S.U.P.L.E.X. (Team)

S.U.P.L.E.X. stands for Superhumans United Promoting Liberty & EXcellence. It is a private corporation who contracts with states, cities and Non Government Organizations for Metahuman Crime Interdiction Services. Through a partnership with SUPLEX Corp, the team operates in six separate territories and does recruitment, training and logistical support for each team. Now with a net worth of seven billion dollars, it is the largest such private provider of superhuman training and recruitment, and has become a serious competitor for the Federal monopoly on metahuman law enforcement by adapting for intermediate threats over wide rural areas.

History

S.U.P.L.E.X. was formed in 2012 after the night of the First Probability Matrix, when an unusual series of coincidences occured in Bloomington, Indiana, resulting in a reality altering alien craft becoming active below the city and summoning a demonic island in the sky that subsequently crashed into the west side of the city; several heroes were generated on that night, including the team's founder Chris By-The-Throat, World's Luckiest Detective. With the timely aid of a small time libertarian think tank called Citizens Consolidated, they made their pitch first to the city of Bloomington and eventually the State of Indiana, eventually winning the state's approval to take over the duty of metahuman criminal interdiction and granting them similar arrest and detainment powers as other superheroes under the Metahuman Crimes Omnibus Bill of 1981.

The team had just gotten qualified for basic hero work and had been doing the job for less than five months before a civil war broke out in the island nation of Santa Morena and the Federal Government hired the team to provide logistical support when they deployed Flag Force One and the 101st Airborne to keep the ports open and assure a peaceful transition of power. When the American forces lost most of their troops and several of their caped heroes in a sneak attack by the villain know as the Hellrazor, S.U.P.L.E.X. oversaw the evacuation of the embassy and the extraction of several high level prisoners, earning a taste of international acclaim despite Chris By-The-Throat's constant needling of the Federal Government. During this period and the subsequent occupation and negotiation with the Hellrazor's new regime, S.U.P.L.E.X. continued to recruit for the second wave both during and after Santa Morena, including Psyren, the woman who would become the CEO of the incorporated version of S.U.P.L.E.X.

On the home front after Santa Morena, S.U.P.L.E.X. continued to enforce metahuman law and recruit new heroes into their ranks, eventually expanding their territory to include Ohio and Kentucky (except for Louisville, which had their own team of superheroes) solidifying their status and gaining legitimacy. That region, now known as CENTCOM, is the largest continuous territory of S.U.P.L.E.X. operations. They recruited and trained the third wave of heroes while expanding their airlift capability and striking lucrative endorsement deals. The Mistress of Whispers, Psyren, took over as CEO of S.U.P.L.E.X. Corp at this time and began managing the business side of events, while the Verdigris Auditor became the first S.U.P.L.E.X. support staffer to gain superpowers after finding an alien visor in the team's storage unit. Several bloody incidents involving violent magical trees and the siege of the compound of the Skullmaster in northern Kentucky tested the heroes, along with a particularly ugly set of casualties during a mission undercover at the Iron Legion Moonbase Theme Park.

With the recruitment of the third wave in 2014, S.U.P.L.E.X. Corp had gained significant financial resources and invested heavily in their training facilities and capabilities after a grisly accident. Expanding the cadre was the first priority, so the team added more professional instructors and support staff to the Quarry and greatly improved the facilities. During this time, the Gypsy Jokaz gang began their conflict with the white supremacist biker group known as the Holy Aryan 88s, and the team began a very busy period of attempting to interdict between these two groups even if they were not strictly metahuman crimes. Diplomacy was attempted but ultimately both groups were wiped out with a grisly rate of innocent bystander survival; neither is considered active in the Midwest due to sheer bloody attrition-analysts have said that there was no way for a small team of 12-13 metahumans to effectively intervene between a large scale conflict between masked criminal gangs. It was at this time that development of the S.U.P.L.E.X App and the Auxilary Militia were kicked into high gear, becoming one of the team's most controversial policies-that of training arming and recruiting non-metapowered civilian volunteers for large scale casualty events. Even from their Republican governor, this was considered an endorsement of armed extremism, not exactly helped by the World's Luckiest Detective's sales of T-shirts which read "Fuck yeah, armed extremism." Still, the S.U.P.L.E.X. Auxiliary Militia remains active in all 6 territories as of this writing.

The end of the third wave was marked by the death of Beastmobile and the subsequent attempt to recover his soul that led to the team's involvement in the ongoing Afterlife wars, where several pro and anti S.U.P.L.E.X. coalitions formed among the demonic power structure and resulted in Lucifer Morningstar, the King of Hell, abdicating his throne and accepting exile on earth and a divinely inspired puppet government headed by former rock star Ronnie James Dio was installed in his place. Much of what took place in the Afterlife wars is classified, but it is well known that the team emerged with more combat experience and dangerous magical weapons than ever. The only teammate not bound by an NDA, Hank Granville the Bastard Alaskan, has said only that it is among his greatest regrets that he didn't advise the president to nerve gas the whole dimension and have done with it. Several other casualties, including a spectacular training accident for the team's new speedster White Lightning, resulted in a significant restructuring of training, command & control and other doctrinal failures that were seen as responsible for the high rate of casualties.

Needing to rebuild after the rather disastrous third wave, S.U.P.L.E.X. expanded recruitment efforts and reached out to several mutual friends, who fortunately had developed metapowers in the meantime. They also began recruiting from their own staff more frequently, allowing bayonet assault course washouts to retry the course. The fourth wave of S.U.P.L.E.X. heroes officially became active in spring of 2015 and distinguished themselves in several major engagements; by pure meta-power ranking they were some of the most powerful heroes on the team, and the team made good use of them as well as of their updated training and C&C practices. Their star was on the rise when they prepared in 2016 to recruit a fifth wave after the night of the Second Probability Matrix.

During the Second Probability Matrix, a wormhole opened above a call center and threatened to suck it, and the three blocks surrounding it, into another time and dimension. Among the attendees was a four time washout of the bayonet assault course and a magical student of the Bastard Alaskan who had given up the superhero life and accepted a quiet job as an insurance agent. He held the dimensional rift in place and called the team, who responded to find several newly metapowered beings blasting away at Nazi Dinosaurs in the parking lot of a nearby Arby's. Those heroes formed the basis of the fifth wave, and the first wave where there was only a tenuous connection to the pre-powered version of S.U.P.L.E.X. With the new blood came many new ideas, such as the use of healing blunts for civilian paramedics and caregivers, extensive criminal justice reforms and alternatives to violent interdiction, and a full on war of eradication against the members of the neo-Aryan 88 biker gang who had infiltrated the state's police and meta prison system. This poised S.U.P.L.E.X. to become one of the most effective metahuman law enforcement agencies in history, and is widely regarded as salvaging the team's reputation as psychotic, drug addled cowboys. Of course, the tragedy of the 5th Street Bank explosion did tarnish this reputation somewhat. Still, their eventual successes against Godsmasher and the Styxican Armada have brought the team more fame and success than ever before.

Now in line to recruit it's 6th wave, S.U.P.L.E.X. is recruiting in more states now, with over one hundred heroes in training over five states and with a full on college of Thaumaturgy in Las Vegas as well. According to most analysts, the future is looking bright for S.U.P.L.E.X. with their first full length feature film dropping in 2020, which unfortunately was a box office flop at the time but has since gained traction in international markets and merchandise sales. The second film, featuring actual behind the scenes interviews with the team, is slated for a Christmas 2022 release.

ROSTER

* Chris By-The-Throat, World's Luckiest Detective
* Slag the Molten Man
* Apeshit
* Dr. Badtouch
* El Diablo Blanco
* Flora
* Fauna
* Psyren, the Mistress of Whispers
* The Magnificent Melody
* Death Metal
* Quickie
* Keytaursaurus Rex
* White Lightning
* Hank Granville, Thaumaturge for Hire
* Doll
* The Verdigris Auditor, Finance Crimes Division
* Sizzacob
* Beastmobile
* The Bird-Fish
* Ms. Inkwell
* Frigid Franny No-Fucks
* Sand Serpent
* Macho Mask
* The Untamable Creature & Rex
* Singularity
* Purple Reign
* Crimson Claw
* Musk Ox
* Alpaca Punch
* RepliKant 69
* Wook & The Shagman
* The Enabler
* The Rusty Dutchman
* Dollface II
* The Reverend Icebitch

Notable Engagements

* The Santa Morena Affair
* Black Sunday (Peoria '79)
* The 5th St Bank Explosion
* The Night of the First Probability Matrix
* The Night of the Second Probability Matrix
* The Skullface Legion Ambush
* The Afterlife Wars
* The Derbyshire Suckening
* The Murder of Adam Querycon
* The Purge of the Heretic

Concepts

* Metahuman Crime Omnibus Bill of 1981
* Magic
* S.U.P.L.E.X. AIs
* The Bayonet Assault Course
* MCOB Insurance
* Mirrorverse (Insurance Carrier)
* Healing Blunts (Technology)

Facilities

* The Quarry (Training Ground)
* S.U.P.L.E.X. HQ (Former headquarters, now museum)
* The Multiverse Zoo (Biology research center)
* The Rapunzel III (Mobile command center/casino aerostat)
* S.U.P.L.E.X. Corp Tower (Corporate HQ)
* Black Ops Center (Ohio)