Introduction
Sir Les Paul
The Duke of Chords
| ... streetwise superheroes and even borderline vigilantes lending their assistance towards the greater good. -Prologue |
Justice League — Βeta Protocol (known commonly as Beta Protocol) is a roleplay based on an alternate future of DC Comics utilizing a non-canon universe known as Earth 429. Beta Protocol is the faithful successor of previous roleplays on RPNation dating back as far as 2015. The original, and still preserved, premise of Earth 429 is a 'DC-based setting primarily involving characters that are the direct descendants of former characters within the DC continuity'. As the roleplay has trudged through various directions and hosted a large sum of characters as it was handed down, it has thus changed significantly since its original inception. No set standard for a timeline existed prior to Beta Protocol and its previous iteration United We Stand, and as such, different DC source materials have been used, ranging from the popular Young Justice animated television show, the Teen Titans animated television show and of course various comic book runs. As of the beginning of Beta Protocol, the present year is 2060 and uses a slightly altered DC Animated Universe timeline, including Justice League (TV Series), Justice League Unlimited (JLU), Static Shock (TV Series) and Batman Beyond (TV Series).
Alright, we're passed the formalities. The year is 2060, the Justice League dissolved, the world realized that it needed a League and it was reformed with greater restrictions and involvement of the United Nations as the United League of Justice (ULJ) which is lead by the Hand of Justice, Joseph Waller, III. I, Sir Les Paul, attempted to rekindle this universe once alongside AnnoDomini and sitanomoto as Justice League: United We Stand. That iteration had all three branches active: Alpha, Beta and Gamma. While that iteration was mildly successful, the switchover to the 'new RpN' and the general stress of trying to push such a large endeavor ultimately ended with the roleplay being revised to Beta Protocol. Reason in short: the branches were created to organize characters based on their abilities and potential to make more suitable plots for individual teams and that resulted in three large-scale plots being active at any given time which required a lot of effort and communication from roleplay staff; scaling the RP down to just one branch allowed for significantly easier management while preserving the benefit of branches. That's the logic behind one of the largest elements of Beta Protocol: the character premise for heroes primarily being low-to-no power heroes.
In summation, Beta Protocol is the successor to several previous roleplays and has a handful of 'veteran roleplayers' from those times, its active timeline begins in 2060, it now has a unified timeline of closest consistency to the Justice League television show, it has various characters adapted from different source materials, it focuses on low-to-no power heroes, and the premise is a 'DC-based setting primarily involving characters that are the direct descendants of former characters within the DC continuity'. If you want the tl;dr, there it is. Some other important factors to remember: the League is now officially the ULJ, not the JLU; the League is now under the supervision of Joseph Waller, III, grandson of Amanda Waller; and, the overall tone of Beta Protocol is considerably dark, emphasizing the struggle to rekindle faith in heroes that had failed the people time and time again.
