Pennsylvanian Coup

Instructions

Ever since the independence of Pennsylvania the people have had a general distrust with the rest of the nation. After all, we were once the jewel of the colonies of Britain. With the swallowing of our neighbors a new idea has gained prominence. Pan-Pennsylvanian Nationalism. While the people of Pennsylvania are moderates at heart, with rampant inflation and the growing empires around the people, intense paranoia would take place. The governor, a moderate himself, would play it off as generally fine. “Pennsylvania would never be absorbed” But West Virginia just fell… and Illinois might be next governor. Who comes after that? This is the question of the Pennsylvanian people. This question among the economic problems of our once thriving cities, militias would begin to form. These people would connect on online image boards, and organize from there anonymously so the government couldn’t track them. Then came the final straw, the governor announced the ban of these types of social media permanently under the grounds of “national security”. Typical. The Pennsylvanian people, a people who were founded on liberty and acceptance of all peoples religions and ideas were appalled. Protests broke out, riots some called them. Major blue cities saw the rise of that new ideology, Pan-Pennsylvanianism. For everyone is a Pennsylvanian, because Pennsylvania is the land of tolerance. Both left and right would be in these militias together. This would go on from the time I became the player in Pennsylvania to now. Then, the first shot was fired. Police busted a cell of Pennsylvanian militia, and they were not taken willingly or peacefully. A man died. Our fellow common man died for his beliefs. Protests, now didn’t seem fringe or radical, they seemed like the norm. The neoliberal government did nothing. Just as they always did. Centrists. A group of militia men, minute men if you could call them marched from their meeting place in east Bedford, hyndman. They promised to join the protestor in Philadelphia. The group of 2,000 men from all across the west marched east, but were stopped at reading. The police of the area had found them out, no one knew how. A battle broke out, 60 men died on both sides combined. The small group of policemen were overrun and the militia marched onward. This time, the commonwealth’s military was after them. They reached the gates of Phili, and entered into the city waving the flags of the sons of liberty. The military followed them shortly after. The men were isolated in a small intersection surrounded with only two sides to escape. They were ordered by their leader by megaphone to not move. For they were only a mile away from coincidental major protests taking place in the city. Word got out, and congestion started to rise, and eventually protestors made their trek to the men. Messaging apps were used to coordinate key leaders of the protests. The patriots had the eyes of the city on their side. That was when the battle of Philadelphia began, with a popular revolution beginning, the militia cells across the state all rose up and acted quickly. Major metropolitan areas where support was held the most were mostly taken, and suburban militia helped guard the highways. The protesters in Philadelphia were able to overwhelm the relatively small military force in the city, and seized government buildings as well as police departments. Weapons were distributed by civilians and also by seized weaponry from the cities armories prisons and state funded law enforcement. Harrisburg was the only major city that was not captured by the rebels initially. Noah Miller, a major militia and protest leader claimed himself to be leader of the Revolution. With the successful initial uprising, right wing rebels that weren’t militia also joined the movement, cementing it as a bipartisan populist revolt. The reason why many Pennsylvanian commonwealth forces were ineffective in these early days was the fact that they did not want to fight against their countrymen, and the unpopularity of the incumbent governor. Governor Davis fled Harrisburg immediately after a small yet crushed insurrection in the city that was in attempt to capture him to have the commonwealth forces capitulate. The governor was caught escaping in the trunk of his cousin’s car through the I-83 interstate. At first he was not recognized, but a militia man recognized him and shouted “Wait, wait, don’t let him go! That’s the governor!”