The Floor 13 Project (Justice Supergroup)/Past Activity

Overview

While an official history of the Floor 13 Project’s existence has yet to be written, investigations have resulted in the compilation of a number of significant events confirmed or deduced to involve its membership.

Timeline

October 27th, 2005

• Arachnos stages an aerial assault on Zigursky Penitentiary in Paragon City, Rhode Island, with the intent of freeing super-powered prisoners to serve as a part of Lord Recluse's "Operation: Destiny" campaign. The three founding members of the Floor 13 Project, Forsaken Red, the Warpist, and Tinsel Black are among those freed and taken to the Rogue Isles.

November 2005 to May 2006

• Forsaken Red initiates a collaboration with the Warpist and Tinsel Black, likely using a primitive version of F13's current philosophies combined with knowledge gained during his time as a member of the Nemesis Army to gain their trust (though he may not have informed them of his actual prior membership at this time,) and the three begin to take measures to establish a power base.
• Forsaken Red reestablishes contact with Panopticon and begins creating a technological surveillance network in the Rogue Isles. Tinsel Black reestablishes Meridian Antiques in St. Martial in The Flop district. The Warpist observes psychic communications and attempts to shield the three’s activities from Arachnos' psychic network.
• The three gradually improve their powers and refine their methods of gathering information and become capable of hitting fewer high-value targets over many low-value targets to support their operations.

June 2006 to October 2006

• The three villains discover that Wolf Distribution, a shipping and logistics corporation based in Rethra, Russia is actually a massive front for the organized crime operations of Platoon, a group of super-powered Red Army defectors. The three decide that subsuming Wolf would be an excellent way of increasing their power base, but lacking the manpower to defeat the Platoon themselves, they lure the powerful, anarchistic Stonethrowers villain group to the Wolf Distribution headquarters with the promise of monetary compensation for their aid. Correctly predicting that the Stonethrowers would turn on them once the Platoon was defeated, Tinsel Black casts a prepared spell of banishment and removes the surviving members from the city and prevents their return.
• At this time, the Rogue Isles villains believe that the only surviving members of the Platoon after the raid are Excelvolt and the Golden Kosmik. In reality, the villain Terminus has also survived, but has escaped while leaves some evidence to suggest otherwise.
• The Golden Kosmik dies from its wounds soon after the battle, but lives long enough free from Terminus' mind control to give the remaining villains a warning about the extraterrestrial threat known today as The Battalion. The Floor 13 Project is more formally established afterwards in light of the Golden Kosmik's warning.
• As a result of their victory, F13 not only begins the takeover of Wolf Distribution and organized crime in Rethra, but also gains access to Terminus' laboratory and projects, as well as the Platoon's Soviet era orbital launch platform, Damocles, which they retrofit to increase Panopticon's surveillance capabilities. Excelvolt and, presumably, other Wolf Distribution security members join the Floor 13 Project.
• Projects 10, 11, 12, 13, Bell, Good Neighbors, Ranger, Ant Farm, and Morpheus begin during this time period, in planning if in no other form.

November 2006 to April 2007

• Crey Industries attempts to acquire Wolf Distribution during this time period. Shortly afterwards, financial records indicate that this event is what prompts F13 to begin preparations to liquidate and/or redistribute the corporation’s assets in the case of an emergency, leading investigators to believe that some members of Crey Industries, in addition to any legal methods of acquisition, attempted a violent takeover of Wolf in the same way that F13 performed on the Platoon almost a year before.
• Excelvolt establishes The Nightingale in Cap au Diable's Devil's Coattails district. He establishes a smuggling and information network as well as his chessboxing ring soon thereafter.
• Projects 11, Bell, Good Neighbors, and Ranger are completed, and Projects Edge and Rocky Road begin during this time period.

May 2007 to June 2007

• The Russian ethnic population in Cap au Diable grows slowly as immigrants arrive from the town of Perunika, Excelvolt's place of birth.
• Projects Ant Farm and Rocky Road are completed, and Projects Orchestra, Goldenrod, Black Poppy, Horizon Blue, Ultra Red and Ultra Black begin during this time period. Ant Farm is now known to be Forsaken Red's "Unternet", a computer network linked together by technomagical means, accessible through computer devices by several different methods, and controlled under the watch of Panopticon and the rest of F13.

July 2007 to October 2007

• Damocles is destroyed at the onset of the Second Rikti War.
• F13 assists Vanguard by providing intelligence gathered by its members on Rikti troop movements. Forsaken Red fights for Vanguard personally, accompanying luminaries such as Felicity Bane and Simone Chandler to push back the alien menace.
• Forsaken Red's past connections to the Nemesis Army become public knowledge during this time period, and people question his motivations for assisting Vanguard and not informing the world of Nemesis' involvement with the First Rikti War.

December 2007

• INTERPOL and the hero Ahnek-Rah Zul accost Tinsel Black, the Warpist, and what is believed to be a member of the Ouroboros organization in Cairo, Egypt at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. F13 and the Ouroboros acolyte escape after a brief skirmish.

January 2008

• January 7th: Didier Delacroix, a United Nation Security Council member representing France, reveals the results of an investigation that places blame on Forsaken Red for transferring money from the accounts of private citizens in his country and others.
• January 15th: Delacroix speaks at a General Assembly and threatens economic sanctions against the Rogue Isles for a lack of cooperation. Delacroix's message begins to turn towards personal insults against Forsaken Red, and he calls for the public to ignore the villain's deeds during the Rikti War. Forsaken Red retaliates at once by hacking into the meeting to taunt the delegate, threatening him with blackmail in public, and professes innocence in regards to the scheme.

February 2008

• Prompted by the events of the previous month, Hero Corps villain profiler Mary Moses appears on news broadcasts, radio programs and talk shows throughout the month attempting to explain the connection between Forsaken Red's current and past behaviors and his personal history.
• As the month draws to a close, Moses appears one last time on KPOW News in Paragon City. The broadcast cuts out briefly, then returns to a highly disheveled studio set and a missing villain profiler. Forsaken Red later releases documentation showing that the person named Mary Moses never existed, but gives no indication as to her true identity, and explains that his motivation for the kidnapping lay in Moses' expertise: since she appeared to know him so well, he decided that she should work as his public relations agent.
• Project Static begins.

March 2008 to June 2008

• March 15th: A Wolf Distribution cargo vessel is discovered post-assault off the coast of the Canary Islands en route to Boston from Kaliningrad. No emergency beacon was sent and no survivors are found.
• June 6th: Didier Delacroix is slain during an attempted hijacking of his armored limousine convoy by Forsaken Red, who appears to meet resistance from the Malta Organization during the operation. It is not immediately known whether or not Forsaken Red is actually responsible for killing Delacroix.
• June 9th: The UN Security Council responds to Delacroix's death by releasing information connecting several branches of Wolf Distribution and the international electronic bank thefts that carry the markings of Forsaken Red's work. The Security Council also releases findings from a French DGSE covert investigation revealing that the cargo ship found destroyed on March 15th appeared to be trying to salvage the wreckage of Damocles from the ocean floor. The Security Council proposes that Forsaken Red murdered Delacroix in revenge for discovering his association with Damocles and demands that Russian authorities begin investigating Forsaken Red's link with Wolf Distribution.
• June 10th: The first version of F13's public blog appears. In its first post, whose author writes under the pseudonym "Sway", the blog explains that Forsaken Red's motivation for the hijacking was not, in fact, to murder Delacroix, but to remove him from Malta's custody. Sway states that murder in response to mere accusations is petty, and also posts photographic evidence that appears to show that one of Delacroix’s Malta guards, defeated by Forsasken Red, is actually a Nemesis automaton. Forensic evidence will later show that Delacroix was slain by this automaton.

October 2008

• Any investigation into Wolf Distribution is brought to a halt as the undead appear worldwide in great numbers.
• October 21st (approx.): In the Rogue Isles, the Stonethrowers leader Memento Mori reappears and holds many living and otherwise on Mercy Island in his thrall, threatening to take over the entire country unless Arachnos brings Forsaken Red to him, dead or alive.
• In the process of making his threats, Memento Mori reaffirms the UN Security Council's proposed connection between Forsaken Red and Wolf Distribution, as well as the events leading to the [[The Platoon|Platoon]'s demise. Memento Mori represents the first party to confirm that Forsaken Red may be working with others in a more organized fashion than simple collaboration.
• October 28th: Intelligence suggests that the Arachnos lieutenant Ghost Widow leverages this information to convince Tinsel Black to find a way to break Memento Mori's hold over Mercy and defeat the supervillain. As the djinn rounds up the researchers she thinks appropriate for the task, she and other members of F13 travel to Paragon City and attempt to capture Ampelio Honeycutt, a biologist and brother of SEAM (Subterranean Emergency Access Metro) security member Honeythrasher, resulting in a major clash between F13 and SEAM.
• Other reports at this time show Forsaken Red in conflict with Malta, Nemesis, and Arachnos in locations around the Rogue Isles as he continues to try and unravel the mystery behind Delacroix's assassination.

November 2008

• November 9th: Russian military forces raid the Svetovid Building, Wolf Distribution's Rethra headquarters, seizing any documentation they can find on the corporation's activities, but encounter no armed resistance among the relative skeleton crew left employed at the building since workers began to leave after learning of the possible connection to foreign villainy.
• The military's most startling find is that of the charred remains of the corporation's CEO and board of directions seated in the executive meeting room; more startling is the fact that each one of them appears to have been some sort of robotic automaton, leaving doubts in the minds of investigators as to whether any of Wolf Distribution's investors or stockholders operate under their own will or are even real.

December 2008

• December 1st: United States Security Council member James Wesker accuses the Russian government of concealing dangerous information regarding the Platoon, the group's heavy involvement in the Russian mafia, and its possession of weapons of mass destruction, all in the name of trying to save face. Wesker also conflates the activities of Forsaken Red and Agent Charlie to make the Rogue Isles appear weak and inept at controlling individuals who could threaten entire nations, including the Rogue Isles themselves.
• This accusation seems to spark activity in the upper echelons of Arachnos, but despite the Arbiter Corps' demands towards Forsaken Red to stand down, the villain defies their orders.
• Forsaken Red retreats to Floor 13 at this time to reconnoiter and declare vengeance against any enemy force that chooses to attack F13
• December 2nd: A major assault occurs against F13 at the Svetovid Building with appearances by Malta and the Nemesis Army, presumably to take F13’s resources for themselves. The two groups rout the Russian military forces recently placed in Rethra.
• The villain Terminus reappears at this time, apparently using the assault as a distraction to breach Floor 13’s security. He later distributes F13 project and operations data to public sources; included is information related to the projects mentioned thus far, details about Floor 13’s true nature, and discussion logs suggesting that F13’s membership extends beyond those villains who publicly acknowledge it.