Editing Traiders:New Jerry (section)

==Foundation==

Once a predominately white city, many of the original inhabitants fled when tens of thousands of black and latino refugees escaped during a riot at the Harry S. Truman Sports Center. The refugees occupied abandoned houses in the surrounding neighborhoods and avoided the plagues that wiped out countless others in refugee camps across the United States, including many of the original inhabitants of Independence who fled without proper planning and ended up in refugee camps themselves.

Centropolis was soon overrun by three bands of Raiders divided on ethnic lines: The mostly white Bushwhackers, predominately black Jayhawkers and latino Zapatistas. As the regional economy fell to pieces the Raiders became rich through their conquests and increasingly fought with each other for regional dominance. All three gangs were on the verge of a genocidal conflict when a Baptist preacher, the Reverend Jesse James Truman, united them against a new enemy: The Navuoo Legion.

The Navuoo Legion was a survivalist cult which sought to rule America from a New Jerusalem they would build in Independence Missouri. The Reverend Jesse James Truman convinced the Raiders that the New Jerusalem was the birthright of true Christian Americans and that the Navuoo Legion was an unwelcome competitor in Christian America. Together the Raiders drove the cult from Centropolis and founded the city of New Jerusalem as a political capitol of their alliance.