National Secessionist Forces

The National Secessionist Forces (NSF) is a constitutionalist insurrection organization founded and led by Leon Woods against the US government. The NSF is classified as a terrorist organization by both the US government and UNATCO and is the successor to the New Sons of Freedom. They are the first antagonist in Deus Ex.

History
The NSF itself is the successor to the New Sons of Freedom, an anti-government constitutionalist organization that opperated in the West Coast of the United States and attempted to have them seceede from the Union. In 2031 the Northwest Secessionist Forces was the original name for the group and was founded one year after a major earthquake hit the west coast of the United States and submerged most of southern California underwater. The US government had declared all remaining areas of the west coast disaster areas and soon in 2031 Utah and Texas had been taken over by various paramilitary groups and had declared independence from the US in response to the authoritarian style rule that the US was under. Soon Washington State, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming had all been taken over by NSF troops and supported the call for secession and led to the start of the Northwest War. In response to this,  the US government had declared martial law and all attempts at secession had failed and the NSF had fled underground and remained hidden for years. In 2042 the NSF under the name of the National Secessionist Forces, had re-emerged in response to the signing of the Sporting Weapons Act affectivly aboliting the Second Ammendment and the confiscation of all firearms in civilian possestion. The newly formed NSF leader Leon Woods had soon took to the national stage announcing the NSF's refussal to give up their weapons and began to launch a new insurgency.