New York City

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 * HistoryText            = New York largely shares the history of the real world New York until recent times.  While there were incidents of super-powered individuals in the past, most went largely unnoticed.  In this great city, though, the first stirrings of the Superhero movement took place.

In the late 70s, New York was a much meaner, dirtier, more dangerous place. At first one, and then a small number of men and women began to take matters into their own hands to reclaim their neighborhoods. They took inspiration from the comic characters of their youths, donning masks and costumes to conceal their identities.

Their contributions to public safety are questionable, in some cases laughable or tragic, but slowly, the idea of costumed heroes began to take hold and spread to other cities. Among these early heroes was an idealistic young lawyer from the hood, Public Defender.

By the mid-80s, costumed heroes had become a real quandary. Several had been arrested, and some rightfully so. Public Defender, in his real world identity of Peter Cannon, began to wave the banner for some sort of legalization for masked heroes. After much wrangling in the courts and legislative halls, a legal basis was created for these heroes as a sort of licensed private investigator. Strictly speaking, vigilantism was still illegal, but licensed masks were given a degree of autonomy and legitimacy.

It was only a matter of time before a true super powered individual would go public, and that event also took place in New York in 1985. In the years that followed, a startling array of paranormal individuals would appear, largely displacing the earlier masked crime fighters.

September 11, 2001 would change the cities masked hero population from oddities to true heroes. They joined the rescue crews at the disaster site, trying to save as many people as they could, and like other responders, they died when the towers collapsed. Public Defender's then partner and fiance, Madame Midnight, was among those who fell.

A watershed moment for the city, in response to the growing number of super powered criminals, was the formation of it's first super-team, the Guardians in 2006.
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Businesses

 * STi
 * Cannon Investigations
 * Cannon & Cannon Associates in Law
 * Mercurous Institute for Paranormal Studies

Sports Teams

 * New York Nets
 * New York Yankees
 * New York Mets
 * New York Rangers
 * New York Jets
 * New York Giants

Media

 * New York Times
 * American Broadcasting Center (WABC)
 * WNBC
 * WCBS

Other locales

 * Central Park
 * Ground Zero
 * World Trade Center One
 * Statue of Liberty
 * Empire State Building
 * United Nations
 * Wall Street
 * STi Tower
 * Guardians HQ
 * Chinatown


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Heroes

 * Argent
 * Black Fury
 * Eclipse
 * Psyche
 * Public Defender
 * Revolver
 * September
 * Sidekick
 * Stalker (Carrie Stane)

Villains

 * Eyes
 * Shinobi
 * Thorn

Others

 * Eric Dorian
 * Celia Hawthorne
 * Stanford Stane
 * Thomas McLaughlin


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