June Street Uprising

### Background

The June Street Uprising was a insurrection that occurred within the Resurrection Republic in the June of 2081. The uprising occurring can be attributed to what was a seemingly minor investigation into the education system, which then expanded when what was considered a widespread conspiracy was discovered within the Republic, which would lead to a purge of the government and the uprising of those who would be fired as a result.

### Inconspicuous Origins

The cause of the rising was unusually attributed to what seemed like a minor personal issue for Joseph Malo, founding father of the Republic. It had began at the start of the month when his eldest son, Jojo Malo, informed his dad that he was being bullied at school and that the staff weren’t doing anything about it, this prompted Malo to set up a Parent-Teacher interview with Jojo’s teacher, Miss Fortnite-Battlepass. When the interview took place, the teacher informed Joseph that according to her, his son refused to do work in class, and allegedly didn’t spend much time doing much, hence she labelled the boy to be lazy. Upon this revelation, Joseph would ask his son after the interview if the teacher was right, Jojo claimed that the teacher was actively bullying her. To this end Joseph proceeded to complain to the principal, but the principal (Mr Battle Royale) rebuked his claims, as according to him Miss Battlepass was the best teacher they had and cited that Joseph had no discernible evidence to prove otherwise. Based on this infomation Joseph decided to plant a teacher aid in the class that would observe and record what the teacher did to his kid. After roughly a week the teacher aid confirmed that Jojo had said, and when this infomation was brought before the principal, he summoned Miss Battlepass and announced to her that she was to be fired for her actions. With this Joseph Malo thought that this was the end of the issue, but unknown to him at the time it was only the surface level of what was going on.

### Shocking Revelations

The day after the firing of Miss Battlepass, Joseph was informed by his son that Miss Battlepass had been teaching his class still. Confused, he asked his teacher aid to check if this was true, and it was revealed that the supposed replacement teacher was just Miss Battlepass with a unconvincing moustache on. With this revelation he decided to run a background check of Miss Battlepass, to which he found that she had recently finished serving a 20 year sentence for political terrorism, digging deeper it was revealed that she had been an outspoken communist that had immigrated to the Republic after her sentence as there were easy jobs and a strong communist underground presence. This deeply concerned Joseph, along with the realisation that the principal may be in leagues with the former inmate, and sure enough running another background check revealed that the principal had as well been a communist sentenced to 20 years for political terrorism but had also recently gotten out of jail. As a temporary measure, Joseph withdrew his son from school and took him to have some ice cream to cheer him up. With this realisation that people had gotten government positions with such ease, Joseph decided to order an investigation be launched into background checking all government employees to see how deep this issue was. The results were substantial, approximately 20% of his own government were “former” communists that had served time, but most had gotten through due to non-existent background checks within the employment system. Deciding to take decisive action, Joseph Malo decreed that all people who had previously associated with communism in his government were to be immediately fired and removed from their positions. This drastic move would leave a temporarily understaffed bureaucracy but he deemed it was for the best, but this was only the beginning of his troubles.

### Poking the Hornets nest

This sudden dismissal of so many government employees without notice caused massive backlash, an immediate reaction was that the fired employees began to protest in the streets, demanding compensation and demanded that the government apologise for their actions. Initially the government did not make an official statement, only deploying riot police to try and prevent any escalation, but their efforts were for naught, a couple hours after the protests began an unknown figure drove a car bomb into the national archives, though said vehicle crashed into the front gate and exploded. With the sudden escalation, the government made the snap decision to deploy the army to protect government facilities, along with this the protests suddenly turned violent, as many took it as a chance to overthrow the government such as what was attempted during the Resurrection Riots, many people who were “veterans” of those riots joined the battle, with it soon descending into a street war. At Joseph Malo’s estate, there was a truck which attempted to get access to the estate, the truck driver was a regular supplier to the residence but was forced at gunpoint by communists to try and ram their way through to the house, this resulted in his and the communists deaths at the hands of troopers stationed at the estate. Meanwhile during the chaos there was reports that Chinese “businessmen” were selling cheap rifles, $5 a gun, in a nearby alleyway, Joseph was having none of it and bombed that shit, destroying the alley and the 2 residential apartments next to it. The rioters started making a barricade in the downtown, declaring the “New Shaanti Autonomous Zone” and started arming themselves with more rifles, now being freely being handed out by more Chinese Businessmen. On the other side of the city, Miss Battlepass and Principal Battle Royale decided to take the school they worked at hostage, demanding large compensation or else they would kill the children, this was met by a raid wherein knockout gas was pumped into the school, disabling the attempted terrorist plot. But this was in vain as communist terrorist fired rocket launchers into the school, killing Jojo’s entire class.

### Azazel Square part 2 (except Joseph Malo doesn’t feel sorry lmao)

In the early evening of that day, with the chaos somewhat subsided, the communists sent Joseph their demands, recognise their autonomous zone, or there would be consequences. Having had enough with this shit, he instead ordered for more sleeping gas to be fired, this time into the autonomous zone. This had mixed effects, some people fled, whilst others were knocked out by the gas, whilst a few with gas masks prepared for their last stand. With a thunderous roar, tanks smashed through the barricade and troops fired at anyone who tried to resist, killed a dozen or so people who hadn’t been knocked out with the gas, within 10 minutes the zone had been secured, and the communists were either dead, arrested, or gone into hiding. With this seeming victory, Joseph was about to call it a day until he suddenly got reports that his own house was being fired on. Rushing back to his house he had found it was levelled by artillery fire from an unknown source, realising his kids had been home, he searched desperately for them. Remarkably both had survived, Jojo only suffered minor cuts and bruises whilst his other son (i don’t remember his name lmao) had a dent in his head, when doctors said that they were unable to do anything he requested assistance from the Ashtron Empire, who agreed to take his son to be treated.

### Aftermath

In the aftermath of the uprising Joseph Malo was left with something of a mess to deal with. His administration had been gutted of a large chunk of its workforce, his capital was a mess with a lot of cleanup required along with repairing damaged buildings, his eldest son had PTSD and Survivors Guilt, blaming the incident on himself and becoming fearful of magic. This was compounded by his youngest son developing a inability to say “toaster” due to his minor brain damage that was sustained as a result of the rising, if his dent was untreated it would’ve been complete vocal impotence, but luckily this was prevented thanks to emergency Ashtronian surgery. The day after the incident Joseph addressed his people, stating “It is completely disgusting what happened, the riots which turned to terrorism on our great country. I am forced to implement new plans for riot control and there will now be background checks for any government run businesses, this is not something I am taking lightly”. Though there was a rumour as well that the personal nanny for Josephs children had been killed for attempted assassination during the uprising, but this denied and it was said the nanny had simply been dismissed earlier for “Personal Reasons”. With this the problem was seemingly dealt with and life could carry on.

…..right?