GLUTTONY : The Devourer - Chapter 0.1

Often called D.U.P

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The Department of Unified Protection (abbreviated as D.U.P) is a US federal government agency serving as the main antagonist faction of Infamous: Second Son. It is an organization created to arrest all Conduits and to label by them as “bioterrorists” to ensure that the events of Empire City and New Marais are not repeated. The director of the D.U.P is a woman named Brooke Augustine. The D.U.P recruits soldiers as artificial Conduit officers that have been seen capable of manipulating concrete to capture bioterrorists.

The D.U.P. was founded by the Concrete Conduit Brooke Augustine with the “official” goal of preventing another Empire Event, the near destruction of a country by an extremely powerful Conduit known as The Beast, by locking up and detaining conduits, renamed bio-terrorists. In reality, however, Augustine’s goal was to prevent another mass slaughter of Conduits at the hands of humans.

Within the first year of service, the D.U.P. had captured over 300 Conduits “on the rampage.” Utilizing the research notes of Dr. Sebastian Wolfe, the D.U.P. began employing Forced Conduits as field soldiers by recruiting people from military service who had tested positive for the Conduit gene used Augustine’s own Concrete powers as the template after initially considering a wide array of options.

Fall of an Empire[]

The D.U.P. soon became the victims of their own success. With all active Conduits detained or in hiding, the government soon found the D.U.P. redundant and dangerous, scheduled for them to be shut down, and for all the prisoners to be transferred to military custody. Anticipating this, Augustine put a couple of plans into play. In the first, she arranged for her own adoptive Conduit daughter Celia Penderghast to escape to wreak havoc.

Augustine also spent years “training” Abigail Walker and Eugene Sims in the offensive use of their powers. Second, she made sure that life of Hank Daughtry, a criminal Conduit with a long history of breaking out of prisons, was absolute hell, thus making sure that he would break out the first chance he got. That chance came in Military transit when Hank broke free of his restraints and caused the truck to crash.

Afterwards, the three conduits made their way to Seattle to give Augustine all the opportunity she needed to take over the city and rounding up anyone who had tested positive for the Conduit gene to prove her point that there would always be a need for the D.U.P. Unfortunately for her, in the process of recapturing Hank Augustine, she used her cement powers to put the people of the Akomish tribe onto the path of a slow painful death.

A pair of Akomish brothers Delsin Rowe, a recently activated Conduit with the ability to copy other Conduit’s abilities, and Reggie Rowe, the reservation’s local sheriff, traveled to Seattle with the intention of absorbing Augustine’s powers and using them to save the Akomish. Unfortunately, while attempting to capture Delsin, Augustine killed Reggie, enraging his brother.

Together with his allies, Delsin stormed the D.U.P..’s headquarters, absorbed Augustine’s powers, and used them to beat her into the ground before capturing her and dragging her to the authorities, crumbling the empire, army, and future she had worked so hard to build.