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	* '''Current Roster''': ...		* '''Current Roster''': ...
	** '''[[RUST RAT]]''' (a.k.a. '''Edward Ziegler''') <br> Brief description of the character with a line about powers, one about personality and maybe a brief history. Full info about the character will go on the character's individual page... (as played by Brandon)
	** '''[[SLACKJAW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Franklin Pierce''') <br> The vigilante. Franklin lost everything in the aftermath of the Needle Disaster, his wife, his job at the docks, and the son he was trying to raise. By day he runs a mannequin business, by night he relentlessly pursues the killers of his son. (as played by Charles)		** '''[[SLACKJAW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Franklin Pierce''') <br> The vigilante. Franklin lost everything in the aftermath of the Needle Disaster, his wife, his job at the docks, and the son he was trying to raise. By day he runs a mannequin business, by night he relentlessly pursues the killers of his son. (as played by Charles)
	** '''[[WAVE]]''' (a.k.a. '''James Tran Nguyen''') <br> Brief description of the character with a line about powers, one about personality and maybe a brief history. Full info about the character will go on the character's individual page... (as played by John)		** '''[[WAVE]]''' (a.k.a. '''James Tran Nguyen''') <br> Brief description of the character with a line about powers, one about personality and maybe a brief history. Full info about the character will go on the character's individual page... (as played by John)
	** '''[[TORQUE]]''' (a.k.a. '''birth name''') <br> Brief description of the character with a line about powers, one about personality and maybe a brief history. Full info about the character will go on the character's individual page... (as played by Kevin)
	** '''[[THE CREW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Joe O'Malley''') <br> Just an average working guy. Trying to make Rust City a better place with his own personal army... (as played by Pete)		** '''[[THE CREW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Joe O'Malley''') <br> Just an average working guy. Trying to make Rust City a better place with his own personal army... (as played by Pete)
	** '''[[CALVIN]]''' (a.k.a. '''Calvin Freeman''') <br> Talk about your uncut diamond.. Calvin is sixteen, living on the streets, and a member of a vigilante street gang. He's brash and almost constantly smiling. And he has reason, he's just found that he's bulletproof. (as played by Wayne)		** '''[[CALVIN]]''' (a.k.a. '''Calvin Freeman''') <br> Talk about your uncut diamond.. Calvin is sixteen, living on the streets, and a member of a vigilante street gang. He's brash and almost constantly smiling. And he has reason, he's just found that he's bulletproof. (as played by Wayne)

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Rust City

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	<br> Torus in shape, the mammoth remnant of the Daedalus reactor is amazing. Rust City is three miles across and encompasses an area of seven square miles~~. Hiding the urban jungle within, the outer ring is some twenty stories high~~. ~~With~~ nearly half a million residents, it is incredibly dense and bustling with activity~~. Even though there is a token police presence, it is a lawless land~~. The ~~Triad and other gangs openly attack~~ ''"the ~~man"'~~'. ~~Some see the city~~ as ~~only hotbed~~ of ~~criminal activities~~, ~~but most residents are not involved in any crime and live peacefully. Despite common conceptions the daily lives of its dwellers are largely organized~~ by ~~the residents themselves~~, rather than by the criminal element. Schools and other social services exist in the district. Numerous small factories and businesses thrive inside the Rust City. The Emerald City is also providing some services such as water and mail delivery.. at least to the front gate.		<br> Torus in shape, the mammoth remnant of the Daedalus reactor is amazing from the outside. Hiding the urban jungle within, the outer ring is some twenty stories high and is known as the Wall. The interior, which has come to be called Rust City, is three miles across and encompasses an area of seven square miles. Swelling to nearly half a million residents, it is incredibly dense and bustling with activity. The barrio's development was molded by the structure of the abandoned reactor with it's main thoroughfares falling along access routes and people taking up residence in where they could. Buildings folded up into one another as thousands of modifications were made, virtually none by architects or engineers, until hundreds of structures were simply a kind of patchwork monolith.

	* '''~~District~~''' <br> ~~text~~		Even though there is a token police presence, it is a lawless land, leaving The Triad and other gangs able openly attack ''"the man"''. Some see the city as only hotbed of criminal activities, but most residents are not involved in any crime and live peacefully. Despite common conceptions the daily lives of its dwellers are largely organized by the residents themselves, rather than by the criminal element. Even though there is no law, there is justice provided by a special balance. Schools and other social services exist in the district. Numerous small factories and businesses thrive inside the Rust City. The Emerald City is also providing some services such as water and mail delivery.. at least to the front gate. There is a certain philosophy held by Rust City, "we protect our own" which is mirrored by the outsiders, "you are on your own".

			* '''Container City''' <br> Made up almost exclusively of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containers ISO containers], Container City is the result of people taking up residence in the shipping and storage section of Daedalus. The neatly stacked boxes range are colored orange, red, blue, white, etc. Individual containers are used for residence but more often larger alcoves were created by plasma cutting intervening sides and welding sections together.
	* '''District''' <br> text		* '''District''' <br> text
	* '''Little Ireland''' <br> Although on the lower end of the scale economically, this district is pretty safe compared to others. Made up close nit families that band together for protection, it is located in the northwest quadrant of Rust City. Story goes that the area gained its name from the gangways, piping, and such are all a distinctive green. This area is green because it was part of the Works that let the Duwamish River pass through Rust City.		* '''Little Ireland''' <br> Although on the lower end of the scale economically, this district is pretty safe compared to others. Made up close nit families that band together for protection, it is located in the northwest quadrant of Rust City. Story goes that the area gained its name from the gangways, piping, and such are all a distinctive green. This area is green because it was part of the Works that let the Duwamish River pass through Rust City.
	* '''~~District~~''' <br> ~~text~~		* '''The Shambles''' <br> Probably the most dense area, The Shambles is one of the earliest "core" settlements and looks very much like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Kowloon]. It's dark streets are barely big enough to handle foot traffic thus impossible to drive around. A series of catwalks, rope bridges, and other jury-rigged ways of getting around criss-cross The Shambles. The plexus is difficult to navigate unless you've spent a significant amount of time there. Shamblers tend to keep to themselves and don't like strangers.
	* '''Canyon Street''' <br> One of the very few places direct sunlight reaches all the way to ground level in Rust City, if only for a few hours a day in summer. The main drag where the prosperous businesses are located. A manmade canyon with makeshift human habitation piled up 10 to 20 stories along it sides. Bamboo and rebar supported scaffolding holds up myriads of narrow board walks at different and meandering levels.		* '''Canyon Street''' <br> One of the very few places direct sunlight reaches all the way to ground level in Rust City, if only for a few hours a day in summer. The main drag where the prosperous businesses are located. A manmade canyon with makeshift human habitation piled up 10 to 20 stories along it sides. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo Bamboo] and rebar supported scaffolding holds up myriads of narrow board walks at different and meandering levels.

	== Events ==		== Events ==

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	===Needle Disaster===		===Needle Disaster===
	* '''The Space Needle''' ''(1976-1991)'' <br> The Space Tether is the brainchild of Randal Cross, of Cross World Technologies. Cross creates a high-tech consortium that plans, funds, and builds the revolutionary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator elevator] that literally connects the earth with space. Much of the old Seattle Center is ~~destroyed~~ to clear the way for the Anchor Complex. The tether at the top of the re-fit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_needle Space Needle] is connected to a captured asteroid. ~~Although mostly~~ used for freight, ~~passengers can ride~~ in an elevator, called a climber, to orbit ~~where they can experience micro-g, rent laboratory space, transfer to a docked spacecraft, or just do some sightseeing. Thousands of tons of cargo also make the trip more safely, less expensively,~~ and with less pollution than with traditional launch-based technologies. During construction the Tether brings in enormous amounts of investment and creates whole new industries in and around the Puget Sound area. (The facilities built for the fabrication of the ultra-thin Tether make Seattle the world center of carbon nanotube technology.) Once completed, Seattle becomes the only place on earth capable transporting goods from the land, sea, and air, into space. Earth orbit sees it's first building boom. With goods so much easier to move up the gravity well companies began to construct speculative communities in space.		* '''The Space Needle''' ''(1976-1991)'' <br> The Space Tether is the brainchild of Randal Cross, of Cross World Technologies. Cross creates a high-tech consortium that plans, funds, and builds the revolutionary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator elevator] that literally connects the earth with space. Much of the old Seattle Center is cleared to clear the way for the Anchor Complex. The tether at the top of the re-fit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_needle Space Needle] is connected to a captured asteroid. Mostly used for freight, thousands of tons of cargo make the trip in an elevator, called a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Climbers climber], to orbit cheaper and with less pollution than with traditional launch-based technologies. During construction the Tether brings in enormous amounts of investment and creates whole new industries in and around the Puget Sound area. (The facilities built for the fabrication of the ultra-thin Tether make Seattle the world center of carbon nanotube technology.) Once completed, Seattle becomes the only place on earth capable transporting goods from the land, sea, and air, into space. Earth orbit sees it's first building boom. With goods so much easier to move up the gravity well companies began to construct speculative communities in space.
	* '''The Fall''' ''(1991)'' <br> And then it all, quite literally, falls apart. In the winter of 2006 the end comes with little warning. Deep within the earth rock shifts against rock, a low-frequency wave sets up inside the tether at just the wrong frequency, and the impossibly strong filament [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Vibrational_harmonics snaps] like an old shoe lace. The upper reaches of the carbon strand burn up in the atmosphere, but closer to the ground, angular momentum rips the Tether to the east with devastating results. Acting as a super-strong monofilament, the Tether whips through buildings, the busy I-5 corridor, and a few unfortunate and unsuspecting people. But the real damage, as it almost always is, is economic...		* '''The Fall''' ''(1991)'' <br> And then it all, quite literally, falls apart. In the winter of 2006 the end comes with little warning. Deep within the earth rock shifts against rock, a low-frequency wave sets up inside the tether at just the wrong frequency, and the impossibly strong filament [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Vibrational_harmonics snaps] like an old shoe lace. The upper reaches of the carbon strand burn up in the atmosphere, but closer to the ground, angular momentum rips the Tether to the east with devastating results. Acting as a super-strong monofilament, the Tether whips through buildings, the busy I-5 corridor, and a few unfortunate and unsuspecting people. But the real damage, as it almost always is, is economic...
	* '''Aftermath''' (1991-2012)<br> With no way to move goods and people into orbit, the building speculators (most of them Seattle-based) go bankrupt. Steep rebuilding costs, lawsuits, and the loss of the area's biggest economic engine force Seattle into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression recession] with depression-like unemployment. Major companies leave town, dock work migrates south to an increasingly vibrant Tacoma, and for the first time in history City Hall is forced to deal with smaller coffers, defaulted bonds, and a shrinking population. Those that are left flock to Rust City to carve out a place for themselves in the one place that's free to all who come.		* '''Aftermath''' (1991-2012)<br> With no way to move goods and people into orbit, the building speculators (most of them Seattle-based) go bankrupt. Steep rebuilding costs, lawsuits, and the loss of the area's biggest economic engine force Seattle into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression recession] with depression-like unemployment. Major companies leave town, dock work migrates south to an increasingly vibrant Tacoma, and for the first time in history City Hall is forced to deal with smaller coffers, defaulted bonds, and a shrinking population. Those that are left flock to Rust City to carve out a place for themselves in the one place that's free to all who come.

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	== Events ==		== Events ==
	===Daedalus Project===		===Daedalus Project===
	* '''The Promise of a Better Tomorrow''' <br> ~~In 1981~~ Charles Whitman wowed the world with the promise of free unlimited power for the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound Puget Sound region]. The technology showed great promise to change the world for the better. One of several proposed, the site south of the center of the Emerald City was enormous, measuring almost 3 miles across. When the time came for opening ceremonies, the city united in celebration, marveling at what they were about to achieve. In the minutes before the switch was thrown there was an earthquake, but the charismatic Whitman calmed the crowd and they pressed forward with the startup sequence. In the blink of an eye, the entire complex interior imploded, crushing inward into a singular white point and stripping most of the technology from the mammoth complex. It was gone.		* '''The Promise of a Better Tomorrow''' ''(1981-1986)'' <br> Charles Whitman wowed the world with the promise of free unlimited power for the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound Puget Sound region]. The technology showed great promise to change the world for the better. One of several proposed, the site south of the center of the Emerald City was enormous, measuring almost 3 miles across. When the time came for opening ceremonies, the city united in celebration, marveling at what they were about to achieve. In the minutes before the switch was thrown there was an earthquake, but the charismatic Whitman calmed the crowd and they pressed forward with the startup sequence. In the blink of an eye, the entire complex interior imploded, crushing inward into a singular white point and stripping most of the technology from the mammoth complex. It was gone.
	* '''The Trinity Wave''' <br> Moments after the destruction of the Daedalus Project, people began to see a wave of energy as it slowly swept across surface of the planet. The disturbance was dubbed the "Trinity Wave" by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN media outlets] who were covering the large religious response to the event. Appearing to be a cohesive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29 Aurora Borealis], it was an event that could have been witnessed by nearly every human on the planet. Scientists have theorized that the effect of the wave was mutation and possibly fortification of human genetics, respectively allowing for the arrival of mutants and mutates. Mutants a result of evolution. Mutates being those that somehow survived a near death event by physiological adaptation. Still others have credited the wave with other metahuman classes, but the scientific community considers this to be unfounded extrapolation.		* '''The Trinity Wave''' ''(1986)'' <br> Moments after the destruction of the Daedalus Project, people began to see a wave of energy as it slowly swept across surface of the planet. The disturbance was dubbed the "Trinity Wave" by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN media outlets] who were covering the large religious response to the event. Appearing to be a cohesive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29 Aurora Borealis], it was an event that could have been witnessed by nearly every human on the planet. Scientists have theorized that the effect of the wave was mutation and possibly fortification of human genetics, respectively allowing for the arrival of mutants and mutates. Mutants a result of evolution. Mutates being those that somehow survived a near death event by physiological adaptation. Still others have credited the wave with other metahuman classes, but the scientific community considers this to be unfounded extrapolation.

	===Needle Disaster===		===Needle Disaster===
	* '''The Space Needle''' <br> The Space Tether is the brainchild of Randal Cross, of Cross World Technologies. Cross creates a high-tech consortium that plans, funds, and builds the revolutionary elevator that literally connects the earth with space. Much of the old Seattle Center is destroyed to clear the way for the Anchor Complex. The tether at the top of the re-fit Space Needle is connected to a captured asteroid. Although mostly used for freight, passengers can ride in an elevator, called a climber, to orbit where they can experience micro-g, rent laboratory space, transfer to a docked spacecraft, or just do some sightseeing. Thousands of tons of cargo also make the trip more safely, less expensively, and with less pollution than with traditional launch-based technologies. During construction the Tether brings in enormous amounts of investment and creates whole new industries in and around the Puget Sound area. (The facilities built for the fabrication of the ultra-thin Tether make Seattle the world center of carbon nanotube technology.) Once completed, Seattle becomes the only place on earth capable transporting goods from the land, sea, and air, into space. Earth orbit sees it's first building boom. With goods so much easier to move up the gravity well companies began to construct speculative communities in space.		* '''The Space Needle''' ''(1976-1991)'' <br> The Space Tether is the brainchild of Randal Cross, of Cross World Technologies. Cross creates a high-tech consortium that plans, funds, and builds the revolutionary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator elevator] that literally connects the earth with space. Much of the old Seattle Center is destroyed to clear the way for the Anchor Complex. The tether at the top of the re-fit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_needle Space Needle] is connected to a captured asteroid. Although mostly used for freight, passengers can ride in an elevator, called a climber, to orbit where they can experience micro-g, rent laboratory space, transfer to a docked spacecraft, or just do some sightseeing. Thousands of tons of cargo also make the trip more safely, less expensively, and with less pollution than with traditional launch-based technologies. During construction the Tether brings in enormous amounts of investment and creates whole new industries in and around the Puget Sound area. (The facilities built for the fabrication of the ultra-thin Tether make Seattle the world center of carbon nanotube technology.) Once completed, Seattle becomes the only place on earth capable transporting goods from the land, sea, and air, into space. Earth orbit sees it's first building boom. With goods so much easier to move up the gravity well companies began to construct speculative communities in space.
	* '''The Fall''' <br> And then it all, quite literally, falls apart. In the winter of ~~1982~~ the end comes with little warning. Deep within the earth rock shifts against rock, a low-frequency wave sets up inside the tether at just the wrong frequency, and the impossibly strong filament snaps like an old shoe lace. The upper reaches of the carbon strand burn up in the atmosphere, but closer to the ground, angular momentum rips the Tether to the east with devastating results. Acting as a super-strong monofilament, the Tether whips through buildings, the busy I-5 corridor, and a few unfortunate and unsuspecting people. But the real damage, as it almost always is, is economic...		* '''The Fall''' ''(1991)'' <br> And then it all, quite literally, falls apart. In the winter of 2006 the end comes with little warning. Deep within the earth rock shifts against rock, a low-frequency wave sets up inside the tether at just the wrong frequency, and the impossibly strong filament [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Vibrational_harmonics snaps] like an old shoe lace. The upper reaches of the carbon strand burn up in the atmosphere, but closer to the ground, angular momentum rips the Tether to the east with devastating results. Acting as a super-strong monofilament, the Tether whips through buildings, the busy I-5 corridor, and a few unfortunate and unsuspecting people. But the real damage, as it almost always is, is economic...
	* '''Aftermath''' <br> With no way to move goods and people into orbit, the building speculators (most of them Seattle-based) go bankrupt. Steep rebuilding costs, lawsuits, and the loss ~~of one~~ of the area's biggest economic ~~engines~~ force Seattle into a recession with depression-like unemployment. Major companies leave town, dock work migrates south to an increasingly vibrant Tacoma, and for the first time in history City Hall is forced to deal with smaller coffers, defaulted bonds, and a shrinking population. Those that are left flock to Rust City to carve out a place for themselves in the one place that's free to all who come.		* '''Aftermath''' (1991-2012)<br> With no way to move goods and people into orbit, the building speculators (most of them Seattle-based) go bankrupt. Steep rebuilding costs, lawsuits, and the loss of the area's biggest economic engine force Seattle into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression recession] with depression-like unemployment. Major companies leave town, dock work migrates south to an increasingly vibrant Tacoma, and for the first time in history City Hall is forced to deal with smaller coffers, defaulted bonds, and a shrinking population. Those that are left flock to Rust City to carve out a place for themselves in the one place that's free to all who come.

	=People=		=People=

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The Cast

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	** '''[[THE CREW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Joe O'Malley''') <br> Just an average working guy. Trying to make Rust City a better place with his own personal army... (as played by Pete)		** '''[[THE CREW]]''' (a.k.a. '''Joe O'Malley''') <br> Just an average working guy. Trying to make Rust City a better place with his own personal army... (as played by Pete)
	** '''[[CALVIN]]''' (a.k.a. '''Calvin Freeman''') <br> Talk about your uncut diamond.. Calvin is sixteen, living on the streets, and a member of a vigilante street gang. He's brash and almost constantly smiling. And he has reason, he's just found that he's bulletproof. (as played by Wayne)		** '''[[CALVIN]]''' (a.k.a. '''Calvin Freeman''') <br> Talk about your uncut diamond.. Calvin is sixteen, living on the streets, and a member of a vigilante street gang. He's brash and almost constantly smiling. And he has reason, he's just found that he's bulletproof. (as played by Wayne)

	* '''Potential Team Candidates''': ...
	** '''[[NAME]]''' (a.k.a. '''birth name''') <br> Brief description of the character with a line about powers, one about personality and maybe a brief history. Full info about the character will go on the character's individual page... (as played by Player Name)

	=Setting=		=Setting=