wicked
Yikes
Beyond the gate, cameras see every angle. On the distant hilltop, there's a white pickup truck with a tinted windshield peering down on everything below. Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence. Others claim there are embedded sensors in the approaching road. What exactly goes on inside of Area 51 has led to decades of wild speculation. There are, of course, the alien conspiracies that galactic visitors are tucked away somewhere inside. One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1974 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even believe that the U.S. government filmed the 1969 moon landing in one of the base's hangars. (excerpt above taken from here)
Those conspiracy theorists aren't far off, though none have hit the nail on the head with what's really been going on at Area 51. Though it's being used for a plethora of top-secret purposes, none have been prioritized as needing to be guarded quite as heavily as Base L51. Located deep underground Area 51 is a vast network of buildings that house Americans with superpowers. Their existence is a secret to the world, having been kidnapped by the government as soon as their powers came to light. In some cases, they were literally kidnapped and their families still think them to be missing people. In most cases, however, their families were killed off in the process (in brutal ways that simultaneously looked like accidents, but shielded the fact that one body wasn't uncovered in whatever gruesome "accident" it was), as to ensure that that many less people were looking for them, or could talk about what they knew.
Not only does Base L51 house these people, though. They also occasionally test new drugs and devices on them (typically for militaristic purposes), and more often than not, torture and dispose of them whenever any of them become too much of a problem. For the past 65 years, Base L51 was quite likely the most secure and secret place on the planet. Many escape plots were planned (and subsequently foiled), until now. Shockingly, a small group of supers managed to team up, killing tens of Base L51 guards and employees, and escaping the facility. Following the escape, strings of robberies, murders, and crimes have been committed and though no identities have been tied to it, everyone at Base L51 knows who's responsible...
After weeks of the military officers and technology being used to track down the escapees failed, they've turned to the only people who might stand a chance at actually capturing the escaped supers: the other supers. A handful of them were selected for the mission and will be re-entering society with a couple of guards by their side (who happen to have the power to click a button that will cause them to internally combust in a split second, should anyone try to defer). While the idea of being able to "save" society from their fellow supers might sound grand at the source, a taste of freedom, and the idea that it's the same society they're supposed to be helping who apparently shunned them into a life of being imprisoned may make it more difficult to go through with.
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! Once we get enough people/approved characters I'll make the first post to get the story going, so the sooner the better.
