New: Trial By Fire-An Alternate History RPG (free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg)

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:13:03 +0000

Name:		Trial By Fire-An Alternate History RPG
EEmail:		johnmunch zat qwest.net
Email:		johnmunch zat qwest.net
Type:		Action-Adventure/War/Civil War
Last-Update:		2008Apr16
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg

Description:

THE BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST HAS BEGUN....

2010. For decades illegal immigration has been a major political
issue in the United States, especially California and the American
Southwest. The issue has been VERY controversial, with Americans of
Anglo-Saxon descent demanding an end to illegal immigration while
Hispanics, now the majority in California and the American Southwest
sympathize with the immigrants, who, unbeknownst to the American people,
are not actually immigrating. They are actually Mexicans reclaiming
California and the American Southwest for Mexico, a goal that is shared by
the Hispanic population of California and the Southwest and the new
President of Mexico, President Alejandro Rojas, a staunch anti-American
figure.

The people of Mexico have also been hoping to reclaim the American
Southwest. The hope of America's Hispanics and the President and people of
Mexico: establish a Mexican territory in California and the Southwest
called Aztlan, which the Mexican government was on the brink of
establishing just before the Mexican-American War of 1846 after a map was
discovered that said the region was the mythical Aztlan, the birthplace of
the Aztec Empire. The Mexican government was in the process of relocating
the Mexican capital to the Four Corners region of the Southwest when the
war started. But Mexican plans were thwarted by the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo. The map vanished after the war, and is rumored to be hidden
somewhere in the Four Corners region of the United States.

For decades Mexican Americans and the people of Mexico have had one
common dream: the rejoining of California and the Southwest with Mexico
and the reunification of the people of "El Norte" with their brothers and
sisters in Mexico and the establishment of the territory of Aztlan.

It begins when the United States Government announces plans to
construct a border fence along its almost-2,000-mile-long border with
Mexico and the shooting of an illegal immigrant by a Border Patrol agent
at a Southern California border crossing. The Mexican government and
Hispanics in California and the American Southwest are angered by these
two events and decide that its time to rejoin Mexico and establish Aztlan.
At a conference in New Mexico, a new secessionist organization is formed:
The Organization of the United People of Mexico or Organizaci�n de la
gente unida de M�xico (OUPM), and its political arm, the Azteca Party. The
organization also has a military arm called the Army of Aztlan.

A referendum is then held by the OUPM in California, Nevada, Utah,
southwestern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah and Hispanics in
those states vote to secede from the United States and rejoin Mexico.
Politics in Mexico change as well. In Mexico City, the Mexican Parliament
votes to dissolve the Mexican government and establish a monarchy with
Presidenr Rojas as Emperor Alejandro I of the restored Mexican nation. He
then supports OUPM.

When the United States refuses to recognize the referendum and claims
surface that the vote was bogus, Mexico and the OUPM take matters into
their own hands. With the help of Russia, they detonate a new
electromagnetic bomb over the USA which disables the entire nation,
including the US military rendering it unable to respond. Then the Mexican
Army enters California and the Southwest and reclaim California and the
Southwest.

The OUPM declares its allegiance to Mexico and the Mexican province
of Aztlan is established. But the Mexican reclaiming of the Southwest will
have to be accomplished in blood. Non-Hispanic citizens of California and
the Southwest form a resistance group called the Wolverines, and fight
back using WWII-era weapons, military vehicles, and aircraft such as the
Sherman tank, the P-38 Lightning fighter, the P-51 Mustang, and the B-17
and B-29 bombers, and are joined by Native American tribes such as the
Apache, Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, and Zuni, and the Northern and Southern
Utes, who do not want to live under Mexican rule, and the Tejano Alliance,
a group of Hispanics who are loyal to the United States.

War breaks out across California and the Southwest as the Wolverines
and their Native American and Tejano allies fight the OUPM and Mexico. The
fate of California and the American Southwest are in the balance!

Available Positions:

1. Wolverine Infantrymen
     2. Wolverine Armored Forces
     3. Wolverine Air Force
     4. Apache Freedom Fighter
     5. Navajo Freedom Fighter
     6. Hopi Freedom Fighter
     7. Pueblo Freedom Fighter
     8. Zuni Freedom Fighter
     9. Tejano Alliance Guerrilla
     10. OUPM Leader
     11. Mexican Government Official
     12. Mexican Soldier
     13. Mexican Air Force Pilot
     14. OUPM Soldier
     15. OUPM Air Force Pilot
     16. OUPM Guerrilla
     17. Ally of Mexico

To join: email GM at johnmunch zat qwest.net.

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