Indo-City is one of four megacities in post-war India, along with Bhopal, Calcutta, and Nu-Delhi. While it possesses centres of opulence like the Bollywood Heights neighbourhood, the city is generally quite poor. The tradition of the "untouchables" social caste still persisted in 2117.[1] Psi-Judges have referred to Hindu religion when discussing visions and official missions, and uniforms used to contain the faith's dharmachakra symbol.[2]
It was first introduced on the world map in prog 701: this places it roughly across the former states of Goa and Karnataka, likely encompassing Bangalore and Panaji.
History[]
In the spring of 2057, Prime Minister Kiara Kapoor became one of a series of 'global south' leaders to condemn the growing Judge power in America, publishing a scathing article about the acts of Justice Department and the US government. This movement was called an "Anti-American Alliance", which would be seized upon by American politicians Harvisson and Booth - ironically leading events that would lead to Indian Judges.[3]
Cadet-Judge Nita Singh was born in poverty in Indo-City. Her parents emigrated to Mega-City One in 2105; she remembered being surrounded by beggars in her childhood.[4]
The city joined Luna-1's "Global Lunar Partnership Treaty", agreeing to guarantee the neutrality of Luna-1 and provide Judicial assistance. In reality it hoped, like all Treaty members, to have influence in the lucrative colony.[5]
As with the rest of the Earth, Indo-City fought off a zombie invasion during Judgement Day.
In 2117, Indo-City was one of the multiple megacities that tried to get access to Tek-Judge Eckhart: they claimed to only have a spiritual interest, intended to share any information. They had come prepared with a "god cage" to capture him, believing he was an earthly incarnation of the destroyer god Kali. Dredd ended up decapitating Eckhart and the Indo-City team saved his life by giving him a lift home from the Antarctic. During the mission, Psi-Judge Bhaji of Delhi-Cit was assisting them and was the senior psi to Indo's Judge Sharma, who did not survive - and it was Delhi-Cit requesting to look at Eckhart's head, rather than Indo-City. (Likely this just means the writers forgot what city they said Bhaji was from, then it got remembered later on)[6]
Whyteman in Indo-City
Occult investigator Eddie Whyteman lived in Indo-City around 2121. He organised ghost orgies in the Bangalore part of the city and got into debt with the Shiva Sect crime gang.
"Nepalese red" was a notorious smoked drug that Indo-City dealers sent to MC-1 in 2118.[7]
In 2121, the city was threatened by the villainous Lord Benjamin Hekt and his clone, Jack of Knives. Jack was able to abduct dogs under the noses of the overstretched Judges (missing dogs usually meant poorer citizens were eating them) and used them to create a totem-bomb. Despite the best efforts of Eddie Whyteman, the bomb triggered the Indian "centre of pestilence" and a 200-mile radius of supernatural devastation hit the continent. Indo-City was almost certainly hit bad. [8]
One of the Indo-City nationals in Luna-1 was Sanjeev Maktoh (avoiding gambling debts back on Earth), working as an auxilary on the moon's Justice Central Medical Department. He was blackmailed into working for Moonie and the Sovs, and attempted to flee to Nu-Delhi in 2126. When the Sov Block made their move, Indo City was one of multiple states that stepped back and allowed them to violate Luna-1's sovereignty.[9]
Judges[]
Actually a Delhi Judge but same uniform
Indo-City was a dictatorship run by Judges, operating out a Grand Hall of Justice that partially resembled the Taj Mahal. In the 2110s, the Judges wore the same uniform at their Delhi counterparts - helmets resemble 50s sci-fi space helmets with a large visor and the dharmachakra wheel symbol in centre[10] - but by the 2120s they'd switched to a blue uniform with a green left-side shoulder pad and yellow rope over the right shoulder. Sikh Judges wore green turbans with their badge on.
A Judicial contact admitted to Whyteman that they lacked "the resources to search for missing children let alone stray animals". [11]
Mongoose RPG[]
In the early 2000s Dredd RPG from Moongoose, extra details were invented for Indo-City: [12]
- A big reason for poverty is it owes ruinous debts to Brit-Cit, Mega-City One, and Sino-City Two, ever since India's Great Droughts of 2072 and 2086. The Indian megacities argued over whose fault the droughts were, leading to the 2093-2101 War of Blame that divided them into sovereign cities. (They then rejected further aid from the West)
- The Stani-States up north are a feared threat
References[]
- ↑ Wetworks by Dave Stone
- ↑ Prog 929, "Crusade Part 2" and Prog 932, "Crusade Part 5"
- ↑ Judges: (In)Famous novella
- ↑ Cursed Earth Asylum
- ↑ Eclipse
- ↑ "Crusade": progs 928 to 937
- ↑ Megazine 3.20: "Holocaust 12"
- ↑ Devlin Waugh: Reign of Frogs
- ↑ Eclipse
- ↑ A panel in Crusade Part 6
- ↑ Prog 1158
- ↑ Judge Dredd RPG Core Book