Californian Revolution of 1981 (Night of the Living Alternate History Map Game)

The Californian Revolution of 1981 was a coup that deposed the democratically elected government of President Arnold Gaitan of Northern Califronia and brought Sgt. Albert Wood to power.

Prelude
A senator in a session of the Council of the Republic boldly exposed a secret operation dubbed "Operation Syringe", from which she herard from a nurse, said that she heard from an injured 21- year old man that he was used by the Civil Emergency and Defence Agency on destroying a gang of blood thirsty killers, the so- called "Blood Bathers". the mission was simple: infect the gang with the Z-virus. He disguised himself as a dead beat gangster, pretending to sell off the syringes full of the virus to the gang members as heroin, which worked. The exposé caused a long and fiery debate. News of the exposé in the council reached the ears of a dissident officer, Sgt. Albert Wood, who believed that President Gaitan is just "risking the sovereignity of the nation". Outraged, he called his comrades to stage coup against Gaitan, branding him a traitor.

International condemnation and dissident crackdown
The operation caused condemnations by surrouding nations, like the United Republic, who took action by sending troops to Del Monte county, to move into action on rebel command. Learning that a coup was likely to happen, Gaitan sent troops to Eureka, where they belived that rebels, under Wood, established a camp. Meanwhile Vice-President Louis Hummerton, who was also chairman of the Liberal Vanguard Party, the strongest party in the National Assembly, denounced Wood and his comrades (who later establishes the Free Officers Union for Disease Control and Clean Government, or FOUDCCG) and branded them as leftists.