2003-A shuttle returning Confederation dignitaries to the UNSS Wanderer disintegrates as it reaches orbit. All passengers are killed. Investigators eventually discover sabotage leading to the destruction of the shuttle.
A fire-based metavillain detonates a band’s pyrotechnics during a performance in Rhode Island. The resulting conflagration sets the club they were playing ablaze and kills nearly three hundred people. The Blue Demon appears and wreaks havoc on first responders before being driven off.
The largest coordinated vigil takes place across the globe as a world-wide protest against the War in Southeast Asia.
US FBI agents raid HealthSouth’s Corporate Headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Unexpected stiff and armed, resistance requires the deployment of a US Super Team. It is discovered that the company’s CEO was providing access to the company’s records to the Exchange. The CEO, Richard Scrushy, was found dead in his office, executed by an unidentified metahuman.
Over the course of fourteen days, more than a thousand tornadoes ravage the central plains of the United States. As the UNSS Wanderer moves in to investigate the weather system, it comes under hostile fire from an unidentified space craft. The Wanderer is damaged, and moves away, only catching glimpses of the vessel dropping back into Earth’s atmosphere and vanishing amongst the clouds.
An earthquake in northern Algeria kills more than 2,000 people. The Blue Demon appears and nearly doubles that number before being driven off.
A heat wave spreading across Pakistan and India kills more than 1,200 people. Weather-based supers identify the bizarre weather pattern as “unnatural” and presume the same force that caused the American tornado outbreak to be responsible.
A heat wave hits Europe, leaving more than a hundred people dead in Paris alone. IST London, Milan and Paris coordinate their efforts and bring down a Chinese orbital shuttle. It is equipped with some sort of weather control equipment.
A suicide bomber takes out a Wimbledon-area power station, plunging parts of southern London into darkness. This shuts down more than half of London’s subway system.
In a running battle near the city of Chongquin between IST Commandos and Chinese forces, a natural gas mining structure was hit and detonated a large section of the field. Thousands of workers were killed in the explosion. The Blue Demon appeared, eventually heading to the city of Chongquin. China publically blamed the IST for the “deliberate attack on civilian targets.”
The United States approaches the U.N. for re-admittance. Unable to protect their fusion reactors from Exchange attack, the US requests reactivation of all U.N. fusion reactors.
A fire-based metavillain detonates a band’s pyrotechnics during a performance in Rhode Island. The resulting conflagration sets the club they were playing ablaze and kills nearly three hundred people. The Blue Demon appears and wreaks havoc on first responders before being driven off.
The largest coordinated vigil takes place across the globe as a world-wide protest against the War in Southeast Asia.
US FBI agents raid HealthSouth’s Corporate Headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Unexpected stiff and armed, resistance requires the deployment of a US Super Team. It is discovered that the company’s CEO was providing access to the company’s records to the Exchange. The CEO, Richard Scrushy, was found dead in his office, executed by an unidentified metahuman.
Over the course of fourteen days, more than a thousand tornadoes ravage the central plains of the United States. As the UNSS Wanderer moves in to investigate the weather system, it comes under hostile fire from an unidentified space craft. The Wanderer is damaged, and moves away, only catching glimpses of the vessel dropping back into Earth’s atmosphere and vanishing amongst the clouds.
An earthquake in northern Algeria kills more than 2,000 people. The Blue Demon appears and nearly doubles that number before being driven off.
A heat wave spreading across Pakistan and India kills more than 1,200 people. Weather-based supers identify the bizarre weather pattern as “unnatural” and presume the same force that caused the American tornado outbreak to be responsible.
A heat wave hits Europe, leaving more than a hundred people dead in Paris alone. IST London, Milan and Paris coordinate their efforts and bring down a Chinese orbital shuttle. It is equipped with some sort of weather control equipment.
A suicide bomber takes out a Wimbledon-area power station, plunging parts of southern London into darkness. This shuts down more than half of London’s subway system.
In a running battle near the city of Chongquin between IST Commandos and Chinese forces, a natural gas mining structure was hit and detonated a large section of the field. Thousands of workers were killed in the explosion. The Blue Demon appeared, eventually heading to the city of Chongquin. China publically blamed the IST for the “deliberate attack on civilian targets.”
The United States approaches the U.N. for re-admittance. Unable to protect their fusion reactors from Exchange attack, the US requests reactivation of all U.N. fusion reactors.