The Zodiac Squadron (A psychic thriller inspired by Lost Dimension and Scarlet Nexus)
In the near future, humanity is beginning to awaken to a new ability. Psychic talent is being unleashed across the globe, and not all of humanity is adapting to this new order yet. After all, humanity is known to fear what it does not understand. Most psychics hide their talents, only using them sparingly.
The Janus Group seeks to amend that, by taking psychics under its wing for protection and research. On paper, to the rest of the world, they're a philanthropic charity group with research arms and only enough security to protect their assets as necessary, but underneath, the psychic abilities of their agents more than makeup for lesser numbers.
They help smooth over rough or messy awakenings of psionic talents, prevent needle-happy governments from trying to weaponize psychics' abilities for wars, and do their own investigations into the why and how of psychic abilities. Research is opt-in and only as medical as strictly necessary, and while not a ton of progress has been made, some solid strides have happened.
Brian Grafburn, an American scientist working in the deserts of an Arizona research lab, was involved in research trying to find common factors in psychics-hormonal makeup, psychological conditions, genetics, anything. When he was last seen, he made a semi-delirious video log about having found 'something', and had chartered a private plane to his closest acquaintance and colleague, Dr. Masato Kirishima of Janus's Japanese branch.
What happened next is unknown to all, aside from the basic facts. The plane landed in Dr. Kirishima's lab, an aquatic base off of Hokkaido's coast, but Brian Grafburn wasn't the only occupant of it. A mercenary group known as Aesir has taken over the lab, taking the scientists hostage, with no demands of ransom, ideology, or anything like that occurring. The lab is home to cutting-edge technology that was meant to interface and enhance psionic abilities, and Aesir is confirmed to have psionics themselves inside of it.
The Janus Group has formed a crack team of psionic specialists, who are ready to infiltrate the lab, defeat Aesir, rescue Grafburn, Kirishima, and the equipment.
You are one of them, a member of the 12-person group called Zodiac. Your codename is Rat.
And you have no idea where you are inside this research lab, or any memories of meeting your teammates or how you got inside.
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Could use a little expanding. The first votes, aside from name and gender stuff, would be deciding Rat's psionic powers. Does this hook you? Are you interested and intrigued?
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