Central City

Central City is the fictional capital city of the State and serves as the main setting for Children of the Atom. It was destroyed during the attack on the State in 2019, and is now a empty metropolis of slowly crumbling buildings.

History
Although most records of Central City were destroyed, Leonard and Raven can shed some light on the history of Central City as they travel around the State.

Icarus
Central City was founded by Horatio Eisenhower in the early 1900s after a great war had racked the city of Icarus, which was the crown jewel of the State before its destruction. Eisenhower was the Mayor of Icarus who had saw firsthand the malevolent power of war, watching the great city waste away, killed off by the effects of war. Both of the warring sides were well-funded and were motivated by one purpose; to create an empire for themselves.

Unfortunately for the city of Icarus, the two sides had brought their petty conflict into the city streets, which soon then escalated into full blown war. Horatio was hard-pressed by both the leaders who asked for his allegiance, but he would give neither side any supplies. As a result, both of the factions declared war against the city of Icarus, murdering their people and laying waste to the city.

After a peace treaty was signed between the two factions in 1917, Horatio incarcerated both of the leaders and exiled them from the barely existent city of Icarus. The people of Icarus were starved and on the brink of collapse, so Horatio moved north-east, founding Central City just before the Heslant Boundary.

Construction
Most of the funding needed to create Central City was provided for by Atlas Corporations, a company that would later be involved in the events of 2019. Henry Roswell, president of Atlas Corp. became of close friend of Eisenhower, becoming one of his business partners and one of the chief suppliers to the masonry industry of the early Central City.

Work began in the summer of 1914, almost a year after the attack, and most of the major buildings were already in place by 1919. By 1921 Central City was formally inaugurated by Horatio and Maxwell Ross, the latter being the current president of the State.