In the aftermath of the Battle of Veterans Bridge, the Ghost and the Greater Ottawan Army returned home victorious. The radio station's DJ, Mike Brisson of WMCY, announced their victory across the airwaves.
"Hey, hey, Greater Ottawa! What a beautiful morning today, about 68 degrees Fahrenheit this morning, and what a morning it has been. I have just been informed that the Greater Ottawan Army, led by our very own G. of O., has crushed NWO Forces laying siege to Veterans Bridge, allowing our forces to reclaim the Southside of Ottawa and Trumbo Road. According to this official statement, the NWO has been pushed out of LaSalle County and is in full retreat to Chicago, where other militias will hold them..." With the breaking news of Mike's broadcast, Ottawans across the city, one of 20,000 people, exhaled a breath of much-needed relief. Their vigilante in powered armor had saved them from a further dystopian and freedom-deprived life under the Order's rule.
While the citizens began their daily work, most working in or alongside Greater Ottawa's agriculture, machining/manufacturing, and/or transportation, the Ghost was at the Greater Ottawan Army base, Fort Boyce, located in the old trainyard hub. There, Dr. Sue and her team got the O.C.P.A. to unlock and allowed the Ghost to step out of the powered-hydraulic suit of armor. As he stepped out of the armor, a researcher rushed over to Dr. Sue and pulled her away for a moment. The Ghost stretched, then joined them on a railcar, which took them to the CIMCO Recycling Foundry. Upon arriving, they took an elevator down to Dr. Sue's primary laboratory. In the underground lab, set up in a massive gantry, was Greater Ottawa's secret guardian weapon, the world's first and only automaton, named Betsy Ross. She was designed to resemble a robot from some old 1950s anti-communist propaganda posters and movies that had all but faded into obscurity. The Ghost of Ottawa looked up at her steel faceplate, straight into her rose-tinted eyebar lens.
"Will she awaken today, Dr. Sue?" Asked the Ghost, eyes not leaving the automaton. Dr. Sue reviewed her data sheets and then examined the instrument panels, checking for abnormalities and spikes before responding. "If my team's new creation works, Liberty Bell here will be able to leave the lab." The Ghost always admired her confidence, and they were both eager for Greater Ottawa's creation to function fully off the Lasalle Lake Nuclear Plant's secondary power supply. As the team prepared Liberty Bell for activation, the Ghost radioed to Mike to broadcast the same warning they had used one hundred times over the last two months, since the completion of Betsy Ross's construction. As citizens heeded the broadcast's warning, Dr. Sue carried a large, cylindrical pylon up the gantry and loaded it into the Liberty Bell's micro-nuclear reactor, which had been built by several teams of Japanese scientists who'd been touring Ottawa when society collapsed.
Dr. Sue nodded to her aide, who assisted her in sealing in the pylon. Once it was sealed, Dr. Sue explained to the Ghost just what they'd done. "Thanks to the efforts of CIMCO and our scrapper teams, we harvested the required palladium and cesium necessary to build my prototype-design, "Palladium-Cesium Pylon Agitated Battery-Cylinder" or the "P.C-P.A.B-C" for short! Now, all that's left is the upload of her functions matrix, and she should be fully operational." Dr. Sue smiled in awe of her work before quickly tapping away on her keyboard, sending a series of commands to the automaton. Upon pressing the ENTER key, alarms and warnings rang out as Betsy Ross fully awakened. The five-story-tall automaton ran a few key tests on her systems, all of which passed within acceptable parameters. Once she'd been cleared for operational duty, the massive overhead doors opened and activated the massive elevator cables that raised everyone to the surface.
As Liberty Bell rose into the Greater Ottawan skyline, her dull heather-gray-painted steel body saw the sunlight for the first time. Her rose-gold eyebar reflected the light, casting a pinkish hue on the CIMCO foundry. Her Ottawa arrowhead and Betsy Ross 13-starred flag shoulder emblems on display for all of Greater Ottawa to see as she marched out of CIMCO Recycling and began patrolling the city limits. While Dr. Sue and her team monitored Betsy Ross via a computer terminal, the Ghost was rushed to the radio station to ease the citizens' worries and inform them that Betsy Ross was their latest addition to their New World Order-ass-kicking lineup. While things in Greater Ottawa were looking up for the first time in months, things were about to change in ways no one had ever known possible.