The Rise and Fall of ARC

ARC was originally built upon the foundation that we would come together to change the world. Not as the leaders, but as the spark and guides to start the flame of reform. We had no intentions on leading the people, but rather to open their eyes to what they had become and to aid their journey to new horizons.

Our backgrounds ranged from office cleaners to nuclear physicists. This gave us holds in every structure and organization we needed to launch the nukes. We had branches from coast to coast. The coastal branches made up the fringe sects that would have access to more functioning technology than the small amount our centralized front would have in the hardest hit blackout zone. We all believed in the simple cause of a life without pop culture being shoved down our throats, religious groups putting their thoughts into our lifestyles, a government that promised gold but delivered dirt, an upper echelon that seemed to be building a bridge through the middle class and over the poor. We wanted to change all of this.

We knew our peaceful message was strong and thought the majority would be on board. The country seemed to be at turmoil with itself and the time was right for revolution. Other groups that wanted change were too small and unorganized, or held beliefs that would lead to further degradation of America. ARC had been planted and growing for years, secretly rooting within the country. The time to bloom was upon us.

The beginning of the disintegration of ARC came when our fringe divisions turned their backs on the cause after the initial chaos broke out. We'll never know exactly what happened to those branches, but in the two years that have passed we've never seen or heard from them. Maybe things were worst in the fringe areas due to the partially functioning technology, or maybe they used that to their advantage and decided to pursue their own cause like everyone else had decided to do. Whatever it was, it put the heart of ARC at risk. We were counting on the fringe sects to bring in much needed supplies for the rebuilding phase of the operation. We had counted on the fact that we would be able to supply the masses during the most stressful parts of the restart to gain their trust.This trust was an essential part of the regrowth, without it there would be no way of proving that ARC was not a threat.

Instead, we were forced to keep them out and at bay since we were now left high and dry without supplies or any new technology. We needed to hold our own, or lose everything. A fact that keeps encroaching on us day by day. ARC is now viewed as the reason America has fallen, a dictatorship that is trying to control the masses. In essence, everything we never wanted to be.

-Mr. Verity