OOC: World Notes

[Bobby Drake]

Utterly random assortment of notes about the world of 2027, intended for reference.
Feel free to add things to this thread as they come up.

The state of the war:

• Mutant terrorist activity is largely under control in the Northeast. Warren's team is the most active mutant group in the area, and they concentrate their efforts on periodic attacks on the Mutant Containment Camps. Civilians pretty much consider the "War on Mutants" won there, although SHIELD is still on a war footing.
  
• Mutant terrorist activity is rampant on the West Coast, with hundreds of lives and millions of dollars in property being lost on an ongoing basis. The vast bulk of SHIELD's resources is devoted to fighting Emma's team there.
  
• The former Soviet Union is actively involved in civil war... not just mutant vs. human, but human vs. human. Reports coming out of that region are contradictory and confused, but Piotr's team appears to be maintaining order.
  
• There's mutant activity elsewhere, too, I just haven't mentioned it. But in general the mutants are losing.
  

The state of the Camps:

• A whole network of Neverland-style Mutant Containment Camps have been built.
  
• Mutants interred there are forcibly given the synthetic Cure on a regular basis and otherwise imprisoned normally.
  
• The camps are maintained like military fortresses, to prevent the Brotherhood from freeing mutant prisoners.
  
• Most camps are rampant with civil rights violations -- mutants are tortured, etc. on a regular basis.
  A number of human groups, both public (like the ACLU) and covert (like Nick Fury's underground), are unhappy about this and try to do something about it, generally unsuccessfully.
  The Northeast Mutant Containment Camps are the least bad of a bad lot, though far from pleasant places.
  

The state of technology:

• SHIELD has mutant-detection technology that can "sniff out" mutant genomes within a mile or two radius. The Brotherhood members have jammers but independent mutants get picked up pretty readily.
  
• SHIELD has arbitrary comic-book technology -- force fields, blasters, nerve stunners, anti-gravity, cybernetic implants, yadda yadda yadda. Have fun with it. Most of that technology is restricted; civilians can't use it. Nick Fury's underground has access to it, as does the Brotherhood.
  
• Sentinels are SHIELD-issue Terminator-like war-robots with sophisticated AIs programmed to seek out and neutralize rogue mutants. They are powerful and fast and have a wide range of weapons built in, a serious threat to even the most powerful mutants.
  
• Synthetic Cure is relatively easy to develop and plentiful enough to use as an airborne weapon, but it only lasts a few days per dose.
  
• MGH is relatively easy to develop but still has the "kills you eventually" bug. OTOH, the Cure neutralizes it, so anyone who wants temporary mutant powers can have them. This is INCREDIBLY illegal.
  

[Rahne Sinclair]

For those of you trying to track this arc, here’s a handy guide, in rough chronological order:

• Slept through the age of reason... – folks arrive at the Institute Ruins in 2027 and are ported by Warren’s Brotherhood to a “secure” site. Call this T-zero.
  
  
• I wish we could open our eyes... – about twenty minutes after T-zero, the Worthington family gets reacquainted.
  
  
• Oh, by the way... – several hours after zero-hour, the Craft/Russell family gets reacquainted.
  
  
• You build some, you break some. – some unspecified time period after T-zero (at least several hours), still more folks arrive at the Institute Ruins. Some are rescued by the Brotherhood, others arrested by Sentinels. Call this T-one.
  
  
• spitting out frustration, line by line – a few hours after T-one, Bobby and Storm are imprisoned.
  
  
• and all that nearness turned to stone – a few hours after T-one, Laurie and Rahne are imprisoned.
  

Other folks are still welcome to appear… basically everyone appears at the Institute ruins, but their time of arrival is smeared over a long period because, hey, time travel. You can be picked up by Vanisher and ported to beta site, picked up by Sentinels and taken to prison, or go off on your own and explore the world… whatever you want. (Or other things, if you’re feeling creative.)

Plot is pretty freeform, but a few things:

• At some point future-Warren will get future-Bobby’s note about Cannonball, and start putting together a rescue mission… I’ll kick that thread off one of these days.
  
  
• The rescue mission will, among other things, involve hitting whoever happens to be out in the exercise yard with Cure-antidote and generally causing chaos, so any of the PC prisoners can escape at that point.
  
  
• Feel free to “jump the gun” and start posting your prison characters post-breakout even if the breakout thread hasn’t happened yet.