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Atlanta is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Georgia. One of the chief business centers of the southeast, it is home to many Fortune 500 companies, including the Coca-Cola company, whose signature product was invented in Atlanta in 1886. The city is one of the fastest-growing in the United States, adding 1.1 million people between 2000 and 2008, and hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The settlement of Terminus was built at a hub of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in 1839, and incorporated as Marthasville in 1843, but changed to Atlanta in 1845. The last two names came from Martha Atalanta Lumpkin, daughter of former Governor and Senator Wilson Lumpkin, but the name Atlanta could also be interpreted as a reference to the railroad's name. In 1864, General William Sherman's capture of Atlanta was one of the United States Army's final masterstrokes of the American Civil War.

Atlanta in A Different Flesh[]

Terminus Station

Terminus Station gave its name to the city that appeared around it.

Terminus was the home of the Disease Research Center of the Federated Commonwealths of America. In 1988, the DRC was making substantial breakthroughs in combating the AIDS epidemic by studying infected sims, when a pair of young activists "liberated" the young sim Matt.

Atlanta in "Les Mortes d'Arthur"[]

Although Atlanta was destroyed in a disaster and remained in ruins, the secret recipe for Coca Cola was found and become one of the main exports of the weakened United States.[1]

Atlanta in Southern Victory[]

At the outbreak of the Second Great War, the United States claimed to have successfully bombed Atlanta which was viewed with skepticism.[2]

In 1943, at the climax of the war in North America, U.S. general Irving Morrell targeted Atlanta after the capture of Chattanooga as part of his attempt to cut the Confederate States in by advancing to the Atlantic. It was the last major Confederate east-west transportation hub and manufacturing center so rather than try to take the city directly, Morrell advanced south to the east of the city cutting off transportation links, one by one.[3]

After desperate fighting led by Confederate General George Patton to keep the U.S. out of the city, the C.S. realized that keeping Atlanta would be too costly in terms of manpower. In late December 1943, the C.S. army quietly withdrew on an overcast night with minimal losses. The U.S. Army subsequently moved in. General Morrell considered changing his direction of attack to the west against Birmingham and Huntsville but elected to continue east to the Atlantic.[4]

After the war ended, General Morrell became the military governor of the Atlantic Military District and set up his headquarters in Atlanta.[5] The occupation authorities had removed Atlanta Mayor Andrew Crowley from his position,[6] replacing him with Clark Butler, who held the equivalent title of town commissioner and who Morrell needed to deal with.[7]

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References[]

  1. Departures, pg. 259.
  2. Return Engagement, pg. 86, hc.
  3. In at the Death, pgs. 50-51, hc.
  4. Ibid., pgs. 128-131.
  5. Ibid., pg. 467.
  6. Ibid., pg. 131.
  7. Ibid., pg. 597.
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