General Information

Official Name: Emergency Military Administration of the Atlantic States

Other Names: State of New York; State of New Jersey; State of Maryland; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Head of State/Government: Military Governor Lieutenant General Henry Aurand

Capital: Allentown (ES103)

Pre-Game History

The years immediately following the Flood were difficult for the states of the Mid-Atlantic. In the span of a year, some of America's oldest and proudest cities--places like Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and even the capital of Washington, D.C.--were swallowed by the sea, taking with them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of property and industrial equipment. Millions of refugees fled inland to avoid the rising seas with little more than what they could carry, straining the meager resources the governments of the Mid-Atlantic states could muster to their limit, while cries for aid from the federal government went unanswered as federal authority fractured. Something had to give.

The turn of the decade saw the states of the Mid-Atlantic splinter under the stress. Throughout the region, a myriad of secessionists and communists that had lurked just beneath the surface reared their ugly heads. In New Jersey and the Hudson River Valley, Jewish separatists rose up against the fragile remains of the state's authority, proclaiming a new "Protectorate of Zion" whose demand for an ever-expanding Jewish homeland. In upstate New York, a collection of "local councils" dedicated to distributing aid emerged as a serious counterweight to state power, ousting State and National Guard troops to create the Technate of Orion. In western Pennsylvania, disillusioned industrial workers, spurred on by the poisonous lies of the Soviets and their agents in the Americas, rose up and brought their godless Bolshevism to America's shores.

These threats, those many, might have been enough for the federal government to handle. a group of British refugees turned their coats on the wartime allies that had housed them in their hour of need and dealt the reeling federal forces a stab in the back from which they could not recover. The supply lines of the federal forces collapsed. By 1954, the forces loyal to the DC government had been reduced to a vanishingly small corner of Pennsylvania. By order of the President in D.C., martial law was declared and habeas corpus was suspended. The remaining area under the authority of the federal government was reorganized into the Emergency Military Administration of the Atlantic States and put under the command of the skilled administrator Major General Henry Aurand.

From their base in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Ulio and the U.S. Armed Forces units subordinated to EMAAS bade their time and waited, building up strength. One by one, the secessionists that had beaten them back there fell to chaos and disorder. The so-called Atlantic Commonwealth and its British exile government collapsed rapidly after the destruction of their fleet and port facilities by the USAF. Meanwhile, the sudden death of Howard Scott, the eccentric multimillionaire cum cult leader threw the "Technate" of Upstate New York into disarray. By 1957, the time was ripe to strike.

The U.S. Armed Forces tore through the remnants of those secessionist states like a hot knife through butter. By the end of the year, the Great Lakes coastline of New York--Buffalo, Rochester, and so on--had been liberated, leaving only the further reaches of Upstate New York outside of federal control. Aurand was swiftly promoted to Lieutenant General for his services, and tasked with transforming the area into a base for future operations to liberate the Eastern Seaboard.

The task that lies ahead of Aurand and his subordinates is a large one. With the "emergency" further from mind, the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland clamor for the return of some level of civilian rule. At the same time, the Second American Civil War still rages on elsewhere in fair Columbia, and all the resources of the Mid-Atlantic must be carefully tended to and marshaled if the government is to have a hope of successfully ending this war. How these challenges will be addressed remains to be seen.