Deeds, not words!
Hyperion Force
Type:	Heroic Supergroup
Debut:	Nov. 20, 2006, founded by John Flag
Colors:	Gold and White
Logo:	Starburst
Website:	Hyperion Force
Leadership
Arc Tangent	Executive Officer
Brendan Aft	Director
Neo Trick Shot	Director
Stellar Protector	Director

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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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.

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History

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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.

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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.

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Modern Age

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.

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.

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Current Events

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.

Meanwhile, two other situations have begun to develop, involving a former member of Hyperion Force named Glimmerlok and his involvement with the Desert Rose Institute; and a potential murder attempt on Stellar Protector and an employee of Solachroma Industries.

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Base of Operations

The Mycroft Core system access

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Headquarters

The original Hyperion Force base beneath Hyperion Way in Atlas Park was a single office in one of the many subterranean warrens below the city. Although the site was continuously expanded, when the supergroup moved its headquarters to a new facility in 2007, the original base was remaindered to the Hyperion Foundation and shuttered. This was in fact an elaborate subterfuge; the site was further modernized, expanded, and even moved further below Atlas Park (the old office becoming a teleport relay site). The site was used as cold storage facility and data warehouse, but most importantly, was used as the site to develop future technologies, specifically the next generations of the Hyperion Force supercomputer.

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Mycroft Core

Previously, all supercomputers used by Hyperion Force were of the Mycroft family (including the most recent version 4), built from technologies derived from Masterson Industries and even Crey Enterprises. The current Hyperion Force supercomputer does not follow that design lineage. Following the recovery of the proto-computing technology in the Ouroboros episode of September 2007, it quickly became clear that Mycroft system could not execute this unfamiliar technology. To this end, the Mycroft system was engaged to design a system that could execute this technology. The result of this effort was the Mycroft Core series, of which three generations have been architected and completed. This project ran in parallel to the design of Mycroft 5.0 at Hyperion Force headquarters, which was destroyed in the explosion that annihilated that facility in August of 2008.

The Mycroft Core took stewardship of Hyperion Force following that disaster. It is the eighth major supercomputer for Hyperion Force, the previous five generations of the Mycroft system, and three versions of the Mycroft Core (all of which are currently in use - see below).

What is thought of as the Hyperion Force computer system is actually three major systems. The Mycroft Core itself is a sentient artificial intelligence that oversees the operation of all three systems, primary roles are stewardship, analysis, and strategic planning. The Sherrinford Core was the first of the new computer systems following the Ouroboros episode and was integrated into later generations. This system handles almost all of the day-to-day transactional functions of the supergroup, including base operations, resource handling, communications, and security. The Sigerson Core was the second system developed, and handles data warehousing and archive functions.

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Telepads

Following the transfer of the headquarters back to the Hyperion Way site, the former cryonics/cryotronics laboratory was converted to house the bulk of the supergroup's telepads, supplementing the existing transport chamber. Hyperion Force's telepads service all twenty-one of the existing beacons in and around Paragon City.

An unintended side-effect of this arrangement is that the large teleport bay is significantly colder than the rest of the base, due to the nitrogen conduits that run through its floor and walls.

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Medbay

As part of the transition, equipment from the specBio projects were placed into storage, and a fully-equipped operating suite built, complete with AutoDoc support (dubbed "Dr. Watson"), supplementing the Intensive Care suite and standard dispensary. Two recovery bays supplement these suites.

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Hangar

A small craft hangar has been added to accommodate and service small aircraft. Originally, this was a Eurocopter Dauphin, but was upgraded to a Longbow Flyer in early 2008. The hangar's roof opens up to a shaft that eventually exits at a location somewhere in Perez Park.

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Lounge

The original Hyperion Force office was rumored to have been a speak-easy in Prohibition-Era Paragon City. This rumor was ultimately disproved (following a bet), but as a nod to this wager, the new Hyperion Force lounge is modeled with recovered vintage-era twenties stylings and furnishings, including its mixing counter and recycled brickwork (created by the Striga Isle Brickworks in 1909). The lounge also feaures a dancefloor and a state-of-the-art sound system.

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Miscellaneous

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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

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