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| - The Patriot Actors are a team of government-sponsored superheroes, first seen publicly during the Salko Incident in 1984. Increasingly throughout the current history of the Earth, beings possessed of powers and abilities far removed from those of normal men have taken it upon themselves to police and combat those who would use their abilities for criminal activities. At first, such individuals were rare enough to largely ignore, but as time went on, more and more of these beings appeared or manifested, with each new generation displaying abilities far greater than their predecessors.
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| - The Patriot Actors are a team of government-sponsored superheroes, first seen publicly during the Salko Incident in 1984. Increasingly throughout the current history of the Earth, beings possessed of powers and abilities far removed from those of normal men have taken it upon themselves to police and combat those who would use their abilities for criminal activities. At first, such individuals were rare enough to largely ignore, but as time went on, more and more of these beings appeared or manifested, with each new generation displaying abilities far greater than their predecessors. The American Government had experimented previously with organising group of these individuals to supplement their own military and police services as early as the 1900s, and had actively deployed a team under the name of the Victory Players during World War Two, consisting of volunteers and conscripts that were found to display extra-human abilities. The vast majority of these people were used in a support role, with only a few seeing front-line action. After the end of World War Two and the formal disbandment of the Victory Players soon after, the American Government secretly founded the Department For Extra-Human Affairs (DEHA), whose purpose was to monitor and police the emerging extra-human community. Many former members of the Victory Players formed the bulk of the Department, countered always by an equal number of normal humans. Whilst officially not a recognised branch of the government, DEHA enjoyed the patronage of both the CIA and FBI, who would alert them to incidents where Extra-Human involvement was suspected. The primary purpose of DEHA in its early years was to catalogue, research and detain extra-humans in an attempt to better understand this new phenomenon. They had no standing active agents, and instead largely relied on military support to capture rouge Extra-Humans, who they would jail in specially constructed cells below the Department complex. However, as the Korean War called away much of the military’s interest, DEHA were forced to actively recruit members of the Extra-Humans community to police their own kind. Acting as a black-ops division within the Department, members of these squads were all Extra-Humans of differing abilities and powers. A few of the more powerful members were sent as advisors to Korea as reports of Korean Extra-Human soldiers began to filter in. Though an American institution, DEHA would often send covert teams to observe other countries, allied or not, attempts to control and use the extra-human phenomenon. During the 1960s, and the extra-human community now much more than rumours and theories, DEHA went public and confirmed the existence of extra-humans to the general public (although failed to disclose locations and powers that had thus manifested) The subsequent rioting and racial discrimination towards those even suspected of being extra-human forced the passing of the Ark Act, that promised protection and jobs for those members of the extra-human community that would work for DEHA. The first job of these vast new intakes was largely a public-relations affair. Varying members were granted patriotic monikers and sent out into America with the intent to sway public opinion to support the Extra-Human community. Others whose abilities were not as active or pleasant as these were relocated and granted new identities, although the entire time still working for DEHA and preforming reconnaissance missions towards local extra-humans. The success of these patriotic ‘super-heroes’ soon granted DEHA a massive boost in funding, with which they further increased their research and support of these field agents. DEHA even instigated the Hercules Program, which accepted ordinary humans for training, support and placement as heroes. Although all worked for DEHA, all these heroes worked in the field as individuals. All had territories and responsibilities to protect certain targets and resources, and rarely ventured in another heroes domain. A few assigned to particularly large cities formed brief alliances with other extra-humans, but still largely kept to themselves. This all changed during the Salko Incident of 1984. Tobias Salko was an extra-human who had founded a nation-spanning series of nuclear power plants. He then attempted to blackmail the American government by threatening to ignite and overload his reactors, which he had hired a team of ‘unsavoury’ extra-humans to guard (Salko had been previously praised for his recruitment and integration of extra-humans into his workforces) Requiring a mass effort by teams of DEHA-backed heroes, one group emerged victorious, their various abilities complementing each other and allowing them to succeed where singular heroes would of fallen. It was they that finally confronted Salko and defeated him, and this team (or at least, is survivors) would be recorded as the first official squad of the Patriot Actors.
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