Minneapolis

A collage of Minneapolis landmarks

> "*Get out of there! Get out of there!*"
> ― An unknown woman during a shootout in Minneapolis
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**Minneapolis** is the largest city in Minnesota. As of 2019, it has a population of 429,606. Along with St. Paul, Minneapolis makes up the Twin Cities. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.

## History

Just as in real life history, Minneapolis became the center of controversy following the murder of 46-year old George Floyd at the hands of a policeman. Following this, protests against George Floyd's death and rioting spread throughout the city over the course of several weeks.

In 2021, plans were made to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Force, and by 2023, the police force was nearly completely dismantled, replaced with an unarmed public safety group known as the "Civilian Public Safety Bureau."

In the wake of the dismantling of the police force, however, there was an abrupt increase in violent crime throughout the city; the Babylon Coalition, a network of international assassins masquerading as a hotel chain began making illicit dealings with various other criminal gangs in Minneapolis, most notably a hacker gang known as Poltergeist. In 2023, Los Eternos began making its own business deals with various criminal gangs like the Royal Sharks, the Aryan Brotherhood, and an Anarchist group called The Disciples, eventually forming a partnership called The Inquisition Ascendancy. The Babylon Coalition, along with its allies in Poltergeist, formed an alliance of its own called The Integration Accord. Though interactions with the gangs were mostly peaceful, there were occasional acts of violence being conducted against Babylon Coalition members. To that end, the Integration Accord and the Inquisition Ascendancy signed what they called the "Minneapolis Peace Accords", which stated that members of the Inquisition Ascendancy were allowed to conduct criminal businesses in the city, provided they didn't endanger or outright attack any Babylon Coalition members or civilians.

By 2026, the city's various communities had split into a series of autonomous zones (similar to the one in Seattle), with each zone being occupied or fought over one or more criminal syndicates.

Many citizens who opposed the dismantling of the police force, feeling that the Civilian Public Safety Bureau was inadequate to deal with the increasing violence that ensued, decided to form the Civilian Auxillary Defense Corps (CADC), an armed militia group whose intended purpose was to become an auxillary unit in the event the CPSB was inadequate to deal with the crime in question. However, as time went on, the CADC quickly transitioned into a vigilante gang in and of itself. A brutal gang war erupted over the various different gangs and criminal syndicates that consumed whole neighborhoods within a matter of months, forcing the CADC and CPSB out of the downtown area and into the outskirts of the city.

By 2026, the Babylon Coalition literally ran the neighborhood of Camden where the Minnesota branch of the Crown Hotel was located. Though interactions with gang members and the CPSB were mostly peaceful, there were occasional acts of violence involving Babylon Coalition assassins, though these were rather isolated incidents. The fragile peace was shattered when a mole for Los Eternos attempted to kidnap someone from the hotel, a blatant violation of the pact made between the Integration Accord and the Inquisition Ascendancy.

Since 2026, the various criminal gangs have transformed the city into a war zone, with various criminal syndicates fighting not only each other for control of the rest of the city, but the CADC and the CPSB as well. The CADC is currently planning a counteroffensive to retake the city.

Despite the high-tensions, interactions between the gangs themselves were peaceful until 2029, thanks to a series of violent acts; the first was when the Royal Sharks and the White Union kidnapped a young woman named Evelyn E. Poindexter from the Crown Hotel.

Exactly one day later, another young woman, Kayleigh Hughes, was kidnapped by the White Union. Unlike Evelyn's kidnapping, hours after the kidnapping had taken place, the White Union posted a video of themselves torturing Kayleigh in their lair, located in the tunnels underneath the city.

One day later, another young woman was kidnapped from the hotel by the Royal Sharks; Kristyn W. Pagel, an 18-year old native of Hibbing, Minnesota, was last seen leaving the hotel to meet with friends before being kidnapped by the Royal Sharks. Unlike the kidnapping of Evelyn Poindexter, Kristyn's kidnapping was accidentally witnessed by domestic violence survivors and teen runaways Charlotte Chapman and her sister Antoinette, who decided to pursue the kidnappers. Because the Crown Hotel forbids carrying out assassinations on hotel premises, the kidnappers were unable to kill the sisters and were instead forced to make a hasty escape from the hotel grounds. Pursuing the kidnappers on bicycles, Charlotte and Antoinette tracked the kidnappers to a network of underground tunnels beneath the city, where they happened upon the Royal Sharks and their allies in the White Union torturing both Kristyn, Kayleigh and Evelyn, intending to make a snuff film of themselves murdering the two women and posting it on the Internet.

Deciding to help the damsels in distress, the two sisters formed a plan to rescue Evelyn, Kayleigh and Kristyn from their captors, a plan that was suddenly derailed when Babylon Coalition assassins led by Bradley Houghton broke into the hideout and massacred the Royal Sharks and the White Union members themselves.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Chapman sisters rescued Evelyn, Kayleigh and Kristyn made their escape from the kidnappers' lair. Intending to escape to the Crown Hotel, the two women made an abrupt detour to the Hosmer Library.

Once word of the rescue reached the heads of the White Union and the Royal Sharks, the leaders of their respective organizations gave the order to recapture the three escaped women, while at the same time [lacing a bounty on the Chapman sisters' heads. The first assassin to try to kill the Chapman sisters, Kristyn, Kayleigh and Evelyn, was Bradyn Church, who attempted to corner the girls in the library, but was ultimately thwarted by Serbian assassin Danko Savić and former Greek Army sniper turned Babylon Coalition hitman Thanos Tavoularis, who killed Bradyn following a brutal knife fight/fistfight while the girls made their escape to the Crown Hotel.

After discovering that Charlotte and Antoinette had taken Kayleigh, Kristyn and Evelyn to the Crown Hotel, despite knowing that the Babylon Coalition strictly forbids any killing on its premises, Lucas Ward, a kingpin in the black market and head of the White Union, personally doubled the bounty on the Chapman sisters if anyone from the Inquisition Ascendancy could successfully kill the Chapman sisters, Evelyn or Kristyn on hotel grounds and escape undetected.

The first assassin to attempt to claim the bounty was Osvaldo Sharpe, a member of the White Union. He infiltrated the hotel, intending to kill the Chapmans and claim the bounty, but was saved by Babylon Coalition member Aria Moon, the assassin himself being killed following a brtual gunfight/fistfight.

When questioned about her actions, Aria was able to prove that the White Union assassin had attacked Charlotte first, pointing out that the rule forbidding assassinations on hotel grounds only applied to *offensive*attacks and not *defensive*ones like in Aria's case. Thus, Aria was able to avoid repercussions.

Meanwhile, after having decided that Charlotte and her sister Antoinette were loose ends that needed to be disposed of, the Inquisition Ascendancy sent numerous assassins to kill the two Chapman sisters, Kristyn and Evelyn, all of whom were foiled by assassins loyal to the Babylon Coalition, who were sent by the manager of the Crown Hotel to personally oversee and protect the Chapmans, as well as Kristyn and Evelyn. With the Minneapolis Peace Accords violated as a result of the actions of the Inquisition Ascendancy, the Babylon Coalition declared war on the Inquisition Ascendancy, declaring that all member gangs of the Inquisition Ascendancy were rendered "excommunicatus" from all resources of the Babylon Coalition and were therefore an enemy to Babylon Coalition members.

At around the same time, Los Eternos and the remnants of the Royal Sharks plotted to overthrow the Babylon Coalition and unite the rest of Minneapolis under their organization, having had enough of the Babylon Coalition's rather "tyrannical" policies. To that end, they executed a full-blown invasion on the territories held by the Babylon Coalition and Poltergeist.

## Autonomous Zones

After being taken over by various criminal gangs, Minneapolis was divided into various different autonomous zones, each one encompassing a certain community in the city. Some of these zones were merged with other zones following their "liberation" from their occupiers by rival gangs. The occupants of these zones were generally peaceful  with each other, having only faced incursions by the CADC and CPSB. Everything changed in the year 2026, where power-hungry gangs that were intent on uniting the city under their respective criminal empires began to invade and attack rival gangs to annex their sections of the city into their respective occupied zones to expand their growth. This conflict led to the War for Minneapolis.
Each of these zones are heavily defended; the Babylon Coalition uses unmanned aerial drones to conduct surveillance on both citizens and rival gang members throughout the city, ensuring that the rival gang members uphold their end of the nonaggression pact that they made with the Babylon Coalition. Once the nonaggression pact was violated, these drones were used as offensive weapons to wage war on the rival gangs.
The following is a list of the different zones and the areas they occupy:

### Calhoun Autonomous Zone

This area encompasses Calhoun-Isles, one of the communities of Minneapolis. It is occupied by the Babylon Coalition, though as of 2024, it has come under attack from a cyber-terrorist organization known as New Dawn. This zone eventually grew following the annexation of the Southwest Autonomous Zone after months of heavy fighting, creating the Calhoun-Southwest Autonomous Zone. The following is a list neighborhoods that are only located in the Calhoun Autonomous Zone:

* Bryn Mawr
* Lowry Hill
* Lowry Hill East (AKA "The Wedge")
* CARAG
* East Calhoun (AKA "ECCO")
* West Calhoun
* Cedar-Isles-Dean
* Kenwood
* East Isles

### Camden Autonomous Zone

The Camden Autonomous Zone encompassed the community of Camden in Minneapolis and was formerly occupied by a white supremacist movement known as the White Union, which has ties to the Aryan Brotherhood. Camden is currently the center of a series of brutal conflicts involving the White Union, the Order of Taurus, and Crescent Genesis. The following is a list of neighborhoods that belong to the Camden Zone:

* Cleveland
* Folwell
* Lind-Bohanon
* McKinley
* Shingle Creek
* Victory
* Webber-Camden

### Central Autonomous Zone

The Central Autonomous Zone encompasses Central, Minneapolis. It is occupied by a street gang known as The Royal Sharks. As of 2025, it has been invaded by the Babylon Coalition, which is seeking to annex the Central Autonomous Zone into its own territories. The following neighborhoods are located here:

* Downtown East
* Downtown West
* Elliot Park
* Loring Park
* North Loop
* Stevens Square/Loring Heights

### Longfellow Autonomous Zone

The Longfellow Autonomous Zone encompasses Longfellow, Minneapolis. It is occupied by a malicious hacker group known as Poltergeist. This zone includes the following neighborhoods:

* Cooper
* Hiawatha
* Howe
* Longfellow
* Seward

### North Autonomous Zone

Formerly known as the Near North, the North Autonomous Zone is the biggest autonomous zone in the city, encompassing multiple communities in one area. Both the communities of Near North and Nokomis are located here. The area was occupied by the Royal Sharks, and in 2026 it was invaded by a team of rogue government operatives known as Chapter X. As of 2027, a bloody gang war is being waged between the Royal Sharks and Chapter X for control of the North Autonomous Zone. This area includes the following neighborhoods:

* Harrison
* Hawthorne
* Jordan
* Near North
* Sumner-Glenwood
* Willard Hay
* Diamond Lake
* Ericsson
* Field
* Hale
* Keewaydin
* Minnehaha
* Morris Park
* Northrop
* Page
* Regina
* Wenonah

### Phillips Autonomous Zone

The Phillips Autonomous Zone encompasses the community of Phillips, Minneapolis. Occupied by the Turkish-based Order of Taurus, this zone includes the following neighborhoods:

* East Phillips
* Midtown Phillips
* Phillips West
* Ventura Village

### Powderhorn Autonomous Zone

The Powderhorn Autonomous Zone was occupied by the Russian Mafia became the site of a brutal gang war between the Russian Mob and the Babylon Coalition, which is seeking to annex the Powderhorn community as part of its own empire. It includes the following neighborhoods:

* Bancroft
* Bryant
* Central
* Corcoran
* Lyndale
* Powderhorn Park
* Standish
* Whittier

### Southwest Autonomous Zone

This zone encompasses the Southwest community of Minneapolis. It used to be occupied by an Anarchist group known as The Disciples until it was annexed by the Babylon Coalition following months of bloody fighting, creating the Calhoun-Southwest Autonomous Zone. The following is a neighborhoods that only belong in the Southwest Autonomous Zone:

* Armatage
* East Harriet
* Fulton
* Kenny
* King Field
* Linden Hills
* Lynnhurst
* Tangletown
* Windom

### University Autonomous Zone

The University Zone is occcupied by the hacker group Crescent Genesis. After the Northeast Autonomous Zone was liberated, Crescent Genesis merged the two autonomous zones together to form the "Northeast-University" Autonomous Zone. The following is a list of neighborhoods that are *only* part of the University Zone:

* Cedar-Riverside, also known as the *West Bank*
* Como
* Marcy-Holmes part of this neighborhood contains an area more commonly known as Dinkytown.
* Nicollet Island/East Bank
* Prospect Park
* University

### Northeast Autonomous Zone

This zone encompassed the community of Northeast, Minneapolis. It was formerly occupied by Venezuelan drug cartel Los Eternos until it was annexed by Crescent Genesis and merged with the University Autonomous Zone, forming the Northeast University Autonomous Zone. The following neighborhoods are located in the Northeast Autonomous Zone:

* Audubon Park
* Beltrami
* Bottineau
* Columbia Park
* Holland
* Logan Park
* Marshall Terrace
* Northeast Park
* St. Anthony East
* St. Anthony West
* Sheridan
* Waite Park
* Windom Park

### Core Autonomous Zone

This area is located in the downtown area of Minneapolis. It was formerly occupied by the Italian Mafia, until it was driven out by the Babylon Coalition. In a rather unique occurrence, the Babylon Coalition had help from its splinter network in the Order of Taurus in capturing the Core Autonomous Zone. It is known for its shops, world class theaters, hotels and music venues. The Crown Hotel is located here as well, albeit disguised as the Grand Hotel Minneapolis.

### West Broadway Autonomous Zone

The West Broadway Autonomous Zone is occupied by the Italian mafia, which retreated to this area after being forced out of the Core Autonomous Zone by the Babylon Coalition. Landmarks here include Theodore Wirth Regional Park, the biggest of Minneapolis' parks.

### West Bank Autonomous Zone

This area was taken over by the Russian Mafia with help from the Turkish Mafia, though the Russian Mafia is the main occupying force of the West Bank Autonomous Zone. Landmarks here include Dilla's Ethiopian Restaurant, the Lucky Dragon restaurant, and the Red Sea restaurant. The West Bank Autonomous Zone was invaded by the Order of Taurus once the war really began.

### South Minneapolis Autonomous Zone

This zone is occupied by two occupation forces simultaneously; the Albanian mafia and the Ukrainian Mafia. It's also the only zone to have two criminal organizations occupying it at the same time. This area was where fighting was heaviest during the latter parts of the War for Minneapolis.