New York

{{#if:Jouster<ref>“They’re led by Epoch,” Jouster said, without looking at me. “Group is very organized. Thing you gotta know about New York is it’s bigger. Everything is. So these guys, there’s a lot of them. They’re organized into tiers, and they compete with one another for placement in the tiers, challenging ones in higher tiers, paying a penalty if they fail the challenge. There’s one tier one, two tier twos, three tier threes… all the way down to the tier fives.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>|

“	Thing you gotta know about New York is it’s bigger. Everything is.	”
{{#if:Jouster<ref>“They’re led by Epoch,” Jouster said, without looking at me. “Group is very organized. Thing you gotta know about New York is it’s bigger. Everything is. So these guys, there’s a lot of them. They’re organized into tiers, and they compete with one another for placement in the tiers, challenging ones in higher tiers, paying a penalty if they fail the challenge. There’s one tier one, two tier twos, three tier threes… all the way down to the tier fives.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>| —Jouster<ref>“They’re led by Epoch,” Jouster said, without looking at me. “Group is very organized. Thing you gotta know about New York is it’s bigger. Everything is. So these guys, there’s a lot of them. They’re organized into tiers, and they compete with one another for placement in the tiers, challenging ones in higher tiers, paying a penalty if they fail the challenge. There’s one tier one, two tier twos, three tier threes… all the way down to the tier fives.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>{{#if:|, {{{3}}}}} }} }}

New York is a city in the United States, with some of the largest groups of parahumans.<ref>“I’m sure Prism will let you have access to the New York teams’ supplies. Largest cape groups in America, they’ll have a little of everything.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>

Description

It's cape culture has a focus on destructive might, with parahumans who can take down buildings considered the heavy hitters.<ref>“And it’s required. Vegas is one of the worst cities for sheer number of villains,” Rime said. Her entire demeanor was rigid, which maybe fit in a way with her ice powers. “Vegas employs a group of unsponsored thinkers and tinkers to monitor the venues, much like the PRT does with the economy, ensuring that everything is above-board, that everything is being conducted fairly and that the numbers add up. Vegas changed as a result, developed a different cape dynamic. In Los Angeles or New York, it’s the people who can blow down buildings that are seen as true ‘heavy hitters’. Here, they’re trying to game the system, and the heroes are trying to game them. In Vegas, it’s thinkers, tinkers and strangers who rule the underworld.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.2</ref>

Role in story

A third of New York is destroyed during Scion's rampage, with an estimated 2.2 million deaths, in large part because Saint activated the defensive forcefields too early.<ref>Saint, standing in the booth opposite the Guild members, had been ignoring him, focusing on a computer as he typed ceaselessly. At those last two and a half words, Saint paused for a fraction of a second. The other Dragonslayers were situated at either end of the crescent-shaped desk, seeing to their own tasks. The woman glanced at Saint, and that seemed to be enough to remind him to get back to the typing.

“Dragon could evacuate. She could minimize damage, manually control the forcefields instead of relying on automatic overrides. New York’s forcefields went up too early. Golden beam sheared through, knocked it down. A third of the city gone. Dragon would have succeeded, you failed. Two point two million estimated deaths. I want you to know the numbers. I want you to be aware of every single one of those deaths. Believe me, I’ll remind you, and I’ll make sure everyone else knows as well.” - [1] from Extinction 27.2</ref> Afterward, New York functions as the final staging ground in the battle against Scion.<ref>I stepped through into the cloud. A rooftop overlooking New York, Earth Bet. My New York.

It hadn’t been a conscious choice. An impulse, really. Maybe there were cities that were more fitting, but this was a city at the center of modern civilization. Or it had been. If this was going to be our final staging ground, then it was as fitting a choice as any. It was heavy with resources that every parahuman could use, unoccupied. Intact enough to still look like a city, damaged enough to remind us of what was at stake. - [ Excerpt] from Speck 30.6</ref> The city is rebuild after his defeat, with portals connecting New York to other worlds.<ref>He took a deep breath, the flame swelling. “They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. Let’s shorten this speech, then and take a second to look.”

He gestured, and heads turned.

New York, in the process of being rebuilt. Dust and ominous clouds were being held at bay by a thin forcefield, and the city stood in the center of a brilliant sunlight. Where glass had broken and where oils had risen to the tops of city streets, things almost glittered. A shining city.

For every damaged area, there were people, fixing things, scavenging and hauling things away. Tents and tarps were erected, barriers raised. Already, buildings were going up where portals had been torn between realities.

Chevalier had called it a city with depth. It was true. Most cities existed on a two dimensional level, spreading along the four cardinal directions. Buildings extended above and below ground, but even the tallest building was but a fraction of a distance compared to the breadth of the city.

Here, in this city, one could travel to one area and make a turn into another world. There, they would find the fledgling beginnings of an expansion, sprawling from that central point.

It was too much to manage. Even the smallest villains had elbow room to maneuver and manipulate. - Excerpt from Teneral e.1</ref>

Known residents

PRT

New York is one the PRT's top departments, with a focus on overall administration.<ref>The PRT is big, and being big, it has an awful lot of places to stow the more problematic capes. The top departments have individualized roles where they focus on a specific dimension of PRT activities, whether it's overall administration (New York), branding (LA), or training (Houston). - reddit comment by Wildbow.</ref> The New York department decides who gets placed where as director and deputy director for a given department, where departments are prioritized, and generally who is available and for where, when it comes to crises or priority areas.<ref>Overall PRT Structure
~66 major city departments as of the Timeskip, ~12 non-numbered PRT departments (Cape towns, Canadian cities), and seven quarantine-focused departments.
The New York office handles the overall management of the PRT, who gets placed where as director and deputy director for a given department, where departments are prioritized, and generally who is available and for where, when it comes to crises or priority areas. - reddit comment by Wildbow.</ref> The director of the department is Director Wilkins.<ref>Piggot glanced at each of the people who were seated at the table. Mr. Tagg, the Director of Brockton Bay’s PRT, Director Armstrong from Boston, and Director Wilkins from New York were all present. Mr. Keene sat opposite her. A camera mounted on the table gave the Chief Director of the PRT eyes on the meeting, where she watched from Washington. - Excerpt from Interlude 20 (Donation Bonus #1)</ref>

Protectorate

The New York department of The Protectorate is the central headquarters of all American teams.<ref>“I’m… I don’t want to sound arrogant, but I’m better than that.”

“Mm hmm,” he said. “Let’s hope they think so.”

He pressed the button and took hold of the controls. “New York. The central headquarters of every Protectorate team in America.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>

• Legend (former leader)<ref>Legend – Leader of the Protectorate. Runs the team based in New York. Is one of the best, if not the best ‘flying artillery’ capes, with flight and unsurpassed versatility and power from the lasers he can emanate from his body. Among other things, his lasers can turn corners, fork into multiple lasers, pass through walls and freeze or ignite his targets. He has recently left the Protectorate’s Triumvirate. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
• Chevalier (leader)<ref>Weaver spoke up, “I noted Shatterbirds and Burnscars leaving, some Damsels, bunch of others I didn’t catch, but they had weapons and I’m thinking Winter or Crimson. There were some I parsed as hostages, but it’s only in retrospect that I’m thinking they were Nice Guys.”
  
  “The second group made their way to New York.”
  
  “Bonesaw and a captive Nilbog that’s apparently rigged to create things on demand,” Weaver said. “Crawlers, Breeds and a handful of others I didn’t identify.”
  
  Chevalier reacted to that, flinching.
  
  His city, Golem thought. - Excerpt from Interlude 26a</ref><ref name="prism2"/>
• Prism<ref>Prism and Battery went after Mannequin. Prism split into three copies of herself, complete with fireproof suit, closing in as Battery used her power to cross the distance and trade blows. I was only peripherally aware of Prism, given how she was based in New York, but seeing her in action reminded me of how she operated. - Excerpt from Prey 14.6</ref> (second in command)<ref name="prism2">“In the lead, we have Prism, second in command of the New York team,” Defiant told me.
  
  Prism’s lips flattened into a tight line as she looked at me. We’d met, at the Mayor’s house. She’d been one of Legend’s people. I supposed that Chevalier would have wanted someone who knew the city and the routines as his second in command. - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>
• Adamant (formerly)<ref>I studied Adamant and Sere while I waited. Adamant, naturally, wore a metallic costume, featuring metal bands and panels that were loosely linked together by chains, fit over a black bodysuit. He’d been at the fight against Leviathan, if I remembered right. He was a member of Legend’s team in New York. Or he had been. Legend was gone now. - Excerpt from Chrysalis 20.2</ref>
• Astrologer<ref>He faked a high society woman’s laugh, where the laugh was said as much as it was uttered. A cape nearby, one I recognized as Astrologer from the New York team, shot us a dirty look, before she returned to calling down projectiles from the sky. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.7</ref>
• Cache<ref>Cache – A New York cape working under Legend, Cache wears a black costume, and can force objects into an extradimensional space, or remove them from one. - Cast</ref>
• Ursa Aurora<ref>Ursa Aurora – A member of the New York Protectorate, Ursa Aurora creates animated forcefields in the rough shape of bears. - Cast</ref>

The Wards

Rather than a single team, the Wards in New York have five small ones,<ref name="broken_home">“She came from a broken home,” Miss Militia supplied the information instead. “She bounced between her mother, her father and the surrogate mother who had attempted to renege on the deal they’d made and keep her. With the number of times she changed between them and moved, I can’t imagine she has strong ties to the idea of ‘home’. Even within the Wards… New York has five small teams, and she moved between them as she changed residences.” - Excerpt from Cell 22.3</ref> each with their own unique focus. Flechette moved between teams as she changed residences.<ref name="broken_home"/>

• Jouster<ref>“You may recognize some of the captains of the respective Wards teams. Jouster from New York, Vantage from Los Angeles, Tecton from Chicago and Hoyden from Austin. You know Clockblocker.” - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>
• Shelter<ref>Jouster shook his head. “It’s the job. They grumble, sure, but it’s a few years at most before they get to do the bike thing.”
  
  “I’m guessing you’re one of the ‘lancers’,” I said.
  
  Jouster gave me a dirty look, “What of it?”
  
  “Nothing,” I said. “Just made sense.”
  
  “Flechette was one too,” he said. “She was going to lead the squad when I moved up to the Protectorate, with Shelter taking over as Wards captain.”
  
  “I believe it,” I said. - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>
• Flechette (formerly)<ref>Flechette, Lily – A crossbow-wielding cape that originally hailed from New York, joining the Brockton Bay Wards as a temporary member in the wake of recent disasters. A Japanese-American girl, she wears a deep purple costume with a visor, quiver, and narrow, platinum-white armor panels that flare out at the upper edges and taper at the bottom – mimicking the vague shape of an arrow or darts. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>

Villain groups

• The Adepts<ref>“We do what we’re doing with the Cauldron capes, run her by our thinkers,” Dispatch said. “We can get a more concrete assessment of her now, with a field exercise, than by any amount of talking. If I’m remembering right, a notice went out, didn’t it? A New York group of villains is poaching Wards and Protectorate members?”
  
  “The Adepts,” Revel said. - Excerpt from Drone 23.1</ref>
• The Elite<ref>"I'm not sure what I need. The Elite moved in as a response to the PRT setting up here. The other gangs are already reacting, except for maybe Tuurngait, the only real non-international gang here. I'm not sure what they're thinking. With Alaska, they'd have eyes and assets all along the West coast."
  
  "They've also got a cell here in New York. One of their leaders, Uppercrust, is dying. Same medical problem that led to his trigger event. He was the easiest to work with - one of our contractors for the large-scale force fields at sensitive port locations. His failing health was a small factor in why Brockton Bay was hit as hard as it was. Can't get around to his work sites. Now you've got splinter factions vying for his seat."</ref>
• The Teeth<ref>Once a gang in Brockton Bay, they were nearly wiped out by the Slaughterhouse Nine. They re-established themselves as cells in New York and Boston, and have since rebuilt, though turnover has proved high enough that no original members remain – only the name survives. Savage, reckless, willing to do anything for a profit, they aim to oust the Undersiders and use violence to carve out a territory. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>

Individuals

• Bakuda (formerly)<ref>Armsmaster nodded, “Not surprising. She’s new. What we know about her is limited. She made her first appearance and demonstration of her powers by way of a drawn out terrorism campaign against Cornell University. Lung apparently recruited her and brought her to Brockton Bay after her plans were foiled by the New York Protectorate. This is… something of a concern.” - Excerpt from Gestation 1.6</ref>
• Hookwolf (formerly, rumored)<ref>Rumor had it that Hookwolf, back in the day, had been one of the top fighters in a parahuman fighting ring in New York. He’d grown greedy, killed the man that ran it for access to the vault with the night’s earnings, and had made a good number of enemies in the process. It had been a group of white supremacists local to that area that had given him shelter and support, happy to side with him because the man he’d killed had been an ‘acceptable target’. Maybe the ideology was real for Hookwolf from day one, maybe it was an act that had become reality when he found he enjoyed having people celebrate him for enacting his most twisted impulses and racking up a body count. Either way, I suspected that there were few things he wouldn’t do for his ‘Empire’ nowadays. - Excerpt from Buzz 7.7</ref>
• March<ref name="nemesis">Foil is 17 and a senior. She triggered 3 years prior to her appearance, as part of a group trigger in New York. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger. - Private message by Wildbow, posted on Spacebattles.</ref><ref>“Another pattern we will be exploring is the apparent effect of multiple trigger events occurring in the same time and place. There is a very strong correlation between coinciding trigger events and individuals displaying three or more powers rather than one or two predominant ones.”
  
  “Hey, Flechette,” Kid Win called across the room, “You’ve got a bunch of powers, right?”
  
  She turned in her seat, “Sure.”
  
  “Anyone else get powers at the same time you did?”
  
  “Not that I know of.”
  
  “Could someone nearby have gotten their powers, without you knowing? Way things played out? Did any capes show up around the same time as you?”
  
  Flechette frowned, “Yeah. A rather persistent villain.”
  
  “Worth thinking about.” - Excerpt from Sentinel 9.3</ref>
• Mayor McBrien<ref>Hounddog News: Crocodile Tears
  

New York Mayor McBrien scandal continues as we learn that just an hour before his public apology speech, he held a party at a hotel penthouse paid for with taxpayer dollars. Underage attendees were present at the party, including star...</ref>

Trivia

• The Travelers visited New York at one point, and were likely involved with forty individuals disappearing overnight.<ref>“I don’t know. Could they? Yes. And that possibility is too dangerous, especially given what Regent can do. The Undersiders do not pull their punches. The Travelers, oddly enough, are more moderate, but they do have sixteen kills under their belt, due in large part to the sheer power at their disposal.”
  
  “Let’s not forget the incident in New York,” Legend said. “Forty individuals disappeared in one night. Investigation confirmed the Travelers were occupying a nearby location. Chances are good that they were involved.” - Excerpt from Interlude 13</ref><ref>Tattletale spoke up, “The Travelers have two other members who don’t see much action. Oliver handles their day-to-day stuff. Finds and prepares places for them to settle down, gets food, looks after Noelle. Noelle…”
  
  “New York,” Miss Militia interrupted. “She’s the one that’s responsible for the disappearance of those forty people?”
  
  “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Tattletale said. - Excerpt from Queen 18.3</ref>
• The commonly used system of power classifications was originally created by PRT ground-patrol and response teams in New York.<ref>◈ CLASSIFICATIONS
  The classification system was initially created by the PRT ground-patrol and response teams in New York as a means of quickly identifying threats and adopting strategies. As many as thirty categories were added to accommodate other types of parahuman as the methodology spread, and these forms were later condensed as it was discovered that certain strategies were valid against parahumans of a broad type. - PRT Master Reference</ref>

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