Changes

** Unsuccessful in his attempt to negotiate his group's departure, one side opened fire on the other, triggering a huge gunfight. Despite being outnumbered four to one, Captain Wight ordered his forces to fall in and fight, but a flashbang grenade detonating inches away from his head caused the Captain to go down, missing most of the fight. The flashbang left the famous burns and wounds to the right side of his head.

** When he comes to his senses again, he finds the bodies of his subordinates littering the floor, being stripped of their every last clothes and gear by two remaining activists. The sight reportedly filled Wight with indescribable rage. Having lost all his weapons besides his [[KA-BAR|knife]], Wight charged the two activists with it, and proceeded to eliminate both of them before they could land a shot on him. He then desperately searched all of the bodies for signs of life to try and find a survivor, but finds only one; Lieutenant Lewis Dunbar, Wight's best friend, and oldest colleague. These events are widely considered to be the reason behind Wight's hardline anti-youkai stance.

* '''E7-671:''' Colonel Zachary Geist, last seen in the Central Zone leaving Neo Khazrun for [[Nanton]], mysteriously disappears. Considered MIA and presumed dead, the Military decides to elect a new leader. Captain Wight of the 1st Company is selected, and becomes the new Colonel, returning the Military to a hardline anti-youkai stance.

* '''E7-671 ; E7-677: Great Military Reform:''' Colonel Wight introduces the Great Reform, instigating several changes over a period of 7 years.

** The Military is now separated into two branches; the Regular Forces, and the new elite branch, the Phantom Forces, composed of four companies worth of the best-performing soldiers and new recruits.

** <span style="color:#009900">'''E7-677:'''</span> The towns of [[Fort Phantom]], [[Outpost Trion]], [[Station Lasker]] and [[Camp Huntsman]] are founded to give the newly established Phantom Forces new homes.

** Fort Cutlass is renamed to [[Fort Wight]], and the two companies assigned to its defense become known as '''Wight's Elite Battalion'''. They are retrained to Phantom Forces standards and given Phantom Forces uniforms.

** The size of the Military is dramatically increased, from 7 companies to 12, and is given its current organization of 6 RF companies, 4 PF companies, and the remaining two companies forming Wight's Elite Battalion.

** "Harassment patrols" of the Weil era are re-established, and although soldiers are explicitly told to avoid entering the Northeastern Zone, they are once again tasked with searching for activist groups, caravans, couriers, and other people affiliated or protected by activist fighters, and to engage in combat with them on sight.

* '''E7-693:''' Michael Yatela becomes the new Don of the Yatela Crime Syndicate.

* '''E7-694 ; E7-696: Operation Toss The Pineapple:''' The Yatela Crime Syndicate launches a campaign for the control of the redlight industry of the Mazes, gaining control of the largest network of [[escort|escorts]] in the world.