In the mid 21st century, the United States government is in shambles. Rampant corruption and divisiveness has resulted in little progress being made and poor management of general operations of the country, and as a result the populace and economy has suffered. A small group of government officials, over time, have built a large but secretive following and begin the undercover process of dissolving the US government operations and constitution. Over time, the group gains massive authority and power over the country, and they instate a group of shadowy individuals as oligarchs. They call themselves the Supreme State Authority. During the early years of their rule, they began to dump massive amounts of money and resources into building the military, while also investing heavy research into military vehicles, aircraft, drones, artillery, firearms, and exosuits. In order to reduce consumption of resources by the general populace, they utilized labor camps and citizens deemed to be “unproductive” were arrested under fabricated charges and put to work in the labor camps. Those incarcerated, particularly in prisons, were often neglected or overworked in order to get them to expire faster. Incarcerated individuals, either in prisons or labor camps, with excellent cognitive or physical abilities were chosen to be shipped off to laboratories to have experiments and tests performed on them. Soon enough, rebel groups started popping up around the country. Mojave was no exception. Citizens in the town of Frontier began to target Mojave Authority troops and assets in the town and the surrounding area. Eventually, these citizens organized into individual rebel militias, which became known as the Frontier Militias. Then the South Fork Train Bombing happened. Soon after the South Fork Train Bombing, the Mojave Authority dug deeper with their limited resources and finally uncovered the true extent of the Frontier Militias. They had suspected that the small skirmishes here and there were connected by a common group, but nothing this established or integrated within the culture of their province, and so quickly integrated as well. They had a big problem on their hands. The Mojave Authority wasn’t able to crush the rebel groups since they lacked the resources that other provinces had been granted. So they asked the Supreme State Authority. Constantly. And were denied. Constantly. That, or were appeased with scraps that were used up near instantly, just to keep them quiet for a bit while the SSA dealt with real issues, issues that mattered, instead of nothing skirmishes in a backwater province whose only export was oil. A domestic oil supply was valuable, no doubt, but at a time when even nuclear fission technology was being phased out in favor of better alternatives, and electric vehicles had been commonplace for almost a century already, an economy based on bare minimum exports of cheap oil that nobody needed could only be sustainable for so long. But the Mojave province was stuck in the past, rather, stuck in stasis, in a way, and so they sustained themselves with the oil they drilled. Nothing would change if Mojave was wiped off the map. But that was useful. The SSA had been expressing interest in developing cybernetic technologies, and was scouting a place to build the first and central cybernetic testing facility. The Mojave Authority jumped on this opportunity, with chief officials suggesting that the facility be built a little over 60 miles east of Los Oteros, in a sparsely populated region of the province, in order to bring more federal focus to the province of Mojave and allow the MA more resources and sway in the federal government. The SSA saw this as a strategic move, as isolating such an integral place of military development in such an unsuspecting and sparsely populated area would keep it a secret from the public and from the rest of the world. The planning process began. … need to continue this crap