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| - Determined to experiment the reaction of the newly discovered element Xerozium to exposure from the Van Allen belt, Dr. Kurt Powers, a head scientist at the Crystal City Scientific Testing Facility, began funding into what was announced to be Project Van Allen. With the help of his crew, which consisted of Dr. Connor Cox, Emma Miles, Donovan Cannon, Alex Breeze, Filippa Brooks and Rachel Smurfette, they created a small chamber that could collect the atmosphere within the Van Allen belt.
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| - Determined to experiment the reaction of the newly discovered element Xerozium to exposure from the Van Allen belt, Dr. Kurt Powers, a head scientist at the Crystal City Scientific Testing Facility, began funding into what was announced to be Project Van Allen. With the help of his crew, which consisted of Dr. Connor Cox, Emma Miles, Donovan Cannon, Alex Breeze, Filippa Brooks and Rachel Smurfette, they created a small chamber that could collect the atmosphere within the Van Allen belt. However seeing the project as being too hazardous to the facility, the fundings towards Project Van Allen were cut. Unwilling to accept this turn of events, Kurt Powers suggested that he and his crew should sneak into the facility to execute the experiment on that very night, despite the chamber being unprepared and unfinished. It was Kurt's initiative that the fateful project which had his colleagues accompanying him took place. So as planned, the group snuck into the facility and initiated the program, which resulted with the Xerozium rod attracting lethal doses of cosmic radiation. Kurt neglected to account for the abnormal radiation levels within the experimental chamber, until the cosmic rays slipped into the chamber, slipping into the breath of the group. At this moment, Connor Cox attempted to open the chamber and retrieve the Xerozium rod, but it was Kurt that got in his way in an attempt to keep the procedure going, but in his quick haste, grabs the rod, resulting with a huge beam of light flooding the entire facility, and the group falling unconscious. Soon after, the rays disappeared from the facility, and amazingly the entire group survived apparently unharmed. However a few days after the incident, they found that their bodies and abilities have been dramatically altered. They were all given incredible powers, each individual with their own unique abilities. It was at Kurt Powers's suggestion that the team would use their new abilities to serve mankind as the Crystal League. In their first action as a team of vigilantes, the team busted a drug shipment in the Crystal City Docks led by Bruce Fury, a criminal who disguised himself as a businessman, and were given clues to the whereabouts of the criminal mastermind, the masked maniac known as the Tarantula.
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