The Chaotic Continuum

[Crackerjacker]

This is the supers universe I have been working on for over a year.

 

Powered individuals have existed throughout history, and it is considered a fairly integrated part of history in general, but of course due to lack of modern science, historical supers are not a field of history that are well recorded and known of today. Though superpowers are often explained from other sources, regardless of the triggering factor most extranormals are the byproduct of either being "metaformed" by emmisions from deeper than deep space (the transdimensional plane, to be exact) or from being exposed to the "backbone of the multiverse", a structure of energies that not only is the means to travel from one reality to another, but also contains the "genetic material of all universes", the DNA of reality. These interdimensional energies are the unifying factor in superpowers and superscience in most realities and intergalactic cultures. Gods, superhumans, and others from all places often are touched by this interdimensional "DNA".

 

Extranormals and exceptional human beings of exceptional character have made their mark throughout history throughout the world, from uprisings in ancient India by extranormal untouchables, to the extranormal mercenary who would be immortalized in the legend of King Arthur, to even coustumed patriots in America's revolutionary war. In fact, the idea of extranormals and other "special soldiers" wearing masks originated as a identifying mark amongst British Special Royal Soldiers, and was soon after adapted by colonial heroes to hide their indentities and protect their families. The first supergroups of American history started with a mass metaformation wave that created extranormals during the Civil War. The Monitor lead "Cannonball" Turner, Billy Yank, and other Union heroes against Southern Sabre's cadre, which included Mercury and other super-Confederates.

 

The first coustumed adventurer as such was in fact not extranormal, but a man called SteepleJack Jones, who was first seen by the world in a photograph that caught him on top of the Spartican Cathedral in the New England town that would later become Sparks City. After the incredible buzz over the mysterious roof-hopping hero, other mysterious individuals put on masks and cloaks instead of the "superpatriots" of the past. Vigilantes like Lucifer Saint in Chicago, Twilight Rider in El Paso, and the Midnight Patriot in Boston began taking to the streets.

 

The world's archetypical modern superhero began with the Dynamerican, a science marvel made out of the Yale law school wimp, Andrew Philips, who later became the country's greatest hero during WWII. Philips had gained his incredible and ever-changing powers from being directly exposed to interdimensional energies when a invention by his good friend, Doc."Amazing", the Spectrum Array, when haywire and bombarded him with a 3 second flash of prismatic energies

 

HUAC resulted not in the registration of extranormals, but the setup of laws, comitees, and the mental health system against "masks", "capes", and crimefighters, siting them as mentally disturbed and dangerous influences on the American way.

 

The sixties restored much of the vigor in the supercommunity thanks to the media popularity of Britain's government supergroup, the Magistrate. Some of that spilled over to the United States were groups like the Legends and Team Victory were established (or in Team Victory's case, re-established) in Sparks City.

 

In the seventies the Paranormals and the Black Knights became parts of the counterculture, supporting mutants, aliens, godlings, and superhumans, and fighting crime on the streets.

 

The 80's were the time of the goverment's covert war against doppleganging Eronean aliens of the Rid Vore cult, fanatical and violent members of a normally peacefull culture.

 

The most tragic event in near modern history occured when the worldbeater supervillain group, the Sinisters, destroyed New York city, the most super-dense populated center on earth. Since then, many refugees and superhumans from NYC have come to Sparks city.

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Emerald is the elite american extranormal response and intelligence agency, usually referred to as Elite Agency. The agency has developed maximum security prisons and mental health facilities to house extranormals, uses normal and extranormal sleeper agents in super-heavy cities, and has conscripted criminal supergeniuses into developing technologies for the US government.

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The nine Sinisters:

DarkOwl

Green Mandragora

Puppeteer

Brainpower

Dr.Pain

Shatterpoint

Chronomorph

Miracle Master

Cyanide

 

The New Minutemen:

The Innovator

Conglomerate

The Joke

Speed

The Last Titan

Dilletante

The Psychologist

 

The Original Legends:

Dr.Amazing

Huntsman

Jinn

Suteki

Rockslide

 

The Black Knights:

Black Tabard

Black Blaze

Blackout

BlackLion

 

The Paranormals:

Prof.Para

Equalizer

Quixote

Enforcer

Pilot

Goblin

 

Team Victory/The Glory

 

The Emerald Gaurd and TALENTS

[SleepyDrug]

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Have you read Wild Cards?? It is a great reference for this type of thing.

[Crackerjacker]

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I have, in fact, read Wildcards no.1, and it is a good guide to supers throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

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The Emerald Gaurd is an experimental supergroup backed by the Elite Agency and part of the TALENTS program, a government operation to contract extranormals into federal service. The Emerald Apex headquarters is a pyramid like structure near the federal buildings of Sparks city.

 

Team Victory is the original and successfull superhero team of Sparks, dating back to the original TALENTS spawned group that fought in WWII. After the war, the team moved from different cities until they finally settled in this city, the hometown of key member the American Allstar.

 

The Glory is a recent split faction from the current Team Victory, as the conflicting interests of the Victory leader, a angry WWII veteran and the younger and popular powerhouse of the team disagreed over the way their supergroup should behave with officials, the police, and normal crime. While Team Victory is the group of goldenboys, old warhorses, the Glory is more often on the latebreaking news updates, and far more popular and new with the city's media.

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The Glory-

Flawless

Ace

Bulletproof

The Spark

Hazmat

 

Team Victory-

Campaigner

"Godhead"

Tempest

Drifter

The Hush

 

The Campaigner, defacto leader of Team Victory, and the second in command, Flawless, reached a point where theyre disagreements were too great after the NYC tragedy occured, so the younger paragon left and four others went with him. Campaigner is a battle-scarred and aged WWII veteran who gained superhuman strength and uncanny grit from the TALENTS extranormal, Phoenix, the only person or being ever to be known to have the power to turn normal people into extranormals. Instead of fighting in the special unit with TALENTS, he shipped off to Eastern Front and fought the German industriomancer "Wauppen d Gott" alongside beleaugered Russian metahumans. He dissapeared, cut off from the government, before 1950 and the McCarthy witchunts, and reappered making a name for himself (a different name, that is) in the 'Nam. Flawless is a parahuman paragon, a gengineered "perfect superman" constructed from synthesized biological materials by Dr.Simon Stand, a mad anarchist scientist. It was later found out, while the Team Victory of the seventies combatted Stand and his then mindless lackey Flawless, that Stand was none other than the Nazi supergenius Mastermind. The Campaigner personally ripped the calculating uber-Nazi apart with his hands, only for him to later reappear in the form of Dr.Utopia in Reagan's Minutemen, whom went mad trying to seize and destroy (probably the point before which Utopia/Mastermind would betray his psychotic anti-commie american teamates) all nuclear weapons in the world. Victory and other superteams from around the world worked together to defeat the mad global level rouge americans, and once again sending the disguised Mastermind into deep hiding. This incident however, brought Campaigner and the team back to the old Stand underground lab, where in 1991 the superhuman known as Flawless was "reborn", another gengineered being but this time with normal human intelligence unlike the original lackey. Through the decade Flawless quickly rose to second command in this, Spark city's greatest superteam, and in 2002, in the wake of the NYC tragedy and with a disagreement that resulted in four police officer's deaths at the hands of refugees from New York, the younger super left the team to form his own, more activist, supergroup. Along with Flawless came to the aerial battlesuit, Ace, Hazmat and the Spark, the two most "inhuman" of the original team, and Bulletproof, an ex-cop turned city defending vigilante who could of stayed but left for the chance of more freedom of action the Glory promised.

Staying in Team Victory with the Campaigner were, suprisingly, the often clashing with the old wardog, Godhead, the enigmatic whirlwind shaman, Tempest, the breath-stealing ghost, the Hush, and Drifter, the two gun kid.