Marvel:Rebirth
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CO-OPs: The Imperial Warglorian Empire
Safe. That’s how civilians felt when the Avengers were still active. And so it came as no surprise that after the untimely death of Tony Stark and Captain America and the end of the Avengers, people all over the world began to feel insecure.
Without the Avengers all the unsavory criminals have begun crawling out of the cracks left by their absence and their efforts can be seen. Twenty-eight-year-old Daily Bugle photographer Peter Parker is doing his best to manage the barrage of crime in NYC along with Daredevil, but Peter's having a hard time balancing his life with his responsibility.
Young heroes are rising. But will it be enough to keep the sinister plans at bay?Okay so here's a rough look of a timeline
Beginning of Universe: The infinity stones along with many other cosmic beings are created
1920-Steve Rodgers is born
1934-The SS-HYDRAabtielung, or "HYDRA," is formed under Johann Schmidt
1939-WW2 begins
1943:
-Rogers is selected for the Super Soldier program; after a successful administering of the Super Soldier Serum he becomes Captain America
-Abraham Erskine gets assassinated by HYDRA Agents, leaving Captain America the only source of the super-soldier serum remaining
-HYDRA breaks ties with Nazi Germany and begins attacking both Allied and Axis forces
1944:
-Captain America and the Strategic Scientific Reserve begin military operations against HYDRA, destroying a multitude of bases
-High ranking HYDRA lieutenant Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is captured and held in an SSR prison facility
1945:
-Head of HYDRA Weapons Development; Dr. Arnim Zola, is captured
-An attack against HYDRA's main HQ leads to the assumed death of the Red Skull and the disappearance of Captain America under a sheet of ice
-High ranking HYDRA lieutenant Werner Reinhardt is captured
1946:
-The SSR is reformed into SHIELD
-As a part of Operation Paperclip, a multitude of German and Axis scientists are recruited into American scientific programs and SHIELD; including Arnim Zola
-Baron von Strucker escapes from SSR prison facilities
1964: Wolfgang von Strucker's body is found and he is assumed dead
1976: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is opened
1979:The Stark parents die leaving their son Tony
1984: The First X-Men team is created made out of Archangel, Dazzler, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and Jean Gray
1985:The Fantastic Four is created in an accident
1991: Captain America is discovered and defrosted
1993: The Avengers is officially created comprising of Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man (Hank Pym), and his girlfriend the Wasp
1995:SHIELD takes notice of the Avengers and asks if they would join the organization. The Avengers decline stating that they want to be an independent entity
1998: Ant-Man and the Wasp get married in a small ceremony with the rest of the Avengers
2000:Peter Parker and Henry Osborn are born, Hank Pym and Tony Stark create the Ultron A.I and body. Ultron goes rogue and is defeated at a great cost in human life. Hank resigns from being Ant-Man along with the Avengers. His wife the Wasp stays. SHIELD agent Black Widow joins. The new X-Men team is created (RL team made in 80s cartoon minus Wolverine)
2001: Winter Soldier comes out of hiding, is beaten by Captain America and reveals himself as Bucky Barnes. He then goes back into hiding. Wasp leaves the Avengers at the request of her husband, Wolverine takes her place.
2003: The Guardians of the Galaxy are formed in response to a Skrull theft on their newly found cosmic cube.
2004:The Fantastic Four and the Avengers team up to defeat Doctor Doom from triggering a worldwide crisis.
2005:Galactus comes to Earth prompting mass panic. All superhero teams work together to stop the threat and succeed granting them governmental support. X-Men involvement grants them support among the public. Wolverine switches to the X-Men
2006: During an effort to find and stop alien technology from the Galactus invasion falling into the hands of criminals, Captain America and the Avengers discover the existence and survival of HYDRA
2008: HYDRA is discovered to have infiltrated and practically become SHIELD. Alongside this, it is discovered that an assumed dead Wolfgang von Strucker is leading the organization. A civil war ensues which tears apart and disbands the original SHIELD, though pockets of the organisation remained active.
2009: Wolfgang von Strucker is captured, leading to HYDRA splintering into various different factions. One of these factions, lead by General Hale; an old rival of Strucker, infiltrates the holding facilities and assassinates Strucker, “officially” marking the HYDRA leader as dead.
2011: Most of the remaining major splinter groups of HYDRA are destroyed, leaving only some minor regional factions at most. HYDRA is officially marked as eliminated. At the same time, the A.R.E.S Corporation is established in Europe, lead by the genius scientist Geheim Schlange, and comes to quickly dominate the European economic and technological market.
2012:Thanos begins his quest to assemble the Infinity Stones. Mr. Fantastic announces that the Fantastic Four are looking for new recruits as they all grow old in a program called "Future Foundation"
2014: The Guardians of the Galaxy begin to try and stop Thanos before he assembled all the stones. Nick Fury becomes a public relations specialist for the Avengers bringing non-Hydra S.H.I.E.L.D staff causing controversy. Peter Parker is bitten by Oscorp Spider giving him powers. After the death of his Uncle Ben, he becomes Spiderman
2015:Thanos gains the Power stone managing to escape the Guardians. Professor Xavier dies of natural causes, Jean Gray takes the mantle of leader of Xavier's Institute for gifted children
2016: Spiderman becomes a household name after a fight with the Rhino and Vulture. The Avengers takes notice and meet with him shortly after. Stark Industries releases Avengers toyline
2017:Norman Osborn takes notice of Spiderman and wants his blood for his own industry. Thanos gains Soul stone from Vormir having someone else sacrifice a loved one. He starts a path to Earth for the other stones. Guardians manage to get to Earth first to warn the planet.
2018: Thanos arrives on Earth with his three stones and begins moving towards the Sanctum Sanatorium while beating back any heroes that opposed him. Iron Man decides with Captain America to detonate the power source knowing Hulk will survive. The ship was launched into space by Iron Man and then detonated it killing him, Cap, and Thanos leaving Hulk falling to the ground. The world is in shock.
2019: The Avengers collapse due to "internal factors". Black Widow stays to keep the projects of the Avengers together. Avengers West Coast begins crumbling without funding. Norman Osborn becomes the Green Goblin and has his first battle with Spiderman.
2020: Norman Osborn Assembles the Sinister Six to kill Spiderman, Norman dies in the fight with Spiderman and the other 5 villains are locked in prison
2021: Black Widow launches the Young Avengers project quietly and begins recruiting local talent.
2022: RP Start
Welcome to the OOC Thread for Marvel: Rebirth. This is a superhero RP set in the Marvel universe and New York City in particular. You can be a hero or villain, any original character or Marvel. You can have connections to existing Marvel heroes or villains, or create an entirely original one. If you do play a heavyweight Marvel character, try to play them well. The plot is mostly open-ended. I'm looking for a CO-OP who can basically take on most of the OP's duties since I've only run one RP before.
You can be an OC or almost anyone in the Marvel universe.
While you can make your own character, which I highly encourage, the nature of the RP gives you many pre-existing characters to play as. Marvel comics has a plethora of characters to offer. You can be any one of them if you like. I will add that any original Avenger, X-Man, or member of the Fantastic Four (e.g. Wolverine, Reed Richards, etc.) will be quite old - probably nearing 60 or more. As such, don’t have them sprinting around, doing things foolhardy young fools do, even if Wolverine will probably not care and still try to sprint. This being said, characters who already exist within the Marvel universe should not have minuscule applications because “it’s on the wiki”, due to both that being a lazy reason to be lazy and because a good portion of this RP involves a different timeline and as such differing events. It doesn’t help also that the amount of Marvel alternate realities is more than enough to make large scale changes to a character personality and history.
- Decisions
This is mostly a sandbox RP. So you are free to make your own stories and arcs within the Universe. For those story arcs which may have major implications on most aspects of the universe, world, or anything on a major scale, get permission from an OP or CO-OP first before you attempt such a thing as to ensure it is actually possible by your character and doesn’t destroy the Balance of the Force or something. Your arc may fall into my ideas for a plot story and get caught into my arcs. That being said, my word and the word of anyone I appoint as a CO-OP is binding. If you don’t like a decision, I will, of course, have a look at it.- Post Quality
I don’t dislike short posts but please use proper spelling, grammar, etc., and make it at least a paragraph or two. If you’re having trouble with finding things to talk about within a post, simply tally-up all actions of those characters about you and organically, I need to stress that organically, either have internal mental reactions to those actions, such as just internally voicing your character opinions on them, or physical reactions, such as say talking. If you are having a conversation with another player character, please write a Cowritten post over something like Google Documents or even Telegrams on Nationstates. Keep in mind of course that in that Cowrite you should not find yourself a full month or even a day ahead of other characters. This is to not clutter the IC thread, not to perform time travel. If you do not know how to do this, ask.- Posting Commitment
Nothing is worse than making an RP only for it to die. Therefore, I ask that players make at least one post every 72 hours. If you find yourself unable to post, please let me know in the OOC thread or through the Discord channel so that such things can be avoided.- Posting Speed
On the flip side, blitz posting can also be infuriating. So, especially during arcs and interactions, I recommend giving your fellow players time to post within a reasonable time. We all have real lives. If a player is unable to post within 72 hours, then it would be safe to post by them. Just keep interactions nice and smooth and easy to catch up on.- IC Manners
Remember, we are writing a story, not playing to win. Your character will not be accepted if they have too much power or if their powers are simply there without any backstory or character to back it up. If I think you are writing your character as overpowered I will ask you to tone it down. In addition to this, do not Godmod, take control of, other characters. Even if you say you have their player permission, do not do this. If a character must be controlled by someone other than their player, it should be by either the OP or CO-OP in order to ensure that they are not going to be temporarily used to another player’s advantage.- OOC Manners
I would ask that you keep these to the best possible level. Keep it as cordial and friendly as you can; after all, we are playing a game together. If you cannot talk to another player outside of IC interactions due to some form of tension, then avoid talking to them outside of those circumstances.- Character Death
Player death is possible in this RP, though it will be quite rare and easily avoidable, but please don’t write that you have killed another character unless you have OOC permission from the character's owner to do it. If someone goes inactive in the middle of a fight scene without explanation and cannot be raised, I may decide to kill their character off but this is not for individual players to do independently.- Keep it PG13
Shouldn’t need to be telling you this really. Hopefully, you all know how to write forum-safe stuff by now. I will be extremely disappointed if the mods have to pay us a visit.- Banning Players
I really don’t want to be doing that but I reserve the right to if you cannot follow the (hopefully, rather simple) rules above. Christian Confederation is banned
Avengers Compound: The empty compound in upstate New York does have a Young Avengers wing...
The Baxter Building: Currently the Host of the Future Foundation taking inexperienced metahumans and mutants.
Oscorp Tower: Oscorp Industries' headquarters in midtown Manhattan. Will need to be paid a visit to investigate all the illegal scientific activity occurring inside.
Xavier Institute: Home of the X-Men lead by Jean Gray. Mutants are welcomed here despite the lingering distrust still present in NYC.
Asgard: Asgard is in a brutal 3 way Civil War between Loki, Thor, and Hela. Outside contact has been banned by all three sides of the conflict
Stark Industries: Has since been hit by hard times and is struggling to compete with Oscorp since Tony Stark's death. Pepper Potts is now the CEO.
Hells Kitchen: The hub of NY's crime. Home of the Kingpin's mop. Daredevil protects this New York neighborhood.
A.R.E.S New York HQ: A.R.E.S' local headquarters from where they operate across the Americas. The building itself is several hundred meters off the coast of Manhatten, connected only by a long and large concrete bridge.
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[b]RP Examples:[/b] (At least one regardless of whether i have rp'ed with you before or not)
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[b]Day Job:[/b] (what job do you have when not a villain terrorizing the world? Usually affiliated with the major player you support.)
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[b]Did you read the rules?[/b]
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