Post by milo on Aug 4, 2009 2:08:11 GMT -5
Several decades ago, the world saw a tremendous increase in the number of mutants in the population. There has been much speculation as to whether or not this was an actual inrease in the straight numbers - or just that things were starting to get more noticed in the scientific field. It was a fact that there were always people around that were special, either looking, harnessing incredible powers, or both. Most people had long before suspected there was something scientific about their origins, not celestial or divine in nature.
Twenty years ago - Mutant's continued to inrease in numbers as the human race began to evolve. Homo Sapiens/Superior tension begins to grow. Mutant prejudice begins sweeping across America - mostly unfounded, just because they are 'different'.
December 12th, 1988. Two mutant college students are killed in a Boston suburb. The students manifested physical mutations and were killed out of self defense by a group of their fraternity brothers. Recent investigation by leading mutant detectives and scientists (underground, of course) has lead them to believe these physical manifestations were completely harmless.
June, 1992 A group of mutant protestors is shot and killed by police forces outside Tampa. They were protesting the local ban on mutant children participating in any organized sport as it would unfair to any normal children. The peaceful protest became bloody when a mutant picked up a bat to prove he could swing it at a tee ball no harder than anyone else. The ball was hit, then an untrained telekinetic nudged it just enough that it diverted it's course and struck a police officer in the head. The police almost immediately opened fire. Two mutants survived thanks to their powers, but were later incarcerated without proper defense in their trial. The location of their whereabouts is still unknown.
October 15th, 1996 The Supreme court was presented with a civil rights case wherein' a religious extremist claimed that because Mutants were not Human, they shouldn't have any more rights than animals. The media stir lasted for months even though the Supreme Court dismissed the case from the docket almost as soon as it was submitted.
1999 - The Y2K scare erupted full force, especially when it came to mutants. Religious groups began preaching that Mutants were a sign of the end. Conspiracy theorists all around tried to spread word that once our power system collapsed mutants would take over and bring America back to the dark ages. Fear of mutants catapults. Several states create concentration camps where all the mutants that could be caught were sent to. These were high-grade military camps that few mutants escaped from. Some did, though others were more strict, and supposedly had military technologies that helped detain the mutants. They were held untill February 2000, at which point it was deemd that mutants did not cause a y2k world collapse. No reparations or appologies were given, and aproximately twenty families went missing in the months the concentration camps were in effect.
May, 16 2001 The first 'Super-Villain' comes to the public eye. A mutant with the power to shoot jets of flame robs a bank, killing a dozen people in the robbery. He was ultimately shot down by swat teams reporting to the scene when he tried to flee. Public outcry for mutant detention sweeps the nation, but due to strong police force, the situation never escalates.
2002 to Now.
No major events have happened, though the nation is bristling with general mutant discontent. Over the course of the years, various towns, counties, even districts and some states, have become increasingly anti-mutant without any consequences. Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama formed a 'mutant free' tri-state in 2003, openly driving out - or killing - any mutants that were in their borders. The Supreme Court ordered this to be unconstitutional and the official claim as a 'mutant free' state was disbanded entirely - though local law still reads the same thing if one were to ask someone.
Civil unrest begins to boil as Mutants lose more and more rights as normal humans grow to fear them and seperate themselves from Mutants. Recent months have caused the water to boil to new heights, and any moment..things will explode.
As a side note. MOST events that have happeend in the comics have NOT happened here. A few have - the Morlock slaughter being one of them. Sentinels do not yet exist. Collars do not yet exist. Genosha has not happened. The world as we know it is by default a clean slate. If there is an event that absolutely NEEDS to have happened for your char to exist...we can talk about it. If there is an event that could've twisted some small part of your character that you wanted to have in, you can assume they got the twist from something else, or again, we can maybe work it in.
Twenty years ago - Mutant's continued to inrease in numbers as the human race began to evolve. Homo Sapiens/Superior tension begins to grow. Mutant prejudice begins sweeping across America - mostly unfounded, just because they are 'different'.
December 12th, 1988. Two mutant college students are killed in a Boston suburb. The students manifested physical mutations and were killed out of self defense by a group of their fraternity brothers. Recent investigation by leading mutant detectives and scientists (underground, of course) has lead them to believe these physical manifestations were completely harmless.
June, 1992 A group of mutant protestors is shot and killed by police forces outside Tampa. They were protesting the local ban on mutant children participating in any organized sport as it would unfair to any normal children. The peaceful protest became bloody when a mutant picked up a bat to prove he could swing it at a tee ball no harder than anyone else. The ball was hit, then an untrained telekinetic nudged it just enough that it diverted it's course and struck a police officer in the head. The police almost immediately opened fire. Two mutants survived thanks to their powers, but were later incarcerated without proper defense in their trial. The location of their whereabouts is still unknown.
October 15th, 1996 The Supreme court was presented with a civil rights case wherein' a religious extremist claimed that because Mutants were not Human, they shouldn't have any more rights than animals. The media stir lasted for months even though the Supreme Court dismissed the case from the docket almost as soon as it was submitted.
1999 - The Y2K scare erupted full force, especially when it came to mutants. Religious groups began preaching that Mutants were a sign of the end. Conspiracy theorists all around tried to spread word that once our power system collapsed mutants would take over and bring America back to the dark ages. Fear of mutants catapults. Several states create concentration camps where all the mutants that could be caught were sent to. These were high-grade military camps that few mutants escaped from. Some did, though others were more strict, and supposedly had military technologies that helped detain the mutants. They were held untill February 2000, at which point it was deemd that mutants did not cause a y2k world collapse. No reparations or appologies were given, and aproximately twenty families went missing in the months the concentration camps were in effect.
May, 16 2001 The first 'Super-Villain' comes to the public eye. A mutant with the power to shoot jets of flame robs a bank, killing a dozen people in the robbery. He was ultimately shot down by swat teams reporting to the scene when he tried to flee. Public outcry for mutant detention sweeps the nation, but due to strong police force, the situation never escalates.
2002 to Now.
No major events have happened, though the nation is bristling with general mutant discontent. Over the course of the years, various towns, counties, even districts and some states, have become increasingly anti-mutant without any consequences. Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama formed a 'mutant free' tri-state in 2003, openly driving out - or killing - any mutants that were in their borders. The Supreme Court ordered this to be unconstitutional and the official claim as a 'mutant free' state was disbanded entirely - though local law still reads the same thing if one were to ask someone.
Civil unrest begins to boil as Mutants lose more and more rights as normal humans grow to fear them and seperate themselves from Mutants. Recent months have caused the water to boil to new heights, and any moment..things will explode.
As a side note. MOST events that have happeend in the comics have NOT happened here. A few have - the Morlock slaughter being one of them. Sentinels do not yet exist. Collars do not yet exist. Genosha has not happened. The world as we know it is by default a clean slate. If there is an event that absolutely NEEDS to have happened for your char to exist...we can talk about it. If there is an event that could've twisted some small part of your character that you wanted to have in, you can assume they got the twist from something else, or again, we can maybe work it in.