Post by Wolverine on Dec 15, 2008 15:51:47 GMT
The 'Plot Summary' and 'Headlines' are your guide to understanding what's going on in the world of this plot. Consider this area to be 'OOC' knowledge, to an extent, while the Headlines are what your character will directly witness. Some of the information below is possible to be rumoured ICly, however. Just be sensible with it. 
This will continue to be updated as the plot progresses to keep everyone updated on the general board-wide storyline.
Several years have passed since the battle at Alcatraz, but tensions have remained bubbling from opposing forces in both the mutant and human forces. During this time, Charles Xavier, murdered by Phoenix, returned to consciousness in the form of his twin brother's body, and was reunited with his team. There has been no wide-spread conflict for a while, and many are hoping the peace will linger. Xavier's remains a place for mutants in need, young and old alike, while many mutants have also set up their own homes in the state of New York. This calm isn't going to be long-lasting, however, as there's rumours on the wind of a virus coming to American shores, a virus too fast and too deadly to be natural. And what's worse, is that it's target is mutantkind.
Known as the Legacy Virus due to its specific genetic target; symptoms include headaches, fever and sickness, the signs akin to that as the common influenza. The rumblings between the human and mutant divide are growing stronger in light of this virus. However, while mutants are the most susceptible, some humans carry an undeveloped x-gene that makes them vulnerable to contracting the sickness. There is a 60% chance of death if the virus is contracted, while others may recover, or some with stronger immune systems are able to avoid the worst of the virus' symptoms. The length of time between first symptoms and possible death varies between individuals, depending on their health and immunity strength. There is currently no available cure, but scientists are working as fast as they can to try and combat the illness. Military organisations are currently policing the streets to aid regulation, while the government is has developed a series of systems and are monitoring with the medical authorities to try and control the virus. Quarantines are currently on a small scale, but are preparing for the worse.
In a bid to further monitor the mutant populace, the President has passed the widely debated and rather controversial Mutant Registration Act. All mutants must register immediately, or face being reported and prosecuted for attempting to pervert the aid of regulation. As tensions continue to boil, the government has dedicated a faction of the FBI to work in connection to the Department of Mutant Affairs, this additional being appropriately named the Mutant Bureau of Investigation (MBI.)
Xavier's, previously closed to new students and under a strict lockdown to try and monitor the virus effects, has since reopened. It remains to carefully monitor its occupants for any virus symptoms.
The MRA continues to register mutants, forcing them to be listed on a database and carry a mutant ID card around with them that they must show when prompted. There is some good news on the horizon however, as the Legacy Virus is reported to have been getting contained and a treatment has been administered to hospitals throughout the nation. Its success rate is not guaranteed, but it offers a ray of hope to the sick.
Slowly, one by one, the mutants of the streets are disappearing; are vanishing into thin air. They go unnoticed, having no family. No friends. One by one, a group of government officials are banding together, and shipping these mutants to the island of Genosha on the opposite side of the globe. It is in Genosha where genetic research is being done; research that brings both pain and death. One by one, the mutant prisoners are injected with various motifications of the Legacy Virus, the scientists hoping that soon the new found drug that cures the virus, will be rendered completely and utterly useless.
With each passing day, Genosha grows more like a prison and less like a science facility, as these secret officials try to get a grasp around the Legacy Virus in order to one day control it and unleash a terror of biological warfare on not only the country, but the whole world and all of mutant kind.
But what happens when they begin to steal mutants that have families? That have friends, and loved ones? What happens when those who go missing are missed and sought out after? And what happens when word of Genosha; of what these people in positions of power are behind, gets exposed to the rest of the world?
This will continue to be updated as the plot progresses to keep everyone updated on the general board-wide storyline.
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Several years have passed since the battle at Alcatraz, but tensions have remained bubbling from opposing forces in both the mutant and human forces. During this time, Charles Xavier, murdered by Phoenix, returned to consciousness in the form of his twin brother's body, and was reunited with his team. There has been no wide-spread conflict for a while, and many are hoping the peace will linger. Xavier's remains a place for mutants in need, young and old alike, while many mutants have also set up their own homes in the state of New York. This calm isn't going to be long-lasting, however, as there's rumours on the wind of a virus coming to American shores, a virus too fast and too deadly to be natural. And what's worse, is that it's target is mutantkind.
Known as the Legacy Virus due to its specific genetic target; symptoms include headaches, fever and sickness, the signs akin to that as the common influenza. The rumblings between the human and mutant divide are growing stronger in light of this virus. However, while mutants are the most susceptible, some humans carry an undeveloped x-gene that makes them vulnerable to contracting the sickness. There is a 60% chance of death if the virus is contracted, while others may recover, or some with stronger immune systems are able to avoid the worst of the virus' symptoms. The length of time between first symptoms and possible death varies between individuals, depending on their health and immunity strength. There is currently no available cure, but scientists are working as fast as they can to try and combat the illness. Military organisations are currently policing the streets to aid regulation, while the government is has developed a series of systems and are monitoring with the medical authorities to try and control the virus. Quarantines are currently on a small scale, but are preparing for the worse.
In a bid to further monitor the mutant populace, the President has passed the widely debated and rather controversial Mutant Registration Act. All mutants must register immediately, or face being reported and prosecuted for attempting to pervert the aid of regulation. As tensions continue to boil, the government has dedicated a faction of the FBI to work in connection to the Department of Mutant Affairs, this additional being appropriately named the Mutant Bureau of Investigation (MBI.)
Xavier's, previously closed to new students and under a strict lockdown to try and monitor the virus effects, has since reopened. It remains to carefully monitor its occupants for any virus symptoms.
The MRA continues to register mutants, forcing them to be listed on a database and carry a mutant ID card around with them that they must show when prompted. There is some good news on the horizon however, as the Legacy Virus is reported to have been getting contained and a treatment has been administered to hospitals throughout the nation. Its success rate is not guaranteed, but it offers a ray of hope to the sick.
***
Slowly, one by one, the mutants of the streets are disappearing; are vanishing into thin air. They go unnoticed, having no family. No friends. One by one, a group of government officials are banding together, and shipping these mutants to the island of Genosha on the opposite side of the globe. It is in Genosha where genetic research is being done; research that brings both pain and death. One by one, the mutant prisoners are injected with various motifications of the Legacy Virus, the scientists hoping that soon the new found drug that cures the virus, will be rendered completely and utterly useless.
With each passing day, Genosha grows more like a prison and less like a science facility, as these secret officials try to get a grasp around the Legacy Virus in order to one day control it and unleash a terror of biological warfare on not only the country, but the whole world and all of mutant kind.
But what happens when they begin to steal mutants that have families? That have friends, and loved ones? What happens when those who go missing are missed and sought out after? And what happens when word of Genosha; of what these people in positions of power are behind, gets exposed to the rest of the world?
