Darth Strelok
Hello Everyone! I had an idea for a a non canon rp and was wondering if anyone would be interested.
I have an idea I was willing to try out for those that do. I intend to have character classes, but am currently in the process of still working that out an am open to suggestions.
The setting is a dark version of the early days of Marvel Comics, not based on the movies and trying to take more from multiple comic arks and conjoining them together. I'm thinking of setting both in the nineteen sixties and seventies but am more leaning towards not exactly mentioning the time or year. I'd be happy with a small group of Marvel enthusiasts who know a lot of really cool little details to spice up the thread but would make it a slightly larger group depending on level of interest.
Here is my scenario:
Ever since Magneto and The Brotherhood of Mutants successfully defeated and slew or captured most of the X-Men and The Avengers in a catastrophic battle onboard Asteroid M, The Master of Magnetism has successfully built up Asteroid M into an artificial moon above Earth, about twice the size of the moon, rallying most of the world's mutants to the lure of a world where they will not be feared or persecuted by humanity. The moon somehow does not affect the tides and every day Magneto's promises of a mutant age over the whole of the earth, and not just confined to Asteroid M, has increasingly angered and caused fear among the world powers and in that fear and anger a dark alliance has brewed, scheming to destabilize the Mutant regime and install one more friendly to Humanity's interest, steal their technology in the process, and ascertain the fate of any surviving Avengers and X-Men, acquire their genetic samples, and then terminate the survivors by any means necessary.
Asteroid M is a fully functional state with its own districts, landmarks, and occupations for the Children of The Atom
Various expendable ex-operatives from the dregs of Marvel's most vile or morally questionable Organizations have been gathered under one umbrella with three chief objectives:
1: Assassinate Magneto and The Dark Phoenix
2. Steal Asteroid M planetary stabilization technology and high level schematics
3. Acquire genetic samples of and then terminate known survivors of the previous assault.
All operatives will be provided technology to surpass Asteroid M's genetic scanners and get past its security service. Mystique runs Asteroid M's intelligence community and is to be considered a target of opportunity. Mystique is head of security and Jason Wynngard, AKA Mastermind, is the head of the Police. The Dark Phoenix is the military and a way must be found to destroy her. It is rumored a piece of something called The M'Krann Crystal is the only thing that can do it...and its stuck in Magneto's vault. Operatives may have to contend with deep cover Hydra Agents and possible interference from The Hellfire Club.
Classes (open to suggestions and total reworking based on imput, so keep in mind this is just a basic outline)
Weapon X Operative:
Veteran of dozens of black operations in a hundred nameless conflicts before being recruited to Weapon X and enhanced with bio-implants that mimic mutants that have been in the organizations clutches in the past but only to a limited degree. Only one power can be mimicked per operative. Possesses the most knowledge of killing mutants. Left the Organization years back.
Mutants that can be mimicked:
Wolverine (Healing rate locked at only thirty percent of wolverines.
Cyclops (Extremely thin armor piercing Concussive Force beams emitted from his eyes.)
Nightcrawler (Only two teleportations per minute)
Mystique (Requires five minutes to shapeshift completely)
Hand Ninja:
Former member of the nefarious organization that has fought both Daredevil and Shield, the hand was dissolved after a ruthless global extermination by the combined efforts of both The Punisher and Elektra. Only a few operatives have survived, and those were the masters of stealth, in particular the ones whose skills most closely matched those of their worst enemies.
A.I.M. Operative:
Advanced Idea Mechanics was only too happy to expand in the wake of the Avengers end. No longer bound by the dictates of MODOK after the vile monster's death at the hands of Johnny Storm, who was himself assassinated a year later by Crossbones on the order of The Red Skull. After the Avengers were smashed, the still living Tony Stark was somehow stolen from Asteroid M in a seperate, unconnected operation, where his chest battery was ripped from his still living body and his technology stolen. This particular operative was put on a kill list by the organization after stealing incomplete schematics of Tony's suit and attempting to sell them on the black market, only to be captured by the Americans and forced into this unit. Possesses working but imperfect understanding of Stark Tech.
Latverian Operative:
Victor Von Doom's diplomatic immunity has allowed him to establish a Latverian Embassy in the United States as well as globally. This allowed the one and only defector from Von Doom's Intelligence Service to escape to American hands as a defector. As Von Doom is a master of both magic and fantastical science, it is inevitable one of his operatives have skill and training in the former and latter.
Morlock Outcast:
Morlocks are mutants driven underground due to their particular mutations rendering them too noticeable or dangerous. Having never supported Magneto's aims and furious at the way Magneto savagely killed most of the X-Men by using a backdoor to the mind of Jean Gray left by an encounter with Jason Wynngard that triggered a transformation into the Dark Phoenix, the Morlocks deeply insulted The Master of Magnetism when they became the only mutant population that utterly refused to send any of their own to live on Asteroid M. However they are not confidant in their ability to unseat Magneto from power on their own. But after being approached with an offer by no less than Acting Director Norman Osborn to help them institute a regime change, the Morlocks approached a former member cast out into the world for some long ago crime, the outcast has been given a task: Help bring down magneto, and the outcast shall again be a citizen of The Morlocks...
Opposition Classes
Asteroid M Police Officer:
One of many mutants on Asteroid M, these are the people tasked with keeping order among a populace with abilities considered twelve times as dangerous as any firearm. Handpicked by Mastermind, they have a jurisdiction over the whole of Asteroid M and it is often where physically powerful mutants willing to enforce Magneto's ideals and privately serve Mastermind can advance.
Asteroid M Security Services:
Run by the paranoid, cruel, and ruthless Mystique, the Security Services are the domain of those mutants whose powers are often of the stealthy variety. Many mutants whose specific talants such as superspeed or shapeshifting to name two would otherwise be put to mischief are instead co-opted by the security service.
Hellfire Club Members:
The decadent, depraved members of the Hellfire Club, particularly Sabastian Shaw, has always had an uneasy relationship with Magneto and his brotherhood, particularly because Magneto knows the Hellfire Club does not hold the best interests of all mutant kind in their heart as he does.
Hellfire Club mutants are a grab bag of unusual mutant abilities, some having even been blended with magic via Selene Gallio The Black Queen. Due to Selene's influence, an unusually high number of hellfire mutants have been admitted as of late with an ability to manipulate necrotic tissue in various, horrifying ways, though that is certainly not the limit of the club's focus. With various outposts of the club scattered about Asteroid M as legtimate private clubs, Hellfire members have a vested interest in maintaining an iron grip on Asteroid M's criminal underworld...and seeking out potential opportunities to seize power to more legitimate stations...
Inhumans:
Mutated by the Terrigen Mists, The Inhumans are a constitutional monarchy led by Black Bolt, King of The Inhumans. After nearly coming to blows over colonization of Mars, Magneto and his royal counterpart have come to an uneasy but profitable truce, though Black Bolt's silent loathing of Magneto over his killing of the Avengers and the X-Men and the violence he used to ensure his dominance makes it all but inevitable such a peaceful relationship will always be poisoned deep down so long as either two live. Inhumans are altered by the mists to get superpowers, and have a very high command of technology.
NPC enemies
Magneto (Boss)
The Master of Magnetism, Magneto has long sought to protect mutant kind from suffering the horrors and degradation his first people were put through after being murdered in Hitler's camps. But his particular method--overt violence against humanity as necessary--made him a bitter foe of The X-Men, who opposed him time and again. When Erik's latest scheme, a plot to expose all humanity to a radiation that would have awakened their dormant X-Gene from the safety of Asteroid M, led to an all out assault by the X-Men that was personally led by Charles Xavier, supported by the entire roster of The Avengers, Magneto desperately tried to defend the machine as he had obtained it from The High Evolutionary as a diplomatic gesture after the Evolutionary's death. It was irreplaceable. They destroyed it. Magneto, the Brotherhood and the full weight of Asteroid M's security apparatus came down on both groups, and most of both groups were personally slain by the Dark Phoenix when Magneto played his ace in the hole and had his most trusted subordinate Jason create a psychotic breakdown via a psychic tunnel he had dug patiently in Jean Grey's mind months before, triggering her transformation into the mysterious entity the Dark Phoenix, which then proceeded to slay most of the X-Men and Avengers afterward. With some of earth's greatest heroes dead, the United Nations had no choice but to grant his demand for recognition of Asteroid M as a sovereign nation. With a place on the U.N. Security Council, right next to Victor Von Doom himself, Magneto is seemingly within reach of realizing his selfless desires for mutantkind and projects an air of confidence, authority, and when necessary, menace to the world at large. Inwardly though, Erik has never been so conflicted and guilt ridden, as he was forced to have The Dark Phoenix kill a number of people among both The Avengers and The X-Men that he respected, even as he opposed them, to say nothing of hating being counted among those such as Von Doom and Norman Osborn. Magneto keeps vigil though, for even in his sorrow and doubt he will not allow his purpose as the defender of Mutants to falter, even as his own children, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff were slain in the devastating battle.
Mystique (Boss)
It is currently unknown as to whether the shapeshifter assuming Raven Darkholme's appearance truly is Raven Darkholme--seeing how Darkholme met a rather grisly end after being turned to stone by her stepdaughter Rogue who had stolen the powers of the mutant Gorgon for the express purpose of killing her in revenge for killing Kitty Pryde. Darkholme was shattered to stone, and Rogue even went the extra mile of dropping the shattered stone pieces into a volcano. While it is not inconceivable that Mystique could have somehow cheated death, the totality of her supposed destruction leaves it extremely unlikely the paranoid, sadistic woman who has assumed her white garbed, blue skinned appearance could actually be her, though her fighting ability, reflexes, skill with guns, and sheer ruthlessness certainly make her more than worthy of the title. This Mystique was only too happy to help kill The X-Men, personally taking the life of Iceman, Psylocke, and Cyclops, the people believed to be most responsible for pushing Rogue to possibly kill Mystique the first time around. The fate of Kurt Wagner is currently unknown, but it is worth noting he was among the few X-Men not killed in the assault.
Mastermind (Boss)
Jason Wynngard is the Man who created the Dark Phoenix. A master of telepathy and Illusions, it was Jason who undermined Jean's mind, planting visions of power and seeds of discontent with Charles Xavier and his vision of mutant-human coexistance deep in her subconcious causing her doubt and frustration with her role as a member of The X-Men to grow, to the point that when Jason finally used a brutal telepathic attack to start her full blown transition to the pro-mutant Dark Phoenix, she angrily slew most of The X-Men and the Avengers, and Wynngard was also the one who caused the Hulk to go insane and murder Hawkeye and Black Panther, with Mastermind making Hulk docile enough to be killed effortlessly by Dark Phoenix.
His position secured beyond a doubt after the fall of Earths mightiest, Mastermind is head of the Mutant Police Force, with his eye on a greater position in the future. Decadent and living a life of luxury aboard Asteroid M, he nonetheless runs the police with ruthless efficiency and precision, and his authority is considered second only to Magneto.
Dark Phoenix:
Whether or not Dark Phoenix was ever truly Jean Grey has recently become a sort of up in the air question. A highly publicised incident in which the X-Men saved a space shuttle from being destroyed while in space led Asteroid M scientists to speculate that an extremely powerful entity may have in fact murdered the original Jean Grey and assumed her form for an unknown purpose, given how their genetic scanners cannot detect an X-Gene, which The Dark Phoenix should have, if she is truly Jean Grey. While Magneto insists this is the true Jean, and that she has simply evolved in ways beyond their current understanding, many among the populace doubt the beautiful, deadly Dark Phoenix can truly be trusted to be a mutant, though her near god like power makes such nitpicking irrelevant, given her zeal to defend mutants may surpass even Magneto's.
Hydra
Believed to still be run by Johann Schmidt aka The Red Skull, the Skull has not been captured on film in years after being disfigured by Captain America, who used Schmidt's own poison gas against him. Believed to currently operate out of Argentina, Hydra has remained relatively quiet after the fall of the Avengers, and to Magneto's horror and disgust, the murderer of his parents have somehow managed to infiltrate his beloved mutant haven to destabilize it. Rumor has it the Skull may be seeking revenge for an earlier incident in which Magneto trapped Schmidt underground without food or water and left the vile supervillain to perish. Or perhaps even seeks Captain America's Adamantium-Vibranium shield, which remained in Erik's vault after he drove it at high speed through both him and Nick Fury, killing them both instantly.
Shield:
Once the frontline against threats such Hydra, the Masters of Evil and too many others, the death of both Nick Fury and Black Widow at the same time devastated Shield's infrastructure, and it wasn't long before world powers sought to install someone more malleable to their desires. In a choice that terrified most, the homicidal, (Supposedly reformed) supervillain Norman Osborn was made leader of Shield and to be the de-facto reformer of a Black Ops oriented version of The Avengers and X-Men. Osborn has used his warped genius to revamp Shield to face the threat posed by Asteroid M. It is highly unlikely Osborn does not have highly placed mutant double agents on Magneto's home turf and would certainly pose a threat should whatever mysterious goal Osborn was working toward interfere with that of the expendable operatives.
If rpers choose the above format or make up their own class, I ask they limit themselves to eight core skills, a mix of superpowers and practical stuff if they want that. If they can adhere to the old warrior/thief/mage logic, so the better. But those on Asteroid M's side must have at least one genuine super power, and none of them can be of the same quality as marvel's true heavy hitters. They can be powerful, but not game breaking. Anyone who is interested, lets work it out here.
I have an idea I was willing to try out for those that do. I intend to have character classes, but am currently in the process of still working that out an am open to suggestions.
The setting is a dark version of the early days of Marvel Comics, not based on the movies and trying to take more from multiple comic arks and conjoining them together. I'm thinking of setting both in the nineteen sixties and seventies but am more leaning towards not exactly mentioning the time or year. I'd be happy with a small group of Marvel enthusiasts who know a lot of really cool little details to spice up the thread but would make it a slightly larger group depending on level of interest.
Here is my scenario:
Ever since Magneto and The Brotherhood of Mutants successfully defeated and slew or captured most of the X-Men and The Avengers in a catastrophic battle onboard Asteroid M, The Master of Magnetism has successfully built up Asteroid M into an artificial moon above Earth, about twice the size of the moon, rallying most of the world's mutants to the lure of a world where they will not be feared or persecuted by humanity. The moon somehow does not affect the tides and every day Magneto's promises of a mutant age over the whole of the earth, and not just confined to Asteroid M, has increasingly angered and caused fear among the world powers and in that fear and anger a dark alliance has brewed, scheming to destabilize the Mutant regime and install one more friendly to Humanity's interest, steal their technology in the process, and ascertain the fate of any surviving Avengers and X-Men, acquire their genetic samples, and then terminate the survivors by any means necessary.
Asteroid M is a fully functional state with its own districts, landmarks, and occupations for the Children of The Atom
Various expendable ex-operatives from the dregs of Marvel's most vile or morally questionable Organizations have been gathered under one umbrella with three chief objectives:
1: Assassinate Magneto and The Dark Phoenix
2. Steal Asteroid M planetary stabilization technology and high level schematics
3. Acquire genetic samples of and then terminate known survivors of the previous assault.
All operatives will be provided technology to surpass Asteroid M's genetic scanners and get past its security service. Mystique runs Asteroid M's intelligence community and is to be considered a target of opportunity. Mystique is head of security and Jason Wynngard, AKA Mastermind, is the head of the Police. The Dark Phoenix is the military and a way must be found to destroy her. It is rumored a piece of something called The M'Krann Crystal is the only thing that can do it...and its stuck in Magneto's vault. Operatives may have to contend with deep cover Hydra Agents and possible interference from The Hellfire Club.
Classes (open to suggestions and total reworking based on imput, so keep in mind this is just a basic outline)
Weapon X Operative:
Veteran of dozens of black operations in a hundred nameless conflicts before being recruited to Weapon X and enhanced with bio-implants that mimic mutants that have been in the organizations clutches in the past but only to a limited degree. Only one power can be mimicked per operative. Possesses the most knowledge of killing mutants. Left the Organization years back.
Mutants that can be mimicked:
Wolverine (Healing rate locked at only thirty percent of wolverines.
Cyclops (Extremely thin armor piercing Concussive Force beams emitted from his eyes.)
Nightcrawler (Only two teleportations per minute)
Mystique (Requires five minutes to shapeshift completely)
Hand Ninja:
Former member of the nefarious organization that has fought both Daredevil and Shield, the hand was dissolved after a ruthless global extermination by the combined efforts of both The Punisher and Elektra. Only a few operatives have survived, and those were the masters of stealth, in particular the ones whose skills most closely matched those of their worst enemies.
A.I.M. Operative:
Advanced Idea Mechanics was only too happy to expand in the wake of the Avengers end. No longer bound by the dictates of MODOK after the vile monster's death at the hands of Johnny Storm, who was himself assassinated a year later by Crossbones on the order of The Red Skull. After the Avengers were smashed, the still living Tony Stark was somehow stolen from Asteroid M in a seperate, unconnected operation, where his chest battery was ripped from his still living body and his technology stolen. This particular operative was put on a kill list by the organization after stealing incomplete schematics of Tony's suit and attempting to sell them on the black market, only to be captured by the Americans and forced into this unit. Possesses working but imperfect understanding of Stark Tech.
Latverian Operative:
Victor Von Doom's diplomatic immunity has allowed him to establish a Latverian Embassy in the United States as well as globally. This allowed the one and only defector from Von Doom's Intelligence Service to escape to American hands as a defector. As Von Doom is a master of both magic and fantastical science, it is inevitable one of his operatives have skill and training in the former and latter.
Morlock Outcast:
Morlocks are mutants driven underground due to their particular mutations rendering them too noticeable or dangerous. Having never supported Magneto's aims and furious at the way Magneto savagely killed most of the X-Men by using a backdoor to the mind of Jean Gray left by an encounter with Jason Wynngard that triggered a transformation into the Dark Phoenix, the Morlocks deeply insulted The Master of Magnetism when they became the only mutant population that utterly refused to send any of their own to live on Asteroid M. However they are not confidant in their ability to unseat Magneto from power on their own. But after being approached with an offer by no less than Acting Director Norman Osborn to help them institute a regime change, the Morlocks approached a former member cast out into the world for some long ago crime, the outcast has been given a task: Help bring down magneto, and the outcast shall again be a citizen of The Morlocks...
Opposition Classes
Asteroid M Police Officer:
One of many mutants on Asteroid M, these are the people tasked with keeping order among a populace with abilities considered twelve times as dangerous as any firearm. Handpicked by Mastermind, they have a jurisdiction over the whole of Asteroid M and it is often where physically powerful mutants willing to enforce Magneto's ideals and privately serve Mastermind can advance.
Asteroid M Security Services:
Run by the paranoid, cruel, and ruthless Mystique, the Security Services are the domain of those mutants whose powers are often of the stealthy variety. Many mutants whose specific talants such as superspeed or shapeshifting to name two would otherwise be put to mischief are instead co-opted by the security service.
Hellfire Club Members:
The decadent, depraved members of the Hellfire Club, particularly Sabastian Shaw, has always had an uneasy relationship with Magneto and his brotherhood, particularly because Magneto knows the Hellfire Club does not hold the best interests of all mutant kind in their heart as he does.
Hellfire Club mutants are a grab bag of unusual mutant abilities, some having even been blended with magic via Selene Gallio The Black Queen. Due to Selene's influence, an unusually high number of hellfire mutants have been admitted as of late with an ability to manipulate necrotic tissue in various, horrifying ways, though that is certainly not the limit of the club's focus. With various outposts of the club scattered about Asteroid M as legtimate private clubs, Hellfire members have a vested interest in maintaining an iron grip on Asteroid M's criminal underworld...and seeking out potential opportunities to seize power to more legitimate stations...
Inhumans:
Mutated by the Terrigen Mists, The Inhumans are a constitutional monarchy led by Black Bolt, King of The Inhumans. After nearly coming to blows over colonization of Mars, Magneto and his royal counterpart have come to an uneasy but profitable truce, though Black Bolt's silent loathing of Magneto over his killing of the Avengers and the X-Men and the violence he used to ensure his dominance makes it all but inevitable such a peaceful relationship will always be poisoned deep down so long as either two live. Inhumans are altered by the mists to get superpowers, and have a very high command of technology.
NPC enemies
Magneto (Boss)
The Master of Magnetism, Magneto has long sought to protect mutant kind from suffering the horrors and degradation his first people were put through after being murdered in Hitler's camps. But his particular method--overt violence against humanity as necessary--made him a bitter foe of The X-Men, who opposed him time and again. When Erik's latest scheme, a plot to expose all humanity to a radiation that would have awakened their dormant X-Gene from the safety of Asteroid M, led to an all out assault by the X-Men that was personally led by Charles Xavier, supported by the entire roster of The Avengers, Magneto desperately tried to defend the machine as he had obtained it from The High Evolutionary as a diplomatic gesture after the Evolutionary's death. It was irreplaceable. They destroyed it. Magneto, the Brotherhood and the full weight of Asteroid M's security apparatus came down on both groups, and most of both groups were personally slain by the Dark Phoenix when Magneto played his ace in the hole and had his most trusted subordinate Jason create a psychotic breakdown via a psychic tunnel he had dug patiently in Jean Grey's mind months before, triggering her transformation into the mysterious entity the Dark Phoenix, which then proceeded to slay most of the X-Men and Avengers afterward. With some of earth's greatest heroes dead, the United Nations had no choice but to grant his demand for recognition of Asteroid M as a sovereign nation. With a place on the U.N. Security Council, right next to Victor Von Doom himself, Magneto is seemingly within reach of realizing his selfless desires for mutantkind and projects an air of confidence, authority, and when necessary, menace to the world at large. Inwardly though, Erik has never been so conflicted and guilt ridden, as he was forced to have The Dark Phoenix kill a number of people among both The Avengers and The X-Men that he respected, even as he opposed them, to say nothing of hating being counted among those such as Von Doom and Norman Osborn. Magneto keeps vigil though, for even in his sorrow and doubt he will not allow his purpose as the defender of Mutants to falter, even as his own children, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff were slain in the devastating battle.
Mystique (Boss)
It is currently unknown as to whether the shapeshifter assuming Raven Darkholme's appearance truly is Raven Darkholme--seeing how Darkholme met a rather grisly end after being turned to stone by her stepdaughter Rogue who had stolen the powers of the mutant Gorgon for the express purpose of killing her in revenge for killing Kitty Pryde. Darkholme was shattered to stone, and Rogue even went the extra mile of dropping the shattered stone pieces into a volcano. While it is not inconceivable that Mystique could have somehow cheated death, the totality of her supposed destruction leaves it extremely unlikely the paranoid, sadistic woman who has assumed her white garbed, blue skinned appearance could actually be her, though her fighting ability, reflexes, skill with guns, and sheer ruthlessness certainly make her more than worthy of the title. This Mystique was only too happy to help kill The X-Men, personally taking the life of Iceman, Psylocke, and Cyclops, the people believed to be most responsible for pushing Rogue to possibly kill Mystique the first time around. The fate of Kurt Wagner is currently unknown, but it is worth noting he was among the few X-Men not killed in the assault.
Mastermind (Boss)
Jason Wynngard is the Man who created the Dark Phoenix. A master of telepathy and Illusions, it was Jason who undermined Jean's mind, planting visions of power and seeds of discontent with Charles Xavier and his vision of mutant-human coexistance deep in her subconcious causing her doubt and frustration with her role as a member of The X-Men to grow, to the point that when Jason finally used a brutal telepathic attack to start her full blown transition to the pro-mutant Dark Phoenix, she angrily slew most of The X-Men and the Avengers, and Wynngard was also the one who caused the Hulk to go insane and murder Hawkeye and Black Panther, with Mastermind making Hulk docile enough to be killed effortlessly by Dark Phoenix.
His position secured beyond a doubt after the fall of Earths mightiest, Mastermind is head of the Mutant Police Force, with his eye on a greater position in the future. Decadent and living a life of luxury aboard Asteroid M, he nonetheless runs the police with ruthless efficiency and precision, and his authority is considered second only to Magneto.
Dark Phoenix:
Whether or not Dark Phoenix was ever truly Jean Grey has recently become a sort of up in the air question. A highly publicised incident in which the X-Men saved a space shuttle from being destroyed while in space led Asteroid M scientists to speculate that an extremely powerful entity may have in fact murdered the original Jean Grey and assumed her form for an unknown purpose, given how their genetic scanners cannot detect an X-Gene, which The Dark Phoenix should have, if she is truly Jean Grey. While Magneto insists this is the true Jean, and that she has simply evolved in ways beyond their current understanding, many among the populace doubt the beautiful, deadly Dark Phoenix can truly be trusted to be a mutant, though her near god like power makes such nitpicking irrelevant, given her zeal to defend mutants may surpass even Magneto's.
Hydra
Believed to still be run by Johann Schmidt aka The Red Skull, the Skull has not been captured on film in years after being disfigured by Captain America, who used Schmidt's own poison gas against him. Believed to currently operate out of Argentina, Hydra has remained relatively quiet after the fall of the Avengers, and to Magneto's horror and disgust, the murderer of his parents have somehow managed to infiltrate his beloved mutant haven to destabilize it. Rumor has it the Skull may be seeking revenge for an earlier incident in which Magneto trapped Schmidt underground without food or water and left the vile supervillain to perish. Or perhaps even seeks Captain America's Adamantium-Vibranium shield, which remained in Erik's vault after he drove it at high speed through both him and Nick Fury, killing them both instantly.
Shield:
Once the frontline against threats such Hydra, the Masters of Evil and too many others, the death of both Nick Fury and Black Widow at the same time devastated Shield's infrastructure, and it wasn't long before world powers sought to install someone more malleable to their desires. In a choice that terrified most, the homicidal, (Supposedly reformed) supervillain Norman Osborn was made leader of Shield and to be the de-facto reformer of a Black Ops oriented version of The Avengers and X-Men. Osborn has used his warped genius to revamp Shield to face the threat posed by Asteroid M. It is highly unlikely Osborn does not have highly placed mutant double agents on Magneto's home turf and would certainly pose a threat should whatever mysterious goal Osborn was working toward interfere with that of the expendable operatives.
If rpers choose the above format or make up their own class, I ask they limit themselves to eight core skills, a mix of superpowers and practical stuff if they want that. If they can adhere to the old warrior/thief/mage logic, so the better. But those on Asteroid M's side must have at least one genuine super power, and none of them can be of the same quality as marvel's true heavy hitters. They can be powerful, but not game breaking. Anyone who is interested, lets work it out here.
