Timeline · Manhattan · 2020–21
Second Wave
James Farley and the Base of Operations
A second activation broke the siege on the Post Office and began the fight to retake Manhattan.
On January 6 the Second Wave came online in New York. Their first job was ending the siege of the James Farley Post Office, which became the Division's Base of Operations under Faye Lau after Commander Louis Chang was killed. From that building the Agent — you — rebuilt medical, tech, and security wings with Paul Rhodes, Dr. Jessica Kandel, and Roy Benitez.
Second Wave operations mapped the borough: Madison Square, Times Square, the Dark Zone, the Underground, the Lexington Event Center. They dismantled Cleaner, Riker, and Last Man Battalion strongholds, recovered a Green Poison sample, and confirmed Gordon Amherst as the architect. They also confirmed that First Wave agent Aaron Keener had gone rogue and taken a Russian virologist with him.
The Second Wave did not 'win' New York. It made a city that could be fought in. Everything that follows — Washington, Warlords, Brooklyn — assumes those agents held a foothold when the rest of the government did not.
