Chief Harvey Williamson (Codex, Coal King)

  Harvey is the only son of coal miners and would live deep within poverty as he grew up and like his father and grandfather before him Harvey would end up working in the mines once he was 13 and join the military at the age of 17…mind you this was in the 1800’s, so the rules where different and we aren’t sure when and if it was even in the 1800’s it could be the 1700’s for Christ’s Sake! Harvey’s past is clouded in mystery and he has been part of history for some time, we know for a fact that he fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War though there are some historians that think Codex here actually fought in the American Revolution. So again unless this gunfighter sits down for an interview this will remain a mystery, we only know that he started his life as a coal miner and eventually would become a legendary gunfighter and finally a world class journalist.

   Harvey’s FIP records state that he was first injected on the 30th day of June 1850 and he was part of the West Virginia Cavalry an officer at the time and friend of the Native people. One can assume that he was an adult by the Civil War but again we are simply assuming. I found reports that he graduated West Point…though for a coal miners son this seems to be a bit of a stretch, but I found an old oil painting of Harvey in the archives when I visited West Point last year, though it didn’t have a year on it and the archivist couldn’t place the age of the painting. Again more of the mystery that is Codex and more answers left unanswered, all we do know is that he served in the military from 1850 – 1972 according to his FIP records and he was a scourge on the battlefield and the open plains.

   Harvey would be listed as a Colonel upon his injection and already quite old, though we assume he was far older then reported and the FIP injection was simply to mask the fact that he is immortal. Harvey would fight in the Civil War and the Spanish American War as part of the cavalry and truly give them hell during the later part of the nineteenth century, and come 1900 he like others would find himself stripped of his commission, thrust back into enlisted status and become a slave to the US Government. Once a hero and suddenly forgotten, abused, and sent to die in the fields of sorrow with the rest of his FIP brothers.

     Some say that it would be the way the FIP were treated that would create an entire generation of Anti-Establishment, and Anti-Government Anarchists that are many of these neglected and abused bastards. I mean no disrespect to the veterans of the FIP but seriously many of your ilk are real bastards and many seem to be proud of it, simply put Codex here is not a nice person and not someone that gives a damn about how he is viewed and it’s not just him look at Montgomery Palpatine, Rusty Palpatine, Wilhuff Palpatine, Maxwell Irving, Orson White, Douglas Howell, and Arthur Swanson for starters and this list goes pretty deep and includes many that are actually working for the government of the UCAS.

     Codex would go through hell while in the military and find himself numerous time within the medical camps getting meatball surgery and simply running off to fight once again half dead, he like the others simply begged for death and death was simply ignoring them. This is good for them and good for their families, but this was not good for the general public many years later when these FIP would be dumped back into civilian life; mentally scarred, jaded, and very cynical. This would be the case for Codex and he would exit the military after being declared unfit for duty after being shot numerous times in the jungles of Vietnam and to make matters worse his litter would fall out of a helicopter. The US Army would unceremoniously dump this war hero back in West Virginia still leaking fluids and with nothing but his uniform, duffel, and his service rifle; Codex would have only the cash in his wallet and have to find a way to survive with no pension, and no medical benefits.

     This once coal miner would simply fall back on his old skills and before his wounds were fully healed he was back in the mine getting soot into his blood and once again making a home within the Smokey Mountains. It would be during this period between 1972-1992 that Harvey Williamson would forge his future while digging in the mines, he would settle within a small coal mining town and start to put away money for his great escape from the mining business. He would marry the local barmaid and father 3 sons and 2 daughters that would go onto give him dozens of little grandchildren and great grandchildren. Harvey would seem to have the true rags to riches story, when one evening he would find a coal deposit on his land that would allow him to apply for a mining voucher and become an owner versus just a miner. This luck would follow with the discovery of oil and the rest is history and Codex would hang up the soot covered overalls for the business suits and never look back.

       Well sort of never look back, this mine owner was one that would go down under with a pick in his hands and come out with his white dress shirt soot covered and his skin once again stained, but he would show those new miners how it’s done and it would be this attitude and his moxy that would make him the man he is today. He made his fortune of fossil fuels and now he fights to bring and end to the reliance on it and how to better production for the environment. Williamson might have been an honest landowner, miner, and businessman but he was also West Virginian tough and one man that you didn’t fuck with or ever cross, lets simply say that if you die in a coal mine…that’s where you will be buried and forgotten.

    You can say that he was an evil man seeing he did murder many and leave them to rot inside one of his mines and buried within the walls and covered in soot, this is exactly how Harvey would become the Coal King of West Virginia and eventually one of the richest men in North America as he would simply blow his competitors away and simply purchase the land at auction for a bellow market price…some say that he threatened other potential buyers to let him win if they knew what was best for them, and knowing Codex and the people he had working for him at the time I could very much believe it. This man brought the old west back to West Virginia and he was the king of the pistol, he was the man in the black suit and black hat, he was the man with the large iron on his hip, and he was the man that buried many deep within the mine.

    Harvey Williamson would go onto college during this period as a way to show his children that education is important and one should never squander an opportunity to better oneself, he would raise his family with strong values, and an even stronger work ethic. Harvey would eventually find himself thrust into local politics to save the mines, and the mining industry that was under attack for it’s impact on the environment. Even though he agreed with the science and agreed with the protestors, he had an obligation to his miners, his executives, and his family to keep the mines and drills open and producing. Codex would win the seat in the West Virginia State Senate and eventually become the Governor of the great state of West Virginia and sit for his two terms, this would upset environmentalists as the Coal King was not scene as an ally but an enemy, though Williamson was far more progressive then originally believed.

   During his 12 years in office Williamson improved life for West Virginians by increasing minimum wage, increasing the miners wage, creating a medical fund to treat black lung, improving life overall for his citizens and they repaid him in kind. Codex would take to journalism after his final term as governor and he would never look back and become one hell off a reporter and a true nightmare for those in the same industry that made him a very wealthy man and still currently does. Codex basically would expose the greed, the corruption in DC, and make life hell for anyone that wasn’t part of the Williamson Mining Company…Hell they names a town after him for Christs Sake!

    This is one man that you don’t fuck with Period!! He is the king of the Coal Mafia in West Virginia and he will bury your ass in one of the hundreds of mines he owns throughout West Virginia and if that’s not bad he has access to mines in other states that he owns….ya he is the Coal King! So how did this once miner, FIP solider, and politician turn into one of the most feared gunfighters in the country…well that’s cause he was always one of the most dangerous gunfighters and he simply needed an excuse to start killing people openly. Lucky for him a rival in Pennsylvania was up for the challenge to dethrone the Coal King and even would go as far as to murder Harvey’s wife, abduct, rape, and force his grand daughter to marry him and birth a child; yup basically enrage a man that put zero value on human life and they thought this was a good idea….idiots all of them!

    Now according to history the ever burning mine in Pennsylvania (PA) started in 1962…well it might have started then, but it is still burning today thanks to Harvey and you can thank Codex here for tearing down the coal mining industry in PA that he didn’t already own and making damned sure the iron industry would come crumbling down and leaving his factories untouched. Now stories state that Williamson went on a bloody rampage tearing through the mining world looking for his granddaughter and looking for his rival and this hunt would bring Codex all the way out west where he would meet his rival Gregory Shelton somewhere in the Nevada desert and after an epic confrontation it would be Harvey walking away into the sunset. Though he would as well have a knife driven into his back from his granddaughter Evelyn while she was defending her husband, Codex would eventually have to shoot and kill his own granddaughter to save his own life and according to Williamson that was the hardest shot he ever had to take…”Though when your own flesh and blood is lunging at you with a hunting knife, and your already shot to shit, stabbed, sliced, and bleeding that survival instinct kicks in and once words failed it was one right between the eyes and goodnight.”

    Now that is very cold blooded but he had to also understand that his granddaughter was lost to him and it was a kill or be killed situation and not one that I would want to make. Now what happened to his great grandchild? Well he would eventually become another casualty in the Williamson and Shelton war, when at the age of 18 Gregory Shelton Jr, would catch Harvey Williamson at the Williamson Elementary while he was speaking at his great granddaughters class for career day. Greg Jr. would enter the school with an automatic rifle, tons of ammunition, and a death wish. In what would become the Williamson Massacre where 30 children under the age of ten would be gunned down and it would be the highly wounded and caught off guard Harvey that would bring the shooter to his bloody end. Reports indicate that Greg Junior would die with a smile on his face and his last words being “Did I get the bastard?”….sorry kid you didn’t but he surly got you.

    This event really traumatized Harvey as he lost three of his great grandchildren, his grandson a teacher, and one of his sons that was the school principal; with his great granddaughter dying in his arms as he screamed for the police that were delayed in their response. This would thrust the award winning journalist right back into politics and as well send him on a warpath that he might have never recovered from it it hadn’t been for his friends in the FIP especially Robert Churchill, Maxwell Irving, Orson White, and Montgomery Palpatine. Codex would become a drunk, and addict but he was skilled enough to conceal it from public view as he ran a long hard fight for the US Senate. His anger boiled over to the point that he went on a personal quest to genocide the Shelton family and lets just say if the law enforcement…..fucking all of them, did their jobs Harvey would be in jail and not collecting a senators salary for life. According to reports from locals, they would report hearing multiple gunshots coming from the homes of the Shelton family and a man matching Williamsons description leaving the homes after, police reports indicate that everyone in the homes was killed…this included children and in multiple cases the infants.

   Codex basically annihilated his rivals family and most of there extended family as well, he killed them all and we can only assume he had help from his goons and friends…but that’s an assumption. Though no charges where ever filed, he was never questioned, and ever since former POTUCAS Oliver McKeen’s last term he has officially pardoned all of the FIP for any and all crimes they have ever committed…so basically Harvey Williamson will never see the inside of a courtroom and justice will never be served, as for vigilante justice well that’s a hard Fuck No…This bastard is FIP for starters, he is cold blooded and shoots first than ask questions, he is Santa Fe Ring and finally he is Alexandrian Defense Force as well as something called a Courier. There is no one willing to engage Codex let alone any of the back up he will be with and that can include the Pale Rider, War King, Caps, War God, Jersey Devil, Rifter and I-80 for starters….and that doesn’t take into count any of his own goons.

    Harvey Williamson is not a good man, though many can say he is product of the government and one that they really screwed in the head. He is a product of greed and a family rivalry on the level of the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s, this man is a cold blooded killer with a conscious that has been sitting on a shelf for sometime. He would find himself heading west at some point and setting up shelter in Santa Fe and eventually Alexandria and one can assume he now lives in the NCR seeing he it is reported that he is a NCR Ranger Chief and not just the Chief but the Chief of Chiefs. Seeing the NCR, Alexandria, and Southwest Trinity simply accept men like Harvey in there ranks, and they hand him a job and basically say it’s okay we understand. I can understand why we are now having a issue with the youth wanting to emulate them, look the President handed out get out of jail free cards to a bunch of murderers and the media simply exploits these men and thrusts them into the pop culture as something to idolize and worship….for fucks sake I have scene the Coal King cartoon, comic books, video games, and action figures; my son wanted to go as Codex for Halloween last year. My wife green lighted it not knowing I was working on this article and doing the research into the Coal King, lets just say when my boy walked out of his room in a suit and tie for school I smiled thinking he was emulating me or his grandfather…boy was I wrong, when I watched my wife put the makeup on and yes it included the facial scars he got from the shoot out with his rival and well during his time in the FIP. She did his hair and I mean it was damned good, then my boy put a toy revolver into the holster and some charcoal dust on his white shirt, I asked “Who are you supposed to be?” he replied with “I am the Coal King Daddy….the vanquisher of injustice.”

      Even being early in my research I knew this was an issue….The Coal King is the Vanquisher of Justice maybe but seriously my ten year old son saw this man as a super hero and my wife hadn’t the foggiest clue about him, outside of Harvey Williamson being a former Mayor, State Senator, Governor, and US Senator she thought he was wanting to dress up as a West Virginian Politician for some reason. I felt it was imperative to sit them both down and explain what I learned about the Coal King and how he was a really evil man with countless murders connected to him and how he basically skated the law and simply lives by the motto of “Justice in the Barrel of a Loaded Gun” and is not a man to idolize but one to avoid and never become like. This didn’t have the impact I was expecting as all it did was leave my son in tears and my wife yelling at me…guess facts can’t trump pop culture and I lost this fight and out the door he went dressed as the infamous Coal King.

      My situation is not unique and has become a problem throughout the NAA (North American Alliance) as the popularity of these cartoons and games explodes, the kids are taunted with limited edition figures, excusive figures, and so on. Only in the NAA can a killer become a hero and only in the NAA can a child become a killer because of it, yes our young are actually emulating there hero’s and killing people simply to become famous. I just read about a child that was gunned down by the police for trying to copy the legendary Codex gunfight, yup a 13 year old boy shot and killed another child stating that he was trying to outshine him and when the police arrived he did as he thought Codex would and started shooting at the police…now this ended poorly as the child was gunned down, though if Codex actually fired upon the police I can state with certain level of fact that when the smoke cleared it would be Codex standing and police dead.

     This boy didn’t understand that what he saw on the TV was fantasy and not reality, he didn’t understand that Codex has centuries worth of experience, magical abilities as a Gunslinger Adept, cyber, and bio implants….not to mention a tactile computer and some sort of weird wrist computer and something called a Turbo GRX system. He moves at blinding speed and even slowing it down to the slowest speed it still moves to fast…ya no child can emulate that period. Though I have scene one come damn close and that scared the shit out of me, ya don’t fuck with the one they call 8-Bit…ya he is no child, that is an adult in a kids body. Now we are being inodiated with FTW Tribe Merchandise that started to hit the shelves and of course my son had to have the shirt, hat and hoodie and my wife obliged…from what I learned recently about the FTW Tribe I can say I will be stepping in and shutting that shit down.

     Now back to the Coal King and well there isn’t really much more to report about him other then he is evil, he has whiskey for blood, and a block of ice for a heart. This man once fought for our freedom and democracy, though doubtful he ever had a conscious and doubtful he ever actually gave a damn about America other then how can I get revenge for how I was treated. He gave into his greed, and started a war that left countless dead and forgotten, how many bodies are forever lost within the mines of West Virginia and yet he is allowed to serve as law enforcement within the Ring, NCR, and ADF. He is pardoned and given a clean slate…for fucks sake he didn’t need that, seeing he was never investigated, never faced a jury, and simply allowed to murder freely. Codex is someone that Hollywood deems appropriate to glorify and that I find disgusting, they have killed more children this way either by them coping his adventures or going after Codex and trying to become famous. Needless to say when he guns down a child with a gun pointed at him it’s self defense and he has qualified immunity so what’s one more notch on his pistol.

   His defenders state that Williamson is a honorable man, he is a patriot, he is a warrior for the environment, and he is a warrior for justice. They try to paint this killer as a hero and not the murderer that he really is, they say he is a creation of the FIP program and what happens when someone is pushed too far. He is someone that fights injustice and paid the price numerous times. I can’t see it and seeing Williamson married into the Kissinger family and his grandson married into the Malone family to expand their oil empire into Tennessee and Louisiana as well connect the Coal Mafia with the Cajun Mafia…yup try telling me that Williamson is a honest and good man when he is directly connected to Shelby Malone, and Tullius Kissinger. The Coal Mafia, Cajun Mafia, and the Jamestown Crime Family are all interconnected and that doesn’t count the Horsemen, Surrey Gang, Phoenix Five, Henderson Four, and every other criminal agency intertwined with the Santa Fe Ring.

   This article is an informational piece only and does include facts and my opinions, so please don’t sue me for speaking the truth about Codex and his evil empire that he created. Williamson West Virginia still stands today and the people just love their former mayor and ask him to run for office whenever he is back home in West Virginia. He has a statue erected outside the elementary school where he ended a school shooting and is hailed a hero within the Coal State of the Appalachia. I have heard him hailed by some as the killer of the Enclave and the defender of Appalachia, I have heard him called a hero, I have heard him hailed as the defender of the people of Appalachia and even simply “38 will make sure justice is served, and we will all live free from the fascists….Codex will tear down the BOS one paladin at a time, in 38 We Trust.”

     So basically, okay I see police outside I am going to end this here and find out what’s going on.