That is a good idea. A brief reflection on how nice it always is to keep up with the world through headlines, how lovely it feels to know what's going on. Ring, help a girl out with the day's headlines from two different countries' top newspapers?

New Treatment from Astrolabs May Pave Road For Long-Term Space

Politics In a World of Psionics 

Conflicts Reignite after NRI Independence Celebrations 

The Path of AReify's Titanic Growth

Empress Konya Crowned Tommorow

The Housing Revolution and You

Twinkling Twilight Releases New Album

She'd love to read more about Psionics and the Housing Revolution.

After the event of the Cosmic Mind's experiments, many have wondered how the political process can remain safe when such fantastical powers eixt .

...While telepathic domination is the first thing that comes to mind, Doctor Id argues that even simple projective telepathy can allow a whole new frontier of rhetoric, even aside any relationships it has with other more intrusive disciplines. In a world with all that, and of course the offerings of magics to the favoured few, it's hard to see exactly how we should go forward. 

The Freedom League also offered an official statement, saying that telepathic powers are known to have countermeasures, that it is possible to detect mind control through a wide variety of robust systems, and that telepathic attacks on democracy suffer from many of the same issues that make it difficult to scale ballot-stuffing operations.

Many visions of the future depict floating cities, immense megapolises and dense bustling cities even more full of people then the most desirable regions. But for a lot of people, the complaints about housing are more prosaic. 

Daedulus corporation's technology offers a lot of more practical advantages. While not at the level of a boundless maze of myth, the improved cement formulation allow for much cheaper construction of safer, simpler. buildings, even before considering the effects that the sound-dampening and structural improvements have to offer, making a large apartment much more of a realistic prospect, both for homeowners and builders..

Powers? Telepathic domination? That sure sounds like they're talking about psionics being real. "Doctor Id" sounds like a cape name, and the "Freedom League" sounds like a cape team.

They definitely sound like they're thinking seriously about the impact of all these things. This is fascinating.

Just... Wow...

She'd love to see a Wikipedia-equivalent article each on Doctor Id and the Freedom League.

Doctor Id was an influential psychologist-researcher from Tokyo who one day stumbled into some sort of personal enlightenment that granted her broad spectrum psychic powers. She works as a superhero alongside her existing jobs through a wide variety of techniques, facilitated by a decent degree of mental superspeed.

The Freedom League is just about what it sounds like on the tin - a team of superheroes who formed around an incident with some potent dark magical force in the 60s. There's thousands of heroes across the world with some level of affiliation, though the core group is a few dozen people at most. They have an official crisis handling role and some broad emergency powers across most of the globe - though that appears to in many places be a concession to the practical reality of the resources they have to accomplish things even through the opposition of state actors. 

She dissolves into giggles, grinning and curling up in a giggling ball in space, utterly in love with her life.

<Girls, our new home is a cape world.>

Neo curls up around her, snickering and beaming.

Maya snuggles them both, sighing and laughing delightedly.

When the gigglefest dies down, she sends a question, <So do we sneak into the world, or find a team we can trust and do formal intake?>

Maya hums thoughtfully in response. <I think researching teams, and from there intake, is the best start.>

Sable nods, both in mindspace and reality. <They might have "dimensional displacement grants" or some such, and the process of finding out is good intel on who we're dealing with.>

<Quite,> she replies with a smile.

She sure does love good intel, and good wikidives too. What are the relevant regulations governing superpowered individuals in the US, UK, and Canada? What about the major hero teams that operate in those countries? And major criticisms of each?

The freedom league has an extensive feeder system - the 'standard' route throughout much of all of those regions is to go contact your local branch, and get a metahuman career councillors. They're also basic staging points, and form a sort of network of reservist support in case of supervillain attacks.They also offer referrals to the actual super hero work - which is pretty intentionally separated out. There system is generally widely praised, though it's noted as generally being a bit slow and very purposefully designed to be insulate the time of the strongest heroes. They do their best work in talking people out of superheroing, and tend to have a bit of a one-sized fits all approach. 

The league also seems somewhat intertwined with some of the legal safeguards - metahumans are expected to get tested, though the results of such testing is treated in the highest confidence, even in the case of later villainy, due to backlash after the Cleveland Incident and other, smaller affairs. 

Metahuman powers are occasionally regulated as weapons, and the fruits of them are often tariffed or regulated due to the monopoly power that a powerful metahuman can bring to an industry. The US appears to have some hotly contested metahuman draft system in place designed for extreme emergencies, 'such as alien incursion, dimensional catastrophe or other acts of god'. 

A number of other teams exist - mostly ones bound together by insurance arrangements and power synergies that make them effective squadrons, using varying levels of emergency powers granted through a certification process. 

The Lionhearts are the most prominent british super team, with a focus on dealing with superpowered intrigue, though they also have plenty of heavy hitters. They tend to work to operationalize powers more directly and put their assets to work aggressively - they tend to be reviewed as more fulfilling to work with, with looser obligations fitting with Mutant Maladaptation Syndrome cases. They also tend to prefer boundless-type assets, and tend to be an awkward place to work for those who can't adapt or pick up skills quickly. They're also generally fairly patriotic - and have their own murky history with discrimination. 

The Saviours are the most prominent canadian organization. It was built on the back of Miss Mobility's powers, and focuses most on deploying across the country to areas in need of further assistance. While not quite as solid in terms of support of gaining contacts or getting training and power development, they're noted as being especially good at getting people into places of leadership and making everyone feel important. 

For historical reasons, there's no real 'main' team to join in the United States outside of the freedom league and the 'freedom knights' - a secondary circle of superheroes who can operate under what is essential a 'franchise' of the main freedom league's team, with limited resource sharing and networking commitments. The experience of the contracted organization varies from place to place and organization to organization. 

What is a "boundless-type asset", she wonders? And what's known about visitors (especially stranded ones) from other universes?

Boundless (Soul Syndrome) 

-> Boundless-type redirects here.

Boundlessness is one of the most common and well known soul syndromes, granting a vastly improved capacity to improve mental capacities, and to a lesser extent physical characteristics. 

...A common misconception is that all Boundless are mutants or mages. While it is a well-established phenemon that boundlessness often become active at or near to the activation of metahuman or magical powers, some cases have been observed of people without such factors obtaining this syndrome. 

Dimensional travel seems to... probably exist? The article on wikipedia simply lists theories - there's a few things that look like it, but there's never been any adequate analysis on the subject and it's unclear if any of the few things that have happened were just time travel or aliens or some odd magical interaction or creation. 

Ring, how long has it been since she arrived in this universe? She'd love to have that moment marked, in local-universe UTC, for later reference.

Meanwhile, though... they're going to have to choose. <Y'all know what I think, loves. What're your opinions?>

<We're very able to adapt and pick up skills. We can handle a group like the Lionhearts.>

<But that discrimination looks iffy. As does the aggression. You've always loved Canada, though, and the Saviours are mobility-focused—> she snickers mentally at this <—and seem more caring toward individuals. As much as I love a good fight...>

Maya nods and hums. <Agreed, sweetheart. The Lionhearts probably not as good a fit for the powers we've acquired as the Saviours. As for the Freedom League...>

<Capitalism~>, Neo finishes, with an eloquently disgusted face.

She nods firmly. <Agreed, loves.> Well, she'd love to visit Canada again, and a whole new Canada at that. Where are the offices of the Saviours, what time is it there, and who appears to be around?