Editing Fort Garland, Colorado (section)

===A Newly Changed World Still Changing===
~''Information Raphael gained by hacking into Colonel Sunday's Computer''~

Reaching onto the computer, pushing past its own limitations he feels like he is accessing all the computers within the region.  Many seem military while many are home computers. He feels tablets and phones.  The Change didn't destroy these things, but with half the people of the world disappearing great gaping holes in the structures of all companies made the Economy crash. Governments crashed. Local wars started.

As he peeks around he finds one nearby; its collection of files is vast.  Its encryption is topnotch.  But the feeling of the Technopath slips past them.  He finds a computer nearby belonging to an aide to the General; Colonel Sunday.  It has descriptions of forces east and west, north and south.  It seems the East is controlled by what held together as the old Federal Government, now called the Old Fed.  With the exception of Louisiana and a few counties surrounding it, and the Conch Nation in Florida most of the East Coast still is run by Washington DC.

Canada is split in 5 parts, at best. West Waters, First Nations in the north, and Quebec. West Waters includes British Columbia & Alberta and is allied, if not joining Pacifica. Yukon, NWT, Nunavut are all First Nations and Alaska is mostly with them and Pacifica. A country unofficially called Hudson claims to be the center of Canada and is trying to reunite it.  It has Manitoba and Ontario, and technically the east water territories that Quebec claims and that hate Quebec. Everyone hates Quebec and Quebec hates everyone that doesn't speak French. It also has the distinction of the highest number of Elves. No one that goes into Saskatchewan has come out alive in months.  They have a high concentration of Orcs.  Hudson is allied with the Old Fed, for all the good they can do them.

Air Travel is incredibly difficult.  Dragons treat airplanes as toys or targets. 

As for The States, Rafe understands them better.  Pacifica, Colorado, New Kansas, Texas, Conch Nation, Louisiana, The Free State of Jones. The Dark Horde. 

It further dictates that Pacifica seized the nuclear launch facilities at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming... the Silos in South Dakota as well because the Orcs  of Saskatoon have already seized the North Dakota nukes. The Hudson crowd is terrified they will launch on Ottawa. Pacifica is going to try to take Amarillo.  The Old Fed will take Louisiana and East Texas.  They agree to meet in the middle.  

Mexico and Central America is a mess and has appealed to join the Old Fed. South America is in hot wars with each other. The Old Fed and Pacifica both have no idea where the USA Sub Force is after The Change.  They have been running silent.  The rest of the world is less organized than North America. 

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First Nations is the top of the world and is too cold for anyone to care about. However there are several active volcanoes. One near Prudhoe being called Port Prudhoe because of the heat in the 40s. There is also a Russian Fleet that out of necessity docked at Nome and is in negotiations, at a distance with the Old Fed. The gist is that they are founding a new principality.

North America is greatly divided with Old Fed and Pacifica being the most organized. Colorado is apparently crumbling under the attack from Pacifica and from the Northern Orcs. Louisiana is centered at New Orleans and is an 'End of the World So Lets Party' kind of place.  Something is going on in Bermuda.

Conch Nation is most of the Caribbean but is poorly organized. Roughly allied to the Old Fed.  Mexico requested Annexation from the Old Fed and is trying to control Central America.

There is a city somewhere in South America called Clusterfrak. Its a neutral city and the warring gangs of South America give safe passage to anyone waving the Clusterfrak flag. South America is a terrible mess.