Episode 1
I feel like I just got out of a 90s movie trailer telling me the tale of three ancient lost cities and now I have to stop some such dark overlord from achieving some such ancient artifact and only me and my cast of unlikely heroes can save the day.
- Arius Scorpius
Episode 1
" 'Dark Star' to 'Cricket'. We are ready to begin the citywide scan in search of the target area", said Tomabaltuu Saaltu - the commander of the Reticulan mercenary force called in for a seek & destroy mission, against the corrupt city council of Magnasanti.
" 'Cricket' to 'Dark Star' proceed..." I said "Surgical strike authorized when target in range. ‘REBUILD’ and popular revolution will take it over from there. Have a good hunt!", I said, anxiously awaiting for a momentous battle to unfold.
Soon, the skies over Magnasanti filled with Reticulan crafts, each beaming a strange, pale-yellow scanner lights upon the entire city. Slowly but systematically, the UFOs combed each block in search for the people who held the entire city captive for tens of thousands of years...
Suddenly, my mayoral radio went on again " 'Cricket', this is ‘Dark Star’ we have picked up a strange reading on our scanners. Looks like some sort of a hive mind... located in the North-Eastern tip of Magnasanti!"
"This is your target, 'Dark Star'! Fire at will!"
Soon, the Reticulan mothership has silently hovered over the newly discovered target. The next minute, a blinding flash of blue light flooded half of the city.
When it subsided, we saw our enemy’s keep (disguised as a regular block of flats) ablaze, completely engulfed in flames. Extraterrestrial weapon made a short work of the evil city council. But the battle was not done yet…
Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of the city council minions have swarmed the nearby area, seeking revenge for the death of their leader. Apparently, summoned by the last will of a dying, diabolical, disembodied mind that has called itself “mayor” up until now. However, the popular revolution and the REBUILD rebels were no less determined to liberate the city…
Soon, both armies have speedily leapt at each other with a mighty roar and the streets turned red…
No! No, no, no. It’s not what you think! I just told them to use rotten tomatoes instead of firearms! 
(Because, as we all know from SPAM, tomato paste can’t fix a broken tomato anyway...)
The battle raged on with the REBUILD forces taking the upper hand. But then, to my shock, I saw flames erupting in the battle area…
*Sigh* “If Sim wants, Sim gets. How, in the Simlord’s name, did they manage to incinerate the entire neighborhood with a veggie ammo?!”
Well, never mind, the situation could quickly escalate into a horrible blaze, not unlike the Great Fire of London. In case you missed it – Magnasanti has never had any fire stations.
Luckily, I remembered the lesson from an emergency simulation I also played in the good old days. I quickly realized there is only one way to extinguish the fire if no fire engines are available – by cutting the fuel out! Thus, with a heavy heart, I decided to bulldoze some blocks… This way, I could at least isolate burning buildings from the rest of the city!
Easier said than done… I forgot that every single building in this crazed city has been made historical!!
No turning back now… I promised to save this city, and I WILL save it. Even if it means “dehistorizing” entire city block! Disaster response (and the revolution) underway!
The REBUILD forces continued to fight for the freedom of their city, while I kept my “dehistorizing” and fire-containment efforts going. After several loooong and tense minutes (what must have been hours in Magnasanti) I have finally managed to isolate the fire from the rest of the city… Due to the “buffer zone” achieved, whatever burned now, could no longer “jump” onto any other building.
Gasping for air, heart beating heavily, I suddenly heard a triumphant cry. The revolution was over! The Magnasanti Sims were free! Chanting their revolutionary songs and the name of yours truly!
The battle was done. The REBUILDs have fought the evil loyalists while I fought the blaze, but we won… Our adversaries, all tied up with broccoli-made ropes, were now sitting in the rubble, defeated, resigned and soaked in tomato juice.
In case you are wondering, next week, we decided to send them all to San Francisco region as a part of a neighbor deal… 
“ ‘Dark Star’, ‘REBUILD’, this is ‘Cricket’ – a job well done guys! Congratulations!” I radioed to my allies. “Rebuilding this city should be far more fun than ruining it was!” 
And this is how the battle area (and the city overall) looks like by the end of this episode:
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