Five hundred years ago, in order to stop the threat to his authority, Darksied came to Earth and destroyed almost all of the life on the planet from orbit, killing anyone who stood against him.  This created a nuclear winter and for the last five hundred years humans have been trying to rebuild.

Some people moved into caves, sewers, or other underground areas.  They became known as "cavers".  Some lucky people were able to move into space.  Those that moved into asteroids or lived on stations or ships became known as "spacers".  Those that lived on others planets or moons in the system were called "colonials".  Some people, however, were unable to leave the planet or move underground, and had to try and live on the surface, which had become a wasteland.  They lived off of the salvaged remains of the pre-waste world and the mutant life that sprung up in the wastes, and so are called "wasters" or "scavers".  Each group tried to use superhuman chems, genetic engineering, cybernetics, technological devices, and other methods to allow them to survive, so most people have abilities beyond what their ancestors did 500 years ago.

Aliens rarely interact with humanity anymore, though, and there hasn't been a human green lantern since John Stewart died four hundred and sixty years ago.  While there are descendents of aliens in the system, for the most part alien genes are fairly weak, including any Kryptonian or Tameranian genes that made it into the gene pool.

A new threat approaches the system, though.  An alien race which robs people of their free will through some type of technology has come to enslave the human race and we, as some of the few people with any non-human DNA or some other unique trait which alters our brain's function, are the ones that are most resistant to the mind control, which was tailored to humans.

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Name: Gene Kuiper
Age: 20
Race: Spacer
Superhuman genes: One Tameranian chromosome (Enhanced durability, slightly altered brainwaves), Telepathy (sense thought patterns and emotions, some surface thoughts), Telekinesis (1 kn max, no smaller than a fist; can be used to fly somewhat)
Cybernetics: none
Tech: Space suit (somewhat armored, enhanced strength, multitool (laser cutter, welder), radio, scanners)
Other superhuman abilities: none
Skills: Astrogeology, piloting, starship repair
Personality: Tries to live up to his father's legacy.  Now that he's found out about the threat to humanity, he wants to stop it.
Biography: Being born in the Kuiper belt, his father ran the only spaceship factory that far out in the system.  Soon others started building ships, but as the first factory he had an advantage over the others and remained the largest, most profitable one.
Gene learned to use his powers and, as an adult, decided to buy a mining ship and heads off to try and earn his own living without having to rely on his parents.  That was two years ago.
A few days ago he returned home to find that many powerful people, including his father, had changed.  Their minds felt strange, like a part of them was locked into place.  What's more, his mother was in the hospital and he wasn't allowed to visit her or even know where she was exactly.  When he witnessed the conversion of one of his father's managers, who he was negotiating with for the sale of some platinum he had mined, he realized that they must have had trouble controlling his mother, as her brain was a bit unusual like his, and that he had to get out of there before he was also caught.
He sold the platinum for whatever the now-brainwashed manager was offering and left for Earth in hopes of finding more people like himself who could resist the brainwashing.
Equipment: Space suit, fully equipped spaceship (built for a small mining team to use as a home while mining)
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