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From Directive 51 to a rogue in the White House. Tap any node for the full dossier.

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Pre-outbreak

  1. May 2007Secret

    Directive 51

    A presidential continuity order that created the legal spine for the Strategic Homeland Division.

Manhattan · 2020–21

  1. 27 Nov 2020Secret

    Green Poison

    Variola chimera — the Dollar Flu — released on contaminated cash in midtown Manhattan.

  2. Dec 2020Restricted

    Collapse of Manhattan

    Power, law, and medicine failed in sequence. The city became a closed system of factions.

  3. 11 Dec 2020Restricted

    The Dark Zone

    JTF sealed the worst of Manhattan behind a perimeter. The loot, and the dead, stayed inside.

  4. 20 Dec 2020Secret

    First Wave

    Directive 51 woke the Manhattan sleepers. Most of them never reported back.

  5. 6 Jan 2021Restricted

    Second Wave

    A second activation broke the siege on the Post Office and began the fight to retake Manhattan.

Washington · 2021

  1. Feb–Mar 2021Restricted

    Washington comes apart

    While New York burned, the capital split into three hostile maps and two civilian settlements.

  2. Apr 2021Secret

    SHD Network blackout

    Hyenas downed the president's plane. The Division's national network died with it.

  3. Jun 2021Restricted

    Reclaiming the District

    Division agents broke Hyena, Outcast, and True Sons strongholds and took the Capitol steps.

  4. Jul 2021Top Secret

    Black Tusk invasion

    A private military army rolled into the capital the night the True Sons fell.

  5. Jul 2021Secret

    Tidal Basin

    Division recovered a Green Poison antiviral from Black Tusk. Ellis walked into the fog.

Warlords of New York

  1. Aug 2021Top Secret

    Eclipse on City Hall

    A new bioweapon hit Lower Manhattan. The Division followed it into Keener's war.

  2. Aug 2021Top Secret

    Liberty Island

    Keener was shot on Liberty Island. The body did not convince ISAC. The rogue network came online anyway.

Shadow war

  1. Aug 2021Top Secret

    Faye Lau, declared rogue

    The New York coordinator defected, killed a president, and died with an insurance policy.

  2. 2022+Top Secret

    First Rogue

    The dead man came back, tested the Division, and sat down in the White House under guard.