Editing Apogee: Harbinger (section)

== Backstory ==

Kelly Chan comes from a utopian future society, the Global Commonwealth, one that has achieved equality and social justice for all. Unfortunately, that society is under threat--the Earth's ecosystems are collapsing and the violent, authoritarian force of Python is aiming to destroy that society. The turning point at which they reached the Global Commonwealth came too late. So the Commonwealth used some of their last resources to send someone back in time to undo the damage and try to turn society to better course earlier, in time to save things.

However, early tests in short-term time travel showed that it has a corrosive effect on the human body—and the older the person, the more harmful the effects were. So they decided to send a teen-ager, trying to strike a compromise between someone youthful enough to make the trip without significant harm and someone old enough to carry out the mission. After extensive interviews and tests, they chose Kelly as the best candidate, giving her extensive training in biofeedback techniques, athletics, combat skills, detective work, and the knowledge base of the future before sending her back. Kelly made it back into the past mostly unharmed—but with some of her memories missing and jumbled, including crucial ones necessary to complete her mission.

This did not stop Kelly from swinging into action to help people almost as soon as she arrived. When journalists discovered she was a time traveler and asked her why she had come, she said, “I am tomorrow’s hope,” thus resulting in her superhero moniker.

The time travel process is a one way trip. Kelly has no way to get home--and, if she succeeds in her mission, she will have changed the timeline sufficiently that she won't have a home to go back to. But she's determined to do her best and tries to keep herself focused on the positive. However, she is still suffering from some degree of culture shock in the contemporary era, finding the society of the present to be both technologically and socially backward.


When Tomorrow's Hope first arrived in the current era, she tried working with established superhero teams and the existing authorities, but found that most of them didn't really take her seriously because she was a teenager. It's not that they didn't believe her per se, but they thought they could handle the threats Kelly was warning of them better than she could and tried sidelining her.

After some frustration with this sort of run around, Kelly decided she might have more luck in working with people her own age. So she applied to Pinnacle, hoping to form connections there she could use to complete her mission. Doing well on the entrance exams was not a problem of her--with her ability to use biofeedback to enhance her mental abilities, she aced them. And the interviews went well--the admissions office decided Kelly would provide an unusual perspective, even by the standards of Pinnacle.