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Historic District: The location of Yates International Airport and the famed store for Metahumans known as "The Beyond", the Historic District was mostly constructed in the 1950's and sees a great deal of tourism as a result. The second most popular area for out of towners, it also gets plenty of police protection, second only to City Center in vigilance and numbers.

Yates International Airport, named in honor of the legendary mayor Andrew Yates, offers direct flights to most major airports in the United States as well as Canada, Mexico, and Panama. Its most famous service, however, is the massive double-decker superjet flight direct to Magadan, Russia, with continuing service to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Security has always been high, but thanks to a great deal of Meta attention no bomb plot has ever succeeded on any plane leaving or entering the city. Heroes and villains who need to get somewhere fast and lack super transport usually depart from here.

The Beyond is a rare business; a store targeted at Metahumans. Entered by getting into a parked limo, warded with powerful spells to prevent its destruction, the store is built in a pocket dimension and managed by a rogue entity of the void known as Kobal. Once referred to as the "Demon of hilarity", morbid practical jokes lost their appeal to Kobal around a thousand years ago. He now travels the multiverse, finding mysterious magical and technological treasures from a million million parallel worlds and bringing them home to sell. Money, of course, is useless to him, and he accepts only favors as payments. Incredibly curious, he often sends those who owe him into dangerous situations to answer some bizarre question, and with his powers of lie detection can easily determine if those he's dealing with are telling the truth. His store appears as a vast warehouse filled with racks of strange items; all are powerfully warded and entirely impossible for denizens of Earth to steal, and more wards ensure that powers of any sort are simply nullified within the pocket dimension. Kobal, who appears as a giant raven with a talking Human head in place of his tongue, expels anyone who tries to get violent and refuses to deal with them until a bit of time, say fifty years, has passed.