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Paragon Times
Overview
The Paragon Times was the fictional newspaper which occasionally had articles posted on the City of Heroes main website. A total of 42 articles were published between July 19, 2004 and September 27, 2007.
Articles
September 27, 2007
President Marchand Celebrates 70th Year in Office!
September 20, 2007
Outbreak Plague Rampant for Four Years
August 13, 2007
Vanguard Reports Success
July 24, 2007
Invasion!
July 5, 2007
Senate Questions Vanguard
June 5, 2007
A City Remembers
April 30, 2007
Statesman's Call to Arms
October 18, 2006
A Season of Shadows
February 3, 2006
Advertisement: Pocket D
December 19, 2005
Festival of Terror
October 27, 2005
Statesman's Strike
September 28, 2005
The Legacy of Heroes
September 14, 2005
Siren's Call
August 24, 2005
Chasing Sally
August 10, 2005
The Burning of Steel Canyon
July 13, 2005
Against the Fall of Darkness
June 15, 2005
Beyond Contact: Azuria and MAGI
June 1, 2005
Beyond Contact: City Representative
April 27, 2005
Arenas
April 20, 2005
Dreams Before the Storm
April 13, 2005
Rudolph Augustus Seifert and the Memory of Heroes
April 6, 2005
Paragon Transit Authority
March 30, 2005
The View from Above
March 23, 2005
Queen of the Islands
March 16, 2005
77 Years of Movie Magic
March 9, 2005
Dazzling New Designs for Heroes
March 2, 2005
The Paragon Times Building: Rebirth of an Icon
February 9, 2005
Winter Lord Thawed
January 5, 2005
Intense Cold Approaching
December 8, 2004
Clockwork Threaten Kings Row
December 1, 2004
Ghost Ship Sightings Reported
November 24, 2004
"Giant Monster" in Independence Port?
November 3, 2004
The 5th Column in Turmoil
October 27, 2004
The Hammer of the World
October 25, 2004
Halloween Doom For Paragon City?
October 21, 2004
A New Type of Alien Visitor
October 13, 2004
Fifth Column Activity on the Rise
September 22, 2004
Of Heroes and Badges
September 17, 2004
Paragon City Attacked by Strange Beings from Another Dimension!
September 15, 2004
Paragon City's New Dance Party Club
July 28, 2004
Eastgate Under Siege
July 19, 2004
Capes Return to Paragon City
Entertainment 
Each of the 42 articles brought additional depth to new or upcoming features of the "City of..." universe.
The first article, published on July 19, 2004, was used to announce the ability to wear capes and gave background information explaining why there had previously been no capes in Paragon City. The article also provided some more of the backstory for Hero 1.
The second article, published July 28, 2004, gave a brief background look at the Hollows storyline.
The third article, published September 15, 2004, introduced Pocket D and DJ Zero.
The fourth article, published September 17, 2004, announced the Rularuu Invasion Event 2004.
The fifth article, published September 22, 2004, discussed badges and what each type of badge represents.
The sixth article, published October 13, 2004, says that 5th column activities were on the rise, and implies the beginning of the takeover by the council.
The seventh article was published October 21, 2004, announced the arrival of Peacebringers and Warshades.
The forty-first article was the first to put multiple articles in one "issue" of the paper. It was printed September 20, 2007 and its two articles were titled "Outbreak Plague Rampant for Four Years," "Zigursky Guards Put Down Riot and Foil Breakout," and had a sidebar of fallen heroes and villains. This was also the first issue in the line towards the release of Issue 11. As a result the article has a different background and timeline then any previous material.
- "Outbreak Plague Rampant for Four Years" was about the Contaminated and the Outbreak virus that you encounter in the Hero tutorial. In this time line Dr Miller was killed early on, soon after discovering the disease, and thus never worked on curing it. In addition, the virus was not contained as it has been in the official storyline. It has spread so much that neighborhoods of Skyway City and Steel Canyon have been quarantined as has the whole of Talos Island.
- "Zigursky Guards Put Down Riot and Foil Breakout" basically completely canceled the villains' storyline as Arachnos fails to free anyone during the Breakout tutorial of City of Villains. In addition, two of the instructors (Hard Time and Angel Lopez) were killed during the riots that were the result of the failed jail break.
- The sidebar listed many who had died over the previous year including Agent Davis, Arnold Decker, Captain Sherman (from The Dark Watcher's missions), Ernesto Hess, Everett Daniels, Genevieve Sanders, Josef Keller, Katie Hannon, Maxwell Christopher, Merisel Valenzuela, Mikey the Ear, and Sara Moore. (This sidebar is now included at the end of the "Outbreak Plague Rampant for Four Years" article.)
The Forty-second article, released September 27, 2007, again had two articles and a sidebar, further showing the differences in the story line. The articles were titled "President Marchand Celebrates 70th Year in Office!" and "Manticore and Recluse Continue Offensive in South America" with a sidebar titled "Behind the Mask: Manticore"
- "President Marchand Celebrates 70th Year in Office!" reports on the celebration of the anniversary of Gerald T. Marchand election to the office of President of the Rogue Isles in 1937.
- "Manticore and Recluse Continue Offensive in South America" describes an attack by Manticore and Lord Recluse on a camp full of Columbian rebels hidden high in the Andes Mountains.
- "Behind the Mask: Manticore" was about Manticore's fall from grace as well as his ascension in Arachnos. It included the following quote from the Statesman: “Manticore was one of the few men in the world I trusted with my life. Now he is one of the two men I would take it away from.” (This sidebar is now included at the end of the "Manticore and Recluse Continue Offensive in South America" article.)
Lifestyles 
Metro 
o.o tony will probably yell at us for this idea but.. we might be able to use the paper section images as section headers...
