Long ago in the dim memory of Myth they were first noted and legends written of their astounding exploits and adventures.
Achilles, Aeacus, Aeneas, Gilgamesh, Hanuman, Heracles, Jason, Iasion, Iravan, Karna, Kritavarma, Māui, Memnon, Minos, Nakula, Kumaras, Otrera, Orion, Orpheus, Perseus, Pradyumna, Rhadamanthus and 1,000s of others from around the world. Not a people or mythology is to be found where these Demigods did not exist.
They were the Super Heros of their age and then they vanished without reason or cause known. They were deemed by scholars as flights of fancy and nothing more.
They did appear at irregular intervals through history at random points around the world but again the were dismissed by the historians as tall tales.
These men and women of dreams seemed just that, dreams till during the bloody days of World War 1 where millions of young men died in battle to the modern weapons vs out dated tactics. It was there that something happened, a new Hero a Demigod grew from those fields of contest.
The Iron Sergeant who was able to walk through the hail of machine gun and rifle as most men do a rainstorm.
The Crimson Baron who could fly and smash allied planes out of the sky.
Crackshot, the American rifleman who never missed any target and somehow knew it's weakest point enabling him to sink battleships with a common rifle so long as it was not over the horizon..
These new Demigods appeared in the darkest days of that grand conflict and as their predecessors were pitted against one another. Few survived the war and those that did faded into obscurity as they sought solitude from the demands of the world.
It seemed they'd come for only a short while and once peace reigned they were no longer needed
But man ever grasping and forgetful summoned them once more as during the 2nd World War they returned to join once more in grand battle.
Just as before they appeared in very small numbers and their presence more inspiration they tide turning, that is till that faithful day known as the Trinity event. Man had unleashed the hellish power of the atom in a remote corner of Nevada and this caused a veritable explosion (pardon the pun) in the Meta human population on earth.
At first as they had before they allowed themselves to be used by their governments as weapons till one day they decided to stop fighting and talk.
These Super men were not merely powerhouses for some were smarter than the entire aggregate IQ of all the men who worked on the Manhattan Project that had given them birth. They turned their mental power towards the world's woes and quickly discovered the root cause was petty governments, religions and racial ideals of superiority. Man had of course known this all along but had done nothing to change the pattern.
The Meta knew how to do this and had the power and will to see it through.
The Third World War was a War of Forced unification and the weapons of man were for the most part school yard toys brought to face dow the gods themselves.
By 1967 the entire globe had been pacified and brought under one ruling body called the World Conscience. It's leaders are chosen from the common man with no Meta allowed to sit upon it and their rules apply only to humanity. The Meta are ruled by a governing body as well and it's powers extend only as far into common humanity as necessary to discover new members of it's type or to over rule any decision that the World Conscience makes that might endanger humanity.
Due to the mental power of Metas hunger no longer exists, drought, flood and storm are abated though not completely stopped due to the necessity of their existence.
Man now lives in orbiting space stations, on the moon and is in the process of colonizing Mars.
Cold fusion powers society and the air and water clean once again.
It is a Golden age of man unlike any before but still the dissatisfied exist common an Meta that want to act out against the common good and for selfish or insane reasons.
These are the rogues and they are hunted and brought in to be contained or re-educated.
The Earth is a Paradise and the Meta council plans to see it remains that way.
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1965
Doctor Everett Stewart discovers the critical point of man's genetics and the cause of the rise in the population of Metas among humanity.
He calls it the Pressure Principal
When Humanity as a whole begins to respond to the overall pressure of survival an evolutionary trigger engages and causes him to develop spontaneous evolutionary enhancements. This trigger while existing in all humanity is a fickle thing and cannot be forced in the individual but in the random member of the group.
With the pacification of hostility the trigger is firing off less and less with each passing decade and will eventually grow dormant once more.
Mankind's Golden age has a time limit unless a solution can be found and soon.
(Hint this is a plot point)
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Curious points of interest
Rogues exist and seem a constant even in the tightly controlled society that exists in 2023
There is a very small segment of Meta society that reproduce Meta offspring (0.6457%) meaning roughly 1 in 200 can do this and it is as random as the occurrence of Meta blooms (Meta created from common humanity)
Their are rumored secret organizations that work in dark ways to cease, slow or speed up the fall off of new Meta being bloomed.
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