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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiant" data-source="post: 1202995" data-attributes="member: 12018"><a href="http://www.deltatimes.com" target="_blank">www.deltatimes.com</a>The truth can’t be silenced!-Europe:Europe is just as fractious now as it has been since World War 2. These days, the conflicts are rarely between countries. Instead most of the problems come from within. In the last few years the whole thing has grown together into the European Community but most countries are so busy with themselves that they rarely get to decide anything. It is amazing they even managed to decide on a common currency but even that was not accepted by some major players like Britain.France:The French have the most laissez-faire attitude about deltas in all of Europe. They pretty much treat them all the same: They don’t like any of them and they wish they’d go away. It’s not that the French actively persecute deltas. They leave that to their government. They just seem to resent them on a personal level. They seem to find people flying around in the air or bouncing of the sides of buildings gauche.There are is only one restriction law against deltas in France. It is pretty long but basically it says “don’t ever use your powers”. If your genes carry the delta factor there you can live on normally but if you ever use your powers you get locked away for life, that’s it. There are no exceptions, even if you do it to safe someone’s life or such. There also is only a single agency responsible for handling these problems. It’s simply called “Noir” and they show up then ever a mutant broke the law and take him away. They always show up with big white really high tech looking trucks and wear completely sealed of suits that make them look like they played in “Outbreak”. If you broke the law-remember it? After all it’s only one-they come and take you away. No one knows there and no one they took ever showed up again. Creeps me out.Germany:Germany was pretty much shattered at the end of WW2. The entire country ended up under allied control after the was, much to the soviets dismay. At the end they didn’t have any Alphas around to argue with Superior, so they just let the argument go. In later years they’d come to regret having given up any claim to the industrial giant, but there really wasn’t much they could do about it. Now the country is close to being the small clone of the US. Whatever we did here the Germans followed a few years later. Unfortunately that also means that they are now ruled by a military government and have a law very similar to the delta registration act. They even have their own small version of Delta Prime, the KDK-Kommado Delta Kräfte- and the primers sometimes even send over teachers. For most Germany is just the arm of the US in Europe and that isn’t far from the truth.Great Britain:Britain has it’s own watered down version of the delta registration act but at least it’s not as bad. You still have to register and if you don’t they lock you away but if you do nothing really happens. You loose some of your right and can be sure that you will be questioned for every petty crime that happens in your neighbourhood but they don’t draft you in the military without even asking. The really bad thing is that everyone will know that you are a delta, it even says so in your passport. They have the rapid response teams of the boobies to take care of any delta problems and these actions are famous for their lack of blood. Unlike most other forces with the same job the rapid response team prefer to catch their targets alive. Britain’s deltas mostly thanked that with not trying to kill them either. Of course there are casualties but they are a lot lower than in other places. Also if they catch you, you get one last chance to avoid going to prison. You can join the delta knights. This group consists only of conscripts who haven’t registered and are used as a special forces for the most dangerous tasks. They are much like Delta Prime but unlike them they are not picked only from the best and trained to perfection. On the other hand they are all there on free will so who can say what is better. Casualties are high among them but if you serve for five years you can retire. You get registered and can live on with your life or take a job with the police or the military.Ireland:Ireland is a lot like Britain with the exceptions that their police action a bit more bloody and that that the place is crawling with heavily armed factions. These people don’t have much to do with deltas as such but sometimes you here really bad news about them getting involved in the conflict. The worst part to date was when a rather explosive alpha Catholic was attacked by some loyalist thugs and decided he had enough. The guy had the power to blow up parts of his body and later regenerate them (at least I guess so, alphas where not know for having drawback with their powers). No one knows why but he must have been so angry he decided enough was enough and just blew himself up. Completely. Most of the downtown of Derry was levelled by the blast. Thousands where dead in an instant. At least he did not have much control over the explosion-I guess because he was dead- and it went mostly skyward, otherwise the whole city might have been destroyed. You’d think that kind of disaster would give people pause to think, but in fact it just made things worse as blame for the incident was tossed around faster than bullets. In retaliation for the “terrorist act”, the Irish Parliament was blown up three month later with a good old bomb. It’s gotten worse since.Italy:Italy was on the loosing end of WW”, and it’s been paying ever since, Still the military leaders seem to have a soft spot in their heart for it. You rarely hear of efforts to destabilize the government. In fact the Italian government is one of the most stable in Europe or even the world. (Besides the US of course, you can’t get it much more stable than 40 years without a change in the ruling regime, except for deaths of old age.) That’s likely because it is reputedly the most corrupt. The Cosa Nostra has its hand in just about everything that goes on in Italy, and that alone keeps things running smoothly. It reminds me a bit of old Chicago that way.The only exception is the Vatican, The pope and his cadre of delta powered Catholics known as the Covenant see themselves as above petty politics, even in Italy.Since the pope declared delta powers a gift from god that must be used for the good of mankind you can be pretty safe as long as you work in some official capacity or for the church. But if you don’t there is nothing to prevent the usual anti-mutant history from catching up with you.Spain:Spain has been rocked by a civil war that’s been going on for decades. The bright side is that there are no laws against mutants there but on the other hand they get caught up in the same trouble as everyone else. The mood in the populace is not too favourable for them but it could be worse. The Basque separatists  in the northern part of the country have never stopped their terrorist actions. That has not made it into the news for most of the time since they did not have that much power but recently they managed to recruit a few local mutants. One or more of those must have been members of the Killer Angels, because nearly a year ago they started to blow up Spanish officials. In exchange for the help the Basques promised that an independent Basque state would accord every delta the rights of a full citizen and take them in regardless of their criminal record in other countries. Believe it if you like.</blockquote>

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