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[edit] Capital punishment

I removed a recent edit which stated there is no death penalty in MC-1. Dredd has been seen imposing the death sentence in a few stories, such as the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Die Laughing, in The Apocalypse War when he executed Judge Griffin for treason, and also in a story in prog 630. Also Sov Judge Orlok was executed by the judges a couple of years ago.Richard75 23:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General continuity

"Mega-City One was constructed in the early years of the 21st century, to cope with the escalating population crisis in America. Mega-City One was one of three major areas to survive the nuclear war in 2070, due to an experimental laser missile-defence system built a year earlier."

Shared universe continuity would suggest that Mega-City One was constructed in the mid 21st Century. Ro-Busters "Hammer-Stein's War Memoirs" implies that he begins his military career sometime after 2050 due to his human sergeant's wanting to see the Harlem Heroes play again. A later episode has one of Hammerstein's human colleagues saying that, when the war's over, he wants to help out with work on Mega-City One that has just begun contruction. As for the 'experimental laser defense system', I don't think it has ever been confirmed in the Judge Dredd strip itself (see below).

"It became an independent city-state in 2086 following the break-up of the United States at the end of the Second American Civil War."

Unless I'm mistaken, the year 2086 (as with the experimental laser defense system) is something decided upon by fan John Talbot for his unofficial "A History of Mega-City One" that featured in the 1984 Judge Dredd Annual. As with 2000 AD's shared universe continuity, a fair bit of Dredd continuity is based on fan speculation that has been given semi-official status due to things like the Games Workshop RPG and 2000adonline's using such speculation as its basis. Obviously, the Origins storyline may well confirm such speculation during its year-long run but until then I would suggest a few minor edits where necessary. HalfWhit 09:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The laser defence system was explicitly mentioned by President Booth's advisors in The Hunting Party (in the time travel story arc in progs 1037-1040). Your other points are good ones (although I doubt that 20 years or less would really be sufficient time to build a huge city the size of MC1, this is probably a bit of a mistake on Pat Mill's part). Richard75 10:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

As unfeasible as the twenty year time frame may seem (having said that, this is a world in which interstellar travel has become a reality by 2070), it's something that can be verified by shared universe stories; unlike the statement "early 21st century" which, I presume, is based on the speculative date of 2031 suggested by John Talbot and propagated by the Dredd RPG and 2000adonline. HalfWhit 13:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

They also had a robot workforce which would have speeded up construction. As mentioned here the writers may have made MC1 a bit too big so it is possible they overestimated the sheer area of the thing when proposing the time to build it. It is also possible that this didn't mean the whole thing sprang up in that time - it could have spread from a core area and/or the major work on blocks may have been more gradual as the population spiralled. Bottom line - it is sci-fi and you can suspend your disbelief and if they say it took 20 years then it took 20 years ;) (Emperor 01:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Merge proposal

I don't claim to know anything about this topic and I just stumbled across the articles completely inadvertantly, but it seems very odd to have a separate history article rather than integrating the history into the main article on the city itself. Otto4711 23:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering this myself. Thing is the history entry has been red linked for a long time now and I had assumed there was some kind of plan for it but it may be someone just threw it in at random and it stuck. I'd support a merge unless someone has a cunning explanation for why they should be separate. (Emperor 01:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC))

There's most likely no reason at all, so I've gone and merged them.Richard75 17:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)