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Vaquero Free State

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Oscar was a short nervous looking man in his early thirties, he wore an army uniform trying but where everyone else he worked with looked smart, Oscar could never look anything but shabby and unkempt.

Oscar was currently trying to be hard at work, typing in the newest set of numbers into the computer when his workmate Diego leaned over from the next cubicle " So how long do you think the old man's got?" By old man he had to mean the Caudillo, even if the man was well into his seventies talking about him actually dying wasn't done. Oscar whispered through gritted teeth." Fucking hell, Diego shut your mouth, unless you want you and your family to take a holiday out west". " Out West" was where a anyone the Integralists didn't like ended up and was by now synonymous with death itself. Admonished Diego dipped back into his own cubicle and quickly began tapping away on his keyboard.

He tried to get on with work but once the thought of the Caudillo's eventual death had made into Oscar's head he couldn't get it out, and around and around it went. What would happen? Who would lead the nation? When he got home his family was waiting for him, his wife Maria was preparing dinner while his son Jose in his Joven Integralista uniform sat helping his sisters Antonia and Miranda with their homework. What would the future hold for them? The Integralist regime and the Caudillo was all he and they had ever known, the idea of it somehow not being there terrified him.

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Caballero Legionario First Class Luis Ezquerra was a man in his late fiftes, a life of strict living had given him a lean physique, his grey hair cut close to his scalp and a small neat moustache over his scarred and tanned face.

He looked out at at his domain, every blasted rock, every cabin and their wretched inhabitants was his to command. He served as commandant for Camp Ascensión for fifteen years and as a guard for ten years before that, and felt an immense sense of pride about the service he provided for the nation. Every morning before sunrise he patrolled the camp, he noted how more and more cabins lay empty and abandoned, prisoners didn't come in the volumes they once had. He supposed that was a good thing all in all but he couldn't help but wonder how long the camp could continue to run like this.





 

Vaquero Free State

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Gaspar loved tending to his garden, he relished the calmness it brought as he worked the soil, he'd had a magnificent garden back in Auraria, beds of roses and other flowers, his wife loved flowers. The climate here was too harsh, alas such was the price of exile. He'd planted cacti instead, the flowers were beautiful, but he still missed the roses of his homeland, perhaps one day he would return, the Integralists had housed him and others like him but as of yet had said nothing of aiding the exiles to return. His wife Luisa hated it here, she missed Auraria she'd enjoyed the night life of Auraria and the finest things money could buy, the change from society elite to refugee had been a harsh one., the Free State she told him was" too flat, too hot, and too catholic". Gaspar had to agree even for a man such as himself he found the Integralists harsh and uncompromising, but at least he and his family were safe here.
 

Vaquero Free State

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"The Caudillo is dead" these four words shook the Free State to its core, In the Culebra Verde cantina in the Costa Angeles the regulars were crowded around the cantina's television eager for any scrap of information. Away from the bulk of the patrons a group of men sat in a darkened corner talking in whispered tones " The old bastard has finally died, and even before he is cold the Integralist jackals will start fighting among themselves, amigo's now is the time to act, the PCO has hidden in the shadows for too long". The other men looked furtively before one of their number spoke, older than the rest and missing half his right arm " You are too young to remember the last uprising, we were too ash then, we thought the people would rise up and join us, it was a massacre. It is too soon for an armed uprising, most of the people have only ever know Integralism and will side with regime. No we must cultivate the people's support, take to the streets in non-violent marches, show them we're not simply militants, and when the UNI moves to crush these peaceful protests, then and only then do we respond with violence". With that the older man stood and left and the others followed, at a distance as to not arouse suspicion, the Partido Campesino y Obrero was back.

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Supreme Army Command, Rio Bravo

Oscar had been given a black armband to wear, everyone in the office had. The news that Antonio Calvera-Vasquez had assumed the role of acting President had thrown the army's high command into a state of agitation. Everywhere all anyone could talk about was how the Legión would soon control the entire nation. Oscar had caught scraps of conversations in hallways and in corners talk of " coups" and " a proper government" . He hurried past, all he wanted was a quiet life with his family all this subterfuge was none of his concern.

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Caballero Legionario First Class Luis Ezquerra was ecstatic, not to say anything ill of the deceased Caudillo but in his later years he had grown soft, not Calvera-Vasquez he was a Legionary through and through, uncompromising a devout Integralist his leadership would be just the thing the country needed to lift it out of its slump.
 
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