The Union/History

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## Background

In the wake of a worsening climate change, the two political entities, the Polity and the Union, came to fruition. Each one had their own ideas of what the proper course of human societal development should really be for the future. At present, much of the Union's history remains unknown; despite the fact that it has been in a prolonged period of tension with the Polity over the course of which there were many skirmishes and small-scale incidents, but never an outright war until now.

## *Gen:LOCK*

### The Beginning of the War

The cold war between the Union led by Brother Tate and the Polity led by Patricia Bartlet-Young was finally broken when the Union attacked New York City during a summit at the old United Nations building. The Union was able to overpower the Vanguard and other defenders of the city and begin its brutal conquest of North America.

### Infiltration of the Anvil

During the four years after the fall of New York City, the Union has spread across much of North America. At some point, they became aware of the existence of Rufus Weller's gen:LOCK program, and sought to use it for their own devices. To this end, they captured Rob Sinclair, who was scheduled to join the program and replaced him with a spy who infiltrated the Anvil, the Vanguard's main base and attempted to upload into a Holon. However, as the Union was unaware that only a very select group of people could handle the process, the impostor was unable to link to a Mindframe and died.

### Attack on Dallas

The Union later decided to cripple the Ether network by attacking one of its main distribution nodes. Despite it being hundreds of miles from Union territory, it made the biggest extension of reach outside of their territory since New York. While the Union's soldiers dealt with both the Vanguard and the gen:LOCK team, they sent in Nemesis for the first time to fight against the latter to seize their Mindframes. However, despite seriously damaging Cammie's Holon and nearly succeeding in seizing her Mindframe. Nemesis was pushed back by the older, more experienced recruits. This allowed the Polity to force it and the remaining Union military units present out of Dallas and restore the Ether tower back to working order.

### Defending Atlanta

Sometime after the battle in Dallas, the Vanguard attacks a Union base in Atlanta alongside upgraded Holons. The base is successfully destroyed and Miranda escapes in a stolen APC with several rescued scientists with assistance from Cammie and later Yasamin Madrani. They soon bump into Nemesis, who recognizes Miranda Worth and calls her by name.

He is then attacked by Yaz, fighting and knocking her away, before Cammie draws his attention. Nemesis complains that she "thinks too loud" and charges forward, only to be shot by Valentina, who was using mindshare with Cammie to see through his Nanotechnology wall.

Julian Chase then arrives on the scene to fight Nemesis, the latter expressing his desire to kill his copy and uttering his old catchphrase "Let the good times roll". Chase is soon joined by Kazu, and the pair manage to rip off two of Nemesis' arms. Nemesis then flees on a Union heavy transport, despite Chase's efforts to stop him.