Jack of Harts

Alabama sent a full squadron of former corporate escort ships to help Australia defend itself from the Chinese advance. Carrying Alabama Marines and helicopters, they acted as fleet escort and search and rescue auxiliaries throughout the campaign to halt the Chinese advance in Indonesia. They performed the same mission for the combined fleet that sailed to Singapore, and their Marines took part in the final offensive that eradicated the last Rogue AI nest. They came home to a heroes’ welcome and were quickly reassigned to act as training cadre throughout the growing Alabama State Navy. Some would even go to space, and later to Mars as part of Governor Amanda Carter’s security team. They would represent Alabama to the world for decades to come, and helped build the space navy that took them to the stars. Sporting various corporate logos of course.

The Port of Mobile became the economic genie that pulled Alabama out of the Second Great Depression. It was successful in doing so because it maintained its own security, both on land and on the open water. Its early waterborne security was primarily composed of armed tugboats, but their yard facilities refurbished, converted, or built numerous other armed escort and security craft during and after the emergency. Most of their craft were only good for the Gulf of Mexico, but they built true ocean-going escort craft in time. They never built warships, you understand. Only nations need warships. The corporations of Mobile built armed escorts to protect Alabama-flagged shipping and other port facilities throughout the Americas and all over the world in time. Never warships.