Bear in mind this game is based on Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier - Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Batman, et. al are all introduced within six issues and thrown together under pretty tenuous circumstances. But it works. So I tried to expedite things as much as possible in the OP so as we could skip over the tedious intros and get down and dirty from the very beginning. (See: F4 space program being SHIELD-sanctioned and resulting in Fury's resignation)