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Wow. So its been over a month since I did one of these. Basically because I had no decent ideas. But rereading The Thief of Time I came to the conclusion this Marvel Tangent 'verse needed some time travel themed stuff.
Dr. Alison Blaire is/was/will be a 23rd Century theoretical physicist. Her wife Dr. Betsy Braddock is/was/will be cyberneticist and mechanical engineer. Together the two built the Tachyon Slipdrive, capable of propelling a small craft backwards and forwards in time. Unfortunately for them someone else would/was/is already using a variant time travel technology, robot religious fanatics called The Stark. These zealots attacked the pair in the name of their mysterious Lord K, forcing the two to flee in their experimental craft. The two managed to find that The Stark were active throughout the time stream, exploiting their temporal advantage to further their lord's plan...
Alison and Betsy decided it was up to them to work against the menace of The Stark. Naming their craft The Runaway the pair began their campaign against the deadly robots. While thwarting The Stark's plans they also managed to recruit others to their cause. The blind 14th century "warlock" psychometric reader James Rhodes. The early 20th century Mystery Man Harold "Wasp" Hogan. And the 22nd century military cyborg Bethany Cabe, one of the UNGDF (United Nations Global Defense Forces) Crimson Dynamo Commandos...
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So even for a fanfic concept like this I still end up thinking, whats the setting like? We've established its got a post-attempted rebellion thing going on like Bab5 or Firefly. So I decided that 1. No FTL ships. They have SOMETHING that can go FTL but the mass it works on is negligible, allowing it to create a system wide information/communication network. And the tech is advanced enough so that if the gravity doesn't squish everything, humans can colonize any of the planets and moons with varying degrees of difficulty...
In the year 2080 the world of music has become ever more violently competitive. Last year, John "Shaft" Singleton led his band, Youngblood, to victory at the Interplanetary Battle of the Bands with his joint mastery of archery and mad rhymes. But can he and bandmates Antonia "Vogue" Bird (knives and lead guitar), Chris "Badrock" Gans (percussion and Savate) and John "Diehard" McTiernan (ex-cage fighter and saxophone) repeat for a second year? Especially with arch-rivals and Martian native sons Brigade out to bring them down and take their place?
Savage's Dragoons; Captain John Savage is one of the few, the proud, a United Planet's Dragoon. Dragoons: one-man killing machines. Each is augmented with advanced cybernetics, equipped with deadly powered armor and the finest killing devices known to man. The Dragoon's were the heroes of the Colony Wars. Dropping from high altitude insertions, each with the power of a tank, they swiftly and surely broke the back of the rebel worlds. But the Colony Wars are 15 years in the past and the U.P. government doesn't see the need to maintain the expensive super-soldiers. Unit after unit is decommissioned and sent out into the civilian world, with heads full of violence and bodies designed to kill. Savage won't let that happen to his unit. Whatever mission is asked of them, he'll make sure they succeed. Whatever its costs to keep showing his troop's value he'll do...
Major Morgan Stryker is the head of Mars' Cyberforce Division. Elite police tasked with dealing with dangerous cyborgs. Rogue corporate drones, bitter and decommissioned war veterans or the product of black market chop shops. Its all the same for Cyberforce...
First up is The Wildcat. When you're flying a pirate ship against a military just HOPING for an enemy you'd best be quick, quiet and clever. Captain Jack Spartan certainly thinks he and his people are. And with the Colonial Rebellion long dead, the days of easy pickings are over. But he's got a good crew Grifter Cash can slice any data free to find their targets. Sata "Zealot" Kagi was one of the Rebellion's best pilots and will do anything that lets her hurt the establishment. And ex-military cyborgs Voodoo, Maul and Warblade provide him with all the muscle he should need to intimidate their targets. But every day the shadows get brighter and it gets harder for a crook to make a dishonest buck...
The SolNet communications network extends instant communication across the system. And within it is the EtherNet, a virtual world where data slicers and wannabes play and work. And out of the super-dense data pit that is Pitt Industries something new has emerged. Spawn is a self-aware construct. The first true A.I. Or at least that what "he" thought. But while exploring the EtherNet as Al, Spawn keeps getting cryptic hints of earlier A.Is. And of stranger things hidden in the depths of the 'Net...
The Pitt Corporation. The leading edge in colonial habitats. And in the slow work of terraforming dead worlds into eventual living ones. But the Pitt Corporation has a secret. Well working on the Io colony their workers discovered a crashed alien craft. The only evidence of non-human extra-terrestrial intelligence. And for the last 10 years their scientists have been studying it in secret. The remains of the avian aliens offered few answers, but lead researcher Ben Johnstone dedicated himself to unlocking their secrets. And finally he got the breakthrough he'd been wanting, though not how he expected...
While running one of the alien artifacts through a battery of tests involving exposure to various kinds of radiation Something Happened. Ben found himself fused with the essence of the alien pilot. This fusion caused him to black out. When he woke "they" found they could listen in on the thoughts of his fellow scientists. Where he learned that his "friends" planned his eventual dissection after extensive and painful tests. Panicking Ben and The Other somehow d-shifted. Together they folded space moving them from the Venusian laboratory to Ben's childhood home on Mars...
Now Ben is on the run across the System from Pitt wetworks teams. His former employers will do anything to both capture and keep Target: Shadowhawk a secret. As for Ben/The Other. They just want to understand how the fusion happened and what caused the alien crash...
WildstormStill the idea I had for a version of
The Authority who AREN'T A GIANT PACK OF ASSHOLES was to good in my mind to pass up. So away from from Marvel for the week. Even if I did have an interesting concept for The Prowler & Rocket Racer based on a comment by
Willow about No More Black Heroes From the Ghetto as an origin...
But how to make the world's most proactive jerks into non-jerks. One. Change the era. I decided to make them a team of pulp action heros. Two. Gender-swap! Yes, thats right, boys become girls! Girls become boys! Someone becomes a robot!
The League of Secret Authority was originally founded in the 1870s by genius Nikola Tesla and Emperor Joshua Norton dedicated to protecting humanity and exploring the edges of understanding. Over the years various figures have been rumored to be attached the group. The former lawman John Reid and his Indian partner. Don Diego de la Vega. The master markswoman Annie Oakley. Even Thomas Edison confidant and master magician Harry Houdini...
But in the 1920s Tesla had retreated to his researches, turning the group over to one of his many students, the African-American engineer and inventor Adam Spicer. Spicer, a native of New Orleans, was also known by the name of his best invention, the one-man "tank" called the Great Engine. Spicer would also build and maintain the League's strange and advanced weaponry and vehicles...
Other members of the League during the 20s include:
- Lady Jane Hawkmore. British noblewoman and social chameleon. A master of disguise and capable of blending in with any gathering of people.
- The female pirate Captain Midnight and her lover the blind seer known only as the Delphine.
- Ex-military scout and tracker, the Cherokee war leader Shane Swift.
- Tesla's masterwork. The artificial man; Jack Sparks.
- The mysterious Chinese healer, sorceress and martial artist known as Doctor Qi.
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So its about time I actually DID something with this secondary journal since I paid for it. I figure I'll slowly copy over my fiction stuff from my LJ as well as posting new stuff (if I can kick myself to get something done) here. And I'll crosspost the Tuesday Tangent posts. Starting by copying over the already done stuff...
MarvelKid Santeria & the Brothers Voodoo. Four wrestlers in masks with another goofy, slightly exploitive gimmick. A stable of b-list tweeners who'll likely never headline. OR a group of hedge wizards/vampire hunters who use the constant on-the-road lifestyle of the pro wrestler as the perfect cover for hunting down the vampiric minion's of the Brazilian vampire criminal known only as
The Swarm...
Hobie Brown and Robert Farrell have been friends since childhood. They kept each other out of trouble growing up poor in Harlem. They worked together to get through high school. They went to M.I.T. together and both ended up with doctorates. Hobie in Mechanical Engineering and Robert in Chemical Engineering. They were best man at each other's weddings. And together they formed Bootstrap Propulsion Labs. Which eventually became Bootstrap Inc, a multi-billion dollar company that specialized in experimental engine, vehicle and alloy design.
And when they found that their ideas had been stolen by members of the secretive, neo-nazi
T.H.O.R. (Tactical Harbringers of Revolution) orginization they came to a decision together. Finding that T.H.O.R. had agents throughout the local and federal government protecting them, they decided to put a stop to the racist and power-hungry group on their own. Under the umbrella of their now more secure company they formed
The Wrecking Crew, an elite team of special ops with one goal. The destruction of T.H.O.R. and the ending of its threat to themselves and America.
Armed with experimental arms, equipment and vehicles from the fertile minds of Brown and Farrell, the Wrecking Crew wage a secret war against a merciless enemy. Michael "Prowl" Bell - Delta Force, Wally "Hound" Burr - Marine Force Recon, Ken "Jazz" Sansom - FBI forensic psychologist, Laurie "Ratchet" Faso - JPL Labs, Chris "Ironhide" Latta - Military Police unarmed combat trainer, Corey "Brawn" Burton - US Special Forces, Suan "Trailbreaker" Blu - Marine RECON infiltration expert, Frank "Gears" Weller.
The Avengers of the West Coast are a band of bounty hunters for the most part. Though they've made a reputation taking down corrupt law-men, industrialists and robber barons. Throughout California and up the coast and down into Mexico, these
Avengers are known as heroes for the downtrodden...
Led by Roger Stephens a former U.S. Cavalry officer. The charismatic and brave man is often simply called THe Captain. Other members of the band include the Portuguese brother and sister, Pedro de (I hope de replaces the) Vivo one of the fastest guns around and Felicidade de Ruvio rumored to be a bruxia or witch. And Clint Eagle-eye the half-Apache scout and marksman...
I'm still trying to come up with tangent versions of other Avengers from that era. Black Panther, Hercules, Beast, Wonder Man, Jocasta, Swordsman, Mantis, Vision and Falcon. At least I think Falcon was an Avenger then. All I know is the Avengers roster got huge there for awhile. Sometimes with around a dozen or more active members...
The Four are a globally hunted team of killers and espionage freelancers. Led by the genius inventor and amoral monster Dr. Reed Richards. His fantastic, if evil, devices have made them the most wanted people on the planet. The others include master of stealth and disguise Sue "Invisible" Storm and her explosives expert brother Johnny "Torch" Storm. And expert pilot and brutal killer Ben "The Thing" Grimm. Grimm gained his nickname after surviving being shot down but with horrific scarring...
Though wanted by every law enforcement agency around, The Four are the personal white whale of the
Advanced Ideas Squad of INTERPOL. Each member is a brilliant police officer as well as having varied and personal motivations for hunting the Four. Latverian nobleman Victor Von Doom attended the same schools as Reed. The two were at first friendly rivals. But as Richards revealed himself to have no concern for the human costs of his research, Von Doom distanced himself returning home. The good doctor had specialized in cybernetics and robotics, planning to use his genius to help the people of his small country. Latveria had become a democracy over the last several decades but their former ruling family were respected and revered. The former Contessa, Victor's mother, was a leading humanitarian. It was her work at building peace that caused her enemies to hire the Four to eliminate her. This murder drove Von Doom into joining INTERPOL and forming the A.I.S.
Other members include the Americans Bentley Wittman: surveillance (FBI) and Phillip Masters: tactics (CIA), Italian Jose Santini: counter-terrorism (Guardia di Finanza), Spaniard Esteban Corazon De Ablo: demolitions/chemical weapons disposal (National Police) and Russian Ivan Kragoff: ex-commando and small unit tactics. The elite team is dedicated to the pursuit and capture of the Four at any cost...
The Spider: Man Without Fear. Peter Po Parker is 2nd Generation American Chinese and a high-wire acrobat for the Lee & Ditko Brothers Circus. All he wants is to entertain people and challenge himself with his often dangerous act. And maybe making up his mind about the romantic triangle he's in with bare back rider Gwen and lion-tamer's assistant Mary Jane. But when you're family tree is filled with crazed Geomancers, international spies and Mystic Kung-Fu warriors its hard to be "normal". Especially when your family and their enemies keep interfering...
Inspired by Plok's idea of "Marvel as written by various famous authors", Willow of Seeking Avalon has been doing Marvel Tangents. Where the names are the same but the concepts are different. So far she has
The Gambit a group dedicated to fighting supernatural threats to mankind. At the cost of one of their members lives every mission. Which led to my idea for
X-Man, DaVinci's secret robot, secret ally of the Gambit. Which then led to
The Uncanny X-Men. A future team of robots built by
The Exiles (a community of alien dissidents exiled to Earth to get them out of the way) to battle threats on Earth and abroad...
Also
The Avengers (Black Panther, Silver Fox, White Tiger and The Wolverine), a female team of half human/half beasts empowered by the demi-goddess Circe to fight evil. Inspiring me with
The Fury, a former sergeant in the Ukranian army, now the avatar of the Furies. She is the more violent and darker rival to the Avengers...
She's also got
The Amazing Nightcrawler, three generations of the Wagner family who fight evil in New York using their family's gift/curse...
Which leads me to
The Doctors' Strange. The staff of the Stephen Strange Memorial Hospital have unique problems. But thats expected when you're the worlds authority on treating metahuman issues. Chief-of-staff Dr. Matt Murdock has to balance the care of his sometimes dangerous patients with the emotional hot house that is his staff. Think Grey's Anatomy with super-heroes...
ETA: Willow adds (from an IM with Zombie Mallet) new takes on
Ghost Rider as a cross of Deadman & Max Headroom. And her take on
Deadpool. Which reminds a little of The Crow & a little of both The Spectre & Ragman...
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