Researchers across the world were surprised in 2104 when several Corrupted zones vanished
overnight, and most of the larger Corrupted zones, including Wycoff’s Blight, shrank by as much as a
third. No one could explain this phenomenon.
Then in 2105, a group of Aberrants appeared in the solarsystem and destroyed a mining station on the asteroid Vesta.
Less than a year later, these Aberrants attacked the spaceport in Sydney, Australia.
Video transmissions from Vesta and Sydney revealed that these Aberrants were far less human looking than
most of those who left after the Chinese Ultimatum.
They also seemed to have no motive except killing as many humans as possible.
Within minutes of their attack on Sydney, all of the attacking Aberrants were driven off by several hundred
super-powered beings who flew, teleported, created laser beams and bolts of fire, and used other impressive
powers to defeat the Aberrants. Immediately after this attack, the leaders of these new super-powered
individuals appeared on the OpNet to answer questions and reassure humanity. Their primary
spokesperson was Alex Cassel, the head of Orgotek, a large and prosperous corporation in the FSA that specialized
in high-end consumer electronics.
Cassel said that he had worked with renowned physician Dr. Matthieu Zweidler and bio-physicist Dr. S.K.
Bhurano to find ways of enhancing human potential in a safe and controlled fashion. He mentioned that
the recent shrinking of several Corrupted zones was a result of their early research. He went on to say that
Otha Herzog, a mystic and philosopher who claimed to occasionally have visions of important upcoming
events, contacted him and revealed that the Aberrants were returning and that Alex Cassel’s research was essential
to safeguarding humanity.
Herzog also identified four other people who needed to be part of this effort — astronaut Bolade
Atwan, UN General Solveig Larssen, environmental activist Giuseppe del Fuego, and Chinese official Rebecca Bue Li.
Bhurano, Cassel, and Zweidler then created eight miracles of biotechnology that they called the Prometheus Chambers.
Each chamber was designed to develop and enhance a particular noetic power, and each one was specifically created
to work with one of the eight people Alex Cassel assembled.
All eight individuals used their Prometheus Chamber and gained impressive powers. Cassel referred
to himself and the other seven individuals who first used the Prometheus Chambers as proxies,
because they each drew their powers from the wondrous subquantum realm.
All eight efforts at enhancement were a resounding success, and for the next year, each of those eight people
used genetic tests developed by Cassel and Bhurano to identify other latent psions who could be enhanced
in one of the Prometheus Chambers. Working together, the proxies assembled a force of more than 500 psions.
Alex Cassel’s natural charisma, combined with the fact that the psions had saved Sydney from the Aberrants,
helped shape public opinion so that shock and suspicion soon became awe and gratitude.
A few months after revealing the existence of the psions, Cassel’s company Orgotek began releasing
the first noetic bioware. These devices included everything from living vehicles and weapons to devices
that enhanced human capabilities or gave psions additional powers. While ordinary humans, called
neutrals by psions, could not use the most advanced biotech, ordinary biotech revolutionized fields from
construction to medicine.
In the 17 years since 2106, psions have defended the solar system against Aberrant attacks, taken humanity
to the stars, and made contact with alien species. Almost all nations openly embraced the psions and the noetic
biotech that Cassel and the other proxies produced.
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