Editing Prometheus (section)

== ''until 1992.'' ==


The Embargo, as it was called, prohibited all nations from using posthumans in combat. Only local vigilantism was tolerated and then in small amounts. The Silhouette still operated.
During this time the Journeyman was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that caused his cellular makeup to degrade. Powers flagging, he desperately sought a way to deny his horrible destiny.

1992: President Dugan introduced his law of Post-Human reform establishing a secretive school for Posthuman children "The Westward Center for Emerging Youth." Dugan also assembled the latest incarnation of the government sponsored super team: Courage Forever, which united several posthuman operatives all over the united states. The team focused on regional conflicts, hiding behind the Masked Vigilante law established by the Cordoba convention.

1995: Professor Peril, with a reconfigured army of Iron Citizenry and Atomik Guardians, marched upon Concordia. Peril had killed the pilot and united all the suits via a machine "Hive Mind," All active members of Courage Forever had to unite to stop the threat and almost 75% of the defenders were counted among the dead.
In his last valiant act the Journeyman collided with the Peril's ship and the hivemind, deactivating all the drones. The vessel was claimed by the ocean waves and the World released a communal breath. However the reminder of the turned Iron Citizens and the posthuman death tolls reignited leery Americans misgivings about the gods walking among them.

1998: President Dugan was assasinated by a ruthless vigilante calling himself "'''Countdown'''" The interrim president established a smaller team would be at the administration beck and call, thus Courage Forever shrunk to a 5 member team: '''Major Victory''', '''Lightspeed''', '''Cosmique''', Liberty Eagle, and '''Iron Maiden'''.