorities opted to "grandfather" mutants living under their territories as Union citizens. The truth is that these mutants faced extreme discrimination from both the state and even other NEU citizens, being under constant surveillance, and required to check in with an assigned "Stasis Agent", a human supervisor sworn to report on, and supervise the conduct of mutants living in the NEU, to keep them from silently entering stasis and tearing apart blocks as eldritches. Sometime in the 2110's, mutants were moved into pre-war derelict neighborhoods, often barely standing blocks, to allow for mutants to be controlled far easier. Districts have grown to become parallel societies within the NEU, adopting their own culture, traditions, and a deep-rooted sense of unity.

Greenskin Act & Post-2164 Coup d'état

The Greenskin Act of 2152 allowed mutants born outside of the NEU to have a shot at immigration, officially to the same degree as wastelanders and citizens of other Unions. As a result of this legislation being ratified and signed into law by the Last Triumvirate, thousands of mutants immigrated to the NEU from the wasteland over the next decade. These mutants were subsequently moved into Districts, creating a divide between "oldblood" and "newblood" mutants, who had a hard time getting along. This came with a number of issues, including a significant rise in crime, homelessness, and eldritch attacks in NEU cities, which began to overwhelm first responders and put a strain on each individual city's budget. After the 2164 Constitutional Crisis, the new regime has taken a more proactive and hostile stance on mutantism, decreeing that the old regime was setting the Union up for failure. 

Within the NEU, there exists a population of impoverished individuals, particularly concentrated in areas known as The Districts located in New Baltimore, New York City, and Douglass. In the face of adversity, a courageous few among these destitute citizens seize an opportunity for a better life through the NEU's resettlement initiative, known as the Frontiersman Program. On paper, this program aims to relocate NEU Citizens to the outskirts of the union and beyond, venturing into untamed wastelands that the NEU seeks to reclaim. Among these wastelands, the Sunrise Isles stand out, with numerous Frontiersmen being resettled in and around the Black Mountain Complex. 

The Frontiersmen embark on a vital mission to establish a lasting NEU presence in their assigned regions, working tirelessly to establish outposts and cultivate a semblance of civilization amidst the harsh landscapes of the wasteland. However, their presence is not always met with open arms, often viewed as encroachers who seize territory and resources from the locals. This clash of interests occasionally leads to tensions and conflicts between the NEU Frontiersmen and the indigenous peoples, as the Frontiersmen are perceived as invaders.

Despite their new surroundings, the Frontiersmen remain bound by NEU law, still recognized as NEU citizens. If they commit crimes within the wasteland, they are subject to extradition and brought back to the union to face justice. This demonstrates that even in their endeavors to tame the wasteland, the Frontiersmen remain accountable to the laws and regulations of the NEU. Some claim that the USRF will often turn a blind eye to crime committed by these Frontiersmen against wastelanders, but nothing concrete has ever come out of these accusations.

2070's

2071 - Continuity of US Government: "Homeland Preservation Act"

• August: Most of the US government body was wiped out by WMDs during the Flash. As 16th in the line of succession to the presidency, the Secretary of Education, Joseph Aldine, was selected as the Acting President of the US. Almost immediately, the Homeland Preservation Act was enacted by the President to ensure the continuity and preservation of the US government under the DHS and FEMA, which were given control of all remaining operational US military units still active across the mainland United States. Efforts were made to erect dozens of FEMA camps all across the nation, with notable examples being San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, and Douglass (Washington D.C.). Hundreds of thousands of Americans that had survived the nuclear holocaust and immediate fallout sought refuge at these camps. Others were not so fortunate and died due to starvation, disease, or radiation poisoning before they could get there. By the end of the month, some camps were at capacity, with the camp in New York City housing well over 900,000 refugees at its peak.

• December: The nuclear winter reached its peak in December before it began to warm up, just 4 months after the Flash. In these months, hundreds of thousands died from starvation, exposure to the elements, disease, or radiation poisoning. Viral outbreaks were a monthly occurrence. On a countrywide scale, millions lost their lives in the months succeeding the nuclear holocaust. In FEMA camps across the country, the US government began enforcing seasonal closures of camp gates. Refugees that came to the camps were put under extra scrutiny, with only those who contributed valuable skillsets being allowed in, as well as retired or active-duty military service members and law enforcement officers. Because of the Homeland Preservation Act, thousands of these veterans were forced to wear the uniform once again in service of their country. Most did it voluntarily, as it provided them with extra rations and security within the government camps.

2075 - Viral outbreaks in FEMA camps

• January: After almost 4 years, the US government had adopted more extreme measures to ensure the preservation of FEMA camps and the refugees within them. Millions perished due to viral disease outbreaks, but because of stringent rationing and functional commerce between the FEMA camps, there remained an abundance of supplies. With the nuclear winter largely gone and replaced by warmer temperatures, some of the soil was once again made arable, and vegetables that thrived in cold weather conditions, such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli, lettuce, and spinach, started to supplement dry food rations. Diseased corpses of sickly refugees were thrown into excavated mass ditches and burnt to prevent the spread of further disease, and Wastelanders began to get turned away at the gates of FEMA camps across the east coast. Most turned to a life of crime, robbing, stealing, and pillaging to survive, and skirmishes between US government forces and raider groups started to become more prominent.

2079 - Dissolution of FEMA camps in Central US

• December: By December 2079, 8 years since the Flash, many of the FEMA camps in the great plains and central regions of the US had fallen. Most fell to anarchy, but others due to faltering supply lines and mass desertions among the US military manning these declining camps, either to find their families or to avoid being lynched by angry rioters. These regions, no longer controlled by the US government, began to fall into absolute anarchy, a power void filled only by ruthless warlords who sought to control their own little pocket of the Wasteland. Hundreds of thousands of American refugees, who previously lived in these camps, were slaughtered and killed by ruthless raider warbands as soon as they attempted to step foot into the Wasteland. Other FEMA camps, like the ones dotted around the state of Ohio, began to fall due to a lack of supplies coming in from the east coast. Attempts made by the US government to resupply these camps by air were immediately met with resistance from the Appalachian Mountain Range. It was said that over a dozen US aircraft were lost at this time to Appalachian militants shooting them down with anti-air weapons, which were left behind from the pre-Flash days, earning the Mountain Range the nickname "Graveyard of Planes."

2080's

2081 - Breakdown of Satellite Communication

• February: With thousands of US satellites already destroyed by adversarial weapons during the Flash, the last dozen surviving satellites began to break down. Communication between the west and east coasts faltered, leaving the US split into regional governments. The west coast quickly caught on and realized the end of the "Federal Era," as it was now known, was nigh. Instead of dwelling on the past, FEMA camps on the west coast began to defy existing orders of preserving FEMA camps and started early expansion operations into the bombed-out pre-Flash cities, most of which had been devastated in the nuclear holocaust. They made early strides against the raider warbands occupying these skeletal glass cities, even managing to capture parts of Los Angeles from raiders not even a decade into The Flash. The east coast, however, continued to blindly subscribe to the orders passed down from the government in 2071, viewing the west coast's de facto secession as a blatant betrayal to the US and her constitution. This essentially left the east coast FEMA camps as the last bastion of US government forces still working on trying to restore the pre-war USA. By this point in 2081, thousands of raiders and opportunistic anarchists had occupied the cities of the American east coast, who occasionally found themselves skirmishing with US government forces.

2084 - Descent into Heavy-Handed Authoritarianism

• December: The early 2080s proved to be very harsh for the US government. With dissidence growing around every corner, and rations running low, harsh measures were now being taken to ensure compliance with the law. Whereas before, more humane measures were taken to curb civil unrest, it was now not uncommon for the military to apply capital punishment to dissidents breaking the law. By this point, riots were a weekly occurrence, each one worse than the last. In an effort to conserve what little supplies were left in surplus, the government closed the gates to all their FEMA camps, no longer permitting anybody from the outside to enter. Not only was this a major risk as most outsiders had grown to adapt to the savage ways of the Wasteland, but they carried with them diseases that the FEMA camps were ill-equipped to handle. Anybody caught sneaking into camps at this point would be summarily executed or put to hard manual labor clearing out irradiated ruins of cities close to the FEMA camps.

2085 - Creation of the Eastern Union: "The Troubles"

• June: With elections suspended for the 15th year in the row, President Joseph Aldine continued to serve as Acting President even by 2085. By this point, the situation was critical in every FEMA camp across the eastern seaboard, from New York City to the heel of Miami. Pressured by US Military Generals and FEMA Directors, the POTUS proclaims the creation of the Eastern Union (EU), a successor state to the United States of America. This proclamation is met with immediate opposition by a number of Americans in FEMA camps, leading to widespread rioting across most of the east coast. A collaborative effort made by the newly established Eastern Armed Forces, inheriting all US Military equipment, meant these riots were quickly suppressed through the use of lethal force. Thousands were killed in the clashes that followed, most of whom being innocent refugees caught in the middle of clashes between government forces and pro-US militia groups that sprung up in the aftermath of the President's proclamation. Despite an initial wave of resistance from angry opposition, the Eastern Union stretched from the islands of New Brunswick to the swamps of Florida at its peak, though the EU officially had no control over the territories it laid claim over, with all cities still occupied by raiders and anarchists. This meant that in practice, the EU had only definitive control over the FEMA camps across the eastern seaboard, with pockets of frontier towns peppered in here and there.

2086 - Dissolution of the Eastern Union: "The Partitioning"

• "They bear our flag, wear our uniform, speak like us. But they are not us. They are savages." - Colonel Jonas McCormick of the 18th New York Contingency Battalion, speaking on the actions of the Southern Military District. 2086.

• January: The EU would soon break under pressure, leading to the nation fracturing in two, just half a year after officially seceding from the USA. The two halves were the Northeast Union and South Union. While it remains unclear what exactly the straw was that broke the camel's back, it was evident that rampant rioting and increasingly brutal oppression from the military in response could not continue for long before the nation would be engulfed in a full blown civil war. The decision was made by military commanders in the Northern Military District to distance itself from the South, which was known to use brutal techniques to suppress riots, going as far as to execute dissidents in the streets and even going after their families. The split into the NEU and SU was relatively peaceful, with commanders on both sides agreeing to partition territory based off pre-Flash US state lines. The North would get the former US states of New Brunswick, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the capital, Douglass, while the South got North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. Major discourse was had about whether Virginia would go to the NEU or the SU, which paved the road for conflict in the 22nd century. With both Unions fielding identical pre-Flash US military equipment, the two sides began identifying themselves with armbands, with NEU soldiers wearing white identifiers, and SU soldiers wearing red identifiers.

• March: The NEU would go on to declare its intentions to reclaim of major cities, shifting its focus from maintaining the status quo of the EU and previously the US, whose doctrine consisted of defending FEMA camps. The NEU's infantile government, hearing rumors of the Pacific Union's military successes against raider warbands occupying major pre-Flash US cities, begin a similar operation. The NEU declares a national call to arms, ordering a complete mobilization of all NEU citizens with veteran status, such as ex-US soldiers and first responders, wherein they were issued leftover military equipment. In addition, the government pleaded for militant groups to take up arms for their country, a plead which did not go unheard. Within a few months, more than a dozen civilian militias answered the call to join the war against raider warbands. While the NEU did not officially yet have a military, its forces consisted of FEMA soldiers, ex-US service members, first responders, civilian volunteers, and trained civilian militias, who together fired the opening salvos to what would later be known as the "Thirty Year War". The first battles began when NEU forces routed from the Beaver Stadium FEMA camp began going on the offensive into Pittsburgh, the first city that would be reclaimed by NEU forces.

2090's

2090 - Thirty Year War: Battle for Philadelphia and New York City

• February: By February 2090, the NEU offensive was in full swing. The cities of Buffalo and Pittsburgh were now firmly under the control of the NEU, with the raider warbands inside broken after month-long sieges and constant artillery barrages. Although the offensives into these cities were largely successful, the NEU's tactics proved to be highly destructive, leading to high rebuilding costs down the road. From these cities, the NEU would change their approach to reclaiming pre-Flash US cities, from carelessly bombing the cities to dislodge raiders from their positions, to sweeping the streets, block to block, to clear out the raiders. While this method was arguably more cost effective, it also led to a sharp increase in NEU military casualties, and the conflict drawing out to last until 2116. While the NEU did adjust its tactics to ensure no other pre-Flash US city would lay in ruin by the time they reclaimed it, raiders themselves began to rig city blocks with explosives, some leveling entire buildings, while other explosives went off only when NEU service members came to clear every nook and cranny, leading to hundreds of deaths throughout the war, both military and civilian. The NEU initially planned to retake Philadelphia and New York City in the beginning of the year, but postponed the offensive for nearly half a year.

• July: The NEU's desires to reclaim Philadelphia and New York City from raider warbands was realized in July 2090, when NEU forces descended on both cities in a largescale attack aptly named the "2090 Summer Offensive". Despite initially gaining momentum, the offensive largely stagnated going into the year, with the militia groups spearheading the attack on Philadelphia and New York City choosing to forward their own interests rather than complete the offensive, forcing low morale rear troops, most of which were civilian volunteers, to pass them by and lead the battle from the frontline. Casualties skyrocketed in the months that followed, with a dozen or so NEU service members losing their life for every city block taken on average. Despite a high number of casualties, and the initial stagnation of the offensive due to NEU militia inactivity, the offensive saw partial success with the retaking of Philadelphia, and the partial reclamation of two of the five New York City boroughs -- that being Staten Island and the Bronx. 

2096 - Thirty Year War: Reclamation of the Northeast Continues

• March: By March 2096, ten years into the Thirty Year War, NEU forces had made massive territorial strides against raider warbands across the Union. By this point, most cities outside of New York City and Douglass were firmly under the control of NEU forces. While the largely decentralized NEU military forces still had issues with joint operations, efforts were made to streamline the process by introducing makeshift command centers. These command centers were intended to bridge the gap between the various and highly different NEU units by establishing a common communicator, an initiative which was largely successful in doing what it sought out to do. By this time, efforts were already well underway behind the frontlines, with a communal effort made by volunteers to clean the rubble from the streets of cities reclaimed by NEU forces. Thousands of civilians partook in the cleaning process, and it was not finished overnight. Infact, some neighborhoods continue to lay in ruin to this very day, with the sheer volume of destruction caused by the Thirty Year War unseen since The Flash in 2071. 

2100's

2106 - Thirty Year War: Change of NEU Doctrine

• April: By April 2096, twenty years into the Thirty Year War, NEU forces had succeeded in defeating, or weakening past combat effectivity, the various raider warbands that occupied NEU territories. At this point, thousands of soldiers and an equal number of civilians had lost their lives in the reclamation of pre-Flash US cities. In Buffalo and Pittsburgh, life had largely returned to how it was before the war, with civilians now housed in repurposed FEMA camp tents, crudely rebuilt concrete apartment complexes, and a plethora of scrap shacks to accompany the many thousands of refugees that had moved to these cities over the years from FEMA camps, excited to start living life again as they had before The Flash. At this point, the NEU was forced to change its doctrine from continual military offensives, to taking a more proactive stance against the raider warbands that still occupied cities like New York City and Douglass. Whereas before, NEU forces would just storm the city and hope for the best, new doctrine sought to "starve out" the enemy through a non-ending, year-long siege, in which all entrances to the city would be blocked off and occupied by NEU forces. 

2110's

2116 - Thirty Year War: At Victory's Doorstep

• August: The summer of 2116 marked the final moments of the three decades long war that had been waged by the NEU forces.  During the waning years of the conflict, experienced leaders emerged within the NEU forces that helped to centralize command and unify strategic efforts to bring the war to a head.  The now battle-hardened NEU fighters began to rout the last vestiges of raider groups that roamed the territories, coming to a head in August where the NEU command declared victory over the last warband.  August 17th was commemorated as a holiday to celebrate the victory.  The Thirty Year War came to an end, marking a significant milestone in the history of the NEU. The war had not only solidified the NEU's control over its territories but also forged a more disciplined and capable military force, which would officially become the USRF in the same year, 2116.

• October: The months immediately following the declaration of victory represented a significant boost in civilian morale in the NEU.  While the challenge of rebuilding the crumbling urban centers now loomed on the horizon, many were happy just to see an end to the conflict and return to the basic 'luxuries' of day-to-day civilian life.  The NEU government aimed to capitalize on the popular support they received from the victory, and prepared to launch the most ambitious rebuilding project of the post-flash era.

2118 - The Red Uprising: Birth of the SDLF

• "They slaughter our children and tell us that we can rest assured that the monsters of the wasteland live outside our walls." - Commandant Karl Hackney of the Southern Democratic Liberation Front, who would later become the first President of the SU, speaking out against the Southern Army's brutal military regime during the Red Uprising. 2118. 

• April: The Southern Red Uprising was a historical period generally thought to be between 2118-2120. At this time, the NEU was largely left-leaning politically, and used soft power to generate wealth and keep its territories in prosperity. The SU on the other hand was two decades into being ran as a ruthless military dictatorship, with executions being an all too common sight. Fearing an invasion from its warmongering neighbors to the South, the NEU began to fund and train the Southern Democratic Liberation Front (SDLF), an infantile but ambitious militia with a heavy-handed Marxist ideology.

• September: Small pockets of SDLF guerilla attacks began to be reported throughout the SU territories.  The threat originally was thought to come from a raider group, however SU military command quickly came to realize that the group was more organized than the wasteland warbands they were used to encountering.  NEU informants report that this began the SU counter-operation they dubbed "Winter Spear" - eluding to the SU military command's hope to crush the group during the upcoming winter.  This would ultimately prove to be short-sighted.

2119 - The Red Uprising: Changing of the Guard

• July: By July 2119, the revolution was in full swing. The totalitarian Southern Army was truly tested for the first time against an unconventional foe with an unyielding resolve and military training. Casualties were high for the military and morale at an all time low, culminating in the ousting and murder of the Southern Union's far-right leadership, which quickly spun out of control as the SDLF started seizing power. It is said that the ultra-wealthy were targeted in their homes immediately after the revolution, being murdered in cold blood by the militants who had endured enough -- all the while supported by the population.

• December: The "liberation" of the SU civilian populace continued into a particularly harsh winter for the Southern Union.  As the SLDF consolidated their power, they continued to hunt down supposed "pro-government" collaborators and eliminate them to prevent a feared resurgence of opposition power.  While some in the population feared they would be next, many held out hope that the new regime would be better than the previous one.  SLDF militias roved through neighborhoods, patrolling for government holdouts - tactics that to the trained eye resembled maneuvers used by NEU forces during the waning years of the Thirty Year War.

2120 - The Red Uprising: Consolidation of Power

• March: The Red Uprising ended in 2120, resulting in the SDLF seizing power and restructuring every body of government to where it is now, even in the 2160's, considered to be somewhere between socialist and outright communist on the political spectrum. The SDLF dissolved after the Red Uprising and were reformed into units within the Southern Army, eventually meeting their former military advisors in the battlefield -- however this time as enemies.  The new Southern Union had arrived.

2120's

2121 - Interwar Period: Rebuild, Reclaim, Recycle

• February: The conclusion of the Thirty Year War left nearly all of the new territory in ruins. Cities that once stood derelict, some untouched since The Flash, were reduced to rubble, and their landscapes were scarred by the devastations of war. The infrastructure, roads, highways, and some of the most prominent buildings and monuments of the old world were not only left unrecognizable, but also impractical to reach, making the task of rebuilding seem almost impossible. Despite this, the NEU was not ready to turn away from the land they had reclaimed, and initiated the first act of mass mobilization since the nation was first declared independent in 2086. This was a nationwide call to arms, not for war, but for the reconstruction of their new home. Veterans from the war, laborers, engineers, and citizens from age 10 and up were all rallied to participate in the massive rebuilding effort, the years that followed seeing no rest until the work had paid off. The NEU adopted a policy of recycling war debris. Old tanks, weapons, and machinery around the countryside were melted down and repurposed into raw steel, with the buildings that were thought to be unsalvageable picked clean of resources and swiftly demolished. The SU even gave a helping hand, offering a number of raw materials and hundreds of volunteer workers even passing the border to aid the NEU in the reconstruction, which stands in stark contrast to how little the two Unions have in common to this day.

2130's

2130 - New, Clean Cities Initiative: Cleanup Crew

• June: As an extension of the interwar cleanup period, this measure was passed to specifically target larger cities like New York City, Buffalo, and Philadelphia, needing more effort than most to clear out the decades of decay to an already centuries-old city.  Extensive campaigns were drawn out to clear out the largest and most intact apartment complexes for housing, sewers were cleared of Eldritch nests to make way for clean water and plumbing, and on the tallest skyscrapers- flags were planted down to establish the NEU's oversight upon the cities. The program was initially successful, attracting a large amount of human and mutant workers to labor within the city center.  However, rampant segregation led to sections of the urban sprawl being made mutant-only by city mayors, leading to a slowdown in spending as housing disputes flared up. 

2137 - New, Clean Cities Initiative: Unfinished Business

• October: Ultimately, the New, Clean Cities Initiative fizzled away by the late 2130s, a mixture of rapid government spending and funding deviations led to large urban population services stagnating. While the metropolises of New York and Philadelphia were alive again, they would never reach the splendor of their predecessors. 

2140's

2143 - Titans of Industry: Return of Mass-Manufacturing

• "We are forging a new era for the Union that will establish the North as a dominant manufacturing force and bring about the final building blocks our society needs to rebuild." - CEO Donavin Rollings Sr. of Union Arms and Cedar Holdings Ltd. addressing the press and locals at the opening of a Union Arms manufacturing plant outside New Boston. 2144.

• January: In the early years of the 2140's, the resources and infrastructure finally came together to support commercial and government efforts to reconstruct manufacturing centers.  Numerous companies arose out of this concentrated effort - Union Arms, New York Cosmetics, X-Treme Beverages Corp., Valiant Ballistics, Spark Dynamics, Reisner Inc., Mendel, Lacroix Logging Co. & Goliath Technologies are a few amongst those who found the most success.

• September: Government subsidized efforts to clear shipping lanes from the manufacturing plants to key government and civilian warehouse sites create economic opportunity for many citizens looking for work.  Key roads are cleared by the labor force and caravans become common.  Logistics hubs begin to pop up right outside many NEU population centers and help coordinate the manufacturing boom.

2145 - Titans of Industry: Bid or be Outbid

• February:  It had become clear to many of the emerging businessmen that the best money to be made was by getting government contracts with the NEU to outfit military and federal units.  Minor bidding wars begin to pop-up as major manufacturers attempt to get their piece of the pie in Douglass.  Key victors include Union Arms, who won the contract to develop the XSR-5A1 and further SR series weapons for the NEU.  Similarly, Valiant Ballistics won the contract to develop the Individual Body Armor Kit (IBAK).

2147 - Titans of Industry: Economic Boom

• September:  The influx of manufactured goods purchased by the NEU and local civilian distributors created a small economic boom in the NEU.  Many civilians had been able to find work on government projects or benefitted from an influx of commerce to their communities and began to spend their money on post-flash 'luxury' items - albeit these were small things such as New York Cosmetics cologne.  >75% of the manufacturing deliveries were arriving in major population centers such as New Albany, New Boston, Douglass, and even Port Lewiston.  Rural communities sometimes find access to these commodities, albeit usually from second hand traders and merchant caravans.  Amidst the success, some prominent businessmen found themselves with political opportunity and became a part of the government in Douglass.  

2150's

2152 - Subspecies Act of 2152

• January: The Subspecies Act of 2152 (which would take on the nickname "Greenskin Act") is passed in Douglass to ease up immigration laws to allow mutants to legally enter into the NEU.  This was met with staunch opposition from both service members who had fought eldritch and mutant warbands and "oldblood" mutants in the districts who feared overcrowding.  The Act would pass into law, however not without verbal disapproval from many throughout the Union.

• October: Anti-mutant groups began to decry the Subspecies Act and put significant pressure on Douglass to rescind the Act and put in its place anti-immigration legislation.  Despite the noticeable issues beginning to emerge from large streams of mutant immigration coming in from the wasteland, the movement ultimately fell short.  Douglass saw opportunity to use poor "newblood" mutant populations for difficult labor tasks and particularly hazardous jobs that a normal human could not accomplish without significant risk.

2154 - Roanoke Conflict: Beginning

• "Territorial integrity is the bedrock of nations." - Triumvir Christopher Landon, 12th Triumvir, speaking to the Douglass Times at the outbreak of the Roanoke Conflict. 2154.

• May: Roanoke began in fire. In the late night on a breezy May evening, 2 division levels of the SU's elite guard began bombarding the town of Roanoke with artillery and lighting fires to farm land on the outskirts. The NEU's FLA at the time prepared and launched a hasty counterattack, but were met with heavy resistance as members of the 41st Light Shocktroopers had already taken a few apartments and started using them as ample ambush spots. Fierce fighting ravaged through the town, completely sending Douglass into catastrophe as the Triumvir quickly assembled a task force to respond. Days later artillery teams along the NEU's border had started striking staging depots and GSOT teams had managed to successfully ambush and destroy weapons convoys heading into Roanoke.

• June: Heading into June, the fighting had gotten more intense as the SU had successfully encircled the town and started to push deeper past the I-81. Each bit of territory the SU assaulted was met with heavy resistance, not just by NEU government forces but militias who had taken it into their own hands. It is considered one of the bloodiest conflicts of the NEU's history, as within the first 30 days of the conflict both sides had lost thousands of soldiers. The fighting was only going to continue.

• September: As the summer offensive started to calm down and the fall had begun, soldiers began to dig in along the frontlines and prepare for the harsh winter. The majority of the fighting came from small skirmishes along the frontlines, as both armies were digging in for the winter. For both sides, farther back from the front, commanders had started preparing for major operations to take place in the first spring. 

• December: Northeastern forces along the West Virginian border were the first to make a major move amidst the harsh winter conditions. Spontaneous counterattacks were carried out by the 190th Homeland Guard Division, dislodging SU brigades along the border and making for a giant hole in the front line. This new doctrine of carrying out major attacks in the midst of the nuclear winter became critical for turning the tides of the Roanoke Conflict. Their attacks were bloody and were the causation of schism in Douglass house floors, as its reported numerous amounts of civilian structures and small settlements were levelled and bombarded with drone attacks while advancing.

2155 - Roanoke Conflict: Counterattacks, the "Hidden War"

• February: As winter whittled away and spring finally began to set in, fighting had begun to ramp up once more. Homeland Army and Homeland Corps had started to exploit vulnerabilities left in the front line by the SU as they had seemingly drawn a number of brigades from the front line to regroup. In the vacuum the SU left in their wake, it was quickly filled by a number of northern-aligned militia groups and 2 brigades from the 190th Homeland and 77th Army as the counterattack surged. By the end of late February, going into early March, the NEU had managed to reclaim the west side of Roanoke and set up a FOB in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. Fierce fighting started up as the two sides met near the US 220, while militias fought heavily to reclaim the northern part of the neighborhoods they once lived in.

• March: Militias had split from the main force, and began the steep uphill battle to take back their neighborhoods. This worked both ways for the 190th and 77th as they fought to reclaim Roanoke, as the militias served as a distracting force to pull SU forces away from the front. The 190th and 77th were successfully able to take a few blocks as the SU's defenses let up while the militia groups in the northern half continued to slowly reinforce various houses and apartments to ambush any southerners wanting to flank. SU's high command in the following weeks came to the realization that they could not fight on two fronts. 

• June: After months of skirmishing in the city, the SU decide to launch a major counterattack through the militia front. The unit spearheading the assault rode through militia-gained territory with unarmored humvees and levelled multiple blocks fighting through to flank the government forces. In days the militias found themselves in heavy fighting, ambushing southern forces with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns they'd manufactured themselves. The Boci-Coka plant by the highway would become a heavily contested point for the next few months, resulting in major losses for both sides.

• August: The Southern Union had been holding out for quite some time which had been shocking to a lot of NEU forces on the ground. They had been estimated to instead only last a few months, despite their capabilities. The SU can attribute this sustainment to multiple division-level elements transporting supplies along the Nuclean Trail, which flanked through the frontlines with SU members dressed as truckers. Low profile warehouses started to pop up on the southern side of Roanoke, resulting in thorough investigations by NEU authorities. When discovering this trail had been the SU's lifeblood, 2 battalion level GSOT teams were refocused and started another conflict right next to the main one. This hidden conflict is not mentioned much by historians, as Douglass has worked tirelessly to keep any release of GSOT activity on NEU soil buried.

2156 - Roanoke Conflict: End

• April: The SU's lifeblood had been severed, and their full encirclement was only days from taking place. The 190th Homeland Corps and the 77th Army had been reinforced by members most notably of the 470th Air Assault Wing, 173rd Armored Regiment, 62nd Cavalry Team, and 28th Green Rifles. These units had spread themselves far, creating multiple fronts for the SU to fight on. The Boci-Coka plant had been nearly destroyed, and any southern forces in the east were slowly being pushed back to the manufacturing plant. Fearing its defeat, SU forces in-threater attempted a blitzkrieg maneuver to back themselves out of the corner they'd been thrown into, to no avail. NEU forces had beat them into submission, and on the 3rd hour of April 27th at the 22nd minute, what was once Beckham's Elite Guard Division had been absolutely cut down to just a couple companies. The SU's fight was over.

2158 - Halifax Crisis

• "We must be weary of those who would see our civilization crumble - from inside the comfort of the security it provides." - Rear Admiral Felix Thrasher's memo following the 15th Fleet's naval operation to cover the 6th Detachment's retreat into friendly territory. 2158.

• April: As temperatures began to warm slightly in NEU-controlled Nova Scotia, a movement in New Halifax had gained traction.  Pro-independence militants under the banner of "Free Halifax" had harbored supplies during the winter months and began to carry out attacks on USRF installations through Nova Scotia on April 17th.  The situation rapidly deteriorated as the undermanned USRF positions began to lose control of the region.  By April 28th, half of the Nova Scotian USRF installations had come under Free Halifax control.  Under threat of the supply lines being cut off, the 6th Homeland Corps Detachment began to pull north to the scrap settlement in Truro.

• May: USRF Northern Military District Command orders the 6th Homeland Corps to withdraw fully into New Brunswick.  Due to the cost of fighting a counter insurgency in the region and comparatively it's low priority as a strategic or resourceful position, it was decided that all USRF forces would withdraw from Nova Scotia.  Supporting the withdrawal, the 15th Reclamation Naval Fleet deployed out of New York City to cover the 6th Detachment's retreat into New Brunswick.  As Halifax militants pressed the attack on the settlement of Truro, ships of the 15th Fleet under the command of (then Rear Admiral) Felix Thrasher began a naval bombardment.  The two decrepit pre-flash highways that entered the settlement of Truro from the south crumbled under fire from the fleet, slowing the militant advance and causing opposition casualties.  The 6th Homeland Corps Detachment completed it's withdrawal into New Brunswick, being met by the 47th Homeland Corps at the border.  In the following days the border was fully militarized in order to defend against future militant assault.

• August: Free Halifax continues to go unrecognized by the NEU, however the Canadian Federation and Southern Union have occasionally had meetings with the region (albeit none of it has been publicly admitted).  The New Brunswick-New Halifax border is still heavily militarized into current day, and is the site of occasional skirmishes between Halifaxian militants and the Homeland Corps.  Members of USRF Command have recommended reclaiming the territory, however no operations have taken place.

2159 - Northern-Southern War: Beginning

• "We can not control the AO without reinforcements - we have been pushed by Southern forces into the center of Roanoke and are taking heavy casualties.  We need fire support and the rest of 3rd Mountain right now." - Excerpt from Captain Devon Mathieu's radio call to Southern Military District Command.  2159.

• February: Just like Roanoke, the SU opened the beginnings of the NEU-SU war with the balls of fire. Artillery bombarded the southern half of Virginia, and mechanized division level elements sped through the frontline while the NEU quickly assembled its forces for a response.  The first forces assembled were mostly from the 3rd Mountain Rifles Division, which sent four Regiments of men south to halt the Southern Union's advance, supported by the 20th Motorized Regiment.  Under the command of the renowned Captain Devon Mathieu, the 3rd Mountain Rifles engaged the SU mechanized elements 5 miles south of Roanoke.  The fighting immediately intensified and lines on both sides began to solidify.  Captain Mathieu reported to District Command via radio that only 48 hours after their rushed deployment, he had sustained 273 casualties from the Southern onslaught, and requested that the rest of 3rd Mountain Rifles immediately reinforce Roanoke.  Within days the battle lines began to stretch from west of Roanoke to the urban center of Norfolk.  Determined not to give an inch willingly to the SU, the Southern District General Étienne Dubois ordered immediate reinforcements from both the Reclamation Army and the Homeland Corps, dispatching multiple Divisions including the 7th Expeditionary Rifles, 24th Shock Infantry, 108th Mountain Rifles, 34th Motorized Division, alongside handpicked regiments from Divisions to the north that could not fully relocate.  The war against the South had reignited and had no sign of slowing down.

• March: Trench networks run like spiderwebs throughout the forests and hills of Appalachian Virginia.  Within the month, the USRF has lost over 1,000 servicemembers and numerous more injured.  With no major victory in hand yet, the USRF military command comes to the stark realization that this war (later known as the First Union War) may not have a swift end, and could last longer than the Roanoke Conflict.  Villages too close the front lines had already been ransacked by artillery fire, forcing a civilian exodus northward as the battle continued to rage.  While the frontlines in the countryside were not as demanding, the fiercest battles continued to rage in Roanoke and Norfolk where both sides battled in between the city blocks.  The debilitation of city infrastructure had made the evacuation of wounded on both sides extremely complicated, and both sides were taking hundreds of casualties a day.

• June: As the months drag on, the fighting has only intensified as the trench and urban warfare continue to rage.  Since the inception of the war, the frontlines have moved back and forth just a few hundred meters each day, with no realized gains on either side.  The death toll has climbed to over 5,000 casualties, with a decent sum of them being civilians who's settlements had turned into battlefields.  Many of the original four regiments dispatched from the 3rd Mountain Rifles to Roanoke had perished during the months of fighting, which had taken a considerable toll on morale for the forces on frontlines in the west.  Captain Devon Mathieu has been field promoted to direct command of all USRF forces west of Richmond, and Major Henri Wesley is in command of the forces east of Richmond.  The two's coalition of forces report directly to an increasingly frustrated General Étienne Dubois.  On June 27th the 24th Shock Infantry were able to push SU forces back past Chesapeake in the Norfolk front, however their supply lines did not hold and the area was retaken by SU forces at heavy cost to the 24th.  Facing increasing pressure from command on account of the 24th's failure, Major Henri Wesley reports to the Norfolk frontlines where he personally oversees the war effort in the urban center.

• September: As the war approaches winter, the lines have remained stagnant since the early days of the conflict.  On September 5th, SU artillery scores a direct hit on the USRF forward command center and causes numerous casualties, including Major Henri Wesley and XO Lieutenant Cameron Fields.  45th Expeditionary Rifles CO Captain Emilio Castellano assumes command of the eastern forces and brings with him three regiments to supplement the forces in Norfolk.  Captain Devon Mathieu is able to score the conflicts first tangible victory during a September 27th counter-offensive in Roanoke where the 3rd Mountain Rifles overtook multiple fortified SU blocks during a nighttime push.  The SU frontline forces have been pushed south on the US 220 into Roanoke's more technical terrain, where new battlelines have been erected.  In response, Captain Mathieu is field promoted to Major by General Dubois.

• December:  The war has dragged on to almost a year and the east coast winter has been unforgiving to forces on the ground.  The lines would barely move more than a city block over the next years, going into current day where troops on the frontline are fighting just to keep the ground they are standing on.  As of present day, the casualty count exceeds 25,000 (of which a disproportionate amount are civilians).  Now five years later, the First Union War has become the top priority for the leadership in Douglass.

2160's

2162 - NEU-Canadian War: The Short War and its Aftermath

• "It is a gross violation of NEU sovereignty, and deliberate acts of provocation by the interim government of Canada." - Triumvir Cormier.  2162.

• April: Starting on April 18th, state-sponsored Canadian rebels shelled two NEU villages and a USRF ammunition depot on the border. Casualty reports list 12 deaths, and 1 critically injured. The NEU's response to this was fairly slow, as they were still constrained by the NEU-SU War, and thus didn't want to dedicate a lot of manpower to the Northern front as they could hardly fight a war on two fronts. Members of the Northern Division, and a couple units pulled from the Lakeside Division were sent to respond. Coordinating with the Border Guard Service, these units were able to penetrate the Interim's defenses along the great lakes and parts of the NEU's borders.

• May: The fighting would quickly stagnate just 50 miles of the NEU-Canadian border, as a lot of Federation troopers retreated into the harsh and desolate cold. The NEU were fairly quick in making work to the Canadian government, taking monumental amounts of territory and anyone with them. During this time a lot of Canadian PoWs were sent back to the NEU for processing, making for a very heavy strain on the LD and ND's logistical support. Nearing the end of may, the LD officially was withdrawn from the conflict and reassigned.

• June: In the final weeks of the NEU-Canadian War, the 32nd established with the Northern Division had started to fight against the people they once knew. During these few weeks, the 32nd had witnessed the most amount of fighting they were going to see for quite some time, before eventually completing all objectives and being ordered to retreat back to the border. Their time was short, and during the last few days of the war their focus primarily became peacekeeping as their last objective. They did not operate under the Northern Division in their peacekeeping time, but under the Lakeside Division, acting as the last Lakeside Division unit in theatre before the end of the war. The war would come to an end on the 18th of June, with a treaty being signed between Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland and the NEU. Shortly after this USRF forces returned all bases and land they occupied.

2163 - Mass Mobilization

• April: Due to massive casualties on the Southern front, the White House authorizes a mass mobilization of able-bodied men and women between the ages of 18-25 in the Douglass and Southern Military Districts. The new influx of Conscripts would be deployed across the nation, inexperienced soldiers taking the places of those who were lost on the frontlines.

2164 - Constitutional Crisis: Regime Change

• "We are prepared to do whatever it takes to protect our homeland and secure absolute victory over their anti-American way of life." - President Étienne Dubois's speech during the USRF coup d'état against Triumvirate forces. 2164.

• February: The 2164 Constitutional Crisis began on February 26th, 2164, and was arranged by the USRF Southern Division, and supported by the Northern, Douglass, and later, the Lakeside Division, who together made up over 88% of the total NEU military force.  At the spearhead of the Crisis was then General of the Southern Division Étienne Dubois, who had rallied his fellow Divisional Generals against the Triumvirate.  With a goal to to overthrow the old government, leading to the formation of a new military regime and a complete amendment of the Constitution, General Dubois marched his forces into Douglass.  Alongside a set of coordinated raids on NEU government buildings and households of officials, on February 27th General Dubois announced from the (captured) NEU Network Headquarters that the USRF would become the authority of the NEU and that they would go to war against the current government.  Fighting across the nation would break out sporadically, with USRF forces engaging Pro-Triumvir forces including the 195th, 18th, 33rd, 17th Triumvir Guard Regiments, FLA units, and even numerous PMC forces including Hilltop.

• March: The Constitutional Crisis would come to a close on March 1st, 2164, after the de facto interim government amended the Constitution to legitimize itself as the new regime. During the morning of the day, the White House falls as the 195th Triumvir Guard surrenders and Triumvirs Cormier and Van Hollen are captured by the USRF.  They are promptly lynched by the waiting crowd.  During the coup, thousands of political opponents, loyalist USRF forces, and high-ranking government officials were targeted in extrajudicial killings across the country, acted out by the USRF on behalf of the Usurper General, now President of the Union, Étienne Dubois. The following month would see a litany of legislation passed by the newly President Dubois: the dissolution of the Federal Law Authority to be replaced by the Central Security Bureau, the outlawing of the Progressive Mutants Alliance and PMC groups such as "Hilltop Group", and the replacement and creation of new NEU Departments to name a few.

At this time, other areas of the Union had broken out in large-scale battles between Triumvir and Presidential Regime forces - the largest of which taking place in New York. The importance of New York as a Triumvir hardpoint was not lost on Dubois and the newly formed "Supreme Authority", who issued orders to all divisional units that had sided with him in the coup to send soldiers and supplies to New York City. Dubbed "Operation Market Bagger": this major offensive against the Triumvir-sided forces was soon underway, with units from every front seen taking the stage; each seeking not only to secure the safety of Union for the President, but also their own glory and fame under the new regime. Most areas of New York were caught up in hectic fighting between Triumvir and Regime forces, with belligerent rebels and other opportunistic raiders joining the fighting as well. By the end of the month, a precision strike underway by the "9th 'Liberator' Expeditionary Company - a unit of Lakeside Division soldiers under the command of the Southern Division's Captain Dan Sullivan - punched directly through Triumvir defenses to make their way to find and capture the missing Triumvir Adams following information that he were hiding in Manhattan. Though many casualties were taken, in the end Adams would come under the capture of the Regime.

• April: During this time, the 9th's slow enclosure by Triumvir forces, communications jamming, and the continuous shelling from Regime forces made the extraction of them and Adams difficult. The extraction of Adams had stagnated in Manhattan, yet other areas of New York were still rife with major fighting between not only Triumvir and Regime forces but also the bureaucracy of the Division heads vying for more supplies and glory in the operation. Though originally a poor start of an offensive in the previous month, Regime forces were now beginning to break Triumvir defenses and wear them down. Offensives in the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island make significant headway, especially towards the end of April.

• May: Triumvir forces across New York begin to splinter following the capture and loss of Adams. By the 11th of May, Triumvir Adams was extradited to Douglass by Central Security Bureau officers while the Lakeside Division Soldiers of the 9th 'Liberators' and company were deemed clear of their duties and made the long trek back to their home away from home: Black Mountain Complex, Lake Erie. Fighting was not yet done in New York though, and likely would not end for months. New York is currently still a contested area, primarily with Manhattan having been a major Triumvir holdout of primarily Hilltop Group contractors and other pockets of Triumvir resistance across the city slowing progress. Despite this, "Operation Market Bagger" has been deemed a major success by the Supreme Authority; reports coming in that victory is always that much closer over the traitorous Triumvirate fighters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens have been displaced by the events of the Operation, either moving to other nearby cities to try and find a sense of normalcy or preparing to move back home once its over. Despite the ongoing conflict, the Ministry of Development announced their plans to begin reconstruction and rehousing projects in New York City.

2164 - Second NEU-Canadian War: Canadian Neutralization

• “This war is what we need to make peace.” - Excerpt from General Emil Cabana’s address to Lakeside Division HQ. 2164.

• August: On August 5th, President Étienne Dubois and his War Cabinet finalized plans to neutralize Canada, seeking to relocate war material from the Northern Division by eliminating the threat of invasion by Canada. President Dubois aims to use the war material to bolster USRF’s efforts in the Southern Theater, potentially breaking the stalemate against the Southern union. The War Cabinet secured temporary alliances with the Sons of Quebec militia in west Quebec and the Quebec National Army in the east, allowing USRF regiments the ability to stage for the invasion from Quebec territory whilst supported by Québécois militia forces. 

Dubbed “Operation Leaf Rake”, the Second NEU-Canadian War started with relentless barrages of artillery fire targeting Canadian power grids, roads, and other critical infrastructure. Northern Division soldiers launched a coordinated assault into Canadian territory in conjunction with Quebecois militias from forward operating bases in Quebec City, Quebec-Saint-Levis, and Old Montreal, taking Canadian defenses off guard. USRF forces quickly made ground deeper into Canada, with a contingent of Lakeside Division soldiers being mobilized to support the back lines under the command of Northern Division’s Major Bastien Arsenault-Kafka. The Canadian government’s retaliation was swift, as Canada’s special operation forces from the Princess Kathleen’s Commandos launched an airborne counterassault into Lakeside Division’s Headquarters on Sunrise Isles in conjunction with naval and land attacks from the Midwest Union’s New Model Army under an ad hoc alliance with the Canadian government. The battle rages on at both fronts.

• September: Within a month, Northern Division troops shattered the CAF’s defenses along the east, forcing Canadian troops to retreat westwards. On September 6th, the Canadian Parliament was officially dissolved, with a government-in-exile operating in its place as government officials and military equipment began to be airlifted to the Midwest Union via PKC’s remaining UR-22s and UR-66s. The USRF-Quebecois coalition advanced west, placing further pressure on CAF forces entrenched in Ottawa as Lakeside Division reinforcements advanced from the east, chipping away at remaining Canadian strongholds in Trois-Rivieres and New Montreal. Local Canadian police, RCMP units, and citizens took up arms against the Lakeside Division, fighting in vain to try and hinder USRF's efforts in securing Canadian territory behind the frontlines. The fighting began to stagnate outside Ottawa as CAF soldiers and PKC commandos established defensive fighting positions around Parliament Hill. 

• October: Heading into the third month of the war, Canadian forces were further entrenched around Ottawa as Canadian assets continued to be airlifted to the Midwest Union. The sheer concentration of Canadian soldiers locked USRF and its allies in a tight stalemate around Parliament Hill. In the east, Lakeside Division troops secured the city of Trois-Rivieres after a chemical bombardment from Northern Division artillery detachments, prompting organized resistance from Canadian citizens and police units to splinter while remaining CAF forces trinkled west. A majority of the CAF were now cornered into Ottawa and New Montreal, leading General Emil Cabana to order the bulk of the Northern Division’s assets to be transported towards Ottawa to stage a major offensive to end the war. 

• November: Most of Canada was now under USRF and Quebecois control, and remaining Canadian defenses began to weaken as regiments previously defending New Montreal and Ottawa were airlifted to the Midwest. The CAF's last remaining strongholds were Fort Francis in New Montreal, and Parliament Hill in Ottawa. In the closing weeks of November, USRF's Lakeside and Northern Divisions led combined offensives on the remaining Canadian footholds in the two cities, capturing scattered members of the Canadian government-in-exile and wiping out the last of the defending CAF in a span of two weeks. The war was deemed an overwhelming success by the War Cabinet, and Lakeside Division units were soon relieved of their duties in Canada to return to their bases near Lake Erie. The Northern Division was heavily demilitarized soon after, as troops and equipment were sent to the Southern Theater.