Prologue: the beginning of The End

Over 6 centuries ago, in the year 2129 A.D. the Earth began a new ice age, caused by humanity's mistakes, and the civilized world fell into chaos. Soon after, war broke out. What used to be the United States was turned into a giant nuclear crater from the Sixty Minute War. The European Union crumbled beneath the armies of the People's African Confederation in their own war, scorching the land from the source of the Nile River to the fjords of what was formerly Finland and Norway. But mankind endured. Even after 5 centuries of anarchy and 4 ½ Billion deaths they regrouped and recreated society.
In 2643 under The One Earth Treaty the New World Union became the central government to the remaining people on earth. One of the first actions of the new order was to destroy all technology from the Sixty Minute War. And so, all the energy and nuclear weapons that once almost scoured the living earth itself were destroyed.
Or so we thought.
In 2653 an ancient energy weapon was discovered on the dead, northern reaches of North America in a secret military base west of the inland Sea of Loghue. It was code-named T.R.O.G.D.O.R. (trionic reflexive omnigantrix dextroorganic refluxor) and reprogrammed in secret by a company called BioSystems Corporation. A company already under heavy scrutiny for human experimentation. That however was never pinned on them, though now we have proper evidence. Unfortunately it's too late.
Nine years later Luther Phineas President and CEO of BioSystem Corp. unveiled their accomplishments by declaring war on the New World Union. Their T.R.O.G.D.O.R. Prototype was tested first by destroying the Interworld Congressional building then the New World Union Peacekeepers HQ. Other important military and political targets were destroyed including Dry Atlantis; the capital city.
Fortunately the T.R.O.G.D.O.R. prototype still had problems and malfunctioned before all of its targets were destroyed. The city of Sol'aris in west Asia and Camp Gibraltar in North Africa were both spared from instant destruction and even now they house small pockets of resistance.
The BioSystem troops consisted of an elite force made up of roughly 70 or 80 genetically enhanced supersolidiers that their scientists had been working on for decades and 3,000 additional mercenaries and BioSystem trained soldiers. The general public and government were caught completely off guard.
But deep inside of the Northeast Former U.S., hundreds lived hidden from danger. They are the last hope for what remains of the free world they are an ancient group of the supernatural and the superhuman; vampires, angels, witches, psychics and others.
Now they fight to defeat BioSystem and prevent them from repairing the T.R.O.G.D.O.R. prototype. Some call them superheroes they call themselves; The Empowered.