I've got to get just a couple more hours of sleep before waking up to do laundry before work. When I get up in a bit I'll start accepting completed character sheets and filling out the group roster. As others have stated there's still plenty of room and if we have more than enough people we'll make more room in the RP. The more accepted players and characters the less supporting superhuman characters we have to create as a group. 

As far as connecting the universe in the beginning, we can go with a small scale alien invasion similar to the first Avengers film or we can have a large scale hero vs hero battle that wrecks a part of the city. So be thinking about which one of those you'd rather have going on in the background...

~KL~