New Union World

An unofficial archive of the New Union World — history, fiction, music, and art from a fractured reality.

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Did you know?

On July 7th, 2033, the “Birmingham Raiders” — a covert strike team of NAU Special Recon and Canadian JTF-7 commandos — carried out Operation Iron Sparrow, a mission so bold it’s still taught as textbook asymmetric warfare.

Led by Captain Jonah “Coyote” Ruiz (NAU) and Major Léa “Icebreaker” Gagnon (Canadian JTF-7), the fourteen-person unit disguised themselves as FRUSA rail engineers to infiltrate the guarded Birmingham Rail Yards. Their target? A heavily fortified armored train, rumored to carry over $50 million in stolen Federal gold — plus crates of experimental swarm drones meant for deployment on the Florida Front.

Using old railway maps, local partisan intel, and a fake supply convoy, the Raiders slipped behind enemy lines. For six tense hours, they planted shaped charges, sabotaged rail switches, and hijacked two locomotives to block FRUSA reinforcements. When cornered by the 77th Federal Armored, the team split into pairs, lured patrols into ambushes, and triggered the final detonation at exactly 02:07 AM — a symbolic nod to July 7th.

The gold? What didn’t melt in the blast was recovered weeks later by NAU sappers — but rumor says a portion was secretly funneled to underground networks funding early post-war reconstruction in liberated Atlanta and Mobile. No official records confirm it, but some Alabama families still whisper that Iron Sparrow Gold paid for their first free schools and hospitals.

“Gold’s gone. Birds flying home.” — that final radio transmission is engraved on the memorial stone at the New Birmingham Freedom Museum.

A feature film — Sparrows Over Birmingham — is now in pre-production with French-Canadian director Mathieu Rousseau, who calls it “Kelly’s Heroes meets Zero Dark Thirty.” Insiders say Mason Hayward, star of “Fall of the Seaboard”, is in talks to play Captain Ruiz, while rising Quebec actress Emilie Tremblay may take on Major Gagnon’s role.

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💡 Did you know?

Between 2029 and 2035, Allie Sweetheart was one of the highest-grossing adult film stars in the Federal Republic of the United States (FRUSA).

Her most infamous titles — Patriot’s Dollhouse, Red, White & Used, and Liberty’s Secret — racked up over 160 million combined views across banned adult hubs like LibertyHub, StarsAndStripesXXX, and countless black market streams that thrived on FRUSA’s crumbling intranet.

These films were especially popular among middle-aged male loyalists, militia recruits, and disillusioned suburban youth — a generation raised on propaganda that twisted her image into a symbol of ownership over dissenting women. It wasn’t just the explicit scenes that drew them in; it was the fantasy of control sold under the guise of patriotism and restored American values.

By conservative estimates, films branded under her stage name generated over $320 million New American Dollars — or more than 4 billion FRUSA Trump Dollars, the hyperinflated currency that had lost all real value by the early 2030s. In reality, most transactions were done unofficially in NAU money or foreign crypto — yet Allie herself never saw a single cent.

Why? Because Allie Sweetheart never truly existed. Her real name was Alex Carter, an undercover FBI agent who was forcibly drafted into the notorious Escort Service Division — a clandestine program that trafficked hundreds of women for propaganda and profit under the guise of morale operations.

Records declassified after the Liberation revealed that Alex Carter and over a thousand other women were subjected to heavy indoctrination, chemical control, and staged media production. Stripped of her identity, Carter lived and died without knowing she’d become a household name.

She was murdered just five days before the liberation of Denver in 2035, executed alongside dozens of other Denver Escort Service captives by fanatically devoted to the regime FBI officers desperate to erase evidence of the program.

In the aftermath, a sweeping international investigation — led by Captain Étienne Moreau and Lieutenant Claire Dumont of the French Military Police — tracked down those responsible. The operation famously hunted Thomas Green, the mastermind behind the Escort Service Division, who fled to Paraguay under a false identity. He was eventually extradited to face charges before the Hague War Crimes Tribunal, where dozens of high-ranking FRUSA security officials were convicted of crimes against humanity.

Today, Allie Sweetheart is an icon of resistance and a painful reminder of what the New American Union rose to destroy. Schools, shelters, and cultural centers across the NAU now bear her true name — Alex Carter — as a promise that no woman will ever again be erased for profit.

A traveling exhibit, The Faces They Stole, dedicated to Alex Carter and the other victims of the Escort Service Division, opened in Boston in 2038 and continues to tour NAU cities every year — reminding new generations why freedom is worth fighting for and what silence can cost when power goes unchecked.

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🇺🇸✨ Fun Fact: Union Rising – The Anthem That Was Written Overnight (…Or Was It?)

When people hear “Union Rising”, the official anthem of the New American Union (NUA), they usually think of grand stadium rallies in San Francisco or the defiant flyovers of repurposed National Guard jets during parades in New York. But few know that the iconic march — now taught in every school from Portland to Boston — was (allegedly) written in less than 12 hours.

🎼 A Song for a Fractured Nation

According to the most popular version of the story, Union Rising was commissioned in January 2030, just days after the Western Seaboard states formally announced their secession from the Federal Republic. The provisional government needed a unifying piece — something stirring enough to drown out the chaos of the breakaway and declare, in one voice: we are still America.

The job fell to Clara Reyes, a little-known music teacher from Sacramento who’d fled political persecution under the old regime. Legend has it, she locked herself in a church basement with a borrowed keyboard and a scratchy old trumpet — by dawn, Union Rising was born.

📜 But Did It Really Happen That Way?

Of course, not everyone buys the overnight miracle. Declassified NUA documents hint that the melody actually traces back to a protest chant first sung during the March for Fair Elections in Chicago, 2027. Some historians claim Reyes only formalized the tune and added orchestration — the bones of the anthem may have been echoing at street barricades long before it ever hit the official record.

🚩 A March, a Hymn, a Rallying Cry

Today, Union Rising is more than a song — it’s a statement. Its first stanza, “From broken coasts to city lights, the Union stands, the Union fights,” has been spray-painted on walls from Berkeley to Buffalo. Military parades in liberated zones blast it through loudspeakers alongside guitar riffs and sampled radio static — a reminder that in the New Union World, freedom isn’t just an idea. It’s an anthem people made when they had nothing left but their voices.

So next time you hear that brass intro rolling through a foggy San Francisco dawn, remember: revolutions don’t just write songs. Sometimes, songs write revolutions.