2022-12-26

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INCIDENT REPORT

Uno, Dos, Ultraviolento...

• Mexico City, 1985 CE. Currently the world’s largest urban area, with more than 16 million residents — and still rapidly growing. Mexico’s capital city sits atop a central plateau at an altitude of over 7,000 feet, the highest of any in North America. It is also the continent’s oldest — its current iteration founded in 1521, with a precolonial history dating back thousands of years prior. It has stood the test of time — adapting through war, plague, famine, and conquest.
  
  That all changed one day ago, in the early morning of September 19th, when the city was still asleep. The devastation was swift. The earth shook violently as land plates shifted against the subduction zone of the Middle America trench — the seismic gap making itself known. Within minutes over 100,000 buildings crumbled, many vanishing forever into the yawning chasm below. Two distinct epicenters fueled multiple breaks in the fault line, with tremors continuing for an hour.
  
  The official death toll is still being tallied, but is currently calculated at over 5,000. Without power or potable water, the number of fatalities could surpass even that. Government response has been lacking thus far, and little action has been taken due to a tangle of bureaucracy… and corruption. The military has been deployed to enforce a curfew and prevent looting. Rescue efforts are secondary. Those loyal to the Institutional Revolutionary Party receive preference, with troops assigned to assist factory owners in securing their machinery rather than remove the bodies of dead workers.

• A gunship soars in from over the rugged terrain beyond the city. It does a quick flyover of the smaller neighborhoods along the outskirts before moving inward, approaching the city center at building height. Within the attack helicopter are a small team of seasoned professionals — Corporals Abalos, Jimenez, McCullough, and Major Carrera.
  
  Created at the inception of the decade, the Rapid Intervention Force is not widely known to the public. More so, this unit — the Special Reaction Force — is entirely off-book. Recruited from various specialized units throughout the Mexican military, these soldiers have all served, at the least, as non-commissioned officers and endured a rigorous selection process. Each are well versed in clandestine operation, counterinsurgency, counterproliferation, unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, long-distance penetration, and direct action.
  
  They've yet to be briefed, but it's not their first black-op. Perhaps they've worked with state police in the past, acting as agent provocateur to disrupt student marches. Maybe they carried out enhanced interrogations and disappearances against leftist groups as part of the US-backed Dirty War. Regardless, they're not "good" people — but they are damn good at their jobs.

• Even within all of the destruction a small section of a small neighborhood has been secured by military personnel. It includes a hastily erect command tent and several covered transport trucks parked so as to create barricades.

THE CONCLAVE

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