Here's Tampa on the map. Will get to actual cool shit soon (I kinda have a haircut right now.) PREPARE FOR BANDIT FLORIDA.

Name: Tampa Bay Colonies

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History: The American South is bandit country. Instead of adapting and overcoming as a nation to live together in lesser conditions, largely local groups instead banded together to squabble over the remains of the old world. One of these were the Tampa Bay Colonies, established around the Tampa Bay in west Florida. Tampa as a city grew exponentially over the years leading up to the cataclysms that ended the old world: government contracting related to the US Central Command's decades-long operations in the Middle East provided opportunities that attracted ancillary corporations and workforces to the growing city. Tech companies, responsible for putting hardware and networks into space, needed new offices. Manufacturing firms for space-age technologies wanted headquarters where they could rub shoulders with CENTCOM generals. High-rises, many of them upscale, were needed to house the influx of (some say overpaid) contractors. Tampa offered the perfect solution.

It being situated on the inside of the Bay of Mexico, west Florida was spared from the severe tsunamis that decimated much of the East Coast from the Atlantic. This, however, was not a miracle save. Meteorites impacted throughout the country with incredible force, causing explosive damage to parts of Old Tampa. When the sea levels rose, this very same part of the city was swallowed by the ocean. While a few highrises stood above the waves, their days were numbered. Over the decades, they have grown more and more unstable from the seawater's corrosion and have been known to collapse. New Tampa, build on higher ground, remains the secure bastion of Tampa's survivors. They live in these buildings, interconnected, safe from the environment below. From here, the "government" controls its outer territories: the ruined suburbs painfully captured from bandit populations.