Pacific City Chronicles

Steel Corps Steel Corps is made up of mercenaries that use robotic technology. Several types of armored merc are available to them, all the way up to military-grade main-battle-tank-level mecha suits. many of the members are cyborgs and some are robots or androids. Steeel Corps usually hires itself out as covert military units for governments who don't want personal involvement, corporations who wish some illegal weapons muscle, or to combat metahumans for various villains. They also stage raids on high-tech facilities and sometimes steal new robotic suits or prototypes. Sometimes they kidnap scientists to design upgrades, or make emergency repairs they cannot.

Bloody Mary It's said there has always been a Bloody Mary, but then with an assassin of her caliber legends spring up like drops of rain. She's told at least five convincing, provable and conflicting accounts of her life including that she was trained at the original Shaolin Temple, that she is the reincarnation of Kali born to usher in a new age of destruction, and that she is Morrigan, Goddess of Death, bound to a mortal body until she kills as many people as there are stars in the sky. That she is a metahuman of some type is undeniable. She's been seen to walk through walls, and survive a direct hit from a space-based laser platform. She seems to have a weakness regarding fire but most that have faced her and lived have outwitted her in some way rather than face her in direct combat. She only tries to kill a person once per contract. If she fails, the contract must be renegotiated. Given her price and that she only accepts payment in advance in diamonds of the first wate...

Canada's Main Superteam: AEGIS Referring to the invulnerable shield of Zeus, AEGIS is the largest superteam in Canada and the only one with national recognition. It's funded by the government, with a base in Toronto and one in Vancouver. It's had many members over the years, usually staying around six, but has been sometimes as high as nine. Aegis Leader of AEGIS Secret ID : Gavin Lords Powers and Equipment: Superstrength, flight, highly resistant to damage, solar beams from eyes. History: It's known Aegis has ties to the Canadian government on some level. He's the founder and leader of the team for the past 10 years, though he's now the only original member left. Gavin was born with his superpowers and trained in a government facility all his life to control them. Mobius Secret ID: Amanda Lords Powers and Equipment: Teleportation, opening wormholes in space, time travel History: Amanda Lords is Aegis' older sister, also born a mutant with the ability to ...

Doctor Arachne She has the form of an emaciated young woman with thin spider-legs attached to her back. They look too fragile to work, but they support her weight, spin steel-strong webbing cables, and are tipped with deadly poisonous barbs. She is an android created by persons unknown (despite reports otherwise, Die Nachtspinne is not her creator but he may have had a hand in her creation) to further the Nazi cause. She does this with the bloody single-mindedness of a machine, but she has been known to display emotion and be swayed by arguement. She is very intelligent and can keep track of hundreds of plans all at once. She commands hundreds of troops, legions of semi-autonomous robots, elite forces like the Spider Trooper pictured here, at least a dozen supervillains, (including the former 'sidekick' of Die Nachtspinne), and an organization that brings in tens of billions in illegal and legitimate monies. She is considered a Class A threat by the UN Security Council and AT...

ARACHOS Arachos was formed in 1937 by a Nazi physician interested in psychological manipulation, Doktor Blud. It was a secret spy organization meant to experiment with terror techniques but it became so much more... Blud soon was tasked with creating and recruiting metahumans in the beginning days of Hitler's regime, especially psychics. Die Nachtspinne was one of his first recruits, and proved to be one of the most horrific villains of the war with his mind manipulation powers. In many ways he planted the seeds that later blossomed into the HUAC scares almost two decades later. After the War, Arachos was fragmented by spyhunters and heroes, driven underground in a half-doxen different guises. Each part tried to ressurect itself but usually failed before it achieved much. Finally, in 1975, it was reborn when The Iron Ring brought all the survivors together for the first time since VE-Day. The scientists and their proteges, the aged spymasters with vast webs of contacts, the technic...

Legion Legion is a mystic with eight non-human souls bound to him; each holds a different ability for him to use. He is a former member of Westguard, and highly regarded in the Pacific City mystic community, though he is quite disturbing to deal with. Maybe it's the way he constantly talks to the other souls in his body, or how his voice has an inhuman 'depth' to it that you don't normally hear outside of small choirs. 'Jackie the Vampire Slayer' No-one knows Jackie's real name or why she despises vampires with a passional that borders on the pathological. What is known is that she's turned herself into a living weapon against the undead. Armed with several weapons of her own invention and a very practical working knowledge about vampires, she tries to kill as many as she can by any means needed. Most people avoid her, and only seek her out when they have an undead problem they can't solve by other means. She works cheap and she gets as dirty as nee...

Most of my vampire inspiration comes from Buffy and from the Harry Dresden books. Vampires exist and have much the same weaknesses and strengths as your typical Buffy vampire: they are strong as four or five men, they can be shot and stabbed with little effect unless it's in the right place (heart or brain), they burn in direct sunlight but can stand indirect light for a time, they die instantly if staked or beheaded or if enough fire is used on them, they must drink blood but it can be animal blood. There is a class of vampire that is basically mindless; these are created when someone needs a group of savage killers but doesn't want to really increase the vampire population in the city. They disintergrate by themselves in about 24-72 hours after they rise. There is a large subclass where power flows in the bloodline - if you kill the sire, the children revert to normal humans (dying quickly if beyond their normal lifespan). There are rarer classes or types of vampire, all wi...

SIBL Supers Information B-Layer A network protocol that effectively creates a 'shadow Internet', allowing registered metahumans and law enforcement to share information, databases, email and more in a more secure environment. It's a secure registration-only system that can work from any device connected to the net, thanks to the software engine invented by SCI-Tech.

SIGMA Superhuman Incident General Management Agency This is a division of the Defense Department. It deals with all metahuman threats to the safety and security of the United States and also maintains the two metahuman-capable confinement facilities in Washington state and Louisiana. ATLAS Advanced Tactical Liason to Allied States The United Nations metahuman resource management council, which recruits, trains and equips the UN 'Superteam' for us in UN rescue and military operations. By UN resolution, it is the only body officially allowed to field metahumans in a military capacity though most of the First World countries maintain OTHR Office of Trans-Human Resources This is a division of the Justice Department, concerned with crimes against metahumans, material and monentary aid to victims of metahuman crimes or abilities, and civil rights issues. It is often at odds with SIGMA. MK-ULTRA This was the secret branch of the CIA that experimented on metahumans in the early 1960...

Star Man Real Name: Rhikos Uteryu (Rick Young) Powers and Equipment : Transtellar flight, super senses, greatly enhanced intelligence and the ability to channel cosmic energy into a variety of devestating effects. History : A quasi-living andriod created as a sentient star probe by the energy beings of the Quiyen Galaxy, Rhikos found Earth in the early 1100's and infiltrated human society to observe and report back to his masters if the world was suitable for colonization. He was damaged in the Crusades by a Fosek energy spear and spent the next 800 years deactivated. When he was revived by construction work in 1967, he realized that much of his control programming was gone; he was truly a free-willed creature for the first time and able to access all his considerable abilities with no restraint. By doing so, he sacrifices his effective immortality by placing irreperable strain on his systems, but he considers the shortened lifespan a just trade to help his adopted world. Maelstrom...

Nightfox Real Name: Tiffany Foxe Powers and Equipment: Nightfox has no superpowers; she depends on her amazing speed and agility to keep her out of harm's way. She is an accomplished martial artist, easily capable of dealing with trained normals but with no obvious paranormal abilities. She uses several small grenade-like pellets to produce light, fire, smoke, knockout gas, blniding acid sprays or simple explosions. History : Nightfox is a known jewel theif who will also take on high-risk art theft and artifact theft if the pay is right. She is a pure mercenary who will risk everything right up until her contract runs out. She refuses to kill and this has put her at odds with some former employers. She is also noted for taking revenge on anyone who doesn't pay her fee or who deals in bad faith. Firefox Real Name: Eva Foxe Powers and Equipment : Eva is a pyrokinetic with minor normal telekinesis; she can fly under her own power and project concussive heat blasts and explosions....

Synergy Real Name: Clea Brande (aka Helena Marx, aka Samantha Taylor) Powers and Equipment: Synergy is a former Omega-class telepath and telekinetic. Due to her brain injury, she is currently classed as Alpha+ Class. She has a number of psionic talents, mainly telepathy and telekinesis. She can also project images or even false memories into another person's mind, making her a Grade Zeta security risk. History: Clea Brande (aka Helena Marx, aka Samantha Taylor) was born and raised in the Pacific City area. She became a clinical psychiatrist after graduation from PCU; she originally worked at Bishop Hospital before moving to private practice in 1992. She performed several experiments on herself with various mixtures of psychotropic drugs in hopes of bringing out her latent psionic abilities. She succeeded but it is generally agreed that the process also distorted her thinking and perception. She became a master supercriminal and battled the New Sentinels, Honor Guard, and Pow...

Sentinel Real Name: Keith Kendrick Powers and Equipment: Sentinel can fly at hypersonic and translight speeds, throw fully-loaded oil tankers, and has survived a direct hit by a 5-megaton nuclear device; he is generally recognized as one of the most all-around powerful beings on the planet. History: Sentinel first appeared in 1944 as a teenager calling himself Kid Superior and aided various other mystery men in the war effort. Despite the existance of other masked heroes, he was one of the first true superhumans and the term 'superhero' was coined with him in mind. In 1950's, he was the first metahuman to be targeted by HUAC as a possible security risk; Senator McCarthy declared Superior's famous 'I Belong To The World' speech as an open endorsement of Communism. Because he was unwilling to give up the identities of his teammates, Superior was almost killed by a rogue military group called Section Six. He quietly disappeared after this incident and years later...

Electrocutioner Real Name: Edward Matthew Noe aka Mat Nowe Powers and Equipment : Extensive cybernetic reconstruction gives Electrocutioner enhanced strength, endurance and speed. Large capacitors located in a linked series down his spine power twin durallow tentacles that are powerful enough to crush steel and can deliver a 500,000 volt electrical charge. Nanoweave superconductor webbing just under the skin makes Noe almost invulnerable to normal electrical discharges plus provides him minor armoring. His costume is typically duraweave armor plating tough enough to stop most bullets.

The Pacifc City MSA contains more than seven million people total, it's combined incorporations stretching from the northern limit of the Seattle sprawl to just south of the Canadian border and Vancouver. The stats for incorporated Pacifc City proper: Mayor : Sandra Chase (to April 2007) 2000 census population (rank): 2,896,016 (3); % change: 4.0; Male: 1,405,107 (48.5%); Female: 1,490,909 (51.5%); White: 2,027,211.28 (70%); Black: 246,161.44 (11%); American Indian and Alaska Native: 28,960.24 (1%); Asian: 347,522.00 (15%); Other race: 72,400.48 (3%); 2000 percent population 18 and over: 73.8%; 65 and over: 10.3%; Median age: 31.5. 2004 population estimate (rank): 2,862,244 (3) Land area: 227 sq mi. (588 sq km); Alt .: Highest, 521 ft.; lowest, sea level Avg. daily temp.: Jan., 40.1° F; July, 65.2° F Churches : Roman Catholic, 35; Jewish, 12; Protestant, 447; others, 42; City-owned parks : 552 (7,300 ac.); Radio stations : AM, 21; FM, 37; Television stations : 31 Civilian Labor...