Information on the Requiem War can be found in this thread on the CoH Boards:
uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=602100&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#602100The text of the first post I reproduce here for your convenience.
Prior to The BeginningDoc T materialises in the middle of Galaxy Plaza on Friday night looking like he's had seven bells knocked out of him. Efforts to prevent his mechsuits powercore from breaching fail but do prevent any collateral damage from affecting the local area, and he appear to be vaporised. Those that have known him for a while will remember that this isn't necessarily an ongoing problem for Doc, but further investigation reveals that the severe damage was done by a chronoweapon of nictus-magitech design which may prevent his usual reconstitution: most people leap to the logical conclusion: Requiem. Shortly after, as people blink a bit in shock and then firm their resolve to continue the fight, Requiem gives them the chance to display that resolve all too soon:
Situation Reports - Day OneCIRCE-01: Alert. Dimensional distortions detected.
CIRCE-01: Distortions occurring nationwide.
CIRCE-01: Shadowmaker suppression neutralised.
CIRCE-01: Philadelphia is under assault. Chicago is under assault. Los Angeles is under assault. Denver is under assault.
CIRCE-01: New York is under assault. Minneapolis is under assault.
CIRCE-01: Paragon City is under assault.
<The sound of artillery fire can be heard from the shattered districts of the city>
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Baumton.
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Faultine.
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Dark Astoria
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Hollows
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Peregrine Island.
<Across the city, the sounds of automatic weapons fire rises all around>
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Eden
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Crey's Folly
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Perez Park
CIRCE-01: Portal Detected: Terra Volta. Reactor under assault.
<In the skies above paragon, contrails of launching missiles slash into the sky, the launch sites appear to be Perez Park and the Hollows.>
<Portals are disgorging Requiem troops in every hazard zone of Paragon, and all across the world. Missiles are being fired at key sites from Hollows and Perez.>
<World militaries are responding, but erratically, due to infiltration and psyops by Requiem>
<In Peregrine Island, a flood of peacebringers are attempting to protect Portal Corp, seemingly a primary target>
<In TerraVolta, RC and the PCPD forces are struggling to stop Skyraiders and council striketeams from shutting down the TV reactor, clearly they are trying to destroy the war wall systems>
<Missile fire is pouring onto key hero bases and city sites from mobile launchers set up in the Hollows and Perez, Molok and his crew bashing their way to the sites>
<Requiem is spending his forces like water, using up his nictus talismans to give them extra oomph. Clearly this is his slamming-fist to stop the Heroes interfering with his plans>
<Dark Astoria is now the site of a massive battle between Zenith Mech Men and the Free Clocks>
<Perez Park is the site of the construction of what appears to be a large launch pad for biochem weapons, Inago is entereing this Zone and encountering heavy resistance>
<Across the city, people are starting to wake up to the threat, although at present it hasn't spilled into the inhabited streets>
<In TV, RC sees several teams leaving with what looks like an unpleasantly nuclear warhead from the looted TV armory>
<In PI, Requiem appears to have committed the substantial part of his Turned Kheldians, the screams of energy beasts fighting each other rocking across the zone>
<In the Hollows and Perez, resistance to the heroes is stepping up as time passes, as more and more troops flood through from hundreds of Requiem-dominated worlds>
<Screaming contrails start to tear across the sky as Requiem Faction fighter aircraft pour through a portal set up at Paragon Airport and launch, darting through the sky to duel the loyalist air arm.>
<Across the city, Knives of Artemis and Malta forces begin a counterassault against these Requiem interlopers, but half the Crey security forces sent to assist turn on their comrades and begin cutting them down>
<Red Commissar and his team see the warhead from the Armoury being airlifted out over the city towards Perez Park. Meanwhile, they continue to struggle to defend the reactor. Not one step backward!>
<Minutes tick past, then hours. Requiem's forces are strong, and being constantly reinforced. Paragon City appears to be the brunt of the attack, however, the other assaults merely there to prevent a unified response from global military and hero forces>
<Inago leads a force of Dark Clowns into Perez and succeeds in breaking through to one of the launch platforms, where they gleefuly smash things>
<In PI, the battle is bloody and hard-fought, the kheldians of earth striving to save their new home, the Turned Kheldians seeking to serve their new Dark Master.>
<In Dark Astoria, piles and drifts of smashed metal and pulped zombie bits pile up as each side struggles against each other and the Banished Pantheon strikes everyone>
<Reports come in across the city as the city forces, hero and conventional, begin to respond to the threat. The fighting is fierce, but so long as the TV reactor stays online, it will not spill into the inhabited city zones itself as the warwalls prevent much of it other than the occasional collateral damage. Naturally warwall entrances become vital chokepoints. RC calls on AP’s home defense troops to rally to the defense of the reactor, while General Hammond starts to bring through troops from the Shadow Shard to defend Portal Court>
OOCRighto. The plan is that this battle (unless someone does something really stupid/innovative/both) will continue over the next 72 hours or so. Some might call this a bit railroady, but I have to try to make sure that mission times are available for everyone, and so that plenty of people can participate in the developing story. Naturally, the fighting will get bogged down, and heroes will thus get to be rotated out into the safe areas of the city (eg to let people get ‘rest’ at GG or PocketD ) before going back in to the Hot Zones.
Stuff like people posting fiction stories into the thread or in the GG thread about what they've been up to would be really cool. Be innovative while staying within the descriptions of what’s occurring above. I will be updating it with progress probably Saturday Night and Sunday Midday.
