This Is Not A Place Of Honor

- Otherworldly Affairs -

This is a collection of images from the aftermath of Trinity to the creation of the Department of Otherworldly Affairs. I've been creating my own archive of sorts for them, so I thought it would be fun to post it for others to see.

To start, this is a photo of an early checkpoint for one the zones. I'm not quite sure which, to be honest. The only zone it couldn't be is Trinity, since the early checkpoints for that zone were just soldiers in tents and parked trucks. If you can figure it out, let me know.

This photo shows one of the many evacuations that the military performed after Trinity. Luckily, as the test site was rather isolated, it didn't extend into any urban areas. There was still a number of people who had to be removed though.

This photo shows an anti-Trinity protest, which wasn't an uncommon sight after the war. A lot of the public wanted the military out of the zones, and as you can see in the front, a lot of the anger took on a religious fervor.

Pictured here is President MacArthur, not long after his election, giving a press conference discussing the creation of the additional exclusion zones. Although he was a major force in containing Trinity, he was against civilian control of the zones, and so spent much of his presidency fighting it, at least when he wasn't trying to start World War 3.

This picture is more modern, as you can probably tell. It's a photo of the original seal design for the DOA from 1954, which still has yet to be changed. It was created a few weeks after Congress created the department itself.

Lastly, pictured here is the sign for Exclusion Zone Trinity, not long after its transfer from military control. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the two troopers posing with it had just put it up. There was actually a whole ceremony for the handover of Trinity, but I couldn't find any digitized photos of it. I'll have to check my library some time.