New York City, New York
Home of Martin Enterprises, Inc. Global Headquarters. New York is the beating heart of the company, just as Los Angeles and the facilities on the west coast are where theory meets reality in the company's many research and production locations. Connected to the world's global financial markets and ideally placed in the geographic center of Martin Enterprises'--and it's wholly owned subsidiaries--global assets, New York is the logical nexus of power for Desmond Martin.
The company maintains extensive offices in Martin Tower, renamed after the building was purchased from a former president who had been an early investor in Martin and his ideas for the future of humanity.
New York is also the primary residence of Martin's executive assistant, Edith Traviers. The company provides her with a luxury penthouse condominium complete with it's own environmental, communications, and security systems, along with exclusive use of a cusom heliport Martin had installed on the building at enormous personal expense.
New York is one of the first major cities to be infected with the Elixr Plague, after London and Moscow. By order of the president, the Governor of New York quarantined the city--including cutting off all communications into and out of the affected area--with the use of the New York National Guard and instituted a No Fly Zone over Manhattan and Long Island, which ultimately leads to the deaths of more than four hundred people when a passenger jet is shot down attempting to break the barricade in the first few hours of the lock down. Mass pandemonium ensues, and the millions of people trapped in the city collectively turn on each other in order to survive. But the dead begin rising and turn on everyone.