Brighton

The city of Brighton is currently (Within its own universe) The 3rd most populated city on the east cost of the United states of America, Though in recent years its popularity throughout the world has increased due to the many major events (More than 140 terrorist attacks within the last five years, ǂ Gang warfare even worse than Chicago, Detroit and New York combined, Riots, celebrity gossip and political corruption and at least one attempt by a majority of it's citizens to secede from the United States.) within the city.

## HISTORY

ɤ According to old Folklore, Brighton was founded in 1848 under mysterious circumstances when a rather drunk gentleman proclaimed atop a hill "Here is where I will build thy fortune!" then fell into some shrubbery. The next day a mute population of homeless peoples began to inhabit the land. It was in a very good place and stumbled its way to where it is today.

### ¤ 2019:

Though Brighton was already a popular city, The one event known to have set it in the spotlight of national attention was the 2019 Bane Riot where Bane (aka Bobby Goat), A member of the terrorist group 'Genki Gang', raided the Brighton Prison and released its prisoners on to the streets with loaded guns and ammunition to subdue the city. This caused a four day war resulting in the police force being killed off with only a few survivors, entire city blocks being bombed and the national guard fighting to liberate the city. Bane had planted several bombs throughout the city which served as a negotiating tool to keep the national guard outside the city while the Prisoners looted and killed the civilians. The riots only ended when police sent several agents within the city to locate the 3 bombs, One was disabled yet two were activated resulting in civilian casualties. Bane's last location was within a warehouse he was holding up, The firefight was intense with many on both sides suffering terrible losses, yet due to Bane's appearance had him wearing a mask his actual face was unknown, leading him to be theorized to be one of the bodies of the Terrorists within the building.

This national tragedy resulting in around 1,500 deaths, Making it the US' second worse terrorist attack in history right before 9/11. Many left, many stayed and many, many more came to the city to help aid it and it's grieving citizens, yet nothing could help them.

¤ 2020: The year 2020 made the 2019 riot look like a couple of kids playing with nerf guns on the side of the street by comparison. After two months, The aid from the national guard was pulled as Congress thought it was a waste of time to keep them stationed in the Brighton. Right after this, Gang violence spiked to an all time high as the police force, still crippled and recovering, was forced to deal with criminals that outnumbered and outgunned them on almost every block. Street gangs aligned with extremist political views and drug traffickers swarmed the city, making it a haven for criminal activity. Even though it was within this rotten state, Charity efforts were set up by local politicians to 'help' the city when they were only fronts for obtaining funds and hundred-thousands of dollars. Within the next few months the city's poor management and outright abuse was used as a scapegoat for the intense political environment at the time, The right wing blaming the left wing blaming the right wing, but despite all of the controversy and documentation, no actual efforts were made to better Brighton when homelessness climbed to an all time high, the men and women inside it were forced to fight for themselves. During these times, a serial killer took Brighton under his heel; known as the Holiday Killer. The murder spree lasted from November 1st to December 24th, 2020 and the killer was never caught. One of the most prominent incidents by the killer involved stuffing a bomb inside a police officer's chest cavity and setting up a death trap for the corrupt police force; in what he believes to be at the time an anti-hero effort against the corruption of the police officer. 15 people were murdered all were either cooperatives of the police or law enforcement officers. This would not be used for justification for the deranged brutality of the killings, posing the bodies or hanging them after removing their face. Eventually, the killer began sending cyphers to the police force that took them weeks to solve; revealing his deranged obsession with Kelly Madison, the police chief at the time. The Cypher eventually led Kelly Madison (alone), to an abandoned warehouse in the industrial district, where she was set up inside a death trap prepared by the Holiday Killer; however she escaped shortly after the Holiday Killer did. Kelly Madison would resign from Chief of Police approximately 2 weeks after this incident, this was the moment the killer ceased his activity. Brighton would enter 2021 in a state of depression and low-life expectancy than your average American.

¤ 2021: Mayor Eski and the city council are desperate for a solution to the crime wave that couldn't be fixed with the incompetent police force, until a high-class government official named **Myster Strange** came into the fold. Strange offered Eski and council members a solution to controlling the chaos happening in Brighton; Strange believed that violence and belligerency was at the heart of Brighton and repressing it would just make it worse, and there needed to be a way to manage their internal rage. With the approval from the Mayor, Strange announced the highly-controversial **Brighton Terminus** project, where a section of the under looked historical district is walled off into a miniature "Purge Zone" where prison inmates and willingly participants could enter the section of the city that within the walls, all crime would be legal as long as there is no interferents from outside the walls. XYC Tower would become the base foundation of Terminus Operations and a private militia tasked with guarding the walls, Red Kobra Squad. Terminus was a success for the first 2 months before Insurrectionists began to band together, realizing how cruel Strange's methods can be to cleanse Brighton of the cancer that grows inside everyday. An incident in the subway that was used to transfer prisoners into Terminus, between Biggs, Liam (Subway Owner), and other insurrectionists occurred that led to a firefight that ended in a loss for Strange and Red Kobra. This would start a temporary Brighton Civil War that ended in Terminus dissolving into internal chaos. Mayor Eski would attempt to end the conflict by approaching both the Insurrectionists and Red Kobra, which ended up in Eski being assassinated by an unknown individual who 'snuck into XYC tower' and pushed him off. Myster Strange would go from Executive Warden to Mayor of Brighton in these event. The Civil War would go on for a month longer as XYC advances Red Kobra's weapon arsenal with Kobrabot Mechs and reverse engineered alien technology. The War would end in a coup on Ben Biggs Bobson that led to a confrontation inside XYC tower, where Strange reveals his family was murdered by Bane in direct result of Ben failing to save the city back in 2019, along with the revelation that Bobby Goat (aka Bane) was still alive in another dimension.

The War ended in a dramatic cease-fire after Strange announced his dissolvement of the Terminus Project, proclaiming Terminus was a giant psychological experiment on the criminally insane. Factions like the IRA, Rat King's Legion, and others began to shit-stir in Brighton to fulfill the power vacuum that was left by Terminus disbanding and there not being enough police.

As of November 2021, the IRA has become the dominant faction in Brighton, totally displacing what is left of the police force. Though Brighton is slightly less dangerous than it was a year ago, another threat was amongst the people of the City to overcome and it all started when faceless bodies started appearing at Bigg's house party, which caught the attention of Kelly Madison, the former police chief who returned to Brighton specifically for this case. There are currently 18 confirmed kills in this new killing spree. Annoying and fed up with the killer, Ben, Liam, Jimmy, Sam, and other Brighton citizens banded together to hunt down the Killer; this was before Ben received a call from his dear friend Michael Huslin; who had just been attacked by the killer. The Killer had kidnapped Michael and followed the group to Sam's underground missile silo, which led to a blood bath in the silo and Biggs distracting the killer with a dirty bomb, allowing his friends to escape before detonating it. Ben was put into critical condition and some how the killer survived, implying a super-natural immortality.