RRVFPA

"This is the Red River Valley Federal Protectorate Authority. Please pull to the shoulder and remain in your vehicle with the doors closed until you no longer see our tail lights. If you do not comply, we will blow you up."--RRV communications offficer

The Red River Valley Federal Protectorate Authority, commonly known as the RRV, is the only remaining vestige of the old United States government still operating in the Boomlands. Made up of the army units stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma during the Boom, the RRV's primary mission is to secure (and presumably eventually expand) the Red River Valley Federal Protectorate Zone along the river that gives the organization and the territory its name. To most Boomlanders, the RRV is more important because of one of its secondary activities: providing most of the fuel that keeps the Diner Punks of the Boomlands moving. The RRV's convoys have established regular routes (marked in blue on the Boomlands Map) that take them to most major dinertowns throughout the Boomlands.

Public Agenda

The Red River Valley Protectorate Authority's mission is to ensure the continuity of the United States Government. While details about how the RRV plans to carry out its mission long-term are hard to come by, their short term goals are to keep the Zone secured as a base of operations and help re-establish trade and communication between groups of survivors, which they do in part by providing a steady supply of gasoline to the road warriors of the Boomlands and helping to repair and patrol the roads along their routes.
When asked whether they have plans to get Richard Millhous Nixon out of his bunker in Parts Unknown, the canned answer is that the RRV Protectorate Authority is exploring scenarios that could lead to the recovery of the President within acceptable casualty parameters.

Assets

Beyond the refinery, oil wells, and obvious military hardware at its disposal, the RRV's resources are purely a matter of speculation. The Zone is heavily defended and very secretive and the soldiers who operate its convoys are notoriously tight-lipped about what goes on inside its borders.

History

Nobody really knows why Fort Sill was the lone U.S. military base that wasn't hit by a single Russian missile during the Boom. Most people assume that the missiles meant for Fort Sill landed somewhere else as the result of a mid-air collision or targeting malfunction. Other speculate that communist bureaucracy was at fault, with a missing signature by some undersecretary of the undersecretary preventing the warheads meant for Oklahoma from ever being delivered to the silo. The most sinister theory states that Fort Sill was spared because Russian agents had infiltrated the upper ranks at the base and that RRV is a Cyriilic acronym for something far more sinister than "Red River Valley."

Territories

The Zone is bordered on the north by the Canadian River and the south by the Brazos. East to west, the zone occupies all the livable area between the Amarillo and Oklahoma City fallout zones.

Military

The units stationed at Fort Sill when the bombs fell were primarily artillery and air suppot units. As a result, the RRV's hardware tends to be geared toward explosions.

Trade & Transport

The RRV travels in large convoys that typically contain 50-100 trained soldiers and up to 20 vehicles. Each convoy includes a fuel carrier, one ore more additional cargo trucks, and at least two tanks or artillery vehicles. The remainer of the convoy travels in squad vehicles, jeeps, or sometimes civilian vehicles. Scouts on motorcycles or in fast civilian cars round out the convoy.
The RRV primarily trades its fuel for food, but is also always willing to trade for cloth, tools, ammunition, military hardware, and other evergreen suppies. In addition, they always have a list of very specific items (usually components of industrial machinery) that they are currently in the market for. The list, which includes the amount of gasoline they will pay for the item, is updated at each diner the RRV visits. Most diners post these items somewhere (bulletin board, chalk board, etc.) and remove them when they are found.
Since it can be weeks between RRV visits and Diner Punks don't have time to just sit still, most reputable dinertowns employ an on-site agent who is authorized to trade on the RRV's behalf.

America Never Dies

Type

Military, Army

Alternative Names

The Feds, Uncle Sam, CREEP

Demonym

Zoners

Leader

General Roderick Decker

Location

Red River Valley Federal Protectorate Zone