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“Hang up the cape with prestige.”
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A superhero saves the day — but who saves the superhero? On August 8, 1986, Olympia of the Seven Sentinels was killed in a Level 10 Crisis. Her family, along with others who had been injured, pled for government support. The U.S. congress responded with the Olympia Act that September, but many felt it fell short of compensating veteran stewards who sacrificed their health and well‑being for the public.
On December 1, 1986, fellow Seven Sentinels, Captain Gallant and The Great Boudica, founded the Cogent Corps Commissionaires, a nonprofit helping stewards and their families transition from hero work to civilian life. Retirees, whether through age or injury, were granted bursaries for their service, while families of those who fell in duty received yearly compensation.
However, as a special U.S.-approved nonprofit, the CCC enforced a strict mandate: members risked losing bursaries if they maintained paid stewardship. Ambiguities, such as “life rights agreements” for media adaptations, sparked a leadership change in 1988, coinciding with the release of the Seven Sentinels cartoon. Rumor holds that the Great Boudica sold rights to her image and story, along with Invictus’ tale, leading to an estrangement among the remaining Sentinels.
Today, as more permuted seek careers in acting and other fields through stewardship, the CCC has seen dwindling government support. Once a beacon for the permuted, it risks becoming a forgotten relic of another era — and some fear the Olympia Act could be repealed as well.
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“An allyship between humans and permuted.”
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March 8, 1968: The Violet Sun Irradiation Event forced the world into a new era. In response, the U.S. government authorized a covert subdepartment within the FBI’s COINTELPRO project, called “Operation Mutagen.” Their goals coincided with COINTELPRO’s mandate to discredit and disrupt “subversive” domestic communities seen as threats to the political order.
Like its parent program, OM relied on perjury, defamation, harassment, planted and withhold evidence, detainment, deportation, and assassination to block permuted people from gaining status or joining liberation movements. On March 8, 1971, the Citizens’ Commission exposed COINTELPRO, ending most of its programs — except Operation Mutagen. Rebranded as the Homeland Antigen Project (HAP), it continued its discriminatory practices under the guise of public safety.
On November 18, 1977, Invictus, the Seven Sentinels, and permuted allies turned the tide during the Extraterrestrial Extinction Crisis. Public opinion shifted overnight, and protests surged to dismantle the Homeland Antigen Program. With input from permute rights activists, the Federal Bureau of Altered Individuals was created on January 7, 1978 to open dialogue between government and permuted communities.
Nowadays, the F.B.A.I. oversees internal registries of permuted American citizens, administers National Stress Tests, categorizes powers and threats into their ranking criteria, and audits permute talent agencies to curb vigilantism. They are the only government body authorized to prosecute permuted crime, as per the Sectorized Patrol Act of 1980. Yet its history lingers, and many still warn: never trust the Feds.
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