Ellisburg incursion
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Ellisburg incursion was a PRT operation following exceptionally unfortunate trigger event.
Prelude
Small town gets a new parahuman, and shortly stops displaying any signs of life.<ref>Span of a few days, quaint little Ellisburg disappears from the grid, communications and power cut, no cars or people getting out. Guys upstairs sent some heroes in, we got a brief report before they defaulted to radio silence. Report doesn’t tell us anything except they think the whole crime spree was all the one guy.” - Excerpt from Interlude 16.x</ref>
PRT is unable to get reliable intelligence past few initial days.
Events
Operatives notice the scale of the incident too late.
Toronto capes, that were supposed to provide fire-support, flee the ensuing battle.
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.”
[...]
“Rinke?”
“You mean Nilbog.”
“Huh?”
“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.”
“Why?” She wheezed the question.
“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?”
She shook her head.
“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.” - Excerpt from Interlude 16.x</ref> 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. - Excerpt from Queen 18.3</ref> Live trajectories of two survivors are deeply altered.
References
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