The Dystopia is related to an RP story arc of the Adventurers starting summer of 2014. Based upon the suggestions of Adventurers members, an alternate future has been developed. The slaying of Blue Wonder leads to an unfavorable future timeline that the Adventurers members (and some of the team's RP allies) will have a chance to play in, and rectify this horrid turn of events.

The Timeline

2014

Blue Wonder is slain in battle with Bedlam
Red Spider unmasks herself publicly; she takes on the code name Red Wonder in honor of her fallen team mate

2015

A member of the Syndicate is found to have been brutally killed - Lady Justice is suspected of murder, but she cannot be located
Under civil liberties pressure, UNTIL begins to crack down on the Adventurers, delivering an ultimatum to all register, or desist from all vigilante activities
Fox retires from costumed heroics to avoid UNTIL’s backlash at Red Wonder's urging
Jason Leander retires his costume and continues his work for UNTIL, but refuses to turn on his former Adventurer comrades
Mark of Power, Juggernette, Night Spider, and others continue to quietly operate solo
Red Wonder carries on solo and partners with Night Spider occasionally

2016

Fox marries early in the year. He and his wife welcome their firstborn child before year’s end

2017

Red Wonder retires from costumed heroics when her boyfriend is killed in reprisal by one of her enemies; she begins traveling abroad anonymously

2018

An UNTIL technician named Kenneth Sims discovers classified documents suggesting that UNTIL could have acted to save Red Wonder’s boyfriend or give her advance warning, but due to red tape, did not act.
- This leads to Sims reading more and more classified material to which he has access
- Sims becomes more and more disenchanted with UNTIL as he learns about some of its undisclosed mistakes, but does not let this on to his co-workers

2019

Sims makes a massive dump of files to a free information website supposedly interested in exposing the organization’s supposed misdeeds and jurisdictional oversteps
The information website is actually run by a super criminal, who extracts from the info dump intelligence about known secret identities
Day of 1,000 Tears: numerous heroes, active or retired, and/or their families are killed as a result of their identities becoming very suddenly leaked to criminal organizations around the world
- Fox narrowly survives a targeted killing, but his entire family is slain.
- Gangsters use leaked UNTIL information to locate Red Wonder's parents and kill them
- Days later Red Wonder re-emerges from obscurity to lead dozens of heroes and their supporters to rally out front of the UNTIL building to decry the agency’s poor safeguards and some of the other dubious acts the info dump revealed
  - An assassin from the Chairman assassinates Red Wonder moments after she gives a rousing speech at the rally
  - Night Spider is gifted much of Cassandra Olsen’s estate, including all of her equipment, her home, and her wealth
Lady Justice re-emerges with a pledge to enforce a more just society in the name of Blue Wonder and Red Wonder. She gains other allies among those disenchanted with UNTIL and leads an underground strike force determined to undermine UNTIL
- Lady Justice's secret identity has managed to become a majority shareholder in ARGENT, and she applies its economic leverage
Fox neutralizes the security detail watching Kenneth Sims, and brutally murders the so-called whistle blower; Sims's body is later discovered in a dumpster, but police have no clear suspect
Fox joins Lady Justice; she enhances him with cybernetic parts
The forces of Tyrannon The Conqueror begin to encroach on the Imaginary Realms. In response The Watchmaster, and several detatchments of the Babylonian Watch deploy to slow the advance. With no Archmage present to cast the Quaternion Banishment, this will be a long and bloody conflict.

2020

Operation: Zero Hour: In the New Year, Lady Justice & Fox succeed at stealing into UNTIL HQ and taking possession of it with their cadre of meta human allies
- Every effort is made to make this take-over bloodless
- Much of UNTIL’s infrastructure is destroyed or comes under the control of Lady Justice
- Jason Leander and his UNTIL team get wind of the attack and go off the grid
Within a week of Lady Justice’s taking control she publicly pledges a new super-policing regime that she herself will oversee, and ensure that no one need ever again suffer as she has. She begins a goodwill campaign to ease the world’s fears.
At first welcomed by many, by mid-year, it becomes clear that Lady Justice’s army of UNTIL-built robots and super-powered lieutenants are enforcing a new dominion over the free world, enacting harsh (often lethal) penalties upon offenders without due process. Normal people begin to realize that they are under constant surveillance.
Lady Justice begins to become a recluse, very rarely seen publicly, rumored to be focused on her R&D now that she has virtually limitless resources
Fox is rewarded by Lady Justice for good service with an upgrade to his cybernetics

2021

Lady Justice devises a serum that can – for a short time – remove the powers of many meta-humans
Battle of the Super Powers or Freedom's Massacre
- NATO, Russia, and China cooperate in a bid to remove Lady Justice and her allies as a threat to global freedom
- Lady Justice unleashes her serum on these nations’ meta human champions, neutralizing her greatest adversaries'
- The conventional armies are all defeated within three days, proving no match for Lady Justice's meta human allies
- Lady Justice imprisons meta humans who are not on her side, restraining them and medicating them with her serum to keep them from becoming a threat
Lady Justice assigns super powered lieutenants to ‘oversee’ territories of the world
- Nations remain nominally sovereign, however, Lady Justice’s security drones are everywhere keeping resistance tamped down
- Only unarmed peace-keeping militias are allowed to help keep order locally -- Lady Justice's allies destroy military hardware when they find it
- Global resources are used as Lady Justice and her allies see fit
Mark of Power reforms the Adventurers with Night Spider, Juggernette, Talons, and Guidelight, and they operate underground in opposition to Lady Justice
Night Terror continues to assist the Adventurers, but uses his resources to work solo

2022

Propaganda suggests that Mark of Power is one of the deadliest terrorists alive – in the new world order, he is one of the most powerful meta humans left free
Former Adventurer Illusion is captured and contained in a high security facility; Lady Justice studies Illusion's shape-shifting abilities

2024

Juggernette is captured by Lady Justice’s forces; her past is exposed in a publicized show-trial aimed at embarrassing Mark of Power and the Adventurers
Juggernette escapes later in the year when she is able to steal & reconfigure a prison guard’s transmitter to signal one of her suits to break her out of prison; she rejoins the Adventurers

2025

Juggernette loses an arm in combat with Fox; she uses parts from Justice Bots to build a new one
Fox receives a major sensory upgrade from Lady Justice

2027

Fox tracks down and eliminates former Adventurers Cryo-talon & Shift Shot

2030

Fox and Juggernette duel to a draw; this time, Juggernette loses an eye, but she manages to replace it with a mechanical one of her own design afterward
The Adventurers liberate a number of former UNTIL operatives from their prisons, who in turn share information on hidden UNTIL supply caches

2031

Talons is captured and imprisoned
Lady Justice begins researching methods of time travel

2032

Jason Leander AKA Desert Blade, along with a band of survivalist commandos, rescues the Adventurers from certain death when they fall into a trap
A martial artist named Jesse Weaver is liberated from a camp of political prisoners by the Adventurers – she joins the team under the code name Red Spider.
Night Spider gifts Cassandra Olsen’s beam grapplers to Jesse
Night Terror is captured and imprisoned

2034

Adventurers reside on a former UNTIL submarine – a mobile HQ which is one of the last places they can hide
Most of the world’s cities are under control of Lady Justice’s forces, but Lady Justice herself is rarely seen or heard from…
The team learns that Lady Justice is assembling a time machine, but that she is missing several rare components – which she is actively seeking!

The Adventurers

Blue Wonder

Blue Wonder was killed in 2014 after a team battle with Bedlam. Her untimely death sets off a chain of unfortunate events.

Fox

Fox tries to quit the Adventurers and leave his former life as an assassin behind. He gets a few years of joy raising a young family, before the Day of a Thousand Tears sees them slain. Heartbroken, he resumes his old ways. First he targets for death those he holds directly responsible for his family's death. Later, he joins Lady Justice in her campaign to topple UNTIL and replace them with a global policing regime of her own design, free of what she sees as its design flaws. In the new world order they establish, Fox is a top lieutenant and begins tracking down & eliminating those who pose a threat to Lady Justice.

Watchmaster

Maintains his focus on slaying angels, demons, and other creatures. The politics of the human world do not necessarily concern him, and Lady Justice knows better than to make an enemy of Babylon.

Guidelight

Remains alive in this bleak future.

Illusion

Is captured by Lady Justice in 2022. Remains imprisoned.

Jason Leander

Continues working for UNTIL after the Adventurers fold in 2015. He gets wind of the global crackdown on UNTIL led by Lady Justice and her allies, and he goes dark, surviving the purge along with some other UNTIL field agents. By 2034, he is a hard-bitten survivalist who, along with his former UNTIL cohorts, helps out the Adventurers.

Juggernette

Remains a member of the reformed Adventurers after 2021. She has had to replace several parts of her body with cyberntics thanks to brutal fights with Fox over the years.

Lady Justice

Exacted 'justice' upon those who have harmed her friends. Became a recluse for some time. After the death of Red Wonder, she sent feelers out to numerous fringe heroes, mercenaries, and vigilantes who had been maligned by UNTIL, and organized them to topple the global super police organization. In 2020 she succeeds in toppling UNTIL and quickly asserts her own regime of super protection. Before long, this devolves into a police state. When the most powerful nations rise up to topple this regime, Lady Justice is forced to put them down, neutralizing their meta human champions and decimating their armed forces. Now de facto ruler of the world, Lady Justice becomes a recluse, and leaves the administration of global affairs to her lieutenants, while she makes use of the vast world resources at her disposal. By 2034, she is seeking the means to create a time machine so that she can anticipate the movements of the last pockets of resistance.

Mark of Power

After the disbanding of the Adventurers in 2015, and the vanishing of Lady Justice, Mark of Power works solo. Some of his family are killed in the Day of 1,000 Tears. He is present at the rally when Red Wonder is assassinated days later. After Lady Justice re-emerges and manages to take UNTIL by storm, Mark reforms the Adventurers with as many of his former team mates as he can find. Mark becomes the face of the resistance, being as his telekinetic powers have made him one of the most powerful meta-humans remaining free in the world. For years, he strives to make contact with other resistance cells, and make symbolic and strategic attacks against Lady Justice's world-wide security regime.

Night Spider

Night Spider continued to work in partnership with Red Wonder. Spider became inheritor to Red Wonder's estate after the latter was assassinated in 2019. She joined the reformed Adventurers in 2021 in resistance to Lady Justice. As an Adventurer and resistance agent, she was adept at infiltration and sabotage. By 2034 she is one of the last remaining free heroes on Earth. She gifts some of Red Wonder's equipment to Jesse Weaver, the new Red Spider, ensuring that a new generation of heroes is ready to carry on the fight.

Red Wonder

After unmasking herself publicly in the wake of Blue Wonder's slaying, Red Spider changed her name and costume to become the Red Wonder, in honor of her friend. Red Wonder's loved ones do pay a price for her identity being public, and in 2017 she retires from superheroics after her then-boyfriend is murdered. Years later when a whistle-blower dumps UNTIL files and it becomes clear UNTIL could have acted to save her boyfriend, Red Wonder returns from obscurity and leads a rally to demand UNTIL be held to account -- an event at which she is assassinated by an old enemy.

Red Spider

By 2034, a new hero calling herself 'Red Spider' joins Mark of Power's Adventurers. She is a martial arts expert liberated from a prison by the Adventurers, who jumps at the chance to resist Lady Justice. She receives some of the previous Red Spider's gear as a gift to assist her.

Talons

Works solo after the disbanding of the Adventurers in 2015. He joins the reformed lineup in 2021, in resistance to Lady Justice. He is later imprisoned as a dissident.

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