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Author's Notes: Okay, I'm doing a re-write of Dicker Files because, needless to say, the entries are out of date when you take into account what's happened in my fics. Not only that, when "The Dicker Files" were first written, I didn't realize the epic abomination this little fic-verse became. I also feel that in re-writing this series, it will give those who have not read the stories some info without forcing them to read everything all at once (but I would suggest that any interested parties might want to read them...or at least read "Aeon – A Prelude to Interesting Times"). This version of DF will include information from "Aeon" on up to "War of Angels".

Introduction:

A month after the incident involving Buddy Pine's attack on Metroville, an incident occurred that resulted in supers manifesting powers worldwide. These new supers were dubbed "novas" by the media. In the eight years since the Galatea incident, several events have happened that could have dire ramifications on the world if not handled correctly.

The following entries are key people and organizations that the NSA believes are major players in the impending conflict.

Novas:

Since the Galatea incident of 1998, the world has seen an explosion in the population of Homo sapiens novus, or novas. What many don't realize is that there were novas before Galatea. With few exceptions, most of the heroes that were active before the incident were novas. It wasn't until after the Galatea incident that some of the 'older' supers were willing to let themselves be examined and their physiologies compared to the novas that had begun to surface around the world.

It was concluded by Dr. Henri Mazarin and Dr. Farah Rashoud that the DNA sequences between the pre-existing supers and those newly erupted novas were very similar. However this knowledge is not known to the general public. What most don't realize is that Galatea was the second incident and that there was an event that happened much earlier.

In 1922, British Scientist Sir William Hammersmith demonstrated what he called a Telluric Engine, a device that he claimed would revolutionize the world...or so he claimed. Tragically, the device exploded, killing the professor and releasing a wave of "zero point energy" that dissipated around the world. The effects were mostly harmless, but some of the world's first superhumans appeared shortly after the incident, but not in as great a number as the Galatea novas.

After the incident, Hammersmith's notes were seized by the British Government and then later turned over to the Aeon Society.

The Aeon Society:

Originally formed in 1923 as Aeon Society for Gentlemen. Founded by survivors who were at ground zero during the Hammersmith explosion, this organization was a loose organization of adventurers who operated world-wide, it could be argued that they were the first group of superheroes, although they were also responsible for many humanitarian acts as well as facing off would-be dictators and crazed madmen. They operated closely with the League of Nations, sometimes offering their direct support or money to humanitarian causes.

The members of this group included founders Maxwell Mercer, Michael Daemon Donighal (Dr. Primoris), and others such as Whitley Styles (Gray Ghost), Anabelle Lee Newfield (Crackshot), "Safari Jack" Tallon, and Benjamin Franklin Dixon.

Shortly before World War II, the society was dealt a severe blow when they were betrayed by Newfield, who died shortly afterwards. It is not known what she had done, though there has been speculation that she was the one who provided the German government with Hammersmith's notes. Thankfully, German scientists were still trying to construct a prototype when the Allied forces defeated Germany. Their work was confiscated or destroyed by the Society who promptly became more secretive about their operations and vanished from the public eye. It was during this time that Dr. Primoris left the group.

For the next few decades, the society remained hidden from public view, though they did continue do do humanitarian work, providing funding to various organizations like the Red Cross and the World Health Organization. It wasn't until after Galatea, that the organization stepped forward and initiated dialog with the United Nations, offering to seek out and study novas. Shortly after that, The United Nations and the Aeon society announced the creation of Project Utopia, a multipurpose private foundation whose goals were to study the nova phenomenon and utilize novas' abilities to better the quality of life on Earth for all its inhabitants.

Shortly after the formation of Project Utopia, Aeon then created the Triton Foundation, a collective of several dozen smaller pharmaceutical and biological research firms. It is not known to the general public that Aeon is the force behind Triton, which is odd since the foundation has managed to find cures to most forms of cancer and developed an AIDS vaccine.

Project Utopia:

The Project was publicly announced on August 13, 1998, though it had existed for a few months prior. Initially controlled by Margaret Mercer, directorship was transferred to Justin J. Laragione when Utopia went public. Many prominent novas at the time signed up with Utopia immediately, including Antaeus, Steve Debow, Trudy Vandermann, Lightning and Cestus Pax.

On December 8 the same year, the Triton Foundation donated US $10 million to to help fund Mazarin and Rashoud's future research on novas, following the publication of their seminal paper, Nova Powers and Physiology: Initial Findings and Observations. The first Rashoud facility opened in New York on January 8, 1999. Despite initial fears from some that the facilities are little more than Utopia recruitment offices, the first is successful and many more are built all over the world.

Team Tomorrow were revealed to the world on January 1, 1999 amid a media frenzy, instantly raising Utopia's public profile; their first operation three days later, capturing the leaders of Islamic Dawn in Iran, is a great success.

In the months following the Moscow Crash, Utopian novas assisted with relief efforts worldwide and eventually come up with a plan to alleviate the financial crisis. Despite this and its work to prevent problems associated with the Millennium bug, the Project starts to attract criticism, with skeptics worrying about its independence, seeming power over the UN and almost perfect public approval rating. Despite this, Utopia's popularity only rises in the wake of Operation Clean Sweep, a global environmental clean-up in which the Ozone layer is repaired and atmospheric CFCs eliminated.

The following is a private memo addressed to NSA Director Richard Dicker:

To: NSA Director Richard Dicker

From: "Evil Buddy 2.0"

Subject: Okay, now I'm officially scared.

Hey, old man. I know you don't think too highly of me and, to be honest, I do occasionally pray that you will eventually die and no longer be around to annoy me, but this is serious. After my talk with Bob Parr, I had a minor confrontation with representatives from Project Utopia. Needless to say, it didn't go well...for them, and yes, it is true, they did have a surveillance satellite in geo-sync orbit.

But that's old news and not what I'm here for. Here is an attached file containing a couple interesting memos you might be interested in. There's a shitload of other info I've gathered that, if something does happen to me, is going to fall into your hands and the hands of your counterparts of The Directive (yes, I know about that too and believe me, I wish I didn't, but compared to what I've seen...you guys are saints compared to Utopia).

UTOPIA STAFF MEMORANDUM

To: All field operatives, clinic staff, and recruitment team captains

From: Michael Hodge, New Personnel Processing Director

Re: Procedural Update

Effective Immediately, all recruitment staff are to cease "snatch and grab" enrollment methods. While this may be appropriate to "organizations" like the Teragen, it certainly out of place with the aims of our organization. Project Utopia takes a nurturing stance on nova development. Although I am not a nova myself, I have seen many of you brought into the organization, and encourage you to remember the trauma of your own first eruptions.

All I'm asking is that team leaders shows a little sympathy. If we adopt the methods of the other groups, we make ourselves no better than they.

Clinic staff, if you have reason to suspect that a newly discovered nova has been treated roughly or unfairly by his recruiter, please notify me immediately.

RE: UTOPIA STAFF MEMORANDUM

To: Michael Hodge, New Personnel Processing Director

From: Bruce McInerny

Re: Procedural Update

Look, I already told you that McKinney kid refused to calm down once he'd already agreed and his parents had signed the release. This job's already hard enough without some pencil-pushing, third-rate bureaucrat trying to tie my hands even more because he's got nothing better to do on Project Utopia time.

The more you complicate this, the more difficult it becomes, and the easier it is for these new novas to fall in with other, potentially dangerous, organizations.

Screw you, Hodge. It's already ridiculous that someone with my capabilities has to file paperwork to keep a tick like you happy, so count your blessings that I haven't had to "ensure complicity" by knocking you out with a manhole cover.

Yes, those are authentic memos. I take it you remember the Jacob McKinney incident from a few months ago. Project Utopia went to a lot of effort to bury that story, even though it was on most of the world news networks for about a week. I guess with any amount of money and subtle intimidation, it's easy to make people forget about UN troops gunning down a twelve year old on US soil and members of Team Tomorrow hauling him off. According to "official medical records" the kid was killed by his own power.

Not only that, Michael Hodge, the guy who wrote that first memo, died a couple weeks ago. He supposedly fell to his death while rock climbing.

Like I said, Dicker, I may not think too highly of you, but even your group hasn't sunk this low. As much as I hate to say it, despite most of it's flaws, the NSA never went that far on your watch. I don't know what you can do with this information, since Utopia is out of your jurisdiction and can conveniently hide behind the UN, but even you know this is not right.

I know we don't see eye to eye on things. You see me as a threat and I see you as...well...an annoying old creepy government guy...but you and I both know something has to be done. I'll try to feed you what information I can, but I have to be careful. Ever since I announced the formation of my company, Utopia has stepped up some of their covert ops. I think they might be trying to get a mole in your group if they haven't gotten one already. I do know that they are reconfiguring some of their network firewalls...they must have a couple novas helping them, because I'm starting to have some trouble breaking through them.

I'll keep in touch.

Flynn

Overview:

Our investigations have led us to believe that David Flynn's information is accurate. Utopia, or someone inside it, is planning something and we must be prepared.

On another note, after going through the data files we acquired from Syndrome's island base, we have reason to believe his "Zero Point Energy" technology was based off of the Hammersmith designs. If this is true, that raises the possibility the Pine may have had connections to the Aeon Society before the Galatea incident and Utopia's creation.