Heroes of the Worlds War
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Heroes of the Worlds War
Airman
Airman was Drake Stevens, son of ARGO researcher Claude Stevens, who turned his father’s MAS research into a flight suit weapon. Joining the the Skyman Air Force, Drake mass-produced his Airman armor and became the right-hand man of Skyman. After the Worlds War, Drake joined ARGO and now holds the rank of Commander within the organization.
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Black Terrors
Before the Worlds War, chemist Robert Benton and his assistant Tim Roland became the superhero “Terror Twins” after accidentally creating a secondary hyperstatic formula. During the Worlds War, Robert Benton would mass-produce his Terror formula to create the Black Terror Division, one of the most effective superhuman armies of the war. The Terror formula is relatively dated by modern standards, but many Black Terror soldiers are still active in the superhero community using the formula as a base for further empowerments.
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Pele and the Kamalani
The goddess of earth, fire, volcanoes, lightning, and dance fled the gentle waters and sunny shores of Kuaihelani for Earth to escape the enormity of her otherselves and their stories. Fearing she would still be judged by humans because of her myths, she hid in Kilauea caldera until the Vril blitz of 1940 drove her to rise up and engage the goddess Amaterasu in battle. Emerging victorious, Pele was praised by the people of Hawaii and took to it like a flower to the sun. She was vivacious, vapid, and loveable–a pop celebrity through-and-through. Years later, after befriending Amaterasu, Pele would decide that what she was missing in her life was a family, and so created through diverse ways and in the manner of her kin daughters–the Kamalani.
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Phantom Sphinx
Born in 4th millennium Egypt, Amron was one of the first superhumans on Earth. With his powers over nature, he protected his homeland until his body fell into a death-like torpor. His people believed he was dead and mummified him, which allowed him to survive down through the centuries until his body could recover. Rising in the 1940’s, Amron joined the fight against the Axis forces who dared to invade his homeland. Following the war, Egypt joined Earth State, and Amron was stuck taking orders from foreign bureaucrats he detested. Assigned to guard the Giza Necropolis, he carries out his duties with great reluctance.
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Rainbow
Rainbow, better known as Jim Travis, was a post-Langdon superhero who dove headfirst into superheroics more for fame and publicity than any real goodwill. But after he realized that innocent people suffered through his glory-seeking, he put his bright costume away and became a true hero. Jim is often cited nowadays as an example of practicality in superheroics, of putting what works ahead of flashy costumes and gimmicks.
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Rainbow Boy
Jack Walton was a teenaged prodigy who underwent hyperstasis while playing with prisms in his lab. Gaining the ability to merge with light, he became Rainbow Boy, and worked with Hydroman as a partner and later as a coordinator for the Hydroman navy. After the war, he joined the Warp Authority to guard against the expansion of Ialpor.
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Skyman and the Skyman Air Force
At the age of seven, Alan Turner lost his ARGO researcher parents to an accident involving a plane and a portal to the universe of Gigipal. Vowing to fight against the chaotic and random forces that ruined peoples’ lives, he began training to be a, in his words, a scientist-policeman, under the care of his uncle Peter Turner, a veteran member of the Kokomaht Project. With world-class training and telepathic control over a fleet of myrmidon planes, he became Skyman, one of the greatest superheroes of the 1930’s. During the Vril blitz, his robot planes were able to be activated behind the Vril walls and were instrumental in winning back America from the Axis. He continued to fight the Axis throughout the 1940’s as commander of the Skyman Air Force, an organization which exists to this day.
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Spectro
His true name is unknown and unknowable due to him erasing it from reality. He is only Spectro, now and forever. Spectro was one of the youngest thaumaturgist to join the Circled Square under the card of the Hanged Man, but he demonstrated decisive action during the Dr. Styx incident. During the 1930’s, he organized the “containment policy” by which superhumans negotiated with the anti-superhuman Axis. When the Vril blitz occurred in 1940, he was devastated, and drove himself past the breaking point fighting the Axis to make up for his “mistake.” He would suffer a nervous breakdown during the Stardust incident that greatly exacerbated the situation.
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Wasp (1940’s)
The Wasp of the 1940’s is a tragic example of how one incident can forever color a legacy. He is better known as Manholeman due to his unfortunate, but amusing, manner of demise.
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