Defiance

**Defiance** is the current base of the D.C. Rangers, along with being The Syndicate's main base. It is based in the outlands and holds the merit of being the only Player created city in existence.

## Background

*So to those Naysayers, I say no. We will not retreat. We will not back down. We are Defiant of those who wish to see us fall. We are defiant of all those who would burn our way of life. Let them come in their hundreds, for this is Defiance and all those who seek to bring it down will taste nothing but failure!” -* Excerpt from Captain Crunches Declaration of Defiance

Defiance was originally settled as a munitions center by a factory owner, who left the Heights after a dispute with the then Mayor Aspisi. It'd grow into a semi-prosperous factory, outputting 200 bullets per week for sale to the neighbouring factions. Bandits were bribed off to guard the factory instead of looting it. This worked well...until the Syndicate came.

The D.C. Rangers, under the command of Murdoc, would assault the munitions plant and take it under Crunches orders. After a bloodbath, the Munition Centers would be declared by Crunch as a new trade city, Independant of Washington Heights. The former owners were suitably slandered as slave drivers and horrific people of course.

Defiance would remain unnamed until an attempted assault by the Coalition which was fought off, at the cost of 11 rangers. A speech was given on the rubble of a building that collapsed in the assault, crescendoing in Crunches christianing of the city as Defiance, in the name of those rangers who died defying the CCR and in The Syndicates own defiance of those who tried to destroy their way of life.

## Layout

Defiance has two walls protecting it. One is circular and made of wood, encompassing all the farms. The second is square and made of cinderblocks, encircling the factory and the barracks. Most civilian housing is currently inside the cinderblock wall but housing is being built outside as well. The former wall is made almost entirely to keep normal shamblers out of the city, while also providing an area to look over the forest for any possible aggressors. The secondary wall is where the true hold out happens in case of a full on attack, and where civilians are evacuated to during attacks.

The town itself surrounds the Factory, the top floor of which has been dedicated to commanding and planning all aspects of the cities growth. The lower floors churn out bullets as they have always done.

Multiple farms are existent on the outer levels of the city which produce the majority of Defiance's income. The other parts come from the bullets and the trading plaza in the center of the city, infront of the imposing factory, where items are bought and sold underneath the guard of the Rangers.

Recently a market place has been set up in the center, along with docks for the new defiance navy and landing pads for the defiance airforces.

## Government

The law of the government is placed down in the Declaration of Defiance, which all must obey. This created a plutocratic society. Crunch is the current Chief Executive in charge of the Legislative and Executive branches, while Murdoc is incharge of the Judicial branch of government, along with the defending of the city. Currently courts are being built, so the city as a whole works almost on wasteland justice.