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capitalxxx2014-01-24 07:13 pm
capitalm) wrote in capitalxxx2014-01-24 07:13 pm
PRE GAME PLANNING POST: TEAMS, ORGANISATIONS, ETC
This post is for discussing/establishing/working out details of specific teams, groups, organisations etc. with your fellow players. Use this post to -
We are going to make threads below for mod-created groups, but feel free to add your own for companies, teams, etc. that you think other people might like to be involved in.
Also, don't forget to check back on the CR MEME to check for new people to shove your character/s at!
You can suggest ideas and stuff for a group even if your character isn't involved in it.clarify how long your character has been a part of an organisation and what rank they have or what role they play there, suggest things about the way the group operates, ask questions about specifics of mod run teams, just generally throw out ideas!
We are going to make threads below for mod-created groups, but feel free to add your own for companies, teams, etc. that you think other people might like to be involved in.
Also, don't forget to check back on the CR MEME to check for new people to shove your character/s at!
MISCELLANEOUS WORLDBUILDING
did someone say SUPERHERO LAW?
While I'm sure there'd be specific laws in place for heroes, if we're looking at IRL examples, taking in criminals is probably covered well enough by citizen's arrest law already (here's a brief outline of California's). Since a fair amount of US laws vary by the state you're in, that also makes it entirely possible that one state would be stricter on superheroes than another state might. I can't really see superhero laws ever being a federal issue, but idk it could've happened if heroes were ever a big issue in the past either socially or politically.
That's also to say nothing of the laws in other countries - I imagine that countries with things like stricter gun laws may also be stricter on heroes operating with powers that could easily kill people, for example.
I'm not playing anyone involved in LAW but
Re: I'm not playing anyone involved in LAW but
It's been a while since I read any Marvel, but I dimly remember there being some sort of prison for people with powers. That sounds like something that would be CONDOR's jurisdiction, and is probably also a great source of income for advanced tech businesses and anyone else that can figure out how to make super-restraints or power dampeners.
California does have the death penalty... so I think the issue there regarding prisons might be whether or not the superpower-prisons reside in a state with the death penalty, and if they don't, do they still honor the laws that were broken in another state? (I doubt that there'd be one superpower-prison per state, unless someone in power was just totally okay with spending a lot of money to do that).
As far as actual law is concerned... it'd all be the same laws affecting heroes and villains, but of course villains are going to rack up impressive amounts of crime. A lot of what supervillains do would be the kind of thing we'd consider terrorism IRL, as loaded of a word as that is. I imagine that a supervillain getting killed while out committing a crime would basically be a case of the hero that did it acting in self-defense (which DOES include the defense of others, not only your own person!). Tl;dr on self defense laws is that you're only allowed to use deadly force if you're in danger of being seriously injured or killed yourself - but if you consider that heroes are treated like policemen, then they'd be allowed to use deadly force to keep other people from getting killed, and the presence or absence of 'stand your ground' laws wouldn't apply either. I'm guessing that judges and juries would tend to favor heroes should one ever get taken to court over what's done in the line of duty.
(Hurriedly edits to throw in an addendum: whether a superhero is allowed to use deadly force as opposed to self-defense is probably based on if the superhero is registered or not!)
One thing to note, though, is that a superhero that just randomly bursts in on a villain and hurts or kills them without said villain being a direct threat could very well get prosecuted for doing it. Citizen's Arrest laws might let you detain a villain to hand over to the police, but if a hero starts the fight, that hero obviously isn't acting in self-defense! (On the other hand, if this villain is a dangerous wanted criminal, instead of just being wanted for something that didn't majorly hurt anyone, killing them might be considered justified. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that if someone dies the police WILL investigate the circumstances no matter what.)
What might be a little complicated are alien characters that literally can't be deported back into outer space - I'm sure they'd still get the same punishments for breaking the law, but hopefully also get a judge that realizes they might've done it out of unfamiliarity with US law. They'd probably also get stuck in the superpower-prisons, too.
... I was also thinking that the police forces in bigger cities probably have a specialized department for dealing with superpowered crime that's too minor for CONDOR to investigate, like how Gotham has a Major Crimes Unit, but that's probably going overboard hhhh.