S.W.A.G.

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Basically, right about this time, there was this mad scientist who set roots in the southern parts of present-day Manhattan. An arguably brilliant man doing brilliant things for all the wrong reasons. For you see he was not only brilliant but crazy - and the government was only more than happy to seek personal seedy gain from it. So instead of doing what they trumped up their cause of curing cancer to be, they began their first testing on animals with the ultimate goal to create super soldiers. Their focus? The alteration of genetics, S.W.A.G...

Spurred by the success in animal testing, a bit of a rush was put on human testing and the easiest test subjects to obtain under the radar without much fuss? Criminals and the homeless people of Manhattan - because who was going to miss them? Things were going great for S.W.A.G. until the first of a few dramatic events involving groups of escaped test subjects of both the human and animal varieties. The entire nation zeroed in on the lab and the mad scientist identified as Dr. Saturn. The attention was most assuredly unwelcome and threats to shut down the lab overshadowed the government's attempts to sweep the incidents under the rug.

Then the explosion happened...

The part of the city affected was isolated and following a tense series of events involving whether or not to let Manhattan remain standing. For aside from the sheer disaster and destruction of the explosion, something else altered the future of the lives of many in a big, unstable, genetically altered kind of way. It was during this time of discovering that more than half the population possessed things no better described as powers or mutations, that Jupiter was born in the years that followed.

Now, the year is 2030 and things are as shady as ever.