The Spacers are a lost tribe of indeterminately ancient humans who journeyed into the Noƶsphere, the realm of the unconscious mind. After being driven nearly to extinction by the Leviathan Brood, they fled back to Earth in the 1950's.
Spacers have been attempting to assimilate ever since. The intuitive nature of their culture and their experiences in the Noƶsphere have given them unique abilities that have facilitated their assimilation (Intuitions), and largely they thrive despite facing discrimination and existential threats.
People with Spacer heritage sometimes have supernaturally-colored hair, eyes, or skin tones; long middle fingers and slightly outwardly curved thumb and pinkies; light and feathery hair texture; large watery eyes and large pupils.
Intuitions, the heightened or supernatural abilities cultivated by Spacers, include positive traits like empathy, creativity, flow, oracular divination, cultivation of "luck" through the awareness of Existential synchronicity, the production of "alchemy" and "wonders" through a process like Surrealist psychic automation for techne; but also negative traits like myopia, obsessive and compulsive tendencies, attention deficits, delusions, and dark flow.
Intuitions are neither genetic nor tied to a specific Spacer cultural practice, although Spacer culture has been shaped to facilitate their development. Anyone can develop Intuitions so long as they cultivate a personal practice that works for them, although it is exceedingly difficult to develop Intuition after puberty.
Normally I do the full wiki-style thing for these Superhero posts but this is what I've got right now. I'm actually quite happy with the core idea, but wish I'd had more inspiration to expand on it.
Somewhat of a re-imagining of my Amalekites from my MRD Vol. 2 setting. I was also inspired by Marvel's Mutants and DC's Kryptonians.
Was also going to post a few examples of Spacer superheroes or teams. One of them was going to be a grandpa/grandson robot or Super Robot duo, in the vein of Astro Boy, Mazinger, or Megaman, but I don't even remember specifically what I was going for anymore.
I'm also still mixed on the name Spacers, open to suggestions for other names.
