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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 3:40:20 GMT
To counter this growing wave, Congress passed the Superhuman Security Act, placing all superhumans under military auspices once their powers were discovered. With the growth of superhuman technology, the ability to detect enhanced abilities was made much easier at younger ages. Is the Superhuman Security Act like the Registration act from the Marvelverse. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2017 3:42:52 GMT
To counter this growing wave, Congress passed the Superhuman Security Act, placing all superhumans under military auspices once their powers were discovered. With the growth of superhuman technology, the ability to detect enhanced abilities was made much easier at younger ages. Is the Superhuman Security Act like the Registration act from the Marvelverse. Like that moreso; here Superhumans are automatically conscripted into the military. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 3:44:13 GMT
Like that moreso; here Superhumans are automatically conscripted into the military. I do not hope the United States uses child soldiers, even if they have superpowers. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2017 5:43:52 GMT
Like that moreso; here Superhumans are automatically conscripted into the military. I do not hope the United States uses child soldiers, even if they have superpowers. Superhuman soldiers are not deployed until they finish what would at least be an undergraduate level of education as well as sufficient levels of training. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 13:44:01 GMT
I do not hope the United States uses child soldiers, even if they have superpowers. Superhuman soldiers are not deployed until they finish what would at least be an undergraduate level of education as well as sufficient levels of training. So they are special special forces. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2017 13:50:41 GMT
Superhuman soldiers are not deployed until they finish what would at least be an undergraduate level of education as well as sufficient levels of training. So they are special special forces. Essentially. There are not enough superhumans to serve as normal infantry. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 13:58:03 GMT
So they are special special forces. Essentially. There are not enough superhumans to serve as normal infantry. But enough to serve as special forces. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2017 14:06:32 GMT
Essentially. There are not enough superhumans to serve as normal infantry. But enough to serve as special forces. That would be accurate. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 14:38:50 GMT
Currently, there are several superhuman training academies throughout the United States; these include the Rybalkin Superhuman Educational Institute in Leesburg, Virginia, the LeFew School for the Supernaturally Gifted in Columbia, Tennessee (affiliated with Vanderbilt University), the Federal Institute for Superhuman Education in Elko, Nevada, and the Moncure Institute for Superhuman Development in Hanford, California, among others scattered throughout the country. No version of this universe xavier school for gifted youngsters. |
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Post by stevep on Jun 19, 2017 16:20:39 GMT
Currently, there are several superhuman training academies throughout the United States; these include the Rybalkin Superhuman Educational Institute in Leesburg, Virginia, the LeFew School for the Supernaturally Gifted in Columbia, Tennessee (affiliated with Vanderbilt University), the Federal Institute for Superhuman Education in Elko, Nevada, and the Moncure Institute for Superhuman Development in Hanford, California, among others scattered throughout the country. No version of this universe xavier school for gifted youngsters. Well I did notice the above organisation but obvipusly its vastly different from Professor Xavier's vision in the Marvel universe. As I said on another site I can see a lot of people seeking to avoid conscription for themselves or even more their children, probably with a move overseas to a friendly nation. Not to mention since this has been occurring for several decades at least it means making such a force unisex, which might affect some. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2017 16:44:13 GMT
No version of this universe xavier school for gifted youngsters. Well I did notice the above organisation but obvipusly its vastly different from Professor Xavier's vision in the Marvel universe. As I said on another site I can see a lot of people seeking to avoid conscription for themselves or even more their children, probably with a move overseas to a friendly nation. Not to mention since this has been occurring for several decades at least it means making such a force unisex, which might affect some. Thanks for noticing that school Steve. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 19, 2017 18:10:07 GMT
No version of this universe xavier school for gifted youngsters. Well I did notice the above organisation but obvipusly its vastly different from Professor Xavier's vision in the Marvel universe. As I said on another site I can see a lot of people seeking to avoid conscription for themselves or even more their children, probably with a move overseas to a friendly nation. Not to mention since this has been occurring for several decades at least it means making such a force unisex, which might affect some. I don't see why the LeFew school is particularly interesting to you; it's one of several secondary schools for superhumans. The general concept of these schools was in part intended as a deconstruction of things like Xavier's school, yes, in the way this timeline does to superhero tropes as a whole. |
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Post by stevep on Jun 19, 2017 21:23:29 GMT
Well I did notice the above organisation but obvipusly its vastly different from Professor Xavier's vision in the Marvel universe. As I said on another site I can see a lot of people seeking to avoid conscription for themselves or even more their children, probably with a move overseas to a friendly nation. Not to mention since this has been occurring for several decades at least it means making such a force unisex, which might affect some. I don't see why the LeFew school is particularly interesting to you; it's one of several secondary schools for superhumans. The general concept of these schools was in part intended as a deconstruction of things like Xavier's school, yes, in the way this timeline does to superhero tropes as a whole. Just that it sounded very like the name of the X-men acadmy in the Marvel stories.  |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 20, 2017 2:45:45 GMT
I don't see why the LeFew school is particularly interesting to you; it's one of several secondary schools for superhumans. The general concept of these schools was in part intended as a deconstruction of things like Xavier's school, yes, in the way this timeline does to superhero tropes as a whole. Just that it sounded very like the name of the X-men acadmy in the Marvel stories. That is also something that i notice, but it seems it is not the case. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 20, 2017 3:32:03 GMT
Excerpt from the Online Superhuman Database, 2012
The Superhero Team was developed by the United States Department of Defense in the aftermath of the Korean War, and first used in major deployment in Vietnam.
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During the Second World War and the Korean War the United States, like all other nations at the time, integrated their superhumans into the rank and file armed forces without their own units. However, a contingent of superhumans had banded together during the Battle of Pusan Perimeter, calling themselves the Arsenal of Democracy after the American moniker during the Second World War. These heroes, mostly veterans of that earlier conflict, were instrumental in fighting of North Korean and Chinese forces from South Korea.
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During the war, the Office of Superhuman Research was still attempting to gain additional funding from Washington. Using a significant amount of money, head researcher Jasper Lefew had hired Edward Bernays, the great propagandist, to help him present his case to the American public: that Superhumans were the future.
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The notion of having superhuman teams curated for special abilities coordinated was still being studied by the OSR, but Bernays offered another compelling reason for their use: propaganda. Taking influence from the pulp comic books of the day such as National Comics Publications and Atlas Comics, the superhumans deployed in Korea and later Vietnam and elsewhere would be organized into teams and aggressively sold to the public as embodiments of freedom, democracy, and liberalism against godless Communism.
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The success of Lefew's and Bernays' program led to surging support for superhuman research and development among the American public; comic books, toys, and films were commissioned detailing the real and fictionalized adventures of American superhumans. In 1956, the same year that Stalin would drop a nuclear bomb on Kaposvar and the defection of Lubomir Rybalkin and his ilk, Congress authorized the Superhuman Development Act, providing a significant amount of money to the OSR and the formalization of the superhero team as the standard method of deployment in western militaries.
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