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Manhattan · 2020–21
Green Poison
Variola chimera — the Dollar Flu — released on contaminated cash in midtown Manhattan.
Pre-outbreak
Strategic Homeland Division
A sleeper domestic unit activated under Directive 51 to hold the country when the government cannot.
Manhattan · 2020–21
First Wave
Directive 51 woke the Manhattan sleepers. Most of them never reported back.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Aaron Keener
The Division's first true apostate — charismatic, brilliant, and unfinished.
Washington · 2021
Black Tusk
Natalya Sokolova's private army — the best-equipped faction in the collapse.
Warlords of New York
Liberty Island
Keener was shot on Liberty Island. The body did not convince ISAC. The rogue network came online anyway.
Shadow war
The Cabal
A circle of power using the collapse to replace the government rather than restore it.
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Pre-outbreak
Directive 51
A presidential continuity order that created the legal spine for the Strategic Homeland Division.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Green Poison
Variola chimera — the Dollar Flu — released on contaminated cash in midtown Manhattan.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Collapse of Manhattan
Power, law, and medicine failed in sequence. The city became a closed system of factions.
Manhattan · 2020–21
The Dark Zone
JTF sealed the worst of Manhattan behind a perimeter. The loot, and the dead, stayed inside.
Manhattan · 2020–21
First Wave
Directive 51 woke the Manhattan sleepers. Most of them never reported back.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Second Wave
A second activation broke the siege on the Post Office and began the fight to retake Manhattan.
Washington · 2021
Washington comes apart
While New York burned, the capital split into three hostile maps and two civilian settlements.
Washington · 2021
SHD Network blackout
Hyenas downed the president's plane. The Division's national network died with it.
Washington · 2021
Reclaiming the District
Division agents broke Hyena, Outcast, and True Sons strongholds and took the Capitol steps.
Washington · 2021
Black Tusk invasion
A private military army rolled into the capital the night the True Sons fell.
Washington · 2021
Tidal Basin
Division recovered a Green Poison antiviral from Black Tusk. Ellis walked into the fog.
Warlords of New York
Eclipse on City Hall
A new bioweapon hit Lower Manhattan. The Division followed it into Keener's war.
Warlords of New York
Liberty Island
Keener was shot on Liberty Island. The body did not convince ISAC. The rogue network came online anyway.
Shadow war
Faye Lau, declared rogue
The New York coordinator defected, killed a president, and died with an insurance policy.
Shadow war
First Rogue
The dead man came back, tested the Division, and sat down in the White House under guard.
Pre-outbreak
Strategic Homeland Division
A sleeper domestic unit activated under Directive 51 to hold the country when the government cannot.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Joint Task Force
The emergency fusion of whatever uniformed services still had a chain of command.
Manhattan · 2020–21
CERA
The medical bureaucracy that ran out of vaccine, beds, and time.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Cleaners
Sanitation and firefighters who decided the infected were fuel.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Rikers
Escaped inmates who turned Manhattan and later Brooklyn into turf.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Last Man Battalion
A private military company that decided it was the last legitimate army in New York.
Washington · 2021
Hyenas
D.C. criminal networks fused into a faction that kidnapped a president.
Washington · 2021
Outcasts
Quarantine survivors who turned abandonment into a cult of payback.
Washington · 2021
True Sons
Rogue JTF who seized the Capitol and tried to run D.C. as a military camp.
Washington · 2021
Black Tusk
Natalya Sokolova's private army — the best-equipped faction in the collapse.
Shadow war
Hunters
Elite killers in skull masks. Not a street faction — a program.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Gordon Amherst
A brilliant, radical virologist who decided humanity needed a cull.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Aaron Keener
The Division's first true apostate — charismatic, brilliant, and unfinished.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Faye Lau
The voice in the Agent's ear — until she wasn't.
Washington · 2021
Alani Kelso
The agent who held Washington together, then went missing on Keener's clock.
Washington · 2021
Manny Ortega
Civilian nerve of the D.C. Division cell — maps, people, and bad coffee.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Charles Bliss
A PMC commander who tried to occupy New York and called it order.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Joe Ferro
Sanitation worker turned prophet of fire.
Washington · 2021
Emeline Shaw
The quarantine's most articulate revenge.
Washington · 2021
Antwon Ridgeway
JTF officer who decided the capital needed a stronger hand, then used it on civilians.
Washington · 2021
President Andrew Ellis
Third in the outbreak's presidential line. Captured, recovered, disappeared, killed.
Shadow war
Natalya Sokolova
The collapse's most patient warlord — money, media, and a private army.
Warlords of New York
Theo Parnell
A Division tech specialist who learned to lie to ISAC.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Vitaly Tchernenko
The scientist everyone kidnaps.
Shadow war
Calvin McManus
The civilian official at the far end of the Hunter program.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Manhattan Dark Zone
Midtown sealed for recovery. It became a market, a grave, and a test.
Washington · 2021
The White House
Not a palace — a sandbagged operations center with a famous fence.
Washington · 2021
Castle Settlement
A refugee hub True Sons tried to erase.
Washington · 2021
United States Capitol
The building every faction needs in the shot.
Warlords of New York
Coney Island
Where Black Tusk dangled Tchernenko and Keener stayed a move ahead.
Warlords of New York
Haven
City Hall's surviving cellar — Lau, Benitez, Rhodes, and a borough on fire.
Shadow war
The Bridge
A waterfront civilian holdfast in the fight for Brooklyn.
Washington · 2021
Roosevelt Island
A strip in the East River used as a medical dump, then a grievance factory.
Pre-outbreak
ISAC
The voice in the ear, the map on the watch, the network that decides if you are still an agent.
Shadow war
ANNA
A parallel SHD intelligence, cloned onto Keener's watch.
Warlords of New York
Eclipse
A second-generation bioweapon aimed at enemies Keener chose — and everyone standing near them.
Pre-outbreak
SHD watches
A wrist computer that marks you as Division — to allies, to ISAC, and to Hunters.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Variola chimera
An engineered smallpox variant designed to outrun the twentieth century's playbook.
Manhattan · 2020–21
Waves
First Wave was spent. Second Wave was the redo with fewer illusions.
Warlords of New York
Rogue network
Keener's last gift: a parallel SHD mesh that turned allies into targets.
Shadow war
The Cabal
A circle of power using the collapse to replace the government rather than restore it.