What would it be like if supers, who were solitary and territorial at begining, gradually organized themselves into a society/circle/organization?

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in a world of supers awaken(just like XMen universe),in a certain year or periods, such as eschatology-echoed 1999, a large number of Supers suddenly awakened around the world, numbering close to a million (this is a very large population).

their specific abilities and strengths varied greatly, but even the weakest individual could easily kill several well armed special forces soldiers, and more importantly, they looked no different from ordinary people and did not need to carry any weapons, so you could very hardly pick them out of the crowd (not to mention that many Supers could invisible, teleport, or change their appearance at will).

at begining, these Supers were scattered across countries and social classes. most once believed themselves to be the only Supers in the world, and were filled with shock and suspicion when encountering another supers———many exhibited strong exclusive behavior, like solitary, territorial animals, vehemently rejecting other Supers from entering their territories.

But this fragmented state wouldn't last forever. Eventually, the world's Supers would organize themselves, becoming organizations/gangs/circles/political parties or anything similar. If they couldn't, they would become prey for other Super organizations, or be constantly bullied by a particularly powerful Super.

So what we need to discuss here is: what kind of development process should this be from solitary territorial creatures to fully organized organisms?

In my imagination, this process must include:

- Internal competition among Supers, where organized Supers will conquer disorganized supers. highly organized Supers will conquer less organized supers.

-there must be an exceptionally strong and wise Super to act as leader. those leading figure doesn't necessarily have to be the strongest one, but must be one of the strongest individuals in the local. a smart brain without power mean nothing.

-The governments of the countries where they reside will certainly try to manage and organize these supers, but they will obviously be unable to prevent them from acquiring political power and becoming the new ruling class—they will be various forms of the Ottoman Turkish Janissary.

-Supers don't spawn out of nothing; they have their own ordinary people family member and relatives. They are usually willing to work for the benefit of their own families—and a country's total resources are limited. If they cannot conquer outside to increase the total pie of their country, then they must seize the pie from the domestic upper class and families.


This is an interesting sociological scenario hypothesis. what do you think?
 

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So if in 1999 you're positing one million Supers out of a world population of six billion at the time, that's a 1:6000 ratio. So about the same ratio of infants born with congenital hearing loss. Think of how many people you know who were born with hearing loss, that's your same odds of knowing a Super.

If you presume that the distribution of these million individuals is regular across the globe, you'd be looking at:
Asia: around 600,000
North America: around 50,000
Europe: around 120,000
South America: around 80,000
Africa: around 150,000

In areas with smaller populations, Supers would have a disproportionate amount of relative power and influence but that would also affect their ability to coalesce into groups. Whereas in population-dense areas, more of these individuals would be discovered and if they're predisposed to seek each other out you'd find fewer Supers in North America but they'd form groups much faster when you also factor in the higher rates of information distribution in more technologically-developed areas.

So with most everything else in the world, you'd probably see the U.S. with more visible emergence of Supers despite having the least actual amount of them. This is 1999, so while American exceptionalism/xenophobia is still a defining feature of U.S. identity, it's not the primary social characteristic that it would become in the 21st century. You're looking at pre-Y2K attitudes of optimism, idealism, and hope where it's possible that Supers could be altruistic - something like an independent Justice League could form, along the lines of a superpowered Americorps or Peace Corps. Perhaps even spreading internationally - Supers Without Borders.

This was also a time of massive national and civil unrest in other areas of the world: Rwanda, the Balkans, areas which would attract Supers who might be exploited by malicious influences. At the time, the UN member nations engaged in multinational sanctions and relief efforts - but put Supers into the mix and it becomes a sort of arms race to level the playing field. Would these Supers Sans Frontieres be willing to volunteer themselves in a paramilitary capacity for ostensibly humanitarian nation-building efforts?

The dark question: does this get you a super-powered 9/11? Does American interventionism/imperialism invite a more devastating retaliation from extremists? And would this act as a multiplier of the ensuing corruption, military-industrial expansion, xenophobia, and exploitation that would define the first quarter of the 21st century - only this time with individuals carrying the power of military divisions?

I suppose it depends on whether you think of human nature as individualist (in which case the question becomes: do we get a Superman or do we get a Homelander first?) or collectivist (would this new cohort of Supers form their own cultural in-group or would existing cultural/nationalist tendencies prove stronger?).

And even beyond all that - how do non-Supers react to the presence of sudden demigods in their midst? Much like how fantasy tropes have always failed to explain "Why have the more numerous humans not exterminated elves who present a clear and present existential threat with their hoarding of power and longer lives?" - I think you'd have a SRA/Project Wideawake within months of the first Supers emerging onto the public scene.

tl;dr version - nothing good comes out of this. Humanity is, as the kids say, cooked.
 

So if in 1999 you're positing one million Supers out of a world population of six billion at the time, that's a 1:6000 ratio. So about the same ratio of infants born with congenital hearing loss. Think of how many people you know who were born with hearing loss, that's your same odds of knowing a Super.

If you presume that the distribution of these million individuals is regular across the globe, you'd be looking at:
Asia: around 600,000
North America: around 50,000
Europe: around 120,000
South America: around 80,000
Africa: around 150,000

In areas with smaller populations, Supers would have a disproportionate amount of relative power and influence but that would also affect their ability to coalesce into groups. Whereas in population-dense areas, more of these individuals would be discovered and if they're predisposed to seek each other out you'd find fewer Supers in North America but they'd form groups much faster when you also factor in the higher rates of information distribution in more technologically-developed areas.

So with most everything else in the world, you'd probably see the U.S. with more visible emergence of Supers despite having the least actual amount of them. This is 1999, so while American exceptionalism/xenophobia is still a defining feature of U.S. identity, it's not the primary social characteristic that it would become in the 21st century. You're looking at pre-Y2K attitudes of optimism, idealism, and hope where it's possible that Supers could be altruistic - something like an independent Justice League could form, along the lines of a superpowered Americorps or Peace Corps. Perhaps even spreading internationally - Supers Without Borders.

This was also a time of massive national and civil unrest in other areas of the world: Rwanda, the Balkans, areas which would attract Supers who might be exploited by malicious influences. At the time, the UN member nations engaged in multinational sanctions and relief efforts - but put Supers into the mix and it becomes a sort of arms race to level the playing field. Would these Supers Sans Frontieres be willing to volunteer themselves in a paramilitary capacity for ostensibly humanitarian nation-building efforts?

The dark question: does this get you a super-powered 9/11? Does American interventionism/imperialism invite a more devastating retaliation from extremists? And would this act as a multiplier of the ensuing corruption, military-industrial expansion, xenophobia, and exploitation that would define the first quarter of the 21st century - only this time with individuals carrying the power of military divisions?

I suppose it depends on whether you think of human nature as individualist (in which case the question becomes: do we get a Superman or do we get a Homelander first?) or collectivist (would this new cohort of Supers form their own cultural in-group or would existing cultural/nationalist tendencies prove stronger?).

And even beyond all that - how do non-Supers react to the presence of sudden demigods in their midst? Much like how fantasy tropes have always failed to explain "Why have the more numerous humans not exterminated elves who present a clear and present existential threat with their hoarding of power and longer lives?" - I think you'd have a SRA/Project Wideawake within months of the first Supers emerging onto the public scene.

tl;dr version - nothing good comes out of this. Humanity is, as the kids say, cooked.
In my imagination:

1.although there are millions of newly awakened supers,
at the beginning, most of them are very weak,the strength of their superpower usually just a novel trick, unable to create any huge and significant dramatic effect to making the entire region or the world aware of their existence.
but even so, their superpower still enough to kill one or two well-armed soldiers——they can do this without any weapons, this is a huge advantage because it's very difficult to distinguish them from the crowd.

their strength of superpower will continue to increase with research,development and practice, and in about 10 years later, a ordinary super can easily kill a squad of special forces.but at first 10 years,a squad of soldiers enough to kill the vast majority of those supers, except for a few of the most powerful individuals————this will be a gradual process of organizing and gaining political power.

2.their organizational pattern is completely determined by local culture and social organization traditions. gangs, cults, mercenaries, and the Ottoman Türkiye Janissaries————especially the pattern Janissaries, they appear in different countries and regions in various forms.

3.Just like all humans on the Earth, personality of supers have infinite diversity, with all kinds of people, but only level of strength of superpower and wisdom can be universally recognized————the strongest or smartest individuals among them will become leaders, no matter what kind of people they are.
There will be many heroes and villains, but most of them are just ordinary people with not so powerful superpowers who follow the fate. their worldview and morality are difficult to say whether they are good or evil, and will undergo significant changes based on specific situations and experiences.
 

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