Brockton Bay

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Brockton Bay</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> Brockton Bay is a fictional coastal city located in the US Northeast and is the city in which most of Worm takes place. It was home to the Protectorate East-North-East.

Geography & Climate

Brockton Bay is located in the northeast of the United States. Its state is never mentioned. The Atlantic Ocean lies to its East and is surrounded by mountains/hills.

It was probably in the top 10 US cities in terms of total cape population.<ref name="1.3">Gestation 1.3</ref>

Being a coastal city along with its surrounding geography, Brockton Bay has fairly mild climate. The summers are comfortably warm and the winters are one of the mildest in the Northeastern States. This may be one reason people in costume congregated there.<ref>Gestation 1.2</ref><ref name="9.2c1">Comment by Wildbow</ref>

Resident Groups and Organizations

Heroes

• Brockton Bay Brigade/New Wave
• The Protectorate East-North-East
  • The Wards

Villains

• Azn Bad Boys (ABB)
• Coil's Organization
• Empire Eighty-Eight (E88)
  • Fenrir's Chosen
  • The Pure
• Faultline’s Crew
• The Merchants
• The Undersiders
• Travelers
• Über & Leet
• Red Hand
• The Teeth
• Accord and his Ambassadors

Other Groups & Organizations

• Parahuman Response Team

Points of Interest

Main Areas

• Downtown
• The Docks

Landmarks

• Captain's Hill
• Crater Lake
• Protectorate ENE Headquarters
• The Scar

Memorials

• Endbringer Fight Memorial (Captain's Hill)
• Regent's Memorial (Crater Lake)
• Time-distortion Memorial (Boardwalk)

Schools

• Arcadia High
• Immaculata High
• Winslow High
• Clarendon High<ref>Interlude 10</ref>

Other Locations

• Boardwalk
• Brockton Bay Central Bank
• Brockton Bay Central Library
• Earth Gimel Portal
• Forsberg Gallery
• Fugly Bob's
• Lord Street Market
• Local PRT Division Building
• Ruby Dreams casino
• Somer's Rock

History

Background

Brockton Bay had originally been a big trading post and port, back when America was being colonized.<ref>Tangle 6.2</ref>

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="1.3"/>

Villain Takeover

This all contributed to the boom in the local supervillain population in the mid eighties. 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. Said at one point to have gotten to the point where Supervillans and effectively ruled the city.^{[citation needed]} the Slaughterhouse Nine under King 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 high profile arrests of Marquis and the formation of New Wave. As far as cape population went, Brockton Bay wasn’t in the top 5 cities in the U.S., but it was probably in the top ten<ref name="1.3"/>.

Story Start

After Bakuda's 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^[who?] feared to be equal to a nine megaton bomb. Through a concerted effort between the Protectorate and the Wards, both the 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 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>Extermination 8.2</ref> 

Fatalities

Escutcheon	Tyrone Venson
Erudite	Mavis Shoff
Fenja	Jessica Biermann
Fierceling
Frenetic
Furrow
Gallant	Dean Stansfield
Geomancer	Tim Mars
Good Neighbor	Roberto Peets
Hallow
Herald	Gordon Eckhart
Humble
Impel	Corey Steffons
Iron Falcon	Brent Woodrow
Jotun
Kaiser	Max Anders
Manpower	Neil Pelham
Mister Eminent
Oaf	Wesley Scheaffer
Pelter	Stefanie Lamana
Penitent
Quark	Caroline Ranson
Resolute	Georgia Woo
Saurian	Darlene Beckman
Sham
Shielder	Eric Pelham
Smackdown	Jennie Ryan
Snowflake	Charlotte Tom
Strider	Craig McNish
Uglymug
Velocity	Robin Swoyer
Vitiator
WCM
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 9 Attack

Capitalizing on the chaos wrought by Leviathan, the Slaughterhouse 9 chose to visit Brockton Bay in order to recruit a ninth member. There they suffered a massive defeat, losing all but three of their members.

Echidna's attack

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 A-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-53s to Weld's Irregulars, as well as the creation of a portal to Earth Gimel.

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 an evacuation point for most of the East Coast following Scion's attack.

References

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