Marvel: New Era

All that is known is that the Secret War has begun. Early in 2011 the Beyonder arrived without warning. It did not speak. It did not hesitate. In a flash hundreds of the worlds super beings disappeared, and then the Beyonder vanished as well.

What few mentalists remained confirmed they could still hear the takens’ echo beneath the fabric of reality – they were alive, but where they were or when they would return was unknown. Whatever they were called to do, all the world could do was wait.

At first everyone believed it would be over in a matter of days. Surely there was some great gladitorial bought happening and once the victors were decided all would return to normal. Days passed, and days turned into weeks. Then something changed.

With greater frequency than ever before new supers started to appear. SHIELD correlated the new powers of these new supers with their database to reveal a terrible discovery – the energy signature of their powers matched that of disappeared supers. As they continued to track them a pattern of balanced formed – for nearly every super hero’s power that manifested so did a villain’s power.

Stalwart protectors had vanished. Maniacal villains had ceased their threats. In their place rose new stars and they began to redefine the old balance of power. States once known to be free became contrictingly authoritarian out of fear. States once home to totalitarian powers for decades fell to a people lead by new champions, hungry for freedom.

A New Era of super powers begun.