The Doomsday Scenario - Epilogues

Epilogues

The Doomsday Scenario ended with the deaths of Narcos (in 2000 AD) and Volt (in the Megazine). However the story had important consequences in two short stories which followed closely afterwards (one of which was included in the trade paperback). In Volt Face, Hershey became acting chief judge and ordered that Volt's suicide should be covered up, to present the public with a more heroic death which was fabricated for him by doctoring video footage. This episode foreshadowed a plot device used in the story Origins seven years later, in which Chief Judge Fargo's suicide was also covered up and a heroic death in the line of duty was invented for him.

In The Cal Legacy, Hershey was elected permanent chief judge, and asked Judge Shenker to step down from the Council of Five as a result of his division's failure to give sufficient warning of the impending Second Robot War. The new chief judge also demoted Judge Edgar, effectively ending her ability to threaten Dredd and his associates.

The events of the war would also lead to the Banzai Battalion robots, their owners killed in the fighting, joining the Justice Department; later still, the spectre of another robot war would lead to the Department trying to shut them down, and the Banzais fleeing.