Transhumans appear and replace humanity
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| Neanderthals leave Africa Positive |
Great Hero Mammoth Bain flies his tribe to Europe Positive |
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| Rise of Cro-Magnon Supervillains Negative |
Last of the transcended velociraptors grafts superpowers onto Cro-Magnon Negative |
How do the first Cro-Magnon respond to getting superpowers? Tribe of the North Bank, right after gaining powers Conquest! |
North Bank Tribe Eliminates last known Neanderthal village Negative |
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| Orangular's destruction of North Bank Tribe Positive |
Betrayal of Prince Jain at the battle of Cullen Caverns Negative |
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| Reign of the Dwarves of Sumatra Negative |
Master Smith Karipelli replicates Orangutan Armor Negative |
Subterranean race expresses North Bank bloodline and rebels Positive |
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| Non-super Greek resistance to invading Persian supers Positive |
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| Superpowered Conquistadors battle the Aztec Empire Positive |
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| Superpowered Victorian explorers push into Africa with limited success Positive |
The Dwarf Lords Re-emerge! Negative |
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| Stalin persecutes supers with aid of Russian Orthodox Church Negative |
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| US - Soviet cold war Negative |
Secret US social club for supers attempts to promote breeding of supers Positive |
What are supers? Camp Darwin They appear to be a slowly increasing number of things that attach to people, and are not hereditary |
What are super/non-super interactions like? Small town in Nebraska, near secret breeding club Super-powered Major Hansen gets punched out by non-super Joe Norris in a bar, over a girl |
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| Modern Day Positive |
Trump Expedition recovers Orangular's body from caves of Sumatra Negative |
Sequencing of super community leads to rediscovery of North Bank bloodline Positive |
First super President Madam Whitman Positive |
Group of supers team up stealing Orangular's armor from Trump Tower Positive |
How will we use this power we have gained? Potomac Avengers looking over recovered Orangular Armor Whitman Administration establishes bounties and S-Prize for heroic deeds |
Reappearance of Atlantis Negative |
| Increasing magic levels push humanity towards transcendence Negative |
Recruitment of mages leads to Mage War Negative |
A Resurrected Orangular ends the mage wars and ushers in a period of peace Positive |
Human and super peace conference a success - supers agree to fill in gaps in human abilities rather than replacing humans Positive |
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| Revolution in understanding xenology and the root of superpowers Positive |
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| Humanity transcends Positive |
It was felt that magic should feel different than technology, particularly in as far as people with super powers were concerned.
Super-tech can't be duplicated per se, but rather a super inventor type could either craft one suit of full power gear, or equip a large number of agents with less powerful gear. He could not, however, set up a factory or production line that then churned out unlimited quantities of anything substantially more powerful than whatever his current age's tech was.
Aliens are possible, however they cannot be in touch with the rest of their civilization, nor bring that civilization in touch with human civilization (that's part of what the palette entry refers to). The velociraptor scientist is an example - there's no exposure to the previous civilization, just a single individual working alone. Alien (or previous civilization) ruins are okay, and indeed strongly hinted at in the penultimate period.
The secret history palette entry was an attempt to say that things can show up that have been around for a while without having any noticeable influence on the course of history. Even now, the dwarf lords of Sumatra may be planning to enslave the rest of the planet!