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Aberrant game, using the 2.1 ruleset and possibly some ideas I never managed to get to, like making other people spend your NP for you.
Background
In 2010, N-Day happened, bringing superhumans to a world that had until then been... not entirely prosaic, but certainly not this interesting. Heroes had come and gone, gracing novels and movies with their actions, remembered long after their retirement. But never before had there been such a massive effect on the fundamental operation of the world. The ones who came before were powerful, larger-than-life, more than capable of making great innovations or championing great causes, but never before had men and women been given the power to turn over the social order overnight. The Daredevils, Mesmerists, and Stalwarts were better than human-but still far closer than the next generation of man, the Nova,
The World of Adventure
The World of Adventure! is not entirely our world. In the 1920s to the 1940s, mad science and crazy inventions ran amok, heroes fought against villains on top of war-dirigibles using tesla rays. Nazi Germany had a successful genetic engineering program. In the 1980s, another unexplained explosion of men and women acting beyond mortal ken shaped many incidents in history. But in the thrust of things, everything happened largely the same. There were just more big names, and 80s action movies were more often than not based loosely on true stories.
Empyrea
A project to prevent the ever-decreasing ages of military-service novas, Empyrea is a pristine manmade wonder found in the Arctic ocean, a climate controlled citadel that shows that even disparate forces such as the Teragen and Project Utopia can find themselves cooperating, by virtue of the Teragen's Doctor Primoris and the head of Project Utopia, Margaret A. Mercer.
In 2025, the investors of the Aeon Society of Philanthropy (renamed from the Aeon Society of Gentlemen, renowned for their actions and their former heroes), chose to fund the most ambitious project yet known to man, finding funds from a half-dozen organizations that they had influence from, paying the most powerful novas who would listen to produce an everlasting symbol of cooperation, unity, and looking ever forward to the future. And so a new nation was born, one where novas could, in theory, learn to achieve their full potential without significant cost, and get away from the endless militarization of novas at ever-younger ages.
A roughly spherical floating city kilometers in diameter, with towers stretching over 500 meters skywards, Empyrea is a testament to what can happen when groups with disparate goals find common ground. Climate controlled via thermoregulation elements woven throughout every building, using 3-D greenhouses and protein factories to generate food, and powered by hyperfusion reactors, Empyrea is utterly self-sufficient, allowing it to function with no interaction with any other world government. Any nova (or similar superhuman) is welcome, as long as they are not dangerously insane, gathering an endless procession of tutors, scholars, and guardians to maintain its idealized state and teach the next generation. As a city and philanthropy project, it has further picked up many non-nova refugees and asylees from various countries, men and women who have become its workforce for those things which can be done by baselines.
At its heart is the Newfield Academy of Posthuman Development, a school dedicated to teaching the next generation of novas to find their own path, and hopefully become a decent (post?)human being, no matter what their path is or where they go. Its defenders claim that they are reversing the trend of endless nationalistic jingoism and propaganda, the militarization of novas as young as 15, allowing immature young men and women with great talent to discover that talent at their own pace rather than be forced into servitude. Its critics see it as a training camp for a pan-national army that seeks to conquer all in their path. They aren't entirely wrong, as many of its graduates go into Project Utopia, supporting UN resolutions and peacekeeping, or find their way into the Teragen movement for the advancement and improvement of the nova condition and perhaps, in the end, a universal ascension to godhood.