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[OOC] Superdemic World Information
Year: 2014
Default Location: New York City, New York
Set Up:
There had been the random superhuman before. A circus performer in the 1880s with the power to spit balls of fire just by opening his mouth. A Native medicine woman in 1758 who had been burned for witchcraft after she healed a man who had fallen from a roof just by placing her hands on him. An athlete banned from the Olympics in 1952 when the judges measured his reflexes and agility at ten times that of his competitors after he beat the record on the high jump by over double the set height. There were records dating back centuries, millennia. From the Americas to the plains of Africa and the mountains of Europe and even to the Far East. But they were rare anomalies, flukes, unexplained genetics that brought out extraordinary abilities no one could explain.
That is only what the public was led to believe. There had been more. Always more. Never too many, never enough that the governments of the world would feel too endangered--incapable of fighting them if they had to. But always more. And if there were more they were aware of, there were even more still unaccounted for.
That is, until the twenty-odd years ago. Suddenly more and more of these "superhumans" were being seen by the public. Most were young adults and teenagers, but several into their 40s and 50s. It was shocking, terrifying, a warning. The more governments tried to hide them the more of them that were discovered. Within five years it was undeniable. Once a big news station had gotten a story they wouldn't let go, everyone had been told of the pandemic of humans with unnatural looks and superhuman abilities. The internet had long since taken the idea and run with it, but as often is the case with Net, it wasn't taken seriously without proof. But now that the "Superdemic" was out in the open, it could never be hidden again. Governments had to cover their bases, manage the information as they could.
The United States took the stance that Superhumans were nothing more than "humans with above average skills and abilities that are no different from anyone else unless [they] chose to unfairly set them apart." There was great support from the liberals and not as much from the conservatives. But what most did not know what that the public stance was just that: for the public. The government wasn't going to leave the country open to the potential threat of even one Renegade Superhuman who chose to go on a rampage on American soil.
And so the government's own Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements (D.E.L.T.A.) was created. To the public it was a research organization dedicated to learning as much as they could about superhuman abilities and physiology to better help these "Supers" in controlling their abilities and living peaceful, non-dangerous lives within American society. But they also employ superhumans on covert teams to track, hunt down, and monitor potentially dangerous Supers that have could pose a threat to peace or have already done so (as part of the Superhuman Supervision Subdivision).
It is estimated now since the “Superdemic” with more and more Supers declaring themselves that there are over 2 million Superhumans worldwide, with a majority of them under the age of 50. They are still a small number in comparison to the rest of the population (almost 3% of the world population as a whole, with the US demographic being only 1% of the country’s full population), but it’s not unusual for the average American to have a Super neighbor or for their children to go to school with young Supers or the children of Supers.
The nonprofit, private Medical and Research Knowledge on Super Abilities Organization, shortened by many to M.A.R.K.O., was created by Jackson Young, one of the wealthiest men in the country. It is proposed as an "impartial" medical organization meant to assist Supers rather than being forced to register themselves with the government. A confidentiality agree has been mandated and anyone who goes to MARKO for assistance will never be revealed to the government. Truthfully it was an organization designed to research ways to nullify, contain, and if necessary eliminate any Superhuman threat by using Supers themselves to progress their research. The true intentions of Young's goals for MARKO has never been discovered, but popular opinion is currently in favor of MARKO and Young's public stance that superhumans are suffering from a genetic defect that should be researched and to prevent from occuring in future generations.
The public attitude is varied, yet overall it could be called wary, although not outright hateful or condemning. Due to the government’s repeated steps to keep the public appraised of their efforts to monitor and ensure Supers do not bring a threat to the average person, the public in the United States are more watchful than fearful. They accept that Supers exist and that for right now they are one with the populace, but popular opinion supports them being registered with DELTA and the research done by MARKO that is claimed to be working towards a “cure.” There are groups that take a more radical stance, both in favor of and against mutants, but the general public tends to fall more in the middle. When Supers first started to be exposed, the public opinion was a lot more negative than it is now, but the past twenty years have been spent trying to curb the negative opinions while also encouraging the general public to “report” anyone they think may be an unregistered Super.
The public opinions and treatment of Supers around the world is not the same as it is in the United States (although some claim Canada is more openly accepting).
Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements:
To the people of the United States, D.E.L.T.A. looks like a simple department meant to help learn as much as they can about Superhumans and creating ways to successfully integrate them into society. Not everyone approves of this, but the United States' official position that Supers are still citizens of the nation, too, has not changed. The existence of DELTA publically has led to the less outright hate and attacks on Supers in the country, but the people are not aware that D.E.L.T.A. also deals with most Superhuman threats that occur by training and deploying teams of Supers to contain other Superhumans and return them to the DELTA for containment.
DELTA has regional offices across the country with one primary office in each state, and a public HQ in New York City, but the actual base is closer to the Canadian border. They also have twenty-four Squads (codenamed by the Greek Alphabet) with various functions they can deploy as needed. 9 of those Squads are offensive, combat-trained Squads to contain Superhuman threats that are deployed not only in the States, but also on "request" to other parts of the world. 7 of those Squads are composed for research and analysis. 5 of them are designed for Superhuman location and extraction. The Theta Squad is the "public" squad, purposefully designed as the "Face of DELTA" for the public to ease their concerns and reservations about Supers co-existing with humans in society. The last 2 are currently so classified that only those at the top of D.E.L.T.A. know what they do (or who the members of each Squad are).
Because of excess funding and the abilities of the Supers working for DELTA, the organization has some of the most advanced technology on the planet, including Transjets that fly at up to Mach 8 speed while being completely silent, communicators smaller than the average blue tooth with range across almost the entire planet and up to 40 feet underground.
Registering with D.E.L.T.A is voluntary for any Super, save those who have been arrested for posing a threat to the public. If you have enlisted with DELTA you are officially working for a government organization and thus will be put under the stricter rules for government secrecy and safety. Anyone under the legal age of 18 will be required to undergo intense training if necessary and continue to attend courses to obtain a high school diploma equivalent education at the minimum. If these underage operatives remain in their regional areas instead of the primary HQ they will be sent to DELTA-approved schools. Those whose powers may pose a stronger threat without proper training are more likely to be kept to the primary Headquarters and receive schooling there.
Medical and Research Knowledge on Super Abilities Organization and Jackson Young
Jackson Young
Jackson Young has no powers, but is a veritable genuis in the fields of physics, chemistry, and technical engineering. He built an aeronautics company (AeroYoung International) from the ground up, going against the wishes of his father, Former Secretary of Defense, General Marvin Young, who wanted him to go into the military. Despite his friendly, charismatic, and disarming demeanor, he is a shrewd and often ruthless business man. In 18 years since he first began AeroYoung, he has managed to create it into multibillion dollar conglomorate that has a hand in dozens of different forms of technical, medical, and defense engineering. If has something to do with technology, there is likely an AeroYoung subsidiary involved in it or as the leading competitor.
His current "public" stance on superhumans is that they are people afflicted with an often unfortunate genetic deformity that causes them problems in their everyday lives and puts them at an unwilling risk to their friends, family, and communities. He founded M.A.R.K.O for the purpose of "finding a cure" for this condition and does not hide the fact that his organization does indeed employ superhumans to assist in finding this cure.
In truth, Young hates superhumans and sees them as the coming wave of a species sent to wipe normal humans out. He refuses to allow this to happen. To him, humans must remain the top of the food chain, and to ensure this, they must weed out all species and potential threats to human sovereignty of the world. Young's search for a "cure" is actually using superhumans and what great minds he can hire to find a means in which to remove the superhuman gene altogether or supress it so that superhumans will no longer be born. To do this, M.A.R.K.O. publically accepted volunteers, but also secretly abducts superhumans from around the world to be experimented on at regional locations.
M.A.R.K.O.
The public opinion of MARKO is better than it's government-run counterpart. To the point that superhumans who do not want their powers or connect with the public "mission" see MARKO as a viable option. They will volunteer for testing or to work in helping to find this "cure." They are the front for the public. The clean image of superhumans working to help superhumans and to protect the public by finding a cure for the Superdemic. There is an entire department just for MARKO's Superhuman/Human Relations PR.
Not all superhumans sign on with MARKO for this reason. For those who know the true purpose behind the organization, they can join it just for the hell of it, or for the money, or because they has a desire for the knowledge that MARKO gives the access to. Not everyone is doing it for pure reasons and those who do as not given nearly as much clearance or indepth knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes. It is unlikely that most Superhumans involved know of Young's desire to rid the world of all superhumans. Only those who truly believe in that cause would be privy to it. There is a hidden subsidiary of MARKO know as Metronome. Secret Operative teams called "Black Masks" are trained by this team and they are sent out with to do the dirty work that they do not want getting back to MARKO, and especially not back to Jackson Young himself. They kidnap unregistered Supers to use for experimentation and genetic profiling.
Superhuman Rankings:
Default Location: New York City, New York
Set Up:
There had been the random superhuman before. A circus performer in the 1880s with the power to spit balls of fire just by opening his mouth. A Native medicine woman in 1758 who had been burned for witchcraft after she healed a man who had fallen from a roof just by placing her hands on him. An athlete banned from the Olympics in 1952 when the judges measured his reflexes and agility at ten times that of his competitors after he beat the record on the high jump by over double the set height. There were records dating back centuries, millennia. From the Americas to the plains of Africa and the mountains of Europe and even to the Far East. But they were rare anomalies, flukes, unexplained genetics that brought out extraordinary abilities no one could explain.
That is only what the public was led to believe. There had been more. Always more. Never too many, never enough that the governments of the world would feel too endangered--incapable of fighting them if they had to. But always more. And if there were more they were aware of, there were even more still unaccounted for.
That is, until the twenty-odd years ago. Suddenly more and more of these "superhumans" were being seen by the public. Most were young adults and teenagers, but several into their 40s and 50s. It was shocking, terrifying, a warning. The more governments tried to hide them the more of them that were discovered. Within five years it was undeniable. Once a big news station had gotten a story they wouldn't let go, everyone had been told of the pandemic of humans with unnatural looks and superhuman abilities. The internet had long since taken the idea and run with it, but as often is the case with Net, it wasn't taken seriously without proof. But now that the "Superdemic" was out in the open, it could never be hidden again. Governments had to cover their bases, manage the information as they could.
The United States took the stance that Superhumans were nothing more than "humans with above average skills and abilities that are no different from anyone else unless [they] chose to unfairly set them apart." There was great support from the liberals and not as much from the conservatives. But what most did not know what that the public stance was just that: for the public. The government wasn't going to leave the country open to the potential threat of even one Renegade Superhuman who chose to go on a rampage on American soil.
And so the government's own Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements (D.E.L.T.A.) was created. To the public it was a research organization dedicated to learning as much as they could about superhuman abilities and physiology to better help these "Supers" in controlling their abilities and living peaceful, non-dangerous lives within American society. But they also employ superhumans on covert teams to track, hunt down, and monitor potentially dangerous Supers that have could pose a threat to peace or have already done so (as part of the Superhuman Supervision Subdivision).
It is estimated now since the “Superdemic” with more and more Supers declaring themselves that there are over 2 million Superhumans worldwide, with a majority of them under the age of 50. They are still a small number in comparison to the rest of the population (almost 3% of the world population as a whole, with the US demographic being only 1% of the country’s full population), but it’s not unusual for the average American to have a Super neighbor or for their children to go to school with young Supers or the children of Supers.
The nonprofit, private Medical and Research Knowledge on Super Abilities Organization, shortened by many to M.A.R.K.O., was created by Jackson Young, one of the wealthiest men in the country. It is proposed as an "impartial" medical organization meant to assist Supers rather than being forced to register themselves with the government. A confidentiality agree has been mandated and anyone who goes to MARKO for assistance will never be revealed to the government. Truthfully it was an organization designed to research ways to nullify, contain, and if necessary eliminate any Superhuman threat by using Supers themselves to progress their research. The true intentions of Young's goals for MARKO has never been discovered, but popular opinion is currently in favor of MARKO and Young's public stance that superhumans are suffering from a genetic defect that should be researched and to prevent from occuring in future generations.
The public attitude is varied, yet overall it could be called wary, although not outright hateful or condemning. Due to the government’s repeated steps to keep the public appraised of their efforts to monitor and ensure Supers do not bring a threat to the average person, the public in the United States are more watchful than fearful. They accept that Supers exist and that for right now they are one with the populace, but popular opinion supports them being registered with DELTA and the research done by MARKO that is claimed to be working towards a “cure.” There are groups that take a more radical stance, both in favor of and against mutants, but the general public tends to fall more in the middle. When Supers first started to be exposed, the public opinion was a lot more negative than it is now, but the past twenty years have been spent trying to curb the negative opinions while also encouraging the general public to “report” anyone they think may be an unregistered Super.
The public opinions and treatment of Supers around the world is not the same as it is in the United States (although some claim Canada is more openly accepting).
Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements:
To the people of the United States, D.E.L.T.A. looks like a simple department meant to help learn as much as they can about Superhumans and creating ways to successfully integrate them into society. Not everyone approves of this, but the United States' official position that Supers are still citizens of the nation, too, has not changed. The existence of DELTA publically has led to the less outright hate and attacks on Supers in the country, but the people are not aware that D.E.L.T.A. also deals with most Superhuman threats that occur by training and deploying teams of Supers to contain other Superhumans and return them to the DELTA for containment.
DELTA has regional offices across the country with one primary office in each state, and a public HQ in New York City, but the actual base is closer to the Canadian border. They also have twenty-four Squads (codenamed by the Greek Alphabet) with various functions they can deploy as needed. 9 of those Squads are offensive, combat-trained Squads to contain Superhuman threats that are deployed not only in the States, but also on "request" to other parts of the world. 7 of those Squads are composed for research and analysis. 5 of them are designed for Superhuman location and extraction. The Theta Squad is the "public" squad, purposefully designed as the "Face of DELTA" for the public to ease their concerns and reservations about Supers co-existing with humans in society. The last 2 are currently so classified that only those at the top of D.E.L.T.A. know what they do (or who the members of each Squad are).
Because of excess funding and the abilities of the Supers working for DELTA, the organization has some of the most advanced technology on the planet, including Transjets that fly at up to Mach 8 speed while being completely silent, communicators smaller than the average blue tooth with range across almost the entire planet and up to 40 feet underground.
Registering with D.E.L.T.A is voluntary for any Super, save those who have been arrested for posing a threat to the public. If you have enlisted with DELTA you are officially working for a government organization and thus will be put under the stricter rules for government secrecy and safety. Anyone under the legal age of 18 will be required to undergo intense training if necessary and continue to attend courses to obtain a high school diploma equivalent education at the minimum. If these underage operatives remain in their regional areas instead of the primary HQ they will be sent to DELTA-approved schools. Those whose powers may pose a stronger threat without proper training are more likely to be kept to the primary Headquarters and receive schooling there.
Medical and Research Knowledge on Super Abilities Organization and Jackson Young
Jackson Young
Jackson Young has no powers, but is a veritable genuis in the fields of physics, chemistry, and technical engineering. He built an aeronautics company (AeroYoung International) from the ground up, going against the wishes of his father, Former Secretary of Defense, General Marvin Young, who wanted him to go into the military. Despite his friendly, charismatic, and disarming demeanor, he is a shrewd and often ruthless business man. In 18 years since he first began AeroYoung, he has managed to create it into multibillion dollar conglomorate that has a hand in dozens of different forms of technical, medical, and defense engineering. If has something to do with technology, there is likely an AeroYoung subsidiary involved in it or as the leading competitor.
His current "public" stance on superhumans is that they are people afflicted with an often unfortunate genetic deformity that causes them problems in their everyday lives and puts them at an unwilling risk to their friends, family, and communities. He founded M.A.R.K.O for the purpose of "finding a cure" for this condition and does not hide the fact that his organization does indeed employ superhumans to assist in finding this cure.
In truth, Young hates superhumans and sees them as the coming wave of a species sent to wipe normal humans out. He refuses to allow this to happen. To him, humans must remain the top of the food chain, and to ensure this, they must weed out all species and potential threats to human sovereignty of the world. Young's search for a "cure" is actually using superhumans and what great minds he can hire to find a means in which to remove the superhuman gene altogether or supress it so that superhumans will no longer be born. To do this, M.A.R.K.O. publically accepted volunteers, but also secretly abducts superhumans from around the world to be experimented on at regional locations.
M.A.R.K.O.
The public opinion of MARKO is better than it's government-run counterpart. To the point that superhumans who do not want their powers or connect with the public "mission" see MARKO as a viable option. They will volunteer for testing or to work in helping to find this "cure." They are the front for the public. The clean image of superhumans working to help superhumans and to protect the public by finding a cure for the Superdemic. There is an entire department just for MARKO's Superhuman/Human Relations PR.
Not all superhumans sign on with MARKO for this reason. For those who know the true purpose behind the organization, they can join it just for the hell of it, or for the money, or because they has a desire for the knowledge that MARKO gives the access to. Not everyone is doing it for pure reasons and those who do as not given nearly as much clearance or indepth knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes. It is unlikely that most Superhumans involved know of Young's desire to rid the world of all superhumans. Only those who truly believe in that cause would be privy to it. There is a hidden subsidiary of MARKO know as Metronome. Secret Operative teams called "Black Masks" are trained by this team and they are sent out with to do the dirty work that they do not want getting back to MARKO, and especially not back to Jackson Young himself. They kidnap unregistered Supers to use for experimentation and genetic profiling.
Superhuman Rankings:
- Level E: Person who is the child or descendant of a superhuman, but has currently shown no abilities or mutations.
- Level D: Superhuman with physical mutatations or abilities that are primarily harmless and inconsequential to living with society; no destructive abilities (easy to hide). Example: Someone with enganced hearing or vision could be designated a Level D.
- Level C: Superhuman with physical mutations or enhanced abilities, but are not inherently threatening and are easy for the superhuman to control. Physical mutations are obvious enough to hinder living normally within society. Example: Someone with wings or the abilities similar to animals (such as having senses and reflexes similar to a cat).
- Level B: Superhuman with powerful abilities that pose a direct threat to others, are uncontrollable, or show the potential for developing multiple mutations/abilities. Examples: Telepaths, Super Strength, Empathy, Energy Manipulation, Super Speed, etc.
- Level A: Superhumans with powerful, threatening abilities that are perfectly under their own control (can be turned off and on at their will) and can be used it a variety of ways. Examples: Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, Gravitational Manipulation, etc.