DOWNFALL: REBIRTH
A CENTURY OF PEACE, A CENTURY OF OPPRESSION
In the latter years of the 1880's, a revolution came on the scene, started by one man, known as Nemesis. He swayed many to his banner, promising total peace. In a decade most of Europe was his, spurred on by populist and communist movements. Instead of a World War, nineteen-fourteen came and went without incident. By the 1930's, the Great Depression gave Nemesis the opportunity to solidify his control until only the United States held out against the very peaceful onslaught.
In 1944, Nemesis' followers won elections to Congress, and after amending the Constitution to allow it, Nemesis won the election and became the 32nd President of the United States. His first act was a bill, passed by a Nemesis-controlled Congress, to abolish the Union and cede power to the world government.
Many heroes fought against Nemesis, but opposition, however minor, was crushed by his clockwork (and later, cybernetic) forces. The world began to live in fear of it's elected leader, and there seemed no end, for he never aged. Any resistance was silenced brutally.
Finally, in 1980, the Primes, a group of heroes working in secret, would rise up and crush Nemesis, delivering a death blow to his rule, but giving their life in the process. It is now 2000, and though there are new heroes, new villains are arising as well. Will the new heroes be strong enough to ensure the future of the world?