The Instant Protection Network
The Instant, being the fastest being in the universe by a wide margin, is critical to keeping the world safe from an ever increasing number of world ending threats. While most civilians are of the perception that things have “calmed down” since the silver age of heroism, the opposite is in fact true, and the Instant Protection Network is perhaps the only reason for our planet’s continued existence.
The process, on the surface, is simple. A set of scanners, a world wide network, monitors for intense energy signatures and distortions of all kinds. This could range from nuclear fission to gravitational implosions, or matters more arcane and less scientifically understood. The Network notifies the Instant, who deploys with functionally zero delay to resolve the issue before anyone can be hurt. No less than 5 attempts to create a black hole on the Earth’s surface by 3 different villains (and one heroic accident) have been thwarted with no casualties through this method. The Instant Defense Network is what the Instant’s time is almost entirely devoted to, so they don’t appear on missions with the rest of the Protectorate except in the direst circumstances, and even with their speed, they must delegate. Energy is the primary concern for them, and they must determine what to leave to other heroes, and what is truly an IPN level crisis.
Behind the scenes, the network is a marvel of bioengineering, with closely guarded secrets to its functioning. No technology on Earth could process, transmit, and convey the information at the necessary speeds, so a new technology was created, by using cloned grey matter and nerves from the Instant’s own brain. Nothing else could’ve done it. But how does the information travel? Supposedly, these nerves stretch in a network throughout the world, each connecting to a regional sensor node, all coming back to wherever the IPN HQ is located. Such an experimental technology is dangerous. Thank goodness the Instant’s allies don’t know who really built it, or trouble may brew…
METADATA: Having a true lore accurate speedster is hard. They could solve every problem, theoretically. So 2 things have to happen. They have to be already solving an unimaginable number of problems that would make your problems look like child's play, and they have to already be doing so on such limited sleep and energy that it's a miracle they’re able to do what they already are.
