The Virginia General Assembly existed over a century before there was even an America as we know it today. The British Crown established it as part of the original Virginia Colony, and it continued to meet throughout Colonial times, the early Republic era, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and on into the World Wars and Cold Wars of the following centuries. It shattered the day after American nuclear missiles flew into Virginia. Some Assemblymen supported the nuclear attack and bemoaned the fact that it failed to cleanse Virginia of the deplorable traitors standing amongst them. Most were appalled by the attack though, and the Assembly shattered under the force of their fiery denouncements. Assembly leadership declared an emergency session, evicted the protesting Assemblymen from the chambers, and ordered their arrest on charges of treason.