Act 1, Final Struggles
What Happens
Governments dissolve. Social order breaks. Anarchy takes hold as people fight for remaining resources. Old Arcadia's population, already the most vulnerable, faces the most immediate crisis.
Key Beats
- The collapse is not sudden: it's the moment when enough people stop believing the structure will hold that it stops holding
- Violence over chlorine canisters, food, transport
- Former GAhD institutions abandoning their posts, Judas's regime crumbles without Phoenix and EVA to oppose
- Community resilience in pockets: people organizing locally, sharing, protecting each other
- Aphrodite as a focal point of the local resistance: she has always been this
Characters
Aphrodite, ensemble