For Creators
The Harker Project is a collaborative mosaic world centered around the students of the Harker Academy, the first school to ever include a 'superhero' curriculum as part of its education and having to prove itself to the American government so they won't enact a 'registration act' after the event of Jacksonville, FL.
While I work in the written word, the project is open to any and all storytelling mediums.
The goal is to tell entertaining, interwoven, stories.
What kind of Characters/stories can be part of the Harker Project?
Students, both as part of the regular side of Harker academy or the Super-side.
Event Stories will be stories where the scope of them spills over the majority os the creators involved in the Harker Project The next Event Storyline is planned for after Thanksgiving 2030, so the Freshman Year is open to non-event stories all the way to Thanksgiving weekend, which is November 30th and December 1st.
Storytelling
Any types of interpersonal stories can be told. Stories dealing with sensitive subject matters will have to be prropriately 'tagged' Stories can spill over to other reator's characters, with their approval. the canvas is a university, so incidents tend not to stay isolated EventsEvent Stories will be stories where the scope of them spills over the majority os the creators involved in the Harker Project The next Event Storyline is planned for after Thanksgiving 2030, so the Freshman Year is open to non-event stories all the way to Thanksgiving weekend, which is November 30th and December 1st.
On the normal side
Harker academy is a normal technical college, with the exception of the archeology department, so any students who can afford the tuition and has the grades can attend. Because the world has superpowers in it, it's possible for students to have powers. Statistically, 1% of the population has powers; of that, 10% have what would be a noticeable level of power. Meaning that it can cause an effect that would affect other people. Of that 10%, a 10% would have a level of significant power; meaning it could affect multiple people. And another 10% of that would have an important level of power, meaning it can affect a large group of people. There is no official 'classification’ of power or strength at this time, and a rarer power would be considered more powerful due to its rarity. The Harker Academy student body is around 3000, so it is within the realm of possibility that 30 of them will have some level of powers, and of them that 3 will be noticeable. There are currently no anti-power regulations through the education system; and while, since the Jacksonville Incident, some of the better-known schools have quietly discouraged the application of students with powers. Harker Academy has set itself apart as being actively pro power, so they could easily skew the statistical curve.On the super side
Because the super-curriculum needs to prove itself to the government to ensure the Registration Act never comes back on the table, acceptance to it is highly curated. The 2 primary characteristics looked for are power levels and heroic behavior. The higher a student falls on one side, the more leeway they get for the other. A 'superman' level of power would let someone who hasn't done much good with it get in, but not someone who had been caught committing crimes. As it is the first class ever, the administration will need a lot of convincing to let in someone who has already shown a tendency to break the law with their powers. Someone like 'Steve Rogers(Captain America)' would get in based on his habit of throwing himself in the thick of things to help people, even if his powers were on the lower scale. There will be around 300 students as part of the super curriculum, but only 10 of them will graduate after four years. So to succeed, the students will have to grow and evolve, both in power and attitude. Students will be required to hide that they have super powers when not actively in their 'super classes' What that means for you as a storyteller, is that the character's arc must be significant if they have a hope of graduating. If you have a character you hope will graduate, you should provide multiple others who will fail, and they must have their own stories, their own arcs. They must not be designed to fail, they were picked to join the super curriculum because they could graduate. They should at the bottom of a list of great characters; not a bad character. BUT, that doesn't mean they will be perfect people. They are humans with powers. Worse, they are 18 year-olds with powers. Make your characters interesting; make many of them, and make their lives at the academy something you'd want to live regardless of if they pass or fail.A note on powers
The strongest precog in existence can only see one week into the future. Time-Travel is not possible at all. The goal is to have interesting stories, not to power game the other storytellers.On the staff side of the academy
While the bulk of the stories should focus on the students, the staff can have their own stories too; both on the normal side and the super-side of the academy, and those characters can be created by you. The one caveat I will put is that the staff will not be who resolves the 'events' stories at the academy. The staff can be the ‘heroes’ of their own stories, but they are the supporting cast to the students in the greater story of the Academy. They can participate in the events, they can even play significant parts in enabling the final ‘victory,’ but ultimately, it is the students’ stories. It is they who will ‘win the day.’Secret Information
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