Second American Civil War

The **Second American Civil War** otherwise known as the **Mormon War** was a prolonged military conflict within the territory of the Greater United States that lasted from the late 1980's all the way until the 1st of January 2000 when the Deseret Republic was officially abolished by the San Francisco Treaty. Initially progressing very slowly for years, it nonetheless ultimately engulfed the entire American West in a total war scenario for almost an entire year, involving amongst others the detonation of a nuclear bomb over the San Francisco Bay. The conflict was tightly interconnected with the Great Persian Civil War, a fact that led many analysts to talk about a **Global Sex War** instead of anything particularly American.

The conflict was triggered by the 1980's Global Fertility Crisis, later revealed to have been caused by a flu-like virus escaping from a private research lab in Arizona only a few weeks before the birth of Jade. Large-scale Soviet involvement started only after the election of Nathan Lensky as president of the Socialist American Republic in 1989: one of the first foreign policy measures of his administration was the new policy of escalating maritime blockades given to American Pacific NavCom headquarters stationed in the Seattle-Vancouver Region as a response to Deseret's notorious human rights abuses.

## Background

Deseret was very much like Gilead in Margaret Atwood's famous novel, with a similar amount of oppression & violence directed towards women BUT vastly greater technological & organizational capabilities. The Deseret Army was widely considered to be one of the best trained and most advanced armies in the world, equipped with at least a dozen nuclear weapons. The population of the entire parvenu country was close to that of United Socialist Korea, roughly 70 million people.

The state was led by deeply anti-social but nonetheless brilliant and extremely perseverent alpha nerds who never dozed off on the job, attracting talent from all parts of the world including many Soviet countries. The economy was absolutely booming in spite of its remarkably unorthodox characteristics until the early 90's, mostly thanks to immigration and trans-pacific maritime trade. The future looked pretty bright from the corridors of power in New Jerusalem, formerly known as Salt Lake City. If there was any country the leaders of great capitalist powers warned the Soviet Union not to mess with, it was definitely Deseret.

## Soviet Involvement

One must note that that capitalist countries have ultimately never dared to go as far as to recognize the existence of this seemingly formidable country at the UN General Assembly. The great intellectual prowess of its elites both old & new have also quickly proven to be rather ineffective against the sheer absolute brutal numerical superiorities of the Soviet Union and also the sturdiness of Vulgar Humanism as a pre-conscious global ideological foundation of Soviet society.

The escalating war effort of the Socialist American Republic was called such names like for example Woodstock Bolshevism or the Flower-powered Steel Storm or of course good old Liberal Fascism. President Lensky was notoriously outspoken about the excesses of his youthful college years since he took up the name of the highly influential Lensky family only in 1985 when he got married to his wife Rachel, one of the seven children of the family's founder Anton Lensky. The presidential campaign was notorious for combining left-liberal issues like LGBT rights, anti-racism, drug policy reforms etcetera with a stridently militaristic approach to foreign policy as well as national security and economic development.

## Jade's role

The siege of San Francisco was eventually lifted by soviet maritime forces led by the nuclear-powered supercarrier Izabel, re-named after Jade herself who got captured somewhere in Deseret territory a few weeks before. Jade was in an all-female Nighthawk unit trained & operated by infamous black swan captain Lydia Newman who became a trusted confidante of the Lensky family as a reward for her efforts to bring Deseret down.