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===History=== About 35 years ago, the Earth was struck by a cosmic phenomenon known as The Storm. It wiped out electronics all over the globe, causing an unprecedented international crisis. At first scientists assumed that it was a gamma storm, but then it became apparent that something far stranger was going on – as superpowers started to appear. At first Supers appeared only in New York. Current scientific understanding is that the epicenter of The Storm had been some distance off the coast. At first people were unsure how to react, and authorities especially were fearful. But largely through the actions of a group the media eventually dubbed The Protectors of New York, usually just called The Protectors, the popularity and acceptance of supers increased. The Protectors battled heavily armed criminals, took on villainous Supers, rescued people from fires and natural disasters, and even fought off a Kaiju attack. For it was not just humans who had gained superpowers. Some animals had too. And even constructs with AI. The Original Protectors included a sentient android, and had an advanced submersible with awakened AI. In time, New York was threatened with increasingly powerful supervillains that police and even the military were unable to handle. During the reign of terror of super-assassin Gray Death, neither police, hired mercenaries, elite bodyguards, or even an evil businessman’s private army were able to stop her. It took The Protectors to do that. Things got even worse with Comet, who absorbed all attacks and only became stronger. She single handedly broke all prisoners out of a jail upstate, and burned the District Attorney to a crisp. All in the pursuit of an old vendetta about her mother being imprisoned for a crime she was innocent of. It was then that The Protectors, who had always shown willingness to work with the authorities, were deputized as official law enforcers, by the Mayor invoking an outdated law that happened to be still in the books. Shortly after that, in an incident that cemented the role of Supers as law enforcers, The Protectors and their various allies exposed a conspiracy that was in control of the privatized and reopened prison of Rikers, and experimented on imprisoned supers. By then, the effect of The Storm had started to spread and would in a few years cover the globe, and Supers had started to appear in other cities. The publicity and popularity of The Protectors of New York caused many of them to form groups in their image, with The Protectors of Newark being the first. And noting the super powered threats New York had faced and the successful collaboration between the authorities and The Protectors, the authorities in other cities did not hesitate to cooperate with their own Protector Teams. Eventually the federal government decided that a larger organization with proper support and oversight was needed for the various Protector teams. And they were gathered into the oldest federal law enforcement agency – the U.S. Marshals Service. Over the next two decades, the nation has rebuilt from The Storm, and Supers have become a part of daily life. They are relatively few in number compared to the billions of humanity, but they are flashy and the media loves them. Heroes and villains both. And the youngest generation does not even remember a time without Supers.
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