Editing After The Storm: Second Wave (section)

===Rikers===
The headquarters of The Protectors and the most secure supervillain prison within US. The conspiracy that once experimented on supers here developed a device called a nullifier, modeled on the supervillain Null who could shut down the powers of other supers. What they could not replicate was the power itself, and no one else has either. So while a nullifier can project a field inside of which superpowers will not function, it needs a Super to act as a power source. And despite attempts at miniaturization, no portable version has been developed. Nullifiers look like bulky dentist’s chairs on which the Super using his power as a source reclines. In Rikers, three are kept on simultaneously, so that if one shuts down, two others will continue to keep the field up.

And if all else fails, there is the last line of defense. The sentient android Sentinel. Originally serving the conspiracy as a jailer, they took on the entire Protectors team, and although they ultimately lost that fight, The Protectors had to work for that win. Just fulfilling their role and not having any particular loyalty to the conspiracy, Sentinel kept serving as a jailer.

Rikers holds supervillains not just from New York, but from other parts of US as well. Not every state has a facility capable of holding supervillains, so arrested supervillains are sent to Rikers instead. More ordinary prisoners are no longer jailed in Rikers, that function was ended after the Rikers Raid. This day, Rikers is a prison for supervillains only.

But in addition to the supervillain jail, Rikers contains many other facilities too. Countersuper headquarters, barracks, dormitories, training facilities, laboratories, infirmary, a huge meeting hall. Anything a superhero team would need. The place is not just the headquarters for The Protectors of New York. When all the Protector teams need to coordinate, Rikers acts as a hub.