Mega-Tokyo

The rebuilt Tokyo is the center of government for the Far East Sector. It resembles a futuristic city of steel and glass and is home to a large percentage of the sector's population. Most importantly, Tokyo is the site of the Robotech Research Center.

Description

  1. The Core: the center of the city, a futuristic metropolis of glass and metal towers.
  2. UEG Tower: embassy of the United Earth Government.
  3. Tokyo Police HQ: headquarters of the Tokyo police, equipped with futuristic hover cars and flying patrol craft.
  4. Coastal Highway: the main thoroughfare that circles Tokyo Bay from the Tokyo Spaceport, past the eastern edge of The Scar into Tokyo Core and around the bay into Chiba.
  5. Bay Bridge: a huge bridge that spans Tokyo Bay, connecting Kawasaki on the western side with Chiba on the east.
  6. Kizu (The Scar): the Zentraedi assault of 2011 dug a large canyon into the ground that works its way from the shore of Tokyo Bay to the western edge of the city.
  7. Neo-Akihabara: an underground tech market operating in the Scar.
  8. Garbage Dump: massive garbage dump in the Scar, near Kawasaki City.
  9. Civil Defense Base: Tokyo headquarters of the Civil Defense Unit and Civil Defense Flying Corps. They are stationed here for closer proximity to the city, rather than being stationed at the UEDF military base west of Tokyo.
  10. St. Regis Hotel: very expensive hotel in downtown Tokyo.
  11. Government House: seat of government of the Far East Sector.
  12. Olympic Stadium: reconstructed sports facility, intended as the home of the rejuvenated Olympic games in 2020 but the games were cancelled due to the Malcontent Uprisings.
  13. Low Income Apartments: rushed into construction early in the rebuilding phase as emergency housing, these units are now home to mostly refugees and transients.
  14. Tokyo General Hospital: the most advanced hospital in the sector.
  15. Robotech Research Center: an enormous artificial island in the bay and home to the advanced Robotech Research Facility.
  16. Kawasaki Robot Factory: mecha and robot assembly facility providing support for military and civilian organizations.
  17. Kawasaki Robot Warehouse: storage facility for the Robot Factory.
  18. Tokyo Spaceport: located in Yokohama, one of the largest civilian air- and spaceport facilities in the world today.
  19. Yokohama City and Warehouse District: sprawling area south of Central Tokyo.
  20. Yokohama Chinatown: growing ghetto for refugees from old China and Southeast Asia.
  21. Memorial Cemetery: contains a monument to those killed in the Zentraedi assault.
  22. UEDF Far East Headquarters (ASC Tokyo Base): headquarters of the United Earth Defense Forces in the Far East Sector.
  23. Chiba City Docks: main dockyards for the Tokyo Bay located in Chiba City.

History

The new Tokyo, often called Mega-Tokyo or Neo-Tokyo, rose from the ashes of the old after the devastation of the Zentraedi Rain of Death. Though most original city had been levelled in the attack, the underground infrastructure had survived, as had the core of the Robotech Research Center. Mega-Tokyo became the jewel of the Reconstruction as a futuristic city rose up in place of the old city core. Thanks to the presence of the Robotech Research Center, and the forward thinking Japanese Government, Tokyo had become the most advanced city on Earth. The city was also a vital United Earth Government center, second only to New Macross City (and, later, Monument City) and on par with the other cities generally considered the Capitals of the New Earth (Oslo, Perth and Mexico City).

The first shots of the Second Global Civil War (aka World War IV) were arguably fired in Mega-Tokyo. In September 2028 the Tokyo Bay Bridge was destroyed in what was initially believed to be a terrorist bombing. It was later revealed to have been the result of a covert air strike, one blamed on the EBSIS (though actually it had been done by the N.W.O., which was still a secret organization at that time). The omnipresent threat of a Soviet invasion and the overall importance of Tokyo and Japan to the UEG made it a prime target for the N.W.O.'s terror tactics early in the war.

The presence of the Robotech Research Facility made Tokyo a primary target for the Robotech Masters during the Second Robotech War. A Robotech Masters mothership remained on station in orbit high above Japan throughout most of the war, directing frequent Bioroid attacks on the city. By the end of the war the majority of the surviving population had fled or had taken shelter in the Robotech Research Center. When the Robotech Masters mothership descended from orbit to deliver the final fatal blow to the city and the Facility, Robotech engineers rigged up an omni-directional barrier system to protect the center from the attack. Much as had happed twenty years earlier with the SDF-1 the intense energy weapons fire overloaded the barrier and it failed catastrophically. A massive shockwave erupted outward from the Research Facility, destroying the mothership and its escort vessels and laying waste to the countryside for at least twenty kilometers in all directions. The shock wave also created a tectonic disturbance that shook the whole island and set off a violent eruption from Mount Fuji.

Six months after the end of the war the Robotech Research Facility was still all that remained of Tokyo, an artificial island floating in the now unrecognizable Tokyo Bay. Mount Fuji has continued to erupt, blanketing the skies over the ruined city with a toxic cloud. The combined barrier overload and destruction of the mothership caused an electromagnetic disruption, possibly permanently ionizing the air around the city. The scene is nightmarish, the lone tower of the Research Facility stands over the devastated landscape as pitch black clouds turn the sky red with light reflected from the still erupting Mount Fuji (seen spewing fire in the distance), while frequent lighting bolts explode at random and sulphuric acid rain pours down.

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