Re: Tell me about your GLC
The universe that I run is one where Meta-Humans have just recently started to appear (in 2004). Our version of GL is a young man that came upon a metallic sphere which came down from the sky as part of a meteor shower over L.A. When he touched the sphere it liquified, flowed up his arm and faded into his skin. He quickly learned that it was a nanite based battlesuit designed for law enforcement. Now he fights crime as Sentinel and is a founder of our worlds first super team, The Guardians.
As for where the suit comes from (my version of the Corps) - The Confederation is a vast society of thousands of worlds that reaches across an entire galaxy far removed from our own. In the Confed there are select beings that are able to succesfully interface with the nano-tech battlesuits. These beings are Confederation Star Marshals and function as a special branch of Confed. Law Enforcement.
The suit that Sentinel wears was being transported to a prison world to be merged with one of the prisons guards. En Route the ship was attacked by Pirates that wanted to get their hands on the suit. The Pirates damaged the ship so badly that there was an overload in the Singularity drive, which tore a hole in space time. The exit point of this new, stable wormhole was near the Earth's moon. Most of the exiting debris sprayed across the surface of the moon, but some of it managed to pass by and get caught in a degrading Earth orbit. This is what eventually led to the meteor shower over LA (which also resulted in another PC and several Villians developing their powers, due to the radioactivity from the singularity drive.) After a few months, Sentinel detected signals coming from near the moon and upon investigating discovered the wormhole. The Guardians decided to access the info with Sentinels suit and discovered that it was infact the suit sending and receiving info. It had finally managed to reestablish communications with the Confed's Galactic Net. This got the attention of CLE, which sent another Star Marshal, Kalitan Drax, to investigate. Once he met the PC's he explained about the suit, the Confederation, the Star Marshals and what happened to the Prison ship. The PC's asked what was on the Prison ship, to which Drax responded "the greatest threat the Confederation has ever faced, an intelligent computer virus called Mechanon IV".
So there you have it...our universes version of GL, the GLC and a little Mechanon(my players often tell me that they will call in sick the day they have to fight Mechanon).
