Pepperm1nts

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Alright, I think I'm dropping Boston. @The Wyrm has already expressed interest in taking over it, so Boston is his now. I've made a new app for an organization. I can do a little more with it but first I'd need @flowersrgr8 to okay some of what I've written here.

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Manifest Destiny

Name:
Order of Columbia | Columbian League

Leader:
Augustus Lockhart
_{Brooklynite patroon, merchant, banker, and knight.}

History:
The Order of Columbia has its origins in Brooklyn's turbulent past, when the borough's feuding families made the streets run red with blood. Founded and jointly financed by patrician families operating out of Brooklyn's ports, the order was originally concerned with the protection of patroons, land routes for trade, and the defense of patrician property and land from all manner of harm. In those days, it functioned additionally as a deterrent against the ambitions of Brooklynite lords seeking the vassalization, confiscation, or disbandment of patroons, their assets, or their organizations, and acted as a bulwark against autocratic rulers, in the defense of democratic institutions within patrician territories. It promoted democracy and the mandate to Manifest Destiny, which it viewed as the indomitable desire to prosper and excel by the individual; the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as decreed by the Fathers.

Over time, the Order of Columbia grew to become a vast enterprise with a robust financial network, becoming something of a bank near the zenith of the Brooklynite wars, when the borough's feuding families sought the Order to finance their increasingly bloody struggle for control of Brooklyn. Within the Order's own ranks a struggle for control brewed between the co-owning patroons, whose ambitions left them salivating with the thought of sole ownership of an ever-expanding and powerful enterprise; a financial giant and an iron fist with which to dominate the rest. This internal conflict, filled with intrigue, cloaks, and daggers culminated with the assumption of absolute power by one Thaddeus Lockhart, propelling the once medium-level patroon to a position of unprecedented financial and military might in the region.

Thaddeus Lockhart consolidated his power and contemplated the Order's role in the struggle for Brooklyn, briefly considering offers by the lords of Westbrooke to aid in their war for the borough. Instead, Thaddeus Lockhart bided his time and remained neutral as the Brooklynite armies whittled themselves down. Whatever personal ambitions Thaddeus Lockhart may have had were dashed by the New Empire's entrance into the War For Brooklyn. The sight of Imperial banners at Jamaica Bay spelled the end to what had been generations of bloodshed. Thaddeus Lockhart - seeking favor with the lords that would eventually come to rule all of Brooklyn - sided with the Sutherbrookes and their imperial allies, for the first time ever committing Columbian troops to the conflict.

Since the annexation of Brooklyn by the Empire State, the Order of Columbia - in time becoming known as the Columbian League - has expanded its operations throughout the imperial dominion, transforming itself into a vast multinational entity under which many guilds operate, with a renown bank, and an extensive network of trade posts and fortifications, as well as a military arm to protect the trade routes and trade towns within the League. It forms a robust commercial structure with its headquarters on Liberty Island, which itself has grown to become the center of a city administered directly by the Order. The current head of the organization is Augustus Lockhart, an ambitious businessman and knight.

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Fuck dude, you're taking the best part of the entire map.

@Goldeagle1221

Were you thinking of joining as that part of the map?

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Mostly finished but pending some stuff

Imagine a flag with these colors but better

Name: Free City of Boston

Location: Boston; eastern Massachusetts (Map TBD)

History:

The legions of Old America seized control of Boston two centuries ago, bringing the city under strict martial governance as a measure to deal with the scourge that had swept across the Old Empire. This period is characterized by Institute scholars as having been brutal though perhaps necessary to the survival of Boston. What had been at first an assignment became a permanent military state that maintained its power through force and executed those believed to carry the plague. It transformed eventually into a quasi-knightly order, splitting the city and the surrounding land into quadrants ruled by its officers on behalf of the Governor-General, or Lord Protector as it was later styled. Today, these quadrants are known as First Base, Second Base, Third Base and Home Base by the Red Clads, but otherwise by their civilian names. House Ressocks, the current ruling family of Boston, once served as Enseeos – a type of underling – for the knightly lords of First Base.

The Cambridge Institute came under the service of the military government almost immediately, as did the Harvard Academy, for the purposes of finding a cure to the Great Sickness, though no real progress was ever made. Military rule over the city began to decline upon the discovery of an Old World specter still haunting the city. Institute scholars put the date of the discovery at over one-hundred years ago, when excavations and demolitions by the military order – presumably for the purpose of reinforcement or land-clearing – were halted by an invisible force thought long-dead. Though not much is known about this phenomenon today, records made by the military order in the earliest days of their rule speak of an intelligence said to have been in control of much of the city before being destroyed – presumably – for unknown reasons. The reemergence of this phantom proved problematic, and marked the decline of the order's grasp on the city.

The Ghost of Boston is long gone now, but before its disappearance it wrecked havoc. For reasons unknown, by means unknown, it swept through the city, bringing things to life and forever ruining others. The mayhem it created for the ruling class then allowed for the rise of the House of Ressocks and for the academics of the city to free themselves from what had become indentured servitude. Spurred by the Professors of the Cambridge Institute and the Harvard Academy, Preston Ressocks, then head of the minor House of Ressocks, mounted a people's rebellion that culminated with the dissolution of the military order and the establishment of a Republic. For a short time, the specter lingered and aided the recovery of the city, but vanished violently shortly after, leaving an unfollowable trail of destruction. This post-military period of Boston proved difficult at first, but the city would ultimately blossom into a relatively prosperous society encouraging scientific pursuits and trade through its innumerable guilds, becoming a hub in the northeast.

WIP

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Jersey Shore is a stereotypical take on the Italian identity in Jersey, but yeah, I would say Italians and Hispanics have at this point probably had the most impact on the culture. The rest is just an "American white" mix, as you said. I lived there for a little while when I was a kid.

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Maybe something like this. Or maybe I'll cut Worcester out or something.

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But.. I was told confronting racists on the streets would only embolden them... how could this be? Shouldn't there be millions of nazis marching in the streets right now? I cannot believe putting nazis down actually worked, no.. this is impossible.

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How long until you delete or edit that post like you do every other time you insult someone here or at the Discord to avoid bans? You have the courage to call someone a shit-flinging monkey and insult their intelligence, but it fades away within minutes and you take it all back because you're afraid of the consequences. Notice how I didn't insult you once, just pointed out an inconsistency and the humor I found in it and in the sources you provided, but I guess being called out really gets to you, huh? Mr. NOBODY-WANTS-TO-BE-CIVIL-IN-THE-POLITICS-THREAD-REEE is suddenly a-okay with insulting people.

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I absolutely love how you unironically linked to conservapedia and newcriterion. Then you complain when people call out your sources as being extremely biased and/or opinion pieces by conservative writers. I mean, really dude, you're setting yourself up and destroying your own credibility when you do this shit, it's funny. It's also very telling that the conservapedia page is like 70% devoted to controversies, lmao. Totes a legit source. And didn't you criticize me when I linked to a wikipedia article defining social democracy? H I L A R I O U S. Wikipedia = bad and easily manipulated, conservapedia = totes legit and trustworthy. Get real.

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I am such a fact-based, unfeeling person that the sight of a burning piece of cloth sends me into a frenzy.