[CENTER][COLOR=SILVER][h3][sub][sub][sub][i]The Hyperverse Presents...[/i][/sub][/sub][/sub][/h3][/COLOR][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][h2][b]S H A D O W   O F   T H E   M A V E R I C K S[/b][/h2][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][hr][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][h3][sup][sup][sup][color=silver][color=slategray]◼   [b]G M s:[/b][/color]   [i]Lord Wraith & Hillan[/i]   [color=slategray]◼   [b]G E N R E:[/b][/color]   [i]Superhuman, Modern Fantasy, Slice of Life[/i]  [color=slategray]◼   [b]T Y P E:[/b][/color]   [i]Linear with Sandbox Opportunities[/i]   [/color][/sup][/sup][/sup]
[color=white][sub][i][sub]"Rise and rise again until the lambs have become lions."[/sub][/i][/sub][/color][/h3][/CENTER]
[COLOR=Slategray][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]P R E M I S E:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT]On October 18, 1967, Earth was hit with an immense Coronal Mass Ejection. During a total Lunar Eclipse, the sun emitted a massive interplanetary CME which doused the entire globe with high energy particles causing the largest and brightest occurrence of the aurorae ever recorded. Unfortunately this also brought a geomagnetic storm which ravaged Earth’s electrical transmission lines, causing power outages on a global scale. It was on this day that the Earth nearly stood still, sitting in total darkness for nearly ten minutes before back up systems began to re-activate. Numerous regions around the globe were left in the dark well beyond that. Cities were powerless for nearly a week while some rural areas were forced to survive for nearly a month without power. This event left a death toll numbering in the tens of thousands becoming known as the Dark Eclipse. 

However, the aftermath of the Dark Eclipse reached far further than anyone could have ever anticipated. The resulting effect of the high energy particles is a mutation appearing in one person of every million people. While public knowledge of the mutation remains vague, selected sects in the scientific community are aware of it and have dubbed the emergence of the mutation ‘Viriumosis’.  In common jargon, the possession of a mutation is referred to as the ‘Hype-Factor’ or ‘Hype-Gene’. Collectively, these mutants are referred to as ‘Hyperhumans’.

In the spring of 1985, a severe storm laid siege to the New Hampshire city of New Lilith. With emergency services swamped and overworked, the city was left defenseless against a crime wave that soon washed over it. A group of Hyperhumans, however, took the law into their own hands and these young vigilantes soon became the world's first known superheroes. Over the next ten years, the young heroes continue to garner recognition, their influence spreading beyond the city and within another decade to the world.[/INDENT][/INDENT]