Second American Civil War

A collage of images of the war (from left to right): A CPA Humvee drives through the suburbs of Oregon as paratroopers are dropped from planes, 2026, a CPA helicopter attacks rebel positions on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, 2028, rebel forces in Philadelphia ambush a CPA patrol, 2029, a rebel drives through the chaotic streets of Los Angeles, California, 2027, Washington DC in flames after the recapture of the White House from rebel forces by the CPA 2029

## Overview

### Outcome

Loyalist Victory:Seceded states reabsorbed into the Union

Harsher laws enacted by the New Republic of Christian America

Surveillance system "PureNet" repaired successfully

## Major Events

### Battles and incidents

Midwestern Campaign:Battle of Chicago

Battle of St. Louis

Battle of Lincoln

Western Campaign:

Operation Holy Sword

Operation Purity

Battle of Los Angeles

Battle of San Francisco

Eastern Campaign:

Ronda Moore's Crusade

## Commanders

### Allied Commanders

Elwood K. HallAnthony E. Davis

Daniel A. Sanchez

David T. Wright

### Opposition commanders

President Martha J. McDonaldJimmy L. Rodgers

Patricia A. Czech

## Casualties and losses

### Allied Losses

Tens of thousands of militiamen and civilians

### Enemy Losses

Approximately 5.3 million militiamenApproximately 2.9 million soldiers

It goes by many names: the **Glorious Liberation of America** by loyalists of the New Republic of Christian America, the **Second American Revolution**, or the **Second American Civil War**. Regardless of how you spin it, nobody forgets the tragic war that many feared for years would fall on the country. However, nobody expected it to be caused by religion.

## Background

The seeds of war started in 2023, when the True Christians of America (TCA), a radical religious fundamentalist cult, emerged on the scene of American politics. Believing that America's "straying away from God" was the cause of the economic and social woes plaguing the country, the TCA felt that the only way to restore America to greatness was by "putting God back in America". To that end, millions of TCA followers kick-started political campaigns in various government positions. Early 2023 saw a massive increase in TCA members winning offices in various state and local governments.

2024 changed everything; devout TCA follower Alan S. Orner won the Presidency alongside his running mate Beth J. Fox in an election that stunned the world. Under Orner and Fox, the Ultranationalist Republic of America underwent one of the most radical transformations in world history. Within months of the presidency, Orner and Fox introduced a set of religious edicts known as the "Law of God in America", or LGA for short, effectively replacing the US Constitution as the law of the land; this new law mandated that Christianity was to be America's state religion, denouncing the First Amendment of the US Constitution as a "blasphemous mistake" and a "Satanic invention" and that the Founding Fathers were "traitors to the Lord Jesus Christ all along" or "antichrist figures masquerading as sheep." Rather controversially, the law also criminalized any LGBTQ+ lifestyle (which was considered by the law to be "Sexual Deviancy"), pornography, and abortion, with abortion in particular being labeled a form of "terrorism" that was punishable by death. However, the most controversial element was its "Blasphemy Clause", which claimed that anyone who criticized or spoke against Christianity in any way would be guilty of blasphemy and was to be sentenced to death. It also called any attempts to criticize the Law of God in America blasphemy, which was also punishable by death.

Numerous by the various courts to strike down the law as unconstitutional, though bold, ultimately failed, with Alan ordering those who disagreed with the law immediately removed from office and arrested. Following this, a surveillance system known as "PureNet" was instituted, which screened every single website, web image, text message, and social media post for anything deemed "ungodly". If caught, offenders faced either life imprisonment, execution, or "rehabilitation" in "Conversion Camps". What's more, the NRCA ended all its treaties with other countries, leading to many in the international community viewing the NRCA as a rogue state much like North Korea.

Outraged by this suspension of the American Constitution, the Western and Midwestern states seceded from the Union, with the Pacific Northwestern states in particular forming the "Republic of Pacifica" and the Midwestern states forming the "Constitutional Republic of America". The Second American Civil War had begun.

## Course of the war

### Opening shots

It is believed that the New Republic of Christian America fired the first shots of the war; using a kinetic orbital satellite weapon code-named "WRATH", the NRCA bombarded rebel strongholds in the Western, Midwest and Pacific Northwestern states in an attempt to cripple the rebels, following up with a massive land invasion of the rebel states.

### First Battle of Los Angeles

Los Angeles was the first major battle ground of the war, with NRCA and rebel forces alike locked in a bloody battle for control of the city. The CPA brought in unmanned aerial drones to seek out and destroy rebel positions, although some of them were destroyed by the rebels. A group of rebels attempted to evacuate the Los Angeles mayor, but fell victim to an ambush by CPA forces, which led to a brutal massacre that left at least thirty thousand dead, including the mayor himself. Sometime after the mayor's death, Los Angeles was retaken by CPA forces.

### Battle of St. Louis

The next target for the CPA forces was St. Louis, Missouri, a major rebel stronghold. However, the rebels anticipated this and resorted to mining the Mississippi River in an attempt to slow down the advancing loyalist forces. To further protect the city, the rebels set up jamming platforms, which neutralized CPA air support and communications, allowing the rebels to hold the city. The CPA forces commenced their attack on St. Louis in early August of 2023. In the ensuing battle, much of the city was damaged and the rebels were able to successfully hold onto the downtown St. Louis area, as well as Franklin County, Washington, Missouri, Branson, Missouri, and Jefferson City, Missouri.

It was then discovered by a CPA scout that the rebels had set up a primary jamming tower atop the KPLR 11 News building. Despite rebel attempts to defend the jammer, CPA forces were able to break into the abandoned news studio and destroy the jammer, restoring communications and allowing their allies across the city to call in fire support on enemy positions. The remaining rebels were pushed back towards the Mississippi River. However, the rebels had an ace up their sleeve: a US Naval submarine that had been captured by the rebels some time before had orders from rebel commander Elwood Hall to level the city of St. Louis to prevent it from falling to the government loyalists.

CPA forces raced to retake the submarine and abort the missile launch. However, the mission was a massive failure after it was discovered that rebel forces had used a computer virus to remotely control the missiles, and were forced to watch helplessly as rebel forces destroyed downtown St. Louis to kill as many CPA soldiers as possible while the rebels retreated towards Washington, Missouri.

### Battle of San Francisco

Rebels were heavily dug in in the city of San Francisco, with civilian volunteers creating makeshift defenses for media centers and government facilities, believing that the NRCA would attempt to recapture these. Rebel forces also deployed anti-aircraft measures on the Golden Gate Bridge in order to defend from a naval attack. In the weeks before the battle, both the militants and the loyalist forces knew what they were facing. Among the rebels, morale was at an all time low. At one point, resistance fighter Helen Moore even lamented that the war even had to happen in the first place.

At about 4:00 AM Pacific Time, CPA forces attempted a massive land invasion to retake the city from the rebel forces. The rebels found that the CPA had brought in what appeared to be a massive armada. Air units dropped off ground troops at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge and CPA forces were able to capture rebel artillery positions on Alcatraz Island.

In what can only be described as the "Civil War equivalent of D-Day", thousands of CPA and rebel forces alike perished during the battle. Initially, rebel forces were able to wreak havoc on the landing craft utilized by the CPA. However, once the CPA brought in air support, things began to turn in the CPA's favor. The rebels attempted to shoot down the CPA air support, managing to destroy at least fifteen CPA aircraft before being forced to retreat, allowing CPA forces to recapture the bridge. In desperation, rebel forces blew up the bridge in order to prevent it from being used by CPA soldiers to deliver reinforcements into the city. However, it was too late; those that already made it into the city proper began a massive killing spree across the city, slaughtering rebel forces in droves and forcing them to retreat towards San Diego.

To further punish the rebels, CPA forces stunned the world by launching Operation Purity, an aerial bombing campaign against the Castro District in San Francisco, Santa Monica in Los Angeles, California, Venice, Los Angeles, California, Boystown, Chicago, Illinois, Orlando, Florida, and various other US cities with LGBTQ+ friendly neighborhoods, in a bid to "cleanse" the nation of LGBTQ+ "filth", and to make an example out of the rebels. The international community reacted with horror, and outrage, with the European Union, Mexico, United Kingdom, declaring war on the NRCA within a week. Operation Purity alone led to the NRCA becoming a pariah state in the eyes of the international community, as well as the conflict itself escalating into World War III.

### Battle of Seattle

Things weren't looking too well in the state of Seattle either. CPA forces learned from scouts loyal to the NRCA that the rebels had stolen a briefcase containing a telephone that the rebels were using to coordinate strikes against CPA positions in the city. In a joint effort between the CPA and CPA-loyal volunteer militia groups, the loyalist forces broke into a local police station in Seattle and successfully recovered the briefcase, despite sustaining heavy casualties. Using the briefcase's telephone, CPA forces were able to launch a counter-offensive that led to the recapture of Seattle by the loyalists.

### Second Battle of Los Angeles

Weeks after the victory in Seattle, President McDonald planned a meeting with the newly installed NRCA-loyal mayor of Los Angeles to plan out their next move. This moment was also chosen by the rebels to end the war quickly by plotting an assassination attempt on President McDonald. Rather coincidentally, CPA forces planned a counter-offensive to retake Los Angeles from the rebels. The coincidental timing of these events led to the rebels succeeding in destroying President McDonald's transport, but failing to kill McDonald herself. CPA forces were able to successfully evacuate President McDonald and the Los Angeles mayor, as well as the delegates from both parties, to a secure location outside downtown Los Angeles, rendering the assassination mission a failure. About four weeks later, after a long and bloody battle, Los Angeles was successfully retaken by the loyalist forces.

### Battle of New York

In New York, a new rebel movement was brewing, one that would see one of the most bloodiest battles of the war combined. This battle was also unique in that it was caused by a singular event: a cyber-attack against the surveillance system PureNet that led to the network being disabled. However, the perpetrator of the attack, Helen's sister Ronda Moore, was soon caught and arrested by loyalist police officers while attempting to flee the city. She was sentenced to "rehab" and was taken to Governor's Island to be "rehabilitated" but her prison transport was targeted in an ambush by rebel sympathizers led by a mysterious man calling himself "Hercules", who owned a highly advanced armored suit that was built by Apex Corporation, which he had stolen from a loyalist-owned facility with the intention of handing it over to the rebels in order for them to reverse engineer it and gain an edge against the theocratic regime in the war. Hercules took Ronda to an abandoned warehouse near Battery Park, New York City, where he eventually came to the realization that he couldn't stay on the run for long given the fact that he was the subject of a citywide manhunt by the regime.

Deciding that the most important thing was to deliver the suit to the rebels at all costs, Hercules wrote down the address for Grand Central Station, which had recently been converted into a base of operations for the rebel movement in New York City, and told Ronda to bring the suit to the anti-government militia fighters stationed there, before committing suicide to avoid either execution or a life sentence to a local NRCA prison for his actions. Curious about the suit's abilities, Ronda donned the suit, discovering that it granted the wearer near-superhuman abilities. Emboldened by the suit's abilities, Ronda embarked on a one-woman rampage against both loyalist police officers and CPA soldiers, freeing imprisoned resistance fighters along the way to contribute to the resistance movement. At one point, she was captured by loyalist forces but was eventually rescued after a group of rebels destroyed the helicopter that was supposed to transport Ronda to Governor's Island. The rebels then guided Ronda through the streets of NYC under the cover of darkness in a bid to assist her in getting the suit to Grand Central Station.

The rebels succeeded in getting Ronda through a good portion of the city, before falling victim to an ambush by CPA forces on West 36th Street led by an unmanned CPA drone resembling a massive tripod. It was at this point that Ronda discovered that the suit could also hack unmanned drones, which she used to turn the CPA tripod against its footsoldiers that were supporting it and impressing the rebels. This single event made Ronda feared among CPA soldiers and admired among rebel fighters. She then used this drone hacking ability again during an effort launched by the rebels to evacuate rebel sympathizers and their families from New York City and taking them to Canada. Upon reaching Grand Central Station, Ronda turned the suit over to the rebels as directed by Hercules.

The leader of the rebel movement, a man named Elwood Hall, promised to give Ronda one of their reverse engineered copies of the suit as soon as it was completed, before sending her off to be evacuated to Canada along with the other refugees.

Ronda made it to Canada three weeks before a massive CPA counteroffensive that led to New York City being recaptured by the loyalists.