Hound55 said
That's the nicest rack I've seen on Cap since Rob Liefeld drew him...
Totally implants.
Hound55 said
That's the nicest rack I've seen on Cap since Rob Liefeld drew him...
Gowi said
Cool, I'm on board with that.Off-topic - Are you still planning to do a TMNT game in the future?
Gowi said
Henry, you still want me on for assistant GM duties?


| Background |
The term superhuman had taken on a different meaning in the world during World War II. In order to combat the Nazi threat, the United States and the Allied Powers started Project Rebirth in order to create an army of super soldiers. The initiative only produced one success, however, and Captain America was deployed into the field to fight back the armies of evil. But it seemed fate was on the Allies sides, as vigilantes and superhumans emerged from the shadows to join him, creating the Invaders. The Allies’ superpowered force beat back evil until the day they lost their leader. Captain America fell in the process of stopping a last ditch effort by the Nazi deep science division HYDRA, signaling the end of superhuman involvement in the war. The remnants of the Invaders returned home and formed the Justice Society of America, fighting crime and injustice in the homeland before fading away.
But as time went on it was clear that superpowers were here to stay. The mutant population began to skyrocket across the world, gifting a segment of the populace with extraordinary powers. This new subspecies of the human race was looked at with both fear and awe from the normal humans of the day. Some saw them as the next step in our genetic destiny, and others considered mutants a threat to all mankind.
Yet still other powers came from the stars above. Unbeknownst to the populace, the planet had been visited by aliens of immense power. Some were good and some were evil, but they would all leave their mark on the planet in the end.
In America, the UN, who feared what superhumans might mean to world peace, formed SHIELD, a peacekeeping organization dedicated to monitoring and neutralizing superhuman threats.
All of this set up the great Heroic Age of the 21st Century.
| Year One |
The Heroic Age started off with a bang, as Superman and Batman debut on the same day, the former saving a crashing plane and the latter apprehending one of Gotham City’s most notorious criminals in one night. The weeks and months that follow saw a dramatic rise in superhero and vigilante activity as others looked to follow in their footsteps. Wonder Woman, Thor, and Aquaman appeared on the American coast and fought back a sea beast seemingly from legend. The Daredevil of Hell’s Kitchen, Power Man, and Iron Fist began fighting back against the Kingpin of New York. The scarlet speedster Flash zoomed around Central and Keystone City. Iron Man patrolled the skies of the world, rooting out the terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings. The young Spider-man became entangled in the web of the New York mob boss known as the Big Man. The X-Men revealed themselves to the world, fighting threats against the mutant and human populations of the world.
The year went smoothly with the heroes of the world making the planet safer and more secure. That changes, however, when Superman accidentally released his native people from an inter-dimensional prison. The Kryptonian leader Zod, also revealed to be Superman’s father, attempted to conquer the Earth, and released his Kryptonian army on the masses. The great threat was only beat back by a gathering of heroes as well as the timely intervention of the Lantern Corps. Eventually Zod and his people were sealed back inside their cell, but the victory came at a cost.
The governments of the world now saw what could happen if these heroes turned against them. The devastation of the Kryptonian Invasion led to the creation of HAMMER, a counterpart to SHIELD meant to have a proactive approach to the metahuman age. HAMMER would neutralize and detain anyone seen as a threat no matter if they were human, mutant, or superpowered.
| Year Two |
Where Year One began with triumph, Year Two began with tragedy. At the strike of New Years Eve 2013, the Earth saw the birth of the super villain when Electro attacked the annual Times Square celebration, stopped only by the timely intervention of Spider-man. At the same time, bomb strikes accompanied fireworks in Gotham, as the maniacal Joker held the city in terror, demanding that the Batman face him.
This trend continued as the months rolled by. Superman tangled with the Parasite, Toyman, and Metallo. Tony Stark saw his technology stolen by an unknown enemy and used against him. Thor was forced to battle the minions of his brother Loki, and Aquaman clashed with the forces of his own corrupt family. The Flash’s twin cities are turned into a veritable city-sized trap by a group of villains calling themselves The Rogues. Every hero now seemed to have villains appearing to challenge them weekly, and many in the media wondered.
A turning point was reached when the mutant terrorist known as Magneto killed Senator Robert Kelly, a known anti-mutant legislator. This set off a HAMMER witch hunt, forcing many heroes and mutants underground. The discovery of Captain America frozen in Arctic ice allows SHIELD a weapon in the covert wars against HAMMER. Cap is tasked with stabilizing superpowered relations by rooting out HAMMER's nefarious goals and neutralizing covert threats. To help in doing so, he is granted his own team dubbed The Avengers, and consisting of SHIELD's top field agents.
The Super Powered Cold War lasted until the conflict between Latveria and Khandaq exploded on the other side of the world. Victor von Doom, sovereign of Latveria, desired an artifact from Teth Adam’s treasury, and was ready to start a war to get it. Large scale conflict was avoided only by the intervention of the newly formed Justice League and the Avengers. A coalition of the world’s most powerful heroes, the League neutralized both sides while the Avengers sabotaged Doom's fleet of robotic warriors, forcing a peace before the conflict grew.
The actions of the two hero teams started a resurgence in the public’s faith of the superheroes, yet many remained skeptical of the good superpowers would bring.
And in the shadows, a looming threat began to grow. Whispers of a Legion began reaching heroes’ ears, setting some on edge.
This is the world of the One Universe. Will you save it? Or will you try to dominate it?