Abnormalities

**Abnormalities** are human beings born with what is known as the Peregrine-Gene, which usually expresses itself in the form of superhuman abilities that manifest some time throughout the hosts life. Though some mutants can pass as ordinary humans, there are those who have visible physical characteristics that signify their mutagenic nature.

## History

### Origins

The Peregrine-Gene; and subsequently all Abnormalities, Aberrants and the like can trace their origins to the first discovery of the extraterrestrial beings on Earth, which occurred on July 8th, 1947, known to the public as the Roswell UFO Incident. On this day, one of the extraterrestrial's spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, prompting the U.S. military to swiftly recover the object. They then engaged in a cover-up, stating the crashed object was merely a weather balloon. Though bodies of the aliens were recovered, none survived following the crash. While this initial miscalculation postponed the beings' plans, not long after another spacecraft arrived safely, leading to the official first meeting between mankind and the Peregrine.

In April 1955, Area 51 was established in order to allow a place for the Peregrine to meet with the U.S. in secret. Throughout the years, the Peregrine aided in the development of multiple projects, and allowed for the research of their deceased, such as those recovered from the Roswell Incident. However, unbeknownst to the U.S. Government, the Peregrine did their own testing alongside the puppetmasters of Area 51: TALON, a subsidiary of ONII - The Office of National Interplanetary Interest.

### Project HARVEST

Beginning sometime during the 1960's, Project HARVEST was the first joint Peregrine-Human scientific endeavour. The project itself was based heavily on the studies the Peregrine had gathered on Humankind following the establishment of Area 51 and ONII, three of which were codenamed by ONII as ETHER, SIPHON and UNIFY. While each Study would eventually amalgamate into their own major projects, UNIFY found itself in the center of both the Peregrine and ONII's attention at Roswell for the next 40 years.

Many of the happenings within Roswell remained classified until after the Great War, and despite conspiracy theories circling human society for decades - the actual events which took place were never revealed publicly. This includes unwilling test subjects masqueraded as KIA's in the Vietnam War, Undesirables of Society and finally - the release of the Peregrine-Gene in unborn human fetuses.

While the first several implantations of several Peregrine-Gene variant were unsuccessful; On February 11th, 2006, the Peregrine's testing bore its first fruit.

Houston, Texas, the first known Abnormality was discovered. At 10 AM, a fire broke out within the hospital, causing multiple injuries and 2 casualties. In the middle of the fire was a newborn child, completely unscathed from the fire despite all others in the vicinity being burned to some degree. The police quickly attempted to cover the discovery up, although it failed when a witness publicly commented on the unscathed newborn. The US Government took over control of the situation from the police, and in secret took the newborn for testing. At this point, surveillance by ONII and The Peregrine was long-complete, and the successful variant of the Peregrine-Gene had made its way across the world almost overnight as other ONII facilities began replicating the process.

This marked the public discovery of a new uncommon variant to the human species, referred to as the Abnormalities, people with unnatural powers caused by an 'unknown' hereditary strand of foreign DNA. The existence of this subspecies did not become public knowledge until 2008, when the Abnormalities began popping up en masse around the world.

## Subsequent Variations

Over the next several decades, many forced and natural mutations of the Peregrine-Gene would prove themselves into reality - and while this showed the 'successful' variant of the gene was unstable, the Peregrine themselves and ONII were long gone following the Great War.

### Aberrant-Abnormalities

Aberrants are Abnormalities with more than one power. This occurrence is present solely in the offspring of two Abnormalities, due to both parents passing on the Abnormality-causing DNA.

#### **Notable Aberrants**

* Nicholas
* Tereza Vasilyeva
* Artyom Rintaro
* Elena Pelyovina

### Pseudo-Abnormalities

**Pseudo-Abnormalities**, typically referred to as simply **Pseudos**, are synthetic replications of the Abnormality subspecies created by the Nutritii Legis Talionis with **"Project Ersatz"** in order to combat Abnormalities who threaten the NLT and its goals. After Project Ersatz, a division of the NLT was formed called the Counter-Abnormality Division (CAD); almost all Pseudos of Project Ersatz and beyond are apart of this division. The method of creating Pseudo-Abnormalities is kept top secret by high-ranking members of the NLT, although classified documents recovered by the Salvations after Operation Justitia revealed the method requires a specific strain of DNA originating from what was simply referred to as the "Peregrine", leaving the Salvations at a loss as to what exactly they are.

#### **Notable Pseudo-Abnormalities**

* Leon Davis
* Lance Carter
* Delilah Yvetali

### Abhorrent-Abnormalities

Abhorrents are Abnormalities who's powers have caused physical deformation. There are only few recorded Abhorrents, as their powers are generally deemed self-lethal.