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17 years ago, on what was initially a routine Space Shuttle mission, an unidentified object fused with the hull of the Shuttle while it was in orbit. Unnoticed until well after atmospheric reentry, NASA command center at the Johnson Space Center would attempt to warn the crew of the stowaway, to no avail. By the time NASA had detected it, communications on board the shuttle had been jammed, as well as the manual controls that the crew could use to ditch the craft in an emergency. With the controls of the ship being manipulated by the strange object, it began to steer away from the intended landing zone in the Gulf of Mexico, towards the location of the signals that were being sent towards the ship- the Johnson Space Center, only a few miles south of downtown Houston. As it approached nearer and nearer, the craft began to let out a high pitched tone that grew louder and louder before it finally exploded in an enormously bright ball of light, blinding anybody nearby that was looking at it and bathing the entire city, and many of the surrounding small towns, in an enormous amount of an undiscovered type of radiation that would eventually be dubbed by scientists as "exotic radiation".
Map detailing the range and levels of intensity of the exotic radiation within the city of Houston and surrounding towns.
This radiation took hold almost entirely within very young children and infants, from newborns to, at the oldest, 5 and 6 year olds. As those children became teenagers, their bodies developed strange powers and quirks, many of which were seen as either highly useful or highly dangerous to the government, who established a research institute and school on the location of the former Johnson Space Center, for those who had absorbed exotic radiation and exhibited some form of powers. These individuals had come to be known, both by the government and society at large, as Metas, and they inhabited an uncomfortable world where everybody seemed to have an opinion on their existence. But at the Houston Institute for Meta Individuals, they're safe... from the outside world, that is.
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Superpowered school RP with elements of government conspiracy and alien technology. Age range for characters is 17-23, as that is the age of those who were old enough to be affected by the radiation disaster and young enough to have been able to absorb it at the time. Looking for people to play various meta students of varying levels of power. I'll be playing the government agents and teachers- basically, the NPCs. Reply if interested, I might or might not make an OOC discord.
The 2004 Shuttle Incident
17 years ago, on what was initially a routine Space Shuttle mission, an unidentified object fused with the hull of the Shuttle while it was in orbit. Unnoticed until well after atmospheric reentry, NASA command center at the Johnson Space Center would attempt to warn the crew of the stowaway, to no avail. By the time NASA had detected it, communications on board the shuttle had been jammed, as well as the manual controls that the crew could use to ditch the craft in an emergency. With the controls of the ship being manipulated by the strange object, it began to steer away from the intended landing zone in the Gulf of Mexico, towards the location of the signals that were being sent towards the ship- the Johnson Space Center, only a few miles south of downtown Houston. As it approached nearer and nearer, the craft began to let out a high pitched tone that grew louder and louder before it finally exploded in an enormously bright ball of light, blinding anybody nearby that was looking at it and bathing the entire city, and many of the surrounding small towns, in an enormous amount of an undiscovered type of radiation that would eventually be dubbed by scientists as "exotic radiation".
Map detailing the range and levels of intensity of the exotic radiation within the city of Houston and surrounding towns.
This radiation took hold almost entirely within very young children and infants, from newborns to, at the oldest, 5 and 6 year olds. As those children became teenagers, their bodies developed strange powers and quirks, many of which were seen as either highly useful or highly dangerous to the government, who established a research institute and school on the location of the former Johnson Space Center, for those who had absorbed exotic radiation and exhibited some form of powers. These individuals had come to be known, both by the government and society at large, as Metas, and they inhabited an uncomfortable world where everybody seemed to have an opinion on their existence. But at the Houston Institute for Meta Individuals, they're safe... from the outside world, that is.
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Superpowered school RP with elements of government conspiracy and alien technology. Age range for characters is 17-23, as that is the age of those who were old enough to be affected by the radiation disaster and young enough to have been able to absorb it at the time. Looking for people to play various meta students of varying levels of power. I'll be playing the government agents and teachers- basically, the NPCs. Reply if interested, I might or might not make an OOC discord.
