With rival leagues popping up all over the world, the SHL commissioner Wannabefinn decided the league needed to start a superplayer program in order to make sure the SHL stays ahead and is never surpassed by another sim league. Behind the scenes, he had developers like Drunkenteddy, Caltroit red flames, and esilverm work on creating a way to juice up players and give them superhuman abilities, so that the SHL’s product will be so much more exciting and explosive than any other league. While the technology for a super soldier machine did not yet exist, the developers saw an opportunity to harness some latent power within the league. Ever since the closing of the thunderdome, all of the energy within that section of the forum has laid dormant, ready to be harnessed for another use. By beaming the best thunderdome threads directly into the cells of a player, the developers discovered that this would charge a player with immense strength and power. Of course, RIP THUNDERDOME 2013-2023 would be the first subject for Project TD. The experiment was a success and RIP TD became the first super player. Many more are to come.