Editing Brockton Bay (section)

==History==
===Origins===
Brockton Bay had originally been a big trading post and port, back when America was being colonized.<ref name="6.2">[[Tangle 6.2]]</ref> Its location was chosen because of the aquifer (which provided fresh water) and proximity to the coast (which provided access to trade routes.)<ref name="8.2e1"/>

During its heyday, trains and ships were constantly coming to and from the city, carrying goods. The north end of the Bay was given over almost entirely to the shipping industry, and there was a regular ferry across the Bay.<ref name="3.4e1"/>

===Villain Influx===
When the import/export business in Brockton Bay had dried up, there had been a whole lot of people who were suddenly out of work. The richest and most resourceful people in town had managed to make more money, turning the city's resources towards tech and banking, but all of the people who had been employed on the ships and in the warehouses had few options left to them. They faced leaving Brockton Bay, sticking around while scraping up what little work they could or turning to more illicit activity.<ref name="R11V">You're confusing 'from Brockton Bay' with 'In Brockton Bay'.<br><br>Marquis was a villain for a while and did villainous stuff around the Northeastern US states. He then settled in a city that had a lot of opportunity and subpar law enforcement and continued to operate there and around there. Along the way, he hooked up with a groupie that had freckles, then they parted ways. A while before canon, said groupie finds out she has cancer, goes to Brockton Bay to find Marquis, and after verifying that he's not an utter monster and he has resources to take care of her kid, gives him custody. Panacea was not born in Brockton Bay.<br><br>Lung came from elsewhere by similar metrics - opportunity and lax law enforcement (at least to start) and stayed. Bakuda came from elsewhere.<br><br>Allfather? Same idea. Kaiser came from Allfather.<br><br>Taylor talks in an early chapter about the dynamics that led to Brockton Bay being attractive to capes - once capes were there, it became more attractive to both capes and shards. This fosters the cape-centric, higher power level environment that we see in Worm. - [https://redd.it/8xzxx4 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

This all contributed to a boom in the local supervillain population. The potential for big money coupled with the number of eager-to-please mooks and henchmen made it the city to be for the villains in the late 90s.<ref name="1.3"/>

During this period, there was a brief boom in storage lockers, which people would use as off-the-books housing. The closely-packed storage facilities attracted crime and disease. The local government cracked down on the practice, and the storage facilities were largely abandoned by homeless people in favour of the increasingly-empty warehouses and factories.<ref name="4.5"/>

The [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] under [[Jack Slash]] visited the area and would later decimate [[The Teeth]].

It took a few years for the hero presence to establish and organize themselves, but they did, and there was something of an equilibrium following the establishment and organization of the hero presence.<ref name="1.3"/>

===Early-[[Worm]]===
{|class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"style="width:70%"
! colspan="2"|Parahumans in Brockton Bay at the start of [[Worm]]
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|[[The Protectorate]]
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*[[Assault]]
*[[Armsmaster]] (team leader)
*[[Battery]]
*[[Dauntless]]
*[[Miss Militia]]
*[[Triumph]] (recently graduated)
*[[Velocity]]
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|[[The Wards]]
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*[[Aegis]] (team leader)
*[[Clockblocker]]
*[[Browbeat]] (considered independent by public)
*[[Gallant]]
*[[Kid Win]]
*[[Shadow Stalker]]
*[[Vista]]
|-
|[[New Wave]]
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*[[Flashbang]]
*[[Glory Girl]]
*[[Lady Photon]] (leader)
*[[Laserdream]]
*[[Manpower]]
*[[Panacea]]
*[[Shielder]]
*[[Brandish]]
|-
|[[Azn Bad Boys]]
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*[[Lung]] (leader)
*[[Oni Lee]]
*[[Bakuda]] (unknown to public)
|-
|[[Coil's Organization]]
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*[[Coil]] (leader)
*[[Chariot]] (unknown to public)
*[[Trainwreck]] (considered independent by public)
*[[Circus]] (considered independent by public)
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|[[Empire Eighty-Eight]]
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*[[Kaiser]] (leader)
*[[Fenja]]
*[[Menja]]
*[[Crusader]]
*[[Alabaster]]
*[[Hookwolf]]
*[[Stormtiger]]
*[[Cricket]]
*[[Krieg]]
*[[Victor]]
*[[Othala]]
*[[Rune]]
|-
|[[Faultline's Crew]]
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*[[Faultline]] (leader)
*[[Gregor the Snail]]
*[[Newter]]
*[[Labyrinth]]
*[[Spitfire]]
|-
|[[The Merchants]]
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*[[Skidmark]] (leader)
*[[Squealer]]
*[[Mush]]
*[[Whirlygig]]
|-
|[[The Undersiders]]
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*[[Regent]]
*[[Grue]]
*[[Tattletale]]
*[[Bitch]]
|-
|Independents
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*[[Uber]] & [[Leet]]<ref>
Über and Leet, Circus, the Undersiders, Squealer, Trainwreck, Stain, others you've never heard of? They're going to stake out their ground, and one of two things is going to happen. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-2-insinuation/2-x-interlude/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref>
*[[Parian]]
*[[Purity]] (considered E88 by some of public)
*[[Taylor Hebert]]
*Perhaps eight others.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/2ef347/community_readthrough_discussion_thread_week_6/cjyvfju/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
|}
After [[Bakuda]]'s [[Bakuda vs. The Undersiders|scuffle]] with [[The Undersiders]], she went on a bombing campaign, indiscriminately targeting several major locations across Brockton Bay. Initially, targets included a power transformer, a school, a bridge, train tracks, and other major services. At least 27 people were reported to have died in the attacks.<ref>[[Shell 4.11]]</ref>

Soon after, the bombs became coordinated against other gang and villain organization fronts. This led all the other villains of Brockton Bay to ally themselves against the [[ABB]].

The ABB terror campaign climaxed when [[Bakuda]] attempted to hold the city for ransom with a threat of a 'superbomb', one authorities<sup>[who?]</sup> feared to be equal to a nine megaton bomb. Through a concerted effort between the [[Protectorate]] and [[the Wards]], both the [[Azn Bad Boys|ABB]] leader [[Lung]] and his lieutenant, [[Bakuda]], were apprehended.<ref>[[Tangle 6.4]]</ref>

===Leviathan's Attack===
In May 15, 2011, Brockton Bay became the target of an [[Leviathan's Attack|attack]] by the [[Endbringer]] [[Leviathan]]. This event caused the loss of power and other services to significant parts of the city, the flooding of most of downtown and southern Brockton Bay and the formation of a sizable lake in the southern downtown area. It was speculated that a more successful attack on the part of [[Leviathan]] would have caused the collapse of large sections of the city into the aquifer it was built on.<ref name="8.2e1"/>
{|class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"style="width:40%"
!colspan="2"|Fatalities
|-
|Escutcheon
|Tyrone Venson
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|Erudite
|Mavis Shoff
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|[[Fenja]]
|Jessica Biermann
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|Fierceling
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|-
|Frenetic
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|-
|Furrow
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|-
|[[Gallant]]
|Dean Stansfield
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|Geomancer
|Tim Mars
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|Good Neighbor
|Roberto Peets
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|Hallow
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|-
|Herald
|Gordon Eckhart
|-
|Humble
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|-
|Impel
|Corey Steffons
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|Iron Falcon
|Brent Woodrow
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|Jotun
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|-
|[[Kaiser]]
|Max Anders
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|[[Manpower]]
|Neil Pelham
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|Mister Eminent
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|-
|Oaf
|Wesley Scheaffer
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|Pelter
|Stefanie Lamana
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|Penitent
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|-
|Quark
|Caroline Ranson
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|Resolute
|Georgia Woo
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|Saurian
|Darlene Beckman
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|Sham
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|-
|[[Shielder]]
|Eric Pelham
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|Smackdown
|Jennie Ryan
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|Snowflake
|Charlotte Tom
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|Strider
|Craig McNish
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|Uglymug
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|-
|[[Velocity]]
|Robin Swoyer
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|Vitiator
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|-
|WCM
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|-
|Zigzag
|Bennie Debold and Geoff Schearn
|}

The loss of [[Shielder]] and [[Manpower]], and later [[Glory Girl]] and [[Panacea]] in the wake of these events largely ended the [[New Wave]] experiment.

===Slaughterhouse Nine Attack===
Capitalizing on the chaos wrought by [[Leviathan]], the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] chose to visit Brockton Bay once more in order to recruit a ninth member. There they suffered a massive defeat, losing all but three of their members.

===[[Battle against Echidna]]===
Released in the wake of Coil's death, [[Echidna]] rampaged through a section of the city. Under the advisement of local thinkers, the attack was raised to an S-class threat before any major damage was done, allowing her to be subdued fairly quickly.

Aftermath of the event included [[Alexandria]]'s civilian identity and the [[Triumvirate]]'s association with [[Cauldron]] to be revealed and the defection of the majority of [[Protectorate]] [[Case 53|Case-53s]] to [[Weld]]'s [[The Irregulars|Irregulars]], as well as the creation of a portal to [[Earth Gimel]].

At the time of Taylor's surrender and defection to the Protectorate, there were more than ten visiting heroes present in Brockton Bay.<ref>"Twelve minutes," Defiant said. "This isn't the time to be hard-nosed. You don't want this fight any more than we do. If this happens, your team will be at a very ''real'' risk of death or arrest. Three of the A.I. models, Dragon's, mine, the Brockton Bay heroes and no less than ten ''visiting'' heroes." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/cell-22-6/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.6]]</ref>

===Portal===
Following [[Tattletale]], [[Labyrinth]], and [[Scrub]]'s creation of a portal to [[Earth Gimel]], Brockton Bay became much more important, attracting both unpowered humans motivated by greed and capes going after the rich pickings created by this influx of wealth.

This portal was used as an evacuation point for most of the East Coast following [[Scion]]'s [[Gold Morning|attack]].

Urban area on the Gimel side of portal is known as New Brockton, and became one of origin settlements for [[The City]].