Editing Australia (section)

===Background===
Sydney was one of the first cities to be destroyed by [[Leviathan]] and one of the few to be rebuilt.<ref name="Redit77"/> Around the same time [[Gavel]] was kicking around making a spectacle and hunting down 'criminals',<ref name="aussie">Gavel had once been judge, jury and executioner to criminals in Australia.  He’d announce his intentions publicly, swearing vengeance and listing their crimes, and then he’d go after them.<br/><br/>Generally speaking, he transferred his power from himself to his hammer and from his hammer to his target, conducting invincibility.  His target would fly through the air until they hit something, at which point they would be pulverized.<br/><br/>If he was feeling merciful, or if he didn’t want to give them a chance, he simply pulverized them with the swing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> his violent executions eventually landed him in the [[Birdcage]].

Three months before [[Worm]] started, on the 24th of Febuary 2011<ref>Starting a new topic because the last one hit post limit.<br/>The Simurgh attacked Canberra, Australia on February 24th, 2011.  Thread here. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/interlude-19-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> the Simurgh attacked Canberra,<ref name="scarab25.6">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> and 'won'.<ref name="SB1">'''Wildbow:'''<br/>Think of it in terms of political context, the simurgh attack on Australia being recent & rather a loss for the good guys, her being a Simurgh-alike, news & public perception turning on her, and other factors playing in.<br/>For Canary's court case ending up an uphill battle.<br/>People are ~scared~ of mind/emotion control. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37024231/ Wildbow on Discord, Archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

The City was sealed under a dome,<ref>Secondary focuses.  Not the kind of targets that Dragon checked on with any regularity.  Quarantine areas were silent and still.  Canberra was sealed off under a dome, Madison was surrounded by walls.  An area of wilderness in Alaska was marked off, but had no physical barriers to wall people away. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/interlude-26-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26.x|26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)]]</ref> and samples were retrieved to be investigated by the proper authorities.<ref>"It is the worst case scenario.  You're the first this morning to enter the lab where you do all your biohazard work, testing bacteria, parasites, viruses and potential cures, when the lights go off, the emergency lighting and sirens kicking in.  In your sprint to the end of the hall, you see the disaster, a cart tipped, containers broken.  You stand there, your heart dropping into your stomach, knowing you've already died.  The papers that were on the cart read, very simply, 'Canberra'.  The Simurgh.  The name is enough to push you to trigger."	-	[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gcJoGA4wwkFbL6fpjaeiQTQ-hKrp6BOChOfgxRn14xk/edit#gid=40636821 Submission by Wildbow on TRIGGER DOC (PUBLIC)]</ref>