The team is split as EMBER's practical exam begins and Horizon follows Nebulon and Menagerie into the city.

Content Warnings: Excessive Violence, Brief Description of Gore & Vomit

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ORG IN0093 - The Beacons. EMBER’s primary public strike team. Secondary objective of promoting EMBER to the public.

• Current Members: 
  • Silver Sentinel: >INT BE0031
  • Bastion: >INT BE0029
• Assigned Handler: >INT PA0042

MET SC4371 - Nebulon* A metahuman from Earth who spent over a decade traversing the galaxy. Upon his return in 1996, he joined the White Peace (>ORG ER0584) as a superhero, warning of the coming Mican invasion. He aims to create his own army of metahumans to fight alien threats, and now sees both EMBER and the White Peace as obstacles. Though he helped oust the Micans in 2008, he has constantly attacked EMBER and civilian targets since 2000.

• Capabilities: Temperature Control, Enhanced Intelligence, Nuclear Resistance
• Associations: Buzzkill (>MET NE2679), Horizon (>MET SC6986)
• Note: Destroyed our base and broke Menagerie out of containment. Priority Alpha, we have to take him down. Use everything at our disposal to get info. - V.W.

ALI OR0152 - Menagerie. The greatest warrior of the Isoldi aliens (>ALI OR0012). His planet, Isolde, was destroyed by the Micans centuries ago. In 2015, he came to Earth to prove his supremacy against those who defeated the Micans and restore his lost pride (>EVE XC0186). He killed two White Peace (>ORG ER0584) members, the metahumans Seraph (>MET GL1052) and Bluestreak (>MET GL1864), and escaped from Earth without being apprehended. Attacked Sanctum City on 03/30/2025 (>EVE XC1086), resulting in the death of Beacon member Torch (>INT BE0032). Was captured and contained under EMBER HQ, but broken out by Nebulon (>MET SC4371) on 4/5/2025. Their connection is unclear.

• Capabilities: Power Appropriation (upon killing), Flight, Enhanced Strength, Enhanced Speed, Nuclear Resistance, Magic Nullification (Utolan Ward Tattoos), Fire Generation
• Note: It took all of the Beacons and Falcons to take him down once, and not without casualties. Now that he’s working with Nebulon, we need even more firepower. - Bastion.

EVE VA5816 - Sanctum City Robot Stampede. In 2009, the first major supervillian attack on Sanctum City since the Mican Occupation (>EVE XC0122). Attempting to hit the city while it was recovering, a swarm of over two hundred humanoid combat robots, equipped with advanced kinetic absorption technology, descended upon Sanctum City, threatening civilians and destroying property. The robots were unmarked but were connected to a company called Oxon Hill Robotics (>ORG CO5912), the investigation of which is still ongoing. Casualties totaled 124, including the superhero Peregrine (>MET SC3651).

• Note: 16 years later, we have a clue. Watershed Industries and Palisade Security are working together to develop new models of the old Oxon Hill robots. Maybe they’re just reverse-engineering, but I’m convinced they’re connected. - Bastion
• Note: So Nebulon was just pretending to fight against the robots? That doesn’t add up, I saw him out there. - S.S.