The Disbanding of the American Southwest

In 1975, a joint packed was signed by six factions to gain land on American soil, some for economic gain, some for religious, and some for political reasons. The beligerants of tje attack were the secretive Chicago based crime family know as the Bartoli's, The Irish Republican Army, The army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the Russian Mafia, the Hidori Yakuza, and the Medellin Cartel. They called themselves the Great Colalition. The goal was to work together to lead a combined attack on the American Southwest and divide the land.

Strategy and Combat
The attack plan was that the IRA combined with the Medellin would enter through Mexico in a mass head on attack with technicals and a new weapon to combat situations being a, ''air technical. ''Air technicals are formally civilian aircraft such as small cesna planes and civilian helicopters modified for ground attack and anti helicopter fighting, they were inaffective against jets until the Russian mafia was able to provide it's SA-7 anti-air rocket launchers. When the IRA and Cartel reached El Paso, they started commiting acts of terrorism in attempts to cause evacuation. Most of the acts were commited simply by driving down the streets and shooting at civilians with the turrets. As a result, the lives of 2000 civilians, 150 law enforcement and 320 National Guardsmen were taken withing 10 hours. After 14 hours, the president and the CIA gave orders to evacuate the areas of California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and western Texas.

The Bartolis and the Russian Mafia dispatched from chicago in a convoy of bullet proofed vehicles, mostly Land Rovers and Jeeps. Once the Russians and Bartolis reached the combat area, the vehicles were equiped with KORD machine guns, Stinger rockets, and recoiless rifles, provied by the Russians. The command vehicle was a BTR-60 that had been placed in a warehouse in Santa Fe weeks earlier, before then it was a Lincoln Town Car, carrying Don Bartoli of the Bartoli family, and Don Kovelenko of the Russian Mafia. After retrieving the BTR, they commited similar acts to that of the IRA and Cartel.

In the Pacific, the North Korean Navy was sailing towards California with the Yakuza on board. Kim il Sung's orders were to shell San Diego's Naval Base before dropping off forces and to make a permiter around the city and claim it to be Korean territory and to shoot all civilians. They would then proceed to attack LA and deem it Yakuza territory. The orders were followed perfectly and everything was going according to plan until one big problem occured. Over the radio, Admiral Chin Ye Gwang was informed that the U.S had responded and Pyongyang was hit with a Nuclear rocket, but he was still to carry out orders. After his joint Yakuza and North Korean military troops disembarked, the infuriated admiral fired a large barage of ballistic missles at Oakland, killing an estimated 60,000. Two F4 Fantom fighter jets from Camp Maccarran destroyed the fleet with anti-ship missles, however, on return two Yakuza members in the bed of one of the many Datsun Pickup technicals deployed fired two SA-7 rockets, downing the jets. Pilot LT. Marcus Rupert's jet exploaded in mid air, but pilot James Farley's Phantom crashed into a seven story apartment building being searched by a squad of 12 North Korean soliders. As a result the building was heavily damaged but no Koreans were killed by the planes impact. He emerged from his cockpit with his Colt 1911 pistol and began to make his way down to street level, encountering and shooting one North Korean solider on the stair case while the soliders were evacuating the building, after he made it to the street were he was captured by those same troops, interrogated, and then shot in the back of the head.

Meanwhile in Langley, the CIA were trying to determine weather this attack was Soviet backed due to reports of a BTR-60 in Santa Fe, moments later however, and fax arrived from Moscow announcing that this was not and due to the barbaric civilian killing nature of the attack reported by spies and the embassy, the Soviet Union has invaded and defeated North Korea.

After a Korean radio opperator in San Diego heard the news, he spread it to his fellow soliders. Then a voice came on relaying the message that if the solidiers wished, they could join the Yakuza and to report to the helicopter pad on roof of the Kaiser Permenente Medical center, where Don Hidori's MI-25 would be landing, along with fleeing former North Korean airforce Mi-24 helicopters who would land on near by buildings and in the surrounding fields.

As Great Colalition forces moved further into the claimed territory, United States military forces were ordered to retreat to scuttle all bases and equipment that couldn't be shipped. However, camp Maccaran was surronded and only managed to scuttle 25% of equipment. President Ford was allerted of the situation being that the Great Colalition now is in possesion of nuclear arms and many aircraft, also, that 450 service men who were stationed at Maccaran were killed in a mass execution.

Ford was about to give NORAD the launch codes but a message came in from the colalitian, it said that spies from each faction had placed remote detonatable nukes in the cities of New York City (Medellin), Washington DC (Korean), Orlando (IRA), Birmingham, Lansing (Russian), and Boston (Bartolli). Not known to U.S officials at the time, but the nukes were placed in a series of fake funerals, in which the nuclear devices were in the caskets. If the U.S government made any efforts into the Southwest, then they would trigger the bombs. Also from Maccaran, they had aquired equipment capable of detecting nuclear launch.

The Battle of NORAD
With Norad being within the Great Colalitions graspe. Former Korean Special Ops teams and IRA troops loaded into Patton tanks and APCs captured from the take over of area 51, weighing in with a 2000 man army. When they reached Cheynne mountain, they were imeadiatley shot at with recoiless rifles and even came under attack from cobra and huey helicopters. Though the colalition had brought SA-7s, Stingers, and .50 cal turrets, they still lost around 300 men due to air attacks. The colalition also lost 200 men to the 506th Marines guarding the mountain. After all resistance was destroyed, they blew open the front doors with C4 plastic explosive. Once inside. they were confronted by a combined force of the U.S army troops enitially guarding it, and the 51st Green Beret. In the two hour fire fight, 300 more Great Colalition troops were killed, and 250 green beret and security were killed. Anticipating delta troops to be in the central control rooms and offices along with Captain Mike Jameson of the IRA called back to IRA command in San Jose, for IRA special forces to back up the men. Three hours after the call, two black peterlit panel vans arrived at NORAD's norther portal and arived to back up then men, also covering the attack were two Korean Mi-24 attack choppers and two F4-Phantom II jets circled the area in case any ground or air attacks arrived. The Great Colalition forces inside of NORAD went with a different method then strait through door entry, where deltas most definatley had mounted machine guns to spray them down on entry. Instead they brought recoiless rifles into the building and blew away through conrete and rock to reach the control room, once the wall was very thin, they used a pipe bomb to make a hole big enough to dispense tabun gas, mustard gas, and agent orange into the control rooms. The recoiless rifles then fired once more blowing away the thin rock layer, where then the gas mask equiped Great Colalition troops stormed the building and gunned down the surviving Deltas and missle operators. They then stormed the offices which two their surprise contained only marine corp personel, who surrendered and were later imprisioned in a warehouse in San Jose. In the siege, two Pattons were captured along with five M113 APCs and the huey helicopter on which the Deltas arived. Soon after, two more F4-Phantom II jets arive, however not expecting enemy aircraft were not equiped with air to air rockets. The Colalition F4 fired two side winder missles, destroying the two jets. The wrecks were later inspected and were found to be equiped with nuclear bunker busters, most likely in a attempt to scuttle NORAD. In response, Guard towers with Stinger rockets were placed within a 10 mile perimeter of the facility.

Break in government conflict
After the NORAD conflict, the government didnt try anything and 1987 marked the start of the peace period. A DMZ was established to define the occupied area. In this time, the soldiers comenced in the looting of the former homes and businesses of the civilians. These items were either pocketed by troops, or placed on large cargo ships in Santa Cruz, where they would then be distributed to the chains of second hand stores opened by the factions. It was estimated that out of the area over a nine month looting periord, one billion dollars worth of items were removed a day. However a new enemy was being faced. Three new factions wanted in and declared war upon the Great Colalition. The factions were the notorious Taliban, the Navo Militia, who are a group of Navo indians hoping to reclaim land, and a faction known as the Gelber Corperation, who were a German mafia hoping to make claims in the southwest. These factions were also at war with each other and didn't have the team work of the Colalition. Mostly, there was just trouble on the edge of the area and unfortunatley for the colalition, NORAD. However the lands were now divided and new countries were formed. The Cartel formed the Republic of the Aztec People, located in New Mexico and Arizona with Pheonix as the capital. The IRA formed the Great Catholic Republic, located in Northern California with a capital of San Jose. The Yakuza claimed Southern California to be the Hidori Republic. The Bartoli's claimed Nevada and Utah to be New Sicily, with a capital of Los Vegas. Colorado was Russian territory, named New Odessa, capital Denver and the captured portions of Texas.