Collegium Caine	Energon	Frisson
Jeopardy	‘Porter	Pyro
Shadowstrike	Tabula Rasa	Velocity

The creation of The Foundry was a reaction to Ravensgate’s Vigilante Registration Law and the deaths of the original Team Hyperion. It also was a logical end result of Joshua Caine’s educational philosophy. Caine spent years identifying local meta-human children and offering them scholarships to Collegium Caine, then educating them in hopes that he could mold the next generation of superheroes. He believed—-accurately so—-that the Vigilante Registration Law was really a means toward controlling and/or neutralizing superheroes.

Although Caine had the ability to relocate, he couldn’t really let go of the issues surrounding the Registration Law and his family tragedy—-and neither could his young niece, Danielle Devereaux. He spent nine years training Danielle and an elite cadre of his students, and even some of those students had doubts about whether this was going to work. Two students, Oscar Washington and Francois Champeaux, left the Collegium rather than risk the futures of all involved.

In 2002, Caine decided his students were ready. He sent three—-Danielle, Maximillian Morell and Jack Nash—-into the city to fight crime, and break the law doing so. Their first encounter, breaking up an attempted bank robbery by Samurai Seven, garnered national attention—and brought Oscar and Francois back to the Manor. They could not stand on the sidelines while their friends risked everything for principle—-and one family’s revenge. Originally known as The Doe Family—-as in John Doe, Jane Doe—-the young heroes defied a local legal establishment being manipulated by an unknown criminal entity.

As they met each new threat, they gained new allies. When they exposed The Somnambulist and foiled many of his plots, they turned public sympathy against the Registration Law and, through Caine’s connections, gained Federal sanction to get around the law.

Currently, The Foundry consists of seven heroes—-Frisson, Velocity, Jeopardy (as of Issue #2), Pyro (as of #4), Tabula Rasa (as of #5), Energon (as of Issue #9) and ‘Porter (as of Issue #14). Shadowstrike, an original member of The Doe Family, left to attend college elsewhere after Issue #24. The Foundry’s support team comprises Nevermore (Joshua Caine, formerly The Frozen Ghost), Mechanic (Margaret Palomar) and Dollface (Kachina Maverick).

Foundry VoxDot System

Maximillian Morell designed this communication device, which utilizes technology from his native era. The VoxDot is the size of a dime and adheres to the skin behind the ear. It uses the mastoid sinus bone for acoustic resonance for both listening and sub-vocal speaking, and it both draws power from the wearer’s own electromagnetic field and uses it as an antenna. The outer shell of the device camouflages itself by reacting to the amount of melanin in the wearer’s skin. It can be activated and deactivated by pressing on its center.

VoxDots have a range of five miles in urban settings, 20-25 in rural or away from intense electromagnetic fields. They require a central junction interface, either on board the Mistrunner or at Collegium Caine, for greater range. With a VoxDot Interface Box, a dot can bounce its signal off satellites.