Worthy of their Mettle: a Superhero Timeline

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 0:14:05 GMT spanishspy said:

Gagen had landed in Washington from Guatemala City after being dropped off in an outlying village and taking the bus to the airport. After several hours of waiting she landed in Dulles International Airport and took a bus, then the Metro, from Loudoun County to the District proper.

She settled in her apartment not far from Farragut Square and began paging through the documents, which she intended to leak. She plugged the flash drive into her laptop and began poring through them.

Military documents. Communiques from Washington and the Pentagon. Videos even. She clicked one, not bothering with the name.

A village, somewhere in the highlands, in the distance. Overhead she heard jet planes.

Then the village started burning, and she heard screams. She checked the file name.

'Napalm'

She had thought that napalm had been phased out in the years after Vietnam. Clearly that was not the case.

She clicked one of the text documents, entitled 'cultists.'

It detailed the nuances of Vucub-Caquix's cults, which had made sporadic attacks after the big war in the 80s. The particular document was dated from 1994.

"Vucub-Caquix's cultists have been activated by the entity for may years now, and raids on their compounds both in Guatemala and the United States have found documents that imply a new surge within the next few years. This seems to be in synchronization with the old Mayan Long Count calendar and heralds a new age, or 'baktun,' and this new 'baktun' is spoken of as the age of the 'true sun god,' which Vucub-Caquix purports to be. Notably, there is nothing in the Popul Vuh or other ancient sources that proclaim this to be the case.

This has seen a steadily increasing rate of cultist activation and seems to increase exponentially into the new millennium. If projections and our interpretations of cultist literature are correct, by 2012 Vucub-Caquix will return with an army of cultists as well as potentially other Maya deities.

In accordance with these facts, combined with the high proliferation of the cultist gene among descendants of the Maya of ancient times, it has been concluded that, in the name of the protection of the citizens of the United States and of the world, that the Maya minority in Guatemala and the surrounding countries must be liquidated."

So the United States thinks by killing of anybody that is of Maya descent they can prevent another great war.

[spanishspy]

Jun 5, 2017 3:29:23 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 0:14:05 GMT spanishspy said:

Gagen had landed in Washington from Guatemala City after being dropped off in an outlying village and taking the bus to the airport. After several hours of waiting she landed in Dulles International Airport and took a bus, then the Metro, from Loudoun County to the District proper.

She settled in her apartment not far from Farragut Square and began paging through the documents, which she intended to leak. She plugged the flash drive into her laptop and began poring through them.

Military documents. Communiques from Washington and the Pentagon. Videos even. She clicked one, not bothering with the name.

A village, somewhere in the highlands, in the distance. Overhead she heard jet planes.

Then the village started burning, and she heard screams. She checked the file name.

'Napalm'

She had thought that napalm had been phased out in the years after Vietnam. Clearly that was not the case.

She clicked one of the text documents, entitled 'cultists.'

It detailed the nuances of Vucub-Caquix's cults, which had made sporadic attacks after the big war in the 80s. The particular document was dated from 1994.

"Vucub-Caquix's cultists have been activated by the entity for may years now, and raids on their compounds both in Guatemala and the United States have found documents that imply a new surge within the next few years. This seems to be in synchronization with the old Mayan Long Count calendar and heralds a new age, or 'baktun,' and this new 'baktun' is spoken of as the age of the 'true sun god,' which Vucub-Caquix purports to be. Notably, there is nothing in the Popul Vuh or other ancient sources that proclaim this to be the case.

This has seen a steadily increasing rate of cultist activation and seems to increase exponentially into the new millennium. If projections and our interpretations of cultist literature are correct, by 2012 Vucub-Caquix will return with an army of cultists as well as potentially other Maya deities.

In accordance with these facts, combined with the high proliferation of the cultist gene among descendants of the Maya of ancient times, it has been concluded that, in the name of the protection of the citizens of the United States and of the world, that the Maya minority in Guatemala and the surrounding countries must be liquidated."

So the United States thinks by killing of anybody that is of Maya descent they can prevent another great war.

By doing so they think that they can limit Vucub-Caquix's power to the point it cannot cause another calamity of the scope of the 1980s. 

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 3:59:10 GMT spanishspy said:

Jun 5, 2017 3:29:23 GMT lordroel said:

So the United States thinks by killing of anybody that is of Maya descent they can prevent another great war.

By doing so they think that they can limit Vucub-Caquix's power to the point it cannot cause another calamity of the scope of the 1980s. 

So is the United States also operating in Mexico, Belize and Honduras where people of Maya descent live.

[stevep]

Jun 5, 2017 7:45:27 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 3:59:10 GMT spanishspy said:

By doing so they think that they can limit Vucub-Caquix's power to the point it cannot cause another calamity of the scope of the 1980s. 

So is the United States also operating in Mexico, Belize and Honduras where people of Maya descent live.

  Not just there.  There will probably be people with the genes in the US as well, especially if you allow for some inter-breeding between assorted populations.  True keeping the numbers low enough that Vucub-Caquix's [whatever that is] power can be kept low enough to prevent serious attacks is a different matter but is going to be bloody and controversial.  Not to mention how many other ancient deities are there out there that might be able to trigger support from populations, especially those feeling suppressed or helpless?

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 7:58:21 GMT stevep said:

Jun 5, 2017 7:45:27 GMT lordroel said:

So is the United States also operating in Mexico, Belize and Honduras where people of Maya descent live.

  Not just there.  There will probably be people with the genes in the US as well, especially if you allow for some inter-breeding between assorted populations.  True keeping the numbers low enough that Vucub-Caquix's [whatever that is] power can be kept low enough to prevent serious attacks is a different matter but is going to be bloody and controversial.  Not to mention how many other ancient deities are there out there that might be able to trigger support from populations, especially those feeling suppressed or helpless?

Might this not be consider genocide, because the United States is going after people of a certain descent, many who had nothing to do with the Florida massacre of the 80s.

[spanishspy]

Jun 5, 2017 7:45:27 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 3:59:10 GMT spanishspy said:

By doing so they think that they can limit Vucub-Caquix's power to the point it cannot cause another calamity of the scope of the 1980s. 

So is the United States also operating in Mexico, Belize and Honduras where people of Maya descent live.

There are American presences in those countries but Guatemala has the highest concentration. Being a larger country, Mexico is dealing with a lot of the cultists with its own forces with US support rather than a full military presence. 

[spanishspy]

Jun 5, 2017 8:03:42 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 7:58:21 GMT stevep said:

  Not just there.  There will probably be people with the genes in the US as well, especially if you allow for some inter-breeding between assorted populations.  True keeping the numbers low enough that Vucub-Caquix's [whatever that is] power can be kept low enough to prevent serious attacks is a different matter but is going to be bloody and controversial.  Not to mention how many other ancient deities are there out there that might be able to trigger support from populations, especially those feeling suppressed or helpless?

Might this not be consider genocide, because the United States is going after people of a certain descent, many who had nothing to do with the Florida massacre of the 80s.

That was the intended effect, yes.

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 15:54:58 GMT spanishspy said:

Jun 5, 2017 8:03:42 GMT lordroel said:

Might this not be consider genocide, because the United States is going after people of a certain descent, many who had nothing to do with the Florida massacre of the 80s.

That was the intended effect, yes.

So people of Maya descent are not popular in the United States.

[spanishspy]

Jun 5, 2017 16:14:18 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 15:54:58 GMT spanishspy said:

That was the intended effect, yes.

So people of Maya descent are not popular in the United States.

Not particularly, no. 

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 17:38:13 GMT spanishspy said:

Jun 5, 2017 16:14:18 GMT lordroel said:

So people of Maya descent are not popular in the United States.

Not particularly, no. 

Wonder if they might have their own hero to protect them.

[stevep]

Jun 5, 2017 17:47:06 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 5, 2017 17:38:13 GMT spanishspy said:

Not particularly, no. 

Wonder if they might have their own hero to protect them.

  Do you mean those in the US or the wider Maya community?  If the latter then they have Esmeralda and her organisation, plus the cultists and those who might support them probably view Vucub-Caquix in that light.  If the former then I'm not sure there would be enough of them to be likely to generate a super statistically.

[lordroel]

Jun 5, 2017 18:00:25 GMT stevep said:

Jun 5, 2017 17:47:06 GMT lordroel said:

Wonder if they might have their own hero to protect them.

  Do you mean those in the US or the wider Maya community?  If the latter then they have Esmeralda and her organisation, plus the cultists and those who might support them probably view Vucub-Caquix in that light.  If the former then I'm not sure there would be enough of them to be likely to generate a super statistically.

Sorry i meant the wider Maya community, i would except that they have their own hero to defend them, ore a the majority of the Maya community becoming under the influence of the Vucub-Caquix's due them being hunted down by United States. 

[spanishspy]

Excerpts from an article in the Washington Post Magazine, 2012, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the war against Vucub-Caquix.

[...]

The prosecution of the war however forced the United States away from commitments to other parts of the world; some lament the deity's attacks on the basis that it drew away attention from other calamities. The 1980s were for a reason a decade of misery and woe, and not only in the United States, they claim, and that American relations with other parts of the world were irrevocably harmed.

[...]

Despite being a US ally, and that his crimes would therefore not be avoided, it is believed that the United States would have at least held a leash on Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran. Massive use of superhumans and chemical weapons in its war led to millions upon millions dead on both sides, the majority civilian. Iraqi superhuman technology, given to it by the United States, was used to break Iranian defenses and smash through a repeat of World War I-era tactics to enable the massive gas bombings of Tehran and Esfahan that depopulated the majority of both cities; said advance marked the only usage of corpse-based enhancements since the 1960s. This is why Iran currently exists as a shadow of its former self, clinging more and more to authoritarian forms of Islamism that sprung from its 1979 revolution.

It is also known that Hussein tried to prolong his life with superhuman enhancements. Like Joseph Stalin, he grew gradually more deranged, which most tragically enabled the continuation of the genocide of the Kurds during the last stages of the war, and continued as the US was preoccupied with Guatemala and Russia. By 1998, Human Rights Watch declared that there was not a single Kurd left alive in Iraq.

[...]

Similarly, as the Vucub-Caquix war died down and the Russian peacekeeping mission began, the United States did not have the will to go after other crimes against humanity. The ugly dissolution of Yugoslavia and its subsequent unification under the superhuman Black George led to the similar near extinction of the Bosnian Muslim population and the significant reduction in the population of Bosnian Croats.

[...]

Yet another forgotten conflict was the genocide in Rwanda, which led to the nigh-extermination of the Tutsi population of the country, with the assistance of native-born superhumans (it is suspected that the leaders of the genocide had access to advanced information on memetosynthesis).

[...]

Other crises that were ignored were flareups with North Korea (which thankfully did not provoke a full-scale war) as well as tensions in Taiwan. The civil war in Sri Lanka was handled by mostly India, with some token support from a China wanting to exercise power in absence of the United States, as well as aid from Australia, which itself was dealing with its own domestic issues.

[...]

The most drastic change to American foreign policy not directly involving Guatemala or Russia was the relationship with the United Kingdom, which remains a shadow of its former self even today. With the eruption of war in the US and in Guatemala, all US troops partaking in the decades-long pacification mission in Ireland were withdrawn, leaving a UK that had to prepare a troop surge to compensate. Indeed, NATO was divided between the two parties, with the US' bludgeon of continued nuclear deterrent plus other forms of aid and funding forcing most of them to support the US in its war over the UK in its own war.

This withdrawal of US troops that had been in Ireland since the end of the Second World War allowed the superhumans on both sides to undertake bolder and bolder attacks on one another, including the near-obliteration of several British cities by Republican superhumans fighting for independence, leading to millions of casualties and, in conjunction with the war in the Falklands, put an end to the Thatcher government in the middle of the 1980s.

Similarly the continued US support of the Argentinean government after the Falklands War, which manifested in Argentinean support in the Guatemalan War. After the destruction of the British fleet in the Falklands the US immediately recognized the islands as part of Argentina, to which the Argentinean government happily reciprocated with further repression of Communist agitation. Today, Argentina remains one of the US-friendly authoritarian states that rule over the majority of Latin America.

This split in NATO prevented an intervention in Yugoslavia or in other countries, and only mending (and even only to a degree then) when the common cause of the Russian and broader former Eastern Bloc peacekeeping missions. European NATO troops currently compose forty percent of the Allied occupational forces in Russia and up to eighty percent in other countries.

[lordroel]

Jun 6, 2017 4:29:37 GMT spanishspy said:

Excerpts from an article in the Washington Post Magazine, 2012, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the war against Vucub-Caquix.

So is that the official name, the War against Vucub-Caquix.

[spanishspy]

Jun 6, 2017 14:06:00 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 6, 2017 4:29:37 GMT spanishspy said:

Excerpts from an article in the Washington Post Magazine, 2012, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the war against Vucub-Caquix.

So is that the official name, the War against Vucub-Caquix.

That or 'Guatemalan War,' although 'Vucub-Caquix War' generally refers to the direct attacks from 1982 to the early 90s, and 'Guatemalan War' to the occupation that began during that time and continues to the present day.