Worst Case Scenario

Disbandment

The Eureka Settlement falls to a violent takeover.

They came in the middle of the night. Some way, some how, they had managed to discover Eureka’s location and evade the island’s early detection systems. Catching the community by surprise, the large group of unidentified paramilitary forces proceeded to neutralize defensive systems and attempted to seize personnel and data.

While the unknown forces had the element of surprise, their attack did not stay unnoticed forever. The remaining defense systems did what they could to occupy them while the citizens of Eureka attempted to destroy databases, equipment, and specimens to insure they didn’t fall into the wrong hands before fleeing.

During the chaos, George Reynolds told his fifteen-year-old son Steven to get himself and Cindy to one of the emergency evacuation craft (which the settlement maintained in case a dire emergency of some sort occured) and to keep his sister safe. The last time Steven saw his father, he was heading to the Project Chrysalis facility as gunfire, energy blasts, and explosions lit up the night.

Steven managed to get Cindy and himself to one of the departure sites. The evacuation was chaotic, nothing like the monthly drills for emergency situations. While the Safety Committee had planned for numerous disasters from reactor meltdown to chemical or biohazzard spills, a large scale invasion by hostile paramilitary forces who would actively attempt to intercept evacuees was not one of the predicted scenarios.

Steven and Cindy were among the lucky ones. The majority of Eureka were either killed or captured on the island, or intercepted by the unknown raiders, their final fates unknown. The ones who managed to escape scattered to be less vulnerable to being located, fearing that whoever was behind the attack on Eureka would try to finish the job and capture them.