An Alternate History series created by Reddit user jellyfishdenovo, chronicling the United States falling into a Syrian-style Civil War. The actual point of divergence is Al Gore winning the 2000 electionnote , but the civil war itself begins in 2017, when Texas secedes in response to the election of Eric Holder. Holder's reaction triggers large-scale revolts from both the far right and the far left.
The main subreddit can be found here
, the Canon Hub (compiling all official content so far) can be found here, and the official list of factions is here.
Aprils In Abaddon contains examples of:
- The Cavalry: The EAWA's rescue of the Lake Traverse NGL affiliate from the Dominion.
- Chummy Commies: The Western American Workers' Army.
- Commie Land: Both of the AWAs and the NRG.
- Dirty Commies: The Eastern American Workers' Army.
- Divided States of America: Obviously.
- Enemy Mine: Following the failure of the PGUSA offensives against Pittsburgh and Detroit, the PGUSA has signed a ceasefire with the EAWA so they can work together to fight the Dominion.
- Fallen States of America: Even assuming the PGUSA can somehow reunite the country, America's days as a world power are over.
- Humiliation Conga: The FRA has had a very rough time lately, between their failing economy, defeats at the hands of the Sons, and a run of really bad weathernote that has absolutely wrecked their infrastructure. And now the Dominion is on their doorstep...
- The Klan: There are not one, but two white supremacist factions: the KKK itself and the Sons of the South. The difference between them is mostly that the Sons want to subjugate black people, while the KKK wants to exterminate them.
- While it plays second fiddle to their apocalyptic Christian theology, the Dominion believes that nonwhites are tainted by the devil.
- Malcolm Xerox: The APG, which is still holding on to Atlanta. They get a lot of sympathy given their opposition are the universally-despised Sons of the South, but their stated objective is to create a black ethnostate.
- Ruthless Modern Pirates: The power vacuum left by the collapse of the US has enabled the return of large-scale piracy in the Caribbean (and the West Coast, to a lesser extent). The situation is bad enough that a Chinese-led international task force has deployed to the Caribbean to combat piracy.
- Team Switzerland: The Republics of Alaska and Hawaii, both of which seceded specifically to keep themselves out of the fighting.
- The Theocracy:
- The Knights of Columbus, a mostly Hispanic faction with some notion of establishing a Catholic theocracy.
- The Dominion is an extremist Christian faction, believing that the Apocalypse is at hand.
