The jacksons

> The Jacksons are based on Dying Light's The Tower, as a faction, with many similair character names and attributes. The Jackson's flag is based on Jackson, Mississippi's flag, to view it click here.[1]
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## History

### Notable members

**Rahim Al-Mansouri*** Kiarra Aldemir
* Marcus Diaz
* Keylan Kraan
* Terrance Philips
* Alex Thomas

## Goals and beliefs

### Objectives

Surviving the apocalypse, Helping lost survivors

## Relationships

### Enemies

Starkville

**The Jacksons** are a communist survivalist faction ruled by Rahim Al-Mansouri, who was chosen by voting, who the jackson community assembled post the capitol raid. The tower is not determined by good and evil, as it depends from who's view it's from.

## History

### 1821

Named for Andrew Jackson, the city had been established in 1821 as the seat of state government, the site chosen because of the merging of several transportation routes, most notably the Pearl River and the Natchez Trace. Jackson quickly became the center of the political, economic, and social activity in Mississippi.

#### 1860

By 1860, Jackson had a population of 3,191 citizens, but that figure dramatically increased with the coming of war. Soldiers came and went through the city, and Confederate and state manufacturing and supply depots, using the increasingly important railroads that met there, brought in much more traffic and activity. Soon, Jackson saw a great deal of war industry, including textile, weapons, and ammunition factories and arsenals.

#### 1862

Once Mississippi seceded from the Union on January 9, 1861, Jackson became a seat of war. Governor Pettus quickly began to acquire arms and supplies for the large number of volunteers coming into the state army. The legislature was busy as well, holding numerous regular and special sessions in order to deal with arming the state and paying for the war. Pettus and the other government officials worked in safety during the first two years of the war. Fighting took place both far north and far south of Jackson and central Mississippi, although by mid-1862 the Federals had begun to make incursions into the state. They had taken Corinth in May 1862, and in the summer the Union navy had appeared before Vicksburg on the Mississippi River. By late 1862, Jackson was in greater danger as Federal generals William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant moved forward. Those thrusts were blocked, however, and the governor and legislature continued their work in peace. In December 1862, Confederate president Jefferson Davis even paid a visit, speaking to an increasingly concerned legislature and population, both worried about more approaching Federal troops. Just because the war was not yet being fought in the vicinity of Jackson did not mean the effects were not felt there, however. Situated on major river and rail lines, Jackson saw its share of wounded and sick soldiers sent home from the battle fronts. Likewise, the economic devastation caused by the war in general and the Union naval blockade in particular began to have a major effect on Jacksonians. Prices steadily rose as goods became scarcer; at times, a pair of boots cost $125, sugar was $3.50 a pound, tea sold for $7 a pound, and watermelons fetched up to $25 each. A cash-strapped legislature could do little but offer almost worthless treasury notes for the people to use as currency. And then there was actual devastation, such as when an ammunition factory in the city blew up in November 1862, killing around forty workers, mostly women and children. One Mississippi newspaper reported on the devastation, saying the “two-story brick building used as a laboratory was blown to the smallest atoms.” It also described the mangled bodies, including “a poor girl [who] was hanging by one foot to the limb of a tree; she was evidently dead, but her clothes were still burning.” And the Federal troops had not even arrived.

#### 1863

War comes to jackson.

After leaving in May 1863, the Federals returned to Jackson in July to finish their destruction and to make sure no gathering Confederates threatened their now-captured prize at Vicksburg. Thus, the city came under Federal control for the second time in the war. Sherman and other generals gathered at the Governor’s Mansion, where, Sherman remembered, they had a “beautiful supper and union of the generals of this army.” But that was not the end of Federal control. After withdrawing once more into their occupied cities along the river, the Federals made several raids that retook Jackson periodically. One was the famous Meridian Campaign, during which Sherman marched a large army through and recaptured the city for a third time, prompting him to write his wife, “A new burning has been inflicted on this afflicted town.”

#### 1864

Then, in July 1864, smaller Federal forces that included a Black cavalry regiment of formerly enslaved people returned on another raid, mainly to destroy a railroad bridge the Confederates had rebuilt across the Pearl River. Confederate resistance to the re-occupations was minimal, mostly cavalry trying to harass the enemy.

#### 1865

Union troops captured the city for the fifth time in May 1865. It was that final capture that put Mississippi and its government out of the war for good. The fighting in the western theater did not end until after the eastern surrender at Appomattox in April 1865. Thus, Jackson was occupied by Federal troops just as the state governor and legislature returned to the city. Governor Clark called the legislature together to facilitate the state’s re-entrance into the United States. Federal commanders were in no mood to let a hostile government operate in the city, however, and they captured the governor and the state archives while sending the legislature home under the threat of arrest. One observer noted that the legislators “did not stop to give him a vote of thanks, or even to adjourn , or wait for a benediction, or farewell remarks from the presiding officers; but in an astonishingly short time they got a move on them, and in the direction of the highways leading out of Jackson.”

### Pos-Apocalypse

#### 2013

In may 2013, in a 3 day event the survivors called "The 3 day fall", on the 3rd day, on May 10th, the jackson capitol building was raided by it's citizens, and the state capitol was filled with bodies, dust and dirt. Afterwards, the people of jackson began rebuilding the tower.

##### August

In august 2013, the jackson tower was finally ready to be used safely, and become a faction. So the people of Jackson hosted a vote, since they were still in america. And a lebenese man named Rahim Al-Mansouri was voted, and he became the leader of the tower. Rahim realized that if the EDRU base in Louisville, Mississippi would become aware of the tower, it would view them as a threat, and try to bring it down, so Rahim went to the tower himself, and made peace with the EDRU, and became good friends with it's leader.

##### December

2 british men arrive outside the gates, Kiarra Aldemir, the base's vice leader, lets them in. She lets them stay there for the night. The next day, the 2 meet Rahim, and are commissioned by him to go set up some trap lights. Then, they walk out of the building and meet Marcus, who had a weapon van inside the gates. They take some guns from him, and leave to complete the mission. After completing it, Alex decides he wants to leave the place, and Terrance convinces him to stay. On the 17th of december, Rahim commissions Terrance and Alex for a mission they weren't expecting, and were not ready at all. He commissions them to bomb multiple buildings inside Starkville, MS, and come back as fast as they can, past midnight. Sadly, Terrance and Alex fail to do so, and are imprisoned in the Starkville jail. However, the next day, Keisha Davis releases the 2, and they escape back to Jackson. When coming back, for punishment, Rahim forces Terrance to cut Alex's hand, Terrance refuses and 2 brits fight him and run away.

At sunset, the jacksons send KIarra to try and trade for Alex and Terrance but Samuel refuses to and tells her that they have already run away.

3 Days later, Samuel invites the Jacksons to make a peace offering, this peace offering was actually a distraction, as while Samuel and Kiarra were discussing peace, Don was on his way to terminate the tower. Fortunately, Starkville fails and retreats.

9 Days later, Starkville came prepared. At night, many men from starkville gathered into cars, the streets of Starkville were rumbling. They arrive in Jackson about an hour later, and the war began. Starkville and Jackson were having an all out war, Starkville killed almost every Jackson soldier, and citizen. Due to Kiarra's fatal condition post peace offering, she was sent away alongside Dr. Harris, Marcus was killed on place by Samuel trying to get the tower to retreats, and Rahim fled the place. This marked the end of the jacksons, and the tower. As it was too destroyed after the war, and Rahim went to the EDRU instead.

## Geography

### Size

* **P** = 886.89 m
* **S** = 49,058.23 m²

## Membrs

### In-command

* Rahim Al-Mansouri (Jackson leader)
	+ Kiarra Aldemir (Vice leader)

### Workers

* Marcus Diaz (Weapon man)
* The Brits
* Jin (Soldier)
* Keylan Kraan (Soldier)
* Dr. Harris (Doctor)