The Commonwealth of Virginia changed forever when the eastern counties helped Washington D.C. arrest the former Vice President and his family. The change could not be reversed after the former Second Lady disappeared and the Lexington Gazette fought all attempts to silence it to get the word out. Lexington, Virginia was soon the center of public protests against those actions. And it was in Lexington that the smoldering conflict between east and west exploded into a conflict none of them could take back. The Federal and Commonwealth governments sent law enforcement officers with orders to silence the protests. They used jammers to cut off network access, and then moved in to arrest the protesters. The protesters did not cooperate, and one of the Feds used lethal force to subdue an elderly couple. The other protesters did not take well to that.