Feral
Having escaped domestication and become wild.
The United States didn't collapse overnight. It fractured, failed, and was reshaped by forces determined to restore order at any cost.
After the events of Failed State, the illusion of recovery is gone. Authority is no longer hidden behind institutions-it is enforced openly. Stability is offered to those willing to comply. Those who resist are hunted, isolated, and erased from the record.
The Parkers and their tribe survived the fall. Now survival means fighting back.
As a powerful international coalition tightens its control, resistance becomes harder, bloodier, and more dangerous. Fear turns neighbors into informants. Compromise fractures alliances. Every act of defiance carries consequences that cannot be undone.
Some choose safety through submission.
Others choose to stand, knowing the price may be everything.
In a nation gone feral, survival isn't about obedience.
It's about refusing to be domesticated.