Mortus Corps 2

What if... Thats how much of this started.  What if the secret to saving humanity from the perils of disease and birth-defects could be cured by unraveling the DNA strand.  This really wasn't a new idea, scientists had been working for decades on doing just such a thing.  The difference is that in the late 2010's the medical community no longer sought to decipher the code, but to actually change it on the fundemental level.

It would take another three decades before there was any sort of tangible success, but in the 050's scientists discovered that by literally shifting nodes in the subjects DNA chain it was possible to bestow super-human abilities.  The orginal design of the experiment, now known as the Omega Process, was to cure any number of terminal diseases.  The creation of extraordinary powers was an unforseen, but amazing side effect. 

Subjects who went through the process were healed of any sort of disease or malady that they were stricken by, and also gained fantastic abilities.  Needless to say it was heralded as an amazing success at first. 

Unfortunately it was soon determined that the procedure had a major, and fatal, side-effect.  Those who went through the process had their life span dramatically decreased, some by years, others by as much as a decade.  To make matters worse, the more an individual used their new super-human abilities the faster their bodies succumbed.  There were even reports of those who died within weeks of their awakening. 

 
In the beginning there were only a scant number of individuals who would volunteer to be part of the Omega Process; after all knowing that you were willingly signing away your life was not an easy thing for most people to embrace.  Just subjecting oneself to the process could mean a sudden and painful death as nearly fifteen percent of the subjects died within days of the treatment.

Then came the first attacks by the alien menace known only as the Collective...