Apocalypse Dawn
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Apocalypse Dawn is a mini-campaign for four to six judges. Throughout the course of the campaign¸ the judges will pit their wits against sleeper agents from desolate East-Meg One who have been accidentally reactivated. The sleepers begin to pursue their prime directive to bring Mega-City One to its knees and destroy those who dare to challenge their master " War Marshal Kazan¸ one of the architects of the Apocalypse War. Includes a complete tour of Sector House 190!
"In December 2103¸ Mega-City One fell prey to a chemical weapon known as the Block Mania contaminant. Block Mania swept the city through the water supply¸ inducing strong violent impulses and madness among the population of 800 million citizens " even the Justice Department was affected¸ the noble defenders of the Law taking sides with cityblocks¸ waging mindless war against their neighbours. Mega-City One was ripe for invasion from fellow superpower and archenemy East-Meg One¸ capital of the former Soviet Union. East-Meg forces swept into Mega-City One¸ first by blasting the city into rubble with a nuclear strike and then following it up with a mighty army of human and robot warriors. The Mega-City judges¸ led by Judge Dredd¸ cured Block Mania and mounted a resistance movement against the invasion armies.
"While the Apocalypse War raged in America¸ a different battle was being concluded across the world in East-Meg One. Kazan¸ the war marshal who controlled the East-Meg invasion army¸ assassinated Bulgarin¸ the supreme judge of the East-Meg One. The animosity between the two leaders was well-known and an assassination attempt was expected. Bulgarin had countermeasures ready; he installed a trusted agent in Mega-City One to lead the attack against Kazan.
"Unfortunately for Supreme-Judge Bulgarin¸ Kazan staged his coup in East-Meg One. Kazan's loyal followers infiltrated the Kremlin Guard and gained the trust of the ruling Diktatorat. The Kazan loyalists murdered both Bulgarin and the Diktatorat - East Meg-One was now Kazan's to command. However¸ Kazan did not have just the one tactic to deal with Bulgarin. He was prepared to execute Bulgarin on Mega-City One soil when his superior visited the city after the invasion. Kazan brought with him an army of Kazan clones that would remain in stasis¸ hidden throughout the city¸ until summoned to destroy Bulgarin and his visiting command. Unfortunately for the Sovs¸ the tide of war did not go as planned; the Mega-City judges defeated East-Meg One using their own nuclear arsenal against them. Judge Dredd executed War-Marshal Kazan and formally declared the Apocalypse War at an end.
"Twenty years later¸ the Apocalypse War is nearly forgotten¸ celebrated only by fringe movements such as militants and Sov-block expatriates but beneath the city's streets¸ a small army of Kazan clones remains in stasis¸ leeching power from the main grid¸ awaiting a call to wake and bear arms in the name of their clone father...