Rocket City

Rocket City
Rocket City is a city state in the Northeast coastal region of the former United States of America. Now the principal population center of the loosely organized Confederation of Altered States, the city is organized into six distinct burrows, New City, Old City, New Bronx, Queens, Staten Peninsula, and the Jersey Wastes.

Before the Rock (pre 2064)
Not much is known about this time except that at two thousand years of history and technological development must have occurred. Current knowledge about biological, geological, and technological deve"lopment being what it is, we must assume that eons had elapsed, but all known evidence of actual occurences is is posessed and restricted by the Guardians of Humanity with the support of Rocket City's ruling classes. It is however, (generally if vaguely) known that the eponymous rocket blocks and the New City Purity Shield were both erected sometime before between the Cataclysm of 2064 and the turn of that millenium.

Cataclysm of 2064 and the Rock
The Guardians of Humanity maintain that prior to this event the world was "...mired in the bog of hedonism and sin..." and as such "...called upon the Void in voices of debasement and pain, begging to be purified..." According to the Holy Genomicon the already pure were then given the plans for the construction of Purity Sheild and instructed to gather beneath it thus escaping the wrath of the Rock of Judgement, the Emissary of the Void. Though to enlightened and reasonable minds this may sound more like mythology than history, it does give us a few key facts as well as an interesting backdrop to the the geographical and socio-political landscape of the post-Rock years. Other than the holy texts, very little else is known about the turmoil immediately following the Cataclysm. Many scholars believe from the physical evidence that remains (both in space and on the ground), that New York City, and possibly the whole of Urf was in its first throes of post-industrialism at the Time of the Rock. If this were the case, much of the microcosmic evidence has been lost to physical recycling efforts and the junk mining of alien scrappers, and as follows is principally speculative.