Jack of Harts

The Great Families who built the New England Federation were firm believers in pursuing social justice and righting the wrongs of the past. They wished the Federation to grow into the future without all of the social baggage of racism, genderism, or the other sins of the past that were still practiced outside their borders. They promised the most basic of human rights, a restitution of everything stolen from the people of all classes and backgrounds. They even went into the major population centers that had been devastated by the social unrest of the Second Great Depression, including Chicago and Detroit, and rebuilt them into the major City-States they are now. As always, it was security and prosperity that they offered, and they delivered it everywhere that accepted their vision of the future. To Make America Better.

The Great Families created their new world order in their holdings on the East Coast of America. The governments of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts signed up to become Day One Federation Member States, and every State from Maryland to Maine followed their lead within months. The New England Federation was the single most powerful American alliance when Texas called a State Convention to convene on the matter of the failing Federal government. They helped hold the line on many of Texas’ more crazy proposals, and made certain that the Federation’s principles would survive and thrive following the convention. It is because of those early adopters that the New England Federation thrives to this day.

The Great Families of New England secured their position as modern day folk heroes when they shepherded New England through the collapse and chaos of the Second Great Depression and the Cybernetic Wars. When cities collapsed and governments failed, they provided for those who lived and worked for them. They held the local governments together, and spread their examples throughout New England. They brought together a coalition of the willing, and promised all who worked to protect civilization safety and security from the death and destruction surrounding them. They organized and protected the parts of New England that followed their example, and helped usher in a new age. They built the New England Federation to govern by their example, and in doing so brought New England into a prosperous and secure future that would dominate America for centuries to come.