Mission to
Elysium
In
5,024 AD, Mara and Dee were dispatched to Elysium, with the mission
of making contact with the Elysium Zealots. Their objective was to
set up a network within the city to distribute propaganda and conduct
other operations, and to gather information on the situation of Lee
Ludei, who had been imprisoned by order of the Autarch.
According to Dee's
memoirs, they entered Elysium by traveling from Lucky Strike to
Elysium through Ferrograd using false documentation identifying them
as unbonded citizens of Polar Three employed by a licensed public
newsfile service. On arrival they made contact with several groups
of student activists operating out of Elysium Academy, via the Blue
Marble Tavern, later infamous as a hangout for Zealots in this time
period. They quickly became involved in writing and distributing
illegal Zealot propaganda and, later in robberies to fund the
revolution. Over the next few years, the center of gravity of the
Republican cause shifted from the Wastelands to the hives of Elysium
itself, although Ermon and other Republicans who were too “hot”
to return to Elysium continued to operate in camps in the Wastes.
By 5,026 AD,
according to Dee's memoirs, the Republican network operating in
Elysium numbered approximately one hundred persons.
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