Jack of Harts

Many people all over America still believe that nuclear missiles flying over America during the Second Great Depression is a myth. Many networks refused to air the footage, declaring it fake news and not worthy of broadcast. The Federal government declared any network that aired the footage to be acting on the behalf of foreign agents and ordered them shut down. But the Virginians never doubted it. They watched the missiles rise up out of the water. They watched the missiles come down. They watched the missiles impact with the ground. They were there when the recovery teams pulled the nuclear warheads out of the impact craters. They do not know why none of the warheads detonated. No public record has ever answered that question. But the missiles clarified the situation to everyone in and around Virginia. And Virginia has never forgotten it.

The fighting over Naval Station Norfolk drew in more and more Federal forces in their attempt to retake the largest military port in the world. Troops from Fort Lee and fighters from Langley moved in to support Norfolk’s defenders, and the Feds ordered the Naval forces based at Norfolk to attack their own base. Norfolk called on their ships to support them as well, and the fighting continued to spread. It raged in the air, on the ground, on the water, and under the water for days. The damage inflicted was substantial, and while the Feds occupied large parts of the base, they could not maintain control of it. And when that became clear, the Federal government unleashed its final solution for traitors. A ballistic missile submarine hiding off the East Coast followed Federal orders and fired a spread of nuclear missiles at Norfolk, Langley, Fort Lee, and Lexington.

Norfolk tried to stay out of the fighting between the Federal government, Richmond, and the rest of Virginia. It tried very hard to not get involved. But the Feds and Richmond were having too many problems keeping enough of a fighting force loyal to them to push through to Lexington and remove the former Vice President from their list of problems. So of course they ordered the Navy to go in to kill Freemon and burn the rest of Lexington to the ground. They assumed the Navy fliers would succeed where the Air Force had failed them. They were wrong. Naval Station Norfolk had no intention of sending their helicopters and fighters out with orders to shoot their fellow Americans. The base commander had in fact gone through channels to inform her superiors of that fact. So when the politicians called her bluff, she revealed that she was not bluffing.