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Frontliner Story Pack

Story Pack | Originally released August 7th, 2020 | Last updated April 8th, 2023

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Synopsis

This pack is primarily focused around the Free Agents, Frontliners, and Frontline Bosses that make up the main hero factions in Swappernetters.

Note: Mustang not included in pack.

Run the rooftops as key Frontliners from the mythos, and rescue Arkansas from its oppressive new occupiers. Destroy the Tug, and allow the Sodality of Gerosha a fair chance to enter the state to help liberate it. Or become a cabal boss, and run mission control for your couriers, as you run key safehouses!

Deliver lessons to children that teach them real skills and values, to immunize them against Gina Swinton's mercilessly cruel and gender-theory-obsessed state indoctrination!

Sabotage Clamdor's overreaching military ambitions. Expose Arbini's false benevolence. Reveal the cost of what Thunders and Swean call "economic progress."

Help Tabitha Pang rescue her family from state oppression. Help Sarah and Tobias learn their destiny. Keep Mapacha del Fuego's legacy alive, even long after Marge Ramirez is depowered and imprisoned, through the Twirlflame Trio! Perform your operations diplomatically, and keep the Little Rock PD (secretly) on your side! Keep the Sodality Western Militia on the western frontier informed, so they can better prevent Chrome Kite expansion!

Can't get enough? Create original Frontliners, and let them meet the canon heroes of this series! Explore Little Rock's evolving architecture amid the Chrome Kite's political nightmare. Will you lead them to victory or ruin? In a world where superheroes have fallen, grassroots heroism must rise. It'll take faith, miracles, innovation, determination, communication, and more for the Sneakernet Underground to break their home state of the Society of the Icy Finger's totalitarian puppet regime!

Ready those flash drives, for an era when nothing online in Arkansas can be fully trusted. Data can be overwritten; but truth is not always easy to erase. Make those who wanted to erase it regret doing so!

Note: Games themselves are ® and © Electronic Arts. Dozerfleet is not affiliated with EA Games.

Backstory

The year is 2029. The Sodality of Gerosha is scattered and exhausted. Its members are in hiding, imprisoned, or under heavy surveillance. Residents in the Icy Finger-occupied state of Arkansas will now have to fend for themselves. And they now have the means: Swappernetters!

Enter the Chrome Kite

Rappaccini has put his Marlquaanite Prison Suspended Animation Field devices - now commonly referred to as "the Tug" - all around the border of Arkansas, which he has renamed "Arkonia." This Tug is one of the most well-protected infrastructures in the conquered land, and is set up to capture "like flies in flypaper" any Marlquaanite or sufficiently powerful Phexo or Meethexo that would dare try to enter the land.

Likewise, SCALLOP and the Toklisanan military cannot enter the land to liberate it. And with the Sodality also unable to get in, Arkonians have to look to each other for answers - at least, until they find a way to bring down the Tug, and bring an end to the Society of the Icy Finger's having enslaved the masses!

There are a handful of resisters of tyranny who know where the blueprints are - and where the security codes are - to shut down the Tug one subsystem at a time. However, they lack the means to infiltrate and successfully steal these. The puppet rulers Rappaccini put in charge, dubbed the "Chrome Kite," seemed to rule with a diamond-tipped titanium fist!

The Swappernetter Society resistance requires thieves who can practically walk through walls, run like rabbits, and eat bullets with few ill effects. And that's not even getting into the weirder forms of security in place!

Rise of the Swappernetter Society

A religious war

Citizens rightly offended by the blatant pederasty, bestiality, and grooming in Gina Swinton's curriculum materials began taking measures into their own hands. They saw the reaction of Rappaccini to being personally threatened by Maurice the Ferryman, an Angel of Death; and instantly knew that the real nature of the Icy Finger's conquest had little in the end to do with mere money, resources, politics, or distribution of wealth (the usual suspects.)

This was, at its heart, a religious war that the Icy Finger had declared! It had its roots all the way going back to Babel. The Chrome Kite wanted to re-create the mythical Abdygalis, and to overthrow God himself - or destroy the universe in trying! One of the Chrome Kite's main areas of attack involved using pre-existing 2014 education standards to have the state monopolize the education of youth.

Roots

The earliest founding of the Swappernetter Resistance dated back to Anthony Partel, back in the early 2000s. He was a young advocate of parkour and of private education, as well as a friend of the late Joo-Chin Pang - Tabitha's grandfather. Outraged over the fact that Joo-Chin was murdered for his resistance against Kevin Jennings during Fistgate, Anthony moved to Arkansas. He became a huge advocate of extreme sports, including freerunning and parkour. He taught self-defense classes, as well as encouraged families to home school whenever possible. He was also very critical of Common Core, or anything it would be rebranded to - as well as anything else which gave government too much say in what was "qualifying knowledge."

His activities in this continued until his death in 2025, when he became a martyr at the hands of the Screwworm Network. Lack of empathy from state officials, as they continued to put the squeeze on non-government-run schools, resulted in a backlash from about a third of the population - though only a few thousand were successful at resisting further efforts by bureaucrats to monopolize education.

Growth

Many early Swappernetters were former members of the Navyrope Society started by Vince Finton, who wanted a more low-key and less violent approach to keeping to the Navyrope mission than what Vince put into place.

Keeping to the principles of Anthony Partel, this society became known as the "Sneakernet Underground," or "Swappernetters." This name was derived from their philosophy of always swapping information through offline means, lest online bad actors should ever corrupt their information and destroy knowledge.

The Chrome Kite's aggressive and ultra-violent campaign to eradicate the Sneakernet Underground from the face of the planet - in order to secure its Common Core-inspired totalitarian curriculum - forced the Swappernetters in some cases to live literally underground, vowing to one day overthrow their oppressors - even if the rest of Arkansas were too scared to assist them!

This led to the development of Frontline Camps - a special class of Apprentices (dubbed "Frontliners") and their Mentors within Swappernetter Society that did more than just attempt to avoid notice from Chrome Kite forces. These would actively defend others - Swappernetters or otherwise - from overreach and hostile assault by Chrome Kite troops. They would also look for ways to undermine security and control, and to relay information to allies outside Arkonia's borders (such as SCALLOP.)

The Swappernetters' hopes were to get enough of the right blueprints and other important data relayed back to Texas in time to convince Congress that the time had finally arrived to launch an invasion - or, to let the Sodality of Gerosha reconvene.

Meanwhile, what remained of the Sodality in exile had formed a militia to defend the slow-in-being-reclaimed western territories from any chance of Chrome Kite expansion. The Sodality Western Militia's ability to reclaim their honor as the heroes they once were now depended on the Swappernetter Society achieving most of its goals.

Escalation

The Chrome Kite responded by adjusting the Tug so that it would allow for certain Marlquaanite creations of its own, to give them that much more of an unfair advantage. Much to the Chrome Kite's frustration, it was never able to recover the one Marlquaanite ruby it most prized: Hester's Locket. This was in spite raiding Hea Pang's home - and putting her in prison.

The ruby remained with whereabouts unknown to them. In truth, Hea had secretly hired Zize and Amado Marcones to smuggle it to Shaniqua - who then gave it to Mallorie Wade-Philippine for safekeeping. Mallorie elected to hide Hester's Locket where she believed that only she, Lex, and Silo (or anyone with their codes) would ever again be able to find it - signaling that the Icy Finger would never get to claim it! However, Tabitha Pang and a few of her friends used a different ruby they'd recovered to transfer the powers of Mapacha del Feugo to themselves - allowing Marge Ramirez to retire.

As a result, the Twirlflame Trio was born. This specialized group consisted of Tabitha herself, Tobias Reno, and Sarah Ruben - Tabby's old cellmate. The three of them would often embark on missions deemed too dangerous for ordinary Frontliners, as their abilities via Marge gave them a fighting chance against the Stagtars and Microwave Mouths. However, they'd face many other enemies too: Bliksemhek, Sicklesaw, Lady Chillingworth, etc.

Swappernetter Operations

All the Fosters, Professors, Chaplains, Free Agents, and Frontline Bosses answer, in their own words: "First to God, second to each other, third to Mr. Trussel, and we pretend the Chrome Kite is fourth." All Fosters, Professors, Chaplains, Free Agents, and Frontline Bosses have a common enemy in Gina Swinton.

Especially for the faithful among them; focus on preserving faith, Law, and Gospel understanding and belief among members is considered a top priority. A secondary priority, only slightly less and shared even for the less-religious among Swappernetters, is defeating Gina's evil curriculum, a practice dubbed "Mantiswork."


BluePaxWork: Tabitha is brought in for questioning, but doesn't resist arrest. She wants to keep LRPD on the Sneakernet Underground's side, even if they have to feign loyalty to the Chrome Kite regime.	MancerWork: Sarah Ruben steals data on the Tug, by walking through walls to retrieve it. Destroying the Tug allows the Sodality of Gerosha a fighting chance to reconvene, enter Arkansas, and liberate it. Hence, the old heroes are "raised from the dead," hence the necromancy metaphor.

However, each Frontline Boss is permitted to emphasize tackling of one of Trussel's other targets: Mousework (sabotaging and distracting the Hgs, military, and the Screwworms), Mancerwork (bringing down the Tug), BluePaxwork (keeping the regular police hostilities minimized), Bunnywork (relaying data with outside sympathizers), Corazowork (charity), CReNwork (hacking and cybersecurity ops), Roosterwork (undermining state propaganda), and Frontwork (cover jobs, to maintain illusion of conformity to Chrome Kite society.)

To learn more, please visit the article about this on the Dozerfleet Database.

Playable characters

Trista Clarion Codename: Cotlos Elder • 12 KB Computer Whiz - Quick Learner, • Perfectionist, Geek, Maker • Artist, Sage	Rev. Renald Reginald Beauregard Adult • 8 KB Nerd Brain - Quick Learner Good, Family-Oriented, Bookworm • Sage, Caregiver
Tabitha Pang Codenames: Jolt Figment, Vanessa Chartreuse Young Adult • Notable Newcomer • 12 KB Rennaisance Sim - Quick Learner • Maker, Active, Perfectionist	Sarah Ruben Codenames: Plum Kitten, Mona Reece Young Adult • 9 KB Friend of the World - Gregarious • Outgoing, Kleptomaniac, Bro Jester, Caregiver
Tobias Reno Codenames: Diceroy, Jake Hambone Young Adult • 8 KB Chief of Mischief - Dastardly • Self-Assured, Hot-Headed, Active • "Sinister", Hero	Pete Hassler Codename: Xenotime Adult • Notable Newcomer • 95 KB Party Animal - Gregarious • Perfectionist, Cheerful, Insider • Artist, Jester
Cassidy Verner Codename: Atroce Young Adult • 107 KB Computer Whiz - Quick Learner • Geek, Insider, Good • Jester, Sage	Selina Travin Codename: Triflow Young Adult • 92 KB Computer Whiz - Quick Learner • Paranoid, Squeamish, Geek • Artist, Sage
Jordan Sterlie Codename: Topaz Blinker Young Adult • 93 KB Soulmate - Alluring • Self-Assured, Active, Insider • Master Crafter, Lover, Hero	Bret Kamhold Codename: Kangaroo Adult • 84 KB Bestselling Author - Muser • Hot-Headed, Bookworm, Perfectionist • Entrepreneur, Artist
Charlie Cleems Codename: Chanticleer Young Adult • 101 KB Joke Star - Gregarious • Loves the Outdoors, Childish • Lover, Jester.

Note: Teen characters are only aged up to adults in this pack so that they can be sent on adventures without their high school schedules interfering, since The Sims 4 does not, by default, have a homeschooling setting - let alone any education format consistent with what the Sneakernet Underground actually performs. Players may use cheats or mods to de-age them back to teens at the player's discretion.

Playable lots

Trista's Residence - Canon version Cabal: Clarion 1524 W. 19th St. Little Rock, AR 72202 🧭 34°43'52.4984" N, 92°17'26.6567" W Residential • 40x30 • 4 Bedrooms • 2 Bathrooms • §121,143 • 332 KB Special notes: Officially, there are only four bedrooms on the property. However, the hospital in Trista's mission control room arguably counts as a fifth bedroom. This house's interior is speculation, since no photos on Realtor.com existed that showed the interior.	Trista's Residence - Draft Version, from Both Seasons Cabal: Clarion 1524 W. 19th St. Little Rock, AR 72202 🧭 34°43'52.4984" N, 92°17'26.6567" W Residential • 3 Bedrooms • 2 Bathrooms Season 1: §155,700 • 271 KB Season 2 futurized: §184,596 • 228.8 KB Home Studio, Peace and Quiet, Private Dwelling Special notes: While this story pack was created before the release of Dream Home Decorator, that pack would assist with giving Tobias some work to do when not helping Tabby and Sarah on performing Mancerwork. Officially, there are only three bedrooms on the property. However, the hospital in Trista's mission control room arguably counts as a fourth bedroom. While there are pragmatically speaking only 2 actual bathrooms, the backyard has a bush that arguably counts as a "third bathroom." An already-renovated version can be downloaded for PC and Mac versions of the game from Mod the Sims.
Bret's Residence - Canon Version Cabal: Kamhold 924 Roseclair Dr. North Little Rock, AR 72117 🧭 34°43'52.4984" N, 92°17'26.6567" W Residential • 30x20 • 1 Bedrooms • 1 Bathroom • §58,109 • 332 KB Special notes: Officially, there are only two bedrooms on the property in-game, even though the real house allegedly has three. However, the Murphy bed hidden inside the living room couch debatably makes the living room a third bedroom. This house's interior is speculation, since no photos on Realtor.com existed that showed the interior.	Bret's Residence - Draft Version Cabal: Kamhold 924 Roseclair Dr. North Little Rock, AR 72117 🧭 34°45'39.1099" N, 92°12'8.7377" W Residential • 30x20 • 1 Bedroom • 1 Bathroom §53,814 • 201 KB Great Soil, Private Dwelling • Off the Grid Special notes: The living room couch hides a Murphy bed, which doubles as another bedroom. The one bush doubles as a second toilet.
Pete's Residence Cabal: Hassler Forest Place Apartments Located near 1400 N. Pierce St. Little Rock, AR 72207 🧭 34°45'52.8449" N, 92°20'18.0424" W Residential • 30x20 • 2 Bedrooms • 2 Bathrooms §69,639 • 165 KB Home Studio, Eco Lot, Fast WiFi Special notes: This is a standard residential lot, posing as an apartment. It was made to function without the apartment logic of For Rent. Players may make it a proper apartment by that pack's logic if they so choose. The living room sofa contains a Murphy bed, which allows the living room to double as a third bedroom. Hassler's apartment uses the Magnolia floor plan apartment from Forest Place. This lot replaces the earlier actual in-game apartment on a different lot in the same neighborhood, that had been designated as the model for Hassler's apartment as of the summer of 2020. This was due to the dependency of that other lot on TwistedMexi's T.O.O.L. mod in order to put balcony objects on the balcony properly, given the game didn't count the balcony as part of an apartment. This simple fix often made the original lot buggy. Hassler gained a lot more beds and closets, but had to forfeit some of his plants and other miscellaneous decorations, due to floor plan restrictions. Gallery hashtags: #Swappernetters, #littlerock, #apartment, #arkansas, #reallife, #real, #dozerfleet, #gerosha