SEGA AGES Initiative (SCU)

The SEGA AGES Initiative (originally conceptualized as the RE-GENESIS Initiative), also known as Phase 1, was a project created by DARPA and Pierre Kellams to form the SEGA Superstars, a response team comprised of the most remarkable individuals humankind has to offer. The SEGA AGES Initiative was supposed to defend Earth from imminent global threats that are beyond the warfighting capability of conventional military forces.
The SEGA AGES Initiative was scrapped by the United States President Elizabeth Winter in favor of a weapons development program known as Phase 2 but was eventually reactivated in 2022 during the Chitauri Invasion.
== History ==
=== Foundation ===
Times before the events of SEGA Superstars, director Pierre Kellams realized that DARPA was unable to protect humanity from all catastrophic events. He realized that humanity was not alone in the universe and that it needed someone to protect it.
=== Searching the Warrior Beast ===
Thousands of years after the second death of Achaikos Lekkas, a team of scientists from the USGR laboratories led by Dr. Eric Jobs excavated a body from the historic cemeteries of Sparta and attempted to harness the cell rejuvenation factor to its full potential. After years of searching, Eric Jobs succeeded when his quest was able to resurrect Achaikos Lekkas, but as a result he also ended up releasing a furious Spartan warrior into the world capable of transforming into fearsome animal forms.
And while all of Greece was in turmoil over the Warrior Beast's animal rampage, a plainclothes DARPA agent contacted Pierre Kellams to inform him of the superhuman individual.
=== Financing ===
While DARPA was devoting most of its resources to designing the SC-01 Providence space colony, Pierre Kellams used some of the finances to observe extraordinary or improved individuals, sending agents to investigate such individuals and index them for subsequent encounters.
Kellams also included Sam Gideon, DARPA's latest acquisition, for the Initiative. This was due to the fact that Sam had proved to be better than the elite soldiers of any global army and had also shown his excellent charisma, which made Elena Ivanova switch sides. This made Kellams realize that Sam was the perfect hero for today's America.
=== Prepare for the Witches' Sabbath ===
After the entire unearthly battle between Bayonetta and the goddess Jubileus which took place in space, conspiracy theories revolving around the Lumen Sages and the Umbra Witches began to circulate around the world. Many people (mostly the fanatical inhabitants of Vigrid and Isla Del Sol) began to speculate that witches really existed and were the cause of everything that had happened.
This is the information that was circulating in Pierre Kellams' studio, just as the latter was reading Redgrave's book which narrated the events that happened. When Clark Sinclair then came along and joked about joining the Witch Hunt, Kellams admitted that he was actually thinking about it.
=== Attempt to conclude a well-deserved retirement ===
Sometime after the Great Demon War, Pierre Kellams visited Sakura Shinguji. After a short conversation in which the director introduced himself and explained how he knew the true identities of theater companies around the world, Kellams tried to convince Sakura to join DARPA by speaking obliquely about the Initiative. However, the latter refused the offer due to her growing age and the fact that she no longer considered herself worthy after the last battle. Kellams tried a little more to convince Shinguji to join, but failed. However, at the exact moment the announcement of the formation of the new Tokyo Theater Company was made on television, Sakura suggested "his heir": Sakura Amamiya.
=== Avoid unwanted candidates ===
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=== Testing The Database ===
Taking advantage of the great skills that the Order of the Russian Star had imparted to him, Pierre Kellams ordered Elena Ivanova to sneak inside the Helicarrier and access the SEGA AGES Initiative database to test their security. Ivanova was able to do this easily, and after examining Kellams report on the candidates, questioned Kellams as to their reliability, which Kellams assured him they must be relied upon. And that he had one last candidate in mind.
=== Close Encounters of the Third Kind ===
After witnessing Dr. Ivo Robotnik chasing Sonic The Hedgehog across the entire world, Pierre Kellams sent Clark Sinclair to the rural town of Green Hills to talk to the hedgehog, aiming to view the alien as the leading edge of the Inhuman group. Clark headed for Green Hills as an order, but the Wachowskis were wary of the government agent and denied the alien's current presence on Earth and Clark found himself returning to base empty handed.
Later, through continued research, Kellams learned that Sonic was not the person he had imagined due to his being an "unstable, immature, and irresponsible" alien teenager. With this discovery, Kellams removed Sonic from the shortlist.
=== Closing the Project ===
In the wake of the disasters that were unfolding one after another, US President Elizabeth Winter made the final decision to shut down the SEGA AGES Initiative and ordered Pierre Kellams to transfer all DARPA resources for the development of Project PEGASUS and Phase 2. Regardless, Kellams never actually abandoned the initiative, secretly working on it both for "something bigger" and out of a sense of revenge against GUN.
=== The SEGA Superstars ===
Reala stole the Ideyas from Project PEGASUS and destroyed the base, killing eighty people in the process, forcing Pierre Kellams to revive the project. He sent Sam Gideon to take Achaikos Lekkas, who now lived in a remote house in the woods of Sparta, and Bayonetta, still busy working as a nun outside the fighting. Meanwhile, Clark Sinclair has been sent to Green Hill to retrieve Sonic The Hedgehog and to Tokyo to retrieve Sakura Amamiya. Meanwhile, NiGHTS found a way to travel to the Awaker Dimension (the Earth) from the Night Dimension (the world of dreams) to take his brother. Among the candidates was Kiryu Kazuma, known as the "Dragon of Dojima", as a candidate for the SEGA, but Kiryu chased both Clark and Sam with a simple "Fuck off."
After the SEGA Superstars formed, they weren't cooperating and failed to prevent Reala's escape from the Helicarrier. They believed they weren't meant to be together and were thinking of disbanding the team. It was only Clark Sinclair's death that motivated them to fight the Chitauri invasion of Isla Del Sol. After their victory by defeating the Chitauri, Kellams and Ivanova agree that it was the correct choice to form the team and that they will return for any future threat.
== Candidates ==
* Achaikos Lekkas
* Bayonetta
* Kiryu Kazuma (former candidate)
* NiGHTS
* Robert Burns (former candidate)
* Sam Gideon
* Sakura Amamiya
* Sakura Shinguji (former candidate)
* Sonic The Hedgehog
== Trivia ==
* Kiryu Kazuma refuses to join the SEGA AGES Initiative just like Wolverine refused to join the X-Men in X-Men: First Class.
* NiGHTS was the only member DARPA had almost nothing information about.
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