A great campaign, decades ago, changed the world and whether or not it was for the better or worse depended on who you were, where you lived, and how lucky you were. When mutants surfaced and became known to the global public, humans were afraid, and that made them angry. We only have one life to live and if we're forcing to live in fear, well, no one has that kind of time or energy.

Some people were scared, others saw opportunity through their greed. Extensive and secretive research was done, mostly on unwilling mutants. Unfortunately, their disappearance went unnoticed. Mutants were largely unloved, most people were relieved when one went missing from a neighbourhood.

A number of years after mutants were the center of attention and rebellion groups tried to advocate for equal rights or even domination, failing time and again, the government cleared out all of the mutants. No one knew how, but it was suspected that mutants could be weakened or killed by certain diseases that wouldn't affect people. Gossip pointed to a sabotaged drinking system, a gas bomb dropped in the dead of night, or simply an overnight series of arrests that rounded up mutants as efficiently as Santa Claus hands out gifts on Christmas Eve.

Despite the fact that mutants were becoming a myth in a matter of hours, and relieving the fears of humans everywhere, conspiracy theorists preached the unnerving truth that the government could commit mass genocide right under the noses of the general public. The government called it the Cleansing Campaign, but they did not stop with the elimination of all traceable mutants in the country. They took it a step further. They tested all humans' DNA to find out who still carried the mutant gene. Those who had traces were left with two choices: Surgically remove reproductive organs, or... well, whoever made the second choice was never seen again. The public became frightened, saying their rights were impeded.

What horrified most people was that the majority of the countries followed suit. There were countries that stood as safe haven's for mutants, but one by one they were overpowered, and mutants fled or were captured. The mutants made a final stand in the Alps of Europe, their plight was unsuccessful, but a handful of them managed to escape and have not been heard from for over forty years.

During the Cleansing Campaign, the High Tower Corporation appeared, an unsuspecting, plain building. It was not something that the public had access too, unless of course they had the money to buy its attention. It was a company that saw value in mutants, but knew better than to let them roam free, there had been proof of artificial mutation in some of the subjects that had been rounded up during the Cleansing Campaign, they harnessed the science and exploited it.

Humans who showed signs of mutative DNA were damned and shunned, openly harassed and abused in public. Those who chose the first option more than often locked themselves away in their homes, or worse, committed suicide. It quickly reached the point where the second option became the only option. Hundreds of people simply disappeared, and no one knew exactly where they went or what happened to them. It's safe to say that many people didn't care.

Society quickly became survival of the fittest, and the richest. Everyone who didn't disappear fought against all. Friends and loved ones were forsaken for family, and families fought against other families, accusing one or the other of being a mutant. Some people had paid off the scientists to give false DNA results, to damn their enemies and protect their own. It's safe to say that now there's no way to know for sure who carries mutant genes and who doesn't. Little did they know that the people they feared and hated ended up in that simple skyscraper building in the center of New York City.

Once High Tower got hold of someone, they were dead to the world. Most of the time they truly ended up dead. But not everyone the High Tower took in died, some of them surpassed all limitations, and became the species that began the Cleansing Campaign. They cast their mutative ancestor into shadow, for they were the most formidable weapons that the government had ever created.

Three of the subjects live, and their numbers are slowly growing. Subject 0543220; Poltergeist. Subject 0311510; Mountain. Subject 0134140; Wild Witch. This is their story.