However cadets do have to go outside in groups for their "Hotdog Run," a combat mission into the Cursed Earth radiation desert.
Originally, Mean was nothing like his deeply antisocial family, so Pa forced a Texas City surgeon to come out to their hideout in the Cursed Earth and surgically modify him.
Although the Mega Cities had their own laser defence systems, the rest of the world was reduced to vast irradiated wasteland, the most famous being the Cursed Earth, from which many threats have sprung including Shojun the Warlord (from the radlands of Ji in Eastern Asia).
He was placed into suspended animation once more, only for his body to be stolen by renegade judges and eventually lost in the Cursed Earth.
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Ephram's mutant descendants still inhabit the Cursed Earth, led by Randy Fargo.
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Fargo is highly distressed when Dredd is found guilty and is able to get the sentence commuted from death to life imprisonment by retiring and taking the Long Walk out to the Cursed Earth.
A dangerous psychic called Soon is being held prisoner in a lunatic asylum in the Cursed Earth on account of his staggeringly vast powers.
The 2000 AD comic had a long running Judge Dredd story arc that was an adaptation of the story (with the journey in the reverse direction), in which Dredd and Spikes Harvey Rotten (the greatest Punk alive) journeyed across the Cursed Earth between Megacity 1 (on the U.S. East Coast) to Megacity 2 (on the West coast) to deliver a vaccine to the 2T(Fru)T virus.
He suspected her of orchestrating a series of murders, including of a judge and mutant deputies, in Township Three in the Cursed Earth.
Mutant townships in the Cursed Earth were set up, to which to expel the mutant citizens.
Normally his rebels would have been quickly exterminated by the Judges, but they were weakened by the symptoms of the virus, and were forced to retreat to the Cursed Earth outside the city while the rebels wreaked havoc and killed indiscriminately.
Immediately following Kraken's assessment, Dredd announced his resignation from the Justice Department, and took 'the long walk' into the Cursed Earth desert outside the city.
She resigned after four years in office following the Seven Samurai incident, blaming herself for a massacre she thought she could have prevented (although most of her colleagues were more forgiving and begged her to stay), and took the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth.
When Mega-City One's mutant citizens were exiled to townships in the Cursed Earth, Rico was one of the judges sent to supervise them, under Dredd's command.
Dredd was sent to the Cursed Earth to oversee the construction of four new mutant townships which were being set up in the Cursed Earth to house the recently deported mutants.
He once married a competing Cursed Earth criminal named Seven-Pound Sally Suggs (named after the 7 lb hammer she used when committing her crimes).
Booth first appeared in 2000 AD #67 and 68, in "The Cursed Earth."
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This led to Booth being inadvertently revived in 2100, whereupon Judge Dredd sentenced him to life working on a Kentucky farm in the Cursed Earth.
Joe suspected that this was the result of exposure to radiation when Rico was injured on a training mission in the Cursed Earth.
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However, following an injury during a training mission in the Cursed Earth, Rico began to become more aggressive, underhanded, and determined to prove himself better than Joe.
The story is told from the point of view of Yassa Povey, a young boy living in the Cursed Earth, a radioactive desert in post-nuclear war America where the whole story takes place.
Dredd is sent after the boy and tracks him across the Cursed Earth to Texas City where the Judge Child falls into the hands of the Angel Gang who escape from Earth.
He lived in a small settlement called Bubbletown in the radioactive Cursed Earth desert many miles west of Mega-City One.
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