After the events in Seattle with the fall of Brook Augustine and her DUP, Wes could finally stop his hiding and try to safely find some answers. Jumping one year later, Wes so far trained himself in his new found power and found out that the DUP were doing dangerous human experiments with ordinary people to become synthetic conduits, Wes being one of those few to actually survive those early testing. But the conduit that Wes felt changed his life for the worse was still out there was apparently Curden Cay before and after their release. During those early days, Wes asked numerous conduits if they knew a conduit that destroyed a house before, but there was none that match Wes’s story. It was that one year later that Wes found himself in New York City where various different conduits can be found and was where Wes hopped to find some lead there about the conduit that killed his parents and set his path to also becoming a conduit.

Already a few days into the city, Wes was surprised to see it to be such a lively place with the Reapers and conduits said to be around the city, and especially the whispers of the Syndicate also being in town. It was times like these that Wes was glad that he didn’t reveal his powers in public like other conduits that he saw jumping over buildings as he simply walked through the city. There was also some commotion occurring near a building with even a news team parked at the scene of two reapers attached to a building that had some message next to them saying "this is my city!". Close by, Wes could over hear the reporter discussion, “’this is my city!’, is this a message of some savior for us people or a conduit becoming territorial?” Wes was also confused by this matter as the message felt a bit threatening to him too.