It is speculated that the Republic of Texas was founded somewhere between 2077 and 2083. The Great War saw the cities of Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, San Antonio, Arlington, Corpus Christi, Plano, Garland, Lubbock, Irving and Laredo almost completely destroyed. Oil City (then known as Houston) survived the attack for unknown reasons. Cities such as Amarillo and Pasadena were abandoned or devoid of most of their population because of the Black Rain which followed quickly on the Great War's events.