Bloody Monday
The CSPD attempted a raid upon the crime boss Iron Mike‘s urban citadel in the Winslow neighborhood of the Waingroh district. One hundred and thirteen heroes lost their lives in the nuclear explosion detonated at the end of that battle. Thousands of citizens were killed, thousands more were injured. Three days of rioting and looting followed which plunged half the city into terror and chaos and killed even more heroes. When the national guard was finally called in it took another week of intense street fighting to finally quell the riots.
Nobody knows who set off the bomb or why. The device used to cause the explosion is believed to have been an “ultra-clean prototype” designed to cause massive damage without much fallout. This seems to explain the lack of radioactive debris at the blast site and surrounding areas, but the rising number of mutants from nearby neighborhoods seems to tell a different story.