Dramatis Personnae of the Tuzkinn Confederacy

Heroes Among Us

This is the list of exemplary individuals who gone above and beyond the call of duty to earn themselves the respect of the people of the Confederacy, and to have earned the Confederate Medal of Honour.
The list is ordered by chronology. Debate upon their and the perpetrator's significance and importance are not a valid use of Congress time.

Camden Esqunt, Lord Bohrok

On the fifth year and the fifth month after the forging of our nation, Camden the Lord Bohrok was bestowed the reverence of the Confederate citizens for his exemplary leadership and indomitable valor in the defense against the mutant hordes enroaching our fair land. For his command of the 115th and 421st Light Cavalry regiments, as well as the prestigious 31st "Flameblades" Fighting Infantry regiment.
At the time, the mutants were moving in a juggernaut assault towards the northern city-cluster which consisted of our nation's capitol, and little could be done to stop them, as the perishing of several detachments of standing Infantry Defense forces attested to. Instead, Lord Bohrok engaged them
For his exemplary actions - dispatching a force sixteen times his own, saving many settlements from mutant attack, and expunging a Chaos cult established in the settlement of Water God's Fist - he was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour, first class, and granted the land which he had set out to save. Its bounds are from the Mortegrad railway, to the Ismir Steelworkes, to the Moonlight Tavern at the edge of Blacklight Marsh, to the Stauntleway Lighthouse.

Jerrumi Sanders, Pistolier First Class

On the seventh year of our great nation's existence, the 13th "Roughnecks" Heavy Cavalry Division was collaborating with the then-unaligned 14th Scout Infantry company to eliminate a Chaos attack force near the settlement of Bao-Diur. The 13th Heavy Cavalry initially did a good job in routing the Chaos hordes out of their war-camps, but it was with the reclamation that events went awry.
The Chaos forces proved to be expedient in their tactics, resorting to hit-and-run against the newly-established Area Defense outposts.
Madame Jerrumi was part of the latter Confederate force, tasked with the protection of Marksman team Romero in their assassination of the Chaos Sorcerer Dijonkshe the Petrifier. The operation was successful, but the Chaos forces showed a surprising amount of co-operation, and aimed to eliminate Madame Jerrumi and her team. In a maneuver to draw out the rapidly-deploying Chaos forces, General Maxwell the acting overall commander ordered her group to deploy to the fortress of Osgiliath. Likewise, the Chaos forces focused their assault that direction.
The 14th Scout Infanty, while being highly mobile, was simply not suited - in equipment or in strategy - to mount sustained defense. The Chaos forces quickly overran the defense emplaced by the Confederate Scout Infantry, who barely managed to hold off the Chaos attackers.
Madame Jerrumi was abandoned behind enemy lines in the aftermath of a defensive strike to dispatch a series of Chaos war machines. She entrenched herself in an apartment complex and resorted to close-quarters and short-range combat, managing to hold out until the eleventh hour of the assault, when the Heavy Cavalry joined the defense, allowing the Confederate to throw off the Chaos assault and reclaim the rest of the fortress, dispatching the rest of the attacking hordes as they did so.
For her stunning bravery and quick thinking during this time of crisis - in which she took down no less than four Chaos Abominations and an indeterminable amount of mad Cultists, as well as destroying several of the enemy's supply deposition points and freeing roughly six hundred slaved Confederate citizens, she was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour, first class and promoted to 2nd Lieutenant for her bravery. She later retired with twenty-six commendations to her name and settling with the prestigious position Sheriff in the settlement of Sanctuary.

Jaq Bishop, Marksman

In the thirteenth year since our nation's Founding, the mutant menace had exponentially increased around the southern sectors of our great nation - particularly in the easternmost Hive of Konn's Hope. Great winds from the Wasteland had brought radioactive winds and foul diseases in from the Central Wasteland, towards the southern sector of our fair country.
This caused severe infection of bloody plagues among the farming communities of that area, as well as all but deadening the land around them. This would prove to be a short-term problem that was later on rectified by the most irradiated drought season that had been seen in that area since our nation's founding.
These plagues had a shocking side-effect - they brought back to life those who had reached a certain state of post-mortem decomposition. The farming communities, ample in population and subsequently bodies, would serve as vast banks for the plague as it spread. Their flesh would become heavily absorbent to radiation - making the body leak plague-infested fluids which would go on to become corruptive later on.
The dead by instinct congregated to the city of Konn's Hope, which was in the stages of reconstruction and rehabilitation. The dead eventually flooded the city. Initially the brave men and women put up a good defense, but their own casualties coupled with their expenditure of supplies - the city being a near-exclusive producer of automatic weaponry and munitions.
Later, when the city was depopulated utterly, the returning 46th Fighting Infantry Regiment made an attempt to retake the city. Leading them was Lieutenant-General Calswer, whose stunning display of bravery and tactical brilliance denied the 'undead' (term questioned) hordes the flesh of the 46th Infantry. The centre fort of the city was taken, but eventually the regiment began to starve for supplies and the like.
Bishop earned two commendations, the Confederate Medal of Honour second class and a Purple Heart for his courageous action, infiltrating through the infested city and gathering supples, as well as drawing out large masses of the 'undead' for the garrisoned forces in the center fort to pick off.
He was promoted to Marksman First Class for his actions, and since has been commended and equipped appropriately. He is still in service with the 46th Fighting Infantry, and in that entire regiment and then several more he is unmatched in his marksmanship.

Donovan Bowkre, Colonel

Upon the twentieth year of our nation, our enemies - then a combined force of Chaos cultists and their masters, as well as Chaos-afflicted mutants being a growing concern for the clustered settlements in the northeastern areas. In the middle of a humid summer, the concern elevated to a risk when they began advancing on the gathered 3rd, 10th, 16th and 422nd Fighting Infantry regiments, as well as the newly-formed 1st Armoured Warfare regiment, consisting of 17 Laimin Ross MBTs and several companies of Armoured cars and support vehicles.
The mutants proved to be most advertant foes - not only were they insanely durable and resistant to pain, but upon death they scattered virulent spores which spawned more of the mutants, as well as diseases great enough to sustain the mutants' charge. Incendiary munitions proved to be most efficacions in putting down the mutants, but at great cost per each shell fired.
To assist with the defense against the mutants' seemingly unstoppable tide, the 15th Grand Artillery regiment was deployed into the situation, under the command of Bowkre. With his presence, the Confederate forces pushed back the mutant tides somewhat - an estimated five miles, at the expenditure of hundreds of shells, countless rounds of munitions and dozens if not hundreds of soldiers' lives, as well as half of the 1st Armoured.
The final defense was mounted in Calder Fortress to the south of what today is known as 'Victory Bay'. The burning of Jissaela fields was supremely costly, but the momentary loss of crops was deemed an acceptable loss in the face of breaking the mutant hordes. Bowkre set up multi-layered defenses with artillery covering every inch of the approaches and the remnants of the 1st Armoured acting as close support and mobilization units to expedite the Infantry's movements. His commanders employed hit-and-run on the mutant hordes, who fought exactly like a horde: Ponderous, and slow-moving.
Eventually the mutants were broken, but many of the Infantrymen carried virulent diseases that spread quickly. The medical units quickly quarantined those infected, to the cost of their lives when the disease started affecting them post-mortem. Though his forces had taken grievous losses, Bowkre was able to secure the region and re-establish the farming settlements, which began to produce bigger, healthier crops from soil freshly fed by the bloodshed.
For his steadfast command, Colonel Bowkre was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour, First class, and also the Southland Mixed Armed Forces Badge of Merit, an exotic award only given twice in our great nation's history. He was later promoted to Lieutenant-General First Class, and stationed as Overall Commander of the Northern Confederate Armed Forces, a highly prestigious post which was in charge of organizing the logistics and operations of all military forces in the north.

Mikenn Fjinn, Gunnery Sergeant

During the twenty-first year of the Confederacy the south and eastern sectors of our fair nation encountered a problem rarely encountered before: slavers. Unaligned bandits and mercenaries put dozens of settlements to the torch, stealing away most if not all of the inhabitants to sell off into the Badlands' human trafficking rings, either as sex workers or forced laborers.
This menace continued, even going so far as to directly engage the fighting forces of the Confederacy. Six Infantry Divisions under General Maxwell II were scrambled to counter the threat, but the slavers still managed to overwhelm standing forces and evade the retaliatory efforts by the rapid response units at the same time. Their movements continued unchecked across the region, until they happened to come upon the crafting village of Arlem.
Fjinn was returning home to Arlem on leave after his deployment in the Balticc region. He was in his home with his family when the slavers struck approximately at 10:30 AM. The Sergeant reacted quickly, eliminating at estimated two dozen mercenaries as they entered his neighborhood, and then a further threescore when he acquired a Heavy Stubber and herded his fellow townsfolk into one secure stadium and entrenched himself in front of the only entrance. The slavers, lacking heavy support weapons, began a battle of attirition as they steadily lost their hired muscle.
The conflict lasted for all of three long weeks as the slavers pillaged the town in order to try and crack Fjinn's defense. The Gunnery Sergeant expertly managed his munitions, often killing with only a single shot from an estimated one-hundred metres. The slavers began to utilize home-made weaponry such as the infamous 'dirty wire' - a coil of razor-wire often bearing severe irritants or diseases fired at high velocity from a propellant, and other such home-made weaponry. Despite sustaining major wounds which became septic later on, Fjinn continued his heroic defense of the populace for three more days.
The conflict was over when the newly-mustered 31st Cavalry detachment rode into town with the intent of purging the town, only to find it deserted, and sounds of battle emnating from the town's center of recreation. The fast-moving and gun-slinging Cavaliers rapidly dispatched the lightly-armoured slaver forces, relieving the Gunnery Sergeant of his defense and ending the slaver threat momentarily.
For his exemplary actions, Gunnery Sergeant Mikenn Fjinn was bestowed the Confederate Medal of Honour, First Class, as well as the Fighting Infantry Guardsman's badge, the Medal for Resolute Defense, a Purple Heart and a Silver Star. He had afterwards enjoyed his extended leave, before re-enlisting into the Confederate Armed Forces as a Gunnery Sergeant First Class.

Maxxim Burnn, Trader

In the twenty-second year since the rise of the Confederacy, the situation had stabilised somewhat, allowing a fresh wave of brave souls to venture away from our Free Cities and to the great beyonds of our neighboring lands. The time was one of great prosperity, where the living conditions in the majority of the settlements improved drastically.
Instrumental in his efforts was Trader Burnn, who had established a secured series of fortified trade routes through the Badlands and to the Blasted Wastes further east, where friendly contact with the Wasteland inhabitants was established. The result of this is the famous "Long Bleak Pass", a chain of bunkers which could be followed to safely traverse through the border of the Chaos Wastes and the Badlands, though not without great peril as both Raiders from the south and crazed Cultists from the North.
For his commendable endeavours, Trader Burnn was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour, Third Class, and full Trader rights to the Blasted Wastes.

Nikk Fury, Explorer

Near the end of the twenty-ninth year of our Confederacy, our nation was stabilizing somewhat. Intelligence gained by our brave Explorers in foreign lands, however, had found what passed for Chaos intelligence of a sensitive nature, which denoted a large offensive being planned in order to make a gigantic assault which may have broken the back of our fair nation once and for all. By necessity, this could not do. As such, the call to arms in General Maxwell's famous speech to the newly-mustered 4th Total Assault division, many free men of the Confederacy rose to the challenge. While most of them went for glory and for their homes, many still were enticed by the call of loot and fame which they believed able to be found in the Chaos Wastes.
As such, the daring men and women expedited to infiltrate the Chaos Wastes, simultaneously disrupting Chaos operations and amassing a large stockpile of independent agents that sought to end the ongoing threat, running self-sufficiently off their plunders from the Chaos hordes and saving the Confederacy great expenditure in supplies and manpower, and opening new inquiries about establishing operations to use singular agents to dispatch foes rather than to deploy costly campaigns of mass armed force operations.
Fury was among the explorers who threw off the taint of Chaos. Though this event severely crippled anti-Chaos operations, the Explorers rapidly dispatched those who had fallen and resumed their actions against the Chaos hordes. Multiple, simultaneous and devastating strikes deep into the enemy's supply lines and depots caused the Chaos forces to turn upon themselves for want of supplies if not starve outright in the Chaos Wastes' harsh environs.
Nikk Fury, for his selfless devotion to the Confederacy - particularly for not only the liberation of numerous labor camps in the Kolzari region, but his foreplanning and relentless guirella assault of the Chaos hordes, allowing the slaves to escape over the border into Confederate hands - as well as his excellent conduct in the theater of war in the midst of Chaos earned a Confederate Medal of Honour, second class, as well as a Purple Heart, several commendations, a Trophy of the Manowar, several Distinguished Service medals and the widespread admiration of the Confederate peoples. He has returned to service as a Explorer First Class.

Mark Bannon, Captain

In the thirty-first year of our Confederacy, a large counteroffensive based on the intelligence retrieved two years ago about the approximate positions and strength of the Chaos forces, who had previously been unchanging for the most part in their doctrines, was undertaken with the sole intent of dealing a severe blow to the Chaos hordes, who were still recuperating from the Explorers' operations two years ago. The entirety of the Confederacy's armour companies - the mechanized divisions having grown to the prior discovery of the pre-War bunkers underneath the ruin of Noxiss, presumed to be a Headquarters of military might - in the northern sectors were formed into the 1st Armoured Warfare division, consisting of two-dozen Laimin Ross MBTs, several detachments of armoured trucks and AT-cars, and additionally several companies of Armoured Cavalry.
The operation initially went better than what could have been expected. While it was clear that Chaos had changed its M.O, the might of the Armoured Warfare division quickly broke the back of the Chaos hordes' offensives. Several dozen kilometers of land were gained at this time, in the space of less than twenty-four hours, and some thousands of Chaos cultists were routed from the area.
However, renewed efforts from the Chaos hordes as well as surprise attacks from bandits - who the Armoured Warfare division's forces were simply unequipped to deal with - enflicted heavy casualties upon the Confederate armoured forces, destroying two MBTs, the Pride of the South and Freedom's Hammer. The backlash of the Enemy's surprise assault was vast, as it was made clear that the two enemy forces were now well and truly against the Confederacy.
Though the campaign was one of severe loss, the steely determination of the Confederate forces soon struck heavy blows into the Enemy forces. The assault progressed, with entire forts and encampments being levelled and looted every single day. However, the Enemy soon marshalled a retaliatory strike force in order to level their vengeance against the fighting men and women of our fair land.
It came to a point in the small coastal town of Peinevalli, where an enemy horde equivalent to six full Confederate Fighting Infantry divisions massed against the remnants of the 1st Armoured Warfare division. It was here that Captain Mark Bannon, then a Lai'man Ross Commander and also the acting CO of his forces, devised and employed overwhelming assaults and indomitable advances fuelled and supplied by the enemy's own resources - later dubbed as 'Kritzkrieg' warfare by foreign Traders - and took down the equivalent of a Confederate Light Cavalry division. His actions allowed the Confederate forces to simultaneously vacate the area and dispose of the Enemy's forces as they expedited their retreat.
Captain Bannon's exemplary command turned what may have been a bloodbath into a successful extraction. For this, he was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour second Class, promoted to Colonel, and placed in permanent command of the 1st Armoured Warfare Division. He is currently still in service, conducting counter-insurgency operations in the southern Confederate sectors that border the Badlands.

Grigori Lokarr, Lord Innevis

In the start of the thirty-fourth Confederate year, though peace was dubiously present on our nation's borders as well as along the Long Bleak trade route, the conditions of living for many of our great nation's citizens was still in quite deplorable straits.
Grigori, Lord Innevis, devised and applied his famous Reformation program - every registered citizen would get a Organic Processor in order to reduce the amount of bio-waste that our cities could not deal with, that itself being the bio-waste they could not transfer by river or by pipeline to the farming communities. The Organic processors reduced household waste by no less than 92%. Popular vote which later was enforced by Congress ordered the said Organic Processors - one of the few inventions found in plenty within the recently-discovered supply caches of the Old Ruined Cities - to be distributed to the largest families in order to more efficiently manage the waste produced.
Additionally, Lord Innevis instituted a Workman's College in the north of our fair nation, allowing many tech-savvy young men and women to gain a better education of the things they practice. The effects of this were that many settlements were improved - things as simple as dust and water filters gained great efficiency, allowing the struggling settlers to redirect their efforts from simply staying alive to advancing and improving their works, even profiting slightly from these efforts.
House Innevis of Washington city gained much as a result of Lokarr's humanitarian endeavours, and the Confederacy overall was improved, if only slightly. Lord Innevis Gregoriy was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honour third class, and was raised to a trusted advisor of General Maxwell II as a result of his actions. More so, we Tuzkinn people gained a thing thought long lost; hope.

Jokah Simms, Trader

During the thirty-fifth year of our Confederacy, the first Medal of Honour was awarded for respect to infamy rather than acknowledgement of heroic action. Trader Simms gained his Trader's License by way of near-blackmail rather than true dedication, and as such his history is as questionable as the practices of his business. Suitably, he was requested by Congress - in a rare feat of personal directive - to go and stabilize the Badlands, the long-despised home to mutants packs, slaver rings, bandit clans and ravenous hordes of beasts. Simms turned out to be one of the few that would prosper, though he would be the first that did it in a debatably legal fashion.
His trade operations stabilized the craven bandit clans and corrupt slaver rings momentarily. In exchange for functional machinery - rifles and water filters and the like - and supplies he amassed himself a large amount of slaves, which he proceeded to liberate and employ. In total, he had an estimated two regiments' worth of indentured workers, two thirds of them comprising of his newly-formed armed forces. His arsenal and equipment also grew exponentially.
Simms was a brutal operator in the back-room and hidden dealings of the Trader world. Even amongst other Traders and quite a few Wanderers, he gave harsh deals which would prove highly profitable over the extremely long term - he is still reaping the gains today. However, he did gain a distinctive trait of making sure that his trading partners' investments would turn out to be profitable to them over the long run.
In total, his efforts passively pacified the Badlands, all while profiting the Confederacy. His efforts have stymied the bandit and slaver hordes, instead of crushing them. The Badlands have been tamed somewhat, as slaver rings work to make their 'indentured servants' are better trained, more versatile and generally worth better money. As such, the Confederacy has enjoyed a decrease in the Enemy's assault from the southern Central Wasteland.
His estimated gains were as listed: Sixteen tons of supplies, four tons of mechanical supplies, twenty tons of Iron ore, four tons of medical supplies, sixteen cases of military-grade munitions, twenty [REDACTED] and the pride of his arsenal, a functional anti-materiel Plasma Cannon, christened the 'Dragon's Maw'. These gains truly proved Simms' business and trading acumen, and turned the man into a well sought-after trading partner.
By the end of his operations, Trader Simms had purchased himself a Skyship - an outlandish invention which sailed many miles above ground level, practically a ship in the sky. Within the ranks of the Traders, Simms acquired a vast reputation and large amounts of riches - the majority of which he spent on upgrading and improving his Skyship and his standing Armed Forces.
For his audacious efforts and activities, Jokah Simms was bestowed the Confederate Medal of Honour, second class, and was given the Star of Tuzk, as well as full permissions to trade over the borders of our free land without hindrance.


These heroes have all earned the recognition and in some case reverence of our fair nation, and all have contributed great things to our Confederacy's effort to survive in this Wasteland. For their endeavours, they shall be remembered.