Kingdom of Northumbria (1983: Doomsday)

Doomsday 1983
The English counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Durham are hit by several nuclear explosions


 * two 20 kiloton bombs on Newcastle
 * one 20 kiloton bomb on Gateshead
 * one 20 Kiloton bomb on Wallsend
 * one 20 Kiloton bomb on North Sheilds
 * two 20 Kiloton bombs on Sunderland
 * one 20 Kiloton bomb on Durham

Other tactical nuclear weapons fell on military bases in and around the area:


 * RAF Bulmer.
 * RAF Ouston- shared with Army

Aftermath
Although the outright death toll was well over 1 million, with the majority of the nuclear explosions taking place in the Tyne and Wear valleys the radioactive fallout from the blasts to the majority of the area is greatly reduced.

Contact with the rest of the UK was lost immediatly, however within one month contact had been made with areas running from Berwick Upon Tweed in the north to the outskirts of the Tyne Valley and up to the tops of the Pennines.

With the collapse of the UK government the 10th Earl of Northumberland, Hugh Algernon Percy, in his capacity as the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, began to organise a basic police force to regain order.

The Earl of Northumberland's main residence is at Alnwick Castle. However due to his exposure to the radioactive fallout he dies due to lung cancer 11th October 1988 he was succeded by his son Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy.

Kings of Northumbria
Henry Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland renamed himself Henry I, King of Northumbria in 1993, upon this announcement he declared the former counties of Northumberland and also unradiated parts of Tyne and Wear to become the Kingdom of Northumbria, regaining the name for the area that had been used from 654 - 954 AD.

He declared that a parliment would be formed based at Bamburgh Castle on the North Sea coast.

Henry Percy died suddenly in his sleep on 31st October 1995, without advance medical technology it is assumed that he had a stroke. He is succeded by his younger brother Ralph George Algernon Percy who becomes King George I of Northumbria.

In 1979, the then Lord Ralph Percy married Isobel Jane Richard, and with her has had four children:


 * Princess Catherine Sarah Percy (b. 23 June 1982)
 * Crown Prince George Dominic Percy (b. 4 May 1984)
 * Princess Melissa Jane Percy (b. 20 May 1987)
 * Prince Max Ralph Percy (b. 26 May 1990)

Unification of the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland
On the 22nd April 2007 it is announced that Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy is dating the Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland. On the 5th August 2008 it is announced that the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy is engaged to the Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland.

The wedding date is set for 4th November 2009. Prince Max Percy (Crown Prince George's younger brother) will be best man.

This wedding will unite the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland.

Preperations for the royal wedding is well underway, the wedding will take place at Richmond Castle.

Contact
By the late 1990's radio signals coming from Scotland are picked up in the north of the kingdom, these signals are from the Celtic Alliance (1983: Doomsday) and are general music stations as such no direct radio contact is made.

In 2004 a small group of fishing vessels make port in Alnwick, these fishing vessels are from a Kingdom to the south of the nuclear wasteland of the Tyne and Wear valleys known as the Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday) ruled by Queen Anne II oldest child of the former Queen of the UK Elizabeth II (who was King Henry's godmother)

Military
Army

The Northumbrian Royal Army (NRA) is responsible for protecting settlements and raider prevention from the border regions of the former county of Cumbria.

The armed forces consist of:
 * one unit of Housecarls, the most elite unit consisting of 120 men armed with heavy two handed axes and 9mm handguns, tasked with protecing the King, royal family and Members of Parliment.
 * Four units of heavy cavelry on Clydesdale and Shire Horses, armed with 5 foot broadswords
 * Three units of light cavelry, riding smaller former hunting horses armed with short swords.
 * Six units of archers, armed with crossbows and longbows, with 9mm sidearms and small knifes
 * One unit of artillery.

Navy

The Northumbrian Royal Navy (NRN) is limited to small inshore boats and converted trawlers

Airforce

The Northumbrian Royal Airforce (NRAF) is very small consisting of several small Cesna airplanes and one Sea King air rescue helicopter (formally based at RAF Boulmer however was on a sea rescue mission at the point of DD) flights are limited due to lack of fuel.

battles

the seige of carisle castle

a scout partrole from the NRA came across a sttlement of survivers liveing inside carlsise castle cowering in fear of a roge milltary unit know only as the reavers

reneforcements of 2 units heavy cavlery 1 unit of light cavelry and 3 units of archers arrived the following morning to perpare for the seige.

two days latter the reavers came to collect there "taxes" they got a shock what followed was 3 month seige only boken by the rest of the army

carlise latter joined the kingdome of northumbia and is an inportant strategic loacation