United Earth Background
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:03 pm
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The Secret History:
A Review of the Origin and Role of Superbeings in History
One of the first questions that needs to be answered in a world with superbeings is where do the superpowers come from? It turns out there are four classes that most superhumans fall into.
(1) Metahumans:
Those supers with the inborn abilities are known as metahumans. The fact of being a metahumans is generally due to a dominant gene that is common to all metahumans. Most metahumans gain their abilities after puberty, but many require some kind of life threatening episode in order for their abilities to surface. It is not uncommon for the powers gained to fulfill some kind of deep subconscious desire. At this time it is NOT possible to do a genetic scan to reveal if someone is a metahumans, but many scientists are currently trying to solve this question. [Some metahumans have abilities that are generally not recognized as such, like super intelligence.]
(2) Magic-Based:
Magic is simply a "science" that conventional science does not have a clue about, and most of the practitioners can barely understand. Given the time, effort, materials, and training, many people could learn to cast some spells. The problem is that magic is not evident to most people in the world, and is generally counter to human intuition (like Einstein's special theory of relativity). This has led magic to be a closely guarded secret that most people do not even believe in.
(3) Highly Trained Normal:
A highly trained normal is someone that has no superhuman abilities, but is generally an olympic class athlete that used skill to try to raise themselves to the level of the superhumans. They are generally just below the level of many of the super beings, but they sometimes use technology to raise themselves to be on par.
(4) Other:
This is the catch-all category that would include things like aliens, extra-dimension creatures or anything not mentioned above.
Superbeings and Aliens in our History:
The first form of superpowered beings were metahumans that were lucky enough to have two recessive genes that made them a metahumans. Early man believed these metahumans to be witches or magicians. Soon man was starting to form villages, and the power that was used caused others to try to learn to use the magic. Since the powers were genetic, this was of course impossible, but this still led others down the path toward true magical powers. It is believed but some that many of the early biblical characters, were metahumans and although most of their miracles were fictionalized, they did have roots in fact. Evidence suggests that most of the metahumans were very low powered by today's standards, and had little effect on the flow of history.
The first aliens that are beliverd to have visited the Earth were members of the Binary Brotherhood (BB), and they did so just before the rise of the Greek Empire. It is the belief of this author that they not only were the real basis for the Greek Gods (and perhaps other Gods as well), but they also decided to make alterations to the human geneome. For many years they interacted with humans and collected samples for genetic research. Many of the great "heroes" and tales of this era where undoubtedly inspired by either metahumans or members of the Brotherhood themselves. Again history continued to flow with metahumans escaping notice by most historians. It is very possible that the Binary Brotherhood continued to watch the Earth from this point on and that they have detailed historical records of out history from this point on.
The next time that a major metahuman appeared was in England in the late 13th century. Merlin and Morgan LaFay were two rival metahumans. It appears that Merlin had various elemental powers and the ability to boost the abilities of others [various aids], where as Morgan had various weather controlling powers. These two great metahuman again had little effect on history since they spent most of the time battling each other.
Some additional examples from the American frontier that were believed to be real are Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Davey Crockett. These metahumans had good hearts and used their abilities to push civilization forward, but like the metahumans before them, they did not dramatically change the world.
In 1908, a mysterious blast leveled a large forest in the Tunguska River valley in the former Soviet Union. Evidence suggests that this was actually the work of the Binary Brotherhood and historic records seem to show that metahumans became more common throughout the world. Some experts say that this is just a confirmation bias to the fact we have more records from the time.
Either way the world was influenced little by metahumans until World War II. It is well documented that during that era there were three super teams in the world. The U.S. had the Liberty Patriots (L.P.), Germans had the Iron Armada (I.A.), and the Japanese had the Red Suns (R.S.). The team that was not known until the documents were recently released was the United States secret defenders, the Golden Guardians (G.G.). With two notable exceptions these metahumans most often battled again each other, there by minimizing their effects on the war. The I.A. was noted for sinking many English ships and destroying many sites in England before the U.S. entered the war and the L.P. came to fight the I.A. The Red Suns were responsible for killing the radar operators in Hawaii so that Pearl Harbor could be bombed.
After WWII, the number of super powered beings declined for a short time. The Chinese were known to have super team in the 1960's and then during the 1970's the organizations VIPER, DEMON and Genocide became known. However, as had been shown in the past, these groups had little affect on history.
In 1981 United Stated government formed the super powered group the Protectors. In 1982, Knufu [one of the leaders of the BB] landed on the White House lawn and claimed the Earth for the Binary Brotherhood. He and his troops fought the Protectors, and he managed to capture two heroes of the four member of the Protectors, Shrunken and Thunderwind. Neither hero has been heard from since that day. The BB returned in 1984 in attempt to gather more information and more subjects. They captured Captain Invulnerable and the families of the previous victims.
After this point, hero and villain groups have become more common place and the federal government has put out a call and the players in this game have answered that call.
The Secret History:
A Review of the Origin and Role of Superbeings in History
One of the first questions that needs to be answered in a world with superbeings is where do the superpowers come from? It turns out there are four classes that most superhumans fall into.
(1) Metahumans:
Those supers with the inborn abilities are known as metahumans. The fact of being a metahumans is generally due to a dominant gene that is common to all metahumans. Most metahumans gain their abilities after puberty, but many require some kind of life threatening episode in order for their abilities to surface. It is not uncommon for the powers gained to fulfill some kind of deep subconscious desire. At this time it is NOT possible to do a genetic scan to reveal if someone is a metahumans, but many scientists are currently trying to solve this question. [Some metahumans have abilities that are generally not recognized as such, like super intelligence.]
(2) Magic-Based:
Magic is simply a "science" that conventional science does not have a clue about, and most of the practitioners can barely understand. Given the time, effort, materials, and training, many people could learn to cast some spells. The problem is that magic is not evident to most people in the world, and is generally counter to human intuition (like Einstein's special theory of relativity). This has led magic to be a closely guarded secret that most people do not even believe in.
(3) Highly Trained Normal:
A highly trained normal is someone that has no superhuman abilities, but is generally an olympic class athlete that used skill to try to raise themselves to the level of the superhumans. They are generally just below the level of many of the super beings, but they sometimes use technology to raise themselves to be on par.
(4) Other:
This is the catch-all category that would include things like aliens, extra-dimension creatures or anything not mentioned above.
Superbeings and Aliens in our History:
The first form of superpowered beings were metahumans that were lucky enough to have two recessive genes that made them a metahumans. Early man believed these metahumans to be witches or magicians. Soon man was starting to form villages, and the power that was used caused others to try to learn to use the magic. Since the powers were genetic, this was of course impossible, but this still led others down the path toward true magical powers. It is believed but some that many of the early biblical characters, were metahumans and although most of their miracles were fictionalized, they did have roots in fact. Evidence suggests that most of the metahumans were very low powered by today's standards, and had little effect on the flow of history.
The first aliens that are beliverd to have visited the Earth were members of the Binary Brotherhood (BB), and they did so just before the rise of the Greek Empire. It is the belief of this author that they not only were the real basis for the Greek Gods (and perhaps other Gods as well), but they also decided to make alterations to the human geneome. For many years they interacted with humans and collected samples for genetic research. Many of the great "heroes" and tales of this era where undoubtedly inspired by either metahumans or members of the Brotherhood themselves. Again history continued to flow with metahumans escaping notice by most historians. It is very possible that the Binary Brotherhood continued to watch the Earth from this point on and that they have detailed historical records of out history from this point on.
The next time that a major metahuman appeared was in England in the late 13th century. Merlin and Morgan LaFay were two rival metahumans. It appears that Merlin had various elemental powers and the ability to boost the abilities of others [various aids], where as Morgan had various weather controlling powers. These two great metahuman again had little effect on history since they spent most of the time battling each other.
Some additional examples from the American frontier that were believed to be real are Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Davey Crockett. These metahumans had good hearts and used their abilities to push civilization forward, but like the metahumans before them, they did not dramatically change the world.
In 1908, a mysterious blast leveled a large forest in the Tunguska River valley in the former Soviet Union. Evidence suggests that this was actually the work of the Binary Brotherhood and historic records seem to show that metahumans became more common throughout the world. Some experts say that this is just a confirmation bias to the fact we have more records from the time.
Either way the world was influenced little by metahumans until World War II. It is well documented that during that era there were three super teams in the world. The U.S. had the Liberty Patriots (L.P.), Germans had the Iron Armada (I.A.), and the Japanese had the Red Suns (R.S.). The team that was not known until the documents were recently released was the United States secret defenders, the Golden Guardians (G.G.). With two notable exceptions these metahumans most often battled again each other, there by minimizing their effects on the war. The I.A. was noted for sinking many English ships and destroying many sites in England before the U.S. entered the war and the L.P. came to fight the I.A. The Red Suns were responsible for killing the radar operators in Hawaii so that Pearl Harbor could be bombed.
After WWII, the number of super powered beings declined for a short time. The Chinese were known to have super team in the 1960's and then during the 1970's the organizations VIPER, DEMON and Genocide became known. However, as had been shown in the past, these groups had little affect on history.
In 1981 United Stated government formed the super powered group the Protectors. In 1982, Knufu [one of the leaders of the BB] landed on the White House lawn and claimed the Earth for the Binary Brotherhood. He and his troops fought the Protectors, and he managed to capture two heroes of the four member of the Protectors, Shrunken and Thunderwind. Neither hero has been heard from since that day. The BB returned in 1984 in attempt to gather more information and more subjects. They captured Captain Invulnerable and the families of the previous victims.
After this point, hero and villain groups have become more common place and the federal government has put out a call and the players in this game have answered that call.