Anarchy in New York

## Anarchy in New York

### **Previous**

Melanization
Robbie Evans' campaign

### **Result**

New York City and Albany both suffer heavy damage
Central Park East High School is destroyed
Public libraries are shut down
Powerful bandit groups form

### **Executed by**

Red Mist
Messina

### **Casualties**

Crystal
Others

### **Book(s)**

*S.M.S.B.: The Return of the Verasect
Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Latest Threat*

The **anarchy in New York** was the period of chaos and civil war from October of 2042 to 2047 that followed the breakdown of a united governmental power, law, and order after the S.M.S.B. was trapped by the Umbralord in the Tower of Reincarnation and numerous police officers were imprisoned by Red Mist's Criminal Empire while the remainder of the Police Department fell under the authority of the controversial nurse Rose Johannson. After increasing social conflicts, poverty, and lawlessness in the aftermath of the Melanization, Red Mist's insurrection sparked an open revolt by New York's lower class citizens. It became the first major popular uprising in New York in over two hundred years. As a result, the central government collapsed, with violent unrest soon spreading throughout the whole of the United States of America.

## Background

The Umbralord despised the ways of humanity that the Lumiking created, so he began corrupting them with war, bloodlust, and violence. In 2035, after Genesis called upon the inter-dimensional rifts to harness the full power of the Eye of Remembrance, he then finalized his goal of plunging the entire universe into darkness. Hence, the Umbralord again proceeded to corrupt humanity with war, determined to remake the race in his image. Over the next few years following Genesis' fateful act, poverty became a greater problem than ever. The growing unrest presented Red Mist and his allies with the perfect opportunity to start their insurrection. In September, the S.M.S.B. marched upon the Tower of Reincarnation, but they were trapped. From the Umbralord's point of view, humanity itself chose to start chaos with the ideas he planted in their heads; he himself had nothing to do with it.

## Anarchy

### Declaration of martial law

Crystal attempted to warn Lewis Thicke about Red Mist's imminent agenda, but she was chased back to her own house, where she was ambushed and murdered by many nukes. Red Mist gave a speech in which he declared martial law to return the city to the hands of the people, much to their joy, and plunged New York into chaos. He proceeded to order his men to storm Beta Prison and "liberate" all prisoners within. Red Mist set up a court over which Claude presided, where the "unworthy" were sentenced to choose between either death or exile through the crossing of a river of acid.

### Spreading chaos

Law and order collapsed throughout the city almost immediately. With Red Mist in power, New York, once advertised as an idyllic place of opportunity, became a hellish anarchy, overwhelmed by skyrocketing crime, murders, drive-by shootings and corrupt officials for the Police Department. Central Park East High School was burned down and never rebuilt; armed gangs drove through the neighborhoods terrorizing and even killing some of the residents; public libraries were shut down and boarded up; and Red Mist Club went from a shoddy apartment to a gleaming tower of dark decadence, which drew in unsavory types of all kinds. (All the aforementioned actions were criminal, but because Rose Johannson owned the Police Department, nothing could be done and this was a rule for the crime against humanity by both Rose and Red Mist.) Loyalists scattered and went into hiding.

### Fragmentation and reunification

With the S.M.S.B. spread too thin to pacify the enormous nation and despite the efforts to return politics into a stable part of the wider picture, balance and peace remained largely absent, with bandit groups expanding exponentially. Some of these criminal groups grew into small armies with hundreds of members, equipped with modern technology. After the defeat of both the Apostles and Red Mist's Criminal Empire, Master Intelligence was called upon to help reunite the government as he was deemed the perfect person for the job, considering he had the trust of the world leaders and credibility in the United States of America as its acclaimed protector. Despite his anti-monarchical views, he refused the offer, not wanting to seize power for himself.

## References

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