Category:Hyperion Force
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Hyperion Force | |
| Type: | Heroic Supergroup |
|---|---|
| Debut: | Nov. 20, 2006, founded by John Flag |
| Colors: | Gold and White |
| Logo: | Starburst |
| Website: | Hyperion Force |
| Leadership | |
| Mercurial Talon | Executive Officer |
| Stellar Protector | Executive Officer |
| Nivera | Director |
| Cyber Wrath | Advocate |
| Millenium Guardian | Advocate |
| Playerbase | |
| Levels: | Any |
| Play style: | Reasonably Casual |
| Roleplay: | Expected and Required |
| Timezone(s): | US Eastern to Pacific -
see website for details |
| Recruiting: | Always |
| Contact: | Any current leader, as above |
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues.
- Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian
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[edit] Mission
Hyperion Force is a supergroup chartered by Paragon City to fight crime and all those who threaten the peace and well-being of all of the city's law-abiding citizens. Specific to its operating principles, Hyperion Force is a service organization to the community and believes in the power of inclusion as opposed to exclusion, both in the people it serves and within its own ranks.
[edit] Current Roster
Active Membership
A list of former members of importance can be found here.
[edit] History
[edit] Origin and Golden Age
Hyperion Force began as a small association of crime-fighters and adventurers in the halcyon days of Paragon City following the first Rikti Invasion. John Flag and Neo Trick Shot were the team's prominent leaders in these early days, a role that eventually transitioned to Brendan Aft.
The Force started out with little more than a wing and a prayer, and an abandoned Council base purchased at a state auction. As soon as the ink had dried on the registration forms, founder John Flag was faced with the problem of attracting members to the organization when candidates had the option of choosing membership with more established teams, with better resources. While the original Hyperion Force headquarters was located underneath Hyperion Way in Atlas Park, and was furnished with a mini-fridge, an officious looking desk, filing cabinet and cork bulletin board, it hardly compared to having access to the city’s teleportation grid, or any resources of a super heroic nature.
This led to possibly the most painfully honest recruitment speech ever broadcasted over the city’s airwaves: "We're a starting hero group. Honestly, we have nothing. No fancy teleporters, no cool medical bays, no sweet super computers. In fact 'nothing' is what we're hoping to get to one day." Surprisingly, John Flag's announcement netted the Force its first few members.
The concerns of Hyperion Force in this era was the fight against rampant crime and the group was instrumental in the united front against the Fifth Column.
[edit] Silver Age of Hyperion Force
With Neo Trick Shot on extended leave, Brendan Aft was joined by Alexia Dale as leaders of Hyperion Force. John Flag returned to Paragon City after his own sabbatical, and this core leadership ushered Hyperion Force into a new era.
The re-constituted group inaugurated a new base below Atlas Park, which it swiftly out-grew several times, commensurate with its rise into the ranks of the top 100 supergroups of Paragon City on the city registrar. Hyperion Force was heavily involved in the the second Rikti Invasion, and in this era counted the forces of the Rularuu and the Praetorians amongst its greatest nemeses (this latter group would infiltrate the Force ranks on several occasions). Numerous intrigues and adventures occurred during the era of Hyperion Force, including the infamous Photinus episode.
Following the marriage of Brendan Aft to Ava Adore and their eventual departure and the move of Alexia Dale and John Flag to the inactive ranks, the leadership roles were again in transition, as was the roster of Hyperion Force. The silver age of Hyperion Force ended.
[edit] Modern Age
[edit] The Explosive Beginning
At midnight, Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 a bomb exploded near the central power core of the Hyperion Force base, causing a core reaction and the implosion of the structure. Preliminary analysis indicates that the device had long been dormant in the facility and was composed of advanced materials, perhaps dark matter in origin (as xenon spectro-analyzed by a robotic probe in the hours following the implosion). The implosion resulted in the complete loss of the Microft 5.0 computing core and attendant data archives, but off-site analysis of facility records indicate several possible security breaches in December 2007 at the time of the Photinus episode. The analysis was inconclusive and it was recommended that a field team investigate the site further. Due to assignment status of the large majority of the group's members, it was believed that the facility was empty at the time and that were no casualties in the incident.
At 1:00 am on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008, the experimental Mycroft Core at the Hyperion Force Skunk Works/Cold Storage Facility (located in the original Hyperion Force subterranean base below Hyperion Way in Atlas Park) automatically came online, triggered by the downing of the main Microft 5.0 Core and assumed stewardship of Hyperion Force functions. The Mycroft Core was itself designed by the Mycroft supercomputer as its eventual replacement and to perform specialized computing functions, incorporating the Arc Tangent daemon/programming recovered in September 2007 by Brendan Aft in the Ouroborus episode. Mycroft's first tasks were to probe the remains of the old base and to contact the system administrators. Failing this latter task, the Mycroft Core initiated the revivification process on the Arc Tangent entity.
Following the death of Arc Tangent's original host body, it had been hoped that the data seed recovered by Brendan Aft could be re-united with a clone of that original body. This "tabula rasa" project had not finished its scheduled runtime, but upon consideration of the circumstances, the Mycroft Core accelerated the final phase of the program, filling gaps in the data seed with data from the Hyperion Force DNA and Personality Engrams archives.
[edit] Rebuilding The Force
At 6:00 am on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008, the Arc Tangent entity emerged from cold storage was was tasked with the rebuilding of Hyperion Force. Arc Tangent quickly assembled a new core of heroes, such as Eagle Nebula, Hypervox, Mercurial Talon, Stellar Protector, and Twiceforged. Members of this core discovered hints that the bomb might have been set by a former member of Hyperion Force. Further, Arachnos had taken an interest in the destroyed base, and hinted that the organization had captured someone they identified as "the girl"-shortly before the old base was obliterated.
The investigation was far from fruitless; a card was recovered from the old base's storage-a magical artifact that recorded events that occurred in its presence. With the help of mystics, it was determined that a magical binding had been placed on the card, preventing revelation of its secrets. The way to unlock it would be to cast the proper spells, at the proper time, at the proper location. The time was during the days of night, when Paragon City was shrouded in darkness. The place was an old church in Salamanca-but its location was lost.
Hyperion Force located the church, and with the help of mystics, drew the information "recorded" by the card into the mind of Mercurial Talon. Arc Tangent, utilizing the technology of the Mycroft Core, was able to create a virtual simulation of the events recorded through Mercurial Talon's mind.
The simulation was enlightening and confusing all at once-it appeared that future versions of Arc Tangent and Mercurial Talon were responsible for destroying the old base! The only lead that remained was the girl captured by Arachnos, whom Arc Tangent hypothesized might be the surviving Mercurial Talon from the future. In order to verify this, the core group infiltrated a newly formed Arachnos brigade (led by Operative Rostov). The group was able to determine the location of the captive-who did indeed appear to be Mercurial Talon's future counterpart. Before a rescue operation could be set into motion, she was killed-and an ensuing escape from the Rogue Islands cost the life of Hypervox as well.
[edit] Expansion
Hyperion Force continued to experience new growth, and new challenges. Nivera was possessed by a daemon known as Vetis, which was called forth by the Circle of Thorns; only the efforts of her teammates were able to exorcise the being before it could wreak unimaginable havoc. A rogue Peacebringer called Corona Storm made multiple attempts on the life of Stellar Protector, fearing the nature of his Stellar Gem. The Cold Iron Kid was murdered by the assassin Ebon Thunderbolt; the assassin would later nearly take the life of Arc Tangent as well. Arc Tangent would utilize time-travel technology to uncover the secrets surrounding the status of former member Glimmerlok. And all the while, the reborn Hyperion Force increased their ties to other heroic groups such as the United Sentinels of America and Union Supreme.
By the end of March 2009, however, Arc Tangent chose to leave Hyperion Force, having taken wounds in mind and body, to reside permanently in an alternate timeline, courtesy of the Menders of Ouroboros. Mercurial Talon and Stellar Protector would take over the reins of Hyperion Force toward the future.
The new leadership immediately worked to deal with the challenges offered by Arc Tangent's departure. One of the first tasks begun was to upgrade the remnants of the Mycroft supercomputer to a new iteration of hardware, incorporating alien technologies in addition to the advances pioneered by the Mycroft Core. The upgrade was completed by the end of April, 2009, although it did not become fully operational until mid-May.
This period of vulnerability opened up the home base to the assassin Ebon Thunderbolt, who invaded and stole most of the available information stored on the computer systems. It also left the Hyperion Force communications open to hacking by the Garak-Khan assassin, Nazgan Resh, who had his own agenda concerning Millenium Guardian. Despite these issues, the Force was able to overcome Resh and Ebon, and both were sent to prison.
[edit] Current Events
Today, Hyperion Force continues to keep most of its attention on the dangers in Paragon City, although it does not restrict itself to the city's borders when it comes to dealing with villainy. Arachnos is by far the most regular antagonist of the Force, but every group of criminals in the city has learned to anticipate defeat when the word comes that Hyperion Force is here!
[edit] Base of Operations
Main Article: The Home Base
The home base of Hyperion Force has undergone various upgrades and relocations in its history. At present, the base is located underneath Atlas Park, built up from the original base. While that location had been utilized for technological development and cold storage, the events of August 2008 prompted a return to the facility to rebuild and expand for a new Hyperion Force roster.
The base currently includes full medical facilities, storage, workshop areas, and teleporter access to all available regions in Paragon City-including a portal to Pocket D.
[edit] Miscellaneous
[edit] Virtueverse notes
Members of Hyperion Force who have a page on the Virtueverse site should feel free to make use of the HyperionBox template for their character bios! Alternatively, members may use a modification of the ModBox; follow the instructions on that page, but use the templates {{ModBox/Hyperion}} and {{CharMod/Hyperion}} when the instructions call for use of those templates; for example your ModBox should start looking similar to this:
{{ModBox/Hyperion
| mod1={{CharMod/Hyperion
If you wish to display the character's rank in the Force, add to the CharMod parameters
|hyperionrank=
Use the rank listed in the SG roster.
Also, at the end of your page, you may also add the template {{Hyperion Force}}, which offers fast links to other members.
[edit] Recruiting
Hyperion Force is presently seeking driven and motivated heroes of Paragon City with solid ethic looking to help us in fighting crime in the city and in supporting other heroes of all types. Regardless of past history, good or bad, everyone is welcome with the Force, which has had a varied roster. The roster in the past as been made up of robots, demons, cyborgs, mutants, aliens, undead, faeries, scientists (both mad and quite sane) and many others. For further details, see our website as linked in our info box above.Articles in category "Hyperion Force"
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