Silver Generation

There was a sea change in the superheroic scene of Halcyon City during the ‘50’s. For reasons unknown, superpowers became more powerful, and with their increased powers came ever greater threats.
Many suprologists consider the first hero of the Silver Generation to be the Silver Savior—a hero covered in silvery metal, capable of flight faster than ever seen before, nigh-invulnerable, as strong as Champion if not stronger, wielder of the Silver Spark and all its powers. Sam Tolman was a mathematician and physicist, working for United States’ aeronautical research division, before he inadvertently summoned the Silver Spark to him with an experimental new engine. With its powers, he became the first widely acknowledged representative of a new kind of superhuman. Silver Savior was bright, shining, and powerful.
Silver Savior didn’t contend with costumed thieves. Instead, he fought Doctor Infinity, the all-powerful time-altering android. He clashed against the Jabberwock, a monster risen from fiction itself to convert all of our reality into words on a page. The battles he fought, while still mostly centered around Halcyon City, were often struggles over the fate of the entire world.
These powerful, impressive, explosive abilities and these incredible fights against enormous foes characterized this generation. Haka has fought on every continent. Nucleon fought against the Demonicator. Starbolt clashed against Sablestar. The battles at their worst leveled whole city blocks, or changed the color of the sky for days, or left a scent of ozone and smoke pervading the entire city—but Halcyon became more adept than ever at repairing the damage and restoring itself to “normalcy” with incredible speed.
Teams were more important to the Silver Generation than they’d ever been to the Gold Generation. Such incredible threats meant these new heroes sought aid from each other. The Freedom Four, the Exemplars, the Silver Saviors — all saw their origins in this generation. And as the heroes banded together into new super teams, so too did the villains form their own alliances against the heroes. The Silver Generation was a constant cycle of escalation, with all sides growing in power and support for ever more epic clashes.
Toward the beginning of their rise to prominence, the Silver Generation made great strides on mundane struggles. There was a major public push by the Silver Generation for equal rights among all the people of Halcyon and indeed America. Some even took on overtly political roles. But over the course of their time in power, the Silver Generation largely abandoned struggles against social issues, and even against criminals or corrupt politicians. There were always exceptions, but by and large as their power grew, their focus shifted ever upward, to greater and greater threats, planet enders and dimension destroyers and the like. While the fight against such enormous threats was clearly important, those who criticize the Silver Generation often focus on the fights that they let lie fallow...the changes they didn’t push for.
The Silver Generation is still largely around and in power today. They’re reaching the end of their time, however, and many are looking into retirement of some kind. They’ve fought for many, many years to keep the city and the world safe, and they’re well due their rest, but...it’s hard to see figures who’ve been so prominent and dominant for so many years easily abandoning their control. Many of the Silver Generation would love nothing more than to find successors they can shape directly into new versions of themselves, to ensure that things continue exactly as they have so far.

If Legacy represents the American ideal, Haka is the human ideal.