I have mentioned a number of locations so far in my RPG setting, but I can understand that it might be a little confusing for current players which they all are, and perhaps it might also make my setting a little more appealing to new players if I mentioned them.
In time I would also like to add the factions, governments, and groups I have in mind.
For now I am going to keep it simple and not go to much into background details until it is necessary
The Lone Star Confederacy
Also known by its abbreviation 'LSC', the Lone Star Confederacy is a union of city states that have decided to get together for mutual protection and economic benefits.
Unlike the New California Government the government this union forms only handles matters of military nature or disasters that could affect all the members, and it mediates in political or social matters that could disrupt the Confederacy's economy and cooperation.
For the rest each city state handles matters such as politics, economy and local defence themselves.
That is what it officially says in its Constitution that was signed by all members.
Unofficially, Lone Star itself, the 'capital' of the Confederacy has a tendency to get involved in the politics and economic matters of its fellow city states, using its influence to further their own interests with the goal of ensuring that Lone Star itself benefits the most from this union of settlements.
The LSC consists of the following city states and a number of small towns and other settlements that allied or in another way part of these states.
Part of becoming a member of the LSC is that the city state member provides certain goods or services that are of use or benefit to all other members of the Confederacy.
Lone Star
Established on the ruins of Abilene, Lone Star was founded by the descendants of survivors of the old city and Vault Dwellers from a nearby Vault that has been reserved for military personnel and their families of the Dyess Air Force Base, who were brought together through mediation provided by the New Texas Rangers.
Lone Star is the capital of the LSC, it is its political heart and also the main base of the Confederacy's military forces.
The city is surrounded by a number of farms and also has some local industry but most of these is dedicated to the military.
Sweetwater
A main provider of drinking water for Lone Star and other settlements. Sweetwater also has some agriculture and also provides some electricity through its windmill farms but not as much as Roscoe.
Roscoe/Aeolus Windmill Farm
A small town that was resettled through a grant provided by investors from Lone Star, Roscoe is located near the Aeolus Windmill Farm, a large pre war alternative energy source that was established by the Poseidon Energy Corporation as part of its strategy of renewable energy sources.
The town was resettled with the intention of restoring the windmill farm and selling electricity to surrounding settlements, but so far this has not worked out yet because of resistance by the Windmill People, tribals who hold religious importance to the 'wind giants', and who seek to prevent any 'civilized' people from exploiting them.
Snyder/Hide Town
A city that is in the process of becoming part of the LSC, Snyder's economy was originally based on ranching and farming as well as some salvage but in the last decades its pre war industrial areas have been brought back to working order again, giving it an industrial capability that could surpass that of even Lone Star.
Snyder also provided the LSC with a working locomotive engine that was kept at the Roscoe, Snyder, and Pacific Railroad Depot.
(reason why Snyder has these resources was because it was not a primary or secondary target during the war, most of the damage it suffered was from the fallout and the changes in climate)
The Gardens/San Antonio
The LSC's main supplier of food, before the war San Antonio had been chosen by the Federal Government as the site for an experimental Agriculture Research Station, one in a series throughout the Midwest which purpose was to produce food for the region and do agricultural research into crops and livestock such as new fertilizers, antibiotics, and genetic improvement. (actually San Antonio's government bribed the State government to get the Feds to build the Agriculture Research Station here after the city suffered from an economic decline when the nearby oil wells ran out)
The station was an experiment in creating local food production when it became clear that the energy crisis would shut down the nation wide infrastructure through which essentials such as food were transported to regions that had little to no food production of their own.
The station survive the war relatively well and also managed to preserve its more advanced pre war technology including security robots and computers.
San Antonio itself was not hit by any missiles, the city no longer being a priority target to Chinese Military Command once the nearby oil wells ran dry.
Still the city suffered from the after effects of the war which made society collapse here.
These days the ruins of the city are home to prospectors who run a salvage industry here. There is however talk about restoring some of the pre war industrial parks here and restart production of steel and related products
Fort Ranger
An outpost located on the most Eastern frontier of the LSC, the pre war settlement of Ranger was originally founded when oil was discovered nearby by the Texas and Pacific Oil Company.
Ranger was already abandoned before the War when the oil wells ran dry and the town was mostly torn down by the effects of the passage of time and the after effects of the War.
The LSC had Ranger resettled and turned into an outpost in order in order to deal with raider gangs such as the Texas Hellhounds that plague the Eastern parts of the Confederacy as well as standing guard and intercepting any Angel expedition parties or crusades before they manage to reach Lone Star itself.
Fort Ranger also watched over the road that connects the Confederacy with Fuel Town.
Divided River
Technically it should be called Brownwood and Early, two towns close to each other that are divided by the Pecan Bayou, ones of the tributaries of the Colorado river in Texas. Early was established after a conflict over the water rights.
Located nearby is Lake Brownwood which is a reservoir created by damming the bayou, and it is a source of water and even fish.
After the War the ownership over Lake Brownwood became a topic of dispute between the two settlements and it caused a series of brush wars.
It is this conflict that made outsiders rename the location Divided River and it was eventually even adopted by the locals as a secondary name.
The appearance of the LSC has not improved matters. Needing an outpost in the North East in order to monitor the System with local resources such as water, the LSC allowed Brownwood to join the Confederacy but not Early whose inhabitants were forced to watch as riches of the Confederacy came to their neighbours as well Confederacy support to Brownwood's claim on the Lake.
The System on its turn has sent representatives and aid to Early, seeking to encourage its inhabitants to claim the Lake and drive the people of Brownwood off.
If the LSC outpost in Brownwood would be cut of from its water source, the Confederacy would be forced to pull out and would leave Brownwood and Early open to be annexed by the System, putting its border dangerously close to LSC territory.
Fuel Town
Established roughly on the historical site of the mining town of Thurber (
http://www.thurbertexas.com/history/), Fuel Town is established on the pre war Prometheus Coal mining site.
When the energy crisis hit the US before the Great War energy producing companies such as Poseidon Energy implemented a three way strategy, one was an increase in nuclear power generation such as fission (and work was done on industrial fusion), alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and geo thermal, and third; reimplementing previously abandoned energy sources such as coal.
This last was possible when environmental treaties and laws were either rewritten or declared void because of the energy crisis.
Poseidon Energy through its subsidiary Prometheus Coal bought up a number of previously abandoned coal mines throughout the West and reopened them.
Thurber had been abandoned when trains switched over from coal burning engines to oil but the land still contained large quantities of coal.
Prometheus Coal opened the mines and constructed massive mining rigs here to dig up the coal as well as bringing in mining robots to increase production to meet the energy demand.
Right until the War happened the mining operation was in full swing.
Decades after the War new miners would come to the mining site and reopened the mines as new settlements, in particular city states such as Lone Star and the System Capital had a demand for fuel for power production and industry.
Fuel Town became the home for all the miners who work at the mines and mining rigs that surround the town, as well shopkeepers, technicians, and other people needed to keep the town and the machines running.
Fuel Town maintains its independence despite offers from both the Lone Star Confederacy and the System to join their nations, supplying both with the coal and other fuel types they need to compete with each other.
Neither nation can afford to try to annex Fuel Town with force, knowing that the other side would immediately send in its own troops, so instead the LSC and the System have to use the diplomatic path to try to get Fuel Town to join either of them of its own accord.
Because the Angels of the Apocalypse seek to destroy Fuel Town and its mining operation to deprive the LSC and the System of fuel (shutting down their industries and most of their technology which is the Angels' main goal) both governments have military forces in the area to make sure that the Angels can not reach the town.
This has occasionally led to tense situations and stand-offs when both sides encounters each other in the field.
Soldiers and officers from either side also frequently run into each other when they go to Fuel Town for supplies, the peace only kept because either side knows that any conflict might have bad repercussions on the trade between Fuel Town and their nations.
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