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I think a key point to remember is that NEMA was charged with the defense of the North American continent. With that in mind, they would probably have a larger size combat force, but not too large as mega damage weapons are still so new and cutting edge that even a fire team of NEMA Peacekeepers would be more than a match for a traditional force 10 times their size. Seems that numbers more akin to a special forces command per region, per continent would make the most sense.
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This isn't canon yet, as I have yet to include this information in a book, but the 10 US regional HQ I have planned for NEMA are: Seattle, Oakland, Denver, Denton (TX), Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly, New York, and Boston, obviously with a DC headquarters as well. Each of those covers a number of states. There's a map herethat covers it. Obviously most of those are in big trouble.

I have notes for the Canadian and Mexican hubs, but don't have those notebooks with me in Saudi. The Mexican ones are based around military commands, I think, and the Canadian ones were... I don't totally recall. It might have been based on major RCMP headquarters locations.
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The other question is "What happned to the U.S. Military?", if the U.S. Military is still around then technically the most senior officer of the Army assumes command of all the U.S. Forces and steps into the office of the President in case of total loss of gov't (as happened). Using that as a basis though says, to me, that NEMA would follow the same path as far as chain of command goes, with overall command going to the most senior officer. The exception I make is that the NEMA forces are NOT in the line of succession for the U.S. gov't, that being held strictly by the U.S. Military branches.
As far as where NEMA forces were based, Jason Richards' line up looks about right; if NEMA is centered around certain major metropolitan areas then they can more effectively aid those cities and the areas immediately surrounding them (it also makes them more vulnerable whem the poo hits the fan :lol: ).
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Jason Richards wrote:This isn't canon yet, as I have yet to include this information in a book, but the 10 US regional HQ I have planned for NEMA are: Seattle, Oakland, Denver, Denton (TX), Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly, New York, and Boston, obviously with a DC headquarters as well. Each of those covers a number of states. There's a map herethat covers it. Obviously most of those are in big trouble.

I have notes for the Canadian and Mexican hubs, but don't have those notebooks with me in Saudi. The Mexican ones are based around military commands, I think, and the Canadian ones were... I don't totally recall. It might have been based on major RCMP headquarters locations.


The 10 regions have been used in various goverment organizations for years. Here is one I found not to long ago online.
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Lt Gargoyle wrote:
Jason Richards wrote:This isn't canon yet, as I have yet to include this information in a book, but the 10 US regional HQ I have planned for NEMA are: Seattle, Oakland, Denver, Denton (TX), Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly, New York, and Boston, obviously with a DC headquarters as well. Each of those covers a number of states. There's a map herethat covers it. Obviously most of those are in big trouble.

I have notes for the Canadian and Mexican hubs, but don't have those notebooks with me in Saudi. The Mexican ones are based around military commands, I think, and the Canadian ones were... I don't totally recall. It might have been based on major RCMP headquarters locations.


The 10 regions have been used in various goverment organizations for years. Here is one I found not to long ago online.
http://youtu.be/MwQ55n21GZ0


Yes, they're the FEMA HQ. I thought I mentioned that. My bad.
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Very nice map.
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From write ups in the books so far and the entries in the rifts sourcebook one revised & expanded. It sounds like two brigades are stationed in each state. A brigade being roughly around 4000 men.
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One thing about NEMA that I think needs to be kept in mind by anyone using it or writing about it in the days, months, and years before the Rifts is that it is multi-national. That means that no NEMA unit can so much as wipe it's @$$ without permission in triplicate from Ottawa, D.C., and Mexico City. In every campaign I have done since NEMA was introduced I give this as the reason for the resurgence of the US military in the new cold war.

I also think this would prohibit NEMA from getting involved in the Guada Marta incident as Mexico would not want a big incursion so close to it's border or Canada may not want to spend its money or risk its people for something so far away.

Also, for anybody mixing regular military and NEMA keep in mind that they probably do not like and may not even trust each other that much. I mean the competition between regular military (MC vs. Army vs. AF vs. Navy vs. CG) is bad enough but could you imagine how they feel about an organization that all but replaced them for decades? Or how NEMA feels about a growing military that is getting more and more of it's funding as the new cold war grows. At the very least you are talking lots of tension.
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Grell wrote:I think a key point to remember is that NEMA was charged with the defense of the North American continent. With that in mind, they would probably have a larger size combat force, but not too large as mega damage weapons are still so new and cutting edge that even a fire team of NEMA Peacekeepers would be more than a match for a traditional force 10 times their size. Seems that numbers more akin to a special forces command per region, per continent would make the most sense.

If it is so new so cutting edge then there wouldn't have been SOME highways already done.
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Warshield73 wrote:One thing about NEMA that I think needs to be kept in mind by anyone using it or writing about it in the days, months, and years before the Rifts is that it is multi-national. That means that no NEMA unit can so much as wipe it's @$$ without permission in triplicate from Ottawa, D.C., and Mexico City. In every campaign I have done since NEMA was introduced I give this as the reason for the resurgence of the US military in the new cold war.

I also think this would prohibit NEMA from getting involved in the Guada Marta incident as Mexico would not want a big incursion so close to it's border or Canada may not want to spend its money or risk its people for something so far away.

Also, for anybody mixing regular military and NEMA keep in mind that they probably do not like and may not even trust each other that much. I mean the competition between regular military (MC vs. Army vs. AF vs. Navy vs. CG) is bad enough but could you imagine how they feel about an organization that all but replaced them for decades? Or how NEMA feels about a growing military that is getting more and more of it's funding as the new cold war grows. At the very least you are talking lots of tension.

CG is not military. It used to be DOT during times of peace so they could be used stateside and able to be called upon by DOD but now they are DHS. It is more likely that NEMA U.S. has subsumed the AOR and budgets of the DHS (including CG), FEMA and maybe the CDC and been given the responsibility and budgets of NORAD.
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