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= = Commercial performance = =
In the United States , 30 Seconds to Mars entered the Billboard 200 at number 107 on the issue dated September 14 , 2002 . It also debuted at number one on the Top Heatseekers . After nine weeks , it fell to number 40 , with sales of over 40 @,@ 000 units . As of August 2006 , Nielsen SoundScan estimates actual sales of the album at over 120 @,@ 000 in the United States . Its lead single , " Capricorn ( A Brand New Name ) " , entered the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at number 40 and eventually reached a peak of number 31 . In the United Kingdom , 30 Seconds to Mars debuted at number 136 on the UK Albums Chart . It was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) in July 2013 , denoting shipments of over 60 @,@ 000 units .
In France , 30 Seconds to Mars debuted at number 142 on the national albums chart on October 5 , 2002 . After its release to the Australian market , the album entered the ARIA Charts at number 95 on the issue dated June 11 , 2007 . It peaked at number 89 the following week . In Greece , it entered the national albums chart in June 2011 , in view of a band 's concert held in Athens in July , reaching a peak of number 41 . 30 Seconds to Mars was a slow @-@ burning success , and eventually sold two million copies worldwide as of March 2011 .
= = Track listing = =
All songs written and composed by Jared Leto , except where noted .
= = Credits and personnel = =
Credits adapted from 30 Seconds to Mars album liner notes .
= = Charts and certifications = =
= = Release history = =
= Action of 27 June 1798 =
The Action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea . The engagement formed part of a wider campaign , in which a major French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria at the start of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt . The French frigate Sensible had been detached from the convoy after the capture of Malta , under orders to carry wounded soldiers and looted treasure back to France while the main body continued to Egypt . The British frigate HMS Seahorse was one of a number of vessels detached from the main British Mediterranean Fleet in the Tagus River , sent to augment the fleet under Sir Horatio Nelson that was actively hunting the French convoy .
Lookouts on Seahorse spotted Sensible at 16 : 00 on 26 June and Captain Edward Foote immediately gave chase , the French frigate fleeing southwards . For 12 hours the pursuit continued until Foote was able to catch and defeat his opponent , inflicting heavy casualties on the weaker and overladen French frigate . Among the prisoners captured was General Louis Baraguey d 'Hilliers who had been wounded in the storming of Malta , and among the treasure was an ornate seventeenth century cannon once owned by Louis XIV . The captured Sensible was initially fitted out as an active warship , but on arrival in Britain in 1799 the ship was downgraded to a transport . The action provided the British with the first conclusive evidence of the French intention to invade Egypt , but despite an extensive search for Nelson 's fleet Foote was unable to relay the location of the French to his admiral before the Battle of the Nile on 1 August .
= = Background = =
On 19 May 1798 , a French fleet departed Toulon for a top secret destination . The force consisted of 22 warships and 120 transports , to be joined by additional forces from Genoa , Corsica and Civitavecchia as it passed south through the Ligurian Sea . The fleet 's target was Egypt , a territory nominally controlled by the Ottoman Empire that French General Napoleon Bonaparte considered an ideal springboard for operations against British India . Passing southwards without interference from the Royal Navy , which had been absent from the Mediterranean for over a year following the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain , Bonaparte 's convoy passed Sicily on 7 June and two days later was at anchor off the harbour of Valletta on Malta . The island nation of Malta was under the command of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem , a religious order that depended on France for much of its wealth and recruits . Bonaparte believed that capturing Malta was essential to controlling the Central Mediterranean , and when Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim refused the fleet entry to the harbour , Bonaparte responded with a large scale invasion . The knights put up no resistance , although fighting against native Maltese troops lasted for 24 hours until the central city of Mdina fell . With this defeat the knights withdrew to their fortress at Valletta but were persuaded to surrender the following day with promises of pensions and estates in France .
With Malta secure , Bonaparte seized the Maltese army and navy , adding them to his own forces . He garrisoned Valletta and among the wealth he appropriated from the island was the entire property of the Roman Catholic Church in the island . Much of this was auctioned off , while other treasures were to be transported to France , along with dispatches carried by the wounded General Louis Baraguey d 'Hilliers and other soldiers wounded during the invasion . On 19 June Bonaparte divided his forces , leaving 4 @,@ 000 men to hold the island while the remainder of the convoy embarked on the second leg of the journey to Egypt . One ship was detailed to return to France with the wounded , despatches and some of the treasure . For this purpose the 36 @-@ gun frigate Sensible under Captain G. F. J. Bourdé was selected , although much of the regular crew was removed and replaced with freed Maltese galley slaves .
Although Bonaparte had not expected British interference in his operations against Egypt , the Royal Navy had responded to the reports of French mobilisation on the south coast by despatching a small squadron to the Ligurian Sea under Rear @-@ Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson . Arriving on 21 May , Nelson 's squadron was struck by a severe storm and was forced to make hasty repairs off Sardinia . The storm had also dispersed the squadron 's frigates , leaving Nelson with only three ships of the line . Although he was reinforced by another ten ships of the line and a fourth rate on 7 June , he still lacked any scouts and was thus severely hampered in his ability to search for information on French operations . The detached frigates had been scattered across the Western Mediterranean , and were unable to locate either the British or the French fleets . Reinforcements sent by Vice @-@ Admiral Earl St Vincent at the Tagus River suffered from the same problem , the frigates spreading out widely in their search but failing to discover either of the main British or French forces , which were rapidly sailing southeastwards towards Alexandria .
= = Battle = =
One of the British reinforcements cruising in the Central Mediterranean in June was the frigate HMS Seahorse , commanded by Captain Edward Foote . Seahorse was officially rated as a 38 @-@ gun ship , but in reality carried 46 guns , including 14 32 @-@ pounder carronades , very heavy short @-@ range cannon . Foote had been despatched by Earl St. Vincent to join Nelson 's squadron in his hunt for the French and carried on board a number of reinforcements for HMS Culloden , one of Nelson 's ships commanded by Captain Thomas Troubridge . On 26 June 1798 , Seahorse was passing along the southern Sicilian coast in search of information about the whereabouts of the British fleet when at 16 : 00 his lookout sighted a ship . Advancing rapidly , Foote recognised the stranger as a French frigate and prepared for battle . The frigate was Sensible , which was on a northeasterly course from Malta to Toulon when sighted . Bourdé , knowing that his ship was overladen , undermanned and carried only 36 guns , some of which were only 6 @-@ pounders , turned away and sailed south , hoping to outrun his opponent during the night .
For 12 hours Sensible fled southwards , but Foote 's pursuit was relentless and Bourdé found the distance between his frigate and Seahorse gradually disappearing . At 04 : 00 on 27 July , with the island of Pantelleria 36 miles ( 58 km ) to the northwest , Foote was able to pull Seahorse alongside his opponent and open a heavy fire from close range . At the first shots , many of the galley slaves deserted their positions and fled below decks , leaving the French ship dangerously exposed . Within eight minutes Sensible was battered into submission , Bourdé 's desperate attempt to board Seahorse easily avoided by Foote . The French frigate received 36 cannon shot in the hull and significant damage to the masts . Casualty estimates vary , but between 18 and 25 men were killed and 35 to 55 were wounded from a total of approximately 300 . Seahorse by contrast suffered only light damage , losing two men dead and 16 , including first Lieutenant Wilmot , wounded .
Foote removed much of the treasure and prisoners from Sensible before despatching the vessel under a prize crew to Earl St. Vincent in the Tagus . Among the goods seized from the frigate were copies of the French naval code books , as well as information about the destination of Bonaparte 's invasion fleet . Sailing immediately for Alexandria , Foote was joined soon afterwards by HMS Terpsichore under Captain William Hall Gage , who was also searching for Nelson . Together they reached Alexandria on 21 July , discovering that the French were already in the harbour although Nelson was nowhere to be seen . Observing the French dispositions , Foote and Gage disguised their ships as a French frigate and its prize , Gage hoisting French colours over British to indicate that his ship had been captured and Foote displaying the secret French recognition codes . This appears to have convinced the French that the strangers were not enemy ships , and no move was made against them , Foote and Gage free to observe the French anchorage in Aboukir Bay before striking out along the African coast in search of Nelson . The British admiral was at this time resupplying his ships at Syracuse on Sicily , and when he sailed on 25 July he passed eastwards to Morea where he learned of the French invasion of Egypt from the Turkish governor of Coron . Striking directly southwards , Nelson arrived at Aboukir Bay on 1 August without ever encountering Foote or learning his intelligence . Seahorse eventually returned to Alexandria on 17 August to discover that Nelson had fought and won the Battle of the Nile nearly three weeks earlier .
= = Aftermath = =
Earl St Vincent was suffering from an extreme shortage of frigates , and on the arrival of Sensible at the Tagus immediately ordered the frigate to be commissioned as HMS Sensible , stripping six men from each of his ships to man her and turning the frigate into an active warship in just 12 hours . For a year Sensible remained with St. Vincent , until she was sent back to Britain in November 1799 . On arrival the ship was downgraded from frontline service , but did spend several years commissioned as a military transport until wrecked off Ceylon on 3 March 1802 . Among the treasures removed from the ship was a decorated brass cannon captured from the Ottomans in the seventeenth century and presented to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem by King Louis XIV of France , as well as a model of a galley made from gilt silver . These were sold , along with the other cargo and ships fittings at Sheerness in November 1799 , the prize money shares subsequently awarded to the crew of Seahorse .
General d 'Hilliers and the other prisoners were taken to Britain , but the officers were soon paroled . On their return to France , d 'Hilliers and Bourdé were court martialled and initially condemned by the Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix . Bruix believed that the ship had been too easily surrendered and publicly released a strongly worded letter criticising their " talents and courage " . This level of criticism , which British naval historian William James considers excessive , was eventually toned down and after a spirited defence by d 'Hilliers both officers were honourably acquitted . Foote was praised for his success , and Lieutenant Wilmot , who successfully carried the frigate to the Tagus , was promoted . Foote later commanded Seahorse off Naples , and became embroiled in the controversy that surrounded the execution of the leaders of the Parthenopean Republic in 1799 .
= Xavier Mertz =
Xavier Mertz ( 6 October 1882 – 8 January 1913 ) was a Swiss explorer , mountaineer and skier , from Basel . He took part in the Far Eastern Party , a 1912 – 13 component of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition , which claimed his life . The Mertz Glacier is named after him .
The son of a textile machinery manufacturer , Mertz studied patent law at the University of Bern , and science at the University of Lausanne , specialising in glacier and mountain formations . While a student , Mertz became active as a skier , competing in national competitions , and as a mountaineer , climbing many of the highest peaks in the Alps . In early 1911 , Mertz was hired by geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson for his Australasian Antarctic Expedition . He was initially employed as a ski instructor , but in Antarctica Mertz instead joined Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis in the care of the expedition 's Greenland Huskies .
In the summer of 1912 – 13 , Mertz and Ninnis were chosen by Mawson to accompany him on the Far Eastern Party , using the dogs to push rapidly from the expedition 's base in Adélie Land towards Victoria Land . After Ninnis and a sledge carrying most of the food disappeared down a crevasse , 311 miles ( 501 km ) from the hut , Mertz and Mawson headed back west , gradually using the dogs to supplement their remaining food stocks . About 100 miles ( 160 km ) from safety , Mertz died , leaving Mawson to carry on alone . The cause of Mertz 's death has never been firmly established ; the commonly purported theory is hypervitaminosis A ( an excessive intake of vitamin A ) from consuming the livers of the Huskies . Other theories suggest he may have died from a combination of malnutrition , a change in diet , cold exposure , and psychological stresses .
= = Early life = =
Xavier Mertz was born in Basel , the son of Emile Mertz , who owned a large engineering firm in the city . With the aim of working in the family business , which manufactured textile machinery , Mertz attended the University of Bern , where he studied patent law . While in Bern , he became active as a mountaineer and skier . Mertz competed in several national competitions ; in 1906 he was third in the Swiss cross @-@ country skiing championship , and second in the German championship . In 1908 , he won the Swiss ski jumping championship , with a distance of 31 metres ( 102 ft ) . As a mountaineer , he was particularly prolific in the Alps ; he climbed Mont Blanc — the highest peak in the range — and claimed several first ascents of other mountains . After he attained his degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Bern , Mertz studied science at the University of Lausanne ; he specialised in glacier and mountain formations , for which he received his second doctorate .
= = Antarctic = =
In early 1911 , Mertz went to London to meet with the Australian geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson , who had served as physicist during Ernest Shackleton 's 1908 – 09 Nimrod Expedition , was planning his own Antarctic expedition . In his application letter , Mertz wrote that he hoped Mawson would be using skis , as " they have proved so good for the purpose & knowing that I am as good as any one on <unk> . " While Mawson was intending to recruit only British subjects ( chiefly Australians and New Zealanders ) , Mertz 's qualifications prompted him to make an exception , and hire the Swiss as a ski instructor . First , however , he was given responsibility for the expedition 's 49 Greenland Huskies , aboard the expedition ship SY Aurora , bound for Hobart .
On the Aurora , Mertz met Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers . Like Mertz , Ninnis was responsible for the expedition 's dogs ; Aurora 's captain , John King Davis , regarded the pair as " idlers " . " I wish we had some one on board who could look after [ the dogs ] , " he wrote in his diary , " it is a great shame that they should suffer from neglect . " On 2 December 1911 , after final preparations and loading were completed in Hobart , the Aurora sailed south ; she stopped briefly at Macquarie Island , where a wireless relay base was established , and reached the site of the expedition 's main base at Cape Denison in Adélie Land , on the Antarctic continent , in early January .
= = = Adélie Land = = =
Over the following winter , preparations were made for the summer sledging . Because the conditions — constant , strong winds and an excessive slope by the hut — prevented Mertz from conducting skiing lessons as regularly as intended , he focussed instead on helping Ninnis to care for the dogs . On days when the weather was good they drove the dogs around outside the hut , teaching them to run in teams ; when the winds returned the pair fitted and sewed harnesses for each dog , and prepared their sledging food . By this time Mertz and Ninnis developed a close friendship , as the expedition 's taxidermist Charles <unk> later wrote :
The two [ Mertz and Ninnis ] had joined the Expedition together in London , and had been associated longer and in a more intimate manner than any other members of the Expedition . During the winter months we had all been drawn together , but between Mertz and Ninnis there existed a very deep bond . Mertz , in his warm @-@ hearted impulsive way , had practically adopted Ninnis , and his affection was almost maternal . Ninnis , less demonstrative , reciprocated this to the full , and indeed it was hard to dissociate them in our thoughts . It was always ' Mertz and Ninnis ' or ' Ninnis and Mertz ' , a composite entity , each the complement of the other .
In August , the preparations extended to laying depots ; an early party established a depot 5 @.@ 5 miles ( 8 @.@ 9 km ) to the south of the main hut — a grotto in the ice known as Aladdin 's Cave — but returned without the dogs . Mertz and two others set off to rescue the dogs , but in heavy winds covered less than a mile in two hours , and returned to the hut . " If it depended only on me , " Mertz wrote in his diary , after four days ' more wind confined them to the hut , " we would be in our sleeping bags outside in the snow , and we would at least try to find the dogs . Mawson is definitely too cautious , and I wonder if he would show enough gumption during the sledging expedition . " The following day Mertz was part of a party of three that made it to Aladdin 's Cave to rescue the dogs ; when strong winds confined them to the depot for three days they spent the time expanding the cave .
In September , Mertz , Ninnis and Herbert Murphy formed a survey party , man @-@ hauling to the south @-@ east of Aladdin 's cave . In strong winds , they travelled just 12 @.@ 5 miles ( 20 @.@ 1 km ) in three days , before the temperature dropped to − 34 ° C ( − 29 ° F ) and the wind speed increased to 90 miles per hour ( 78 kn ) , confining them to the tent . When a gap in the wind allowed , they hurried back to the hut .
= = = Death during the Far Eastern Party = = =
On 27 October 1912 , Mawson outlined the summer sledging program . Mertz and Ninnis were assigned to Mawson 's own party , which would use the dogs to push quickly to the east of the expedition 's base in Commonwealth Bay , towards Victoria Land . The party departed Cape Denison on 10 November , heading first to Aladdin 's Cave , and from there south @-@ east towards a massive glacier encountered by Aurora on the outward journey . Mertz skied ahead , scouting and providing a lead for the dogs to chase ; Mawson and Ninnis manoeuvred the two dog teams behind . They reached the glacier on 19 November ; negotiating fields of crevasses , it was crossed in five days . The party made quick progress once on the plateau again , but they soon encountered another glacier , far larger than the first . Despite strong winds and poor light , Mertz , Mawson and Ninnis reached the far side on 30 November .
On 14 December , the party were more than 311 miles ( 501 km ) from the Cape Denison hut . As Mertz skied ahead , singing songs from his student days , Ninnis , the largest sledge and the strongest dog team were lost when they broke through the snow lid of a crevasse . Together with the death of their companion , Mawson and Mertz were now severely compromised ; on the remaining sledge they had just ten days ' worth of food , and no food for the dogs . They immediately turned back west , gradually using the six remaining dogs to supplement their food supply ; they ate all parts of the animals , including their livers . They initially made good progress , but as they cleared the largest glacier Mertz began to feel ill ; he had lost his waterproof <unk> on Ninnis ' sledge , and in the cold his wet clothes were unable to dry . On 30 December , a day Mawson recorded that the companion was " off colour " , Mertz wrote that he was " really tired [ and ] shall write no more . " Mertz 's condition deteriorated over the following days — Mawson recorded he was " generally in a very bad condition . Skin coming off legs , etc " — and his illness severely slowed their progress . On 8 January , the pair about 100 miles ( 160 km ) from the hut , Mawson recorded :
He [ Mertz ] is very weak , becomes more and more delirious , rarely being able to speak coherently . He will eat or drink nothing . At 8 pm he raves & breaks a tent pole . Continues to rave & call ' Oh Veh , Oh Veh ' [ O weh ! , ' Oh dear ! ' ] for hours . I hold him down , then he becomes more peaceful & I put him quietly in the bag . He dies peacefully at about 2 am on morning of 8th .
Mawson buried Mertz in his sleeping bag under rough @-@ hewn blocks of snow , along with the remaining photographic plates and an explanatory note . Mawson staggered back into the Cape Denison hut a month later , missing the Aurora by a matter of hours ; she had waited for Mertz , Mawson and Ninnis for three weeks until — concerned by the encroaching winter ice — Davis had sailed her out of Commonwealth Bay and back to Australia .
= = Legacy = =
In November 1913 , a month before the Aurora returned for the final time , Mawson and the six men remaining at Cape Denison erected a memorial cross for Mertz and Ninnis on Azimuth Hill to the north @-@ west of the main hut . The cross , constructed from pieces of a broken radio mast , was accompanied by a plaque cut from wood from Mertz 's bunk . The cross still stands , although the crossbar has required reattaching several times , and the plaque was replaced with a replica in 1986 . The first glacier the Far Eastern Party crossed on the outward journey — previously unnamed — was named by Mawson after Mertz , becoming the Mertz Glacier . At a speaking engagement upon his return to Australia , Mawson praised his dead comrades : " The survivors might have an opportunity of doing something more , but these men had done their all . " At another , Mawson said that " Dr. Mertz was a Swiss by birth , but he was a man every Englishman would have liked to have called an Englishman ... He was a man of great feelings , generous — one of Nature 's gentlemen . " A telegram was sent on behalf of the Australian people to Emile Mertz , condoling him on his " great loss , but congratulating you on your son 's imperishable fame . "
The cause of Mertz 's death is not certain ; at the time , it was believed Mertz may have died of colitis . A 1969 study by Sir John Cleland and R. V. Southcott of the University of Adelaide concluded that the symptoms Mawson described — hair , skin and weight loss , depression , dysentery and persistent skin infections — indicated the men had suffered hypervitaminosis A , an excessive intake of vitamin A. Vitamin A is found in unusually high quantities in the livers of Greenland Dogs , of which both Mertz and Mawson consumed large amounts ; indeed , as Mertz 's condition deteriorated , Mawson may have given him more of the liver to eat , believing it to be more easily digested . This theory is the most widely accepted , but there have been other theories . Phillip Law , former director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ( <unk> ) , believed cold exposure could account for Mertz 's symptoms . A 2005 article in The Medical Journal of Australia by Denise Carrington @-@ Smith , noting certain sources indicating that Mertz was essentially a vegetarian , suggested that general malnutrition and the sudden change to a predominantly meat diet could have triggered Mertz 's illness . Carrington @-@ Smith adds a more hypothetical reason : " the psychological stresses related to the death of a close friend [ Ninnis ] and the deaths of the dogs he had cared for , as well as the need to kill and eat his remaining dogs " .
= Washington State Route 162 =
State Route 162 ( SR 162 ) is a 17 @.@ 37 @-@ mile @-@ long ( 27 @.@ 95 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , serving rural Pierce County . The highway travels from an interchange with SR 410 in Sumner and travels south along the Puyallup River to Orting and northeast to South Prairie , ending at an intersection with SR 165 near Buckley . SR 162 was established in 1964 as the successor to Secondary State Highway 5E ( SSH 5E ) , which was codified in 1937 . The highway crosses the Puyallup River northwest of Orting on the McMillin Bridge , which opened in 1934 and is scheduled to be replaced with a newer bridge that will begin construction in 2014 .
= = Route description = =
SR 162 begins at a diamond interchange with the SR 410 freeway in Sumner and travels south as a continuation of Valley Avenue , crossing the Puyallup River . The highway continues south through rural Pierce County , following a Ballard Terminal Railroad line and the Puyallup River . It serves the community of Alderton and joins the Pierce County Foothills Trail , traveling southeast from Puyallup . SR 162 crosses the Puyallup River on the McMillin Bridge , listed on the National Register of Historical Places , west of its confluence with the Carbon River . It becomes Washington Avenue as it travels southeast through Orting , serving Orting High School . The highway turns southwest onto Bridge Street and crosses the Foothills Trail before turning back southeast onto Herman Way , later Pioneer Way outside of Orting , towards South Prairie . SR 162 continues northeast , crossing the Foothills Trail and the Carbon River before passing through South Prairie . The highway travels east , crossing South Prairie Creek and passing White River High School , before ending at an intersection with SR 165 southwest of Buckley .
Every year , the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume . This is expressed in terms of average annual daily traffic ( AADT ) , which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year . In 2011 , WSDOT calculated that between 4 @,@ 100 and 21 @,@ 000 vehicles per day used the highway , mostly between Sumner and Orting .
= = History = =
SR 162 was codified as SSH 5E during the creation of the primary and secondary state highways in 1937 , beginning at Primary State Highway 5 ( PSH 5 ) and U.S. Route 410 in Puyallup , traveling through Orting and South Prairie to end at an intersection with a branch of PSH 5 southwest of Buckley . SSH 5E had a branch that traveled south from Orting to Electron that was removed from the state highway system in 1955 . The highway traveled across the Puyallup River into Orting on the McMillin Bridge , which opened in 1934 as a concrete half @-@ through truss bridge to save the Department of Highways a total of $ 826 . SR 165 was established during the 1964 highway renumbering and was codified in 1970 as the replacement to SSH 5E . The western terminus , now at SR 410 , was moved east to an interchange in Sumner after the completion of the Sumner Freeway in 1972 . The McMillin Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as an example of a half @-@ through truss bridge built with concrete instead of steel . The route of the highway has not seen a major revision since 1972 ; however , WSDOT repaved the roadway and added guardrails between Orting and Buckley in 2008 . The deteriorating McMillin Bridge is being replaced by WSDOT with a newer , wider span over the Puyallup River scheduled to begin construction in 2014 .
= = Major intersections = =
The entire highway is in Pierce County .
= No Mercy ( 2004 ) =
No Mercy ( 2004 ) was a professional wrestling pay @-@ per @-@ view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on October 3 , 2004 , at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford , New Jersey . It was the seventh annual No Mercy event , and featured eight professional wrestling matches on the event 's card . The buildup to the matches and the scenarios that took place before , during , and after the event were planned by WWE 's script writers . The event starred wrestlers from the SmackDown ! brand : a storyline expansion of the promotion where employees are assigned to a wrestling brand under the WWE banner .