It was the year 2999. After three young metahumans/aliens saved the life of the new vice president of the United Planets on Earth, she promoted the formation of the Legion of Superheroes. From across the United Planets DOZENS of young aliens applied for the honor of defending the galaxy in the same way Superman and other heroes of the 20th century had done before. The selection process came down to the three heroes that had saved the vice president. And the robotic liaison to the United Planets, Brainiac-5, was there along for the ride documenting everything and assisting with tech and such as needed. Within days B-5 created the universal translators and flying tech built into Legion rings, belt buckles, and badges based on old blueprints from Green Lantern/Oan tech.
The United Planets furnished a headquarters in Metropolis. The HQ was constructed in what was once Battery Park, within eyeshot of a one thousand year old bronze Superman statue that's still standing roughly twenty feet tall. There were dozens of personal quarters for the individual members of the team, holo-droids to train with in a 'War Room' below ground, as well as a pair of star-cruisers any time the group had to travel to distant planets. Hundreds of thousands of aliens of all kinds lived all across the various worlds that made up the United Planets. Earth in itself almost felt alien. The cars were now flying, skyscrapers were larger than ever, and until the Legion returned it was missing its charm.
What was once conceptualized for good press to get the planet Earth on board with the United Planets became all too important when shit hit the fan. Before the announcement of Earth joining the United Planets, the remaining governments of the Earth began experimenting with old Cadmus cloning technology to create their own government metahuman task force. In theory a few clones of heroes of the past looked good on paper. However the DNA and tech the governments used to create their squad didn't come from heroes... it came from Superman's villains. Right out of the gate the Legion will have to combat a small army of Atomic Skulls, a kaiju sized Parasite, and a Kryptonian clone.
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_____________In essence the Legion of Superheroes are the X-Men of the DCU. Just instead of mutants its aliens and in the future. There's quite literally dozens of heroes in the Legion to draw inspiration from, alien races, etc. The main thing is that characters have to have internalized power. Its even been like that in the comics! Three of us would need to be the founding three and I'm hoping to get around six to ten players for this RP so I don't have to come up with a bunch of background NPC's. Also, since Ben10 aliens show up once in awhile in the cosmic DC stuff in the background we'll go ahead and make them available options as well. You wanna make a Legionnaire out of a Four Arms or Diamondhead have at it!
The only characters off limits at the moment are Brainiac 5 since he's basically our Alexa/Siri, and I'm going to put a spin on Starboy. With a Kryptonian clone as an enemy somebody could be a Superboy or Supergirl (or Lad or Lass since this is the Legion) but you'd have to make them a Daxamite like M'onel/Valor. Only difference between Kryptonians and Daxamites is that instead of kryptonite the Daxamites are neutralized with lead.
They've showed up in live action shows like Smallville, had their own animated series, they've been all over the place. To my knowledge it's been a minute since anybody's done anything with this on the Guild. If there's enough interest I'll throw a Character Sheet model up and we'll get after it one more time.
So... does anybody else wanna go back to the future?
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