With the city back on its feet and feeling post-Smiley that she'd been there too long, Hershey stepped down in favour of Judge Logan in 2141. [19] Deported mutants who were still under eighteen were placed in camps in the Cursed Earth, officially to be looked after and given jobs until they were legally able to leave; in practice, Mega-City One ignored these and they became brutal prison camps riddled with death and mistreatment. The solution to this and the overcrowding was building up; "Mega-Blocks", gigantic housing project towers capable of housing entire cities' worth of populations from birth until de… [5], However, 2035 would see hundreds of anti-judge riots from dissidents, fuelled by an ongoing economic slump with inadequate welfare. But … Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [28], Robot slave labor meant that most of the city was on welfare instead of having to work. The first clones were created in 2064.[14]. [35] This would bring the city great wealth over time but also embroil it in constant wars against alien empires, indigenous alien races fighting conquest, and insurgents on the colonies. Dredd would expose these figures, causing the collapse of the current council due to arrests and resignations - to which the people duly elected Bing Cheesely and his L.I.A.R. Mega-City One's laws are harsh, with many crimes not found in present-day law. By 2109, tens of millions were peacefully demanding a return to an elected government. A sharp increase in the cold war with the Sov Block began under Griffin, as East Meg One began to test the city for weaknesses. Mega problems, and not all of them from Earth. A brief list of some of these places can be found below: In the movie, the city is seen as consisting of New York City and adjoining parts of the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Similar to Citi-Def, colony worlds have their own reserve soldiers in case of invasion. The first was the mutant Monkey possessing Chief Judge Goodman and forcing him to do 'reforms' that would throw the city into chaos, including a chaotic end of the mutant segregation laws that deliberately allowed in raiders; Cal, head of the Special Judicial Service almost took over before Dredd saved the day.[37]. Filter: One-way exit or entrance to and from parking areas. President Booth ended a lot of the regulation on the robot industry, including AI checks. Here are some of our picks to get you in the spirit. Only a few Judges had escaped his brainwashing program, most of them from the Academy of Law, and under Dredd, they formed a dedicated rebel force that eventually brought him and his alien Klegg mercenaries down - just in time to stop Cal executing the entire city. [88], Compulsory euthanasia in an eldster block. Baffling though these different systems may be, each is surprisingly efficient a vast majority of the time, typically becoming troubled only during large-scale emergencies. [78] Uniforms differ depending on the story. rise to become Chief Judge. In the end, just as he'd suspected, a combination of apathy (barely a third of the people voted) and lack of lived experience with democratic government caused the Judges to win. Maitland instead proposed a model that would divert Street Division money to education and social services, reducing crime wholesale - one based on how juves moved from Sector 304 slums to the new buildings had become more law-abiding while those sent to regular sectors were still lawbreakers. It is based on the character Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra1. During "Day of Chaos", military forces such as the 51st Hoverbourne Division were brought in to assist the overwhelmed Judges due the extreme circumstances. "Reprisal", prog 1317; "Day of Chaos" in prog 1750; First introduced in prog 198, "Pirates of the Black Atlantic Part 2", Megazine #275: "Tales from the Black Museum: Build a Better Mousetrap", Bury My Knee At Wounded Heart, Megazine 2.46, Ciudad Barranquilla "treemeat" farm in The Monsterus Mashinashuns of P.J. In other sectors, however, the economy partially recovered and privately-owned corporate blocks (kept for employees) were mostly unaffected by the chaos.[48]. [98]. The conflict lasted for four decades. Overskeds are the same, but pass over skeds. In 2079, a new batch of Academy of Law cadets were granted the full eagle. Take a look at the film and television career of Sylvie's Love star Tessa Thompson. Althought Mega-City One won the war by nuking East Meg off the face of the Earth, the city came out of it with their population reduced by half, the entire south destroyed, all but one of the Council killed, and all of the north-west and upper north lost except for a small North West Hab Zone. They ensured their own creation by altering Faustus in the past, creating a timeloop; Janus erased the events, causing Faustus to be untransformed and Mookie to flunk out of Academy.