Appalachia Reclamation Project

Also known as the Appalachia Resettlement Program, the ARP is an independent group centered around the rebuilding and resettlement of Greater Appalachia. They are believed to have formed some time in 2015, though accounts differ to when, why or how the ARP came to be. The extent of ARP territory, both claimed and actively enforced, has also never been properly identified, but is broadly assumed to be throughout the Appalachian geographic region.
Armor Corps personnel Nathan Red was well-known to have some nebulous, never-clarified position of authority within the ARP, but the means of ARP governance and what form of leadership it actually functioned under are unknown. Conflicting personnel reports from Armor Corps indicate that Red had spent the time between late November 2017 and early September 2018 in solitary quarantine for unknown reasons, and it is similarly uncertain if he was removed from whatever position of authority he held during this absence. ACC would lose track of Red after April 2019, and the man's current status and whether or not he is still leading the ARP are not known.
The ARP "capital" is Yeager Airport, with additional large settlements in Wheeling and Morgantown. The ARP is believed to have also been in the process of establishing bases in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Tommy's Engineers appear to have supplied most if not all economic infrastructure in ARP territory, as they attempted to do in similar communities around the world, and as a direct result the ARP is suspected to be one of the largest remaining collection of Kantoku clones remaining.
The ARP's relationship with its neighbors is a fairly short history, as the ARP went unknown and unnoticed by either the United States or the American Coalition for years. The ARP's official policy has been to remain neutral between these two parties and avoid international affairs. The ARP viewed the AmC as a potential ally, but considered their expansionist behavior as being not only a potential threat to themselves, but to similar groups like them. Of the USA, the ARP considered it to be a failed state not worth investing in. Unfortunately for the ARP, neither the AmC nor the USA recognize the ARP as a country. Both consider the ARP to be nothing more than inbred hillfolk hiding in the forests and squatting on territory rightfully belonging to both nations.
Since the ARP's discovery, the AmC's foreign policy has been a frigid one, viewing the ARP as being no different than the hundred other micronations it has had to battle to establish order over the continent. The only reason the ARP was not immediately slated for conquest was due to the readily apparent support the ARP was receiving from the Armor Corps Coalition. The fact that most all armed defenders of the ARP are former Armor Corps, that the ARP heavily solicited Tommy's Engineers for infrastructure and tech development in exchange for working space and test subjects, and that the Green Initiative was actively working for the ARP to remove opposing elements in the region led most in the AmC to see the ARP as, if not simply a personal fiefdom awarded to a friend of ACC's leadership, an ACC outpost in North America in all but name. The Florida government's opinion on the ARP has been and remains to this day unknown, but is likely no more favorable, and the AmC's extreme reluctance to conduct military operations through ARP-claimed territory south of the Ohio River has for better or for worse contributed to Florida's continued isolation.
This looked to change on 15 December 2019, the American Coalition launched an attack on ARP territory, spearheaded by Phoenix Collective mercenaries. AmC strategic observers had determined that the ARP and the ACC were distancing themselves from one another, and lack of fear for ACC retribution meant that this speedbump to the reconquest of the North American East could finally be removed.
The hired pilots succeeded in routing the ARP's defenders, but quickly encountered GI pilots led by Craig Williams that were, much to everyone’s surprise, still active in the area, and as a result the attack was immediately called off. 
A second attack conducted by mercenaries in April 2021 saw the ARP successfully destroyed; its Suit defenders were either routed or killed, and the territory was reclaimed by the AmC.
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