Chapter 10: The Aftermath of the Columbian Wars
With Comstock dead and Emporia under our control, the Founders are no more. Columbia is under Federation Control.
I'm deciding what to do with Columbia. I'm going through the notes Comstock left in his office. It turns out that he was planning to invade the Eggman Empire until we became too big a threat to his nation. I wonder how that would have went? Eggman's too busy plotting to destroy the Mobians to have seen the threat, I think.
Comstock really liked the Steampunk aesthetic. It would be wrong to call his architects and scientists anything but geniuses, and as such we'll be keeping them on board.
He also had a "Super Soldier" program. The Fireman was probably a result of this experimentation. Most of his ideas won't be feasible for some time, but with a few modifications we may one day consider supplementing the GUN with such "super soldiers". One idea in particular-the Motorized Patriot, has caught my fancy.
But this leaves a final problem-Columbia herself. The social problems in Columbia are numerous. Freeing the slaves it technically easy, but the economic consequences might be severe. Many took on more slaves than they could possibly afford to pay. In addition, violence against black people will probably become a great problem for Columbia.
And even now, people still worship Comstock. But, luckily, without him present it's unlikely his churches will remain stable for long. They'll splinter among themselves and eventually be replaced with some new church.
They were, however, expecting our invasion to be much worse than it actually was. They were told stories of mass rape and civilian exterminations. They know now that they have been deceived. This realization has made them...open minded.
We have to let the people of Columbia police themselves at least to some extent, but we're keeping their police on a short leash. We have some of our officers "supplementing" their forces. At least, that's how I plan to word it before the press. In reality, this amounts to martial law. Their police are to be disarmed except for batons. Their police activities can be closely monitored by any inspector we wish. Columbian police may be arrested by our police, and will be tried in Central City.
Luckily, these measures will probably not persist for much more than a few months. As it turns out, Slate, the guy we found in the Hall of Heroes, wasn't a big fan of Comstock, but still has the respect of was the Founder police forces. We'll be putting him in charge.
Most interesting is the girl we found in Comstock Tower. Her name is Elizabeth. She doesn't even know what's happened. She has...strange powers. Vigors of some sort? We aren't sure yet. She seems to pull things out of somewhere else. We can't be sure what this means, just yet. We'll be keeping her locked away for now-she was obviously locked away for a reason. We'll decide what to do with her later.
A new problem has emerged: A truly massive Subspace Portal has opened up south of Emporia. Luckily, our army's already there to deal with it.