Editing Ellisburg incursion (section)

==Aftermath==
Ellisburg quarantined,<ref name="16.x">“Lady’s not wrong,” he admitted, “We’ve been able to piece together who he is.  We got security camera footage from the early stages of the incident, just last week, and we found his face.  One of the top geeks from the Protectorate then found other cases of his face around the city and found a name.  Jamie Rinke.”<br>[...]<br>“Rinke?”<br><br>“You mean Nilbog.”<br><br>“Huh?”<br><br>“That’s what he called himself.  He’s alive and presumably well.  I saw out the window as the chopper pulled us out, Nilbog retreating to hide in some building, his creatures were returning to their hiding places.  I expect the man will be alive for some time.”<br><br>“Why?” She wheezed the question.<br><br>“Far as I could tell, he’s wearing one of his creations.  Made him bulletproof, maybe fireproof.  We won’t be able to bomb the area.  He’s created beasts that multiply if you set them on fire.  Did you see those?”<br><br>She shook her head.<br><br>“He may have other countermeasures for other courses of action.  You’ll get your chance to talk to the Chief Director, but last I heard, they’re planning to wall the city off.  They’ll let the motherfucker be the god of his own little town, so long as he doesn’t try to expand any further, which they’re saying he won’t.  I almost envy him.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/interlude-16-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.x]]</ref> [[Nilbog|Jamie Rinke]] recognized as [[S-Class]] threat.<ref>There’s six class S threats active in the world at large.  The Endbringers make up three of them.  The Slaughterhouse Nine as a group are a fourth. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/queen-18-3/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.3]]</ref> Life trajectories of two survivors are deeply altered.

The town was quarantined with all the possibly proper precautions.<ref>:'''RedX:''' Twenty years of fallout cleanup is better than everyone dying to uberlocasts. It's arguably better than the moral and psychologial hazard of letting Nilbog continue to exist.
'''Wildbow:''' I find there's a trend, and you definitely see it highlighted in PRT quest, but you see it in arguments like this too.<br><br>
The first mistake people make is forgetting the person involved. Nilbog was a human once, who watched TV and rented movies. He was lonely, odd, but fairly intelligent.<br><br>
He has a sense about nuclear weapons. He knows about armies and all that. Crazy as he becomes, he retains that.<br><br>
That's the first mistake. Forgetting that there's a man there, spending weeks and days with his creations, he loves them, they're his art, his existence. But he has his good moments, and he has his depressive, paranoid moments, where he thinks about how they're dying a little faster every generation, and that there's a very real possibility that people might try to assassinate him, or take his creations away from him by fire, gun, or bomb.<br><br>
He thinks about these things. He dwells on them, and he takes measures.<br><br>
The second mistake that Spacebattlers tend to make, in my estimation, is forgetting about the shards.<br><br>
As Nilbog's content to be passive, you can assume:<br>
1. His shard is broken.<br>
2. His shard is powerful, and it's being utilized to secure Scion/Eden's plans more than it's being used to stress test and evolve anything.<br>
3. Both of the above.<br>
So, question. What eventuality is this tightly packed biome of custom-made living things placed there for? Remember the long-term agenda, too. Conflict. What if he's there because the entities wanted something out there to generate chaos in the event that a Bakuda or a US army or a Level 9001 Dauntless annihilated the area and most of the local population?<br><br>
You know what happens if you nuke the site with bunker busters and try to quarantine the site after the fact?<br><br>
People start getting sick. You discover that there's a fuckton of airborne parasites that've been scattered by the bombs, waterborne parasites getting into nearby sites. Stuff that was contained in tougher creations with hard carbon shells, released during/after the fact. Conventional filtration doesn't necessarily work, because the parasites crawl over, through and around, negating the benefit of hazmat and masks and water filtration systems and all that. The people that get sick start changing. They develop into problems that could give many parahumans a run for their money.<br><br>
The PRT has a sense of this. They consider every threat, and they have thinkers and Dragon working to monitor major problem sites. They get a squad of thinkers to check on Nilbog every week or two, and they get responses like "Black!" "Nine!" "Trojan Horses, Director."<br><br>
They think about leaving him alone, and they get a response of "Yellow", "Three" "Poisoned apple trees, sir." from the same three thinkers.<br><br>
They leave him alone, they keep a close eye on him, they have research teams and tinkers work on developing ideas that might get a response from the thinkers that isn't quite so grave, and they keep things quiet, so the public doesn't realize how dangerous that particular situation really is. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024590 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>
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