Set in a world very similar to ours, year 2015, science has done some major leaps of advancement when it comes to biology. In the UK they have cloning down to a fine art and across the globe tampering with your genes is all the rage. Whether it's to permanently change the colour of your eyes or hair, the texture of your skin or obtain superpowers, it's all possible! However, the latter is considered illegal, but since when has that stopped anyone? There's an entire underground network that deals in granting people superpowers as long as they have the cash for it.
People who mess with their own genes are known as Genetamps and public opinion on them is pretty divided. There are those who consider it a way of humanity evolving and others who consider it blasphemy and object to "tampering with what God has given you". There is a mutual wariness when it comes to those with superpowers since the potential for things to go wrong is high with them and there have been plenty of incidents that proved as much. There are those who take advantage of their powers and turn to crime and there's been a number of accidents where someone's powers went out of control. It's for those reasons that the government tries its best to crack down on illegal tampering and goes after these powered individuals to depower them again. Of course the military has taken an interest in these superhuman abilities too. All in all the superhuman community is a pretty hushed one, but it's one that's slowly on the rise as more and more people tamper with their genes to new extremes.
In the popular Genetamp city of NEWSTON there are even those who have taken it upon themselves to publicly use their powers for good, creating a superhero team known as the NEW FORCE. Heroes, villains, anything is possible in this world where people can decide the course of their own evolution, it can be hard to tell who is who and what is what.
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infiltrative) wrote2013-09-18 04:04 pm
