Black Lightning Disaster

The so-called **Black Lightning Disaster** is a catastrophic event that razed the Italian city of Euterpe on the 14th April of 2064 and is the turning point around which the plot of the game revolves.

## The disaster

On the 14th April, 2064, at 03:29:18 AM (CEST), the Distortion Power Plant of Euterpe exploded, destroying one third of the city and causing over one million casualties. Before the incident, the power plant of Euterpe was used as an advanced laboratory for weapon engineering, unbeknownst to the general populace, and as such contained several mutants and artificial creatures.

The chain of events that lead to the disaster started at around 2:45 o'clock in the night, when an individual codenamed Donner or Specimen 703 escaped containment from Section 70X and voluntarily overloaded the core of the power plant.

In the ensuing chaos, most specimens broke free, including Mystery Johnson and Tiger Sambiong (Specimen 704). On his way out, the latter confronted his creator, "Metallic" Mayer, at 3:06AM. In the fight that broke out, Tiger broke Mayer's legs, thus preventing his escape from the facility. Mayer perished in the explosion right as a small firefighter unit, lead by Alessandro Rubecca, found him inside the collapsing facility.

## Aftermath

After the complete destruction of one third of the city, the power plant ruins were quickly processed and disposed of in the dead city of Northern Algol, by the Bonzaga Holding, which also oversaw the reconstruction of the city, starting on the 7th of November of the same year. The epicenter of the disaster became known as the Euterpe Memorial, with monuments and audio guides which tell the names and narrate the stories of the fallen to the visitors.

Bonzaga Corporation salvaged part of the distortion core for research purposes and built another top-secret laboratory under the memorial ground.

## Confirmed casualties

A couple key characters perished as a result of the Black Lightning Disaster, while other went M.I.A.

* Lars "Metallic" von Mayer (dead)
* Alessandro Rubecca (dead)
* Der Wolf (M.I.A.)
* Jerediah "Red" Horowitz (M.I.A.)
* Amy's parents

Notably, Skeleton Skallen got severe brain damage as a result of which lost the ability to recognize people's faces. Delfina Hyaruno went into hiding sometimes after the Disaster.

## Confirmed survivors

* Mystery Johnson
* Tiger Sambiong
* Skeleton Skallen
* Delfina Hyaruno
* Donner Misterkay
* H-168 Krave (partially destroyed)

## References

1. ↑ Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 1: Prologue
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 14: Skeletons in the Closet
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Schwarzerblitz - Tiger Sambiong's arcade ending
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 20: To the Source
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 5: Roaring Regret
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 7: Through the Fire and Flames
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Schwarzerblitz - Euterpe's Cradle stage description
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 11: Gimme Fuel, Baby
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 3: In the Name of the Mother
10. ↑ Schwarzerblitz - Aylin Mary Yang's in-game character profile
11. ↑ Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 4: Deep Troubles
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Schwarzerblitz - Story mode, chapter 25: Ride the Lightning
13. ↑ Schwarzerblitz - Mystery Johnson's arcade ending