The Roswell crash and its alien casualties were public news, the peaceful alien race of Bak-Thash shared their technology with the US government. Using Bak-Thashian tech, the US perfected their gene-manipulation project causing the extinction level event known as “point zero”. With the help of the Bak-Thashians, the new US government created an organization that watches and regulates beings with superhuman abilities. These watchers are known as The S.H.O.W. (Super Human Operations Watch).