General Information for Play
Overview of the Coalition
Slick speaks in what you have come to know as his story
telling voice. From what can be gathered from what he
says he is a bit of an amatuer historian. He says,
"So a bunch of people got together in an area near Old
Chicago, you know, the ruins... well maybe you don't know
but anyways, trust me it's a place near where we are going
to. So these poeple gathered and they decided that
they would pick an area to set up their village. They
would have went back to Chicago but something did not feel
just right there.
They went about the chores and rigors of building the
village. They erected simple lodges first then went
about building actual houses and such. Soon they
prospered and others joined them. The village grew
into a town, then a city as large towering buildings were
built. The city prospered and grew, and grew.
Soon they made trade agreements with other places
like the small Lone Star city, and others.
Then from these unions came the Coalition. A
coalition of humans, for humans, in a world of monsters and
unknowns. Then the Chi-Town Fortress was built and
became the seat of the Coalition. Karl Prosek headed
up the military part of the Coalition. He drove them
forward, he put a stop to the wanton destruction of human
villages by the beast of the wilds. Thus came the C.S.
troops, the human crusaders against the monsters.
Now today the Coalition's power is the military and Karl
Prosek is the Emperor of the Coalition States: Chi-Town,
Lone Star [in Texas], Iron Heart [Sudbury], the Free State
of Quebec, and Missouri.
<Slick's voice turns hard.> That is the propoganda my
friends. The people of the Coalition gathered together
out of fear. The monsters were terrible, the only way
to survive was to band together and pray for survival in
numbers. Chi-Town rose and fell twice before it
established itself as the city. The military was
always in control, always will be a long as the rifts are
opening.
If you noticed I said humans banded together for humans,
that means only pure humans... no mutants, no D-Bees, no
magic users, they barely tolerate psychics either unless
they are Coalition lackeys or not harmful. If you
aren't human they throw you aside, or kill you. They
let you die at the hands of monsters, they hunt you down!
The saviour of mankind is the scourge of all else!
<More calmly.> Well listen to me eh?
Getting all flustered about a story. The point is that
once we are in Coalition territory do not expect much help,
sympathy, or anything else. Prosek and his son feed the
people lies, tell them that all non-humans are dangerous.
The Prosek's keep them uneducated and feed them their
propoganda over and over until they become cold and heartless
to all non-humans.
Erin Tarn said it best when she wrote, "My feelings are that
the C.S. government under the maniacal rule of self-proclaimed
Emperor Karl Prosek is totally corrupt. The city is a
'den of iniquity.' But they are _the_ human force on
the continent, and the greatest in technology."
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