Central Valley Defense Group

The **Central Valley Defense Group** or **C**

**VDG** is a collection of cities in the Central Valley of California. Following the cloud the population of the initial three cities was 5000 strong. Prior to the release of the cloud the Central Valley was a major hub for troop movement for the NCR due to its location in the fairly expansive California highway system as well as its fairly strategic point along the California river system which leads out to San Francisco and eventually the Pacific.

## Central Valley Defense Group

### Motto

Come hell or high water the valley will remain

### **Expansions**

The valley encompases much of the former Californian Central Valley with footholds in former Solano county and more recently has begun its expansion east and south east.

## Leadership

A Spanish Speaking Mechanic hailing from Turlock, not much is known of her but she knows her enginesResna Napa, a born optimist, also very tiring- 'Max' AllenMalthus, he's seen better days, some still say he's forever watching over StocktonBrian Castor, a former NCR Ranger turned CVDG MarshalJoey Ivy, he's done some things and been through hell, the CVDG will be defendedPenelope Lucius, resident Baroness and rather intriguing human beingMason Pierce, the old man of StocktonTertius Maxentius Allen, a man of the foothills, put simply he'll sooner kill as opposed to talk**Watch Eye Malthus**

Malthus was an MP assigned to Stockton prior to the arrival of the cloud. The cloud's effects would've been more devastating were it not for the intervention on Malthus and the troopers stationed in the area. In total 5000 people were saved in no small part thanks to the efforts of Malthus.

**Representative Resna Napa**

Resna Napa is a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse and is a worker for the people. She has ambitions of perhaps creating a CVDG in which her fellow members of the Followship could reside and base themselves. Her high ambitions however are creating tensions with the budding factions developing in the new republic, perhaps it will be Allen and his more militaristic approach that wins out in the end.

**Tertius Maxentius Allen**

Born of a Frumentari and Major Tertius's early life is turbulent, his mother the NCR Major ended up escaping the Frumentari father and raised Tertius as well as she could. Aside from that he took part in the assault on the Travis AFB as well as the skirmishes with the Bandidos. He understands war and has perhaps Legion like leanings, ever at odds with Napa he teeters towards conflict but remains at the front wherever the expansion is taking place.

**Penelope Lucius**

The illegitimate daughter to a Brahmin Baron Penelope's childhood was mixed between playing with other servant children and stealing a book to read on the treatise of economics and backstabbing backrooms of the political game. While she lost the election she pulls strings ensuring the CVDG keeps chugging along, she'll get another chance, besides all that needs to happen is keeping the military on her side.

## **The Tracy incident**

**Tracy**

A sizeable group, nearly thirty in total comprising of Troopers and Militia members approached and entered Tracy. The group found survivors numbering roughly 270 holed up in a hospital, they were told that something in the Fog was killing people. Thinking of a quicker escape route militiamen made their way to the roof of the hospital and fired off a flare, the Ghost people soon made their debut. Put simply 200 of the civilians got out and of the thirty, only eight survived to tell the tale. Calls for sealing Tracy have been ringing however as it lays on a vital highway route Napa as of yet refuses to block traffic through Tracy.