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Originally Posted by ArmySGT.
Who has legitimate codes for National Command Authority? Who has loyal servants descended from the government bureaucracy? Do they have the children of Soldiers, Federal Agents, or the Secret Service in their service? Do they have a actual federal site as a base, or are they using a university, maybe even a State facility as a base of operations? Do they have any actual real articles of the lost republic of the United States? The Speakers gavel? The robes from the long dead Supreme Court Justices ( and their artifacts such as the Bible used to Swear in the Executive Branch)?
What power do they exert in the Region and how will the Snake Eaters react?
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You have raised some interesting questions. Let me answer what I think are possibilities.
1) Codes for National Command Authority. THere is nothing really left to command. Outside of Snake Eaters and First Cav in Texas, any direct link to current (1989) govt is non existant.
2)Servants from Bureaucracy. Very possible.
3)Children of Secret service, Army, etc. Again possible.
4)Use of Federal site. Maybe. might be an old military Base, a National Monument of some sort.
5)University as center. Very possible. Last bastion of learning and knowledge. Especially if the claimant is legitimate and compassionate towards those he/she rules.
6)Artifacts. Not very likely IMHO. Washington DC was hit by a 25 MT MONSTER. If you were G.H.W.Bush, and the Secret Service is PUSHING you into the helo to try and escape the incoming death blasts, you are not going to have time to grab much of anything. If GHWB was at his desk and George Washington's bible was RIGHT there, then, maybe....If surviving cabinet being outside of DC, what reason would they have to have any of the national treasures.
7)Power. This is totally up to the GM. This is part of your job. YOU define what the next encounter can and can not do.
8)Reaction of Green Berets. This is a REAL interesting point. NEVER forget the GB motto. De Oppresso Liber. These men take the motto VERY LITTERALLY. And they have the skills to enforce it. If you are a New President, you had BETTER be living up to the constitution. Or ELSE.....
My $0.02
Mike