History of the Commonwealth of Susquehanna (1983: Doomsday)

This is a detailed history of the Commonwealth of Susquehanna.

Post Doomsday
The only targets near the Commonwealth of Susquehanna were Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and the Bethlahem Steel Mills.

Since there was not much time between the emergency and the actual attacks, barely any refugees made it to Susquehanna. The few that did were given housing, and jobs.

Bloomsburg, Danville, and Berwick dealt with fleeing citizens, cutting the population by over half. The remaining people raided grocery stores, and convenience stores. Local police as well as Bloomsburg University security and National Guard units set up perimeters around several grocery stores as well as the courthouse, hospital, and municipal building.

The streets were packed with panicking citizens, and mobbed the places that the government had set up to defend. Once the power went out people begain to become more violent. The original groups of people attempting to get food and water turned into mobs armed with rifles and homemade explosives.

Many of the National Guard units were made up of ROTC and JROTC students hastily given assault rifles and gear. Nobody knows who fired the first shots, but Danville and Berwick devolved into violence. Bloomsburg was able to prevent looting by quickly spreading food distribution points around the town, splitting people up into smaller groups, and a mutual unspoken decision to work with each other.

In Berwick, after a police officer was shot, the police opened fire with pistols and shotguns, and the crowed returned fire with an assortment of firearms and Molotov cocktails. The National Guard opened fire on the crowed after the first volley. Soon the crowds fled, leaving 10 dead and 23 wounded, as well as two wounded police officers and one wounded National Guard soldier.

Danville lacked a National Guard unit, so the police were quickly overrun, and soon the town council and mayor was dead, and a large fire burned down the second and third ward of the town.