City Thirteen

When the Wehrmacht stormed the city of Paris, the allied western nations who dare held the wrath of the Third Reich, fell apart in 1940. For four years, Hitler's Germany had conquered, occupied and annexed them into the dead vision of "Greater Germania". Swastikas had ruled the streets as did much of Europe, savouring Spain and Switzerland from the Nazis most feared and dreaded war machine.

In 1944, the allied nations managed to change the tide of the war had against the Axis powers. Pressured by the Soviet advances on the Eastern Front, the Allied advance in Italy and the furious bombing campaign of the industrial heartland of the Reich - Operation Overlord began on June 6th that same year.

For months the Axis and Allies fought in a bloody stalemate before German lines retreated and the Jackboot was forced back towards the Siegfried Line. Not before however, the capital of France was liberated. Paris was free once again and prospered since its liberation. With the defeat of the Axis in 1945, the world came to a very unsteady peace with the Warsaw Pact.

Now. It is yet again under a new leader - a new banner - a new force of occupation. This force was the Combine. When the French president fled, his army stood in his stead. Napoleon himself would have been proud to see the French army make their final stand, managing to outlast most of the European nations before their demise.

Where the Reich had succeeded, the Union had failed. Even post-war enemies after the war had personally thought that despite their resistance - they stood firm where many did not. Despite this, France still fell not by annihilation but by subjugation.

The Eiffel Tower is nothing more than a defaced monument turned into an overseeing eye of the Combine. The main headquarters for where they conduct the entirety of their Airwatch Operations on this part of the planet is the very monument itself. The Citadel hosts squadrons upon squadrons of gunships, dropships and even the dreaded hunter-chopper. Even Civil Protection are trained for aerial assault en-masse which in itself is an intimidating factor.

Many materials are sent to the factory industries to produce additional war machines through automated procedure. The citizens live a life of ignorance and decay, showing they are under the "new and improved" Jackboot of the Combine.

The Arc De Triumph has been converted towards a loyalist staging ground for many celebrating not the victories of Napoleon - but of the victory of the Union's will enslaving all of mankind. What ever sane minded individuals that are left to stay here, often stay well out of sight from prying eyes.

The cultural capital of the world was transformed into a machine of devastation. It went without a sense of originality, imagination or cultural identity.