The Outlast

The Outlast is the informal title given to the MHAACS - ‘Meta-Human Asset Acclimation and Compatibility Screening'- training scenario that the members of the Legion of Lawndale Heroes undergo from Chapters 11.4 to 11.7. (The correct way to pronounce the acronym is ‘em-hacks’.) It is a full-immersion, live-fire survival and metahuman operations exercise held in a remote, rugged (if not outright hostile) environment over the course of five to eight days.

Named for the similiar training exercise for select cadets at Starfleet cademy in the fictional Star Trek universe, the Outlast is one of the five primary qualifications that all known metahumans must undergo and complete in order to gain certification and be allowed unrestricted movement and operational privileges in the United States and those other nations that are signatories to the Bowman Acts.