[FADE IN — A STARFIELD]
In 2048, the universe blinked.
A star, forty light-years from Earth, exploded in a blaze of cosmic fury. Its death scream—a wave of gamma radiation—washed over our planet, rewriting the DNA of everything it touched.
Humans. Animals. Even plants.
Ten percent of Earth's population woke with abilities no one could explain. Some became heroes. Others—monsters.
[QUICK CUTS — Chaos in cities, powers unleashed, riots breaking out]
The world's leaders, desperate to contain the threat, built a city to house them all. They called it sanctuary. The gifted called it prison.
Tensions erupted. Brief wars followed. Until 2075, when both sides signed the Alliance Accord and formed the World Heroes Association—the WHA—sworn to protect, to keep the peace, and to ensure the gifted would never again be treated as weapons.
But shadows are patient.
[FADE TO BLACK — faint screams in the distance]
In 2079, in a hidden research facility beneath St. Petersburg, Russia, experiments on orphaned children pushed science beyond morality. Decades of failed trials ended in 2111… with one boy.
Ryan Cresswell.
Born in England in 2100, powerless. The son of a mother shunned for the crime of being a victim, and a father he would never know. She tried to care for him—at first—but the world's cruelty turned her love to resentment, and resentment to abuse.
Ryan endured, clinging to her as his only anchor. Until the day strangers knocked on their door… and bought him.
That was the day Ryan's old life ended—
…and the experiment began.
[CUT TO BLACK]