Editing Mutant: Year Zero (section)

===Lore and Metaplot===
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'''*Note* Mutant makes a big deal about keeping its metaplot secret from players. So if you're a PC or planning on being one in a Mutant game, be warned, reading this might [[Rage|upset]] your [[GM]].''' 
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The world of Mutant is something like a post-apocalyptic mishmash of [[Fallout]], Metro, and [[Gamma World]]. Really, pretty much any popular post-apocalyptic franchise can find something of itself somewhere in the world of Mutant. Basically, there was a [[Nurgle|plague]] called, creatively enough, the Red Plague. It was more or less tuberculosis on steroids, and put the Black Plague to shame (damn those colored plagues). This proved to be the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, and pretty soon nukes started flying. Before humanity got turned into irradiated ash, all the rich people made like trees and got the hell out of Dodge, either in underground bunkers (Elysium), space stations (Mimir), or Sealab 2021 (Noatun). These enclaves became the new world superpowers, the Titan Powers, and rather than chill the fuck out after blowing up Earth, they just moved the nuke-fest to their new houses.

The Titan Power Mimir was a big fan of a scientist named Jeremiah Atwood (who may or may not have created the Red Plague) who specialized in biogenetics. They picked up one of his pet projects, Project Eden, and revitalized it to create life that could live on what was left of Earth. Project Eden 2: Electric Boogaloo involved creating a bunch of settlements in relatively safe places across the planet, the Arks, where a handful of scientists would babysit the new mutants and report back to base. They also made them sterile to reduce the number of potential variables in their mutant experiment. The project was deemed a failure as the mutant's DNA had a tendency to go haywire and either kill them or eventually mutate them into [[Chaos Spawn|that-which-shall-not-be-named]]. The leader of the project, Dr. Retzius, decided to scrap the whole thing and start over, but the scientist nannies couldn't bring themselves to murder their new mutant babies. So Dr. Retzius gave them the finger and cut them off from Eden base, stranding them in the Arks where they remain to this day. In the years since, the mutants have grown up, the scientists have grown old to become religious/father figures in the Arks, and Dr. Retzius has gone full mad scientist trying to "perfect" her creations.
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