HISA

## About H.I.S.A.

H.I.S.A.: The Hero Intelligence and Structuring Agency. Their purpose is to oversee (and, to some degree, organise) the heroes during their fight against crime. The main headquarters is in the city of Musutafu, although for obvious reasons they're spread nation-wide. Rumour has it that they're badly understaffed.

Since their founding, they've put an emphasis on making sure that the heroes are working *with* one another. Independent activity is actively discouraged and the curriculums of hero schools is being adjusted to match this.

They've also hired somebody to serve as a 'dispatcher', whom has access to police lines and security cameras all around the city in order to locate crime. Upon detecting any, it's (as the name implies), their job to send heroes to the exact location. It's not been long since the implementation of this role but it's already making a difference; not that it's too noticeable with how the amount of villains keeps rising and all.

## History

H.I.S.A. may seem very similar to the HPSC-- for good reason.

The following events transpired *in roleplay*, specifically in the streets of the Haga district. We did not make this up for lore.

### The Hero Shooting

Several months ago, a catastrophe that was, for lack of a better word, completely *mind-blowing* occurred and cost the life of a hero named Aiden Tyrell.

Athena had a hero trapped and was starting to taunt them, then when the Aiden (over the hero's groupchat) expressed the intention to run in and try to fight, disobeying orders he received to stay away, he was *shot in the head* by an HPSC agent. The agent had been given permission to fire from one of the higher-ups in the agency, who had commented that he needed to be stopped from going against their orders.

Unbeknownst to them at the time, it was caught on video. This lead to it being released to the public *by Athena herself*; causing outrage amongst civilians and, especially, other heroes. The HPSC lost the right to hire any field agents, heroes refused to obey their authority any more, and their budget was *heavily* cut. One of the higher-ranking agents tried to do a press interview to quell the anger, however people claimed their responses were inadequate and a slip up- where they uncertainly answered 'No... at least I hope not' in return to the question "Is the HPSC evil?". Months later, it has been immortalised as a meme.

### The "Yinkuza" raid

A second disaster struck barely a month after, when it was still scrambling to try and redeem itself, in the form of an attack by a villain who was then known as Kaleidoscope. She and a small batch of her people (dubbed the 'Yinkuza', a play on Yakuza and her given name) attacked the main HPSC office building and, by the end of the raid, completely destroyed it thanks to "Mad Dog", who used a decay quirk to crumble the entire thing whilst everybody inside was killed. This was the final blow to the HPSC; it completely dismantled afterwards, paving the way for HISA.

## Formation

H.I.S.A., once it was fully formed, immediately went about trying to gain the trust of the heroes its predecessor exploited. It suffered from the same lack of budget that the HPSC had been restricted to in it final weeks, but still put a large amount of its funding towards new equipment and hero schools-- U.A. in particular. Heroes are now issued with earpieces and 'panic buttons' that will alert their colleagues that they are in danger (and display their location) when pressed; a much-loved change due to the growing issue of people being picked off without a trace.

The Dispatcher (as explained previously) was also hired. Most people seem happy with this too; and so far it's increased the hero's effectiveness by a significant amount.

The fragile, once-shattered trust is slowly rebuilding, several people already able to tell that there seems to be less tension amongst the heroes. Hopefully this continues to improve until someday the horrors of the HPSC can be totally forgotten, allowing for the bond between H.I.S.A. and the public to be reformed.