Civil War (RIP Lil Eli)


 * Eventually turning to the national government to grant rights to women living in the south, these efforts were met with largely symbolic gestures without any real force. The national government itself is largely symbolic, wielding little real force over its mostly autonomous territories such as the African American territory and Native American territory.
 * Realizing no effectual action would be coming from the national government, individual militias throughout the north initiated spats along the border between groups for or against women’s rights.
 * After a particularly damaging attack on a Southern Territory textile mill by militia members from Cincinnati, OH, the Southern Territory wages war on Ohio, infamously marching from the Ohio River up to the Cincinnati Music Hall, leaving a trail of complete destruction in their wake.
 * As members of an alliance, the rest of the northern states declare war on the Southern Territory.
 * Each side has advantages over the other: the north has a substantially larger fighting force due to their inclusion of willing and able women in their ranks. The Southern Territory, however, heavily out-produces their enemies due to the factories staffed by women motivated to defend their families and way of life.
 * As battles rage on, northern states see heavily losses, including large numbers of women that have only recently been empowered themselves.
 * Fighting against an army of men from the Southern Territory that have a population of women fully supporting them makes northern forces question what they are fighting for. The prospect of losing further life to liberate a population that shows no desire to be liberated starts to weigh on the hearts and minds of those commanding the northern army.
 * Those fighting for the Southern Territory, however, know exactly what they are fighting for. The idea of losing the way of life they hold so dearly, the only thing that they have left after freeing the slaves and suffering an economic depression, spurs them on to fight with vigor and tenacity unlike any other fighting force in the world.
 * After a summer of devastating battles side and with winter quickly approaching, the northern states propose a cease-fire to which the Southern Territory agrees under very specific terms, the most exacting of which necessitates the dissolution of the national government of the United States, leaving only the individual states to fend for themselves.
 * Agreeing to the terms of cease-fire laid out by the Southern Territory, fighting stops. Borders remain largely the same between the north and south, women in the south remain blissfully subjugated, and the north’s population is devastated.