Silver City

## History of Silver City

Silver City is located on the Island of Iyanu located in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, a hodge podge of cultures and beliefs that is generally free of racism by necessity but has plenty of classism and capitalism to weigh it down. It draws many superhumans to it and its glitzy city and diverse countryside has something for everyone.

The name of the island was given by a Yoruban on a slave vessel who first saw it following the mutiny of the captives once held by the slavers on the vessel. The boy, Ajani, saw the lush island and, at only 10 years old, he named it: “Miracle”. The story goes that a slave vessel headed from Europe to the US mutinied and that the slaves revolted with some of the crew only to be left adrift in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. On the seventh day of starving stillness … an island seemed to rise from the ocean floor (accounts vary and science explains this as parting mists, volcanic activity and starvation induced hallucinations).

That was how the first colonists reached it in the 1700s. It evolved into a Freeport thanks to the efforts of the individuals that came from the first collection of boats and many thereafter.  Many different cultures and creeds would seek out the island for a homestead, a place to escape pasts they did not like or systems that abused them.

Silver City leveraged its free port status to avoid outright control by any monarchy but to draw in investment. The Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Dutch populated it with their interests but it eventually became home to numerous people fleeing oppression leading to a sizable presence of Asian and African people, creating a cultural mixing pot unlike any others.

Over the centuries it has evolved into a highly advanced city and cultural centre with numerous corporations setting up on it for tax purposes.  Far from a Utopia there is a place it exists in which certain things are far from common place, racism is virtually unheard of as most families are blends of culture and innumerable cultural festivals are observed, in addition this has lead to

The Euro is the primary currency of the nation and it is within a GMT Timezone.

### The City and Heroes

The City has always drawn people to it but heroes, villains and those in between became the most prominent. The island hosts the Harcourt Institute for Advanced Suprology Research where in 1929 Dr. Norbert Harcourt began the research into superhuman abilities and magic.

During World War 2 the island and Silver City was neutral publicly but had to resist Nazi operations against it. This was when The Seven Sentinels emerged to save the day and introduce the world to superheroics. Their goal was to protect the world from the Axis of Evil and their own army of Das Ubermensch.

Eventually they triumphed thanks to Russian strategy, Americans deciding to get involved and the British securing their assets before retaliation.  While they all worked the Seven Sentinels acted to undermine the Nazis and gathered more and more heroes to them to fight the ever growing threats churned up by the war.

Their base on the island was Sentinel Tower which now serves partially as a museum but also as a base to the International League of Heroes.  Sentinel Tower remains a symbol and beacon of the heroic community and it was in its shadow many key legislations were filed including the ban on illegal genetic modifications, super soldier programs and other such actions - rendering them crimes to be pursued.

Silver City has prospered, though costumed crime is perpetual, and thanks to the heroes many lives are saved as the ever growing number of superhumans be they mystical, evolutionary, mutated, cybernetic, extraterrestrial or fully synthetic. This has lead to numerous gangs and groups in the city and its assorted districts forcing the SCPD to rely on support from private and government security agencies alike.