Chapter 1- Buckley Avenged
Colorado Springs: part modern city, part military base, part grave yard. The city didn't have a lot of street lights before the war, and it is even darker at night. There is a smell of dust and rot that pervades the area, but the clean up goes on night and day. FEMA personal, the remnants of the US Army Corp of Engineers, and the Citizen Workers Brigades work day and night to restore the city. It was heavily damaged during the war, Cheyenne Mountain and the vast storehouse of advanced command and control networks were the target of a three megaton blast. Fortunately for the people of Colorado Springs, the missile missed it's mark and landed on the other side, and the wind took most of the radiation to the east. Unfortunately, EMP doesn't follow the winds, and neither does panic. The city's electrical grid was severely damaged, and has only recently been partially restored. Brownouts are common, and there were a few fires started when the city turned back on. The panic was worse. The traffic out cut the city off from the rest of the world and the city tore itself apart. When the troops of MILGOV stepped in to restore order, more than half the city lay in rubble, mainly by a chain reaction of burst gas lines, causing fires to spread throughout the city. Martial law is harsh here. The last general protest ended with 23 dead civilians and two dead soldiers. The city is heavily patrolled, and in the few no-go areas, there is zero tolerance to those found there. Life is harsh, but not as bad as it is outside the city. The Civilian Work Corps is the primary employer here, and consists of mainly two main goals: restore C-Springs to a functional city, and to work the fields outside the city. They also oversee the project to reconnect the other main cities of Colorado to the capital, and to other vital areas to MILGOV (namely Wyoming and Oklahoma). There is also a small work force that specializes in clearing the dead from the city. No one before the war really understood how big of a task this would be. Thousands of dead have been trapped in the rubble. Refugees find dead bodys in their basements when they explore their new homes. Seeing the Reapers as they have been nicknamed is a part of daily life for those in all of recovering Colorado. It seems a never ending task. But people have been glad to help with the cause for the basic necessities of life, such as food, shelter, and running water, not to mention the security provided by some of the last well equipped troops in America.
It is this scene you find yourself when you were transferred from your posts in Washington and Oklahoma. Both were harrowing journeys, but the top brass is forming a rapid mobilization force to help train local militia, subvert or destroy rebellions before they start, and generally do the stuff that the rest of the military can't do because they are to busy fighting marauders and maintaining order. It has been a long, miserable winter, and you have been tired of farming in the summer and sitting around waiting for the other shoe to fall in the winter, and MILGOV is going to give you the opportunity to do what you were trained to do.
You arrived on February 3rd, 2001 and were quickly introduced to your fellow members of your team. You have been put up in makeshift barracks that have been set up near the Airforce Academy, and your new commander, a Major named Reggie Arnold, has given you a few days of R&R and a pass off of grounds for the weekend. It has been a long time since you have had a break, and a full belly. What are your plans?