Confederate States of Appalachia

One of the flags of the C.S.A.

**The Confederate States of Appalachia**, otherwise known as the **Confederacy**, or simply the C.S.A. was a Fallout 76 Player Faction and the predecessor to the Free States.

## Background

### Formative Period

The Confederacy was started by Breakfast Break with Cranberry Coyote becoming the first official member and co-founder of the group. Though the Confederacy was based upon the real-world equivocal Confederate States, many elements of racism and slavery were barred from the organization. The confederacy utilized the Civil War Confederate uniform and often limited their combat to civil war era weaponry in order to limit their effectiveness and encourage cooperation between members.

The confederacy quickly grew to become one of the most prevalent player faction. This grew the attention of the West Virginia Republic. The two factions co-opted a United Nations of Factions, regulating trade and cooperation between many of the largest player factions, with both the WVR and the CSA rising to the spot of dominance in the alliance. Disagreements between the two factions began soon after, mainly pertaining to the regulation of smaller factions and the seeming front of the organization to absorb powers from smaller factions and incorporate them into the WVR. In response, the Confederacy and many aligned factions rescinded their membership from the organization. This is seen as the start of the Appalachian Cold War.

### Confederation Period

During the course of the Cold War, the Confederacy made massive expansions, incorporating many smaller factions into the sphere of influence of the Confederacy. The group moved from being one homogenous unit to dividing up between numerous smaller incorporated factions of interest with a standing general army to be shared between them. This is the period of time where the Confederacy is know to be true to its name.

Furthermore, this is the time period in which the Confederacy attempted to spread into other games as well, creating the short-lived “Confederate Gaming Network” and attempting to branch out into other online games such as Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online.

### Unit Period

The confederate influence began to dwindle, however, as Fallout activity dropped and many smaller factions closed up shop due to lack of activity. Moreover, many of the vassals of the Confederacy saw a growth in despotism of their leaders, leading to a few cases of secession from the Confederation. Due to this, the Confederacy made massive pushes to centralize the involvement of their sub factions, forcing those left to incorporate directly with the Confederacy.

The centralization led to the creation of units underneath the Confederacy, with each unit given a distinct playstyle or faction to model themselves off of. This system lasted for awhile, until only a handful of the original units remained active. This problem was exasperated after the Confederacy lost their position on the faction advertisement board after the r/Fallout76Factions Coup by the West Virginia Republic.

### Reenactment Period & Decline

Following the coup, the Confederacy was barred from recruitment on the subreddit past a very limited amount of posts per week, and often had the comments section flooded by West Virginia Republicans seeking to disenfranchise the Confederacy. As a result, the Confederacy reformed to become a Civil War reenactment faction, organizing PvP battles in Pricketts Fort using only black powder weaponry between a Union force and a Confederate force. These battles oftentimes saw decent attendance from members and fans alike.

The Confederacy continued to dwindle in activity until news was released about an impending Free States Bundle in the Fallout 76 Atomic Shop. When News broke of the bundle, the leadership of the Confederacy made an executive decision to reform the Confederacy into the Free States of Appalachia in an attempt to profit off of the popularity of the Free States bundle and become the chief Free States player faction.

## Members

* Breakfast Break
* Cranberry Coyote
* Cheems
* Gray Menace