The People's Collective are sponsored by the government of the People's Republic of China. This team of "super-functionaries" is based in China's Great Wall complex. This massive complex houses the team's command and support technicians as well as facilities for the creation of more Chinese superhumans. The bureaucracy must approve every action the People's Collective take during missions.

When Mao Zedong took control of China during the Cultural Revolution, one of the first things his party did was execute any super heroes or vigilantes in China. Many escaped to the west. But after Mao's death, his party soon realized that they did not have any superpowered protectors of their own to counter those of other countries.
They soon searched for any metahumans in China. Superheroes were dubbed 'super-functionaries' and they were formed from China's greatest powers, although they all weren't necessarily heroes. The first four members of the team were created when the Chinese government captured an extraterrestrial space craft. With this alien science, they reverse engineered technology to make various super soldiers. Their base is actually located inside of the Great Wall of China, sort of as an extension of it.

They are tasked with seeking out, removing, containing and controlling superhumans within China, whether they are Chinese or not.

 

Dr Nobody
Real Name Dao Shei Alignment Lawful Evil
INT 18 STR 11
WIS 17 DEX 13
CHA 15 CON 10
MR 25 HPs 82
Age 51 Training Medicine
Height 5'6 Weight 90 lbs
Disposition Friendly, pleasant
Category 9th level Shaman
Powers Faerie, Dreamspeak and Geomantic magic
Biography
Accomplished physician Dao was born a peasant in the Anhui Province. Dao had dreams of becoming a doctor but lacked the money for medical school. He enlisted in the army instead. When his unit was sent to suppress an uprising in Gyantse, Tibet, Dao killed a young monk. Horrified at what he'd done, he deserted his unit and was shot by his commanding officer. He was saved by the same monks he had attacked and sent through a magical portal, wherein he was filled with the memories and powers of past Shamans. Dao was branded an outlaw and an enemy of the state for many years before he willingly joined the People's Collective. He does not get along well with his team leader, Hammerhand, who sees Dao only as an irreverent deserter.

 

Dust Devil
Real Name Sha Shu Alignment Lawful Evil
INT 16 STR 10
WIS 12 DEX 11
CHA 14 CON 10
MR 20 HPs 60
Age 22 Training Military
Height 5'4 Weight 60 lbs
Disposition Sadistic, obnoxious
Category 5th level Mutant
Powers Deconstitute, Harm
Biography
Sha is a female emissary from the hidden colony of Dust Devils. She is charged with killing evil men, and according to her, her home city is powered by the souls of evil men. her touch causes instant death.

 

Frostbite
Real Name Tao Xuu Alignment Chaotic Evil
INT 9 STR 20
WIS 9 DEX 18
CHA 8 CON 24
MR 15 HPs 84
Age 27 Training Military
Height 5'9 Weight 150 lbs
Disposition Cocky, obnoxious
Category 5th level Arcane Artifact
Powers Metamorph Ice (permanent), Field Ice, Emission Ice Cage
Biography
Frostbite is a figure with ties to Chinese mythology. As a teenager, Tao sold souvenirs at the foot of Mount Tai. After her father's business was shut down by corrupt police, she joined a gang to support her family. She was not a good thief, however, and a botched robbery landed her fellow gang members in jail. When they were released, they sought her death. They chased her to an old temple below Mount Tai. While hiding behind a tree, Tao was swallowed up by the earth, and found himself in a cavern where she found the Celestial Amulet of Yi. The magical amulet begged Tao to take it as her own, as it was dying after four thousand years of disuse. When Tao picked it up, she was transformed into an ice being. After killing her former gang, she wandered for a while before being forced to join the People's Collective.

 

Hammerhand
Real Name Fung Zhefu Alignment Neutral Evil
INT 9 STR 100
WIS 9 DEX 12
CHA 10 CON 30
MR 15 HPs 250
Age 54 Training Military, Special Ops
Height 5'9 Weight 200 lbs
Disposition Arrogant, xenophobic
Category 9th level Augmented
Powers Enhanced Strength, Enhanced Molecular Structure, Enhanced Stamina
Biography
Fung was formerly a member of an elite Chinese spec ops unit trained for encounters with aliens. 15 years ago, his unit was sent to investigate a UFO that crashed in Qinghai province. The aliens wiped out his unit with a flesh-melting pathogen weapon. Fung barely survived by injecting himself with a counter-agent that slowed the degeneration. Chinese scientists subjected him to special treatments which saved his life, but also endowed him with superhuman strength and caused his body to grow more muscular. He was then recruited into China's new metahuman division. Hammerhand is the field leader of the People's Collective and while he commands them, he must still run all command decisions in the field by the Central Committee. As a fanatical soldier, he despises Dr Nobody for his irreverent attitude and for deserting the army. Fung Zhifu habitually quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

 

Hardware
Real Name Dmitri Yukov Alignment Neutral Evil
INT 25 STR 9/25 (suit)
WIS 20 DEX 12/20 (suit)
CHA 8 CON 10
MR 10 HPs 38/550 (suit)
Age 57 Training See below
Height 3'9/4'5 (suit) Weight 80lbs/300lbs
Disposition Curious, obsessed with understanding new technology
Category 7th level Exo Pilot
Powers Flight (300kph, 2km ceiling), energy emission from both shoulders (can be adjusted from D6 to 8D6, 50 metres), sensors suite, armour.
Biography
Fifteen years ago, a UFO crashed in China's Qinghai province. The Chinese reverse-engineered the craft and used the technology to build the Hardware, the most advanced exo suit in the world. Dmitri is both the pilot who operates it and was also the lead scientist in the team that built the suit. Dmitri has an extraordinary genius level of intellect, an expert and innovator in a wide range of scientific and technological fields, including computer science, robotics, and spacecraft design. He possesses PhDs in mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering. Dmitri has access to a variety of technologies that he has designed. He operates from Anshan Air Base but makes his home in Shanghai.

 

Javelin
Real Name Wu Nei Alignment Neutral Evil
INT 18 STR 9
WIS 12 DEX 20
CHA 8 CON 20
MR 50 HPs 70
Age 41 Training Science
Height 6'1 Weight 150lbs
Disposition Reserved, quiet
Category 5th level Mutant
Powers Enhanced Agility, Enhanced Leap, Enhanced Movement, Infuse Weapon Explosive
Biography
Wu Nei was a theoretical physicist, working on a particle accelerator when she was briefly exposed to a theoretical "god particle". Exposure to this particle mutated her system by triggering her metagene. She became larger, faster and deadly accurate with thrown objects which she can cause to detonate. Her favourite weapons to toss are javelins.

 

Mammoth
Real Name Ying Yang Alignment Chaotic Evil
INT 8 STR 30
WIS 8 DEX 17
CHA 7 CON 30
MR 15 HPs 100
Age 301 Training Military
Height 5'8 Weight 300 lbs
Disposition Arrogant but stupid
Category 5th level Mutant
Powers Enlarge, Enhanced Regeneration Immortal
Biography
Ying was born in poverty in Fujian province over 300 years ago. He was a soldier in service to Emperor Yongzheng in 1723, and took part in the destruction of the Shaolin Temple. One of the temple's kung fu grandmasters, Bak Mei, defected to the Emperor and helped destroy the second temple. Ying was impressed with Bak Mei's skill and wanted to learn kung fu himself, but Bak Mei laughed at him and thought him unpromising. He deserted the army and headed to the school of the Seven Scribes of the Cloudy Satchel, seven taoist sorcerers in the mountains near Song Shan. Ying begged to become a pupil and fed the sorcerers all manner of excuses and lies, but the sorcerers saw through him and placed a curse on him as punishment for his evil actions. They activated his meta gene, placed in his mind a lust for violence, and sent him back to slaughter Bak Mei and the soldiers who had destroyed the Shaolin temples. Centuries later, he was incorporated into the People's Collective and fabricated his origin, claiming that he received his powers from an old mystic whom he saved from a beating.

 

Starshine
Real Name Ling Lao Alignment Chaotic Evil
INT 12 STR 12
WIS 11 DEX 12
CHA 5 CON 15
MR 20 HPs 85
Age 51 Training Military
Height 5'5 Weight 90 lbs
Disposition Paranoid, sadistic
Category 7th level Mutant
Powers Metamorph Radiation, Emission Solar Cage, Emission Solar
Biography
Ling used her solar powers to carry out the Cultural Revolution. Her body is highly radioactive, so she is forced to wear a special suit of containment armour reverse engineered from UFO technology. She has since become bitter and disillusioned as China abandons Mao Zedong's vision and embraces market economics. She lives like a hermit in an isolated stretch of the Gobi Desert due to the possible threat of a nuclear meltdown.

 

Typhoon
Real Name Zou Zang Alignment Chaotic Good
INT 13 STR 11
WIS 15 DEX 14
CHA 13 CON 13
MR 20 HPs 73
Age 38 Training Teacher
Height 5'7 Weight 80 lbs
Disposition Friendly, courteous
Category 5th level Water Elemental (permanent)
Powers As per elemental
Biography
Zou is a history teacher at Beijing No. 8 Middle School who, on a tour of the Beijing Museum, accidentally recited aloud a sanskrit "trigger phrase" from an ancient Buddhist artifact: "All hail the jewel in the lotus". Afterwards, he transformed into a water elemental. He is the most loved of the Great Ten, especially in his hometown of Beijing.

 

 

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