Global Tragedy

**Stopping the Syndicate Industries**

* Jaylon comes to the conclusion that he needs to go and take all the samples of the cure out of the nuke. He opens the capsule, and starts taking some out. Then the nuke takes off as the Syndicate Industries send out planes and nukes carrying the chemical substance they made. Jaylon tries to finish doing what he was doing, so he sticks a sword into the nuke and goes up with it, but it's moving so fast that he can't move. When it hits the upper atmosphere in space, it explodes. With his powers, he survives, but he can't breathe. The substance bonds him with the vacuum of space, allowing him to breathe and maneuver in space.
	+ He is now immune to gravity manipulation also, and can only do this in gravity fields, meaning he can't maneuver himself in planes humans can walk on normally or in gravitational fields where a person would feel heavy.
* Jaylon is falling from the sky, and falls into a lake.
* The substance exposed the large crowds to a gaseous chemical substance they made, causing chaos. The chemicals were in planes and atmospheric nukes, flying over different countries and cities. They thought they were curing millions of people from future diseases. They infected almost half of the world's population; causing strange things to happen to people's DNA. ¾ of that half, mostly young people died. ¼ of the people got powers or stayed normal or the cure was successful for their DNA and they are now unable to ever get sick.
	+ Example
		- Population = 2000
		- Half was infected = 1000
		- ¾ of that half died = 750 dead
		- ¼ became Altered = 250 Altered

**That is just an example. There are clearly more people around the world.**

Fast Forward to the Aftermath

* After this… People call this pandemic the “Global Tragedy.” They call this a disease and named it the “Dysfunction Syndrome." New York, Texas, and Alaska were affected the most, while Japan, Hawaii, and California were affected the least. Whoever has powers are to be known as an "Altered" instead of human. Some people altered in different ways, giving them different groups of names.
	+ Abnormal, Superhuman, Maneuver, Hybrid, Cyborg, Contagious, and Human
* Almost caused a "Global Great Depression" because not only did it mess up people; it also messed with crops, food, water, and animals. But the world was able to set aside their differences, come up with a plan, and fix their food and water problems. Due to animals and people being different, different outcomes happened.
	+ Some of the animals were cured. Some mutated. Some died. Some became more aggressive than before.
	+ Food was the same way
		- Corn was the most cured plant to survive. While others died, they were regrown
* This took 2 - 3 years. Somewhere between that time, the World Protectors disbanded, leaving just Nick, Jaylon, and Anna.

**(2010) (You would hear people talk about or mention the "Global Tragedy" and everything else that has happened in the past 3 years)**

* Everything is back to normal, except for the mutations of people and animals.
* The Syndicate Industries allows people to volunteer to help others.
* Some people volunteer to help the Syndicate Industries help sick people.
* The Syndicate Industries uses cured people's DNA to help heal the sick.
* Some places care for The Altered as other places don't want The Altered in the building.

### **Dysfunction Syndrome**

* With the Syndicate Industries giving people powers, some people died. They called it a disease called the Dysfunction Syndrome.

### **Consequences and Aftermath**

* Humans needed to evolve in order to protect themselves, so guns and bullets are stronger as the arms industry faced a pressing challenge after the rise of Altered. Many guns were increasingly proving ineffective against people heavily enhanced. A shot that would once kill an ordinary person now only makes a dent. The world required a new generation of weapons in order to protect themselves. Weapons strong enough to penetrate superhumans and cyborgs, who have enhanced durability. Technology and hospitals have better and advanced tech to help them perform surgeries on superhumans. The only species that are unable to be countered are Abnormals and Aliens with far more durability than the average superhuman of Earth.