[Super-Earth] Laying the groundwork

The latest of my *many* projects, "Super-Earth" is the working title of a superhero setting set on an alternate planet Earth. It salvages some of the concepts of my previous superhero setting, the Quadriverse.

By "alternate Earth", I mean a planet in a different universe, that's also called Earth and possesses the same environmental conditions as well as roughly the same biosphere, but with a different geography. I'm not set on *how* different exactly, though I'm leaning towards a "Warhammer World" kind of deal, with distorted but largely recognizable landmasses and analogues for real-world locations and peoples.

The goal is to imagine how human societies would have developed had superhumans existed since time immemorial, to reflect on how they would integrate people with unpredictable superhuman abilities, and to deconstruct / reconstruct common superhero tropes. Expect most supers to help their fellow humans beyond fighting bad guys, by working as nurses, firefighters, rescuers, etc.

One ground rule I will lay down right now is that superpowers cannot be replicated by technology. You can't harness whatever force or energy gives supers their abilities. Which means that technological development should be roughly similar to what it is in the real world, with the exception of scientific insights that might have been granted by super-intelligent people.

If you have suggestions of any kind, feel free to let me know in the comments. See you around!