History DarthWiki / FallenStarrs

* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: The US government has been criticized for being too focused on foreign issues and allowing domestic issues, e.g. wealth inequality, healthcare, mass shootings, racial tension, to spin out of control. And now America is paying the price for neglecting those issues.

* Progressive Liberation Army (The PLA). The bulk of the angry dissenting citizens. Whom were already starting to organize and arm themselves. Including a lot of armed leftwing insurgents, becoming a kinda antithesis to the peaceful tree hugging stereotypes. Although not all are leftists persé, but regular angry citizens who just happen to like the ideas of the PLA leadership. The PLA is mostly made up of defecting politicians and goverment officials, sympathetic armed forces and law enforcement deserters, and a little more than half is made up of People of color. Their advantage is technologically superior drone tech, [[KillerRobot drone robot]] [[RobotSoldier soldiers]], [[AttackDrone[=UAVs=]]and PrivateMilitaryContractors (supplied by the scorned owner of the MegaCorp ''Starr Industries''). And the fact they control about 70% of everything west of the Rockies.

* Progressive Liberation Army (The PLA). The bulk of the angry dissenting citizens. Whom were already starting to organize and arm themselves. Including a lot of armed leftwing insurgents, becoming a kinda antithesis to the peaceful tree hugging stereotypes. Although not all are leftists persé, but regular angry citizens who just happen to like the ideas of the PLA leadership. The PLA is mostly made up of defecting politicians and goverment officials, sympathetic armed forces and law enforcement deserters, and a little more than half is made up of People of color. Their advantage is technologically superior drone tech, [[KillerRobot drone robot]] [[RobotSoldier soldiers]], [[AttackDrone[=UAVs=]]] and PrivateMilitaryContractors (supplied by the scorned owner of the MegaCorp ''Starr Industries''). And the fact they control about 70% of everything west of the Rockies.

* Progressive Liberation Army (The PLA). The bulk of the angry dissenting citizens. Whom were already starting to organize and arm themselves. Including a lot of armed leftwing insurgents, becoming a kinda antithesis to the peaceful tree hugging stereotypes. Although not all are leftists persé, but regular angry citizens who just happen to like the ideas of the PLA leadership. The PLA is mostly made up of defecting politicians and goverment officials, sympathetic armed forces and law enforcement deserters, and a little more than half is made up of People of color. Their advantage is technologically superior drone tech, [[KillerRobot drone robot]] [[RobotSoldier soldiers]], [=UAVs=] and PrivateMilitaryContractors (supplied by the scorned owner of the MegaCorp ''Starr Industries''). And the fact they control about 70% of everything west of the Rockies.

* Progressive Liberation Army (The PLA). The bulk of the angry dissenting citizens. Whom were already starting to organize and arm themselves. Including a lot of armed leftwing insurgents, becoming a kinda antithesis to the peaceful tree hugging stereotypes. Although not all are leftists persé, but regular angry citizens who just happen to like the ideas of the PLA leadership. The PLA is mostly made up of defecting politicians and goverment officials, sympathetic armed forces and law enforcement deserters, and a little more than half is made up of People of color. Their advantage is technologically superior drone tech, [[KillerRobot drone robot soldiers]], [=UAVs=] and PrivateMilitaryContractors (supplied by the scorned owner of the MegaCorp ''Starr Industries''). And the fact they control about 70% of everything west of the Rockies.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Downplayed with Starr Industries, but nevertheless a very rare example of a MegaCorp having good will. The company help manufacture and spread food during food shortages, and medicine during the flu pandemic outbreak.

* EnemyMine: The one thing that finally united the neoconservative (those who were left in office anyway)[note]Most Republicans who were neocons were more or less ousted, and replaced by MAGA/Alt-Right Conservatives whom most would eventually defect to NCS[/note] and neoliberal politicians was America's bitterly angry divided citizenry. which terrified the status quo establishment on both sides of the political spectrum. The public was ''DONE'' with them, they had finally had it. So both parties were eventually forced to work together because their political futures depended on it.

* EnemyMine: The one thing that finally united the neoconservative and neoliberal politicians was America's bitterly angry divided citizenry. which terrified the status quo establishment on both sides of the political spectrum. The public was ''DONE'' with them, they had finally had it. So both parties were eventually forced to work together because their political futures depended on it.

** In fact alternative news media were the ones that broke the news about the government's misdeeds while most of the MSM either ignored it, or blatantly tried to cover it up. But because of social media the latter was impossible to do. Didn't stop them from trying.

** ''Alternatively'' people have also blamed the alt media/press for actually doing the stuff that the other MSM news networks ''DIDN'T'' do strangely enough. Which they say contributed to the growing division in America. Basically thinking they're at fault for not engaging in TreacheryCoverUp "for the greater good". Didn't help that Starr Industries had it's own 24/7 news source that was more objective and critical of the federal government, and both major parties to varying degrees called Starr News Network[[note]]Think Democracy Now, TYT, or The Real News Network, but with the budget of CNN or MSNBC[[/note]]. Make of that what you will.

** Strangely enough, Alternatively people have also blamed the alt media for actually doing the stuff that the other MSM news networks ''DIDN'T'' do. Which contributed to the growing division. Basically think they're at fault for not engaging in TreacheryCoverUp "for the greater good". Didn't help that Starr Industries had it's own 24/7 news source that was more objective and critical of the federal government called Starr News Network[note]Think Democracy Now, TYT, or The Real News Network, but with the budget of CNN or MSNBC[/note]. Make of that what you will.

** intriguingly the war has bitterly divided the African American community, all the way down to celebrities and political analysts and commentators. A good chunk of black boomers, older Gen-Xers and most active black voters are generally speaking, politically moderate. And while they might have issues with the government they'd stop just short of wanting to have a revolution, choosing to stay loyal to the establishment government hoping to be internal reformists instead [[note]]depending on who you ask some cynics don't buy it[[/note]]. Mostly because of the remaining Democrats that's still in the government. In essence basically being an example of "''My Political Party, right or wrong''". On the other hand, a lot of "Xennials", Millennials and social media age black people whom are all generally more progressive started to break away joining the PLA either directly, or in some type of supporting role causing a lot of tragic friction among friends, family, and colleagues. But the divide was already there, social media, and the civil war just helped move it along.

** intriguingly the war has bitterly divided the African American community, all the way down to celebrities and political analysts and commentators. A good chunk of black boomers, older Gen-Xers and most active black voters are generally speaking, politically moderate. And while they might have issues with the government they'd stop just short of wanting to have a revolution, choosing to stay loyal to the establishment government hoping to be internal reformists instead [[note]]depending on who you ask some cynics don't buy it[[/note]]. Mostly because of the remaining Democrats that's still in the government. In essence basically being an example of "''My Political Party, right or wrong''". On the other hand, a lot of "Xennials", Millennials and social media age black people whom are all generally more progressive started to break away joining the PLA either directly, or in some type of supporting role causing a lot of tragic friction among friends, family, and colleagues. But the divide was already there, social media, and the civil war just helped move it along.

* CorpseLand: Central Park is partially a mass grave/plague pit for pandemic victims.

CosyCatastrophe: There's large chunks of middle America that hasn't actually been touched by the war, at least not ''directly''. Usually they're safe going on about with their lives just watching things unfold on the news, internet, or radio. However, if close enough (e.g. suburbs, rural areas on the outskirts of a major city etc) they can still hear faint distant sounds of gunshots, explosions, sirens, and see smoke plumes, and ambient lights from massive fires in the far distance.

* NextSundayAD: The war proper starts a couple years into the future circa 2021, (but the root causes can be traced back to at least the mid 00's, maybe even the 80's). But within that small time frame of 2016-2021 ''A LOT'' of shit went terribly wrong.

* CosyCatastrophe: There's large chunks of middle America that hasn't actually been touched by the war, at least not ''directly''. Usually they're safe going on about with their lives just watching things unfold on the news, internet, or radio. However, if close enough (e.g. suburbs, rural areas on the outskirts of a major city etc) they can still hear faint distant sounds of gunshots, explosions, sirens, and see smoke plumes, and ambient lights from massive fires in the far distance.

* FromBadToWorse: The road to civil war was gradual but steady. Starting with another economic crisis, then angry protests, violent riots, government pushbacks, clashes with police & national guards, and clashes between left-wing insurgents and right-wing insurgents, an assassination of a presidential candidate. And then it just snowballed from there. Then a pandemic hit.

* GoldenMeanFallacy: Corporate News Media likes to depict both NCS and PLA as equal extremists. While depicting the establishment government as rational. Objectively speaking though, the PLA and NCS are nothing alike except for being TheResistance. Though technically the NCS are closer to being facist reactionary counter revolutionaries.

* NextSundayAD: Just a few years into the future. But within that small time frame ''A LOT'' of shit went wrong.

* SomebodyElsesProblem: A lot of the neutral citizens wasn't people with some type of keen centrist pragmatic political insight or anything like that. But in fact were mostly just apolitical people who didn't care because of whatever privilege they might have had afforded them the ability to not care about what was going on outside their safe small socioeconomic bubble....Until it was too late. Specifically the ones in the top 20% that survived the second economic crisis. But especially the top 1% who safely fled over seas.

* WarRefugees: A lot of American citizens started fleeing into the Canadian border, and into the U.K.

* BlameGame: There's tons of finger pointing in regards to how America ended up in this tragic catastrophe.