Brass and Banners: Frontier Fighting and Confronting the Confederates

[u/Byrdman216]

On the western edge of the Wyoming Territory, in the year 1899, sits a fort that is on the frontlines of a war they don't want to wage. Fort Mavani' as the native Shoshone call it, sits to the eastern side of the Teton River. On the other side used to be Shoshone land until the Neo-Confederates somehow seized it. Airships have been shot down by a mysterious weapon, and the trains heading to and from Seattle have been raided. Tensions are high, and the mechanized infantry is still on it's way from Missouri.

You have wandered into the town near the fort, a Shoshone settlement called Sohovi one of the few they have as permanent settlements in their territory. It's usually a thriving town, but since the trains stopped coming through the town is struggling. You are stopped by a mechanical soldier with a feather in his cap. He ticks and steam occasionally shoots out of a pipe leading out from his head. He speaks from a metal grill in his mouth.

"Halt! Identify yourself!" The native soldier next to the mechanical man speaks up, "Don't be so harsh Dembi." The native soldier has adorned his uniform with native patterns. His long black hair has been braided, "I am Private Tyhee. What's your name?"

(Steampunk with little to no magic.)