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  [Special Chapter]

  Cssified Intel #1 – District 9

  File Status: REDACTED – Level 4 Clearance Required

  Compiled by: Administration Intelligence Division

  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION

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  Overview:

  District 9—D9—is a fractured city cut by the Arakawa River, where steel towers meet crumbling slums, and neon lies shine over rusted truth.

  Alpha D9 (North Bank):

  A utopia in name only. Skyscrapers touch clouds. Clean air, floating cars, and corporate silence. Civilians are monitored, not protected. Corrupted rarely breach—but when they do, the event is purged and forgotten in minutes. The rich believe they’re safe.

  They’re not.

  Beta D9 (South Bank):

  A concrete graveyard. Burnt neon signs. Homes built from scavenged steel. Crime rules here—until someone crosses the line.

  Because Beta isn’t unguarded. It has Mercenaries.

  And they don’t py fair.

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  Bridge of Division:

  The Arakawa Bridge connects both sides. Rusted. Fading.

  No checkpoints. No guards. Just memory.

  Alpha citizens don’t cross.

  Beta citizens can—but rarely do.

  Because the price of crossing is often blood.

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  Administration Enforcement:

  Alpha D9:

  Patrolled by drones, elite Admin guards, and surveilnce systems that see through walls.

  Beta D9:

  Left to its own rules. The Administration steps in only when absolutely necessary. Cleanup falls to mercenary contractors. They are the shield Beta never asked for—and the sword it desperately needs.

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  Mercenaries of D9:

  Unregistered. Unreguted. Unapologetic.

  Mercenaries are the enforcers of Beta. Soldiers of the slums. Survivors turned professionals.

  Ex-Counters, rogue agents, or born in the fire

  Contracted by the Administration for off-the-record missions

  First responders to breaches in slum zones

  Active hunters of high-risk threats—including Assassins

  They don’t wear uniforms.

  They don’t follow protocol.

  They bring results—or bodybags.

  > “If the Assassins are death in silence—

  We’re death on fire.”

  —Mercenary Callsign Ashwake

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  Assassins – The Counter Hunters:

  Elegant. Silent. Surgical. The Assassins move in the dark—killing Counters, destroying Administration assets, and vanishing without a trace.

  They consider Mercenaries traitors.

  But now?

  Mercenaries are hunting them back.

  The bance has shifted.

  For every Assassination, there’s now retaliation.

  Rival bounty boards list both sides. Blood for blood.

  > “You stalk the rooftops?

  We’ll drag you down to the streets.”

  —Graffiti near Bck Market HQ

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  Cshes & Carnage:

  Mercenaries and Assassins don’t fight skirmishes.

  They wage wars in the alleyways.

  Known cshes include:

  The Gutpainter Incident:

  12 Assassins killed. One mercenary survivor. Lost his left arm.

  Took the heads anyway.

  Slumfire 8:

  Entire block incinerated after a mercenary assault on an Assassin den.

  Death count: unknown.

  Red Nights (Ongoing):

  Events where Assassins and Mercs csh without restraint. Streets run red.

  Dismembered bodies. Heads on fences. Buildings colpse.

  Both sides lose.

  But neither backs down.

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  Current Situation:

  Mercenaries now receive official and unofficial bounties for Assassins.

  Assassins mark mercenaries with “the cleaver”—a carved sigil on their corpses.

  Alpha’s silence grows louder.

  They know something’s coming.

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  Closing Statement:

  District 9 is a paradox: One side lives in illusion.

  The other survives in violence.

  And between them?

  A rusted bridge and a war no one admits exists.

  The Mercenaries fight in the open.

  The Assassins strike from the shadows.

  Nei

  ther will stop.

  And when the Corrupted come for real—

  Will either side be ready?

  > “District 9 isn’t broken.

  It was built to bleed.”

  —Anonymous

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