Of the two factions, the US Remnants were a mostly land-based threat, while the pirate fleets attacked by sea, sailing up through Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca from the south. In the year 2198, the Republic of Cascadia was founded, and immediately found itself in conflict with two factions, a few US Military Remnant-controlled bunkers that refused to surrender and join the republic, and the gangs of pirates from the Seattle Wasteland.
Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca, former BC and WA The beached wreck of a pirate-controlled fishing boat on the shore of the Hood Canal