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The truth can’t be silenced!
Welcome:
Since you’ve got the address of this site, there are three possibilities.
One, you are a hacker who was poking around and managed to find this place.
Two, you are with some kind of governmental organization, probably one that wants to shut us down.
Three, you where given this address by someone who knows about it and thinks you might need it.
If its number one, congratulations. Now get the hell out.
If its number two, congratulations to you too. And better people than you have tried to take out Delta Times and failed miserably. Take your best shot.
It its number three, hey you are the people we are actually here for. Come on in.
Anyhow i`m going to assume that you are a member of the third group of people, the one we are trying to reach. If that does not suit you, learn to live with it.
What we are about:
The Delta Times is an irregularly published webzine that sadly tries to take up the work the press has given up since all control went to the state, informing people what is realy going on in our brave new world.
Who we are:
Sorry kid that information is classified. We would love to set our names under our work but then we would have to worry about the feds or even Delta Prime to crash into our apartments in the middle of night and arrest us for believing in democracy…….. err being dangerous terrorist of course.
I am called Truth. Yeah as in me, Justice and the American Way. Around here, we think the American Way has taken a forced holiday, and he shanghaied Justice on his way out of town.
These days the only thing left is Truth and only if you know how to find it. (Here is a hint for you slow types:
www.deltatimes.com)
Who you are:
Well I honestly don’t know but I will assume you are either a mutant who tries to make some sense of his life or a neutral (read=normal human) who wants to do exactly the same. I am in a good mood today so I will give you both a hint, this site is for all of you and you could assume that means we do not have to be enemies. Of course people like Reaver and the Government want to make you believe different but you do not have to buy everything that’s told to you. That’s right this includes what I am writing here. All I am telling you is make your own picture. I myself am a mutant (or a delta if you prefer the fluff of the scientific types) and I am sick of seeing our democracy go the way of the dodo because we fear each other.
What a mutant is:
First of all, a mutant is a human just like everione else. The government doesnt want people to think of us as humans, according to them we are the "delta menace". After all its a lot easier to hate someone if you do not think he is a human.
There are many theories around to explain the phenomenon of mutants. Some say we are a freakish accident, others that we are the next step of evolution. All we need to know here is that first mutants are all those people who can do stuff like flying or shooting beams of energy and second that they wont just go away so we have to find a way to live with it.
A history lesson:
since i cant assume you learned anything even close to the truth in school i will begin right at the start of things. At the start we know that is, the appearance of the first known mutant. To cut a long story short it was during world war one that a young American soldier found out that the enemies bullets passed right through him if he wanted to. He kept it a secret for a while but eventually it became known and he was carried of home to be cheked over by the eggheads. They couldn`t really determine anything about him but it was one of them, i think a doctor named Theodore Weiss, who invented the term delta to describe him. I wont rant much about that delta is a greek later and means change, you can read that up somewhere else but ever since then people who want to sound more intelligent then they are have called us deltas. Then they found out about the genetic changes in mutants a while back they even called that the "delta factor". But im getting ahead of myself. Back to our soldier. The use of a man who could become insubstantial was incredible, especially since almost no one knew about his existence. In later years the man would be called the Silver Ghost and its estimated that his work cut the wars length by month. I guess that means that the first mutant was actually a hero but somehow no one seems to care anymore.
Those where better years though and soon after many more mutants appeared. Some where good, some bad and some just wanted to be left alone and in those days people tended to just judge them by their behaviour just like everyone else. In those more naive (and some might say much better) times the question was not if you have powers but how you use them. Nice thought isnt it? Much of that tolerance came from the heroes of then, for every mutant who wanted to use his powers to take it out on others there was another who tried to protect the people around him because he thought his powers brought responsibilites. As i said those where more naive times. This was all a but of a merry game as people cheered to mutants in bright costumes stopping bankrobbers and other evildoers. Then World War Two started and the fun ended. After the attack of the Japanese airforce on pearl harbour America was thrown right into the next war. And of course the heroes couldn`t let their people down. Then the army landed to push back the Germans it was accompanied by the newly founded "Delta Squadron". Of course the Nazis had mutants of their own and since they pushed everything their country had into the war effort they had located and recruited a damn lot of them. So while soldiers and tanks thought on the ground Mutants soared over them and battled with them. And there Deltas clashed the heavens shook with their fury.
alpha genesis:
The war was the end of the naive age as it was finally seen how devastating and bloody the powers of mutants can be.
Among the heroes who had volunteered for Delta Squadron was a man known as the Yankee. He had been successful crimefighter before the war and he had actually managed not to break the law a single time while at it. His rolemodel had inspired many other mutants back then. But even though he was certainly someone who deserved to be called a hero he is not the important part for history. No that would be his sidekick, Sparky.
The Nazis had created a special concentration camp for captured mutants and both the Yankee and Sparky eventually ended up there. True to his spirit the Yankee started a rebellion but in the end he lost. He and the few other mutants and dozens of neutral soldiers he had let where killed. Among the corpses was Sparky. The massacre on the rebels was the last act of the guards then the man who had once been Sparky slowly rose again. The Yankees sidekick had died by his side but in his place Superior was born. He singlehandedly killed every guard in the camp and freed all the prisoners of war. The Germans own deltas arrived shortly after it, thinking this was just another revolt to be put down. Then they saw Sparky they laughed and promised him a quick death. They didn’t laugh anymore then he vapourized their leader with laserbeams from his eyes. Then he rushed forward and a few seconds later the mutants where dead. Some where simply crushed by his strikes, others killed by his energy beams and a few met their end by more creative means. After seeing to the safety of the prisoner Superior didn’t waste any time and flew straight to Berlin. There he blasted the bunker of the whole Nazy leadership to bits and ended the war in a síngle day.
He was clearly more than every mutant before him and as the press searched for a word to call the new hero they created the term "Alpha", i guess they thought it made him sound like more important than "Delta".
Superior was the first Alpha but certainly not the last. It turned out that some Mutants changed then they nearly died, their genes adapting and giving them an incredible powersurge. Theoretically any delta could learn to wield the same powers over time but those changes went of in moments and no mutant has grown to the levels of power that the Alphas showed.
the Superior age:
The time after WW2 was one of most peacefull the world had ever experinced. That was mostly for the simple reason that Superior threatened that he would personaly kill anione who started a war and so made himself guilty of all the victims of the conflict. You may think of the man whatever you like (personally i prefer facist pig) but he realy safed a lot of people with that. More alphas appeared all over the world but none of them could rival Superiors strength. Combined the Russians newly founded Crimson Pride could have given him a run for his money but Delta Squadron got its own alphas to back him up.
the great tragedy:
You might very well say the the crap hit the fan on November 22,1963. The Devestator and the latest incarnation of his dreadnaughts killed President Kennedy, the First Lady and the governor of Texas while they where in Dallas. Superior was there in moment and tore through the Dreadnoughts like a whirlwind but he already was too late to prevent the tragedy. People where scarred, they had seen what the Mutants are capable of during the war and with the new alphas it was even worse. To top it all, one of them had just killed the president. Superior was loved but he had proven that he cant be everiwhere at once. People panicked, the government panicked . The next day a state of emergency was declared over the whole country.
the delta registration act:
Right after that first act a new law was passed. Basically it demanded that everione with superpowers of any kind must register with the federal government so that his or her movements can be traced all the times. You don`t need the ACLU to tell you that this is a blatant violation of the Bill of Rights, but then people are scarred they do strange things and dear God where they scarred. As you might have noticed we didnt have elections for 40 years now, thats because the state of emergency was never called back. Over time the goverment got used to its power and the people controlling it now are not realy the ones anione would have elected. Over the time the registration act has been worked over man times, allways making it worse. By now, if you register the governement can recruit you anitime and anithere. Of course, with the state of emergency still active the press is also controlled by the feds so they do their best to keep people scarred of mutants, it makes controlling the masses so much easier. They say power corrupts and obviously forty years of power corrupt a lot. Superior was the first one to sign the new registration formular and you can see the adverts with his face on it to this day " register now! its the law!". I like to think that he tried to do the best for his country and realy believed it was a short term solution but somehow i cant.
the witch hunt begins:
Then you declare having superpowers as a crime only criminals will have superpowers right? That is exactly what happened, so after the dela registration act every mutant had the choice between either keeping his powers a secret or letting the whole world know who he is. Since a registered mutant has that noted in his passport and has to chek in with the local police at least once per week a normal life becomes almost impossible. Not to mention that the feds might decide they need your talents and haul you of into the military or to Delta Prime. Of course a lot of mutants refused to register and for that reason two organizations where created to control the mutant population (nice word considering there are so few of us). The first was MC Section. Despite their funky name these people are not fun, MC stands for Mutant Control, they where formed as a subsection of the FBI and got the best in new technology to do their work. The second is even worse, almost no one in the world has not heard of Delta Prime. Many mutants did register because they realy believed it is neccesary for the safety of the people. Some of them where recruited for the governments own elite team of mutants: Delta Prime. Most of the recruits signed right over from Delta Squadron and Superior was asked to lead the new force. Of course he agreed, many think it was his idea in the first place. Then things get too hot for the normal agencies to handle, MC section or Delta Prime are called in. Today with means that most of the time they beat the crap out of some scarred teenager who hasnt figured out what he has become yet.
the vanishing:
It was July 4, 1976. The Devastator and his newest superadvanced dreadnoughts made their last stand atop of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicaco. He just happened to stand on top of some kind of doomsday bomb and threatened to set it of if the US did not surrender to him once and for all. Now as bad as the government is, those mutants with world domination fantasies are even worse and for once Delta Prime tried to do something good. They sent their most elite member on their way to Chicaco to stop the madman and they took the fight to the dreadnaughts. While they held of the Devastators troops Superior tried to stop the mad Alpha himself. You might say that he recklessly risked the life of a whole city and your sure right but he really thought he can make it. Then superior flew it wasn’t only windows that shattered around him, whole skyscrapper crumbled in his wake. But as we all know he didn’t make it. The Devastator had erected a forcefield that managed to hold Superior of for a few seconds. You dont need much time to press a button and so Chicaco vanished in a flash of white light. There was nothing left but a big crater, not ruins, no smoke and certainly no survivors.
At the exact moment of the destruction of Chicaco every Alpha in the world vanished. Some of the missing Alphas where noticed right away, especially those who had company at the time. It took some time to realize that all the others had vanished too. Eventually the world put it all together and the shok rang across the globe like an earthquake. No one can say for sure how a bomb set of in Chicaco could affect the Alphas all over the world but it did.
Most people didn’t know how to react, on one hand they finally got rid of those all those dangerous Alphas. On the other hand all the "good" Alphas where gone too, Superior-the mightiest of them all-among them.
The worst part was that only the free Alphas disappeared. Those in the maximum security-mutant only-prisons stayed. It seems the power dampening field protected them from the effect of the bomb. Now as many innocent mutants are in the prisons, those Alpha mostly deserved to be there. There where simply to few of them and they where too powerful to capture them for just being mutants so you can assume that these ones realy are the black hats. Thankfully most of them died on old age by now, but a handful is still there.
There haven’t been any new Alphas since the vanishing either, mutants still get into the same near death situations as they did back then but their are no more spontanious powersurges. So if your a mutant and it looks like the end is here, well, it probably is. Life’s hard like that.
Today:
Without Superiors calming (read: oppresive) influence, all hell broke loose. It seems people felt like they had to catch up for all the time the thy couldnt wage wars. Even worse, without the governments alphas some mutant groups have started campaigns of terror. I guess they thought then neutrals declare us our enemies they might as well fight back. Here are some news for you: thats crap. Of course its right to defent yourself or take on a government that hunts you but that doesnt mean that normal people are your enemy too. If we want to be free again we will only make it together.
A challenge:
Whoever might read this-wether you are a mutant on the run or a Primer or even just the average Jane or Joe-I`ve got a challenge for you.
Look around you and see what our world has become. Watch how people can be ripped from their beds in the middle of night. How they can be thrown into jail without any recourse. How 16 year old kids are affraid to go to school for fear of being discovered and taken away. How we all live in terror.
There are good reasons to be affraid. This is a dangerous world we live in, after all. But the fact is that the worst crimes are the one`s we have commited to ourselves.
We let the government take charge over our lives. We were scared, and we gave over our power to a small group of people who wield it like a club. We where affrait that things got out of control, so we surrendered control to a "higher power", the people who now claim to be our government. Now things truly are out of control.
Let me say this again, we did this to ourself and we did it willingly.
But it is not too late.
I have watched this long enough and grown bitter with the years. I have ranted along all day but now its time to change something. Have you noticed that the majority of people is not even represented in all the conflicts that go on? If you are with the government you have a place, if you are a terrorist you can go to people like the Killer Angels, if you are greedy enough to sell your soul you can join up with E.Unlimited but if you just want peace back your alone. Its time change that. I refuse to accept that these are all the choices the next generation will have. I refuse to accept that this will be what we leave for our kids. I will change that. It is time that reason finaly raises its voice again and i will find a place to start with that. What can one person change? Well somone has to start and guess what i am not alone. You are there too and maybe you will help me. Together we can change the world, turn this all around and get our freedom and peace back. We just have to want it bad enough and show people like Reaver or Charge that we can stand up for ourself. If you want liberty so bad you can taste it, then step up and take charge of your streets, take charge of your community. Take charge of your life.
This is it i think no one can take more of my speeches so i will start working now. Good luck whatever you will do.
Truth.
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