Green State Crisis (New Albion)

The Green State Crisis was a national crisis in the later part of 1989, which saw the first attempt at a coup by assassination, the rebirth of the Green Army, the death of Prime Minister Alex Chavez, and the end of the Illyria Company.

Bombing of the HMS Green State
In August 1989, the midsize ship HMS Green State exploded and sank off the coast of Oregon. The ship was carrying encoded software from a Seattle dock chartered to the private defence contractor Illyria Company. Although a final investigation was never made, it is suspected that the militant wing of Illyria orchestrated the attack. HMS Green State had been owned by the Green Army from 1945 until 1977.

M17 and the Pascal Code
The Illyria software was a more esoteric copy of a pascal code that allowed packet switching- the code that connected computers to the internet. The software had belonged to a counter-terrorist leader, M17, who had lifted the code from Illyria nearly a year earlier while undercover.

The Soviet Summit
On October 14, 1989, Prime Minister Alex Chavez met with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss increased involvement in a new world governing bloc (later G9) at an opening speech, a secret service vehicle was stolen by an unidentified perpatrator. One agent, Adrian Marlowe, pursued the thief but was knocked unconscious and discovered hours later aboard a barge in St. Francis harbor.