Difference between revisions of "District X"

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PHASE 1

Location: District X


First Seen:	January 2009

The 11th Precinct is an area covering several square blocks of the middle east side, bordering the lower east side and Angels Clinic. The area was used as a drop zone for mutant aid during the invasion Apocalypse led of the city and, after the crisis had passed, remained heavily populated with mutants who had banded together for mutual protection.

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The 11th Precinct (also called District X, Middle East Side, and Mutant Town) maintains a population between 600 to 1,000; 743 is the only official count. Residents include mutants, their families, sympathizers, and prior residents who returned after the invasion lead by Apocalypse. The mutant population is estimated to be about half of the residents at any given time. The southern border is formed by Angels Clinic and the aid stations the X-Men established during Day Zero.

Since Apocalypse was taken down the neighborhood has group up and created an identity for itself. Businesses - mostly mutant owned - have come up to populate the area which has become a refuge of sorts for mutants, particularly visible mutants. The cops assigned to District X don't care too much what goes on there. Apocalypse did more than just structural damage to the city and as a result many of the street and beat cops who work District X aren't quite as concerned with crimes against mutants as they likely should be. In light of this, the investigators at X-Factor Investigations have become referred to as the "mutant cops" and are often the ones residents go to for help rather than the police.

Petty crime is a problem in the neighborhood. Small break ins or burglaries are considered common, as is anti-mutant graffiti. These things are rarely reported to the cops and even when they see evidence of the anti-mutant crimes they largely do nothing. Business owners and residents have learned to simply deal with it. Inside the neighborhood, however, many residents have become rather tight knit. They know one another and try to look out for one another. This isn't to say that everyone in District X is a law abiding citizen, but those who are try to band together in the spirit that things get easier if they all have one another's back.

There is a small population within District X of radicals who are pro-mutant to the point of being anti-human. While their ideology isn't widely accepted amongst the inhabitants of the neighborhood, it is still very present and sometimes the non-mutant residents have trouble with these individuals.