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1954

OVERVIEW

—A secret order of artists and mystics dedicated to “truth, beauty, and common sense.” This revolutionary group has a proud history of resistance: Since 2012, the organization has used ad hoc armies and militant delegations of warriors, gangsters, political revolutionaries, inventors, mystics and artists to negotiate human and android rights, as well as openly battle various fascist governments and militaries, including but not limited to, the New Atlantis Police, the Saturn Sun Warriors, the Metropolis Beast Brigade, and last but certainly not least, the Great Divide. The first incarnation of 1954 was destroyed during Year Y by New Atlantis authorities, and both Chuck Lightning and Nate Rocket Wonder were given royal executions. In 2702, the android Lux Rayson happened across the audio manifesto I Have A Scream while helping his master with some legal research, and quickly thereafter, the order was reborn as a militant voice in the Wonderground—with Lux Rayson at its head. The order is now rumored to be thousands strong with different units dedicated to the arts, politics, business and finance, justice and war, research and science, spiritual studies, and magic.

Since the Clonetown massacre, the organization is rumored to have signed a truce with 6 is 9 and there are rumors of a grand army of millions of clones and androids working together to overthrow the Wolfmasters and the Time Council. Recent activities include the order’s support of Patrick Washington, Metropolis’s first android candidate for Time Council President (1954 provides security for all of Patrick Washington’s speeches and events); the theft of several key Glyph documents from the Living Museum including the Imagination Proclamation, the Seventh Gate (a blueprint of Wondaland from New Atlantis); a schematic of the motherboard of the Alpha Platinum 9000; as well as several top secret files from the Paragon including the Year of the Witch Files. In addition, it is rumored that many androids have become spies for the order, which has led to a witchhunt among the android population known as Hellwinter. With Metropolis androids assisting in everything from secret intergalactic military missions to top secret research at Time University and strategic discussions at Wolf Manor, the idea that the android population has fallen in love with the mantra of “truth, beauty, and common sense” is troublesome to say the least. The Wolfmasters have responded to these treasonous acts and ideas by promising top 1954 officers mortalization—if they only will step forward, turn themselves in and reveal the secrets embedded in the Golden Ratio, as well as the secret location codes to Synesis. The war against 1954 continues, and in a sense, the terrifying existence of 1954 has become an excuse for wanton violence against the droid community, with droids snatched off the streets by Patriots and Blue Hand terrorists and beaten, raped and disassembled because they were a “disciple of 1954.”

Lastly, it must be noted that 1954 seems bigger in concept and rumor than in actuality— many allege it truly is a shadowy secret order with only 999 initiated members. These members do represent the crème de la crème of Metropolis society with many reputable businessmen, scholars, Glyphs, elves, clones, androids and humans among its ranks. In theory, 1954 is open to all who welcome its ideas and are willing to fight honorably for “truth, beauty and common sense.” In practice, 1954 is open only to Metropolis’s most brilliant and brave freedom fighters. The Minutemen, its ad hoc army, is rumored to be 900,000 strong, but this could certainly be another imaginative exaggeration by Metropolis authorities.