Jack of Harts

The New England Federation fundamentally transformed America in the Twenty First Century. It introduced new, local, secure energy production technologies that revolutionized the power production networks and made them less susceptible to foreign attacks. New fabrication technologies reduced their dependence on foreign shipping. And new pushes to refund smart policing and social support networks made life safe again throughout Federation territory. The security and prosperity they provided proved to be a powerful incentive for their neighbors, and States from Ohio to Minnesota sought membership in the years and decades that followed. The Great Families made the New England Federation an example to the world of how a rational and moral American government could provide for the common good, and prospered because of it.

The Great Families of New England built the New England Federation to fundamentally transform the failed American Experiment into a better society that could bring us into the future. It was a success, though not a total success. They hoped to transform all of America, but large parts of it refused to embrace the future. They followed old ways of thinking and doing and denied themselves the fruits of the greatest society on Earth. The Great Families provided cheap and reliable energy in an era of blackouts. They provided new machines that could fabricate anything in an era of trade disruption. They provided people of all classes everything they needed to live a comfortable life. They provided for the common security and the common good, so all could prosper. They built the New England Federation to provide all of that, and welcomed any who wanted to be part of their new world.

The Great Families of New England weathered the Second Great Depression and the Cybernetic Wars well. Some families did collapse, or were absorbed into others, but that simply meant that they were not great. From necessities like food and fuel, to far more optional luxuries, Great Family corporations had stockpiled enough to survive the fall of civilization in style. Those that survived and thrived did so by sharing their expertise and supplies with the towns and businesses around them. They helped keep the systems that maintained their life style operating, provided jobs for those who wanted them, and paid in far more valuable resources than the American dollar that collapsed during the depths of the economic crisis. The Great Families saved civilization in New England, and helped form the New England Federation that maintained it in the decades and centuries to come.