Babylon City

A view of The Hollow, one of the biggest districts in the city.

Controversial for its rampant corruption within the government and the immoral, decadent lives of its residents, **Babylon City**, Louisiana, also known as simply **New Babylon**, is either an adrenaline junkie's wet dream or a Christian's worst nightmare. Nicknamed the "Las Vegas" of the Deep South, New Babylon is a vibrant city known for its night life.

In the eyes of many Christians in the USA, Babylon City is quite literally the "American Babylon".

## History

### Founding and Great Depression

New Babylon was founded around 1800, back when slavery was legalized in America. The city is remembered for the great 1833 slave revolt, which happened thirty years prior the start of the American Civil War; the entire slave population of New Babylon launched a revolt against their masters, which was put down thanks to the Confederate Army. Every slave that had a role in instigating the revolt was publicly lynched. Years later, in 1861, three months prior the outbreak of the American Civil War, a gang of escaped slaves decided to set a trap for many of the wealthy white slave masters that regularly abused them, motivated by retribution for the lynchings in the wake of the 1833 revolt years earlier. To that end, they infiltrated a wealthy party hosted by a particularly rich slave owner, then set fire to the building during said party, killing approximately three hundred people. This moment was one of many instigating factors in the American Civil War itself.

During the Great Depression era, New Babylon was hit hard, and many found themselves out of work. When World War II began, however, the city entered a "Golden Age", where, thanks to the war, people could make money by releasing propaganda films encouraging Americans in the city to join the war effort.

### 20th Century

In the early 1990s, Yuri Chernenko, a Russian defector and the future father of Pavel Chernenko, went to New Babylon in order to do a favor for an old friend. Unfortunately, this put him in direct conflict with the Italian mob, specifically the Sabatini Crime Family, who antagonized him simply because of his Russian ethnic background. To that end, they kickstarted a smear campaign in order to mislead the federal government into believing he was a spy for the Soviet Union. When Yuri found out about this, he went on a bloody rampage throughout the city, forming an alliance with various crime mobs that opposed the Italian mafia for their own reasons and carving a trail of destruction that went across entire districts, eventually turning the city into a war zone. After all was said and done and Yuri successfully destroyed enough of the Italian mob's operations to force them out of the city, Yuri left New Babylon, realizing that his actions had inadvertently incriminated himself and went back to Russia.

He returned briefly in 2003, after his son Pavel was born, to "settle some old scores", but left again in 2004 and never went back.

### 2020s

Many years later, Pavel Chernenko, Yuri's son, went to the city as part of a Christmas Break vacation. While there, he was mugged by a group of thugs. Destitute, Pavel wandered the streets for weeks, feeling hopeless. However, fortune would smile on him; two weeks after the robbery, Pavel was taken in by a family of African-Americans who happened to be members of the Babylon Coalition. They even helped him get a job in their neighborhood, a primarily-African American district of New Babylon known as Elwood Hollow, or simply, The Hollow.

Unfortunately, 21st century New Babylon turned out to be even more hostile to the young Russian-American than his father before him; a white supremacist group called the-Aryan Brethren happened to observe Pavel's interactions with the African-Americans and began working on an elaborate murder plot to kill him, simply because he associated with colored folks.

After accidentally discovering evidence that a casino was being used to fund acts of terrorism against people of color by the Neo-Aryan Brethren, Pavel fell victim to an ambush by The Neo-Aryan Brethren, who shot Pavel, brutally slaughtered his African-American legal guardians, and burned down their bar during a party one night. Unbeknownst to the Neo-Aryan Brethren, Pavel didn't actually die and was secretly rescued by a French Jesuit Priest.

Over the next few months, Pavel Chernenko, aided by a defector from the Sabatini Crime Family and his sister, a Turkish gang, a Haitian gang, and a vengeful Irish mob boss, launched a full-blown war against the Neo-Aryan Brethren, transforming the entire city into a war zone that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

## Geographical information

### Districts

* Elmwood Hollow: Otherwise known as The Hollow, this is a predominantly-black neighborhood in New Babylon, but there are small pockets of Asian and Arab communities there as of 2020. As of 2021, Pavel Chernenko, Jane M. Brenneman, Helen Moore, Ronda Moore, and Edward Maglio are the only white people known to have lived there.
* Dover Point: A district that contains a pier and plenty of warehouses, located by the ocean.
* Irish Ward: An Irish district in New Babylon, also known as Irish Village.
* French Village: Based on the French Quarter in New Orleans, this is the city's main destination for entertainment and tourism with many bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels serving the district. It's also the city's source of revenue.
* Downtown: Also known as Financial District, this contains numerous offices and corporate headquarters for various businesses in the city.
* Elysian Fields: Also known as "Land of the Elite", this district contains suburban houses, mansions, and high end stores and restaurants. It's also an area notorious for its racism, mainly due to the fact that this district also happens to contain the most Neo-Aryan Brethren hideouts.
* South District: This district contains of mostly middle to upper class housing and businesses.
* Danvers Harbor: A port district where most of the overseas cargo arriving at the city gets processed before it is sent to the various districts. Following the Neo-Aryan Brethren's takeover of the city, the harbor was used to run vehicle theft and smuggled goods rackets. This illegal business ended once Pavel Chernenko and Ernest Courvosier destroyed the Neo-Aryan Brethren.
* Sinclair: A rural district of Babylon City, known for the location where the Neo-Aryan Brethren is headquartered.

### Landmarks

* Abandoned Haitian church
* First Baptist Church of Babylonia
* Crown Hotel New Babylon
* The Butcher Block
* Stanely Wells Middle School
* The Bayou

## Gallery

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