Union of the Commonwealth (Commie Sole-Survivor)

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Supreme leader, Preston Garvey

Preston Save the Union (popular army song)

The **Union of the Commonwealth** is a breakaway republic that declared seccession after the Battle of Fort Independence in support of the Institute. The seccession was orgainised by the leader of the Commonwealth PR army, Preston Garvey, who retreated with loyal soldiers and commanders to Spectacle Island and Warwick Homestead, causing the Commonwealth Civil War. The Union's seccession was promoted by the Institute, whom Preston was a puppet to, but also enemies of the Commonwealth PR, such as the Brotherhood of Steel and Diamond City.

The civil war has caused the largest war in the Commonwealth since the Great War in 2077. The war saw large scale of power amour, notably by the Union (power amour was supplied by the Brotherhood of Steel) against the Commonwealth PR. Water shortages were also witnessed with Warwick - who was the largest supplier of fresh water - being fought over by the two until the settlement surrendered on May 1, 2078. Since the surrender, the Union has been isolated on Spectacle Island, now referred to as 'hell' due to the many artillery launces.

Since formation, the regime of Preston Garvey under his polictical party and ideology of 'One Commonwealth' has since been the most brutal government, even being more brutal to that of the Commonwealth PR and Raiders. Widespread starvation among the army and the execution of commanders who failed their missions has left Preston as the sole leader and commander of the army.

## Background

### Military Coup

On December 26, 2287, after the defeat of the Institute in the Battle for Fort Independence, Father gave the orders for Preston to succeed and cause chaos in the army in order to buy the Institute more time to rebuild their synth forces. The same day, Preston - who was stationed in nearby Abernathy - made a march on the capital of Sanctuary with his most loyal men. Once present in front of the Communist Party grand chamber, he demanded that power be shifted to him and the army to avoid "total destruction" at the hands of the Institute. The Communist Party refused aside from the two representatives from Warwick and Somerville. In response, Preston authorised his men to open fire on all of the Communist Party members, except those who allied with him. Following this, his army barricaded the city, with raiders joining his ranks in an effort to resist any attacks on the city.

On December 27, after hearing the news, the Commonwealth PR leader, Nate Kennedy, gathered 10 of his best men who survived the Battle of Fort Independence and began his march. At 1:00 p.m, he arrived at Hangman's Alley and gathered 15 more men then 20 at Oberland Station. His men stopped for lunch at Graygarden, before arriving at Starlight to gather 40. At 8:00 p.m, Nate and his men came across scouts sent by Preston, only one got away who soon informed Preston. At 8:21, the army came to the river that seperated the city from the mainland, with the bridge being blown up minutes before. Instead of attacking immediatly, they decided to camp for the night. Their presence angered Preston who decided to publicly kill the sole scout that survive and from them into the river. At 3:00 a.m, howitzers from the nearby settlement of Abernathy arrived to support Nate against Preston. Preston in return started to repair an old howitzer, getting it to work before the battle.

### Battle of Sanctuary

At early 5:00 on December 28, 2277, Nate launced several bombardments on the shorline, while his army constructed rafts. At 6:30, 5 rafts were launced onto the river and soon made land fall with limited resistance. This was due to Preston having retreated his men to several key buildings, ordering them to fight to the death while he made an escape before the battle. At 6:48, Nate and his men breached the Grand Hall of the Communist party and the National Museum. Battle was short live with the raiders having retreated once the shooting start and most of Preston men surrendering. However, the T-45 squad of Preston loyalists maintained harsh battle within the museum until the New Year, intime for the extensive fireworks.

### Long March

After his retreat, Preston came upon couple of his own men who had fled the Battle of Sanctuary. Instead of punishing them, he welcomed them back into his ranks. They soon made a slow march to Outpost Zimonja, salvaging any power amour they came by. At noon, they entered Zimonja who were unaware of all the previous events. Due to him being the head of the army, he order them to burn the outpost to the ground and join their march to Spectacle Island. At evening, they came across Covenant who refused to allow the army in. In response the whole town was burnt in the Covernant Massacre.

The Brotherhood who just learnt of the chaos in the Commonwealth PR decided to supply Preston the resources to fight. Near County Crossing, Preston was met with vertibrids and fresh power amour. Most of his army was transported to Spectacle Island via vertibird while 5 soldiers where transported to the Presidential Palace at Nahant with the goal to burn Nate Kennedy's favourite place.

### Fortification of Spectacle Island

Once landing at Spectacle Island, Preston started building his own airship funded both by the Institute and the Brotherhood of Steel. The threat of naval invasion of the army was limited due to the Commonwealth PR only having rebuilt fishing ships and the island already being fortified and trenched. Construction was fast with artillery on the island devastating the already destroyed Fort Independence.

Enraged by this and the destruction of the Presidential Palace, Nate Kennedy authorised total war and full conscription in order the win. Prisoners of War at Somerville Place were marched into the Glowing Sea along with the representative of Somerville. They were marched a bit east of the Crater of Atom where they were left to die or ghoulify. In fear of his alliance to Preston, the representative of Warwick - Roger Warwick - authorised the seccession of the settlement on the side of Preston with trench warfare beginning and water shortages occuring.

### Battle of Warwick

On March 24, divisions of the Commonwealth Liberation Army poured onto the trenches at Warwick only to be gunned down by soldiers in T-60 PA carrying the ensignia of the Brotherhhod. On March 25, Synths joined the Union as the Commonwealth PR began artillery bombardments onto the settlement. Seeing the destruction and the threat of it to his 'family', he began asking for them to be shipped to either Spectacle Island or the Institute, until on March 27, the BioScience division took them in while Roger lead the Union in T-60 PA. After deployment of biological weapons, the settlement was overwhelmed on May 1st before they surrendered. In celebration, Nate authorised the creation of 'May Victory Day'. In defeat, Preston executed any officers and commanders who survived the battle.

### Hell

Shortly after the Commonwealth PR victory at Warwick, artillery began firing at Spectacle Island. In the confusion, the Spectacle Island Mobile Fortress began flying west - beyond the sea - on the mission to find strong allies to support the Union in its war.