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Goal: Improve the lives of the people in the post-nuclear world. Destroy opposition. Maintain peace.</span></span><br>
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Beginning from the survivors of the Micronesian islands, after the Great War, using equipment and training that were left behind by the US armed forces stationed there. Small numbers of US Army and Marines stationed at the Marianas post-WW2 through to the Sino-American War managed to survive the nuclear fire via military fallout shelters built deep in the local limestone caves. And with the support of the local Vault Dwellers, carried on to rebuild the land lost to nuclear fire and shaped the battered island nations into a growing superpower in the Pacific. </span></span><br>
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Tasked with rebuilding the loosely governed island nations into an impenetrable-yet-small island nation. The US military saw the value of the relative closeness of the Micronesian islands with the Asian continent, so after liberating the small self-sufficient islands from the Japanese in WW2 the American armed forces began to ship gravel, earth, and sand to expand the islands to a sufficient size to field entire armies with the amenities to keep them self-sufficient for an extended period of time. This little island nation would serve as a staging area for the US military if it ever had to come into blows with China and the Communist nations further up to the Northwest.</span></span><br>
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Nowadays this nation controls various islands along the Pacific. The NMC controls the Melanasia, Mriconesia, and Polynesian islands. This feat was in no small part due to the ship building prowess that various local tribes of the NMC. Fuel on the other hand is but a small concern as the Covenant controls up to two Poseidon Oil Rigs located in the Southern and Northern pacific sea.</span></span><br>
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The inhabitants of the military fallout shelters and local vault had emerged from their metal tombs deep within the various limestone caves of Saipan. What they saw at first was, on the island they once called home, the land relatively unaffected by the nuclear fires of the war. It didn't take much thinking to deduce that the Prewar-Chinese military didn't see the Marianas as an immediate threat or they didn't know much about it to put much effort into the attack. Whatever the reason, the island was still habitable with some building still standing within the ruins of the cities and large portions of island still relatively untouched by nuclear fire. However, it wasn't long until before the local Chamorro people from the vault began farming in the greener parts of the island. The military survivors, not too far away, regrouped with the vault dwellers and offered to aid the local Chamorros. The servicemen, within a few short years, were accepted by the Chamorro people and were worthy of calling themselves as part of the Chamorro tribe. </span></span><br>
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As time passed, the Northern Mariana Coalition as they called themselves, were a unified island-state that spanned the entirety of the Northern Mariana Islands. The locals went by living simple lives, farming, fishing, recreational activities, as well as canoe building. The unified Chamorro people from the Southern part of Saipan eventually came into contact with the Carolinian islanders who had called this island their home since they arrived on the island many years ago [2], their claim of the island was disputed between the local Chamorro people but they peacefully resolved their differences with the aid of former USMC Chaplain SGT Vitores. Both tribes became united under one banner. As the years went by, the Chamorros and the Carolinians intermarried and eventually began to call this mixture of both natives 'Chamolinians'. This newly formed tribe of no more than four hundred people began to build homes and plant crops, soon they were sailing to nearby islands to colonize.</span></span><br>
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The Chamolinians from the North and South began exploring islands far away, from Hawaii to New Zealand, the Chamolinians were able to send proas on these expeditions thanks to their unique designs and advancements in shipbuilding. The proas asymmetrical design is one of the key factors that led this unpowered seafaring vessel to traverse the entirety of the pacific ocean with nothing but manpower and wind. The sails for the fleet of expeditionary proas were finely handcrafted by the Chamolinian women from the villages of the Marianas, it was a tradition passed down from mother to daughter. The men however, mostly focused on the construction and designing of the actual proas themselves. They would find the specific wood only native to the tropical region, and cut away until it met their specifications. This art of shipbuilding dates back to the original Chamolinian people nearly two thousand years prior. The tradition of shipbuilding is an ancient one, and so almost no one outside the Marianas know how to build the proas. However, it is not to say that people outside the NMC haven't tried to make their own proas—it's just that all their attempts were met with failure, as seen during the Invasion of Tonga. The art of shipbuilding is a well kept secret in the Marianas, hence the reason for proas being a symbol for oceanic superiority in engineering of the NMC. As the Northern Mariana grew in size and power, spreading across the Pacific Ocean, their sphere of influence also grew. Eventually the Coalition's sphere of influence was solidified with the signing of the Three Regions Treaty. </span></span><br>
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There are many prewar military equipment in the hands of the NMC, mostly due to a fairly large amount of Pacific Islands being used as staging areas in the Sino-American War. The unified Pacific islanders relied on the teachings of the former US military servicemen to teach them how to fight with the skills and finesse of a United States serviceman. The servicemen refined the already war-like islanders' fighting styles and shaped them to become a well trained and disciplined military before they grew too old to serve their new country and eventually pass away. The monuments of the former US service members are located in Garapan, Saipan in the heart of the village. The teachings and discipline passed on from the war veterans were used by the NMC to better aid their understanding and usage of their advanced prewar equipment and weaponry. </span></span><br>
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The NMC owns and controls every military installation within the entire Pacific region. Education that each child receives within the NMC is very similar to that of prewar education, with emphasis on certain oceanic aspects of their curriculum. The knowledge used to educate the population was originally given by the former US military servicemen, nowadays it is adapted with prewar holotapes to offer an even better curriculum. The result is years of refinement to produce an intelligent and disciplined population who are willing to fight and die for their country.</span></span><br>
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The early 22nd century, September 21, 2114, would mark the start of a new age within the Pacific region, for better or for worse. For more than a quarter of a century the Northern Mariana Covenant had expanded and integrate various tribes and islands within Micronesian region, however to the East the islands of Polynesia had done the same and they were a growing superpower in the Pacific with a majority of their resources and weapons being derived from prewar military caches. </span></span><br>
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However, to say that the Polynesian Republic was a strong nation wold be to undersell the magnitude of its creation. For within little more than a decade, the thousands of squabbling, independent island nations were unified and transformed into the greatest oceanic superpower the post-nuclear world had ever known. The Polynesian Republic dwarfed their fledgling neighbor, the NMC, in manpower, natural resources, and economic strength. Three archipelagos marked the triangle-shaped boundaries of the PR, these locations were the Hawaiian islands as the farthest North, Easter Islands as the farthest South East, and New Zealand as the farthest South. This control of the vast expanse of ocean and islands that the Polynesian Republic controlled meant they had a greater number of landmass from which to farm, greater number of prewar military equipment, and even a greater population from which to draw manpower from.</span></span><br>
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The Polynesian Republic was a nation that would rival even that of the New California Republic during the NCR's adolescence. Looking to defuse any tension between the two oceanic countries, the NMC sent their ambassador Anghet Maktus to the capital of the PR. And for a time, there was relative peace between the two nations. </span></span><br>
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For nearly half a century the two nations were at peace, both sides benefitting from each other's presence in the Pacific. Though, this peace was not to last. On June 3rd, 2142, ambassador Maktus was assassinated by anti-NMC revolutionaries. His death marked an end to an alliance, and the start of war. The Polynesian Republic leaders knew of the value the NMC nation held with their location—which was closer to China than the larger PR—and so they incited hatred amongst the populous against the NMC to have their population support a war against the Covenant. The Polynesian Republic strategists believed that they had the manpower to overtake the Covenant and make their way to the Chinese mainland and set up colonies, the first step to declaring war against the fledgling nation would be to kill their ambassador.</span></span><br>
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On July 7th, 2142, the Polynesian Republic dispatched a division of Polynesian Marines to assault and capture the island of Guam, this was met with heavy resistance. The local Chamolinians, with their knowledge of the land, were able to fight a guerrilla war against the overwhelming PR Marines. Thousands booby traps were placed by the Chamolinian local militias alone, this coupled with the combat prowess of the NMC armed forced the PR Marines to retreat and call their Invasion of Guam a disaster after suffering causalities of more than seven thousand Marines—nearly 85% of the original division dispatched to the Marianas. However, hundreds of Chamolinian civilians were killed in the defense and when pushing the PR Marines out of Guam, and nearly two thousand Chamolinian servicemen were killed during the war. </span></span><br>
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In the days that followed the Covenant troops along with aid from the local Mariana islanders were just starting to get their bearings—even though they repelled the first wave of Polynesian Marines, the victory was costly. After scavenging whatever surplus WW2 weapons they could from abandoned military stationed built nearly two hundred years ago, the NMC were able to fight the PR with relative equality. Though, even with more firearms, the PR inflicted heavy blows and due to their sheer numbers were able to slowly chip away at the Covenant. Within the first two weeks of the second assault, nearly seven hundred of Chamolinian servicemen and civilians were killed. But as the war drag on the Covenant were able to adapt to their larger adversary and developed new tactics in response to the overwhelming numbers of the Republic.</span></span><br>
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Again and again the larger and resource rich nation of the Polynesian Republic were repelled by the smaller Northern Mariana Covenant. Each time the PR sent units to invade the NMC they were met with heavy resistance from both the locals and military. What the NMC lacked in numbers they more than made up for it with sheer determination, resourcefulness, and unshakable zeal of the local Mariana servicemen and citizens. The Polynesian strategists deduced that if they were to continue fighting this guerrilla war with the NMC, it would only put further strain on resource production of the PR, ironically the Republic was unequipped to fight a war of attrition. The NMC however, were able to use every ounce of material against the Republic—from tin can grenades to broken rifles, the more the PR lost, the more the NMC gained. Every bit of scrap was used for the war effort against the Republic.</span></span><br>
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This nearly impossible defeat at the hands of the smaller nation forced the Polynesian Republic to call a ceasefire as their strategists thought of new ways to combat the NMC. At the same time, the Northern Mariana Covenant had sent 200 Force Reconnaissance Marines to the Tongan archipelago via Chamolinian proas. The Marines were disguised as tribals and act confused the local Tongans as they mistook the Marines for settlers. Overnight the NMC Marines were able to set up various landing zones across the archipelago for the rest of the expeditionary force and scout the local region for PR military outposts. And it was within two weeks the entire Tongan archipelago was subdued by the 4th Marine Expeditionary Unit, without the use of violence, only force projection. The Tongan locals tried to replicate the Marines' proas but did not possess the skill or technique to perfectly replicate the seafaring craft, all of their attempts to replicate the ships were met with disastrous results.</span></span><br>
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When news of this reached the Polynesian homeland, the public opinion of the war changed drastically. The larger nation had underestimated the smaller nation to the West and they paid a heavy price. Plans for invading the Marianas were cancelled while the politicians in the PR capital were scrambling to repair relations with the NMC as riots were beginning form in the streets as the public opinion of the war with the NMC changed. The Polynesian Republic was eventually forced by its citizens to withdrawal its amphibious forces from the Micronesian islands, and soon completely withdrawal from the war. </span></span><br>
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The Micronesian-Polynesian War lasted for almost twenty years, life in the Pacific seemed to be at peace for a time as the two major nations within the Pacific minded their own business. Citizens of each nation hounded their leaders to push for a unification—the Polynesians believed that unification with the Micronesians was the only way for their nation to survive in the Pacific without starting another war. </span></span><br>
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On February 11, 2163, after twenty one years of guerrilla warfare, the Northern Mariana Covenant and the Polynesian Republic signed the Pacific Unification Treaty which united both nations. On that day the NMC controlled territory in both Micronesia and Polynesia. </span></span><br>
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Though, this Covenant controlled a vast expanse of territory within the Pacific Ocean, little was known of the far Southern islands of New Zealand. On December 16th, 2166, the proas designed by the Chamolinians sailed from the Tonga to New Zealand, this trip took no more than three days to accomplish. This expeditionary force were able to contact the local Kiwis who were civilized but retained many aspects of their ancient traditions. What the Marines saw in the hands of the Kiwis surprised them greatly, since the early days of the Covenant the only weaponry the islanders possessed were World War I and II weapons left over from the mid 1900 when the American forces liberated the Pacific from the Japanese forces. However, what the New Zealanders possessed in their arsenal were a wide array of the more "modern" weapons compared to the Covenant. In time, through trade between the Covenant and the nation of New Zealand, the Kiwis were assimilated into the larger Covenant. Melanesia followed the same pattern as New Zealand, wit little to no resistance as the Melanesians understood their situation and joining the Covenant would only benefit both sides. New Zealand provided the modern weaponry and ship manufacturing capabilities to the NMC while the Melanesian islands provided food for a majority of the Covenant. The Micronesian islands provided the training and high-end education for the rest of the Covenant. </span></span><br>
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In time the Northern Mariana Covenant found its prewar vehicles such as the American made LAV-66 failing to provide effective protection in nearly every aspect. This was mostly due to the vehicle's rounded design, it allowed deflected rounds to be redirected to the more lightly armored parts of the vehicle. Spalling of explosive ordinance fired at the LAV-66 caused infantryman traveling nearby to absorb mass amounts of shrapnel. The LAV-66 was an overall failure with its usage in the combat field, this was evident during the Invasion of Australia. </span></span><br>
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On October 12, 2171, the Northern Mariana Covenant with a force of, at the time, around 75,000 invaded Australia for it's supplies of uranium. The nuclear powered vehicles, housing and appliances were finally reaching the end of their life expectancy, if the NMC were to remain an effective fighting force in the Pacific they were to either find an alternative source of energy or find more uranium. With their uranium supplies dwindling the Covenant were forced to invade the Australian mainland. They arrived with a force never before seen on the outback in nearly two hundred years, IFVs, recovered tanks, even a small fleet of helicopters. All these nuclear powered wonders aided the NMC for the early days of the war, the local raider groups of the Australian outback were able to stage hit and run attacks during this early stage of the war, greatly decreasing the momentum of the initial landing. </span></span><br>
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Artillery emplacements were the first to arrive along with infantry and mechanized divisions in order to offer fire-support and to ensure that the insurgents kept their distance. However, during the night was when the temperature was cooler, NMC servicemen would often let down their guard to relax, this was a major mistake as the Australian insurgents chose this time to strike hard and fast. Covenant troops learned to be vigilant, build up fortifications quickly, and always maintain high surveillance of the areas around the firebases. This war would last for nearly a decade.</span></span><br>
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The LAV-66—which at the time was the only armored troop transport available to the Covenant—were easily destroyed by the L14A1 recoilless rifles utilized by the Australian insurgents. Entire platoons, while riding in the armored personnel carriers, were being wiped out by anti-armor ambushed set up on the roads ahead of the APCs. It became evident that a newer design of armored transport had to be adopted if this war was to continue with minimal loss of life on the Covenant's side. The NMC restarted the old Q-West Boat Building facility and redesign the setup and templates the automated vehicle facility to produce land-based vehicles alongside boats. Within three years of the new armored personnel carrier being contracted, the NZLAV rolled of the production lines. </span></span><br>
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The NZLAV was first deployed to Junkertown, located in Central Australia, on June 29, 2179. It was used to spearhead the assault on the local insurgents' home base. Though this advancement in vehicle design was a great improvement over the older IFV design, it was introduced too late in the war, as two months later the NMC pulled out of Australia due to lack of resources to continue the war. The Invasion of Australia ended on August 4, 2179. </span></span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">Navy- </span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">The Navy is the naval warfare service of the NMC Armed Forces. The NMC Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage. The NMC Navy controls two aircraft carriers with ~80 canoes used for rapid deployment of NMC Marines and Air Force. Its history traces back to ancient Latte Stone period where the ancient Chamorros had, and still do, the fastest fleet of primitive ships in the world. Local tribes specialize in ship building and their designs and skills are unparalleled. These men were born and raised to sail, to fight, to win.</span></span><br>
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Marines- Conduct operations aquatic assault operations via Naval craft. Stationed aboard the Naval ships as well as the docks. Usually tasked with assaulting the beachhead and capturing enemy emplacements and equipment while securing a sizable region of land for future operations. Every Marine is trained to construct rudimentary fortifications from the surrounding environment in order to dig themselves into their positions. The Marine Corps is the Covenant's branch responsible for force projection, amphibious warfare, and a majority of the conflict that takes place within NMC territory. They are the finest infantryman in the NMC Armed Forces, able to be rapidly deployed to any situation in the pacific. The Marine Corps role is primarily amphibious, expeditionary, and aerial warfare. This branch serves as a separate entity from the NMC Navy but uses their mobility for rapid transport. Both branch's missions coincide very frequently. As far as they know, the NMC Marine Corps is the "best damned Corp in the world" as said by GySgt Matua. </span></span><br>
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Air Force- This are the NMC's air-wing. They provide aerial reconnaissance, troop transport, and supply transport. </span></span><br>
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Army- The Army is divided even further into four main categories. Though, none of these branches have been known to use Power Armor, instead the Army's Corp of Engineers break each of the recovered suits down into components for future uses. </span></span><br>
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Green Beret - The most well trained and skilled being Green Beret whom are the NMC's premiere special forces group. Their objectives range from aquatic assault to aerial drops, reconnaissance to infiltration these are the best of the best within the NMC. This branch of the Army is largely secretive with most of their operations.  </span></span><br>
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Airborne Ranger - Second down being the Airborne Rangers who are mostly deployed via airdrop, they are the definition of what it means to be light infantry, but are revered for their combat prowess and ability to adapt to various situations. Rangers often take trophies from battles as memorabilia; certain Rangers take pride in owning a black gas-mask-like helmet to which they claim to have gotten it off a dead combatant further to the East.</span></span><br>
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Artillery - Third is Artillery which are a relatively new section formed from the recovered M777 Howitzers, the origin of how these weapons were acquired by the NMC remains undisclosed. </span></span><br>
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<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Infantry - The main force of the NMC's military are the Infantryman. They are soldiers who volunteer from the various communities within the Pacific to serve the Coalition. The Infantry branch are usually tasked with construction of permanent gun emplacements and fortifications on beaches and land  that the Marines capture ahead of time.</span></span><br>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">M2 TacPad - A tablet-like device very similar in function to the Pip-Boy but its sole purpose is to provide tactical data of the surrounding location gathered from SEBs. This device is essentially a tablet with a live, digital map. This is an improvement over the standard Pip-Boy as it is easier to mass produce for modern militaries. </span></span><br>
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SEB - Skeletal Eye Bot. The NMC takes whatever Eye Bots it can and removes as much of their components as they can, leaving the machine to run on the very bare minimum of hardware it used to have as well as giving the machine a handful of upgrades. SEBS primary purpose is for reconnaissance and acquiring data for JTACs and other field operators, as well as spy drones. The SEB is more compact than the impractical and larger Eye Bot developed by Rob Co.</span></span><br>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">MQ-1 Åcho (Sling) - The Åcho is an unmanned aerial vehicle made from materials and resources at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. This device can deliver an AGM with incredible accuracy. The drone is currently undergoing refinements and updates. Though this device is only a prototype and it is incredibly fuel inefficient with the biofuel, it is a step in the right direction for automated warfare. Various allied scientists have assisted with the improvement of the MQ-1 fuel consumption, at this rate it is estimated that the UAV is to see widespread usage within the next ten years. Materials for the construction of the MQ-1 have been acquired with the development and advancements of composite materials. The current on-board A.I. for the Åcho is based off of the standard American robotics processor made by various robotics companies such as RobCo. The maximum carry weight for the MQ-1 is 3,750lbs.</span></span><br>
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AGM-670 Spear - Is an Air to Ground Missile designed for close air support by the NMC military and its allies. This missile was developed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam by Gera Weapon Systems. It is the most widely produced precision-guided missile in the Pacific region, and is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities. The targeting mechanism for the AGM-670 is manned by a preprogrammed Automatron targeting computer, this is one of the first successful guided missile systems developed post-war. </span></span><br>
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GBU-97 Atupat (stone)- Is a JDAM designed for close air support against very heavily armored targets and structures. This ordinance carries a 2,000lb payload of four. Only one at a time can be be carried by the MQ-1 Åcho along with any other lightweight ordinance.</span></span><br>
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1945- The Northern Mariana Islands serve as an airfield for US forces as they drop the Fat Man and Little Boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Airfields soon abandoned after use. </span></span><br>
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1949- US Government elects a local to govern the people and further bring unification to the scattered villages within the region. This takes three years as the distance of islands along with differences in dialect cause this process to slow. </span></span><br>
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1953- US Government begin to deliver early model nuclear reactors to the islands to help jumpstart modernization of the tribal people. US Armed Forces begin arriving to construct ports, airfields and barracks.</span></span><br>
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1960- Cold War, Americans expand the Islands if Pagan, Tinian, and Rota For storing nuclear missiles and various armaments.</span></span><br>
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1970- American citizens on the islands complain of overpopulation, mass shipments are delivered to expand the beaches and subsequent size of the islands. Urbanization is heavy within the core region of the islands while expansion commences.</span></span><br>
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1979- The United Islands Project is showing much success as Rota and Tinian are connected and the earth in between is solidified. A large military force is building on the newly made super island.</span></span><br>
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1981- Saipan and the surrounding islands are joined together to form the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (name retained due to the need to build even more islands to store nuclear devices as the population centers grow closer to the weapons.</span></span><br>
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2037- A standing civilian population of over 11.2million and a tourist population of about 7.3 million (number of tourists fluctuate as military construction deters tourism). Military population of 200,000 US Armed Forces total (including Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force). Construction begins on "fake" islands to harbor nuclear weapons, military equipment moved to less populated regions of the mini continent. Naval ships docked at Port Taga.</span></span><br>
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2053- Nuclear devices begin stockpiling on the nearly completed man-made islands. Airstrips, ports, and bases begin construction on the artificial islands.</span></span><br>
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2064- Typhoon TÅGA destroys thousands of homes, halt construction of military facilities, and drown small portions of the artificial islands. Efforts to into rebuilding of destroyed structures ramp up along with reconstruction of lost land.</span></span><br>
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2069- Vault-Tec advertises vault to local islanders only, tourists are rejected and military personnel are denied access. Vault capacity is reached.</span></span><br>
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2071- Construction resumes on military installations.</span></span><br>
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2072- Large influx of military reinforcements from the Mainland USA to aid in the Pacific Front against the Chinese. US Forces deploy from the Marianas onto the Chinese soil to reinforce the Eastern front but are delayed by a Chinese fleet. After a long drawn out naval battle USMC forces kick off the assault on Chinese mainland while Alaskan forces arrive to aid in the war effort.</span></span><br>
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2077- Bombs fall on the mainland. Civilians enter the vault along with various military deserters. The Great War begins and ends on the same day.</span></span><br>
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2093- Vault opens early due to food shortages. Population is left to reclaim their irradiated islands.</span></span><br>
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2197- Reaching back to their ancestral history the island inhabitants build hundreds of small boats they nicknamed proas which sail across the ocean at incredible speeds. </span></span><br>
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Vault 67- This Vault would serve as one of the seventeen existing control vaults. Its choice of location is partially due to its proximity to the Chinese mainland and if there were any resources worth recovering, this would make the ideal location for post-war resource collection. This Vault was built upon the island of Saipan due to the island being the capital of the local region.</span></span><br>
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Boomers - Leader of the Boomers </span></span></span><a href="https://www.rpnation.com/profile/28956-skywalkr2003/" class="link link--internal" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rpnation.com%2Fprofile%2F28956-skywalkr2003%2F&amp;hash=2fec27e271d81ed87d0d170c301694c8"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000000">@Skywalkr2003</span></span></span></a> <br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">Most if not all of these aircraft were developed in the 1960's and the Sino-American War didn't kickoff until 2066 [source:fallout.wikia - Sino-American War], so the Aircraft wouldn't be grounded [source:fallout.gamepedia - Helicopter] until midway in the (prewar) 21st century which I predict was ~2050's which was also during the time of the Resource Wars. And the Divergence didn't happen until early 1960's at latest [source:fallout.wikia/gamepedia - Divergence], so these vehicles would at least have been in the prototype stage but that also open another can of worms because the helicopter seen in the Semi-Canon Fallout: Tactics was a UH-1 'Huey' [source:fallout.gamepedia - Helicopter]. And the UH-1 was first flown on October 20th, 1956—but wasn't ordered into full production until March 1960 and the manufacturer Bell Helicopter is located in Fort Worth, Texas, so logically it wouldn't make sense for a prototype 'Huey' to be all the way up North in the Midwest. Also there are (probably) Pacific oil rigs, at least from what my research has shown me, so there should be at least some gallons of oil lying around on the rigs. Because </span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000"><i>fuel concerns </i></span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">led the aircraft to be grounded, which could be interpreted as "they didn't have enough conventional fuel (i.e liquid fuel not Fusion-Power-"Fuel") to supply an </span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000"><b>entire </b></span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: #000000">fleet of aircraft for anything </span></span></div>
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