Silent Party

## Casualties and Losses

**Silent Party** (改革未明（サイレントパーティー）, *Kaikaku Mimei (Sairento Pātī)*?, lit. "Early Dawn of Reform") is the term used by STUDY to refer their large-scale "rebellion" against Academy City to force the city into a paradigm shift from espers produced through the standard Power Curriculum Program to their own process through the use of artificial humans, also known as Chemicaloids.

The Silent Party occurred in late of August of the story's first year. It was a disastrous attempt at a rebellion, as despite the 20,000 and more Powered Suits used for it as well as 2 mobile weapons piloted by two STUDY members themselves, they were unable to escape the Academy City Research Exhibition Assembly venue at all due to the efforts of several members of Judgment and the coincidental appearance of two Level 5s. Tragedy would've been the aftermath however after STUDY launches the AIM bomb on Academy City, but this too proved to be futile as it was stopped by Misaka Mikoto.

## Background

Aritomi Haruki, the leader of STUDY, became disillusioned with Academy City after realizing that no matter what accomplishments a genius like him would get, his recognition paled in comparison to the espers, of which the city pours all its attention to.

One day, Aritomi thought about the uncertainty of the nature of esper power development, which is largely determined at birth, and how the production of high-level espers are based purely on chance. This uncertainty was something that Aritomi decides to eliminate by making an esper from scratch (i.e., making an artificial human being that possesses esper abilities). A new method of producing espers based on a completely different approach, a more reliable method to produce espers of a uniform quality, and as many as anyone could ever want, thus begins the Chemicaloid Project. Haruki joins up with several like minds to come with the plan, and presented it to underground organizations to gain their support. However, they did not see its worth, and among them, Kihara Gensei, whose Level 6 Shift Project would have become a competitor against their project, even called their plans a mere "summer school project." Dismayed by this, they determined to do the project on their own. Aritomi and his colleagues soon established the STUDY Corporation, and with their technology supplied Anti-Skill of their tools, and manufactured drugs and other chemicals of a wide spectrum. Most likely, these are fronts to fund their project. Later, their Chemicaloid Project bore fruit with Janie and Febrie, the former having the ability known as Diffusion Ghost, this ability was used by STUDY for the purpose of controlling Powered Suits.

### Preparations

#### STUDY preparations

STUDY decided to invade the venue for the Academic Assembly, and from there attack Academy City. To do this, they required the use of 20,000 and more Powered Suits, as well as a few mobile weapons. The suits were delivered to the venue through legal channels, though information regarding its contents were blocked through power outages. STUDY has already prevented any sort of investigation on them by Anti-Skill as they are the ones providing them tools. The Powered Suits and Janie's power, Diffusion Ghost, were tested a couple of days prior to the attack, including testing on Mugino Shizuri and Misaka Mikoto, two of Academy City's Level 5s, allowing them to make improvements on their plans.

Moreover, STUDY itself actually believed in the possibility that their plans would go awry, and as such inserted the AIM bomb on the orbital station of the Endymion 35,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface, apparently with Academy City authorities none the wiser. According to Haruki, the bomb can destroy Academy City.

#### Counter-preparations

The only organization that has shown any apparent care for STUDY is Judgment, specifically, Judgment 177 Branch Office, an office with close ties with Misaka Mikoto. The branch has been against STUDY ever since discovering their involvement with Febrie, and after discovering the full extent of their plan they began making plans of their own despite their dire odds. Mikoto followed Nunotaba Shinobu's plan to continue her watching over Janie, Febrie's sister, despite already having betrayed STUDY. This is because one of their primary goals was to save Janie. Following this, the group can only wait for Janie to activate her powers in order for Febrie, who has the ability to track her sister whenever she uses her powers, to track her down. This means that the group can only make their own after the Silent Party has already begun.

To even their odds, Kongou Mitsuko, one of Mikoto's friends, asks her father the President of Kongou Aviation Industry for the Ekaterina II S, a large transforming mecha. Kongou later gives the manual on how to operate it to Saten Ruiko and Uiharu Kazari, two of her middleschooler friends. Yomikawa Aiho, the only known member of Anti-Skill sympathetic to their cause, is later tasked in delivering the mecha to the battlefield. Moreover, Uiharu Kazari would later take over a few Security robots to the battle. Finally, Konori Mii, the chief of Judgment 177 Branch Office later asks her friend Yanagisako Aomi to rally other Judgment members to their cause and is successful in doing so.

They are later separated into five groups: Misaka Mikoto and Febrie; Uiharu Kazari and Saten Ruiko; Shirai Kuroko; Konori Mii; and Kongou Mitsuko, Wannai Kinuho, and Awatsuki Maaya. The latter four groups were to guard the entrances to the assembly and prevent the Powered Suits from escaping. Mikoto and Febrie on the other hand were to wait for the activation of Janie's power and track her down. The latter four groups in the assembly venue would later be joined by the other Judgment members. The members of Judgment were to stall the Powered Suits through sheer numbers, while the known espers present, specifically, Kuroko, Kongou, Kinuho, and Maaya were to attack and destroy them. Here, their battle plan basically consisted of preventing the Powered Suits from escaping until Mikoto can defeat STUDY and free Janie.