The "C&C Where are We?...Lost?" Series is a 20 cache series
that will be placed all over the Western half of Nova Scotia.
I awoke with a start, something hit me in the face. reached for
the rifle that lay at my side. It ended up being a peice of old
newspaper, I grabed it and glanced at the headline
Nuclear Collapse
!!!
In the righthand corner June 18th,2025 can't believe it's been 2
years since that happened......
Tensions grew among nations during the winter of 2022. The United
States was getting involved in some serious arguments with forign
nations about Nuclear power. Middle Eastern goverments where
getting fed up with the US's involvement in their country's
operations, charges that the Star Wars Missle
program was merely a military launching platform alarmed a
number of nonaligned nations.
Tensions grew among nations during the winter of 2022. The
United States was getting involved in some serious arguments with
foreign nations about Nuclear power. Middle Eastern goverments
where getting fed up with the US's involvement in their country's
operations, charges that the Star Wars Missile program was merely a
military launching platform alarmed a number of nonaligned nations.
The right wing governments in the South and Central Americas, many
of them set up by the U.S. during the Drug Wars (1987-1993),
pledged their support to the U.S. The NATO nations, including the
new African members, also declared their alliance with the US That
move forced most of the remaining neutral powers to join the Middle
Eastern protest. In six short weeks, only Switzerland, Sweden, and
Ireland continued to declare themselves neutral nations. Two weeks
before Star Wars was fully operational, the station transmitted a
distress signal. Immediately after the message was sent, most of
the satellites orbiting the planet were swept clean from the sky,
leaving the great powers blind. In military panic, each sent 90
percent of their nuclear arsenals skyward. Although the destruction
was tremendous, it was not complete. Pockets of civilization
remained, some even oblivious to the military exchange. On the same
day that the US and Middle Eastern countries were attempting to
wipe each other out, a company of Engineers were in the
southwestern deserts building transportation bridges over dry river
beds.
They worked deep in the inhospitable desert valleys, surrounded
by a number of survivalist communities. Located directly south of
their position on that day was a newly constructed federal prison.
In addition to housing the nation's criminals condemned to death,
the prison contained light industrial manufacturing facilities.
Shortly after the nuclear attack began, the Engineers, seeking
shelter, took over the federal prison and expelled the prisoners
into the desolate desert to complete their sentences. As the weeks
passed, they invited the nearby survivalist communities to join
them and to help them build a new society. Because of each
communities suspicions towards one another, times were difficult at
first. But as time nurtured trust, this settlement -- which came to
be known as The Last Outpost Survial Town -- grew to be one of the
strongest outposts. L.O.S.T even proved powerful enough to repel
the bands of psychotic criminals who repeatedly attacked in
attempts to reclaim what was once "rightfully theirs."
The citizens of L.O.S.T, after first believing that they were
the only ones who survived the nuclear maelstrom, soon realized
that communities beyond the desert's grip had also survived.
Because they had such success in constructing a new community, they
felt compelled to help other survivors and live in peace.
Toward this end, L.O.S.T sent out "Rangers"(highly-trained and
rapidly deployable light infantry force with specialized skills),
in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers a century
before, were born.
Over the past few years, the Rangers have seen many changes in
both form and leadership. Ranging from the casual group led by
CasheKicker, through the militaristic force commanded by Cachman,
to the rag-tag faction of C&C runs the present day, the Rangers
have changed based on their leader's view on the philosophy and aim
of restoring civilization.
This brings us up to where we started the story, the situation
now...........
A leader of one of the northern communities was Dragonflys.
Dragonfly's was a great leader. As all GPS satellites had been
eradicated during the initial strike he had learned to rely on the
skills he gained as a Scout leader. Navigating without GPS was a
skill that had long been lost as people relied more and more on
their battery operated positioning devices.
Dragonflys looked up towards to sun to get his bearings and take
note of the time of day......