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HERO REGISTRATION
Most established superheroes in this setting are registered under C.O.N.D.O.R.’s superhero branch. Registered superheroes get government backup and insurance for things like injuries sustained in the line of duty, but they also have to prove their competence and hand over personal details, as well as follow certain official rules. As a result, some masked heroes choose to operate as unregistered vigilantes in order to avoid these restrictions. This is technically illegal, but the authorities tend to overlook it as long as they’re not actively causing trouble. If they are causing trouble, though, they tend to get off a lot less easily than a registered superhero who got into the same kind of mess would.
Critics of those who choose not to register tend to paint them as either dangerous, unreliable vigilantes whose preferred methods wouldn’t be tolerated in registered heroes, or blowhard youths who can’t be bothered to sign up with the Trailblazers program – there is a good amount of truth to this, but in spite of that there are some competent, established unregistered vigilantes for whom it’s simply a matter of preferring to keep their identities out of government hands. For these superheroes, their reputation affords them some of the same respect from the authorities that being registered would, although none of the official benefits.
Please note in this universe registration is only for heroes; there’s no mandatory registration for civilians with powers. If you have powers, as far as the government is concerned it’s none of their business unless you want to use them to fight crime – or commit crime, in which case obviously you need to be shut down. Nobody is ever forced to be a superhero – the last thing CONDOR wants is to put the lives of civilians in the hands of people with super powers who don't want to be doing that job.
Critics of those who choose not to register tend to paint them as either dangerous, unreliable vigilantes whose preferred methods wouldn’t be tolerated in registered heroes, or blowhard youths who can’t be bothered to sign up with the Trailblazers program – there is a good amount of truth to this, but in spite of that there are some competent, established unregistered vigilantes for whom it’s simply a matter of preferring to keep their identities out of government hands. For these superheroes, their reputation affords them some of the same respect from the authorities that being registered would, although none of the official benefits.
Please note in this universe registration is only for heroes; there’s no mandatory registration for civilians with powers. If you have powers, as far as the government is concerned it’s none of their business unless you want to use them to fight crime – or commit crime, in which case obviously you need to be shut down. Nobody is ever forced to be a superhero – the last thing CONDOR wants is to put the lives of civilians in the hands of people with super powers who don't want to be doing that job.