*It had been a year since the "scattershot" missile hit East Atlas, directly striking the base of a known Artifice domestic terrorist, who had been operating within one of the most populated cities of the United States. The precise strike succeeded in devastating the hideout, with the servers and backup protocols for the Artifices involved being instantly destroyed. The robots involved with the organization were atomized, taken out with hundreds of US citizens going with them.* *It was later le...