New Beverly Hills

Our Sharp dressed Protagonist finds himself at the center of what is very nearly the literal center of a rather unique amalgamated universe or more Specifically, Amalgamated parallel Earth reality 36G-23-40. [Did Any of You Get That Joke? XD] The Earth of this reality is a world where there are roughly 10 Women (Formerly 33) to every Man and Women hold most if not all of the important positions (Not Those Kind of Positions You Pervert) in Politics, Medicine, Education, and The Legal System. And another thing, Caucasians are the minority here with Those of Asian, African, and Hispanic Decent making up The Majority. Also African-Americans make up nearly 90% of the Rich Upper One Percent.

Aaron's Earth and it's history as you might of already guessed while similar in some ways is very different from any other that has ever been: The skies are orange with swirling red and pink clouds, green sunlight, and red rain.

This Earth is a fully-established level 5 world... The third planet in a yellow star system Though the unusual filtering spectrum of the atmosphere makes the sunlight green as it passes through it... Largely nickel-based with a molten core and a solid crust with a generous amount of surface moisture and an incredible abundance of elements not even found on the periodic table in other realities.

There are 7 Continents, 195 Countries, and 2 Million Corporately-Owned Mega Cities containing over 7 billion People.

In the night sky, It is possible to see many alien worlds and even parallel earths from other realities. There can be seen three Galaxies which are collectively known as The Tri-Galaxies but individually they are called Pegasus, Andromeda, and An-Nur. Along with The Tri-Galaxies there are a total of 18 planets that can be seen under normal conditions which include Chandra, Counter Earth, Skaro, Rann, Thanagar, Quasar, Am-Zakk, and Andreenos.

Now these planets and Galaxies are not actually in the space around the Earth but are visible and accessible by a very thin trans-dimensional membrane from their location in this and other universes which acts like a window for viewing and a doorway for travel.

Aaron lives at 124 East Elm Street (Remember That Address For Later) in Dorsett, A Predominantly white minority Rich gated community in upper New Beverly Hills which is part of The Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego Metroplex that Merged in 2011 after the devastating Megaquake of 2010 in the center of what used to be L.A.

The year is 2174 A.D. soon to be 2175 and New Beverly Hills like most of this unusual Earth is an amalgam which Incorporates elements of Gotham, Central City, Metropolis, and Jump City from several universes. It is a place where The Past and Future exist side-by-side in a tenuous temporal truce to create an utterly bizarre present where over 40,000 time streams are running parallel but at different speeds and the modern, contemporary world exists along side bits and pieces of Feudal Japan, Ancient China, Medieval Europe, Dark Age Rome, and The Golden Age of Piracy. It is truly a bizarre place but to the inhabitants of this fucked up reality it is home and no more unusual to them than having 7 I-I-I mean 5 fingers on each hand is to you.

The time zones of this world are no laughing matter. Jet Lag My Ass. Leave one day and arrive three weeks before yesterday or take a 10 hour flight and arrive the same second you left... It's fucked up! Am I right?

From Aaron's little slice of paradise, A number of places normally scattered all over the multiverse can be found in walking distance or not far by car:

Titan's Tower (A high-tech T-Shaped steel and glass structure located just off what was once San Francisco Bay) is just 3 miles due east of Aaron's home, 40 miles due south is The Xavier School For Higher Learning, a special institute founded and led by Professor Charles Xavier to train young mutants in controlling their powers and to help foster a friendly human-mutant relationship, and within a 100 mile radius of the large expansive estate Aaron has called home for close to the last 13 years now:

Alchemax: Also known as Alchemax International, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered at Alchemax Tower and one of the most powerful corporations in the world which controlled the entire United States of America in year 1999 A.D. to 2099 A.D. It created products for virtually every consumer need, had entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even manufactured an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation. Alchemax had divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products ranged from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel. Alchemax owned several private police **** services, including The Public Eye and Eco Central. At some point in the past, The Alien later known as Avatarr took control of the corporation's Board of Directors, becoming its Chief Executive Officer. Pulling the corporation's strings from behind the scenes, Avatarr had Anderthorp Henton, Alchemax's Director General, publicly acting as the C.E.O. Alchemax was organized in several departments and subsidiary corporations, each controlled by a member of the Executive Board.

Today Alchemax provides chemical, plastic, and agricultural products and services to consumer markets that include food, transportation, health and medicine, personal care. The Current President and CEO of Alchemax is industrialist Liz Allan.

G.A.T.E.: Also known as Genetic and Technological Engineering is a privately funded think tank organized by a group of brilliant scientists whose sole dedication is to acquire and develop power through technological means. Their goal is to use this power to overthrow the governments of the world. They supply arms and technology to radicals and subversive organizations all over the world in order to foster a violent technological revolution of society while making a profit. Based from Science Island, their legal operations include the Targo Corporation, International Data Integration and Control (IDIC), Cadenza Industries, Koenig and Strey, Omnitech and Pacific Vista Laboratories. The leader of the organization has changed many times over the years, but are always given the title Scientist Supreme. Throughout the years, there have been several splinter groups which broke away due to diverging agendas. G.A.T.E. is essentially this reality's version of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.).

Omen Enterprises: A vast multinational corporation and international partnership of companies run by Project Rising Spirit that has banded together with the aim of opposing Toyo Harada and The Harbinger Foundation. To protect it's interests and to fight rogue Harbingers (psionically-powered individuals or psiots), Omen Enterprises operates it's own private paramilitary rapid response combat strike team known as The H.A.R.D. Corps, Short for Harbinger Active Resistance Division. The H.A.R.D. Corps branch of Omen employs specially-trained exclusively female operatives enhanced by means of psybernetic wetware neural implants that give H.A.R.D. Corps members the ability to imitate a variety of psionic abilities and maintains installations worldwide in its struggle to keep the Harbinger Foundation in check.

S.T.A.R. Labs: The Science and Technology Advanced Research Laboratories, usually shortened to S.T.A.R. Labs, is a research organization founded by a scientist named Garrison Slate, who wanted a nationwide chain of research laboratories unconnected to the government or any business interests. He succeeded not only on a national scale, but an international one as well: S.T.A.R. Labs maintains facilities in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan as well as in The United States, with the total number of facilities numbering between twenty and thirty at last recorded count.

Stark International (Formerly Stark Industries): (NYSE: SIA, NASDAQ: STRK) is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies corporation with worldwide interests. The company's current President and Chief Executive Officer is Tanya Stark, direct descendant of the founder Isaac Stark Sr.

The Baxter Building: is a 35-story building located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue just a few blocks from The United Nations Headquarters. It is home to a number of remarkable individuals and organizations like The Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four’s master computer controls all locks involving the upper floors. Such locks can be manually operated or overridden by either the master control or the computer system. The computer system maintains complete visual, audio, biophysical, and electronic surveillance on every section of the building. The building is equipped with devices that could disrupt the functioning of a single targeted device or stop the functioning of all electrical machinery within the Baxter Building.

The Daily Planet: One of three newspapers to relocate from their home cities to downtown New Beverly Hills. There's a newsfeed called "Daily Planets" which discusses all the important political, environmental, humanitarian, and racial issues.

Stark Tower: The Stark Tower is a 67-story skyscraper designed by Tanya Stark with the intention to have it serve as a gleaming beacon of modern architecture. All but the upper floor are dedicated to retail shops, offices and luxury apartments. The building is topped off with a lavish penthouse and roof garden. The building was constructed at the intersection of 58th and Broadway, in the vicinity of Columbus Circle, and approximately 10 blocks north of The Fantastic Four's Baxter Building. The Stark Tower is part of the Stark Tower Complex, built as a world-class financial and business facility to complement Midtown Beverly's business district. The Stark Tower was completed after four years of excavation and construction. Though the tower itself cost $600 million to build, the land on which it stands was suspiciously cheap considering its prime location. Shortly after the building's inauguration, and following the formation of The New Avengers, Stark donated the top three floors to serve as the team's base of operations, which she originally intended to use as her personal home. The Stark Tower's status as the New Avengers' headquarters resulted in the building being colloquially known as The "Avenger's Tower." Unfortunately, this new purpose also inhibited conventional occupancy; though certain specialty enterprises found the building's unique infrastructure to be invaluable.

Oscorp: (NYSE: OZ) is an American multinational corporation Formerly known as Osborn Industries, owned and operated by it's President and billionaire industrialist CEO Norman Osborn and headquartered in Oscorp Tower. Norman studied chemistry and electrical engineering in college. He also took a number of courses in business administration. Norman Osborn's teacher Professor Mendel Stromm formed the business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Osborn Chemical, or Oscorp.

The Daily Bugle: The second of three competing newspapers in New Beverly Hills and Where Mary Jane Watson works as a Photographer and Journalist in between Modeling and a few more scandalous jobs to make ends meet.

H.I.V.E. Academy: ("Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination") is a secret training school for young budding supervillains-in-training where they learned all the basics of becoming professional villains.

The Academy is owned by The Brotherhood of Evil (The Brain and his known associates Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, General Immortus, Giganta, Cheetah, Medusa, Roulette, Inque, Princess Neila, Tala, Tapestry, Pink X, Mad Maud, Joy Stick, and Daughter Blood.) and headed by The H.I.V.E. Headmistress Madame Rouge, a woman who is duplicitous, cunning and twisted in every sense of the word. Under her expert tutelage and guidance as the administrative authority of H.I.V.E., The Academy serves as a villain-in-training institution that provides "well organized, highly trained, and combat equipped" H.I.V.E. agents (graduates) for hire.

Despite being a school for villains, the Academy possesses the general atmosphere of a public school and even holds yearly events, such as proms. The school and its products are designed around the idea and format of a bee hive, thus living up to the organization's name.

One of its most notable and loyal students is Jinx, who leads The H.I.V.E. Five, carrying on the H.I.V.E. legacy after her Graduation.

The New Gotham Gazette: The third competing metropolitan newspaper to relocate to New Beverly Hills. Originally based out of New Gotham City with nation-wide syndication The New Gotham Gazette continually loses to the Daily Planet.

Halo Enterprises: The Halo Corporation was founded by Jacob Marlowe. In 1990, With the help of Void and a silent business partner, Miles Tsabo, Jacob created the Halo Corporation and became a multi-billionaire within 2 years. For Marlowe The Halo Corporation was first and foremost a way to finance The WildC.A.T.s, a group of superhumans (most of them descendants of Kherubim like himself) who battle the Kherubim's enemy, The Daemonites.

LexCorp: (legally known as Lexcorp Incorporated) is a conglomerate headquartered in LexCorp Tower. Originally founded as an aerospace engineering firm, LexCorp has become one of the world's largest, most diversified multinational corporations. Under the astute - some would say, ruthless - management of its founder, Lex Luthor, LexCorp grew and prospered, absorbing scores of smaller businesses. While still in its original offices on the top floor of New Beverly Hills famed Daily Planet building, LexCorp made its first acquisitions of two then-struggling airlines, Inter-Continental Airlines and Atlantic Coast Air Systems (since renamed LexAir). As LexCorp subsidiaries, the airlines began to prosper. And when rising profits were threatened by fuel shortages, LexCorp bought out Southwestern Petroleum, now known as LexOil.

Stark-Fujikawa: A Mega-Corporation founded in 2099 A.D. as Fujikawa Heavy Industries but eventually purchased and retooled by Lisette Stark to compete with her Younger Sister Tanya Stark.

The X-Corporation Headquarters: Shortly after revealing to the world that he was a Mutant, Professor Charles Xavier organized The X-Corporation as a nonprofit organization to investigate Mutant's Rights Violations and act as an international extension of The X-Men. With Cerebra connections to monitor Mutant activity, X-Corp offices were quickly opened in many major cities around the world including Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Mumbai, Nairobi, Salem Center, Paris, and Singapore.

And within walking distance of down town is the apartment of Mary Jane Watson and The small law practice of Melanie Murdock aka this reality's Daredevil and Tiffany Nelson aka this reality's Franklin "Foggy" Nelson.