Dakota City

History
Dakota is a city in Minnesota, USA. It's a home to Static, Icon and Rocket.

"Bang"
In 2014 Dkota City PD tried to bust a gang in the docks. Unfortunatelly during a shootout Red Claw set off explosives hidden among the barrels of drugs to make sure the designers drugs could not be connected to the League of Assassins. A dozen of Dakota’s young gangbangers died in that first explosion, dozens more in the inferno that followed. Those that didn’t die were transformed by the drugs’ fumes mixing with the smoke and tear gas from the ensuing police raid or when they were showered from the particulate debris of the drugs’ base ingredients. In Dakota, they call this event the “Bang” and overnight Dakota’s gang problem took a backseat. Those transformed by the Bang were dubbed “Bang Babies” and since most used their powers to further their criminal rep, they were such a problem that Icon and Rocket requested aid from the Justice League and martial law was declared in Dakota for a time.