Just what it says on the tin -- for comments, suggestions, and "hey, you told me you'd use X but it's not there".
Page counts aren't final -- hell, I haven't even totalled them up yet to see if I'm near a multiple of 16 (although as I expect this to be a PDF, getting the page count to an integer number of signatures is unlikely to be particularly critical).
GURPS International Super Teams -- The 25th Anniversary Edition Outline
((Cover -- suggest Vince Russell? Would like a new one despitehow great the original was.))
AA Title Page (1 page)
AA Table of Contents (2 pages)
AA Introduction (1 page) BB A Brief history of IST BB About the 25th anniversary BB About the author C-BOX About GURPS
AA The World Today... (11 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) C-BOX "SuperTemps", "Super Scum", and other useful books BB The State of the World in 2015 (1.5 pages) C-BOX How Realistic is "Realistic"? Fine-tuning the campaign D-BOX Combat Realism C-BOX "Super Names" - Why take a "nom de guerre"? There's no one reason/justification: D-BOX Anonymity and Intimidation D-BOX Self-aggrandizement/wish fulfillment D-BOX Street names and nicknames (history back to the Old West); sometimes granted by the media rather than self-taken D-BOX Political reasons (a la "Malcolm X"); "Post-Human" names D-BOX Callsigns D-BOX Actual military code names; other types of names can be formalized this way when joining the IST or other force
BB The Aftermath of World War III - Life in the Second Decade of the 21st Century (8 pages) C-BOX Organizations D-BOX Bonded Telepaths Organization D-BOX The Post-Human Alliance C-BOX Warrantless telepathic surveillance: tinfoil hat territory or serious concern? D-BOX (Insert oppressive regime here) "Thought
Police" C-BOX The Blue Demon: Global Scourge CC China: Post-Communist, Occupied, Balkanized DD Communist Guerillas and Terrorists DD Hidden black projects and secret contingency plans still popping up almost like clockwork all over the world C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX The People's Revolutionary Insurgency, AKA
"The RGP" (Rénmín Gémìng Pànluàn) CC United Europe - The Union of European States C-BOX Metahuman Activity Insurance C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX THAMF D-BOX The Metahuman People's Research Institute
CC United States - The Fallen Giant Rising Again C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX Team 99 (2015 incarnation) D-BOX The "First Church of the Supermen" D-BOX P.O.W.E.R. 2K D-BOX Illegal NSA team, leftover from the Buchanan Administration but never deactivated CC Mideast: Hope for the Future, or Building to A New Explosion? C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX al-Embarekh (The Blessed)
CC Extraterrestrial DD Continuing Relationship with the Meeranon DD First Contact with the Confederation
DD First off-world colonies BB Where To From Here? Into The Future (1 page)
AA ...and Yesterday (38 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB From The Dawn of Time to the 20th Century (0.5 page) CC The Seeders CC The Seeder Genes and Stellar Radiation C-BOX Supers in History
BB 1924-1945 - From Vigilantes to Super-Soldiers (3 pages) C-BOX The End of TL 6 D-BOX What's the *real* tech level? How super powers led to anomalous superscience. CC The 1924 Stellar Event CC The Stars Were Right - Magic Comes Out Of Hiding C-BOX Antimetahuman/antimagic pogroms begin in Islamic
states CC "Mystery Men" and Psis - Crimefighters and spyhunters
CC World War II DD Germany's Ubermenschen DD German attempts at powered armor C-BOX Experimentation in Concentration Camps DD The Los Angeles Project and Strike Force A DD British Team C-BOX Battlefield Casualty Rate for Metahumans CC Formation of the United Nations BB 1946-1963 - "The Golden Age" (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Begins D-BOX: Tech Anomalies: Invention of the Blaster CC National, corporate and private super teams DD First national supergroup in France DD Other teams of note - including "ethnic" teams CC Growing numbers of vigilantes, "costumed adventurers" DD Conversely, also growing numbers of "costumed extremists" and "metavillains" DD Doctor Radiation and Cascade DD "Destructeur" and the first "mutants" CC Changes To Legal Systems Wrought By Psionics C-BOX The British Mind Control Scandal of 1952 CC Birth of Parapsychology and Metabiology C-BOX Chinese "Breeding Program" for Metahumans CC Accelerating Technology DD The Roland Power Cell DD The Blaster DD Space Exploration C-BOX NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain CC The Korean War DD First practical powered armor CC Europe and the formation of the EEC CC United States DD The House UnAmerican Activities Committee DD Civil Rights Movement C-BOX Vietnam CC Latin America DD Cuba and Castro, and the "Bay of Pigs" Temporary
Liberation CC South Africa BB 1964-1975 - You Say You Want A Revolution (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Matures CC Europe DD Growth and consolidation of the EEC C-BOX Diplomatic relations between East and West
Germany DD First generation EEC superteam DD "Right to Privacy" movement C-BOX Rise of International Terrorism CC United States DD HUAC: The Next Generation DD The Nixon Administration DD Metahuman activist groups: P.O.W.E.R., YIPPI C-BOX Summer of Love D-BOX Kent State DD Vietnam War DD Watergate C-BOX The Personal Privacy Act of 1974 CC China DD First A-bomb and H-bomb DD Cultural Revolution and the seeds of the future DD Admission to U.N. C-BOX What about Taiwan? CC Middle East DD Israel and Palestine DD Six Day War and other Conflicts DD Founding of the Palestine Government in Exile DD Iran and Iraq C-BOX Oil Embargo of 1973 CC Space Race and The Apollo Program DD Apollo 11 DD Apollos 12-25 DD Lunar Base 1 BB 1975-1981 - The Lull Before The Storm (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Transitions into TL 8 D-BOX First clues to the "how" of superpowers D-BOX Tech Anomalies: first breakthroughs in bionics and artificial organs CC Europe DD Birth of formalized antinuclear movement DD Greece joins the EEC; the resulting increase in the EEC super team makes it the second-largest standing super-army in the world. CC Middle East DD Fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups first come to world attention DD Libya and Qadaffi DD Iranian Hostage Incident DD Iran-Iraq War of 1980 CC China DD Death of Mao and subsequent "liberalization" DD Attempted invasion of Vietnam DD Beginning of super "breeding program" DD Chinese space program
CC Soviet Union DD Invasion of Afghanistan, prompts calls for U.N.
super force C-BOX Covert U.N. superteam deployed against Soviets DD Space program EE (name) Space Station EE 1979 Lunar landing CC United States DD Bicentennial DD Carter Presidency, relaxation of government
hostility towards supers DD Supreme Court decision forbidding "mental search warrants" CC Latin America C-BOX Metarchies DD Doctor Radiation and Guatemala DD Cuba's Consolidation BB The Rise of the International Super Teams: 1982-1990 (5 pages) C-BOX TL8 accelerates dramatically D-BOX Tech anomalies begin appearing with startling
frequency: cyberlimbs, nanotech, AI and more D-BOX Discovery of genes for metahuman functions, test for the same -- and the social/philosophical implications thereof CC Motivation for the Founding of the IST CC The Edicts of 1982 C-BOX Political Fallout, in the U.N. and out C-BOX First Contact - The Meeranar D-BOX Second First Contact: the F.R.A.N.C. probe
CC Europe DD Chernobyl DD Glasnost and the end of the Iron Curtain DD Soviet space program becomes Russian space program EE 1987 - First Russian base on moon DD Laying the groundwork for the European Union CC United States DD Election of Ronald Reagan in 1984 DD Election of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1988 C-BOX Strategic Nuclear Disarmament DD Attempted invasion of Panama CC Middle East DD Israel-Lebanon conflict DD PLO tacnuke attacks on Jerusalem CC Africa DD Extended drought prompting the birth of the
International Weather Organization DD Failed South African Invasion/Coup Attempt CC China DD Tiananmen Square DD Increasing disaffection with the U.N. and the IST DD Super "Breeding Program" revealed by defector DD Ends the decade as an outlaw state after defying U.N. demands for information on supers/military programs BB The Crazy Years - The 1990s (6 pages) C-BOX TL 8 Becomes TL 9 D-BOX Tech Anomalies: influx of alien technology
begins making a simple TL assignment moot CC The Mage-Age Revolution DD The Unified Theory of Magic released in 1996 C-BOX The Whole Earth Grimoire (1997) C-BOX The UTM and the Grand Unified Theory DD Practical and Research Theology, Theurgical Studies DD American government restricts magical research dramatically due to Evangelical Christian influence on the Buchanan administration; only the threat of
foreign magical attack prevents it from being
outlawed entirely DD Meeranar interest in magic; having no mages they seek technological methods to use it. C-BOX Trade With The Meeranar D-BOX Meeranon frictions with the Buchanan Administration lead to changing their primary trading partners CC Space Initiatives DD The Bifrost Launch Laser/Mass Driver DD Orbital habitats and Moon bases C-BOX Repurposed Metavillain hideouts D-BOX Moonbase Drax DD The European Space Agency
EE Orbital Space Station/Drydock EE The ESS Ulysee Merou C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency DD Private Space Programs
EE General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing EE Virgin Galactic EE Ainomere Industries C-BOX "Space Pirates" - Coming to an orbit near you! DD "UNSS Wanderer" - Earth's First Starship C-BOX The Breaking of the U.N. Fusion Monopoly D-BOX Singapore Discovery of 1996 D-BOX United States' voluntary disconnect from U.N fusion in 1998 CC The Iran-Iraq War of 1992-1996 C-BOX Iraqi invastion of Kuwait DD Chemical and Nuclear exchanges DD Operation Shield Wall (1993) DD War ends in mutual nuclear and chemical destruction
of both capitals and the surrounding countrysides,
and the effective collapse of both countries. C-BOX U.N. Relief Efforts DD End of war seems to shock the rest of the Middle
East into a more rational/moderate mindset - or at
least shocked the extremists into quiescence -
however temporarily. CC Israel and Palestine DD Escalating tensions through the early 1990s DD Continued conventional and tacnuke attacks on Israel C-BOX PGIE - The Palestinian Government in Exile DD 1994 PLO nuke accident allows more moderate voices to prevail as Israel and U.N. provide relief DD New negotiations beginning in 1995 (along with considerable pressure on Israel) lead to ... DD Palestinian Homeland established 1999 CC Cuba and Guatemala DD Alliance DD Collapse of the Cuban Economy DD Joint invasion of El Salvador in 1998 and IST operations against it. DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing Attempt CC Europe DD Formal start of the European Union DD Collapse of Communism, restructuring of former
Soviet economies CC The United States DD Acceptance of "New World Order" conspiracy theory in mainstream Republican thought DD Growing anti-IST sentiment and xenophobia C-BOX The "America First" movement DD King narrowly re-elected in 1992, while Congress
shifts to Republican control DD Patrick Buchanan elected U.S. President in 1996, Congress remains controlled by Republicans DD Refusal to pay U.N. dues, rush to implement the
Singapore discovery and construct U.S.-owned fusion
plants C-BOX "Freedom Fusion" plants -- and their hasty, shoddy construction DD Unilateral attack on Cuba, 1998 DD Denial of federal funding to universities with
magical studies programs DD The "Tech Diaspora" DD General perception overseas of the US slowly decaying into a "second-tier" nation CC People's Republic of China DD Escalating U.N. Sanctions through the decade DD Above Ground Nuclear Tests DD Military "exercises" in the Formosa Strait and
elsewhere DD Control of Hong Kong not returned to China as a first attempt at diplomatic pressure DD 1999 Siege of Hong Kong CC "The Wall" -- the Y2K barrier to precognition C-BOX The Wall and GURPS Y2K BB Over the Wall - The 2000s and World War III (8 pages) C-BOX TL 9 matures CC The End of the Siege - The Millennium Attack on Hong
Kong and the Start of World War III (NOTE: The
specifics of WW III are subject to change, although its start and end points are firm.) DD WW III runs 2000-2005
C-BOX Meeranar "Neutrality" DD Land War in Asia; China overruns Bhutan, then
attacks India. North Korea attacks the South PULLQUOTE "A land war in Asia? Fantastic. Now all we need is to go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line." - political figure to be named later C-BOX Eurasian ISTs vs. Chinese Super Army: Quality vs. Quantity? DD All Not Quiet On The Russian Front EE Annexation of Kazakhstan C-BOX Unconventional Weapons: The Chinese "Earthquake Machines" and their role in the war DD Nepalese Uprising, Occupation EE Pakistani attack on India during height of
Chinese invasion DD Expansion into Bangladesh, Myanmar and neighboring countries DD Occupation of Senkaku Islands, which leads into... DD The Invasion of Japan - Draws the U.S. into WW III EE Polynesian Campaign DD Battlefield nukes devastate SE Asia and eastern Russia DD Arctic Campaign DD Battle of Magnitogorsk - Turning point of the war, broke the back of Chinese western forces, both super
and mundane DD Operation Angel: Three-pronged attack in which UN
forces establish footholds in occupied India,
Kazakhstan, and the east coast of Mainland China DD Attempted final nuclear strike by Chinese government as UN forces approach Beijing.
DD Capture of Beijing, New Year’s Eve 2005, end of war CC Europe DD EU becomes the Union of European States in response to the start of WW III, more than a confederation of allies and a handsbreadth short of a single nation CC United States C-BOX Why No 9/11? D-BOX The United States Without Homeland Security
DD And the Pendulum Swings - the election of Democrat Aaron Catalano as President in 2000 and the so- called "Return to Rationality" DD Return to the U.N. in response to WW III C-BOX Impact of the War on American Politics DD American "catch-up" efforts in magical research DD Re-election of Catalano in 2004 DD Election of Catalano's VP Reuben Cruz in 2008 DD Moderate Republican Kenneth Noble elected in 2012
DD Breakdowns in "Freedom Fusion" power plants - no catastrophes, just region-wide brownouts across the country for several years, until they are properly refurbished, sometimes with UN technology CC Latin America DD Death of Doctor Radiation and subsequent Guatemalan civil war DD Cuba: Castro is dead, Long live Castro DD Collapse of the "Latin Axis" CC Asia DD Damage from WW III and subsequent recovery DD Reunification of Korea CC Extraterrestrial DD First contact with the Confederation C-BOX Using GURPS Aliens for the Confederation C-BOX ... Which Brings Us To Today: advice on using this history as either background or campaign setting.
AA Playing An IST (19 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB The United Nations (1.5 pages) CC Goals of the U.N. C-BOX Using the U.N. C-BOX Non-Intervention CC Policies of the U.N. C-BOX Official Languages BB The IST Parental Power Structure (2 pages) CC The Security Council C-BOX The World Court at the Hague CC The Committee on Permanent Peacekeeping Forces C-BOX A Brief History of the U.N. C-BOX But The U.N. Can't DO That! - Differences between the Real-World U.N. and the I.S.T. World's DD Covert Operations CC The Committee for Law Enforcement C-BOX The IST Agenda CC IST Command C-BOX Interservice Relations - How do other militaries react to and interact with an independent force composed entirely of *officers*? CC Major Divisions DD Embassy/Field Operations DD Technical Services DD Intelligence C-BOX Covert Operations BB Induction and Service (2 pages) CC IST Basic Training C-BOX Minimum Requirements for Membership CC Status, Rank and Salaries C-BOX Standard Tour of Duty
C-BOX Americans and IST Membership - In the real world, US law says that a U.S. citizen who serves as an officer in a foreign military loses their citizenship and may be accused of treason; how do IST members get around this? CC Security Clearances CC Codenames and Secret Identities
CC Costumes C-BOX Standard IST Insignia CC IST Courts-Martial CC Transport, Materiel and Equipment C-BOX Transportation BB The IST Academy (1 page) CC Educational facilities for both young supers and the
children of IST employees, established 1995 DD Supers are trained in use of their powers, but are not required to serve in the IST upon graduation C-BOX Academy Headmistress CC Most classes are integrated, with only power-specific training not open to "normals" DD Friction between supers and non-supers BB The Individual IST (2 pages) CC Command Structure of the Team C-BOX Staffing Your IST DD Team Administrator C-BOX "Civil Need" and Crimefighting DD Field Commander C-BOX Emergency Military Action by ISTs DD Public Relations Officer C-BOX Team Assignments D-BOX IST Placements - Things have changed since
1990; population has grown, countries have dissolved and new ones formed. The IST has changed with them.
D-BOX Special Embassies: Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Kingston DD Legal Attache DD Security Officer CC Powered Infantry C-BOX International Territory BB The Typical Embassy (2 pages) CC Defensive Capabilities DD Internal Security DD Support Staff C-BOX Standard IST Mainframe Software CC Offensive Capabilities C-BOX Common Embassy Armaments CC Detention Facilities C-BOX Electronarcosis and Deepsleep Cells D-BOX Objections to Long-term Deepsleep Incarceration CC Training Facilities C-BOX Self-Sufficiency BB Sample Embassy - IST New York (4 pages) CC Physical Plant C-BOX Security Systems CC Unique Features DD Co-HQ of all IST Forces DD The Museum of Metahumanity C-BOX Museum Library and its contents DD IST Memorial Plaza C-BOX Memorial listing CC P.R. and Local Authorities CC Complement C-BOX Team Leaders D-BOX Commander (Witchwind's Successor) D-Box Team Administrator CC History DD Establishment in 1982 DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing BB Sample Embassy - IST Tokyo (4 pages) CC Physical Plant C-BOX Security Systems CC P.R. and Local Authorities CC Complement C-BOX Team Leaders D-BOX Commander D-Box Team Administrator CC History DD
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AA Characters (4 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Character Creation (0.25 page) DD Starting Wealth ($30,000) and TL (9) BB Alien Races (0.25 page) BB Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills (2 pages) CC IST Membership CC IST Basic Training CC XXXXX Scientific skill for UTM DD Thaumatology gains mandatory specializations for
individual systems of magic (Hermetic, Enochian,
Voudoun, etc.) CC XXXXX Engineering skill for UTM
CC Research Theology CC No Bang skills BB Job Table (1 page)
AA Extraterrestrials (10 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) C-BOX ETs, the Law, and "Human" Rights BB Kyz (2 pages) C-BOX Confederation Technology D-BOX Confederation FTL BB Meeranar (2 pages) CC Taboo trait: Magery C-BOX Myeerrrarr - The Meeranar Tongue C-BOX The Meeranar "Psi Drug" C-BOX Meeranar Technology BB GURPS Aliens (3.5 pages) CC For the Confederation C-BOX Rynkarians from "SuperTemps" BB Sample Alien Characters (2 pages) CC Touchstone CC Whyte Tyger II
AA Technology (12 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Mid-TL9 (0.5) CC Why isn't the TL higher? DD Tech Level anomalies caused by study of metahumans CC Off-world trade and the technology level C-BOX Black Market Ultratech exchanges BB Power and Energy (1.5 pages) CC The Roland Power Cell and its competitors CC The End of the Oil Age C-BOX Collapse of Mideast Power - and Nations
CC The UN Fusion Monopoly - and Its End BB Arms and Armaments (1.5 pages) CC Weaponry CC Armor and Defenses BB Computers, Cybernetics and Robotics (2 pages) CC How the Arpanet became the Tapestry CC Artificial Intelligence C-BOX AIs and the Law - When does a program (or a
machine) become a person? D-BOX 1991 MV-2400 Decision D-BOX Legal ramifications of the "Awaken Computer" spell BB Biotechnology (2 pages) CC Medical CC Genetic Engineering BB Housing and Construction (2 pages) BB Personal and Consumer Goods (2 pages) C-BOX Fabs and Nanofabs - The Maker Revolution
AA Magic (6 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB History of Modern Magic (2 pages) C-BOX Reactions the world 'round
CC The Unified Theory of Magic CC The Whole Earth Grimoire C-BOX Technomancy, including Meeranon Tech Magic BB Modern "State of the Art" (1.5 page) CC Magical studies programs C-BOX US behind the rest of the world in magical
studies due to evangelical Christian influence in politics during the 1990s CC Licensing and testing in many jurisdictions CC Legislative/judicial catch-up as nations race to
outlaw "black" and/or dangerous magics and regulate the
rest DD Energy corporations lobbying to outlaw direct
energy-conversion spells DD Necromancy and Felony Abuse of a Corpse C-BOX The implications of Theurgy and Research
Theology C-BOX Legal Ramifications of Sapient Undead D-BOX "Dead is Dead" - Wills and Bequests D-BOX "Undead is Not Dead" - Life Insurance D-BOX "Chicago Voter Registration" - Undead and/in Politics BB "Catalogue" (2 pages) CC Which spells are commonly available, which are
"cutting edge" research, which are mythical, and which
may be real but are unavailable at any price.
C-BOX Wild magical talents
CC The first fruits of the Meeranon technological
approach to magic - minor, almost trivial devices, but usable by anyone in all but no-mana zones, even
without magery.
AA IST and Infinite Worlds (4 pages) (expanding on the IST-IW pdf) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Discovering "Krypton" (1 page) CC The "Pocket Multiverse" C-BOX Worldline Data Box for "Krypton" BB Reality Quakes (0.5 pages) C-BOX "The Wall" from Homeline's Perspective BB Homeline Politics vis-a-vis Krypton's U.N. (1 page) CC Protecting the Secret Against Worldjumpers and Supers C-BOX Infinity Unlimited and Krypton's WWIII - A Realpolitik Option: Starting a world war to protect the Secret (and whether it worked) BB Alternate ISTs - Parallel Timelines Within (and Outside of) Krypton's "Pocket Multiverse" (1 page) CC Krypton-2: The "Evil IST" world (Current year 2015) CC Krypton-3: Conqueror's World (aka "Super Rebels").
Centrum has agents here, but the World Government knows
about them and is trying to use them to get to Centrum
and other timelines. (Current year 2015) CC Krypton-4: "Super Wars": Krypton-3 without Conqueror:
a balkanized collection of warring city-states ruled by
supers who range from the benevolent to the despotic.
(Current year 2003) CC Krypton-5: "Swamp Castle": four failed attempts at a
UN superforce between 1946 and 1976; the fifth attempt
in 1982 was finally successful. (Current year 1989) CC Krypton-6: Headstart: Stellar Event in 1796, supers
since the early 1800s, steampunk TL5+2, "gentleman
adventurers' leagues". (Current year 1888) CC Krypton-7: Latestart: Stellar Event in 1975, supers
since the 1990s, relatively low power, comparable to
Krypton-1's WWII era. (Current year 2027)
AA, Sample Characters (24 pages) 4th Edition versions of selected characters important to IST history and current events, along with new players on the
international stage. BB Members and Allies (12 pages) BB Foes (12 pages)
AA Timeline (10 pages) BB 60,000,000 BCE to 2015 CE
AA Bibliography (1 page)
AA Glossary (2 pages)
AA Index (2 pages)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Page counts aren't final -- hell, I haven't even totalled them up yet to see if I'm near a multiple of 16 (although as I expect this to be a PDF, getting the page count to an integer number of signatures is unlikely to be particularly critical).
GURPS International Super Teams -- The 25th Anniversary Edition Outline
((Cover -- suggest Vince Russell? Would like a new one despitehow great the original was.))
AA Title Page (1 page)
AA Table of Contents (2 pages)
AA Introduction (1 page) BB A Brief history of IST BB About the 25th anniversary BB About the author C-BOX About GURPS
AA The World Today... (11 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) C-BOX "SuperTemps", "Super Scum", and other useful books BB The State of the World in 2015 (1.5 pages) C-BOX How Realistic is "Realistic"? Fine-tuning the campaign D-BOX Combat Realism C-BOX "Super Names" - Why take a "nom de guerre"? There's no one reason/justification: D-BOX Anonymity and Intimidation D-BOX Self-aggrandizement/wish fulfillment D-BOX Street names and nicknames (history back to the Old West); sometimes granted by the media rather than self-taken D-BOX Political reasons (a la "Malcolm X"); "Post-Human" names D-BOX Callsigns D-BOX Actual military code names; other types of names can be formalized this way when joining the IST or other force
BB The Aftermath of World War III - Life in the Second Decade of the 21st Century (8 pages) C-BOX Organizations D-BOX Bonded Telepaths Organization D-BOX The Post-Human Alliance C-BOX Warrantless telepathic surveillance: tinfoil hat territory or serious concern? D-BOX (Insert oppressive regime here) "Thought
Police" C-BOX The Blue Demon: Global Scourge CC China: Post-Communist, Occupied, Balkanized DD Communist Guerillas and Terrorists DD Hidden black projects and secret contingency plans still popping up almost like clockwork all over the world C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX The People's Revolutionary Insurgency, AKA
"The RGP" (Rénmín Gémìng Pànluàn) CC United Europe - The Union of European States C-BOX Metahuman Activity Insurance C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX THAMF D-BOX The Metahuman People's Research Institute
CC United States - The Fallen Giant Rising Again C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX Team 99 (2015 incarnation) D-BOX The "First Church of the Supermen" D-BOX P.O.W.E.R. 2K D-BOX Illegal NSA team, leftover from the Buchanan Administration but never deactivated CC Mideast: Hope for the Future, or Building to A New Explosion? C-BOX Organizations (Continued) D-BOX al-Embarekh (The Blessed)
CC Extraterrestrial DD Continuing Relationship with the Meeranon DD First Contact with the Confederation
DD First off-world colonies BB Where To From Here? Into The Future (1 page)
AA ...and Yesterday (38 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB From The Dawn of Time to the 20th Century (0.5 page) CC The Seeders CC The Seeder Genes and Stellar Radiation C-BOX Supers in History
BB 1924-1945 - From Vigilantes to Super-Soldiers (3 pages) C-BOX The End of TL 6 D-BOX What's the *real* tech level? How super powers led to anomalous superscience. CC The 1924 Stellar Event CC The Stars Were Right - Magic Comes Out Of Hiding C-BOX Antimetahuman/antimagic pogroms begin in Islamic
states CC "Mystery Men" and Psis - Crimefighters and spyhunters
CC World War II DD Germany's Ubermenschen DD German attempts at powered armor C-BOX Experimentation in Concentration Camps DD The Los Angeles Project and Strike Force A DD British Team C-BOX Battlefield Casualty Rate for Metahumans CC Formation of the United Nations BB 1946-1963 - "The Golden Age" (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Begins D-BOX: Tech Anomalies: Invention of the Blaster CC National, corporate and private super teams DD First national supergroup in France DD Other teams of note - including "ethnic" teams CC Growing numbers of vigilantes, "costumed adventurers" DD Conversely, also growing numbers of "costumed extremists" and "metavillains" DD Doctor Radiation and Cascade DD "Destructeur" and the first "mutants" CC Changes To Legal Systems Wrought By Psionics C-BOX The British Mind Control Scandal of 1952 CC Birth of Parapsychology and Metabiology C-BOX Chinese "Breeding Program" for Metahumans CC Accelerating Technology DD The Roland Power Cell DD The Blaster DD Space Exploration C-BOX NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain CC The Korean War DD First practical powered armor CC Europe and the formation of the EEC CC United States DD The House UnAmerican Activities Committee DD Civil Rights Movement C-BOX Vietnam CC Latin America DD Cuba and Castro, and the "Bay of Pigs" Temporary
Liberation CC South Africa BB 1964-1975 - You Say You Want A Revolution (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Matures CC Europe DD Growth and consolidation of the EEC C-BOX Diplomatic relations between East and West
Germany DD First generation EEC superteam DD "Right to Privacy" movement C-BOX Rise of International Terrorism CC United States DD HUAC: The Next Generation DD The Nixon Administration DD Metahuman activist groups: P.O.W.E.R., YIPPI C-BOX Summer of Love D-BOX Kent State DD Vietnam War DD Watergate C-BOX The Personal Privacy Act of 1974 CC China DD First A-bomb and H-bomb DD Cultural Revolution and the seeds of the future DD Admission to U.N. C-BOX What about Taiwan? CC Middle East DD Israel and Palestine DD Six Day War and other Conflicts DD Founding of the Palestine Government in Exile DD Iran and Iraq C-BOX Oil Embargo of 1973 CC Space Race and The Apollo Program DD Apollo 11 DD Apollos 12-25 DD Lunar Base 1 BB 1975-1981 - The Lull Before The Storm (5 pages) C-BOX TL 7 Transitions into TL 8 D-BOX First clues to the "how" of superpowers D-BOX Tech Anomalies: first breakthroughs in bionics and artificial organs CC Europe DD Birth of formalized antinuclear movement DD Greece joins the EEC; the resulting increase in the EEC super team makes it the second-largest standing super-army in the world. CC Middle East DD Fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups first come to world attention DD Libya and Qadaffi DD Iranian Hostage Incident DD Iran-Iraq War of 1980 CC China DD Death of Mao and subsequent "liberalization" DD Attempted invasion of Vietnam DD Beginning of super "breeding program" DD Chinese space program
CC Soviet Union DD Invasion of Afghanistan, prompts calls for U.N.
super force C-BOX Covert U.N. superteam deployed against Soviets DD Space program EE (name) Space Station EE 1979 Lunar landing CC United States DD Bicentennial DD Carter Presidency, relaxation of government
hostility towards supers DD Supreme Court decision forbidding "mental search warrants" CC Latin America C-BOX Metarchies DD Doctor Radiation and Guatemala DD Cuba's Consolidation BB The Rise of the International Super Teams: 1982-1990 (5 pages) C-BOX TL8 accelerates dramatically D-BOX Tech anomalies begin appearing with startling
frequency: cyberlimbs, nanotech, AI and more D-BOX Discovery of genes for metahuman functions, test for the same -- and the social/philosophical implications thereof CC Motivation for the Founding of the IST CC The Edicts of 1982 C-BOX Political Fallout, in the U.N. and out C-BOX First Contact - The Meeranar D-BOX Second First Contact: the F.R.A.N.C. probe
CC Europe DD Chernobyl DD Glasnost and the end of the Iron Curtain DD Soviet space program becomes Russian space program EE 1987 - First Russian base on moon DD Laying the groundwork for the European Union CC United States DD Election of Ronald Reagan in 1984 DD Election of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1988 C-BOX Strategic Nuclear Disarmament DD Attempted invasion of Panama CC Middle East DD Israel-Lebanon conflict DD PLO tacnuke attacks on Jerusalem CC Africa DD Extended drought prompting the birth of the
International Weather Organization DD Failed South African Invasion/Coup Attempt CC China DD Tiananmen Square DD Increasing disaffection with the U.N. and the IST DD Super "Breeding Program" revealed by defector DD Ends the decade as an outlaw state after defying U.N. demands for information on supers/military programs BB The Crazy Years - The 1990s (6 pages) C-BOX TL 8 Becomes TL 9 D-BOX Tech Anomalies: influx of alien technology
begins making a simple TL assignment moot CC The Mage-Age Revolution DD The Unified Theory of Magic released in 1996 C-BOX The Whole Earth Grimoire (1997) C-BOX The UTM and the Grand Unified Theory DD Practical and Research Theology, Theurgical Studies DD American government restricts magical research dramatically due to Evangelical Christian influence on the Buchanan administration; only the threat of
foreign magical attack prevents it from being
outlawed entirely DD Meeranar interest in magic; having no mages they seek technological methods to use it. C-BOX Trade With The Meeranar D-BOX Meeranon frictions with the Buchanan Administration lead to changing their primary trading partners CC Space Initiatives DD The Bifrost Launch Laser/Mass Driver DD Orbital habitats and Moon bases C-BOX Repurposed Metavillain hideouts D-BOX Moonbase Drax DD The European Space Agency
EE Orbital Space Station/Drydock EE The ESS Ulysee Merou C-BOX JAXA and the Solomon Space Agency DD Private Space Programs
EE General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing EE Virgin Galactic EE Ainomere Industries C-BOX "Space Pirates" - Coming to an orbit near you! DD "UNSS Wanderer" - Earth's First Starship C-BOX The Breaking of the U.N. Fusion Monopoly D-BOX Singapore Discovery of 1996 D-BOX United States' voluntary disconnect from U.N fusion in 1998 CC The Iran-Iraq War of 1992-1996 C-BOX Iraqi invastion of Kuwait DD Chemical and Nuclear exchanges DD Operation Shield Wall (1993) DD War ends in mutual nuclear and chemical destruction
of both capitals and the surrounding countrysides,
and the effective collapse of both countries. C-BOX U.N. Relief Efforts DD End of war seems to shock the rest of the Middle
East into a more rational/moderate mindset - or at
least shocked the extremists into quiescence -
however temporarily. CC Israel and Palestine DD Escalating tensions through the early 1990s DD Continued conventional and tacnuke attacks on Israel C-BOX PGIE - The Palestinian Government in Exile DD 1994 PLO nuke accident allows more moderate voices to prevail as Israel and U.N. provide relief DD New negotiations beginning in 1995 (along with considerable pressure on Israel) lead to ... DD Palestinian Homeland established 1999 CC Cuba and Guatemala DD Alliance DD Collapse of the Cuban Economy DD Joint invasion of El Salvador in 1998 and IST operations against it. DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing Attempt CC Europe DD Formal start of the European Union DD Collapse of Communism, restructuring of former
Soviet economies CC The United States DD Acceptance of "New World Order" conspiracy theory in mainstream Republican thought DD Growing anti-IST sentiment and xenophobia C-BOX The "America First" movement DD King narrowly re-elected in 1992, while Congress
shifts to Republican control DD Patrick Buchanan elected U.S. President in 1996, Congress remains controlled by Republicans DD Refusal to pay U.N. dues, rush to implement the
Singapore discovery and construct U.S.-owned fusion
plants C-BOX "Freedom Fusion" plants -- and their hasty, shoddy construction DD Unilateral attack on Cuba, 1998 DD Denial of federal funding to universities with
magical studies programs DD The "Tech Diaspora" DD General perception overseas of the US slowly decaying into a "second-tier" nation CC People's Republic of China DD Escalating U.N. Sanctions through the decade DD Above Ground Nuclear Tests DD Military "exercises" in the Formosa Strait and
elsewhere DD Control of Hong Kong not returned to China as a first attempt at diplomatic pressure DD 1999 Siege of Hong Kong CC "The Wall" -- the Y2K barrier to precognition C-BOX The Wall and GURPS Y2K BB Over the Wall - The 2000s and World War III (8 pages) C-BOX TL 9 matures CC The End of the Siege - The Millennium Attack on Hong
Kong and the Start of World War III (NOTE: The
specifics of WW III are subject to change, although its start and end points are firm.) DD WW III runs 2000-2005
C-BOX Meeranar "Neutrality" DD Land War in Asia; China overruns Bhutan, then
attacks India. North Korea attacks the South PULLQUOTE "A land war in Asia? Fantastic. Now all we need is to go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line." - political figure to be named later C-BOX Eurasian ISTs vs. Chinese Super Army: Quality vs. Quantity? DD All Not Quiet On The Russian Front EE Annexation of Kazakhstan C-BOX Unconventional Weapons: The Chinese "Earthquake Machines" and their role in the war DD Nepalese Uprising, Occupation EE Pakistani attack on India during height of
Chinese invasion DD Expansion into Bangladesh, Myanmar and neighboring countries DD Occupation of Senkaku Islands, which leads into... DD The Invasion of Japan - Draws the U.S. into WW III EE Polynesian Campaign DD Battlefield nukes devastate SE Asia and eastern Russia DD Arctic Campaign DD Battle of Magnitogorsk - Turning point of the war, broke the back of Chinese western forces, both super
and mundane DD Operation Angel: Three-pronged attack in which UN
forces establish footholds in occupied India,
Kazakhstan, and the east coast of Mainland China DD Attempted final nuclear strike by Chinese government as UN forces approach Beijing.
DD Capture of Beijing, New Year’s Eve 2005, end of war CC Europe DD EU becomes the Union of European States in response to the start of WW III, more than a confederation of allies and a handsbreadth short of a single nation CC United States C-BOX Why No 9/11? D-BOX The United States Without Homeland Security
DD And the Pendulum Swings - the election of Democrat Aaron Catalano as President in 2000 and the so- called "Return to Rationality" DD Return to the U.N. in response to WW III C-BOX Impact of the War on American Politics DD American "catch-up" efforts in magical research DD Re-election of Catalano in 2004 DD Election of Catalano's VP Reuben Cruz in 2008 DD Moderate Republican Kenneth Noble elected in 2012
DD Breakdowns in "Freedom Fusion" power plants - no catastrophes, just region-wide brownouts across the country for several years, until they are properly refurbished, sometimes with UN technology CC Latin America DD Death of Doctor Radiation and subsequent Guatemalan civil war DD Cuba: Castro is dead, Long live Castro DD Collapse of the "Latin Axis" CC Asia DD Damage from WW III and subsequent recovery DD Reunification of Korea CC Extraterrestrial DD First contact with the Confederation C-BOX Using GURPS Aliens for the Confederation C-BOX ... Which Brings Us To Today: advice on using this history as either background or campaign setting.
AA Playing An IST (19 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB The United Nations (1.5 pages) CC Goals of the U.N. C-BOX Using the U.N. C-BOX Non-Intervention CC Policies of the U.N. C-BOX Official Languages BB The IST Parental Power Structure (2 pages) CC The Security Council C-BOX The World Court at the Hague CC The Committee on Permanent Peacekeeping Forces C-BOX A Brief History of the U.N. C-BOX But The U.N. Can't DO That! - Differences between the Real-World U.N. and the I.S.T. World's DD Covert Operations CC The Committee for Law Enforcement C-BOX The IST Agenda CC IST Command C-BOX Interservice Relations - How do other militaries react to and interact with an independent force composed entirely of *officers*? CC Major Divisions DD Embassy/Field Operations DD Technical Services DD Intelligence C-BOX Covert Operations BB Induction and Service (2 pages) CC IST Basic Training C-BOX Minimum Requirements for Membership CC Status, Rank and Salaries C-BOX Standard Tour of Duty
C-BOX Americans and IST Membership - In the real world, US law says that a U.S. citizen who serves as an officer in a foreign military loses their citizenship and may be accused of treason; how do IST members get around this? CC Security Clearances CC Codenames and Secret Identities
CC Costumes C-BOX Standard IST Insignia CC IST Courts-Martial CC Transport, Materiel and Equipment C-BOX Transportation BB The IST Academy (1 page) CC Educational facilities for both young supers and the
children of IST employees, established 1995 DD Supers are trained in use of their powers, but are not required to serve in the IST upon graduation C-BOX Academy Headmistress CC Most classes are integrated, with only power-specific training not open to "normals" DD Friction between supers and non-supers BB The Individual IST (2 pages) CC Command Structure of the Team C-BOX Staffing Your IST DD Team Administrator C-BOX "Civil Need" and Crimefighting DD Field Commander C-BOX Emergency Military Action by ISTs DD Public Relations Officer C-BOX Team Assignments D-BOX IST Placements - Things have changed since
1990; population has grown, countries have dissolved and new ones formed. The IST has changed with them.
D-BOX Special Embassies: Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Kingston DD Legal Attache DD Security Officer CC Powered Infantry C-BOX International Territory BB The Typical Embassy (2 pages) CC Defensive Capabilities DD Internal Security DD Support Staff C-BOX Standard IST Mainframe Software CC Offensive Capabilities C-BOX Common Embassy Armaments CC Detention Facilities C-BOX Electronarcosis and Deepsleep Cells D-BOX Objections to Long-term Deepsleep Incarceration CC Training Facilities C-BOX Self-Sufficiency BB Sample Embassy - IST New York (4 pages) CC Physical Plant C-BOX Security Systems CC Unique Features DD Co-HQ of all IST Forces DD The Museum of Metahumanity C-BOX Museum Library and its contents DD IST Memorial Plaza C-BOX Memorial listing CC P.R. and Local Authorities CC Complement C-BOX Team Leaders D-BOX Commander (Witchwind's Successor) D-Box Team Administrator CC History DD Establishment in 1982 DD 1999 U.N. Suicide Bombing BB Sample Embassy - IST Tokyo (4 pages) CC Physical Plant C-BOX Security Systems CC P.R. and Local Authorities CC Complement C-BOX Team Leaders D-BOX Commander D-Box Team Administrator CC History DD
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AA Characters (4 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Character Creation (0.25 page) DD Starting Wealth ($30,000) and TL (9) BB Alien Races (0.25 page) BB Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills (2 pages) CC IST Membership CC IST Basic Training CC XXXXX Scientific skill for UTM DD Thaumatology gains mandatory specializations for
individual systems of magic (Hermetic, Enochian,
Voudoun, etc.) CC XXXXX Engineering skill for UTM
CC Research Theology CC No Bang skills BB Job Table (1 page)
AA Extraterrestrials (10 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) C-BOX ETs, the Law, and "Human" Rights BB Kyz (2 pages) C-BOX Confederation Technology D-BOX Confederation FTL BB Meeranar (2 pages) CC Taboo trait: Magery C-BOX Myeerrrarr - The Meeranar Tongue C-BOX The Meeranar "Psi Drug" C-BOX Meeranar Technology BB GURPS Aliens (3.5 pages) CC For the Confederation C-BOX Rynkarians from "SuperTemps" BB Sample Alien Characters (2 pages) CC Touchstone CC Whyte Tyger II
AA Technology (12 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Mid-TL9 (0.5) CC Why isn't the TL higher? DD Tech Level anomalies caused by study of metahumans CC Off-world trade and the technology level C-BOX Black Market Ultratech exchanges BB Power and Energy (1.5 pages) CC The Roland Power Cell and its competitors CC The End of the Oil Age C-BOX Collapse of Mideast Power - and Nations
CC The UN Fusion Monopoly - and Its End BB Arms and Armaments (1.5 pages) CC Weaponry CC Armor and Defenses BB Computers, Cybernetics and Robotics (2 pages) CC How the Arpanet became the Tapestry CC Artificial Intelligence C-BOX AIs and the Law - When does a program (or a
machine) become a person? D-BOX 1991 MV-2400 Decision D-BOX Legal ramifications of the "Awaken Computer" spell BB Biotechnology (2 pages) CC Medical CC Genetic Engineering BB Housing and Construction (2 pages) BB Personal and Consumer Goods (2 pages) C-BOX Fabs and Nanofabs - The Maker Revolution
AA Magic (6 pages) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB History of Modern Magic (2 pages) C-BOX Reactions the world 'round
CC The Unified Theory of Magic CC The Whole Earth Grimoire C-BOX Technomancy, including Meeranon Tech Magic BB Modern "State of the Art" (1.5 page) CC Magical studies programs C-BOX US behind the rest of the world in magical
studies due to evangelical Christian influence in politics during the 1990s CC Licensing and testing in many jurisdictions CC Legislative/judicial catch-up as nations race to
outlaw "black" and/or dangerous magics and regulate the
rest DD Energy corporations lobbying to outlaw direct
energy-conversion spells DD Necromancy and Felony Abuse of a Corpse C-BOX The implications of Theurgy and Research
Theology C-BOX Legal Ramifications of Sapient Undead D-BOX "Dead is Dead" - Wills and Bequests D-BOX "Undead is Not Dead" - Life Insurance D-BOX "Chicago Voter Registration" - Undead and/in Politics BB "Catalogue" (2 pages) CC Which spells are commonly available, which are
"cutting edge" research, which are mythical, and which
may be real but are unavailable at any price.
C-BOX Wild magical talents
CC The first fruits of the Meeranon technological
approach to magic - minor, almost trivial devices, but usable by anyone in all but no-mana zones, even
without magery.
AA IST and Infinite Worlds (4 pages) (expanding on the IST-IW pdf) BB Vignette (0.5 page) BB Discovering "Krypton" (1 page) CC The "Pocket Multiverse" C-BOX Worldline Data Box for "Krypton" BB Reality Quakes (0.5 pages) C-BOX "The Wall" from Homeline's Perspective BB Homeline Politics vis-a-vis Krypton's U.N. (1 page) CC Protecting the Secret Against Worldjumpers and Supers C-BOX Infinity Unlimited and Krypton's WWIII - A Realpolitik Option: Starting a world war to protect the Secret (and whether it worked) BB Alternate ISTs - Parallel Timelines Within (and Outside of) Krypton's "Pocket Multiverse" (1 page) CC Krypton-2: The "Evil IST" world (Current year 2015) CC Krypton-3: Conqueror's World (aka "Super Rebels").
Centrum has agents here, but the World Government knows
about them and is trying to use them to get to Centrum
and other timelines. (Current year 2015) CC Krypton-4: "Super Wars": Krypton-3 without Conqueror:
a balkanized collection of warring city-states ruled by
supers who range from the benevolent to the despotic.
(Current year 2003) CC Krypton-5: "Swamp Castle": four failed attempts at a
UN superforce between 1946 and 1976; the fifth attempt
in 1982 was finally successful. (Current year 1989) CC Krypton-6: Headstart: Stellar Event in 1796, supers
since the early 1800s, steampunk TL5+2, "gentleman
adventurers' leagues". (Current year 1888) CC Krypton-7: Latestart: Stellar Event in 1975, supers
since the 1990s, relatively low power, comparable to
Krypton-1's WWII era. (Current year 2027)
AA, Sample Characters (24 pages) 4th Edition versions of selected characters important to IST history and current events, along with new players on the
international stage. BB Members and Allies (12 pages) BB Foes (12 pages)
AA Timeline (10 pages) BB 60,000,000 BCE to 2015 CE
AA Bibliography (1 page)
AA Glossary (2 pages)
AA Index (2 pages)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
