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For over a year the Civil War has raged. Brother against brother, the powered community has been split down the center over the Super Human Registration Act. The Iron Man, Tony Stark, stands as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and leader of the government effort to enforce registration while his former friends and teammates lead the rebellion against him. The price of war has been high for both sides, sacrifices that no one, not even a masked avenger, could ever prepare to make have been demanded time and time again. None, however, were prepared for the most recent casualty of war: Steve Rogers is dead. Gunned down on the courthouse steps, Captain America is no more.

If only that had been the end of it.

The loss of their leader and symbol achieved what no other blow during the war had accomplished as the powered rebellion was at last driven to desperation. Upon hearing through their remaining intelligence that Reed Richards was to begin the construction of a new prison in a different universe, the remaining rebels made a frantic attempt at preventing this new gateway from opening. Gathering their remaining forces and what few allies were left to them, the rebellion attempted an attack on the facility in which the new gateway was being built. Reed Richards, however, had done his job too well. As the rebellion attempted to deactivate the machinery the console sparked, shuddering once before the gateway folded in on itself in a blinding flash of light. The exact reasons and science behind what happened next are unknown. The results, however, are terrifyingly clear: something in the divide between realities has been destroyed. Two planes have begun to merge.

At first, people were simply missing. Heroes, civilians, villains, it didn't seem to matter who you were or where you lived, when the rift formed people from all walks of life from every corner of the globe vanished into thin air. Many reappeared seconds later, sometimes on the other side of the world from where they had been only moments before. Others have yet to return. Even more disorienting is that of those who have returned, many seem changed from the persons they were only seconds before. With memories and abilities, or the lack of such, that had not been there before, these alternate versions of familiar faces have slowly but steadily replaced the missing.

Then the first newcomer appeared. Lost and disoriented, the first person from the other reality was quickly apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D., hidden away for study and inquisition before the world could notice. However, it was only the beginning. Even as familiar faces return, a steady flow of these 'aliens' have appeared from the rift. Some claim to be heroes of their own dimension, others villains or simple civilians. There seems to be no reason or rhyme behind who is brought through the rift. The only thing that seems certain is this invasion shows no sign of stopping. No longer able to conceal this event, Tony Stark has announced a press conference to inform the near riotous masses of what has occurred and, perhaps more importantly in the mind of the mob, who is to blame.

Despite the horrors and the merging worlds around them, the Powered community remains fractured to its core as the war rages on. Scrambling to recover from the loss of allies, family and friends, and simply the people they are sworn to protect, both side of the War are in near chaos. As one of the first to return from the rift, Spider-Man has stepped forward as the leader of the rebellion in Captain America's place, while Tony Stark remains the leader and voice of the Registration movement. The Heroes for Hire have struggled to reestablish themselves as a distinct side in the war, while the villains, the group most accustomed to chaos, have used the near anarchy to regroup, shaking free of any previous allegiances or treaties to once more serve their own purposes. As more potential allies arrive everyday, the future of the world remains uncertain. Only time will tell whether there can ever be an end to the divide.

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Premise:
The Divide is a multi-canon Marvel/DC/Independent Universe hybrid game set two months after the death of Captain America and following an AU branch of the Marvel Civil War series. What is multi-canon? Multi-canon means that the characters portrayed in this game are hybrids of their various canon forms. The various movies, animates series, comics, AU comics, video games, and whatever else you can think of all have slightly different, but equally valid, versions of our beloved characters. By attempting to prevent the creation of a new prison, the rebels have caused a tear in what divided all these versions of canon. This rift allows you to pick and chose whichever aspects of a character you enjoy, including events in their history, from each version of canon and combine them to create your own hybrid form of the character. So long as an aspect of the character is some version of canon based, you can incorporate it into the character that will step out of the rift. The character you portray may have startlingly different memories of the world and events than other characters in the game, only adding to the drama and fear caused by the inter-dimensional rift. There are some exceptions to this, such as the zombie alternate reality, please check with the mods if you are unsure about the appropriateness of an item before applying.

The game is set in the Marvel universe with characters, and possibly in the future even entire cities, from the DC and Independent universes suddenly appearing through the rift into the Civil War world. The game will begin three weeks after the creation of the rift. Several Marvel characters have already returned to the world, along with many new faces from other realities. Many characters remain lost beyond the divide between planes of reality, leaving their allies to only wait for their safe return. As characters are picked up by players, they will suddenly return from the void. Previously dead in canon characters will be allowed on a case by case basis; in comics, there is always a universe somewhere in which a character did not actually die. Check with the mods if you are interested in playing a resurrected character.

The game is divided into five main factions: pro-registration, the powered rebellion, heroes for hire, villains, and neutral (previously villainous can fall into the neutral category so long as they are not actively plotting against heroes). These are more general alignment categories than anything else. There are still various divides within each faction. The villains, for instance, are hardly expected to all get along and all coordinate their efforts as a unit. While membership in a group is fluid and can change as the game progresses, all characters are expected to be able to identify which faction they consider themselves to be a part of at any given moment.