 Any hope of restoring democratic government was most likely obliterated, but Total War would return in subsequent strips, first in the mutants storyline and then in "Day of Chaos".Dredd's crackdown on the terrorist group was used as an opportunity in the 2005 story "Caught in the Act", to satirise real-life anti-terrorist policies in Britain and America, such as incarceration without trial and withholding evidence from prisoners.