Game Details
• Joint Avengers/X-Men task force.
• Modern Day setting.
• Custom timeline. (See 'Recent Events Summary' & 'IC History Timeline' for more information. Subject to change if we need to work in new events/characters.)
• Advanced/High Casual Standards.
• Collaborative GMing; While the GMs are trying to tell the story and have overall say-so, how the story unfolds is dependent on each player. If Sentinels come out of nowhere and attack the group in your post, then Sentinels come out of nowhere and attack the group.
• Please post Pending CS' to the OOC. Upon approval, post them in the Character Sheet Thread.
• GMs are Zacharius and myself.
IC Summary
Character Sheet Thread
IC Recent Events
In the best part of a century since the discovery of the X-gene, mutants have struggled against human persecution, often ebbing and flowing with the fickle nature of public opinion. Some groups, on both sides of the divide, feel that the extinction of either homo sapiens or homo superior is the only way to guarentee the survival of the other, while the more compassionate among their numbers believe coexistence is possible. None claim their struggle will be an easy one.
Following the battle of Genosha and the sacrifiece of Jean Grey, anti-mutant feeling had declined, while many could still not accept mutants, those willing to publically decry them dwindled in number. The previously powerful Mutant-Registration movement seemed to be on its deathbed, and the possibility of coexistence seemed to be one within grasp. Tony Stark took this opportunity to proclaim support for the coexistence cause, which was seen at the time as a major blow to pro-human groups, previously using Stark as an example of a human who could stand equal, and against, the mutant threat. Doing so equally made him a target for radical pro-mutant groups, in regards to the threat he posed to their message of mutant superority and the lack of human care for mutantkind.
There were, however, both human and mutant groups that could not stand to see this occur, outspoken politicians became louder, and movements became more radical. It seemed both a hay day for mutants, but equally a precarious one indeed.
For once, it wasn't just the mutants the came under public criticism, after the costly battle of New York, the Avengers, and by extension, metahumans in general, began to earn the ire of the public. Particularly after metahumans such as Captain America were seen fighting side by side with the destructive monstrosity that was the Hulk, a being still fresh in the minds of many who had seen the damage such a creature could cause. The anti-metahuman rallies proved a low point, with metahumans nearing the level of caution and dislike previously reserved for mutants. While most remain loyal to their favoued heroes, those who do not find support among the influential members of society, those wealthy individuals with much to fear from a perceived moral crusade by the likes of the Avengers.
This changed with the Manchester Attack. Thousands died in a catastrophe caused by a yet unknown supervillain, although, the media was quick to lable it a probable mutant attack; fed by "unnamed government and military sources." Despite the fact that the X-men assisted in the aftermath, public feeling once again began to turn on the mutants, faster than any previous event had caused.
The UK and US Governments introduced Mutant Registration legislation. Nick Fury was dismissed citing a loss of confidence in Fury from the U.N. Security Council following the incident in Manchester, but insiders leaked it was more likely Fury's resistance to 'mutant countermeasures' being actively developed. At this point, Tony Stark began to make contact with the Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning, fearing the worst for the mutants.
Stark, in response to evidence that govermental agencies were already beginning to monitor his communications, sets up the Iron Network, using some of the latest Stark Industries technology to enable him to contact several key locations without fear of the NSA and the like. The Xavier Insitute is connected, as well as several locations key to the Avengers.
A week later a duplicate incident occurs in Kansas, and the US and UK Governments announced the Sentinel Program to combat dangerous mutants and ensure continued safety, as well the appointment of former NSA head General Stryker as the new S.H.I.E.L.D. Director. When Stark Industries threatened to sue the US after claiming their Sentinel technology is illegally similar to technology his own power suits are based on, and Captain America came out against the registration legislation, the Avengers were officially disbanded.
The Present:
Secretly former Director Fury believes he's uncovered a plot put into place by rogue elements of the NSA, he is detained by Sentinel Drones while investigating the plot, publicly, the US government declares Fury a traitor, his name being connected with, despite lack of proof, to the Kansas and Manchester incidents. In his absence, Tony Stark has called together what Avengers and X-Men he can reach. The suggested meeting place is across the sea in Cuba, the USA yet unwilling to violate sovereign airspace with the Sentinels
IC History Timeline
1928 - Max Eisenhardt (Magneto) is born.
1933 - Charles Xavier (Professor X) is born.
1939 - Max Eisenhardt's mutation manifests itself at the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland.
1943 - Captain America defeats the Red Skull and crashes suborbital bomber into the Arctic. Believed MIA, officially listed KIA.
1949 - Charles Xavier's mutation manifests itself.
1950 - The United Nations secretly established the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate, or simply S.H.I.E.L.D.
1964 - Max Eisenhardt and Charles Xavier develop early prototype of Cerebro at Cambridge University.
1976 - Stark Industries unveils the world's first Arc Reactor.
1999 - Charles Xavier establishes the Xavier Institute for Gifted Individuals.
2001 - The X-Men (Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Jean Grey) defeat Magneto at Offutt Airbase, Nuclear Facility, in Nebraska.
2002 - First major Anti-Mutant rally held in Washington D.C.
2003 - Magneto leads violent regime change on the island nation of Genosha.
2004 - Bruce Banner is bombarded with Gamma Radiation and morphs into the Hulk for the first time.
2005 - Reed Richards, crewed by friends and family, secretly pilots a privately sponsored spaceship 'Aeon' into outer space.
2005 - Craft and crew of the Aeon 'rescued' covertly by S.H.I.E.L.D in Siberia. Released six months later due to 'exposure complications.'
2006 - First major Anti-Mutant rally held outside the U.S. outside of Parliament in London.
2008 - Tony Stark announces to the world, "I am Iron-Man."
2010 - Odin banishes Thor to Earth; Mjolnir lands in New Mexico.
2011 - Captain American 'awakens' in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. Manhattan facility.
2012 - S.H.I.E.L.D. begins the Avengers Initiative despite the objections of China and Russia. The Avengers defeat Loki in New York City.
2012 - Pro-'Metahuman' rally in NYC, Washington, D.C. and London after the Avengers NYC incident.
2012 - A week after Pro-Metahuman rallies, Anti-Metahuman rallies follow in response.
2012 - Battle of Genosha occurs between Apocalypse led forces & Genoshan forces. X-Men reinforce Genosha forces, ensure victory.
2012 - Charles Xavier KIA during Battle of Genosha. Magneto believed KIA by all but S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men.
2012 - Jean Grey gives her life to save the X-Men and defeat Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister directly following Battle of Genosha.
2013 - S.H.I.E.L.D. enlists Reed Richards to study 'Phoenix Force' phenomenon used by Jean Grey to defeat Apocalypse.
2013 - Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider. Mysterious metahuman Spider-Man defeats lizard based metahuman in Brooklyn.
2013 - Following details of the Battle of Genosha, U.S. and U.K. governments debate Mutant Registration legislation.
2013 - In a bloodless coup, Victor von Doom named Latveria Premier. Battle of Latveria occurs between Fantastic Four and Doom.
2013 - Mass murder of over a hundred in Manchester, U.K., by a previously unknown 'supervillain' codenamed 'Nitro' by S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 - Anti-Metahuman Rallies of record size take place in both Manchester and Kansas.
2013 - U.K. and U.S. governments formally introduce Mutant Registration legislation.
2014 - Jean Grey, resurrected, returns to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Individuals.
2014 - Repeat of Manchester incident occurs in Broken Arrow, Kansas.
2014 - Director Fury dismissed from S.H.I.E.L.D., followed soon after by announcement of Sentinel Initiative.
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