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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sen Udo-Mal" data-source="post: 797873" data-attributes="member: 1750">History of the World?!A brief history of the world as you know it is that it¡K the year is 2043, the city is Freedom City. With a population estimated at 16 million, the city has grown very quickly and it is feeling those growing pains¡K bad traffic, gangs, huge corporations, huge skyscraper apartments and office buildings spreading everywhere, violence, greed, corruption, poor social services, high unemployment, low-paid public employees (including police), Federal enforcement and infringement into "individual privacy" etc. The current Mayor, Randall Cross, has promised "new jobs, new hope, a brighter future" for the city and promised to clean up crime. With federal backing by the DCC (Department of Civil Control), the mayor promises to control crime and gangs that all but rule the city streets here, thus jobs will return to the city (actually most jobs are in the higher-tech professional area and there is still a strong market in this area; most unemployed are low-skilled, lower-income people who moved here within the last 10 years drawn by the apparent strong economy when compared to the rest of the nation).   Most of the worlds Superheroes disappeared, died or have gone into hiding for the last 20 years. Why? 20 years ago, during the "L.A. Disaster", Atomic Brain destroyed the city with a mega-bomb after his demands to be given control of the state of California were rejected by the US government. Most of the worlds heroes (and a fair number of villains) where in or around L.A. at the time either working against or for Atomic Brain (it appears that those villains working for him did not know that he actually had a bomb!). 10 million people died and most of the heroes of the world disappeared in the fiery flash. Most people and governments turned against the heroes then, accusing them of failure and bringing the disaster onto the innocent. Repressive registration laws and agencies were created and those heroes and most villains still alive faded away (retiring or disappearing all together). Today the US government still maintains a federally sectioned super-team known as "Section One" in Washington D.C. (top job is protection of politicians and their families, etc. as a branch of the Secret Service) but they don¡'t actively suppress or promote any other supers. Most of the laws that where enacted after the L.A. Disaster where declared unconstitutional but the damage had been done, the older heroes didn¡'t reappear, the villains hung up their costumes and pursued their master plans in some civilian ID. The L.A. basin is an uninhibited ruin (at least that is what the news tells everyone; there are those who say that horrible monsters and mutants live there and occasionally venture out into the world to wreak havoc on the surrounding area), and much of California suffers from the environmental impact caused by the event; most people have moved away. Political bonders around the world have been redrawn as new dynasties raise and old ones fall. Freedom City has no "Freedom Force" or any public known members of the Atomic Family; in fact no know costumed heroes have operated in the city for a long time. The only publicly know groups that seem to embrace the "costume gene" are a couple of trill-kill gangs in Freedom City, like the "Hyena Dog Soldiers" (lots of "splicers" or gene-splicers, in this group, lead by a heavily modified cyber-splicer who calls himself Hyena), the "Gepetto Fun Boys" (dress up like mimes and crazy clowns, and are into 'boost' drugs), and War Mongers (heavy into cyber-modification, this biker gang is lead by Mars, a crazy cyber freak whom is more machine then man. They tend to dress in neo Greek Centurion ballistic armor and ride around on their bikes raising hell). In the news of late ¡V earthquakes have been hitting the lower parts of California and New Mexico. Nothing to major, but they seem to be increasing in strength and frequency. Scientists call it a natural "re-settling" of the major faults in that area. The weather has been acting funny all summer; July snow storms in Kansas, Tornados in Idaho, to much rain in Arizonian, etc. Man and women in dark costumes have been seen late at night in many cities, some righting wrongs while other commit terrible crimes. None of appeared on TV yet but main believe that the heroes of old are returning, right when the innocent need them the most. Some kid in San Francisco even has a fuzzy, black and white picture of a armored humanoid walking away from him in the rain, he swore to reporters that the armor had a green glow to it and that the guys head was "funny-looking" head.A few things that we (well me) know about Freedom City that I am using (taken from both hints about Freedom City and META-4 info on GR site)Corporations  ASTRO Labs   AEGISEvil Organizations  The Freedom City Mafia.  Majestic Industries and the Grant Conglomerate.   The Foundry.  Overthrow, a network of anti-government terrorists which is actually a front for...   SHADOW (the Secret Hierarchy of Agents for Domination Over the World)  UNITROL: a global psueo-governmental army of extortionists   ANTAG (Advanced Neural Technology Application Group)  Octopus UmbrellaRandom things I have seen on the GR boards by Steve Kenson (team names, random events, schools, etc)  Liberty League  FORCE Ops  Terminus Invasion  Claremont Academy  Next-GenOther Groups and things to know (mostly made up by me)  XO Marshals: Federal police enforcement organization that deals with high-threat situations and crime. They were flying power armored suits (and are around PL6). An outgrowth of S.T.A.R. (the old police response to super threats but as most meta-beings have disappeared it was dissolved).</blockquote>

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