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Once upon a time...
There comes a time in everyone’s life when the big questions in life are asked. Who am I? What do I want in life? Did I leave the stove-top on at home? Fear not, my child, because I know, deep down in the very pits of your presumably beating heart, that you wouldn’t mind being a bit of a badass. Well boy, oh boy, do I have an opportunity for you. In the year of 2003, exists a world filled of many beings of might, magic, and guns or something, I dunno. Maybe you’d prefer going Condiment King and squirt spicy sauce into people’s eyes like a savory pepper-spray. But my point is, this is a world where heroes and villains prosper. Sometimes. Not all the time. Looking at you Condiment King. But anyways… So heroes, villains, and supers to each, have existed for nearly a century and a half, but only in the last 30 years have such roles become a cornerstone of daily life.
Enter the three organizations integral to this aspect of the world:
First, the CIA; no not that one. The cool one. The better one. The one you’ve never actually heard about. You think. The Covert Intermediary Agency, known for their employment of associates colloquially known as the Men in Black [although they’re properly called Black Hats]. That’s right, those guys that skulk around Roswell and also any 7-11 in the midwestern US. They’re actually an international organization, but they just so happened to be spearheaded by some quacks over in New Mexico a while back after an incident with a Super during some morally icky science experiments went haywire. That’s right, the 1947 UFO incident was a cover-up. And then THAT was painted over, but poorly, made it seem like the Men in Black were just there for some extra-terrestrial booty instead of going Frankenstein on some superpowered folks. Don’t think that there isn’t more though. The CIA has a paramilitary branch known as the Red-Tails [or simply RTs], and is filled more or less with your James Bonds and your Black Widows and your Sterling Archers... those kinds of people.
In the mid-70s the very first major villain organization known as Mamba popped up, led by an infamous black-market arms dealer who went by the alias of Black Mamba. After several years of conflict between Mamba and the Red Tails, the Red Tails emerged victorious after the involvement of a small group of heroes, formed of both supers and non-supers, and in the aftermath of the war that no one heard of, the very first government sanctioned hero team was formed: The Golden Hand, with its most prominent members comprised those such as Justice, whose incredible superhuman capabilities could level entire mountain ranges despite her lack of sight, Ulf, the wolf-themed hunter who was prepared for anything, and could turn a bunch of sticks into a nuclear bomb or something, and Godspeed, whose amazing speedster capabilities are frankly just super fast. I guess he makes Usain Bolt seem more like Usain Slug amirite hahahaha… Anyways the Golden Hand would evolve into the primary hero syndicate, and eventually become subject to the Sam Sheepdog-Ralph Wolf Act of 1980, an act that introduced government-sanctioned professional villainy in an effort to maintain an in-check database of various criminals, with the promise of lenient sentences so long as villains maintain and conduct themselves in regulated manners.
The other side of the coin is MANTICORE. Yes, all caps. The syndicate of villains comprised of many high profile members, particularly in their council leadership known as the Heads of Typhon, led primarily by the supervillain Apollyon, long-time rival of Justice. After the final defeat of Black Mamba, the upstart young villain had worked with the CIA and the Golden Hand to create MANTICORE for the specific purposes of the Sam Sheepdog-Ralph Wolf Act, convincing other high profile villains to join and inspiring the villainous masses to join the cause, and even implementing the hench-humanity and villain-mentorship programs soon afterwards, serving as possibly one of the most important figure in organized villainy, and not only that, but worked with the Golden Hand once more to recreate their heroic equivalents, establishing hard outlined systematic rights for sidekicks, butlers, and Katos and well established trainee programs.
It is most important to note that, for the CIA, the onset of such programs, law implementations, and affiliations are primarily used to keep an organized checklist on such potentially dangerous individuals, regardless of alignment. It is the CIA’s duty to keep track of any such individuals, complete with the statistics regarding numbers, aligned persons of interest, notable supers [especially when in regards to external extreme-level emergencies requiring specific abilities], and, most importantly, keeping track of every single such person.
Which brings us to the here and now.
The year is 2003, and for the last eight months, something very wrong has been going on. Between all three organisations, a myriad of technology is been stolen by persons unknown, and a fair few rookies have gone missing. Accusations have been made, fingers have been pointed, and what semblance of relative peace once existed tenuously between each faction strains under the provided conditions. The annual concord meeting in Kansas City involves not only the leaders of each organisation, but numerable portions of individuals who are members of them. If all goes awry, hell will break loose in the worst of ways, but hopefully, the adults will stay mature about things. Still, it's up to the CIA to ensure that Kansas City doesn't get razed to the ground, and the Sam Sheepdog-Ralph Wolf Act remains intact.
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