Current Events

A quick guide to game history, both recent past and notable events that have taken place on camera. Items should be added to the timeline if they would be newsworthy.

Recent History: 1979-2012

• 1979 - Dr. Moira MacTaggert publishes research documenting the discovery of a gene that triggers superhuman powers in homo sapiens. This gene is named the X-Gene.
• 1980 - Scotland becomes the first country to require mutant registration of those with superhuman powers.
• 1986 - Scotland overturns their mutant registration laws, in a very narrow vote.
• 1994 - All branches of the U.S. military adopt a ban on mutants serving.
• 1999 - Fell Peak, NM becomes the first U.S. town to adopt anti-discrimination laws protecting mutants.
• 2002 - Senator Grover from Florida proposes a law barring mutants from holding federal civil service positions. It dies in the House after passing in the Senate.
• 2006 - Switzerland adopts a restrictive immigration policy banning all mutants from gaining resident status.
• 2008 - Philip Bancroft is elected President of the United States. A moderate Democrat, his views on mutants are, for the first time in several cycles, fairly progressive.
• 2009 - Under the new president, the Bureau of Mutant Affairs is established, a subsidiary agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
• 2010 - Washington state becomes the first U.S. state to adopt anti-discrimination laws protecting mutants.
• 2011 - Derek Simon, the governor of Arizona, begins campaigning heavily for president. Favored to win the Republican nomination, his platform includes heavily anti-mutant views.
• 2011 - The Brotherhood of Mutants stage an attack on a gathering of diplomats in New York City. The resulting furor kicks anti-mutant sentiment to a record high, right in the middle of election season.
• 2012 - In the wake of Magneto's attack, Simon's election campaign jumps 15 points in the polls.
• 2012 - With anti-mutant fervor on the rise, the elections brought in a tide of politicians -- including the new president-elect, Derek Simon -- promising to take a Hard Stance on the mutant issue.
• 20 December, 2012 - The Open Door Shelter in Manhattan, previously quietly tolerant of their mutant population, decides under new management to evict the mutants currently living there and ban mutants from their shelter. A protest against this action turns violent, leading to eight arrests and a multitude of injuries.

2013

• 22 January, 2013 - A federal agent is murdered in the Garment District by a mutant who can seemingly grow animals larger.
• 6 February, 2013 - In response to the rise in mutant crimes and triggered largely by the FBI agent's death, Mayor Lovet announces that open, voluntary displays of mutancy are punishable now by ticketing up to $500. During his speech, a human gunman shoots at the mayor; a mutant stops the bullet before it can hit him.
• 15 February, 2013 - A series of explosions near a building in downtown Manhattan leads to the so-called Spider-Dude, a masked figure known primarily for his youtube videos of apparently superhuman acrobatics, being added to the FBI's terrorism watchlist.
• 20 February, 2013 - A mutant loses control in Central Park, shooting poisonous quills at bystanders. The same mutant who saved the mayor during his announcement of the ticketing ordinance responds by shielding the nearby people from the accidental attack. In response, he receives a ticket from the same police officers he just protected from the spray; pictures and videos of the incident go viral.
• Late February, 2013 - The wanted terrorist Spider-Dude has many more sightings around the city -- this time not involved in any criminal activity, but spotted at housefires rescuing occupants before the fire department has time to show up. There is much debate across the internet about whether Spider-Dude is a terrorist or a hero.
• Early March, 2013 - A handful of disappearances around the city lead to mummified bodies turning back up, drained entirely of blood. A shapeshifting shadow-woman is spotted with the unconscious bodies of one of the missing children; this mutant's involvement is suspected in the murders.
• 14 March, 2013 - The mutant responsible for the abductions and murders is found dead; the abducted victims rescued describe him as a giant spider made out of blood. Rumours abound -- that the shadow-woman suspected of the murders actually helped rescue several of the victims, that another mutant living in the sewers was responsible for hunting down the bloodmonster. Also, that the monster's corpse has vanished from the morgue.
• 15 March, 2013 - President Simon visits New York to personally present a silver star medal to Elliott Carruthers, the daughter of New York's senior senator. Carruthers, a Naval officer, was being recognized for her bravery in defending her ship against a pirate attack.
• 17 March, 2013 - Local musician Ryan Black is arrested on drug charges following an East Village raid. Tabloids are full of pictures of him being taken away in handcuffs; his upcoming show in the city sells out within hours of the press releases.
• 20 March, 2013 - Norman Osborn, CEO of Oscorp, announces an upcoming gala where he plans to demonstrate a new line of mutant countermeasures. In an unconventional move, he announces plans to invite prominent mutants to the party, with stated intentions to work with and not simply against the mutant community in these measures.
• 22 March, 2013 - A group of people calling themselves the 'Sons of Magneto' start gaining some internet notoriety with their conspiracy theory videos about mutant deathcamps where the government is rounding up mutants en masse to experiment on them/kill them. Shoddily made and full of kind of unhinged rants, nobody much takes them seriously.
• 24 March, 2013 - A mutant terrorist lights several storefronts in the Upper West Side on fire, killing one woman and forcing Zabar's Deli to close after the heavy damages. During the arson, the man was screaming about declaring war on 'homo inferior'.
• 28 March, 2013 - The Oscorp Gala ends in chaos as four mutants calling themselves 'Sons of Magneto' attack the party. The attack came right in the middle of Osborn's announcement of his plans to open a mutant school to help mutants understand and control their powers. No deaths or serious injuries are reported after the attack, largely due to the combined efforts of a number of Osborn's mutant guests to stop the attack.
• 29 March, 2013 - The Daily Bugle publishes an article about the Mendel Clinic, an upcoming mutant clinic in Manhattan; it speculates that places like this and the planned Oscorp Institute are fronts for mutant terrorism.
• 31 March, 2013 - News comes to light that the four youths responsible for the attack on the Oscorp Gala have disappeared from police custody.
• 4 April, 2013 - Following the exposure of the Mendel Clinic in the Daily Bugle, Dr. Iolaus Saavedro, the clinic's founder, makes a speech in Central Park to announce the clinic. Saavedro was arrested during the speech for speaking without a permit.
• 12 April, 2013 - An unidentified mangled body is found in an abandoned vehicle in Staten Island. Reports say that it looked like an animal had eaten right through the man's skull.
• 17 April, 2013 - The Latverian Science Exposition opens in New York City, spearheaded by the recently arisen dictator of Latveria, Victor van Doom; it will continue throughout the rest of the week.
• 3 May, 2013 - Latveria officially adopts mandatory mutant registration.
• 9 May, 2013 - A US diplomat and Doctor Doom are assaulted by a terrorist in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan.