Continuum - Eastport City-state (Eternity)

## Before Collapse (BC)

### Before National Civil Unrest

* Before the national civil unrest, Baltimore went through second great fire. Eastport City offers to absorb Baltimore and Baltimore County into Eastport City metropolitan area in exchange for financial aid and rebuilding of the city. The mayor accepted the offer. Baltimore County became a borough of Eastport City.
* Shortly before the collapse, the corporations that had been based in Eastport City offers to buy out the municipal debt in exchange for forming a new government council comprised of representatives of corporations and a congressperson that represents the entire population of Eastport City.
	+ Eastport Council:
		- Senate Representative
			* The Senate Representative answers to the council.
		- Public Representative
		- Blackwood Global
		- Orion International

### Civil Unrest

* From what is known from surviving newspaper and internet remnants, there was widespread national civil unrest, coupled with the wars that the United States was involved in overseas had stretched the military thin. Marital Law was enacted to suppress rioting but it was not entirely successful.
* California partitions into North, Central and South California to offset piling state debts.
* Eastport City elects to not respect martial law.

## During Collapse (DC)

### The Day of the Flashes

* United States, weakened by distractions from domestic disturbances, foreign nations took advantage and began to take territories aggressively. Shortly after the first nuclear detonation exploded somewhere in eastern Europe, another detonation in South China Sea had set off multiple launches of nuclear-tipped and conventional ballistic missiles from many nations. From within the United States, several major cities were hit along with primary military targets. In Chesapeake Bay, brand new Victory class was leaving the dock after being equipped with conventional defensive weaponry tracked a ballistic missile (with cluster nuclear-tipped payload) after it released its payload. headed for DC-Philadelphia corridor. The Victory took out the one headed for Baltimore, Eastport City, a nearby Air Force Base but failed to destroy ones that hit DC, New York, and Philadelphia.
* Global detonations of nuclear, conventional devices and fires had sent up dust and smoke that obscured Earth's atmosphere for many months. It had halted the rising global heat.
* EMP bursts had interrupted communication systems, unshielded electronic devices and power.
* United States passes temporary State-First laws which Laws passed in States overrode Federal level.

### The Year of Wasting Winter

* As radioactive contaminants was carried off with dust particulates into the atmosphere, people was dying of radiation.
* Near the end of the year of the nuclear winter, Eastport City had revealed that they had the only experimental radiation treatment plant functioning in the world. Federal government tries to arm-strong Eastport to give up the technology but fails.

### Independent City-state

* Sometimes during the collapse of the old world, Eastport City declared itself independent from the state it was in after the state of Maryland refuses to divert sizable portions of its National Guard inside ECS.
* The Wall is built to suppress countless new refugees from flooding into the ECS and disrupting the lives of its citizens. The slums of Undertow and Northern Wastes begins as migrants, refugees and gangs are kept outside the Wall. Unrestricted urban building begins as the slums struggle to house rising population.

## After Collapse (AC)

* The secret pact was established between the criminal underworld of the Undertow and the Northern Wastes to act as a law outside the Walls of ECS and keep people from attempting to get into the city-state. In exchange, ECS would give them second-hand weapons, ammunition, technologies and surplus food (surplus food is sent into the Undertow in armed caravans, in which the gangs would then acquire without being seen being complicit). Another pact was between ECS and the cult of the Children of the Light situated in the Blue Mountains. The pact was that they keep their religious views outside of the Wall and in exchange, ECS would trade their food for medical supplies.