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## The New Dawn Story

When millions of horrified civilians, heroes, and villains witnessed the vents of October 9th, 2010, we thought that we had at last seen what a cruel and malicious mind can do if left unchecked. As near as we were able to guess at then, and still even today, the Extant Event was the culmination of plans and plots years in the making by which the vile criminal, Dire Invictus, could complete her plans for total global genocide of every living organism on the planet. Through a process unknown to us she was able to open countless one way portals large and small to a dimension of dimensions of pure chaos. We were helpless to do anything but watch as most of Earth-One's mightiest Meta-humans were chucked out of the universe never to return. Or so we had thought. None of us had any understanding or warning of the true evil that was hiding deep in the shadows, biding its time until best able to strike.

That strike came at exactly 5:02 A.M. on March 12th, 2020. Mere days after the Covid Pandemic forced governments around the world to place its major cities and law enforcement agencies the forces of the Black Zodiac, spearheaded by its iron-fisted commandant Doctor Albert Zertstoiten, began its assault. The Black Zodiac Naval Forces hit Gold Coast City first, taking advantage of the shortsightedness of the Advent Overlord Bitter-Pill and her anti-Meta mandate to isolate the Bucket and use it as a staging ground for further attacks. Seventeen minutes after the assault commenced it was over. Bitter-Pill and all but three of her elite strike team, the B-Girls, were dead. Only Bobsled, Baseball, and Bully escaped the Gold Coast City graveyard to alert the rest of Paradigm City to what was happening.

Darkness Falls was hit next by the Zodiac's vastly superior air fleet. Rockets, missiles, strafing runs, and mobs rained down on the historical district with such ferocity that Darkness Falls itself was cosigned to history. Faced with the choice of either fleeing Darkness Falls to save themselves or stay and rescue as many civilians as they could, most heroes chose to stay. As a reward for their selfless bravery they faced Doctor Destroyer's most malignant weapon, the Ion Cannon. Fired from orbit, this weapon could decimate entire city blocks with one pulse. The Heroes Unlimited: Darkness Falls branch headquarters, the Gaslight Society building, The Advent Lair, and The Champions headquarters were vaporized. In those darkest hours some of the greatest names in the annuls of crime-fighting were lost. Maron Namakaze, Solitaire, Gossamer, and countless others didn't survive to see the coming dawn. The valiant heroes found themselves with surprise allies in the form of many Advent Overlords and crime groups. The Geodesics, The Armageddon Society, and the Arcanus Malefactorum battled side by side with heroes to stave off Zodiac forces or help get innocents to safety. The last words of the Overlord Jurassic are immortalized on the steps of the Angel's Mile summoning up what many villains echoed in their hearts: "It's Our City, Too."

Doctor Destroyer personally lead the march into Millennium City, heralded by the Ion Cannon. The Heroes Unlimited Headquarters, City Hall, Olympus, and Cagliostro were all lost as Paradigm City's remaining heroes and Overlords, thirty brave Metas in total, gathered together at the Millennium City Sports Dome to take on Doctor Destroyer and his five Generals in a final bid to save what little remained of Paradigm City. When the dust settled only Zertstoiten himself walked away from the ruins. In a grand total of 22 hours and 17 minutes over 90% of Paradigm City was unmade and Emperor Zertstoiten was seating himself on his black throne on the island that was at one time the independent nation of Olympus.

Paradoxically, unless someone is foolish enough to draw Zertstoiten's eye the Emperor is content to let the new Paradigm City fairly much regulate itself. As he now has acheived his goal of total world domination and has his hands full bringing the rest of the world into alignment with his will the Emperor sees us as beneath him, and Paradigm City, once the Jewel of the West Coast, seems to have been forgotten by him completely. So now it's our turn to wait patiently, biding our time until the perfect opportunity to take back what is rightfully ours. The Emperor's indifference will be his ultimate catastrophe and be the well-spring from which we will cast off his vile yolk and be rid of him once and for all. There is no armed rebellion. There are no secretive back-room plots of espionage or revenge. There is only our New Dawn, New Metas, and the cherished hope that we are moving steadily toward victory.

Nancy Emond-Kettler
 code-name Cabaret

September 1st, 2021

## All The President's Men

*The final speech of United States President Victor Kensing delivered on July 4th, 2020.*

"My Fellow Americans,

"Eight days ago we witnessed the most unmitigated attack of terror in the history of our nation. As a result of that attack we are all now witness to a brand new stage of world evolution in the creation of the Zertsoiten Empire. Myself and the leaders of our allied Nations, which are now all Nations, have no choice but to acknowledge the demise of Democracy and Freedom that we as human beings understand it.

But in these days of tragedy and mourning I say to you that the United States has not now and will not ever bow down to terrorists and petty hate mongers. We stand shoulder to shoulder with every Nation in the new Empire in open defiance. We may stumble. We will certainly fall. But we will never surrender. To that end the leaders of the Free World, including the United States, will pool our resources into the creation of the Angel's Highway, which will list the name and code name of every man, woman, and child; extraterrestrial, Meta, and anthropomorphic that gave their lives in selfless dedication to the Nation they loved, the people they cherished, and the Emperor they hated.

Secondly we, the leaders of the Free World, while we still have the authority granted to us by our citizens, declare a universal free pardon to anyone convicted of a crime who rose up with our armed forces and stood bravely in the face of cowards and the faint of heart whom could only launch a surprise attack rather than declare their intentions and risk being defeated. We, the leaders and citizens of the free people do acknowledge your Pyrrhic victory, Emperor Zertstoiten, but we will never celebrate it.

May your rule as Emperor be short, and may your Empire collapse into the dust that is its foundation."

*The President and most of Congress, as well as the leaders and governments of the rest of the world, disappeared and were dismantled 45 days after this speech was delivered. When Emperor Zertstoiten was asked for his opinion regarding the speech, he famously replied:*

"I give no more thought nor credence to that squawking rooster than you do the eggs on your breakfast plate."

## House Rules

The Paradigm Conflict: New Dawn is a collaborative free form game presented as a popular Japanese anime series. We take our inspiration from numerous sources including films and televion, MMOs, RPGs, and of course manga and anime. The game will only change from free form to a die system at majority vote from all players and GMs.

Every person with an active and playable character shall have the right to create a unique city zone of their own. No other GM can alter, change, recreate, or scramble another GMs zone and zone contents without express permission to do so.

Essa prefers but cannot and will not mandate that changes to a players' character be made as part of an RP, IE; characters cannot suddenly develop new skill, ability, talent, or power feat without a logical reason why: learning from another PC or NPC, etc. Just a note of preferential.

All players are requested to play their characters and the game to the fullest extent of their fun! :D

Fan service and anime trope comedy: giant heads when yelling, partial or brief nudity, giant sweat drops when a character has no idea what to say or do as reaction to another character are good things!