| TENSOR: An AU X-Men High School/College RPG (18+) |
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In a world where mutation has never been a dividing factor, where world governments have accepted and integrated powered individuals fully into civic life and mutation is an increasingly desired quality, the prestigious Charles Francis Xavier Academy and its associated University offer one of the finest educations in the world to those who manifest the most impressive, useful, and frequently dangerous powers. For the past sixty-five years, as the percentage of powered individuals in the population has steadily increased, graduates of the University have been moving into positions of influence in politics, industry, and the United State's elite military branch, S.H.I.E.L.D. While individual finance is no bar to attendance, and all suitably powered individuals are offered admission regardless of ability to pay, the prestige associated with an Xavier's degree is such that the social, political, and economic elite of the United States and its allies jockey to secure admission for their children, regardless of power status. Come walk its hallowed halls and see where an Xavier's education will take you.
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Mutation. It is the key to our evolution; it has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominate species on the planet. This process is slow; normally taking thousands and thousands of years, but every few millennium evolution leaps forward
Mutants lived in secret for over fifty years; some of them could pass for human, but the majority of them were forced to hide in the shadows. Reduced to living in sewers and caves, these people never had a chance at a normal life. Finally one mutant decided that he had enough; his name was Erik Lensher. He formed a band of mutant known as the Acolytes and together they began attacking government buildings. Lensher took the name Magneto. When the Acolytes attacked the Pentagon another mutant by the name of Charles Xavier surprised the world by leading another team of mutants into battle against the Acolytes. Xavier called his team the X-Men, and he had been training them for years for just this moment. Xavier had always believed that when the time came humans and mutants could live together in peace, and he was willing to fight to make that dream a reality.
Even though the American Government now knew the truth they decided that it would be better to keep things quiet for a while. They felt that the American people wasn't ready for this kind of news. The Acolytes on the other hand felt differently; they continued to attack buildings in the hope that somehow something would leak past the human media and everything would be out in the open. The X-Men continued to stop them at every turn, until Magneto finally became desperate. The Acolytes attacked the Smithsonian Museum when they opened a new exhibit, and the entire fight between the Acolytes and the X-Men was put on the local news.
When the public finally learned the truth about mutants there was mixed feelings. Some people had no problems with the mutants, but others hated the mutants on sight. Things only got worse as time went by; it is now 2014 and it has been over ten years since the mutants have been outed into the public eye. Some things have changed in the past ten years, and some things haven't. For one several other teams have popped up. The Brotherhood are out to take down the humans; they are always attacking humans and the teams out to protect them. Generation X is a mutant team that is out for themselves; they will work for the highest bidder, but they do have some morals. They will not attack their own kind. Fantastic Four is a small family team who save anyone that needs it; they do their best to stay out of the war itself though. The one thing that hasn't changed is the fact that most mutants are still in hiding; they are afraid of what would happen if they came out.
Within the last six months things have gotten worse than ever. Congress recently passed a bill that mandates all mutants to register their powers. Charles Xavier was scheduled to speak at the hearing for this bill, but he disappeared two days before it was to take place. The X-Men have no idea what happened to him, but they decided to go on with his work. This became more complicated when it was made clear that they would have to go against the humans to protect innocent mutants. So, Xavier's dream has been corrupted by his team becoming the rebels as well. What makes matters worse is that the people with gifts who aren't mutants have been welcomed with open arms into society. The government has turned them into a team known as The Avengers and it is their job to hunt down mutants who refuse to register. |
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