“Stability Is Never Free.”
Federal Continuity Stronghold
Naval Command Anchorage
Reclamation Forward Operating Hub
Restricted — Internal Distribution Only
Seward is not governed by a mayor, council, or civilian authority.
It is governed by layered command.
At the surface level, civilians interact with uniformed logistics officers, harbor masters, and public-facing administrators. Beneath that lies a rigid military hierarchy designed to ensure no single failure can cripple the city.
Northern Continuity Command (NCC)
Oversees all Alaskan population centers. Anchorage handles strategic coordination; Seward executes.
Seward Defense Command (SDC)
A joint force combining Army, Navy, and National Guard remnants. Responsible for:
Wall security
Harbor defense
Internal response units
Civil compliance enforcement
Naval Anchorage Authority
Commands all maritime assets in Resurrection Bay, including patrol craft, converted cruise vessels, and the flagship dreadnought.
Orders do not flow upward.
They flow down.
The most powerful surviving weapon platform in the continental United States does not patrol the ocean.
It rests in Resurrection Bay.
The USS Providence is a modernized naval dreadnought, fully operational, fully crewed, and permanently anchored within the bay’s natural defenses. It serves as:
Presidential residence
Federal command hub
Strategic deterrent
Symbol of absolute authority
Its guns are real.
Its missile systems are live.
Its electronic warfare suites dominate the region.
The ship can flatten a city.
Everyone knows this.
President Robert Estes and immediate family
Cabinet remnants
High-clearance federal officials
Strategic advisors
Intelligence directors
Select industrial magnates and specialists
The Providence is not just a warship.
It is a floating capital.
Resurrection Bay is not merely defended—it is engineered.
Sonar nets at bay entrance
Submerged barriers and controlled choke points
Patrol craft operating on staggered schedules
Minefields (selectively armed, remotely controlled)
Shore-mounted artillery disguised within harbor infrastructure
Civilian vessels are tracked continuously.
Unauthorized craft do not receive warnings.
They are removed.
The bay ensures Seward cannot be besieged from the sea.
And the dreadnought ensures it never needs to retreat.
The wall around Seward is not a single structure.
It is a system.
Concrete barriers at ground level
Steel fencing with inward-facing reinforcement
Elevated watch platforms every 200 meters
Kill corridors built into road approaches
Controlled entry gates with layered authentication
The wall is designed to:
Funnel movement
Separate civilians from response units
Delay mass incursions long enough for overwhelming force
The wall has been tested.
Entire infected waves have died against it.
And so have people.
Seward is watched more closely than any other civilian settlement in the country.
Domestic Continuity Intelligence (DCI)
Military Counter-Insurgency Units
Behavioral Compliance Analysts
Signal Intercept Teams
Every radio transmission is monitored.
Every ship manifest is reviewed.
Every civilian is logged.
There are no anonymous people in Seward.
Just files.
Seward is not meant to last forever as it is.
It is a launch point.
From here, reclamation teams deploy southward:
Into destabilized cities
Toward contested zones like Redhaven
Against factions refusing alignment
These teams include:
Military engineers
Armed recovery units
Intelligence handlers
Criminal auxiliaries offered pardons
Some return with supplies.
Some return with stories that never make it into official records.
Seward’s success is built on selection.
Not everyone is allowed in.
Not everyone is allowed to stay.
Not everyone is allowed to leave.
Entry requires sponsorship, skill verification, or federal assignment
Exit requires authorization
Long-term residents are evaluated continuously
People deemed:
Unstable
Subversive
Excessively independent
Politically dangerous
…are reassigned.
Sometimes to labor crews.
Sometimes to reclamation zones.
Sometimes to places that do not appear on maps.
There are civilians who arrive in Seward and are never permitted to board a ship south.
Not because they are criminals.
Because they know too much.
Engineers who understand the dreadnought’s vulnerabilities
Civilians who witness classified transfers
Workers who see beyond the curtain
They are not imprisoned.
They are absorbed.
New jobs.
New housing.
Permanent residency.
Freedom traded for silence.
People here understand something others do not:
Safety is conditional.
Order is enforced.
Hope is curated.
The wall does not only keep the dead out.
It keeps the truth contained.
Seward is not the future of America.
It is the argument for it.
A demonstration that civilization can persist—
If it is watched.
If it is armed.
If it is willing to decide who matters.
Beyond the wall, the world burns.
Inside it, people sleep.
And above it all, the guns of the Providence remain silent—
Not because they are unnecessary.
But because everyone knows what happens when they are not.