2009 Southport Disaster

The **2009 Southport Disaster** was a catastrophe that began on December 31st of 2009 in the city of Southport, Forth. Occuring as the result of an experiment gone wrong within the Elohim Project, a massive Akumare awakened within the city limits, killing 400,000 people and setting the events of the story into motion.

## Background

The city of Southport was one of the biggest economical and ethnic hubs in the country of Rellandan. Southport had a majority Akumare population and the city was a transit hub for airlines and ships entering and exiting the country with goods and people. Around the turn of the 21st century, with the Peacekeepers being well established and the issue of Akumare awakenings being common knowledge, groups of people in Rellandan who worshipped the Peacekeepers and the Singularity began to devise ways to accelerate the process of removing them from society, as they believed that they were fulfilling God's will by disposing of the Akumare. These people began to make their way up through the ranks in the government, and as a result, in the early 2000s the Elohim Project was secretly assembled by an unknown government official and various cultists.

## The Elohim Project

*Main article: The Elohim Project*

The Elohim Project began at an unknown point during the early 2000s, likely around 2002. Cultists had theorized for years that Akumare awakenings and their severity were tied to a quantifiable factor, and it was discovered that this factor was negativity. The Akumare curse feeds off of negative emotions from the host, and grows more powerful via those emotions. This determines the severity of the awakening and whether it kills the host or not. With this information at hand, the Project began, and over the course of the 2000s many Akumare-bearing individuals would go missing all over the country, either in Southport or from other places to be sent to Southport for experimentation. They would be tortured in an attempt to feed their Akumare, although other operations took place during the project as well, such as transplanting Akumare into non-cursed individuals, and forced expulsion before the curse was scheduled to awaken.

## The Disaster

One of the subjects who was experimented on during this project was Gemini Rellandawn, cousin of Raizen Rellandawn (X). While he was being experimented on, he was selected by the Peacekeepers in the hopes of turning him into a Demigod with the assistance of the Elohim Project's experiments. On the night of December 31st, 2009, which is traditionally the day of the Purple Moon, experiments were being performed on Gemini to feed the Akumare inside his body. Eventually, they attempted to force an Awakening of his Akumare, likely to kill him as they did not know of the Peacekeepers' goal to turn him into a Demigod and wanted to dispose of any Akumare Peacekeepers. However, this method had the opposite effect. Due to the experiments, which fed the Akumare massive amounts of negative energy, combined with the Purple Moon's boost of negative energy, the Awakening that occured caused a catastrophic event that destroyed the entire facility in which the experiments took place.

After the Awakening of the massive demon, it began to absorb other nearby Akumare to make itself stronger, killing the host of each demon it absorbs and turning the demon into a massive creature that had the potential to wipe out the entire country if left for long enough. Quickly