Super Babes: What is the ATLAS Implant?

In the Super Babes universe, superpowers don't come from radiation or genetic mutations. They come from ATLAS implants. To understand Super Babes, let's explain these powerful devices and how they work.

In the Super Babes universe, an alien came to Earth in the thirteenth century in the guise of Genghis Khan. Khan united the nomadic tribes of the Mongols to form an empire that conquered most of central Asia and China but he was also a prodigious lover who impregnated as many as three women a night. At the present time, as many as sixteen million men and women worldwide are his direct descendants and carry his DNA.


In the 1920s, an industrial accident killed almost everyone in a chemical factory but it also caused a small group of men and women to develop superpowers. The superpowered beings were kept a secret as government scientists analyzed the incident and discovered the accident had unlocked those powers in others.

In 1941, an alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico. The US government reverse engineered the spacecraft, and their experiment produced the first ATLAS implant.

ATLAS stands for Advanced Targeted Latent Ability System, and was developed by the United States military in the 1940s. In random testing, they discovered that only certain people who had the right genes (Khan's genes) could activate an ATLAS implant. If you didn't have the genes, nothing happened. Even if you had the right genes, only thirty percent survived the procedure and those people developed special abilities. The other seventy percent who got implanted burned up in spontaneous combustion.

The first successful survivor of the process was an unknown soldier who became Captain Alpha. He was joined by others who helped turned the tide of World War II, and went on to become superheroes and supervillains over the decades. The technology also became more refined. The first version of the implant was the size of a toaster but over time, it became a collection of microscopic nanobots injected into the subject.

Today, most legal ATLAS implants are reserved for military or government projects. Because an ATLAS implant can rejuvenate the body, a small handful are used on terminally ill patients as a last resort, people who have nothing left to lose. Even if the implants work, they have to register with the government and stay on a watchlist for the rest of their lives.

However, there are ATLAS implants sold on the black market. Some buy them for medical reasons, others to gain powers. There are also implants used in experiments and that's how Ryan Walker got his. Find out how it happened in Super Babes!