Great North Icerail Crisis: Difference between revisions

The official name for the Cascadian icerail network was the "National Cascadian Icerail System". However, it was more commonly referred to as "CasGate", which was the name of a 2023 Department of Interior program to repair and extend the icerail network.

As 2023 progressed, the Department of Interior began to pay increasingly less attention to icerail projects, instead focusing on building projects, such as [[Project Fresno]]. Entering 2024, this began to be the cause of general dissatisfaction amongst Cascadians. Several representatives, including some of those from the Frontier, began to ran on campaigns promising improved national infrastructure. Within government channels, including the [[Girlboss GC]], notable political leaders began complaining about the state of the system. With Project Fresno wrapping up in January 2024, Secretary of Interior Moxie decided that she was now ready to begin the process of repairing and upgrading the national icerail system.  

=== Resistance Efforts ===

[[File:NorthernIcerailHV.webp|left|thumb|433x433px|An icerail intersection showing the Northern Icerail and National Icerail in Husky Valley, Johnstone County]]

Shortly after the Icerail Preservation Act was signed into law, it was broken by Great North mayor Orbitz. Orbitz was mayor of Fairview, in present-day [[Nelson County]]. The mayor had disconnected the icerail traveling through his town in protest of the new law, which he considered to be a violation of his town's constitutional rights. Orbitz had previously been a member of the [[Rocky Mountain Federation]], a rebel nation that fought with Cascadia during the [[RMF Wars]]. Due to this fact, the government initially felt that Orbitz was a lone agitator attempting to sabotage the government. This assumption was corrected not long after when other mayors in the Great North began to join in the protest against the law.

=== The Great North Icerail Company ===

[[File:FresnoIcerail.webp|thumb|418x418px|The Fresno Icerail in Fresno, San Joaquin County]]

Around a week after the Icerail Preservation Act was signed into law, the outraged mayors in the Great North organized their opposition into the Great North Icerail Company (GNIC). The company was founded by Paper1emur, RuffWoof, and Orbitz, with the goal of managing their own private system of icerails in the Great North. The town of Castle John, owned by xHydre, in present-day [[Klondike County]], also joined the company the next day. The GNIC claimed ownership over all icerails within the member towns, the icerails connecting member towns, and all icerails that they would build in the future. This was immediately met with protest from the Department of Interior, as Moxie felt that the company would threaten the consistency of the national icerail system.