The Fantasy Incentive
The Dream Shaper
The age of the Superhero has long since past. In their golden age heroes and villains emerged in droves to battle one another in the ultimate showdown between good and evil, even occasionally for the fate of the world for worlds beyond our own. However that time has come to a close. Decades of battling on realities scale eventually took its toll on both the heroes and the villains. By the early 90's both sides of conflict resigned themselves to an unspoken stalemate, as they seemingly didn't have the energy nor the numbers to continue their battles. While street level crime and events were still common with your occasional world domination attempt, the larger scale grandiose battles were a thing of the past. Although recent event may change it all:
The Death of Galactus.
A little over a month ago, defense agencies were alerted of an incoming projectile coming toward earth from unknown origin. Before anyone could intercept it, the massive object crash landed in Northern Greenland. It was identified by associates of the Future Foundation as Galactus. The World Devourer. The Life Bringer. A cosmic entity. Killed by unknown means.
The world was in panic, Galactus hadn't been seen for decades however stories of his untold amount of power was still fresh in everyone mind. While at first it was concluded that it was possible he simply died of hunger, after further study it was shown not to be the case. Someone murdered a Cosmic being.
Several days after the event swept through the world like wildfire, while the worlds best researchers would do their best to study it and answer the high demand for answers. However something that no one could have ever guessed was only on the horizon.
A week after its crash, the decaying flesh of the Devourer of Worlds released the remaining energy it held, expending it into the atmosphere. The massive power would conglomerate into the skies above before rapidly rippling throughout the entirety of the earth as a wave of energy.
The Power Cosmic irradiated the air and bonded with hosts, mutating them and giving them superhuman abilities across the globe. This event is dubbed as the "Pulse" due to the bell like chiming noise that predated the wave washed over an area.
The world was baffled by the outcome of the event the population of super powered individuals sky rocketing from between 1 to 2% of the worlds population(including Mutants which is about between 70 million to 140 million) to 5% (350 million) at the least within the last month as a low estimate, with the new members rising once unlocking them. Those who were given powers by this event were dubbed "The Pulse Generation".
Many changes were made in order to accommodate these numbers including the S.H.I.E.L.D. program being reinvigorated, the X-Men, Avengers, Inhumans, and Future Foundation schools the opening their doors up in order to help train these new individuals with their abilities
With these many people gaining abilities the good ol fight between good and evil picked back up where it left off, bringing in a new Silver Age for a modern era, with the previous heroes taking on apprentices. While the effort continues to expand to accommodate for the new state of the world the question still remains: Who killed Galactus? Was this all on purpose? Who is the mastermind?
The dawn of a new era is upon us all.
Final Notes
The Death of Galactus.
A little over a month ago, defense agencies were alerted of an incoming projectile coming toward earth from unknown origin. Before anyone could intercept it, the massive object crash landed in Northern Greenland. It was identified by associates of the Future Foundation as Galactus. The World Devourer. The Life Bringer. A cosmic entity. Killed by unknown means.
The world was in panic, Galactus hadn't been seen for decades however stories of his untold amount of power was still fresh in everyone mind. While at first it was concluded that it was possible he simply died of hunger, after further study it was shown not to be the case. Someone murdered a Cosmic being.
Several days after the event swept through the world like wildfire, while the worlds best researchers would do their best to study it and answer the high demand for answers. However something that no one could have ever guessed was only on the horizon.
A week after its crash, the decaying flesh of the Devourer of Worlds released the remaining energy it held, expending it into the atmosphere. The massive power would conglomerate into the skies above before rapidly rippling throughout the entirety of the earth as a wave of energy.
The Power Cosmic irradiated the air and bonded with hosts, mutating them and giving them superhuman abilities across the globe. This event is dubbed as the "Pulse" due to the bell like chiming noise that predated the wave washed over an area.
The world was baffled by the outcome of the event the population of super powered individuals sky rocketing from between 1 to 2% of the worlds population(including Mutants which is about between 70 million to 140 million) to 5% (350 million) at the least within the last month as a low estimate, with the new members rising once unlocking them. Those who were given powers by this event were dubbed "The Pulse Generation".
Many changes were made in order to accommodate these numbers including the S.H.I.E.L.D. program being reinvigorated, the X-Men, Avengers, Inhumans, and Future Foundation schools the opening their doors up in order to help train these new individuals with their abilities
With these many people gaining abilities the good ol fight between good and evil picked back up where it left off, bringing in a new Silver Age for a modern era, with the previous heroes taking on apprentices. While the effort continues to expand to accommodate for the new state of the world the question still remains: Who killed Galactus? Was this all on purpose? Who is the mastermind?
The dawn of a new era is upon us all.
Final Notes
- So basically all of this takes place post the events of the 616 universe(main marvel continuity) we all know and love. The difference is that instead of a bunch of things resulting in the characters still staying the same age over the course of their publication history they have aged linearly like we have. So the Fantastic Four debut in 1961 in the real world and so they did here as well. If they were in their 20's then they would be in their 70's now etc etc.
- You wouldn't have to RP as people who are a part of the Pulse Generation, you could be a Mutant, human, or perhaps the descendants of the previous heroes/villains or affiliated with them etc.
- This will be mainly focused on OC's and not really about canon characters so lets try and keep it that way. Mainly focusing on the new generation of heroes
- Also while being imbued with the Power Cosmic is what gave the Pulse Generation their powers the powers themselves are random and depend on the person sort of like mutants with varying power sets and levels. Not everyone will be massively powerful or even manipulate the power cosmic itself like Silver Surfer type stuff or even Galactus level
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