The Republic of Texas

by on June 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The soldiers manning McAlester Army Ammunition Base were extremely unhappy with how the new President came to power and the obvious fraud he used to hold onto it. They were even unhappier when he used federal forces to attempt to arrest the former President for trial in the District of Columbia. And when that failed to work, he formally activated the Insurrection Act and declared the entire State of Texas in “rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.” McAlester is in Oklahoma, which was not part of the Republic of Texas at the time, and so nothing the President was doing at the time was pointed primarily at them. They simply followed the chain of command and hoped matters would improve. But then he ordered them to release their MOABs for use against the capital district of Austin. The use of those weapons on downtown Austin may have killed everyone capable of standing against the new President. Or it could have started a true Second Civil War. We will never know, because McAlester did not release them. We will probably never know how many lives they saved in that single act of defiance.

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The Republic of Texas

by on June 9, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The McAlester Army Ammunition Base in McAlester, Oklahoma was the largest base of its type when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. It had built, stored, decommissioned, refurbished, disposed of, or otherwise dealt with heavy conventional ordinance ranging from 20mm shells to the Massive Ordinance Air Blast (also known as the Mother Of All Bombs) for over a century. They researched new weapons, trained people on existing weapons, and were generally one of the greatest practitioners of conventional destructive methods in the Western Hemisphere. McAlester was not the only base of its type, but it was certainly the single most important of its time. It is therefore not possible to overestimate how much the United States Army depended on McAlester to perform their primary mission of defending the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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The Town Watchmen

by on June 8, 2020 at 12:01 am
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I never really realized I would ever have to explain this. But here it is… as short and quick as possible.

Constables, watchmen, or police have been around for thousands of years. Their job has generally been to support law and order in whatever town they work for. They protect all the citizens of the town.

In those towns that didn’t have them, rich people tended to hire private security of some kind using our modern parlance. Their job was to protect those who paid them and no one else.

If your town decides to get rid of the police, then there will be nobody to protect the common citizens of the town. While the rich people will hire private security and everything will be fine for them.

Hint. You don’t want to be one of the common citizens in this situation.

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The Republic of Texas

by on June 7, 2020 at 12:01 am
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Luke Spacebase became a central part of the United States Space Force’s return to space in the latter half of the Twenty First Century, and earned its now-official nickname during the first flight of an experimental space fighter. One of its operators asked for a report when communications were reestablished after boost stage. He transmitted as “Skywalker Base” and the pilot quickly responded, “Red Five, standing by.” Star Wars fans around the world celebrated the fact that they had beaten Star Trek to space when the exchange was inevitably leaked onto the networks. They were not entirely accurate on that point, but it was still considered a public relations win, and Luke Spacebase leadership chose to embrace the unplanned, by them, nickname. Though only after a grilling after-action counseling session with the operator and pilot in question about using unauthorized identification codes during high-profile missions.

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The Republic of Texas

by on June 6, 2020 at 12:01 am
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Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases remained loyal to the American federal government during the worst parts of the Second Great Depression. Even if they could not follow the orders of the American President. The Convention of States would change that of course, and they eagerly swore to follow the new federal government formed by that convention. They were in fact the source of many of the reinforcements America eventually sent to Australia to help them stop the Chinese advance through Indonesia. Their B-52s and F-35s proved instrumental in that mission until the unofficial ceasefire ended that conflict, and then joined the final joint campaign of the Cybernetic Wars that pitted the combined resources of every major government against the Singapore Collective. The B-52s proved invaluable in that campaign due to their near-immunity from cybernetic attacks. Extreme age had its advantages for them. They returned home to heroes’ welcomes soon thereafter and both Barksdale and Luke became core components of the United States Space Force as America once again clawed itself into space.

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