Super Hub Brief
This page tells you what you, as someone involved in Super Hub, need or ought to know beyond public knowledge of this organisation. Please also note that the information available here is not all there is, it is simply what would be known to the ranks available at game start. As you progress in the organisation, more information may become available. Alternatively, you may come across things while investigating.
Whether you decide to share this information with others is up to you. However, the GMs ask that you relay this information in your own words instead of simply showing others the organisation brief, to maintain a sense of IC authenticity.
The GM in charge of this organisation is Elynor. If you have any questions related to this organisation, feel free to get in touch with her.
Further History
In a way, it was always inevitable that Super Hub would form. From the days before supers were even called supers, there were the fans: from the worshippers of Isis and Osiris to the admirers of da Vinci, crowds of grateful civilians to the ever-growing fanbases in the 21st century in particular. As the internet's popularity increased, the move to online space for discussion increased exponentially. There were plenty of websites with some success (MyHero, Villain4U, SuperFace), but for one reason or other, when Super Hub started in 2060, it quickly began to take over. Many smaller websites were absorbed, either through buy-outs, or users generally moving to Hub use only.
Not only a space for fans, many known supers also have their own accounts. However, they are outnumbered by the super impersonators and fans of every type.
Other People of Note
The Wow
Even to this day, the founder of Super Hub remains entirely anonymous. Their user icon, a flowing cape, is the closest thing to a known identity. Occasionally they post on the Hub, sparking arguments, speculation, admiration, etc., for supers of all kinds. Speculation about the Wow, however, is left mainly to those without anything better to do. The focus is, after all, on supers.
Catrin
Catrin is one of the Hub's programmers, and often the person people blame for giving the Hub totally useless updates. Friendly and cheerful, she can be seen on the Hub responding directly to people's messages, and drawing fanart of sidekicks. It's a shame she's not very good at it.
Arium
A particularly harsh reviewer of supers, Arium's updates are read by hundreds of thousands of people weekly. It's hard to predict who will end up being the next 'victim', but it's rarely a bad thing. Hardcore fans meet other hardcore fans in an attempt to refute the latest review, and new supers are launched to fame, given widespread recognition through Arium's sardonic words.
Cool Mongoose
A sidekick whose real name (and real supervillain boss) are both unknown. Posts about his (mis)adventures and writes advice for aspiring sidekicks, or people looking to get a sidekick.
Location Information
Server Room
The beating heart of the Hub. Very few people, aside from select employees of the Hub, are actually aware of where the server room is. People have tried and failed to hack it. In fact, the Wow has put up a counter for the number of hacking attempts made. Once a year, users take the challenge en masse, but as far as anyone knows, no one has succeeded yet.
What we Really Think
Opinions are many and varied. With fans and anti-fans (plus everything in between and a few things beyond) for pretty much any known super and super organisation big and small, it would be easier to ask 'What don't we really think?'
Recent Events
Lunar Crunch
After someone took a big bite out of the Moon, the super world is going crazy. Looting, villainy, heroism, ineptitude… Many Hub users have been busy taking pictures and blogging about the worldwide super activity. Rumour has it this could be the career-defining moment for some previously unknown super, and Hub users are eager to find them before anyone else does. Ideally without getting too injured in the process.
The Closest Continuer at The Summits Wut!
So rumour has it that The Closest Continuer is going to be at these moon summits! Like, if people can get an autograph or something I'd love you forever. Actually even better does anyone have a ticket I could buy off them? Like, imagine getting to meet him in person…
Change of Heart?
These pictures have to be fake, right? That can't be one of the Heart's bosses actually helping people, right? The Hub is skeptical, but those blurry pictures of a man and a big book helping people are popping up from enough sources that there may be something to it.
There's already fanfiction, not to mention long discussion threads, dedicated to why One's apparent change of heart may have arisen.