Here's a supers campaign I ran a while back in Cypher System. It's a bit of a doozy, and has some hidden and very esoteric throwbacks to supers PBM campaigns I ran waaaay back in the 980's called Crossover Earth, so if you're ancient like me and were part of that in group some of this might sound vaguely familiar. I'll publish the full content starting this week over several posts, there's a lot of it!
The following kicks off roughly 15 posts, which collectively form the framework of a very open-framed campaign. Start here and then read each episodic entry to get the big picture:
The League Universe
Part I: Timeline
This world had a few major events in recent decades:
·
In 1986 The Liberty League fell apart when a
gang of villains conspired to kill Captain Liberty; his sidekick became
Arbalest, an assassin who hunted down many of the League's old villain roster
and killed them before being captured.
·
In 1988 The League reformed to face a major
threat, as dozens of heroes fought off an invasion of other-dimensional
Cthonians, mythos-like monsters from beyond the stars who invaded New York.
After this the world's most powerful occult hero Dr. Futurity went AWOL for
many years, to appear only occasionally.
·
In 1992 The new Liberty League fought an
invasion of other-dimensional "bug men" and won.
·
In 1995 heroes of Earth were kidnapped by galactic
pirates and sold into slavery as gladiators, eventually winning their way free
and impressing the Empress Theda of the Thiir Star Empire. They contacted the
Star League, a coalition of worlds working against Thiir and other oppressors.
Some of these heroes became secret envoys to the star League; word of this
reveal was kept hidden, top secret.
·
In 1996 Dr. Richard Desorius discovers the
secret to transgenic modification and accidentally splices his genes with a
reptile, becoming Saurian. He is later recruited by the ancient secret society
called Eschaton.
·
In 1998 the League disbanded, not to be restored
until after 9/11
·
In 2001 the new League was formed by a UN
council and became the World League, led by American Agent (the first true
super soldier success), fighting terrorist organizations such as Project Titan,
PYTHON and others. It lasted until 2009 when American Agent was killed in
Afghanistan and the League quietly disbanded. An independent organization,
Agents of Steel (led by a hundred year old hero named Talbot Steel who may have
become immortal after drinking from the Holy Grail) picks up the slack.
·
In 2002 The Metahuman Intelligence Agency is
quietly formed to track methuman appearances and activities, and to either
recruit from or seek to apprehend meta criminals.
·
Between 2001 and the present many scientists
notice a steady decline in the number of new metahumans appearing.
·
In 2014 evidence of a stellar war in neighboring
Alpha Centauri was observed.
·
In 2016 Project Titan becomes funded through
backdoor channels my MJ-12 to observe and capture metahuman specimens for an
army they are recruiting.
·
In 2017 word arrives that a flotilla of refugee
ships from Centauri are on the way, fleeing a threat from a conquering force
called the Marauders. Word of this is kept hidden from the general public, but
it is getting harder to conceal the information about dangerous advanced
stellar civilizations. Project Space Force is publically announced as an
ingenious cover to the actual Space Force which will take engineered tech from
the Star League to prepare for the arrival of a fleet of aliens, and possible
interstellar war. Behind the scenes, MJ-12 is tied in and using Project Titan
to recruit, though no one knows this.
·
In 2018, Doctor Futurity reappears in New York
for the first time in nearly twenty years....
NEXT: Doctor Futurity!
This is so cool. Would love to play in some kind of over arching campaign like this! Time is my Villain, though. Still so fun to read about it...thank you for sharing!
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