Okay this isn't really a fanfic, originally parts of it was used as
background material for a RPG universe based on L&C and Battlestar
Galactica it has been stored in several different forms since the mid
90's, but lately it's been altered it into an idea and background
material for a shared Fanfic universe, but it's not ready for stories
just yet.
I plan to eventually set up a web page and post this material and
make it a shared universe, with all fiction being linked from the
twenty three thousand year time line that makes up the bulk of the
material.
It needs several things before it can be set up as a shared universe
web site, ready for stories to be written and inserted.
The 1st is C & C naturally, at least you will think that if you look
through the material.
The 2ond is a disclaimer I've got some workable examples for R1/2,
L&C, SM and BG, but how would I set up a disclaimer when I can't be
sure what will be included in the time line page.
The 3ird is any other comments would be welcome, just remember this
is an alterverse for all the shows mentioned and the background and
story lines will vary greatly especially for Sailor Moon and
Ranma1/2.
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SUPERMAN UNBOUND
Let me introduce you to a alternate universe
A universe where Clark isn't quite as alien as he thinks.
A universe where Elvis becomes president.
A universe with a Silver Millennium, but it was tarnished silver.
A universe where the 13th colony isn't happy with the Earth and
splits.
A universe where Jusenkyo has connections to the Silver Millennium
and a certain pool gets muddied before a young man's father sends him
into it.
A universe where Superman's power is unbound.
SECTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the TV series �Lois & Clark� superman has had his powers
copied or transfered to other people, at least three times.
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�BOLT FROM THE BLUE�
The first time this happened it was to a suicidal Wally Waldeker.
Superman's power was copied by a lightning strike and later Gretchen
a doctor in love with Luther succeeded in building a machine to
transfer Wally's power to herself. This ended with both Gretchen
and Wally losing their power.
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�ULTRAWOMAN�
The next time this happened it was to Lois, superman had all his
powers transfered to Lois by a red kryptonite ray-gun. Later Lucille
figures out instead of superman becoming depressed, as hoped, it had
transfered his power to Lois and manages to transfer the powers to
herself. This ended with superman transferring his powers back from
Lucille.
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�CHIP OFF THE OLD CLARK�
Another lightning strike copies superman's powers to a small boy
called Jesse Stiponavic, in the episode the Doctors decide that he
is growing out of them. Again this ended with the child quickly
losing the super-powers.
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WHAT IF
What if Wally and Gretchen's powers eventually returned, what if
Ultrawoman and Lucille regained theirs, what if Jesse wasn't growing
out of his powers, but growing into them, WHAT IF...........
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The idea was originally more a Role Playing Game than a story
idea, it basically dealt with the idea of several groups developing
ways to copy some percentage of superman's powers to normal humans
and the changes it would have on the world as these powers slowly
spread.
The idea was originally a limited crossover alterverse of the
original Battlestar Galactica and �Lois & Clark�, but Cute Kitsune,
R. Robertson and several others from the Fanfic_Idea_List made
suggestions that would allow a heavily altered versions of both Ranma
and Sailor moon to be slotted in, more importantly both series added
variety to the super powers available and increased the potential for
more story lines to be developed.
Everybody having access to super powers, doesn't sound exciting,
thats what you think!
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SECTION 2.0 ASSUMPTIONS and GENERAL BACKGROUND
The original 13th fleet Colonist, had a technology that could be
considered a logical progression and refinement of the technologies
known in the early to mid 20th century with the significant
exceptions of the Black kryptonite warp technologies and a almost
total blind spot for any short of digital electronics, instead their
electronics and the associated control and automation hardware was
highly complex analog computers designed for specific task, the only
know general purpose �train-able� computers were simple analog neural
networks, based on studies of the human brain.
When the refugees from the other 12 colonies arrive in the
vicinity of earth's solar system sometime after 2030, they have the
remnants of a very advanced technology, but it completely lacks
digital electronics and the associated general purpose programmable
computers, in a seeming paradox they have a several Artificial
Intelligences based on technology taken from the enemy chasing them.
The AI's are based on growing a neural network analog in large
synthetic crystals.
The Silver Millennium Quantum technology is usually just referred
to as magic and most who possess remnants of the technology or
realize the truth go to great lengths to keep it mysterious and
magical.
Silver Millennium period artifacts survive on earth and the dead
planetary colonies scattered about the solar system the artifacts
vary from the Jusenkyo pools that eventually helped to bring about
the Silver Millennium's downfall to the stolen Hinshin Rods that
allowed the first Serenity to establish the Silver dictatorship of
the radical feminist group. All the �magical� artifacts are based,
at least in part on esper/aura technology and the remnants of black
kryptonite brought to the system by the original colony ships. The
other colours or forms of kryptonite can be used to make Silver
Millennium type artifacts, but using them would eventually be lethal
to any un-enhanced human and will painfully take away the powers of a
person with a Kryptonian aura enhancement. Black kryptonite is the
only safe form of kryptonite and it does not occur naturally.
In this version of the idea it is assumed all of the people in the
above episodes, of �Lois & Clark� eventually had their super powers
come back.
It is also assume that at least three were put in a position to be
able to sell copies of their super powers.
Another assumption is a superman universe where his kryptonian
powers did not develop until clark was in his late teens.
By 2010 there are four publicly known Sources of enhancement or
�packages�, they all give the individual some percentage of a
Kryptonian's ability, all are limited to less than a 100% of
Superman's Ability or SA and most are far less.
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The four public �packages� actually use two different methods of
giving a human some percentage of superman's abilities. Most people
and world governments assume that all are variations on the American
military's method that uses synthetic materials to mimic the aura
transfer effect, of the red kryptonite in Lucille's ray gun. You
know the ray gun that gave Lois superman's powers and let her be the
one in tights for a while.
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The enhancement packages differ greatly in the maximum percentage
of superman's ability they can give and the raw numbers of people
they can be used to enhance.
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I also assume a less "super" superman, in other words a superman
who's power is more in line with the demonstrated abilities in the
Lois & Clark series, a low yield atomic bomb (5 kilotons) would hurt
him badly about like the asteroid he destroyed and a high yield
fusion bomb would kill him or any other kryptonian.
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This universe has a very different past from the standard superman
story, for example Earth's Humans and Kryptonians are both remnants
of a large group of refugees about 21,000 BC the refugee fleet
stopped at earth and a large splinter group colonized a small
continent they name Atlantis. The majority of the refugees took most
of the ships and continued on for another 5 years and finally
colonized a planet they named Krypton.
There are other reasons for Clark or any Kryptonian having super-
powers, but Clark is just like he looks essentially human.
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(SEE SECTION 5.0 TIME LINE 20949 BC to 20810BC) for more details on
why superman and all kryptonian have super-powers when they return
to earth's solar system.
It was extremely rare for a person under 15 years of age to receive
any type of Kryptonian aura enhancement and in all know cases the
enhancements seemed to not �take� or fade until the child was in
their late teens and most of their growth spurts have ended.
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Enhanced humans are vulnerable to green kryptonite disruption of
their powers, and will be affected by kryptonite in the same way
superman or any Kryptonain is effected.
The only safe form of Kryptonite is black Kryptonite all other forms
of kryptonite leak low level radiation that slowly becomes lethal to
any human without a Kryptonian aura.
The pain and other effects on Superman or any human with a Kryptonian
aura come from the solar energy stored by the person's aura being
released in an uncontrolled manner, if no energy is stored then the
Kryptonian aura protects them from the kryptonite radiation.
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Any level of Kryptonian enhancement causes the person to slowly
regenerate over an eight year period to an apparent biological age of
about 25 and then age at a greatly reduced rate that is dependent on
SA level or percentage of superman's ability the enhancement gave
you.
(SEE SECTION 3.0 SUPER ABILITIES for approximate life spans.)
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These enhancement packages are not a cure-all for human sickness,
but they are extremely effective at making humans resistant to most
types of infection and general injury.
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The enhancement packages usually allows a person to survive long
enough to recover from what previously was a lethal disease, but it
does not prevent the person from catching a disease, it reduces the
severity, usually to the level of the common cold.
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The enhancement effectively makes a person immune to getting
cancers, but has varied effects on any cancers present before the
enhancement depending on the type of cancer some forms it slows or
stops the growth, while with others it makes it grow faster and a
few it has no effect, the same goes for any other type of genetic
disease.
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All these enhancements induce a self sustaining change in a humans
aura or bio-energy fields that allows them to absorb sunlight and to
a lesser extent Neutrino's as a ready energy source and to warp space
around themselves creating bio-forcefields and if the aura is of
sufficient strength even alter the gravity field and fly.
Martial arts training can allow an enhanced individual to have
better control of their aura, usually a fourth level black belt can
increase their apparent SA by one, with no change to their SR , while
a eighth level black belt can increase their apparent SA level by
two and their SR level by one.
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Children born to an enhanced woman have an equivalent SA level
that slowly fades 7 to 13 days, after birth, to near un-enhance
levels and remain just above the un-enhanced norm until the child
reaches their late teens, then their SA and SR levels will slowly
grow to match their mother's enhancement level. (This could be raised
to a higher level by one of the enhancement packages.)
The Kryptonian aura is designed for humans, and all attempts to
use it on non human life forms has ultimately failed, in some
situations it can give the animal a boost that slowly degrades after
a few days or weeks.
The Bird people of Phoenix mountain are fully human with a
relatively minor genetic addition that enhanced their strength and
gave them wings along with a group of highly specialized muscles
allowing them to have a very short bursts of powered flight followed
by long term soaring.
The animal templates and two remaining Youma templates available
at Jusenkyo are not human and can not receive a kryptonian
enhancement, the Phoenix or God of the bird people is a human with
the birdpool modification, but has additional modifications that
increase his abilities far above the other birdpeople. The Phoenix's
has the raw strength and speed of a 1SA 5SR enhancement as well as
the ability to create fire-storms and is probably the only true
immortal on the planet, completely destroying his body will cause it
to spontaneously appear as a baby in an egg like structure and slowly
regenerate with all memories eventually returning. The Phoenix has a
special relationship to Jusenkyo and to a certain extent control it,
but this is limited to a small set of pre-programmed orders.
Having a alternate Jusenkyo form does not interfere with the human
form receiving or having a kryptonian enhancement, the kryptonian
enhancement will not bleed from one form to the other.
SA
Stands for SUPERMAN's ABILITY and is a number that represents the
percentage of superman's ability and determines how strong, how
tough, and what kryptonian powers the enhanced human has access to.
I. E. by definition superman is 100SA.
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SR
Stands for SUPERMAN's RESERVES and is a number that roughly
represents the enhanced humans endurance, it also gives a rough
estimate of the numbers of enhancements that they can be a donor for
per year.
I. E. by definition superman is 100SR.
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SECTION 3.0 KRYPTONIAN AURA ABILITIES
KRYPTONIAN ABILITIES AND THE SA LEVELS REQUIRED
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The SA # determines what kryptonian abilities the enhanced person
can access.
ABILITY = Required SA number.
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SUPERMAN = 100
Superman or any other born with the full Kryptonian aura and raised
from early
childhood in our solar system.
Roughly 950 year lifespan
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TELEPATHIC = 95
Full telepathic abilities, able to make an un-enhanced human �hear�
them.
All Kryptonian's not raised from early childhood in our solar system
top
out around 95 SA.
Roughly 900 year lifespan
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EMPATHIC = 90.0
Empathic to some un-enhanced humans and limited weak telepathic
ability to
kryptonians or others 90SA or higher.
Roughly 895 year lifespan.
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HEAT VISION = 75.0
Very limited, at this SA level, to be used effective must have 85SA
or better.
Now has extreme lift capability, can extend flight aura around super-
tanker
sized objects.
Roughly a 890 year lifespan.
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REGENERATION = 65.0
Ability to re-grow a body part, at 70SA a limb, would require 5
years to re-grow.
Can now extend flight Aura around Destroyer sized objects.
Roughly 885 year lifespan
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FLIGHT = 40.0
Now control movement at very high speeds and compensate for the use
of super-strength,
at 45SA can start to extend flight Aura around small objects, such
as a small car.
Now has full X-ray vision capabilities, only blocked by lead or
denser material.
Roughly 860 year lifespan.
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BREATH = 25.0
Super-cooled air stream, higher SA allows colder faster supersonic
jets.
X-ray vision now only blocked by materials slightly less dense than
lead.
Aura now extends slightly above the surface of the skin, thin skin
tight clothing is
slightly protected.
Roughly 790 year lifespan
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X-RAY VISION = 15.0
At this SA level X-ray vision limited to thin or low density
materials mostly organic.
Microscopic vision limits increased to ultraviolet wavelengths.
Hair retains enough energy to be very resistant to cutting, a blow
torch is now required
to get a close shave.
Roughly 675 year lifespan.
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SMELL = 7.0
Near blood hound level sense, resistance to pheromones and other
subliminal smells.
a MK 45 Five inch gun's, shells can badly bruise, multiple hits can
disable or kill.
Roughly 450 year lifespan
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MICROSCOPIC = 5.0
See microscopic sized objects near red lights wavelength.
Roughly 400 year lifespan.
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TELESCOPIC = 4.0
Equivalent of binoculars 2500x500 increases slightly with higher SA.
Roughly 350 year lifespan.
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NIGHT-VISION = 3.0
See with infrared and in very low light conditions.
a MK 15 Gatling's 20 mm shells bruise a sustained burst of 60 rounds
can kill.
a hard surface, such as reinforced concrete, can allow jumps of over
500 meters vertically.
Roughly 300 year lifespan.
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HEAR = 2.0
Supersensitive infra-sonic to ultrasonic ranges.
Can attain running speeds of about 100 km/hr.
Roughly 250 year lifespan.
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MIND = 1.0
Near photographic memory, high speed thought/reactions, IQ+30,
increased SA levels
have little further effect on mental capabilities beyond improving
reaction times.
Badly bruised by 0.50 caliber shells, could be killed by a sustained
burst from a Ma Duce.
Roughly 200 year lifespan.
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STRENGTH = simple % of superman's ability determined by SA.
The SA percentage of Superman's full strength, until 40SA has
problems using the strength effectively, must take special care with
balance and center of gravity when moving things that exceed their
weight, problems similar to a normal human in a zero gravity
environment.
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SPEED = simple % of superman's ability determined by SA.
The SA percentage of Superman's full speed, until 40SA limited to
superman's running or jumping speed, until 37SA has trouble changing
direction or stopping at high speeds.
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HEALING = simple % of superman's ability determined by SA.
The SA percentage of Superman's healing rate, also slow nerve
regeneration.
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SR=Superman's Reserve, the percentage of stored power, roughly how
long you can do something.
SA=Superman's Ability, In general this represents the percentage of
superman's 100%.
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SECTION 4.0 THE ENHANCEMENT PACKAGES
The SA and SR numbers of any of the enhancements can be increased
with high level physical training, such as Martial Arts or possible
through the possession of Silver Millennium artifacts.
It is a quirk of each enhancement package that the SR levels are
roughly fixed for each package, Gretchen's method always produces a
energy reserve that eventually reaches 20SR no matter what SA level
is purchased. The military and Civilian packages always produce a
energy reserve around 10SR across the full range from 1SA even to
the rare 15SA used on the special forces.
None of the Kryptonian enhancement packages are cumulative, repeated
enhancements at the same SA level will not increase an individuals
SA or SR rating.
A Silver Millennium artifacts will sometimes increase SA and SR
levels slightly and/or give additional abilities not related to the
Kryptonian aura enhancement.
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I. E. A civilian managing to get two passes in the 3SA enhancement
package would remain at 3SA and 10SR, but a 3SA civilian could be
raised to 5SA or higher if he was to join the US military or buy a
5SA or higher enhancement from Gretchen and Luther.
Physical training can often increase the SA and SR levels with
martial arts giving the best return, but some types of olympic level
training, can nearly match martial arts training.
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Silver Millennium artifacts and enhancements are complex and give
various �magical� powers not related to the Kryptonian enhancements
in some cases the artifacts can be additive with each other or even
a Kryptonian enhancement, but all Silver Millennium �magic�
enhancements are limited in raw strength, toughness and speed to
about 2SA and 3SR for and an individuals body, in some cases a Silver
Millennium artifact can give the potential for extremely high healing
rates, much like the legendary werewolves.
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The enhancement packages and their absolute maximum enhancement
levels.
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Lex and Gretchen's package 35SA and 20SR
Multi-frequency voltage donor aura overlay transfer.
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Presidential package 70SA and 40SR
Natural lightning donor aura overlay transfer.
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Military package 15SA and 10SR
Synthetic thick crystal donor aura overlay transfer.
-4-
Civilian package 8SA and 10SR
Synthetic thin crystal aura resonance match.
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Enhancements that are limited to very specific groups or can't be
purchased
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Lucille's ray-gun 93SA and 50SR
Unique form of kryptonite that has been �lost/hidden�, donor aura
transfer overlay.
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Kryptonian descendants that come to earth as an adult 95SA and 50SR
Kryptonian's raised from early childhood on Earth 100SA and 100SR
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Remnants of the Silver millennium maximum of 2SA and 3SR and usually
�magical� or esper abilities unlike Kryptonian super powers.
JUSENKYO, HENSHIN RODS and other so called MAGICAL artifacts such
as mirrors, rings, pendants, bracers, swords and many other things.
In the late 1990's Jusenkyo had a partial Kryptonian aura added to
one of the pools, this was not discovered for several years.
(see time-line 1996-2002)
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SECTION 4.1
-1- LEX GRETCHEN PACKAGE
started 1994 rumors 1998 Publicly confirmed 2005
Maximum 35% of Superman's Ability or 35SA
Fixed at 20% of Superman's Reserves or 20SR
Gretchen's machine, is very flexible in the SA levels it can enhance
a person to, up to it's maximum of 35, the SR however is fixed at 20
SR.
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USED ON
A rat 5SA, Gretchen Kelly 35SA, Lex Luther 35SA, Asabi 30SA. Lex
has also made available through the black market a wide range of
enhancement levels from 1SA to 28SA, with most enhancement levels
being much less than 10SA.
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COST
This package was never officially purchased by any representative
of the US government, but a small number of independently wealthy
politicians purchased wildly varying enhancements from Lex.
The black market cost varied greatly the initial offering of 2SA
enhancement went for $2,000,000 dollars, with each additional level
increasing the price by $1,500,000 up to 10 SA.
The rarely offered 28SA price never dropped below $75,000,000, but
when the Mexican facilities went into full operation, in 2019 the
price for foreign nationals dropped to $50,000 for a 1SA enhancement.
with an additional $100,000 per SA level up to 3SA.
An individual who is enhanced by Gretchen's machine needs to spend
at least a month training before than can safely interact with un-
enhanced humans.
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ABILITIES
The powers, Gretchen's enhancement give are dependant on the SA
level purchased, but always lacks any ability above 35SA such as
Flight, Heat Vision and Regeneration.
Initially the most common enhancement Luther put up for sale was
2SA that gave the recipient some super senses and a level of
superhuman strength, speed, and resistance. Later when the 3SA
American military package started to become wide spread he increased
this to higher levels eventually offering 28SA as the top of the
line product, available only at a king's ransom.
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METHOD/ENHANCEMENT LIMITS
Gretchen's machine uses modulated high voltage at thousands of
specially tuned frequencies to transfer the Kryptonain Aura pattern
along with a measure of stored energy from a donor to another person.
Each enhancement drops the donor's SR level by half the purchased
SA level and lowers the donors SA level by the same amount. A year
is required to restore the donor's SR and SA levels. The recipient's
SA level is initially at half their purchased level and roughly
twelve months are required to reach their purchased SA level and for
their reserves to go from half their purchased value to a full 20SR.
Gretchen's machine is tuned to use humans enhanced by natural
lightning or enhanced by her machine and it can drop their reserves
to less than 0.01SR, weakening them to near un-enhanced human levels
and requiring roughly two years to recover. Gretchen's machine has
trouble transferring from people born with a Kryptonian enhancement
or people enhanced by the Military or Civilian packages that use the
synthetic kryptonite.
When Kyrptonians or people enhanced by the Military or Civilian
methods are used as donors, then her machine is limited to a 1SA
10SR enhancement, and is unable to use the same donor more than once
a year.
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OVERVIEW
Often called the criminals package and originally well known for
being used by criminals it is not actually against any state or
federal law to sell, buy or have this enhancement.
The public assumes that it is illegal because it is most common
among criminals and the lack of people willing to acknowledge having
this package.
Initially Luther offers a range up to 10SA, but after the american
military and later the civilian programs starts he increases this
range to 20SA with a rare 28SA for the truly moneyed.
A raid of Fort Knox, in 2005, by thirty �criminals�, several of
which had kryptonian type enhancements as well as the �stolen�
Chinese mecha causes a government investigation that publicly proves
the existence of a non-military enhancement program and links it to
Lex Luther..
The investigation discovers that a private kryptonian enhancement
program exist somewhere in America and links it to the supposedly
dead business tycoon this is the first public confirmation that a
non governmental enhancement program exits. The Government
reluctantly admits that it can surpass the military package, but
quickly point out it is inferior to the Presidential package. The
public and most world governments assumed that Luther's package uses
a slightly improved form of the synthetic kryptonite or a natural
sample that is similar to the synthetic material produced in limited
amounts and at great cost for the two American Government
enhancement programs.
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SECRETS
The highest levels of the US government is aware of Lex and
Gretchen's method, but have decided to keep it a secret hoping he
will keep there secrets, later his package is used to take the heat
off of the US's enhancement programs.
Lex is very careful to conceal just how high Gretchen's equipment
can go, and most assume it is limited to 30SA. The US Government
believe it is less than 40SA because it has never been known to
produced a flight capable enhancement.
Luther views his unspoken agreement with the US government and the
leaking of the recipients, of his package as insurance and is very
careful in reporting all foreign nationals that pay his prices for
an enhancement.
The US government has directed several clandestine attempts to
obtain enhancements to Luther as a method to keep them away from the
military and presidential package, this was used less after the
public release of the civilian program.
It was Lex that warned the Government of a possible attack on Fort
Knox after he was paid to enhance several Chinese and Russian
"criminals" to 5SA.
SECTION 4.2
-2- PRESIDENTIAL PACKAGE
started 1998 revealed 2000
Maximum of 70% Superman's Ability or 70SA
Reserves of 40% Superman's Reserve or 40SR
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USED ON
William Waldeker 75SA, Jesse Stipanovic 80SA and any recipient of
the Presidential Package 70SA, which are usually carefully selected
secret service agents, very rarely military personnel and in a
single unique case a Japanese civilian.
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COST
Room and board for Waldeker's sister, at the White House and a
minimum of two months training, before the enhanced agents are
allowed to return to full duty.
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ABILITIES
Full flight capability with heavy lift, the enhancement level is
high enough that it grants the ability to extend their flight aura
around large fragile objects and mostly ignore balance or problems
caused by lifting from unreinforced points, much like superman does
with car bumpers or the keel of a ship.
The flight ability also allows them to mostly ignore inertia and
control their position, they can punch things with nearly full force
and not worry about flying off in reaction to their blows.
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This package only lacks heat vision and the Kryptonian
empathic/telepathic abilities, Waldeker's and Jessi's enhancement
levels are 5SA to 10 SA higher than any other with this enhancement
package, because they were enhanced directly from a Kryptonian aura,
the indirect copies made from Waldeker or the agents that were
enhanced from Waldeker reach a maximum of 70SA.
The general public feels the Presidential package is the only one
that creates a true superman.
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METHOD/ENHANCEMENT RATE
The Presidential package uses natural lightning to transfer the
kryptonian aura pattern usually by tradition in a thunderstorm on
the Empire state building.
Each enhancement drops the donor's reserves by 16SR increasing the
recipient's reserve to 20SR with the difference made up with energy
from the lightning strike.
Each enhancement drops the donor's SA level by 16SA and leaves the
recipient with a 16SA level, the donor requires six months to
recover and the recipient needs a year to reach 70SA and 40SR
Test done with Waldeker indicate that more than two enhancements a
year drains the donor dangerously close to losing flight capability,
for several months.
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HISTORY
William Waldeker was the first recipient of this package and a
short time later it was disrupted by multiple uses of Gretchen's
Tuned high voltage machine.
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Jesse was the second recipient, but his growth spurts were
interfering with his ability to use his enhancement and he
effectively lost his powers until his late teens when his growth
slows and stops, ultimately his SA levels build to a slightly higher
level than Waldeker's.
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Roughly a year after the last episode of "Lois and Clark" W.
Waldeker is attacked by a super powered Gretchen and Lex in an
attempt to kidnap him for further research they are soundly defeated
being unable to fly and having a power level of 35SA compared to
Waldeker's 75SA.
Waldeker immediately checks on his sister breaking up a kidnapping
attempt and goes into hiding for five months blocking several more
attempts to kidnap him or his sister, finally in desperation he
directly approaches the U.S. president and makes a proposal, two
weeks later his sister becomes a permanent resident of the white
house and Waldecker goes to the empire state building during a
thunder storm with two secret service agents.
Just over two years after Waldeker enhances the first two agents an
attempt on the presidents life forces three secret service agents to
reveal their abilities on live TV. A few pointed questions from
congress and the senate forces a partial revelation with an official
story line that claims the government has a program underway to
mimic superman's powers called the Ultraman project.
This package is heavily regulated by federal law and is never open
to the President or any other politician a special constitutional
amendment is enacted that requires all presidentially enhanced agents
to submit complete yearly reports of all activities to the supreme
court and limits the number of active enhancements to a maximum of
ten agents nominally placed directly under the presidents command,
but tasked with guarding the President, Congress and the Senate.
Later provision are added to the amendment to allow a 51% majority
in each house to allow presidential enhanced secret services agents
to be taken off active duty and �loaned� out or tasked with other
jobs.
SECRETS
The actual method of enhancement for this package is only know to
the agents that receive it and the highest ranking officers in each
branch of the armed forces.
The agents are aware that Gretchen, Superman, probably Lex Luther
and Ultrawoman know the true method, but less than a year after the
public revelation, a list was dropped at the white house detailing
every person that has purchased the Luther package along with their
SA enhancement level, it also ended with a promise to continue
dropping complete monthly list and an implied threat to reveal all
if they are ever taken and not pardoned. The list contained a way to
contact Luther with ads placed in the Daily planet.
The reaction of several foreign countries to the revelation of the
Presidential and shortly thereafter of the military package cause
the US government to try and use Luther's black market package as a
pressure relief valve for the very powerful forces seeking access to
the presidential and military packages.
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The highest levels in the government are aware of the general
method Gretchen's machine uses and they are also aware of its
limitations in the number of enhancements it can perform.
Waldecker's sister has the presidential package, but she has never
demonstrated the ability to fly, the white house staff are aware of
her strength, but eventually assume she was an early test subject
that had her mind damaged by one of the enhancement packages.
In later years the public assumes the Presidential package is a
much improved version of the military and civilian packages and that
it uses an even more expensive version of the synthetic kryptonite.
�
�
SECTION 4.3
-3- MILITARY PACKAGE
started 1998 revealed 2000
Maximum of 15% of Superman's Ability or 15SA
Fixed value 10% of Superman's Reserve or 10SR
�
USED ON
Special forces:
10 to 15SA only available to the US special forces and a rare few
selected from other friendly nations.
�
General military:
3 to 8 SA after 2015 most US military personnel get a standard 5 SA
enhancement.
�
Civilians:
3 to 8 SA later spun off as the civilian enhancement package, with
any enhancement above 3SA being extremely rare.
�
ABILITIES
The maximum 15SA enhancement level has access to limited X-ray
vision and enhancement of all other senses as well as a toughness,
speed and strength well above human levels or any of the later
civilian packages.
This package lacks flight ability and that limits the usefulness of
the superhuman strength, even a lowly private with a 3SA or 5SA
enhancement has the raw strength to easily pick up and walk off with
a mid sized Truck, but in practice his feet would sink into the
ground as the ground overloaded under his feet and the nonstandard
loading would warp the vehicles unreinforced frame. He can punch
hard enough to shatter blocks of concrete, but would be thrown back
dozens of meters by the force of his blow, run at high speeds but
only have limited control of stopping or turning, in general any
enhancement under 40SA has effects very similar to a person operating
in a near zero gravity environment.
�
COST
Expensive three years of research taking 30% of the armies black
fund each year.
The Synthetic material is extremely tedious to manufacture and
extremely costly to produce.
The recipients of a 10 to 15SA level enhancement requires an energy
transfer from a a donor that significantly weakens the donor for up
to a year and at least a months training is needed before the 10 to
15SA recipients are allowed to interact with un-enhanced personnel.
The lower level enhancements below 10SA is limited, by economics to
about 5SA for the military and the recipients come out of the
process with no initial super powers and a slow rate of power build
up that means no special training is required.
�
METHOD/ENHANCEMENT RATE
The US military has managed to develop a poor copy of Lucille's
original red kryptonite ray-gun by using a synthetic crystalline
material made of precisely constructed layers of titanium and uranium
and other more exotic materials.
The military uses two slightly different methods of enhancing
personnel the first a donor method that can give a 10 to 15 SA
enhancement level and a second low level method that requires no
donor, but can go no higher than 8SA and is usually limited to 3 to
5 SA.
The 10 to 15SA method fires a high intensity laser into a five
centimeter thick sample of the synthetic kryptonite, the sample's
thickness causes it to emit a very weak beam that requires a living
kryptonian aura of at least 30SA be placed between the beam and the
enhancement chamber. The enhancement chamber is designed to hold one
to five recipients, any more and the SA levels drop below 10SA.
The process requires the donor and recipients be in the active beam
and containment chamber for twelve hours, with each enhancement
dropping the SA and SR of the donor by 10, roughly a year is required
for the donor to recover.
The recipients after twelve hours have an initial SA level of 5 and
a reserve of 2SR, with their ultimate SA level depending on the
number present in the chamber. One recipient in the chamber means
their SA levels will eventually grow to 15 SA, while five recipients
in the chamber will eventually reach 10SA, both in about a year. The
SR level for all recipients eventually reaches a maximum around
10SR.
�
The 3 to 8 SA method fires a high intensity laser into a four
millimeter thick sample and it emits an intense beam that is fed
into a second device filled with a complex arrangement of synthetic
crystals that modulate the beam like a living kryptonian's aura. The
modulated beam is then routed into a large containment chamber
usually able to hold several hundred people.
The recipients must be under an active beam for 24 hours and
initially it has no noticeable effect, but the recipients slowly
start to store all forms of solar energy and their SA levels increase
over the next year to a maximum based on the intensity of the
modulated beam sent into the containment chamber.
This method is relatively fragile and higher beam intensities above
the 3SA level starts degrading the synthetic material and the
modulation device, at 5SA the material is good for several thousand
uses, at the intensities needed for 8SA the modulation crystals and
other materials can barely survive one use.
Originally before the Civilian program the military had set up a few
sites able to enhance 300 hundred personnel a day to the 3 to 5SA
levels.
The High level 10 to 15SA method was reserved for the elite special
forces and the enhancement rate never exceeded much more than two
dozen a year, and were only done at the original research center.
�
HISTORY/OVERVIEW
A Special forces General in charge of watching superman figures out
the reason and cause for Ultrawoman he makes a deal obtaining a
pardon for Lucille and her sister.
Lucille is unable to duplicate her original ray gun with any other
sample of red kryptonite but does manage to create a version using
synthetic kryptonite designed with data held in her research notes,
it is limited to transferring a maximum of 15SA of superman's
ability.
Initially only used on selected special forces, within a year a
government mandate requires that it be applied to all american
military personnel.
A slightly different process and form was developed that allowed a
modulation chamber to replace the living kryptonian source, but it
is limited to roughly 5SA because of the synthetic material's
tendency to burn out at higher beam intensities.
The military package was revealed by a senator just a few days
after the Presidential package was forced into the open leading most
to assume they are connected. The senator was responsible for
overseeing a research program into new types of armour and had
ordered the program cancelled as a failure just after it had secretly
started producing the synthetic materials used in the Lucille's
enhancement program. The general in charge revealed the armies
Ultraman program to the senator.
The senator's son, a captain in the air-force was killed in a
terrorist attack at his air-base within days of his father being
told of the armies enhancement project and the senator makes an
impassioned public plea for some form of the Ultraman project to be
applied to all military personnel.
�
After much debate the government ordered the army to start enhancing
all military personnel. The Military choose to use the recently
developed method that doesn't drain enhanced personnel to create a
standard 3SA enhancement package, later this is raised to 5SA and is
applied on the completion of basic training. The 10SA and 15SA
levels are reserved for the the elite special forces and requires
that �GIJANE� or someone with a SA rating 30 or above be a donor.
Government regulation during service and after, of enhanced
personnel is initially tight, but quickly drops to minimal levels
after the Civilian package is introduced.
Canadian military personnel were enhanced in extremely limited
numbers until they agreed to secretly pay for for the construction
of one enhancement facility, at an American base near the Canadian
border. Japan and England quickly followed with a similar secret
agreement to pay for the construction of an enhancement facility at
an American base in each country eventually these two foreign centers
were enhancing 100 Americans and 200 foreign military personnel a
day to the 3SA level.
�
SECRETS
The military program is assumed to be the joint effort of military
scientist and a renegade New Kryptonian known as ?GIJANE? only the
highest levels in the military are aware that the Kryptonian called
?GIJANE? is Lucille and a native human.
Most in the military assume that the Presidential and Luther
packages uses a method similar to theirs, probably with small sample
of Lucille's original red kryptonite or a better synthetic copy.
Only the very highest ranking officers in the armed forces are
aware of the true method used in the Presidential or Luther
enhancement packages.
Lucille, her sister and at least one top ranking officer in the
military program is aware of Ultrawoman's true origin and identity.
�
�
SECTION 4.4
-3- CIVILIAN PACKAGE
started 2010 revealed 2008
Maximum of 8% of Superman's Ability or 8SA
Economic maximum 3% of Superman's Ability or 3SA
Reserves 10% of Superman's Reserve or 10SR
�
Method used on or by
US Military, US Civilians later slowly accessible to the world
varies 1SA to 8SA
Most US civilians get 3SA, with most of the US military eventually
settling on 5SA.
ABILITIES
The american version is standardized at 3SA for all american
civilians with a rare 5SA given to about a dozen state troopers and
medical personnel from each state.
The 3SA level gives access to some enhanced senses, but lacks X-
ray, telescopic and microscopic vision and has a lower raw strength
and toughness than the 5 SA and the rare 10 SA to 15 SA that become
the standard enhancements for the American armed forces.
�
COST
Expensive required the moth-balling of three aircraft carrier groups
along with the closing of several military bases and other major
Government cutbacks. The US military required that all civilian
enhancement facilities be built at military bases as a method of
keeping those bases open and to better maintain the secrecy of the
Military package.
No training is needed, the slow rate of power build up allows an
individual to safely adjust without any special training needed.
�
METHOD/ENHANCEMENT RATE
The civilian package uses the same method as the 3 to 8SA military
package, but is limited, in the U.S. to 3SA to conserve the synthetic
materials and modulation chambers, often the military will use the
same facility to enhance military personnel to the 5SA level.
Each Civilian facility is built to the same design and only at a
military bases in each state, each site can enhance roughly 300
civilians per day at the 3SA level with an option to easily switch
over to 5SA for military personnel.
�
HISTORY/OVERVIEW
A 10 year medical study of enhanced military personnel is leaked to
the public revealing that even the minimal 3SA package probably
increases life expectancy to more than three centuries.
A year later the government requires the US military to make a 3SA
package freely available to all US citizens on their registering or
re-registering for selective service and reporting when called to
the designated military facilities around the country.
Initially a 5SA enhancement was to be made available to state
troopers and emergency personnel, but the reduction in the synthetic
materials life quickly limited this to a dozen for each state.
All american military branches are willing to upgrade the 3SA
package for a 7 to 15 year enlistment of civilians with wanted
skills.
Rumors of the higher levels extending life spans to six plus
centuries created a windfall for the military, at least in skilled
personnel.
The Canadian military always closely linked to the America's
military received limited access to the 3SA military package and
later after agreeing to pay for additional facilities also received
access to the civilian package for its citizens, as well as a few
special forces units being enhanced to 10 SA.
A year after the civilian program started in America the Japanese
manage to develop a limited process that salvaged burned out
synthetic kryptonite from the now semisecret American/ Japanese
military enhancement center. They used this badly eroded salvaged
material to build a low level civilian enhancement facility at one
of their self defense bases it quickly started enhancing 200 Japanese
civilians a day at 2SA, other countries were less successful and
started turning to the UN demanding access to the slowly increasing
number of civilian sites in America.
�
SECRETS
Initially the process for making the synthetic kryptonite and the
associated hardware was kept closely guarded, but massive political
pressure from the UN and the rest of the world forced the US to
reveal most of the Civilian package's secrets.
Eventually the only remaining, so called secret was the rumored
cheaper method that large groups of people and governments insisted
america must have for manufacturing the synthetic kryptonite and
resonance chambers.
�
�
SECTION 4.5
-&-
NELL and LUCILLE'S RED KRYPTONITE RAY GUN started 1994 ended 1994
Maximum of 93% of Superman's Ability or 93SA
Reserves of 50% of Superman's Reserve or 50SR
Enhancement drops reserves of donor 99.9SR and weakens them to near
human levels requiring nearly 2 years to fully recover.
�
This ray guns is lost, location know only by Superman and possibly
Ultrawoman.
�
Method used on or by
Ultrawoman and Lucille(?GIJANE?) both are assumed to be Kryptonain
by the public and most world governments.
�
SECRETS
?GIJANE? and at least one General in the US military is aware that
Ultrawoman is Lois, but both have kept her secret and their near
certainty about Superman's identity.
The refusal of Utrawoman and Superman to return the ray-gun or the
apparently unique form of kryptonite has caused some minor friction
in the generally friendly relations of ?GIJANE? with Superman and
Ultrawoman.
�
�
SECTION 4.6
-&&- KRYPTONAIN PACKAGE
Earth version started 1966 revealed 1991
The standard for the other packages.
100SA for a child born with a full kryptonian aura that is raised in
our solar system.
100SR for a child born with a full kryptonian aura that is raised in
our solar system.
95SA for an adult krytonian not raised under our star.
50SR for an adult kryptonian not raised under our star.
�
Not a formal package and is open to only those with a full
Kryptonian aura enhancement, the most notable members believed to be
Superman and Ultrawoman, there is believed to be at least one other
Kryptonian and she is closely associated with the US military code
named or called ?GIJANE?.
�
SECRETS
Only a few top generals are aware that ?GIJANE? is not true
Kryptonian.
Rumors abound of a group of south american countries allowing
Kryptonians to move to earth and farm!?
�
The American government is certain there is a small New kryptonian
colony somewhere in South America, but it is keeping a low profile.
�
SECTION 4.7
-&&&- Silver Millennium artifacts.
A lost technology based on latent esper abilities and the use of
salvaged black kryptonite to manipulate reality. Silver Millennium
technology often allowed the manipulation of the universe on the
quantum level usually limited by volume the larger the change in
reality the smaller the volume the effect can be achieved in.
Most of the black kryptonite came from the multi-ton warp cores of
the fifteen ships that remained in earth orbit and the FTL
transmitters originally set up on earth.
All are characterized by having a terrestrial crystal, usually Gem
quality with a small piece of black kryptonite embedded deep within.
These artifacts link to the possessor's aura amplifying and focusing
their esper ability, most artifacts give a minimal enhancement to
their body only the Henshin rods of the Senshi reach as high as 2SA
and 3SR, but most artifacts also confers several limited �magical�
abilities based on the artifact and sometimes the latent esper
ability of the user.
OVERVIEW
The HENSHIN rods and all of the Silver millennium artifacts have an
effect that is firmly based in multi-dimensional quantum physics,
and represents a cross section of the almost 2000 years that the
Serenity line ruled earth and the other colonies across the solar
system.
Nearly all remaining Silver Millennium artifacts are constructed
with bulk terrestrial crystals with a near microscopic amount of
black kryptonite and most can be grouped into mid and late era
artifacts. Early era artifacts are almost nonexistent most were
salvaged and the materials reused in making mid and late era
artifacts.
Middle era artifacts were almost never broken up for salvage
because of the discovery of method of leaving vague biological
memories on the devices, these memories could only be accessed by the
users descendants, making most devices valuable enough to not
recycle.
Late era artifacts are only discernible from mid era artifacts in the
improvements to the designs such as the clarity of the memories, the
ability to store larger amounts of power, smaller amounts of black
kryptonite were used, and where generally more efficient and
flexible in what they could do.
Not all Silver Millennium artifacts were hand held or human size the
most common large artifact was the Dome of shielding, this device
used half a splinter of black kryptonite and almost four hundred
kilograms of qartze, aluminum and iron.
.
It should be noted that by the 20th century that six out of ten
Americans and five out of Ten for the less diverse countries could
access the stored memories of any Silver millennium artifact and
quickly gain a feel for how to use it.
Nine of the thirteen henshin rods and possible the Serenity broach
have reappeared in Japan after being lost for over 20,000 year they
appear to be in the hands of several girls most in their early
teens.(see Section 5.0 Time-line 1982 and 1996 on)
�HISTORY
An executive named Serenity was also a high ranking member of a
radical feminist group called Silver. Serenity was placed in charge
of a the research program designed to tap the power of other planets
in earth solar system and use it, the program was nearing the final
testing phase and the large black kryptonite �power taps� had already
been placed on various planets, with only the final testing and fine
tuning left before the thirteen HENSHIN rods were finished, Serenity
used these still experimental rods to overthrow the democratic
council of Atlantis and set herself up as dictator, becoming the
first Queen Serenity.(see section 5.0 Time-line 20650 BC to 18532 BC)
�
The first Serenity formed a dictatorship ruled with her twelve so
called princesses and for the next 300 years she ruthlessly
confiscated or destroyed every remnant of the colonies earlier
technology forcing the population to depend on the new esper/black
kryptonite technology that she and her appointed nobility
effectively had a monopoly on.
�
HENSHIN RODS derive their great power from being linked to a
significant chunk of black kryptonite salvaged from the colony ship's
warp core and buried deep in each of the nine planets and several
of the largest moons in the solar system. The possessor of a HENSHIN
rod has a 2SA 3SR enhancement to their body and a limited ability to
alter reality in a small area around themselves, for example all the
rods allow their user to alter their clothes, create a illusion of
being someone or something else, call a copy of a small object into
existence and maintain it for long periods of time, in general a
HENSHIN rod that can alter a large area is limited to one aspect of
reality and lacks a focused attack, while a HENSHIN rod with a
powerful focused attack is limited to a relatively small area.
(see Time line 20600 BC, 18453 BC 1980, 1996)
RINGS from the Ring rebellion are minor artifacts created in great
numbers, first created about ninety years after Serenity took control
and represented another groups attempt to Oust Serenity and take her
place. The Rings had several major draw backs, chief among these was
the need for the Ring to draw on the energy reserves of the person
wearing the Ring, which lead to exhaustion after only twenty to
thirty minutes, of heavy use. The main advantage of the Rings was the
tiny amount of Black kryptonite needed and the huge number that could
be produced. The Ring Rebellion failed, but the first Serenity
acquired the technology and they were produced in relatively large
numbers throughout the reign of the Serenity's, mostly for the
nobility and high level military officers.
The Nobility and Wizard class was allowed access to black
kryptonite splinters throughout the Silver Millennium and these were
used to produce a large variety of �magical� artifacts, all these
devices were power limited usually only having Sunlight, fire, moving
water, moving air or the human aura as a power source.
The ONE HUNDRED and ONE pools of JUSENKYO are the remnants of
Beryl's attempt to produce an enhancement comparable to the Senshi's
HENSHIN rod based powers and was the original source of the Youma
variant forms. Beryl used the pools to give her rebels a relatively
powerful second body that could be hidden and remain undetectable
until needed.
�
Originally Jusenkyo contained over eighty different types of
powerful Youma forms all required life force energy to become fully
functional and can absorb that energy from any life form they touch
or store the radiated energy of their normal form, some Youma forms
had the ability to touch an object and summon and control quantum
shadows of that object turning it into a very small cloud of weapons
that follow the will of their creator. Only two Youma template
pools survive to the 20th century and up until 1996 when a partial
kryptonian aura was added to a female template pool, these remaining
two were the most powerful templates left at Jusenkyo.
�
Jusenkyo creates a complete alternate body based on the template
stored in the pool and aspects of the victims aura, the form not in
use is moved very slightly out of normal space and held in stasis
until the switch occurs, every effort was made to make this extra
body undetectable by any method and the only reliable way of
detecting this extra body is usually the applications of hot and
cold water, but this method only works if the agent doesn't have a
lock placed on the alternate form, Beryl's Rebellion had countless
ways of locking and unlocking the extra forms with any number of
devices from bracelets to water from specially designed
containers.(see Section 5.0 Time line 18596 BC - 17232 BC)
�
Only two triggers are know to cause the switching of Jusenkyo forms
hot/cold water or the death of one body, a week to five years after
the current bodies death the other form will appear from stasis near
the place the current body died allowing the individual to live on in
that form.
�
The Pools represent a mixture of Silver Millennium technology and
the technology of another race allied with Beryl that was attempting
to invade earth from another universe, the pools were secretly grown
almost forty years before the downfall of the final Queen Serenity
and represent a desperate move by Beryl to find a way to break the
hold the Serenity line had on earth and the rest of the solar system.
NOTE the liquid in the Jusenkyo pools is simple water, it has no
special characteristics and is simply a convenient working medium for
the crystalline machines grown in the walls and in the quantum
focusing array in the pseudo bamboo rod set in the center of each
pool.
�
The Youma form was only partially successful in matching the Senshi
and great numbers or large Youma forms were required to match the
enhancements given by the henshin rods and other weapons of the
Serenity regime.
�
In modern times all but two of the pools have templates of more
mundane life forms, ranging from house cat sized animals to a few
animals weighing around two tons and standing no more than three
meters high.
�
The recent addition of a partial kryptonian aura to a pool that
originally only gave a un-enhanced female form has stirred things up
and indirectly united the local tribes and brought the the site to
the full attention of China's ruling party.
(See Section 5.0 TIME LINE 1996, 1999.5-2000, 2011, 2012.5 and 2016)
�
�
SECTION 5.0 TIME LINE
�
20967 BC
A large Refugee fleet enters Earth orbit and an argument between
factions in the fleet over the habitability of the Ice bound planet
below. The planet shows obvious signs of being terra-formed by the
first and again later by the second wave with the characteristic
asteroid strike it's biosphere is very compatible with human
biological needs, most factions within the refugee fleet think the
planet is spiraling into a never ending ice-age and want to continue
their search, but a large minority of about one million human
colonist think the planet is just coming out of an ice age and
decide to settle on a small Island continent near the equator they
name it Atlantis and call the planet Earth.
�
The Refugee fleet spends six months replenishing and repairing what
they can in orbit around the newly christened Earth, finally breaking
orbit the fleet leaves seventeen ships in high earth orbit all are
deemed beyond the fleets or fledgling colonies ability to overhaul.
�
20965BC
The Earth colony loses contact with the refugee fleet as their
search for a habitable world takes all the vessels beyond the 62.8
light-year range of the Atlantis colonies three FTL starcoms.
�
The Atlantis colony sets up several punishment camps near the
equator on the ice bound and un-populated continents of their new
home world.
�
20951 BC
All ships in the wandering widely scattered searching Refugee fleet
are finally called to a star system nearly 400 light years from
Earth by one of the fleets survey ships. The second planet from the
local star, like Earth the planet was terra-formed by the first
wave, but somehow the planet missed the second wave's standard terra-
forming practice, of dropping an asteroid to cause the die off of
the first waves larger reptile species, the planets biology is a
slightly worse match than Earth for the humans of the refugee fleet.
Using low radiation fusion bombs the fleet wipes out the larger
first wave reptilian forms on most of the larger islands and one
small continent opening several biological niches for mammals of a
second wave terra-formed world.
�
20949 BC
The fleet names the planet Krypton because of the relatively large
concentration of a natural form of kryptonite in the planets upper
crust and core. The Kryptonite in the planets crust is a natural
version of the synthetic six dimensional crystals used in the FTL
drive and com system of every ship in the fleet, while highly
radioactive the black synthetic form is totally safe as all
radiation is channeled outside the normal four dimensions of space
time.
�
FTL communication is impossible within the Kryptonian solar system
because of the large amount of kryptonite in the planets that orbit
the local star.
�
The Refugee's weary and growing desperate assume the natural green
kryptonite is as safe as the black synthetic version and quickly
colonize the hurriedly terra-formed sections of the planet spreading
nearly five million people across the planet, dismantling ninety
percent of their starships to build a self sustaining civilization
on the planet.
�
The Atlantis colony, on Earth is finally getting on its feet
restarts limited research into enhancing or augmenting the esper
abilities present in all humans.
�
20937 BC
The Kryptonian medical personnel discovers that the colonist are
slowly dying from long term low level radiation, their scientist
discover that the natural green kryptonite, unlike the synthetic
version used in their ship's warp cores and other FTL equipment, is
leaking 0.1% of the radiation into the lower four dimensions. A
volume of space two light seconds across centered on Krypton has
enough radiation leaking into it to slowly kill every colonist on the
planet.
�
20936.5 BC
A report is leaked that shows the kryptonian colony doesn't have the
industrial capacity to rebuild the needed ships in time to save
most of the colonist, several riots break out killing dozens and
causing minor damage to several cities.
�
20934 BC
A Kryptonian colony is started in a nearby star system, but it is
marginal at best, able to support a few thousand humans in very
austere conditions.
�
Atlantis is thriving more than 5 million people as of the last
census, starting to do formal in depth resource surveys of the ice
bound continents.
�
20933 BC
Atlantis starts refurbishing two of the abandoned ships preparing
them to take a small crew one is tagged to head back to the dyeing
home world and maybe beyond to try and find where the other twelve
refugee fleets settled, the other is going to search for the rest
their fleet and see if they had settled down or maybe return to the
earth.
�
Meteorological studies indicate the ice is retreating the Atlantis
colony decides to fully develop the plentiful minerals and rich farm
lands of Atlantis and delay any large scale development of any other
continent, of the more than 5 million humans on the planet less
than 100,000 live off the continent of Atlantis.
�
20926 BC
The two refurbished ships leave earth neither are seen again.
�
Kryptonian unrest is growing as fewer and fewer options are being
presented to the population.
�
One percent of the humans on krypton are starting to exhibit low
level radiation poisoning.
�
The ruling council on Krypton starts a massive research project
trying to understand how the First wave reptiliods are thriving
under the low level kryptonite radiation.
�
Ground is broke on a massive research center set up on the mainland
it is designed as a small self sufficient city the council worried
about the collapse of their civilization push to make the research
center self sufficient as possible.
�
An Atlantis census places well over ten million people now living on
Earth.
�
20925 BC
The Kryptonian ruling council is dissolved fracturing into twenty
small city states or territories each trying to get, their people
off the planet and out of the radiation zone.
�
The research project studying the first wave reptiles continues
relatively unbothered in a fortress built on the mainland among the
gigantic reptile forms it's personnel are studying.
�
Four percent of the humans on krypton are starting to exhibit
advanced radiation poisoning.
�
A movement starts among the young especially the females of the
Atlantis colony, originally geared toward increasing the number of
young people on the ruling council, it later changes into something
that could be best be describes as a violent radical feminist cult
called Silver.
�
20924 BC
The research center discovers anomalies in the aura's of all the
life forms native to Krypton, they appear to have a very specific
pattern that extends partly outside normal space into the other
dimensions. The native animal's aura also stores energy gathered
from their star's light and neutrino stream somehow using that
energy to cancel out or block the unique Kryptonian radiation
constantly leaking into every point in normal space around the
planet.
�
20920 BC
Low level confrontations continue between the city states on Krypton
each state is preventing citizens from a neighboring city from
embarking on ships headed for the emergency colony, roughly ten
percent of the planets population is exhibiting radiation related
symptoms.
�
Atlantis doubles the size of it's ruling council all new members are
under the age of twenty-five, slightly less than half are female,
there are nearly twelve million people living on Atlantis.
�
20919 BC
A plague starts at the emergency colony and spreads rapidly in the
austere and crowded conditions, most ships rather than risk the
plague or return to the radiation, instead strike out for other
nearby marginal worlds listed in their data base or make a desperate
attempt to reach earth.
�
20918 BC
None of the ships sent to the emergency colony have returned, the
city states continue building and sending more ships, the research
center on the mainland is completely abandoned to its own devices,
the personnel and scientist continue to try and apply what they have
learned about the reptiliod life forms to the human life form.
�
20916 BC
The search ship from earth arrives and starts to enter high orbit,
for confusing reasons it is fired on by one of the city states, the
ships defensive fire causes several other states to react and a
limited war occurs killing nearly thirty percent on the planets
remaining population and disabling the ship in a wildly erratic
orbit around Krypton.
�
20915 BC
The Research center on the mainland discovers a way to add the multi-
dimensional aura of the life forms native to krypton to a human
colonist and it is effective in protecting a human from the
kryptonite radiation and all radiation with frequencies above
visible light.
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The Research center announces their discovery and broadcast the
plans on how to build the machinery needed to add the overlay to a
human's aura, the complexity and cost of the equipment is so great
that several war damaged city states can't build the needed
hardware.
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It is discovered that the aura overlay is passed from mother to
child naturally without the need of the machines to add it once the
mother has it.
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The overlay is no help in reversing the damage done by radiation
poisoning it only prevents further damage, the research center
estimates that probably 85% of the people who do receive the overlay
with still die within ten years.
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20913 BC
Open war is again being fought between the Kryptonian city states as
they fight for the resources to build or maintain the machines that
are adding the overlay to the surviving colonist.
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The war lord of the largest city state starts using the �walking
dead� as armed human waves to take control of several other city
states, a powerful speaker this dictator claims to have discovered a
method that will reverse the radiation damage to the millions that
are dying, all he needs is more resources to build the machines.
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20911 BC
Atlantis census place the population at over fifteen million people
with just over 140,000 living off the island continent.
�
A hobbyist, on earth starts playing with a sample of black
kryptonite and discovers a way to manipulate the universe at the
quantum level creating what he calls shadow matter, presenting this
to atlantis's ruling council they commission several research
projects into the hobbyist discovery.
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20910 BC
Krypton's population has fallen below a million, the research center
on the mainland is the only remnant able to maintain their
technology above an early 20th century level.
�
The mainland researchers try to start a program using hover cars to
rotate survivors through their functioning Aura overlay equipment,
but attacks and equipment failure ends this after just under 4000
more people are given the overlay.
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A Mainland research center estimate based on the partial reports
from the failed hover car program places the number of humans now
protected by the aura overlay as just over 600,000.
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20890 BC
The Kryptonian research center discovers a way to tweak the
protective aura and give all kryptonians a form of weak telepathy
allowing them to communicate with close family.
Using the last of the functioning hover cars the research center
determines that less than 500,000 colonist survive all under the age
of thirty and with exception of the research base existing on a
early iron age level.
�
Atlantis establishes the first major mainland colonies in area's we
today call Egypt, Peru and Mexico.
Great strides have been made in the black kryptonite technology
first developed by a hobbyist, the Three multi-ton FTL transmitters
have been converted into almost magical production facilities a
latent esper trained as engineer can use these facilities to
literally imagine a complex multi-ton machine into existence as a
form of shadow matter and then make it a permanent part of reality,
by feeding an equivalent amount of mass into what is called a warp
event fracture.
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20810 BC
Their are more than a half billion people on earth most living in
Atlantis. The ruling council of earth decides to start the Henshin
or Senshi project and salvage the black kryptonite warp cores from
the thirteen remaining colony ships and place the multi-ton chunks
of black kryptonite deep within the crust of the solar system
planets and several of the largest moons. Each warp core is made to
resonant with a specially designed control called a Henshin rod that
they plan to linked to a group of specially trained latent espers.
When completed and activated the Henshin rod link will allow the
esper to tap energy from that world and use it on earth or when on
their link-world reform entire sections any way they can imagine. The
Atlantis council plans to use these specially trained espers to terra-
form the nine planets and several large moons for colonies.
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20800 BC
The survivors on krypton are finally getting back on their feet and
their civilization is starting to recover already having reached the
late 19th century in sustainable technology with the the Kryptonian
research center managing to stay in the mid 20th century.
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20710 BC
The badly damaged earth ship, it's eccentric orbit badly decayed
finally strikes Krypton hitting the ocean it causes earth quakes and
tidal waves that flood nearly every coastal area on the planet and
doing major damage to the planet's islands, leading to an mini ice
age.
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Most of the original krptonian cities are coastal or Island based
and all are badly damaged or flooded in the near global tidal waves
caused from the crash or the quakes that followed it.
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20700 BC
Less than 300,000 humans survive on krypton all have moved to the
mountains, for the next 1000 years krypton's climate varied wildly
reliable cultivation became impossible and the survivors were forced
to take up a nomadic lifestyle driving them to near stone age levels.
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20650 BC
There are well over a billion people on earth with most living on
the continent of atlantis, the
research into black kyptonite's use in quantum manipulation and
esper devices continues and is steadily improving..
20600 BC
The manager of a major research and development center dies and his
assistant named Serenity takes over his position two weeks later
twelve recently assigned research techs secretly working for Silver
help Serenity to steal all the research and more importantly the
completed, but untested and unlinked Henshin rods the culmination of
two hundred and ten years of research, using these rods thirteen
members of the Radical Feminist movement called Silver blasted there
way out, killing half the personnel.
Serenity using her Henshin rod armed assistants quickly overwhelms
the security at three nearby research centers and one of which held a
five ton block of black kryptonite in storage.
Serenity and her Twelve assistants hold the conventional government
forces at bay for nearly two months as deep moles placed by the
Silver organization work feverishly to complete a project that is a
combination of each center's line of research.
The Device finally complete Serenity waits an additional week until
50,000 reinforcement arrive and are preparing to crush her, then she
activates the device and �Serenitizes� reality in a sphere 200
kilometer across, she replaces reality with a version where she is
the unquestioned Queen. The Device essentially a wishing stone
allowed her to alter reality and she essentially kills everyone
within 200 kilometers replacing them with loyal subjects. The
device's five ton heart of black kryptonite is reduced to splinters
because of an unanticipated feedback loop.
20590 BC
�The last organized resistance to Silver's bid for world domination
is destroyed and Serenity sets herself up as Queen of Earth with her
twelve enforcers that she calls her princesses.
20500 BC
The first major rebellion called the Ring's rebellion occurs against
Serenity a group of research scientist or wizards working under
Serenity's rule take two kilograms of black kryptonite splinters
after they have developed a new type of black kryptonite artifact it
only uses a near microscopic amount of black kryptonite embedded
inside a specially grown diamond and set into a titanium gold ring,
these rings depending on the impurities used in the diamond gave
esper based abilities. The majority of these rings give a telekinetic
ability, the wearer is usually able to move 50 kg of mass and form a
protective cushioning field around their body, other rings gave the
ability to move heat allowing the wearer to cool and heat objects by
concentrating or spreading the heat around it.
20499 BC
The Ring rebellion is quickly crushed the rings are far weaker than
the Henshin rods and lack the ability to change reality on the
quantum level they cannot call forth a small blizzard or fire storm
that the henshin rod enhanced enforcers of Serenity's rule can.
Several thousand rings are produced for the Ring rebellion,
eventually Serenity acquires the ring technology and continues low
level production throughout the Silver Millennium the rings are given
to ranking officers and the royalty she has created and often passed
down within families.
20224 BC
The first Queen Serenity dies at the age of 340, before her death
Serenity reveals to her heir a small broach made of the largest
remnant of the black kryptonite from the original device she used to
change reality, the broach is essentially a miniature version of the
destroyed machine and can also alter reality to fit the wearer's
desire, but it draws on the wearer's life force and by some terrible
turn of fate it is only resonant to the thought frequencies
associated with caring and love. The broach is passed to the ninth
daughter of Serenity, who then takes the name Serenity, it is unknown
what happened to the other eight children.
20223 BC
The second Queen Serenity as part of her acceptance speech orders
research begun into getting back into space. To further this goal she
opens all knowledge on black kryptonite setting up special schools to
train the needed researchers, she continues and intensifies her
mother's ban on equipment, books or knowledge brought to earth by the
original colonists.
By the end of the second Queens reign 200 years later the only
remnants of pre-serenity technology exists in the Queens archives on
the moon and the majority of the humans in the solar system exist as
serfs with a hereditary nobility ruling over them, the only
exceptions is the �wizard's� schools that will accept anyone who can
demonstrate an ability to learn, these schools teach and study ways
to use black kryptonite a material that Serenity has a near monopoly
on.
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19992 BC
�A colony from earth is established on or above every planet and
several of the larger moons in earth solar system, the current
Serenity renames the planets and moons after her enforcers and makes
them the nominal rulers of each world.
19522 BC
Near the end of the fourth Serenity's reign all but one of her
daughters are assassinated along with the nobility and guards at one
of her palaces in Atlantis. Unable to find more than vague rumors of
a group called Cronon she moves her remaining daughter to the moon
and turns the entire colony there into her royal palace.
19495 BC
The Fifth Serenity makes two surprise announcements at her acceptance
speech, she establishes a system of judges appointed by Serenity and
subject only to her, the nobility is surprised when several of these
judges come from the wizard class and many are former serfs. Over the
219 years of the Fifth Serenity rule these judges set a precedent for
honesty and not favoring the nobility often forcing the nobility to
follow the few laws that apply to them.
The second announcement is the creation of a healer class of wizards
that are available to all within ten years these healers are
traveling with the Serenity judges as they make their rounds.
19492 BC
Serenity commissioned the development of special pendants for the
judges, these pendants contain a tiny sliver of black kryptonite and
with the specially grown blue diamond allow the judge to sense the
emotions of anyone within five meters, in addition the pendants can
also be used as a short range communication devices allowing the
judge to �speak� with any other judge within roughly 314 kilometers.
19483 BC
Serenity orders the designing of a special hammer, when the two esper
rings, the judges were issued proved insufficient in several
confrontations with the nobility. When the hammer was in hand it
served as a power storage device and booster for the judges rings and
pendant of office boosting the power, range and endurance by a factor
of three.
The hammer contained no black kryptonite, instead the hammer head
held copies of high density capacitors copied from a pre-Serenity
cutting laser and a piezoelectric charging device both devices were
made from examples stored in the Serenity Lunar archives and the
handle was a resonant crystal/metallic device that converted the
stored energy into a bio-aura form that could be moved safely across
the judges natural aura to super-charge her rings and pendants of
office.
19379 BC
A research center working on enhancing the thirteen henshin rods
develops a way to store an echo of the memories of the person when
they were using the Henshin rod, over the next ten years this
technology is slowly applied to the Serenity Judges equipment and
from their it is copied into all newly created equipment for the
nobility.
19310 BC
Serenity orders all but a select few black kryptonite devices to be
recycled and remade as more powerful tools using the improved
techniques developed in the last few centuries, the new designs use
less black Kryptonite allowing the number of devices to increases,
allowing Serenity to cut the flow of black kryptonite from her stock-
piles.
19300 BC
Krypton's climate is slowly stabilizing and warming making
agriculture possible again in a few areas these areas are eventually
discovered by the nomadic humans and over a few centuries permanently
settled as farming is rediscovered. These relatively stable pockets
of humanity on Krypton eventually form the seeds to the starting of
civilization as the planets stable areas slowly increase over the
next 2000 years.
19273 BC
The Sixth Serenity announces at her coronation that no longer would
the benefits of �magic� only be limited to the nobility and wizard
class, she places several common black kryptonite devices under what
she terms community property and requires the nobility to extend,
where possible, their benefits to every serf in there domain. Most
inventions �given� to the peasants were agricultural in nature and
originally developed for the gardens and grounds of the nobility, but
some such as the �Dome of Shielding� were for limited localized
weather control and protection.
It should be noted that the Serfs still did not have direct access
to any black kryptonite devices and had to rely on the nobility to
actually extend the benefits. The nobility was reluctant at first,
but after two spectacular cases where the Serenity judges with the
full backing of Queen Serenity's twelve enforcers strips the
nobility, lands and rights from the two most powerful families of
Atlantis and gives their wealth and position to cadet branches of
other ruling families.
During the sixth Serenity's 205 year reign there was isolated attacks
on her judges mostly by disgruntled nobility, but no large organized
revolts were uncovered.
19064 BC
The Seventh Serenity coronation announcement is the declaration that
all serfs have five rights that must be observed by all, among these
was the right of free movement every serf had the right to petition a
judge for a pass and to search for another estate, this proved to be
an economic catastrophe for several of the harsher noble families as
close to seventy percent of their serfs left many migrating to the
population hungry planetary colony of Mars and the floating cities of
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
19050 BC
In a judgment considered harsh by the nobility Serenity ordered
the execution of twelve of a minor house's nobility including the
ranking baroness and her husband and their four oldest daughters,
they were convicted after ordering and carrying out the deaths of
over 47 serfs, these serfs were killed as warning to the rest not to
try and leave the floundering estate. It should be noted that the
death penalty was imposed not for killing the Serfs, but for trying
to use that as a means to illegally keep the peasants on their
estate.
Five major clandestine organization working against Queen Serenity
were started in the ten years following the executions, but by the
time of Beryl's birth the two surviving organizations had merged.
19010 BC
The small but explosively growing liquid gas mining colony of
Pluto is destroyed when a tiny asteroid is converted into a weapon
and crashed into the colony, killing more than ten million people
most are immigrants from the harsher run nobility estates on earth.
Horrified at the cruel act by radical elements of the nobility and
the loss of life, Serenity the seventh secretly orders the
construction around Charon of a project originally shelved because of
the nearly eight tons of black kryptonite needed.
19007 BC
The project on Charon is completed and activated and a small
asteroid is compress by a warp field forming a micro-singularity that
opens a crack in time. A staff like henshin rod is linked to the
singularity and given to the surviving princess of pluto and she is
charged with the security of the Serenity realm.
Sadly from the point of view of Serenity the gate of time isn't
perfect, it only allows travel from the moment of its creation to
about five hundred years into several possible futures, in practice
the guardian of time can only find someone if they cause noticeable
events within that range of time.
The formation of the singularity causes ripples across several
parallel universes including one with a very aggressive and violent
alien species calling themselves Metellia giving them a glimpse of
earth's universe and solar system they begin to search for ways to
invade earth's universe.
19006 BC
Two of the five clandestine organizations are warned of the time
gate's creation and watch with growing worry and fear as the other
three organizations are ripped to shreds after a single attempt to
strike at Serenity.
19002 BC
The two surviving organizations shocked at the effectiveness of
the time-gate agree to share the information they have managed to
steal about it's capability.
Statistical researchers working for both organizations independently
discover that their is a new threat to young children, this
�sickness� seems to hit within the first four years of life and
strikes the nobility far out of proportion to the wizard or serf
class.
The two organizations carefully bury themselves and stop all
attacks on Serenity's government and set themselves the task of
gaining access to time travel or finding a way to shield themselves
from the time-gate near Charon.
19001 BC
Serenity's healer wizards develop a technique that will more than
double the Queen and her twelve enforcers now called planetary
princesses lifespan increasing it from the three plus centuries to
well over seven however this method can only be applied when the
Henshin rods are transfered to their chosen daughter.
18859 BC
The eighth Serenity at her coronation announces that she will make
available a technology to the peasants that will extend their
lifespan from an average of fifty years to more than a hundred and
ten years with the onset of old age being held off until people enter
their late 90's. She also includes the explanation that because of
superior heredity most of the nobility already live nearly two
centuries and will have that increase to three centuries, just as her
divine nature allows her life span and the life span of the planetary
princesses to be over 400 years and the technology will increase to
over 800 years with old age only setting in within the last ten
years.
18852 BC
Researches working for the two buried resistant organizations now
essentially operating as one discover a method for sensing where a
time portal is opened. The Technicians and leaders grimly start to
watch as close to thirty newborn baby's a year die of the �sickness�
across the solar system each clearly marked by the telltale spikes of
an opening and closing time portal.
The technicians also discover that there is hundreds of time spikes
associated with the areas associated with the serfs, and there is
often a debilitating accident that might be associated with the time
spikes.
18710 BC
Technicians working for the resistant organization develops a way to
jam or prevent a time portal from opening, the leaders are unwilling
to test it afraid it would be noticed by Pluto and she would call the
other twelve enforces or planetary princesses into the area to deal
with the threat and destroy the jammer.
18613 BC
The aliens manage to start opening point portals to earth all are
sensed by Pluto and the few Metellian scouts that make it to our
universe are usually fried within the first five steps.
The resistance carefully watching from the shadows for two years
before deciding to try and contact the aliens.
18604 BC
After ten years of watching every scout sent to our universe killed
the aliens discover the resistant movement and manage to hide the
creation of a partial portal that allows two way voice and visual
contact between the two universes.
The resistant movement guided by the aliens quickly starts to develop
radically new weapons and techniques based on the Metellian scientist
help.
18596 BC�
Beryl is born and at about the same time the alien race succeeds in
opening a major portal in the area that will one day hold Tokyo and
launch a major invasion of earth and tens of thousands of the
Metellian's other worldly monsters pour out only to be met by the
prepared Serenity and her twelve enforcers and a small heavily armed
army. Serenity and the twelve princesses circle the alien portal and
attack moving inward devastating the alien army leaving the well
armed soldiers that follow to mop up the few hundred aliens that
survive the passage of the Queen and her twelve.
Serenity and the twelve with her fight there way to the alien portal
and hold it against the aliens but are unable to close it with their
Henshin based powers finally after a two day stand off a desperate
Serenity uses her broach to force the portal shut after she has
converted one cubic kilometer of the alien's home world into
antimatter. The strain on Serenity's life force in changing the
nature of that much matter and shielding it from the normal matter
around it for the critical few seconds it took for her to �unmake�
the machinery holding the portal open nearly kills her putting her
into a coma for two months.
Under the cover of the large invasion portal the aliens manage to
slip ten Metellian advisors and several tons of equipment to the
resistance at a hidden base in what will someday be part of China.
18510 BC
The first experimental pool of Jusenkyo is put into operation, it is
the unexpected result of combining the aliens genetic manipulation
technology with the aura/esper based quantum manipulation technology
of the Silver Millennium.
The pool appeared to function correctly for several small test
animals giving them an alternate bird form, but when the first human
test subject was used the larger human form partially overloaded the
pool template and instead of creating a second form, that can be
hidden, the pool altered the test subjects into a birdman. The
resulting single form was deemed a partial success, the merged form
could never be hidden, but the enhanced strength and limited flight
capability was deemed useful and nearly a thousand members of the
resistant movement were altered to act as a security for the base and
a reserve military force, setting up a hidden base in a nearby
mountain.
18505 BC
The first Successful switching or alternate form pool is created at
Jusenkyo and a dog template is selected over the next fifty some odd
years agents for the resistance spy on Serenity and her planetary
princesses and none ever suspect that the stray house pets they are
so fond of taking in are actually agents and spies.
Two more pools are grown, these are the first of the Youma type pools
both are cat variant types that produce an cat like humanoid
alternate form that is nearly four meters tall and weighs nearly a
ton, the form is nearly fifteen times stronger than any normal human,
but these Youma forms lack the ability to absorb life forces, fire
energy blasts or call weapons into existence and their strength is
estimated to be less than a tenth of the raw strength of the weakest
of Serenity's twelve princesses.
18501 BC
There are now fifty pools at Jusenkyo nineteen are normal animal
forms mostly human pets the remaining thirty pools are all large
humanoid Youma animal variants all are far stronger than a human and
far weaker than Serenity's twelve enforcers.
Beryl is elected leader of the joint resistance movement six months
later her great granddaughter's first child dies of the �sickness�
accompanied by the time spikes, as always the security devices show
nothing except for a two second glitch about a day before the child
dies corresponding exactly to the time spikes.
18496BC
A group of teenagers consisting of Queen serenity's twin sons and
fourteen daughters of Serenity's enforcers including Pluto's twin
daughters are dining and watching a play in an enclosed room over the
course of the play the two pet dogs and three pet cats the children
had brought with them each sneeze several times spreading small clear
clouds that eventually saturate the room. Over the next ten years
another pet sneezes near one of these children and within six months
that child dies a horrible death as a some minor sickness suddenly
turns incurable, the first two to die are the twin daughters of
Pluto.
Beryl orders the technicians to keep a precise record of the temporal
spikes that could be related to these children, as an after thought
she orders a search of the temporal spikes to see how they match up
with the children's known location.
A week later Beryl orders a celebration, after she reads a report
about the fourteen children for every time where the children's
position is know there is a solid mass of temporal spikes linked to
the same area, the report ends with an apology for not seeing this
sooner and a suggestion that these near constant temporal spikes can
now be used to determine the position of these children and possible
there family in real time.
At the end of the Celebration Beryl orders the death of the Pluto
twins and a month later a pet bird sneezes, five months after that
sneeze both girls are dead.
18495 BC
Technicians report that the death rate among the nobility from the
�sickness� took a sudden sharp dive after the twins death and the
deaths and accidents among the serfs and wizards children has dropped
to nearly nothing.
18494.5BC
Beryl is advised that the death rate from the �sickness� among the
nobility is starting to rise again and beryl orders the death of
Serenity's twin sons, four months later the first one dies and three
months after this the other boy dies.
18494 BC
The researchers at Jusenkyo develop a Youma form that can absorb the
aura or life force of any living thing and use this energy to
temporarily boost their strength to a third of Serenity's enforcers
the next forty pools are all tentacle or whip Youma types and bear
little resemblance to anything from earth with the last ten being the
most powerful and able to call weapons into existence if they can
absorb enough energy, but none are a match for the Serenity
enforcers.
18485 BC
The next ten pools created were all human pools male and female of
several general types not based on any one human the pools instead
were idealized and used for infiltration and to further extend the
life spans without the problem of a non human second form, it had
already been discovered that while in their Jusenkyo form that their
original form did not age effectively adding the Jusenkyo created
form's lifespan to their human lifespan.
Beryl uses the Jusenkyo pool with the template of a lovely young girl
giving herself a second form of about fifteen years old.
Beryl attends a ball hosted by the Nobility placed in charge of the
day to day running of Atlantis and the rest of Earth, Beryl uses her
second form and attends as a distant relative named after her older
form, not fully use to her second form and overconfident about the
advantage her actual years gave her, she is smitten with an older boy
named Edeymon and he manages to get her drunk and talks her into
going alone into one of the mansions bedrooms as four friends run
interference.
The next day Beryl after getting control of her anger decides to use
it to her advantage, Edeymon's family is above reproach and trusted
by the current Serenity, in her older form she confronts the family
about how Edeymon treated her namesake and puts them in the position
of having to engage the two.
18484.8 BC
Beryl now several months pregnant with Edeymon's child is having to
spend almost all her time in her younger form to keep the timing
right, she is taken by agents working for Serenity and her child is
aborted, the next day Queen Serenity announces that her only daughter
will be engaged to Edeymon the prince of Earth. When Beryl confronts
the family in her older form she is told by Serenity in no uncertain
terms to make the girl vanish and to never mention the engagement
again.
Beryl is unable to kill the Queen's daughter she has already received
Queen Serenity's henshin rod, making her immune to any feasible
attack.
18483 BC
Beryl's older form is killed in a riding accident on her family's
estate while entertaining princess Neptune two days later her younger
form appears, Beryl has effectively lost her position in the nobility
and is forced to allow her oldest daughter to take her position, she
moves to Jusenkyo and concentrates her full attention on running the
resistance.
Several months after Beryl's �death� her great grandson is visiting
his favorite �Aunty� and the five year old boy gets away from her
falling into the first pool created at Jusenkyo making her favorite
grandchild a birdboy.
18480 BC
The researchers at Jusenkyo are unable to fully reverse the boy's
bird form and Beryl decides if she can't change him from being a
birdman she will make him more powerful, taking her resistant
movement's most secret possession, a fist sized chunk of black
Kryptonite she carefully places half the black Kryptonite deep within
a nearby mountain that houses the birdmen. The mountain also has
several geothermal springs being fed by a small underground river her
technician's powder the other half the black kryptonite and several
esper healers distribute the superfine powder into every nerve cell
in the boy's body.
18479 BC
The boy's enhancement is a success beyond belief careful studies
estimate that when the boy is fully grown his body will be two thirds
as strong as one of Serenity's enforcers the so called planetary
princesses, with an added advantage of near instantaneous
regeneration. The Technician theorize that the black kryptonite
distributed through out his nervous system is resonating with his
aura allowing him to heal by pulling matter right out of the air
around him, as long as he is receiving power from the buried chunk of
black kryptonite he can heal any damage done to his body almost
faster than damage could be done. The young boy has also started to
manifest a thermal esper ability that if it continues to grow will be
a near match for the princess of mars fire storms. It is not realized
at the time but the boy is effectively immortal, literally having the
ability to rise from his own ashes.
18466 BC
The Princess of Pluto, also known as the guardian of time is killed
by a time traveler called Tempest entering this universe from a
parallel universe, Princess Pluto goes to destroy the invader and he
senses her presence and uses his time machine to kill her as she
stands just out of phase with time readying a strike. The traveler
calling himself Tempest then uses an unknown technology to shift it
out of this universe closing the crack in time.
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18465 BC
Beryl discovers that Serenity has lost control of the micro-
blackhole called the time gate and immediately starts accumulating
Jusenkyo enhanced troops and spreading them to the planetary
colonies.
Kryptonian civilization is slowly rebuilding and has reached the
technology level roughly equivalent to the egyptian's, the
population is well over 20 million humans and climbing, the fertile
civilized areas are far from the original cities and the swampy
coastal areas and the still rough oceans are avoided, legend say to
avoid them and call them the dying places.
18464 BC
A new pool is created at Jusenkyo and has a template that produces a
Youma that looks completely human.
Beryl again uses a Jusenkyo pool and gets an alternate form of a
human looking female Youma the form appears to be human but has the
ability to absorb life force and fire energy blast.
18463 BC
Edeymon is put in charge of Atlantis's security forces he assigns his
four closest friends as generals of various sectors of earth.
18460 BC
During the first six months of this year all four generals are kidnap
and each is used in turn to make a template on a single Jusenkyo pool
and are replaced by a person loyal to Beryl, in each case the person
that replaces them has spent years at the generals side as a loyal
pet.
The four general's are turned into pig's and held in pens, they are
being kept for a very special hunt
Edeymon is invited over the last six months of this year on a hunt by
his generals in each case the hunt is a great success and they get
the wild pig they were hunting.
Beryl orders random attacks by a few of her Youma to mimic the
reappearance of the alien scouts.
18462 BC
Beryl is quickly building her army and spreading it to the colony
worlds, she is getting worried that Serenity or those loyal to her
will notice the Serfs and Nobility vanishing to receive their
alternate forms and military training for the coming attack.
Several small towns near where the Metellian invasion portal appeared
are apparently attacked and destroyed the few surviving eye witnesses
say that alien monsters came and carried off the people as they
destroyed the village, the first few attacks are staged the people
carried off are loyal to the resistance movement and the few left
behind are visitors or relatively recent immigrants to the area.
Beryl has several attacks staged on villages in the areas most loyal
to the resistance to explain the disappearances, several villages and
small towns are really destroyed with the people carried off and
later killed.
18458 BC
Beryl kidnaps two of Queen Serenity's closest friends and advisor,
putting both asleep they are taken to Jusenkyo and given the forms of
a white and black kitten, Beryl returns the advisors now in the form
of kittens with a note saying you killed my child and countless other
children soon in the name of Metallia, Queen Beryl will rule.
The daughter of the two advisors is a Serenity judge and because of
her medalian enhanced esper sense realizes that the two kittens are
her parents the Queen's advisors.
Queen Serenity is unable to change her advisor's back because she
nearly burned herself out using the broach to destroying the alien's
gate to this universe any heavy use of her broach will kill her.
18456 BC
Queen Serenity's Wizards and Senshi are unable to help, the best the
Technicians can do is increase the kitten's lifespan to about a
hundred years and embed a black kryptonite device under the skin on
the forehead the devices gives the cats several minor esper abilities
among these abilities is the ability to telepathicly project a human
voice to anyone nearby, telekinetically move small objects and
teleport small objects into and out of a shallow subspace pocket that
seems to be connected to their forms.
18454 BC
Queen Serenity secretly decides to step down the following year,
Beryl is informed of this decision within a day and plans her attack
for then, all the enforcers will be present at the royal palace on
the moon.
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18453 BC
The day of the coronation Beryl forces transform and attack all
across the solar system with the bulk of her most powerful Youma's
following her into the Serenity palace colony on the moon, the
surprise is complete across the solar system and the colonies and
cities are quickly falling to Beryl's forces, only the palace colony
on the moon is putting up a partially effective resistance.
Serenity sees the reports of Youma appearing in every city and the
defenses collapsing under the onslaught of what she believes to be
human turn coats aided by alien hordes and can only watch as her
security forces are slowly destroyed soon only her twelve princess
defending the central palace, with herself, an Edeymon badly wounded
by his turn coat generals and a few retainers huddling inside.
Serenity feeling her daughter and the other twelve princesses slowly
weakening even as she watches the alien monster drain the life force
from her subjects and use it to attack. Serenity develops a desperate
plan and tells the advisors trapped in house cat forms her plans and
then orders them to take the broach when she dies and find a hiding
place. Serenity already in the first stages of releasing the broach
to her daughter can only place a final set of commands or programming
in the broach. She programs the broach to use her life force to alter
the thirteen henshin rods and Edeymon's rose medellian of office to
record the full memories of their bearers up to the moment of death
and then come to the broach, when the last returns the broach will
activate the dooms day devices and then tap the power of the Henshin
rods for power and place the two advisors in stasis and go to the
original invasion site on earth the broach is programmed not to
release the stasis until it senses the aliens returning scouts, after
which fourteen barren couples will be chosen to bear genetic
duplicates of Edeymon,her daughter and the twelve princesses.
Serenity activates the broach and dies and the cats take the broach
and hide spending two hours watching as Beryl's forces slowly whittle
down the defenders.
The last defender dies and the broach activates the dooms day
devices all over the solar system and leaves the Lunar palace with
the cats thirty seconds later Serenity's Lunar colony is reduced to a
large crater in a self destruction blast, the other planetary
colonies are destroyed in nearly the same instant as the self-
destruct charges placed by one of the early Serenity's detonates
destroying them. Earth is ravaged by specially placed dooms day
devices planted under the polar ice caps and in the Atlantis
continent's many fault lines starting the polar ice caps to rapidly
melt and pushing the geologically unstable Island continent into a
flurry of earth quakes and volcanic activity that quickly makes
Atlantis un-inhabitable and slowly starts it sinking into the sea,
within four years nearly every know city on earth is under water and
Atlantis is gone.
Throughout the solar system the only major Silver Millennium
constructions to survive is the Serenity Lunar Archives hidden under
a airless mountain on the far side of the moon well away from what
had been the Terra-formed Green hills of the Lunar colony. The other
was the Jusenkyo valley and what would come to be called the Phoenix
mountain, home of the bird people.
18447 BC
The Baroness Jasper the ranking member of the resistance movement
left at Jusenkyo goes insane and blames the destruction of their
civilization on the Youma forms and personally destroys the equipment
used to create their templates and kills the few remaining Aliens and
their human assistants, they had trained, she then personally orders
the templates of all Youma pools changed to match normal animals from
the research zoo.
Beryl's great grandson, returns from a rescue mission and out ranking
Baroness Jasper both in respect from the personnel of Jusenkyo and in
being an heir to Beryl orders her imprisonment, stopping her before
she changes the templates of the last three Youma pool.
Beryl's Grandson afraid of others with similar feeling within the
Technicians or wizards overseeing Jusenkyo orders the Them to lock
Jusenkyo in a permanent search loop, the pools will only accept a new
template if it meets a selected set of criteria.
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18440 BC
The volcanic activity reverses the Earth's trend of steadily growing
warmer to growing colder and for the next 5000 years the ice age
deepens and human civilization is reduced to near stone age levels,
with only a few carefully hidden and protected remnants of Silver
Millennium knowledge surviving, the actual technology lacking moving
parts and based on crystal material largely survives.
17232 BC
Beryl's great grandson or Lord Phoenix as he is now known orders the
thawing of the first pool created at jusenkyo and alters the large
majority of normal humans to the bird form to eliminate the fighting
and racism that was developing between the two groups in Phoenix
Mountain.
13532 BC
Earths induced return to ice age has ended and the planet is now back
to the point just before the original colony fleet arrived, human
civilization is essentially stone age with �magical� artifacts rare
but know to all.
Krypton's civilization is just below the Romans and most humans are
in the grip of two competing warrior based slowly expanding empires.
Several defeated refugee groups have fled first to the swampy coast
and then later to what legends say to shun the dead places in the sea
or the Islands of krypton's oceans and seas.
13210 BC
The first city, since the fall of the Silver Millennium �AMAZONIUM�
is built on earth, but not a truly stable civilization because it
lacked any knowledge of agriculture instead a nomadic group discovers
a Silver Millennium artifact that was used in agriculture, the
artifact used the latent esper ability of the person that touched it
and could inhibit the growth of unwanted plants, while greatly
enhancing the growth of selected plants, the range varied from 100 to
125 kilometers depending on the current �high priest� latent esper
abilities. The single city set up to house the artifact and it's
priests was surrounded by a large population of essentially nomadic
people slowly traveling and harvesting in a circular area 200 to 250
kilometers in diameter the outer edge always defined by a dense layer
of thorn bearing and noxious plants.
Krypton's mainland civilizations is trapped in two competing Roman
level empires that hold the planet essentially in stasis for the next
3000 years.
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13103 BC
The Amazonium people are on the verge of true civilization the plant
priest of the city have developed a primitive written language and
have developed methods for fighting insect and plant blights that are
the equivalent of modern agriculture. There territory is a marvel of
water ways and wooden wind powered machines mostly to move water.
Amazonium falls to nomadic warrior group that has develop the bow
and obtained a cache of a dozen Silver millennium weapons called fire
rings, Amazonium is burned to the ground killing most of the priest
and the plant growth artifact is taken.
13101 BC
A large group of female slaves mostly Amazonium, but with a
significant number of other tribes also part of the escape the nomads
by stealing several bows and four fire rings, the Amazonium's quickly
apply their superior knowledge of wood to produce composite bows that
far out range the fire rings and the nomad's bows allowing the ex-
slaves to drive off those pursuing them.�
The Amazonium women are forced back into a nomadic lifestyle without
the plant growth artifact and as a group they are perceived as weak
and attacked repeatedly by other nomadic groups leading them to form
a society of warrior women dedicated to increasing their combat
skill, acquiring magical artifacts and keeping ancient knowledge
alive. one group direct descendants from these ex-slaves survives
into modern times in a mountainous region in China near the largest
surviving remnant of Silver Millennium technology on Earth.
12592 BC
Krypton's mainland societies are stuck in roman era empires that are
at near technological stasis, but several desperate refugee groups
have managed to cross the unpredictablely rough oceans to coastal
Islands and have more dynamic societies slowly building in relative
isolation.
10903 BC
A two Kryptonian Islands separated by some of the deadliest open
water on krypton develop submersible ships to allow safe passage, the
two large Islands just visible to each other from the tallest hill
tops had been in contact for the last century through a set of large
mirrors placed on the hill tops. One Island with several fertile well
protected valleys was ideal for farming , while the other had several
rich mineral deposits, but lacked an area that was well protected
from the near constant storms blowing in from the ocean and sparodic
trading had been attempted for centuries with little success, with
most ships not surviving a single voyage. A long distant relationship
developed between the two Island Librarians and flourished for
several years, in desperation they researched their archives and
developed theories for crossing the open water safely and passed them
to inventors and ship builders, it took fifteen years, and several
lost ships, but eventually a design was developed that worked, able
to submerge if a storm or water spout blew in and armed with the
recently developed gun powder rockets to defend against the large
ocean reptiles started making regular runs, within twenty years their
ships were aggressively trading between the coastal Islands.
10300 BC
Krypton's two mainland warrior empires have unofficially been aware
of the thriving and growing trading cultures living in the dead
places, for two hundred and fifty years, but are largely ignored
because of the legends and fear the people of the mainland had of the
sea, this changed when a mineral rich, but swampy mainland peninsula
was colonized for mining and the radical ideas and technology started
to seep into the surrounding peasants the resulting rebellion in
three provinces scared the ruling class in both empires and started a
war that lasted through two centuries of uneasy stalemate where the
huge number of well trained warriors was balanced by the relatively
quickly evolving ideas and technology of the Island culture.
9970 BC
The two Kryptonian mainland Roman style empire start to collapse more
or less at the same time as the idea's and technology they were
forced to embrace to stand against the Islanders creates internal
stresses that break the two empires into dozens of warring kingdoms.
9912 BC
The Kryptonian dark ages begin as the Islander economies are
unprepared for the total chaos as the empires fall apart and
essentially takes the Islands down with them. The fragile and
relatively limited resources of the Islands allows the dark ages to
last nearly a thousand years.
9007 BC
By tradition this year is chosen to mark the end of the Kryptonian
dark ages, in this year the King of Aljerzon signed into law the
Decree that all citizen had to be able to read and write or suffer
expulsion, originally intended as a method of population control this
law along with the later algebra, geometry and history instead
resulted in a near 100% literacy rate and a semi-black market
education system that within fifty years had turned Aljerzon into a
center for learning and technological redevelopment.
8786 BC
Krypton's technology is roughly equivalent to mid 20th century Earth,
near the end of this year a archeology group discover an intact time
capsule in the foundations of a building in one of the partially
submerged cities, it contains an intact collection of books running
from a child's first reader to his or her tenth year, this collection
of books become the Rosetta stone for the remnants of high technology
scattered over Krypton and floating in orbit.
8778 BC
Earth's nomadic groups are slowly growing and starting to rediscover
farming, but hindered by the continual disruptive shifts in power as
Silver Millennium artifacts are discovered, lost or stolen leading to
almost constant warfare at the tribal level.
8776 BC
Krypton puts a satellite in orbit, within ten years they have managed
to place archaeologist on several of the abandoned platforms still
orbiting Krypton.
8760 BC
Krypton's civilization is rapidly expanding back into space has
redeveloped copies of the Fusion and atomic power plants found in
orbit.
8699 BC
Krypton launches three large FTL ships constructed with green
Kryptonite warp cores the ships spend a year inside the Kryptonian
solar system performing a shakedown mission, before preparing to
starting the trip to the long silent emergency colony, hopefully to
solve what the popular media are calling greatest mystery since the
fall.
8698 BC
The ships leave Krypton for the near mythical emergency colony,
because of the use of inferior green Kryptonite for the ship's warp
core the trip will take just under two years.
Four months after the ships leave Krypton one of several dozen
sublight kryptonian ships doing a survey of the equivalent of the Ort
cloud discovers a dead star ship and over the next six months it is
carefully analyzed by Kryptonian archaeologist. It is one of the
original vessels sent to the colony all aboard are dead apparently
killed by a plague running rampant at the colony.
8697 BC
The dead ship placed in a parking orbit around one of Krypton's small
moons is being carefully studied, among the discoveries is the
coordinates of earth's solar system, but with Krypton's current FTL
technology the trip would take sixty years one way.
8696 BC
The Plague long dead with the original crew is isolated and made
viable again by a Bio-Archaeologist working under cover for his
state, he secrets the samples in lead lined containers to insure they
survive the high radiation de-contamination process and they make it
back to krypton sadly the containers could not stand up to the abuse
of the luggage handlers and leaked the plague contaminating several
thousand containers at a major planetary airport hub.
Medical personnel quickly develop a vaccine, but the sudden wide
distribution of the plague makes it impossible to get it to the
people fast enough, half who contract it die with nearly 55% of
krypton's population ultimately dyeing from the sickness or the chaos
it causes. One blessing is that Krypton's human population is no
longer suffering from low level radiation sickness and the plague is
not a 100% lethal as it was among the refugees at the emergency
colony.
The three survey ships return and find a radically different world
the political back lash has replaced the multi-state system with a
single very conservative government that is clamping down on all
research and is in the process of outlawing space travel.
8695 BC
Krypton's surviving population is terrified and the new planetary
government has quarantined all space travelers no one is allow back
on the planet once leaving the atmosphere.
8693 BC
Krypton's government starts cutting back on the one way supply
missions to the nearly 40,000 kryptonians marooned in orbit
Late in the year a atmospheric shuttle with two hundred passengers is
destroyed by a low yield atomic tipped missile as it try's to enter
Krypton's atmosphere.
8691 BC
The Kryptonians trapped in orbit, already vaccinated against the
plague decide it is better to move to the emergency colony and try
and rebuild it than to starve in orbit around krypton.
Over the next fifteen years the three ships with the green kryptonite
warp cores plus one more ship with salvaged black kryptonite warp
core, make regular runs that slowly move stranded population and
space assets from around Krypton to the emergency colony.
The Government on Krypton slowly grows more repressive all types of
research is stopped and all innovations must pass a board of
directors.
8687 BC
The Kryptonian Government starts shipping prisoners into orbit, most
are dissidents or scientist that have broke the restrictive rules
about research.
8679 BC
A convect shuttle is put into orbit, all on board had been secretly
infected with a �superflu� that was immune to all known Kryptonian
medicines.
This �superflu� kills roughly eight hundred people including all but
fifty in the convict shuttle, before the medical personnel develop
fully effective medicines.
The Government of krypton uses this �new plague� to further solidify
their grip on the planet, all dissidents are now executed.
8675 BC
Four shuttles are launched and the world government tells those in
orbit it is more dissidents instead the shuttles contain atomic
missiles and these are launched at the remaining space assets, the
missiles are large and slow and are quickly destroyed by rebuilt
energy weapons found at the dead emergency colony.
The few remaining orbital facilities are harassed on a weekly basis
by atomic tipped missiles.
8674 BC
Krypton's government announces plans to build ground based energy
weapons to sweep the sky of the plague carrying monsters.
Late in the year several dozen missiles are fired at the last green
house left in a high orbit around Krypton the missiles in a surprise
move detonate a few hundred miles above the atmosphere and bath the
facility in bomb pumped x-ray lasers, the Kryptonian personnel are
unharmed because of their Kryptonian aura, but the green house is
heavily damaged and all plant life is killed.
8673 BC
Krypton's system is at last stripped of all space assets and the last
ship prepares to leave it's parking orbit around one of Krypton's
small moons.
The ruling council of Krypton is gathered and announces a planetary
celebration as the plague threat from has been driven away.
The ship drops two large objects and slowly accelerates from the
system, about a day later when the ship is well out of range of any
weapon on Krypton the two large missiles are ejected from their
platforms and using a new type drive accelerate to 75,000 kmph one
slams into the main government complex in the planetary capital
killing thousands and taking out the planetary government, the other
slams into the only space port left on the planet destroying it.
8672 BC
Krypton in spite of the chance it was given reforms a repressive
government with essentially the same policies as the original.
8670 BC
The planet with the emergency colony is renamed New krypton and
unlike the first colony attempt every viable square kilometer of the
planet is given over to agriculture, no cities are built or rebuilt
on the planet instead the majority of the 86000 New Kryptonians must
make do with living in orbit near the mining and production
facilities.
In spite of these measures and severe birth control, starvation is a
real concern right up to the twenty first century.
8665 BC
One of the FTL ships checking other marginal worlds listed in the old
records finally discovers a live colony the planet has less than ten
thousand humans and has dropped back to near stone age levels.
The ship estimates the world could safely support thirty thousand
with modern methods and quickly returns to new krypton with the news.
8664 BC
Two of New krypton's FTL ship returns to the world with 8,000
colonist to establish a colony like New Krypton the planet is given
over to agriculture, with cities and production facilities to remain
in orbit or placed in the asteroids and small moons.
8630 BC
The New Kryptonians start making infrequent mining trips to their
home system to obtain the natural kryptonite that abounds there, all
ships come out of hyperdrive in such a way as to put Krypton's star
between them and the inhabited planet.
8000 BC
The New Krypton state is spread across twenty star systems, but all
the habitable worlds are marginal and there are less than eight
million citizens, New Krypton can barely maintain twenty starships
only three of which have salvaged black krypton warp cores.
In an interesting coincidence all New Kryptonian colony worlds orbit
stars very similar to Krypton's and their protective aura produced no
noticeable enhancements, with most ships having green kryptonite warp
cores, the crews never noticed any difference for the few stars they
visit that are more like Earth's sun.
7500 BC
New Krypton's population has been allowed to grow to ten million,
slightly worried about their genetics and the relatively small
original gene pool a public expedition is sent to Krypton and is
received with shouts of monsters and waves of little improved, but
much larger and longer ranged x-ray laser missiles, unwilling and
unable to fight a war the New Kryptonian ships publicly leave the
system.
7413 BC
Three New Kryptonian starships with green kryptonite warp cores are
sent on a two hundred year mission back to the coordinates where
ancient records hint of earth, the crew spends most of the nearly 90
year journey to earth in recently perfected cold sleep.
7325 BC
The New Kryptonian starships enter Earths solar system and the crew
is brought out of cold sleep, surprised at the primitive conditions
and yet relatively large concentration of people they miss the
remnants of the Silver Millennium and start their primary mission of
gathering genetic samples over a fifteen year period nearly fifty
thousand young children are purchased from parents, slave traders and
warring tribes. These �volunteers� are given copies of a Kryptonian
aura to protect them from the ships Green Kryptonite warp cores and
placed in cold sleep. The crew worried about plague type sickness
spends little time off the ships returning every ten days for a
careful checkup and de-contamination.
7310 BC
The Three New Kryptonian starships leave earth, less than thirty
adult earthling leave earth with them mostly spouses picked up by
the ships small crew, no New Kryptonians remain behind. The starships
are badly worn and because of the inability to fully repair or
rebuild the ships the voyage home will be done at reduced speed and
take nearly a hundred and fifty years.
7110 BC
The Three New Kryptonian Ships finally arrive back in New Krypton
space one ship suffered a partial break down and rather than separate
the ships they all reduced speed. The children are distributed
randomly to volunteer families all across New kryptonian space and
the genetic material is used to clone and test tube several million
more children that are also distributed across the now thirty worlds
of New Krypton space.
7100 BC
New krypton's population has grown to nearly thirty million and
facing near starvation one of the better farming worlds suffers an
outbreak of a new mold and devastates the main crops it takes nearly
five years of hard work to develop treatments and introduce modified
crops that are resistant, nobody quite starves, but it is a very
close call.
7043 BC
New Krypton is planning on sending a larger fleet of ships to earth
on a second genetic harvesting mission, when a chance discovery leads
to a way to turn a starship invisible. Instead of a long and
dangerous voyage to earth the New kryptonian council instead opts for
many small raids of Krypton.
7040 BC
A New Krypton ship successfully enters Krypton's atmosphere and hides
in the ocean over the next two years it kidnaps the people in
isolated boats carefully sinking their vessels, when it finally
sneaks back off world it has nearly fifty native Kryptonians in cold
sleep.
These �Gene� raids continue at this level for nearly a hundred years
until infiltraters manage to establish agencies on Krypton and other
methods are used.
6945 BC
Nue Kryp an upstart company on Krypton under bids and beats out
several others for the disintegration contract at a Island prison,
within twenty years Nue Kryp has all disintegration contracts on the
planet and between five hundred and a thousand criminals a year are
being funneled through their seaside center and off the planet to New
Kryptonian space.
6883 BC
Krypton's government discovers the New kryptonian activity , but
rather than pushing them off the world they instead infiltrate their
planet based organization and watch it closely.
6862 BC
Nue Kryp is allowed to take over the prison system and establish
�Island� prison's for those prisoners with life sentences.
6732 BC
Starvation again faces the New Kryptonians their populations now at
63 million, one of their colony planet's star has an unpredicted
increase in sun spot activity and increases radiation output the
radiation isn't a threat to the New kryptonian's but the colony world
has a thin atmosphere and the extra radiation badly damages their
crops. The New Kryptonian have stock pile food obsessively, but the
persistent mold, on their best world for the previous ten years has
left them with less than a three year's surplus of food and at least
five years will be needed to deepen the ozone layer over the colony
world, with another two to get crop production back up.
6731 BC
The Kryptonian council decides to replace it emergency supply of
food, Krypton has a steady population of six billion people and the
Kryptonian council keeps enough food stored around Krypton to feed a
billion people for six months, the emergency food is stored in a high
tech form similar to earth's 20th century MRE's, but with a hundred
year self life, the council decides to turn these emergency rations
over fifteen years early and gives a large portion of the old
emergency rations to the prison system, with the rest being snapped
up by hastily created New Kryptonian front organizations.
5772 BC
An asteroid is discovered by Kryptonian astronomers on a collision
course with the planet initial calculations indicate it will hit
within the year, but calculations done when the asteroid passed from
behind the sun now showed it missing Krypton by a large margin.
5001 BC
Both New Krypton and Krypton have roughly the equivalent of 300 years
of technological growth and improvement in the next 7000 years when
it is compared to the explosive growth of the 19 th and 20 th
centuries of earth.
New Krypton has a hundred million citizen spread across fifty worlds
in forty star systems, in 5000 BC and by the 20th century it's
population is barely two hundred million, it's technology is slowly
improving, but they lack the population to develop quickly and are
hindered by the marginality of the worlds they are forced to live on
Kryptoforming of planets has turned out to be a expensive slow
process with many near lethal stumbling blocks to avoid.
During this 7000 year period Krypton has a stable population of 6
billion people, but they live under a very restrictive social and
political system that is dedicated to protecting it's people from
changes and have purposely limited their technological growth. The
illegal, but accepted transfer of renegades and dissidents to New
Krypton has increased that groups technological innovation, but the
New Kryptonian economy is saddled with building entire worlds and
can't exploit most ideas fully for centuries, if ever.
5000 BC to 4000 BC
Earth's public history from known archeology theories and known
writing begins.
1442
A New kryptonian mining ship taking Kryptonite from krypton's home
system notices a anomaly in routine sensor reading of one of the
inner planets the planet has had a marked increase in geological
activity and there has been a noticeable increase in the subspace
kryptonite radiation appearing in normal space around the world. The
Ship makes note of the changes and other ships are tasked with making
more complete sensor scans.
1521
After nearly a century of observation New Kryptonian scientist
realize what their data is telling them about the inner planet, it
is showing a natural slowly building chain reaction in the krytonite
within the inner planet's core, they estimate within a hundred years
the planets core will go critical and try to enter hyperspace
resulting in the planets destruction.
1781
The planet goes critical and explodes spectacularly, but the
explosion occurs on the far side of the sun from Krypton and it is
shielded from damage, most of the planet is converted into energy,
but a small amount goes superluminal and spreads out from the
kryptonian solar system.
1896
A careful study of Krypton reveals it has the same problem, but it's
slightly smaller size and less gravitational stresses has given the
world more time the initial estimates are of at least 500 years. The
New Kryptonian council sits on the information as it tries to decide
what to do and how to present it to the Kryptonian council.
1934
The Decision about revealing Krypton's doom is taken out of the New
Kryptonian's hands when a young physics expert working under the
close supervision of Krypton's ruling council discovers the building
Kryptonite radiation levels and in less than a year correctly
interprets the reason for the rise.
The young expert mistakenly calculates that Krypton has nearly a
thousand years left and presents those figures to the ruling council
of Krypton.
1935
The council is not convinced, but enough interest is sparked to allow
the studies to continue, with increased funding.
The New Kryptonians carefully make their observations available to a
few members of the Kryptonian Council and place the few locally
produced astronomy reports on the inner planets disappearance where
the Physics Expert will discover them.
1938
The council with careful prompting from the New Kryptonians decides a
mission to Earth is an important first step and six of the largest
defense missiles bodies are converted to an FTL probe design, the
warp core a design taken from the archives and supposedly thousands
of years old, but it actually represents the latest most reliable
design New Krypton had available. The black kryptonite for the warp
cores came from a stockpile the Kryptonians council had the probes
will reach earth in less than a year.
1939
Under the Physic experts, now the Director the first two probes are
launched and both reach earth after eight months, spending four
months in low earth orbit before returning as programmed.
1941
The data is quickly reviewed and changes are made to the programming
of the next two probes sent to survey Earth.
1943
Surprised at the open warfare on the planet, the council decides to
continue refurbishing and reusing the probes to carefully watch
earth.
1949
The council is at a loss, the sudden and from there point of view
rapid development of earths technology leaves a queasy feeling in
their stomachs, the planet literally went from primitive radio's to
RADAR, missiles and Atomics in the space of less than ten years.
1952
Unsure what to do the Krypton council slaps top secret on the survey
data and buries it deeply.
The New Kryptonian's are equally surprised by Earth's sudden jump in
technology and their council decides to take a wait and see view they
publish a condensed version of the probes data, for public viewing
and start carefully pushing for Krypton to send the high speed probes
to un-surveyed worlds.
The same year the Physics expert makes the surprise announcement that
his initial calculations were wrong and Krypton has little more than
twenty years to go before it will self destruct, after a mad scramble
both the New Kryptonians and Krypton's council decide he is wrong and
ignore his research reports, but leave him in charge of the fast
probe program.
.
1953
The Physics expert frustrated at the lack of acknowledgment secretly
begins to acquire spare parts from the Probe program and begins work
on a probe designed to carry his wife and himself to earth in cold
sleep.
1954
Five probes are lunched to un-surveyed worlds, the Krypton's council
is supplied with a complete list of solar systems with New
Kryptonian colonies or that have been surveyed and the council is
careful not to choose worlds from that list.
Late in the year three probes return and the data is carefully
studied none of the star systems appear to be worth visiting again.
1955
Two probes return, just after the three refurbished probes are
lunched to other star systems the New Kryptonians mark it as possible
system for expansion.
Four New Kryptonian starships are pulled off trade routes and ordered
to Krypton.
1956
The Director of Krypton's fast probe program manages to get the
refurbishing time down for the probes to two months and an average of
five stars are surveyed per year until the end.
Krypton's radiation levels have passed the hundred year mark as
compared to the exploded inner planet.
1957
The New Kryptonians worried by the sudden jump in Kryptonite
radiation, push the Krypton council to allow them to openly evacuate
what they can, the council refuses, but mentions that it wouldn't be
noticed if ships started vanishing, after all the oceans were getting
hazardous.
Soon the news is filled with reports of several cruise liners and
other ships being lost at sea using this method they manage to kill
the cruise ship business and save nearly 12000 kryptonians by
kidnapping them and their ship.
New Krypton's economy comes to a near standstill as every available
starship is ordered to Krypton or the nearest colony worlds.
1958
The council orders the replacement of the stock piled emergency
rations thirty years early and the New Kryptonians begin the process
of moving the rations off of Krypton.
The Kryptonian council allows the New Kryptonian to use a research
military base on a remote Island and all captured ships are taken to
that Island.
Ten of the captured cruise liners are converted into space worthy
Greenhouses �tanked� and towed into orbits that mostly keep them on
the far side of the sun from Krypton.
The few mining ships in the Krypton solar system are hurriedly
converted to carry refugees.
1959
The council worried by new studies that have radically reduce the
planet's time to less than a fifty years allow the New Kryptonians to
isolate a remote island and take the fifty thousand residents then
after salvaging as much equipment as possible for use in space they
destroy the Island, the council claims it was volcanic activity
Fifteen large cargo ships are taken with their crews by the New
Kryptonians and converted into Greenhouse ships Late in the year they
are �tanked� and towed into far side orbits.
New Krypton makes the decision to place as many kryptonian refugees
as possible in cold sleep and starts bringing the few colony ships
they have and parking them on the far side of the sun and loading
them with every Kryptonian they can capture, these ships are limited
to 50000 adults each.
1960
Two Colony ships arrive and two more Islands are lost to �Volcanic
activity� and forty thousand kryptonians are carried into space, with
all the equipment and supplies that could be carried off the Islands.
The Council gives the last small stockpile of Black kryptonite to the
New Kryptonians and the two largest ocean going vessel on the planet
are converted into a small and extremely fast starships that begins
making two week runs carrying a thousand kryptonians to the nearest
New Kryptonain colony.
1961
The Krypton Council claiming to have found a design flaw orders the
replacement of most of the planets cold sleep facilities and four
thousand are placed in the two converted ocean vessel, the ships each
miss six trips, but the following trips are carrying 4500 passengers
4000 Kryptonians in cold sleep and 500 awake.
Rumors are starting to spread among the general population in spite
of the council's complete control of all communication media, rumors
of new plagues, rumors of war, rumors of an asteroid strike and
rumors of alien pirates kidnapping entire chunks of the population,
but no rumors of the planet blowing up.
Fifteen converted ocean vessels redesigned to hold five thousand cold
sleep units each are slowly being filled with units as quickly as
they can be manufactured and redirected to them, the production rate
is allowing one ship every ten months to be completed and filled with
kidnap victims.
1962
The New Kryptonians reveal to Krypton's council that the radiation
levels are slightly above those of the inner planet's ten years
before it exploded.
The director of the space probe program and his wife receive
permission, from population control to have one child, he is already
frustrated by being unable to modify a probe to give a single adult
more than a thirty percent chance of reaching Earth. The Director
with his wife's backing reluctantly redesigns the converted FTL probe
to carry a small child and is pleased when the survival chances
increases to ninety percent.
The council orders their military forces to start partially
dismantling the thousands of defense missiles, and replace the
warheads with an extremely simple airtight chamber complete with a
small atomic power source and two cold sleep chambers, the chambers
power source is designed to operate two beacons and keep two
Kryptonian adults alive in cold sleep for up to ten years.
The traditional ten missile test a year is increased to a hundred,
instead of warheads the missiles contains two to four kryptonians in
cold sleep, most from the families of military personnel, four
converted ocean vessels are tasked with following the beacons and
towing the pods to safety in a constantly adjusted far side orbit.
1963
The Council orders the immediate family of all military personnel
shipped off world and one of the converted ocean vessel starts
carrying nearly 12000 small mostly military children in cold sleep
with 500 adults chosen from the military or their immediate families.
Three more volcanic Islands are taken by the New Kryptonians and
150000 Kryptonians are rounded up and shipped off world by various
means.
Krypton's economy is in a shambles the ocean going shipping industry
is nearly dead only the government is keeping supply ships going to
the populated Islands.
1964
The radiation levels have exceeded the Five year mark and increasing,
all Kryptonian ships are ordered to stay �hot� on the planet and be
prepared to leave within four hours if the radiation levels jump
drastically.
The council earmarks several missiles as escape pods for themselves
and start putting their families into the clandestine refugee stream.
Volcanic and seismic activity has increased slightly New Krypton's
council worried about feeding refugees and make the decision to
convert ten of the twelve remaining hulls waiting for cold sleep
chamber to green houses.
Late in the year New Krypton space ships start taking the government
run resupply ships meant for still populated Islands, the crew is
removed and the ships are quickly sealed against vacuum and lifted
away from Krypton.
1965
New Krypton aware that the Kryptonite radiation count has reached
levels above the one year mark decides to use a one of a kind bulk
asteroid capture ship and it's specially designed warp field to
envelope a city of fifteen million in warp compression stasis, the
Krypton council allows this in broad daylight. The ship leaves
krypton on a fifty year journey to the nearest colony, the same week
the New Kryptonian Island base is abandoned.
1965.13
The Director's child is born they never take the child more than an
hour from the small FTL escape ship, later as the Radiation levels
start to increase at a higher rate one is always present with the
child.
Their is a general outcry from the public demanding that the council
protect them from the aliens, the council responds by starting to
launch a steady increasing stream of �defensive� missiles at the
�aliens�
The New Kryptonian council orders all New kryptonian starships to far
side now a huge collection of of hulls under constant orbital
adjustment to keep the sun between them and Krypton.
Only Ten of New Krypton's fastest ships are allowed to approach
krypton most simply capture a cargo vessel from the now very rough
oceans order the crew into their vessel and then head for far side
towing the unsealed cargo vessel.
1965.28
A converted FTL probe carrying a small child leaves Krypton Twelve
hours ahead of it's final destruction, two hours later alarms sound
at the missile defense bases and military personnel start loading
into the converted missiles three hours later a wave of over 12000
missiles head for deep space rondevue on far side.
Krypton's Kryptonite warp core goes critical and hour before the
first of the missiles reaches the protection of the sun and 80
percent of the coldsleep pods are destroyed in the explosion as the
core of the krypton attempts to enter hyper space far to deep in a
stars gravity well.
�
Small amounts of kryptonite manage to go superluminal instead of
becoming part of krypton's light-speed energy pulse, this material
starts to enter nearby star systems being yanked out of hyper-space
as it passes deep enough into the gravity wells of a star.�
1965.5
The New Kryptonian council estimates that just over twenty million
Krypton refugees are spread out across their space with the bulk in
transit in warp compression stasis.
1966
A small ship carrying a Kryptonian child with the multidimensional
bio-energy field originally intended to protect against kryptonite
radiation discards it's kryptonite warp core and enter Earth's
atmosphere and lands, he is found and adopted by a human family.
The child's aura under the influence of a slightly higher frequency
mix of sunlight and the lack of kryptonian radiation causes the aura
field to start storing solar energy instead of using it to shunt the
radiation back into the higher dimensions, however the child's growth
keeps disrupting the aura field buildup limiting him to only
slightly above normal human abilities until his growth slows, when
he reaches his late teens.
�
1982
The child's growth has slowed enough and the expansion of his energy
reserves has started to level off so that his aura is now
stabilizing and his available energy reserves are building. This
reserve of power causes his kryptonian aura to bleed energy from the
higher dimensional he instinctively uses this surge of energy to
improve his bodies functions and to to increase his speed,
toughness, strength and to even warp space around his body allowing
him to form an aura based forcefield and even eventually manipulate
gravity fields.
He is currently about one percent of his full capability with a
three percent energy reserve or 1SA at 3SR.
Clark Kent wins a contest for future Journalist the prize is a trip
to Japan during summer vacation while there he is to keep a Journal
that will be printed in school papers across his home state, in the
fall. The Young man's slowly growing kryptonian aura activates a long
buried Silver Millennium artifact holding a stasis field, the
artifact or Serenity Broach misinterprets the boy's high energy aura
as the return of the aliens and releases the stasis field on
Serenity's advisors and over the next three months the advisor choose
nine newly married couples living in the Juban district of Tokyo
directly above the Broach. The Broach artificially creates conception
in the nine wives producing nine genetic duplicates of the long dead
daughter of Serenity and eight of the planetary princess of the
Silver Millennium.
The two advisors still trapped in their black and white house cat
forms move among the couples as pets carefully watching the nine
unwitting serogate mothers and their husbands.
1989
A Japanese man and his wife are transfered to England from Juban
taking a white cat that has been a family pet for seven years the
black cat remains in Juben moving as a house pet between the
remaining eight families raising the Silver Millennium clones.
��
1993
Superman appears, America, Russia, China and other countries starts
researching a means to fight him. (The first episodes of Lois &
Clark.)
�
1994.9
�Bolt from the blue�
Waldecker 75%SA, Gretchen tunes a high voltage machine and takes 20%
of Waldeker's reserve enhancing herself to 35%SA, Waldeker and
Gretchen are drained by Gretchen's machine back into superman
disrupting their Aura and lowering them to near human levels.
�
China starts a secret research program to develop powered battle
armour able to stand up to superman.
�
1995.9
�Ultrawoman�
Lucille hit's Superman with a laser fired through kryptonite,
transfer nearly 100% of his powers to Lois. Lucille figures this out
later and manages to transfer the kryptonian powers from Ultrawoman,
finally Superman and Lois trick Lucille and Superman gets his powers
back. Unknown to Lois and Lucille they now have a drained and badly
disrupted Kryptonian Aura that given time will stabilize and start
absorbing solar energy again.
�
�Chip off the old clark�
A boy with super powers is discovered, these powers are eventually
disrupted by his growth, it is not realized at the time, but once his
growth stops his super powers will return eventually approaching 80SA
with 40SR by the time he is 28 years old.
�
1996
The New Kryptonians come to earth announcing they will take over
the planet.
Waldecker still unable to fly but approaching 40SA prepares to go to
the president to offer his help in defending America.
The cat shaped Silver Millennium advisor living in England decides to
reveal himself to his charge and gives her the Venus Henshin Rod and
begins training her to help defend against the New Kryptonians. The
Silver Millennium advisor living in Juban Tokyo vacillates until the
New kryptonian crisis has ended and decides to wait until the group
of princesses are older.
�
During the New Kryptonian invasion a young Kryptonian woman doing a
biological resource survey of China washes mud off herself and her
uniform at a group of pools located in a high mountain valley. The
pool, part of a group of pools collectively called Jusenkyo is a
remnant of Silver Millennium technology, Jusenkyo is programmed to
copy any form stronger than a set value and attempts to copy her form
into the pool she is bathing in, but is stymied by her aura based
bio-forcefield, during her bath the young New kryptonian lost a
single strand of hair into the pool and the technology of the pool
was able to get a partial DNA copy and drain 54% of her energy
reserves adding a partial copy of her Kryptonian aura and mixing her
DNA structure with the pool's original generic female template. The
altered pool is unstable containing a large store of aura energy,
this change is unknown to the caretaker or any of the surrounding
tribes in the high mountain valley.
1997.5
Last �Lois and Clark� episode Waldeker's power has climbed to
roughly 60SA and rising. Gretchen's power levels is approaching
20SA.
�
Lois is an unnoticed 0.5 SA, Lucille still in prison is 0.1 SA.
�
Russia and China both frightened by the kryptonian invasion in
america secretly agree to share research on battlemech technology.
�
Lex Luther is found by Gretchen and using her machine she eventually
enhances him to match her 35SA.
�
1998
Lois has reached 1 SA starting to notice, Lucille has reached 0.5 SA
still in prison approached by a military General, with questions.
�
Russia shares a new software technology with China and in return
gets the formula for a super-strong armour.
A video game becomes a best seller in England, South Korea and Japan
the game is based on an urban legend about a superpowered asian girl
running around in what most call a cheerleader's outfit, this masked
vigilante has been a staple of the English tabloids for the last two
years even nudging superman to the second page. A major gaming
company out of Japan hires a Japanese girl living in england to model
and creates a game based loosely on this mythical Sailor V.
�
1998.3
Lois has reached 3 SA worried and hiding returning powers from
Clark.
�
Gretchen and Lex reach their full 35 SA not satisfied because they
lack flight ability, Gretchen invents a device to measure percentage
of superman's abilities, incorrectly calibrates the device.
Gretchen and Lex attack Waldeker and lose, Waldeker is more than
twice as powerful, he
goes into hiding with his sister stopping several other kidnapping
attempts, over the next two months.
A English Tabloid claims it offices and printing presses were
destroyed by Sailor V after revealing that She was Superman's half
human illegitimate daughter.
�
1998.5
Lois has reached 15 SA finally tells Clark, Lucille is over 10 SA
now working for the military.
�
Waldeker goes to the president with a deal and his sister moves into
the white house officially becoming a member of the cleaning staff.
Walder takes two agents and goes to the top of the Empire state
building during a thunderstorm, these agents are the first to get
what will be called the presidential package Waldeker's SA level is
dropped to the mid forties.
�
A break through in invasive Neuro interface technology in China
allows them to start test production of a technology that uses a
direct link to the brain of the pilot to control the electronics of
their still experimental battlemechs.
�
1998.8
Lucille has reached 30 SA unsuccessful in reproducing her ray-gun,
with any available sample of red kryptonite.
Scientist in the U.S. military develop a device to measure Lucille's
reserve energy levels and estimate actual strength potential.
�
Gretchen and Lex use her machine to enhance Asabi to 30 SA dropping
both their power levels greatly.
�
Waldeker not recovered from the first two enhancements takes another
agent, finds a thunderstorm and enhances him, both have to take a bus
to return the White House.
�
1998.9
The first two secret service agents enhanced by Waldeker finally hit
40 SA and gain the ability to fly.
Discrete feelers are put out, on the black market, by Lex offering
super powers to any that can pay.
�
Lois has reached 70 SA, carefully using her powers from the
background, lucille is over 60 SA.
�
Russian/Chinese research on cold fusion succeeds in building a
fusion reactor that will fit their forty foot battlemech.
��
Lucille accidentally exposed to a sample of mind altering red
kryptonite and the super-hero ?GIJANE? is born, just as her SA level
passes 80.
(The actual effects last a month, but the thrill and other feeling
she has as she saves people's lives causes a change in attitude.)
�
Gretchen and Asabi are each dropped to10 SA enhancing several
customers.
��
Ultrawoman makes her first official reappearance and a short time
later announces she will be helping her �husband�.
�
1999.1
Waldeker, who has just regained the ability to fly and one of the
first two enhanced agents each enhance one secret service agent, all
are unable to fly after the enhancement and have a rough landing in
florida.
The Silver Millennium advisor living in Tokyo comes to believe that a
cat burglar pulling off spectacular jewelry thefts is an agent for
Beryl. The cat burglar has recently purchased a 2 SA enhancement
from Lex luther in america and has moved to Tokyo to use it to steal,
the enhancement is making her look like a stealthed alien and Luna
reveals herself to the daughter of serenity and gives her her HENSHIN
rod. .
The general overseeing Lucille's attempts to enhance military
personnel uses his access to another military research program to
produce the first synthetic kryptonite analog.
�
Lucille drops herself back to 60SA successfully enhancing four
special forces personnel to varying levels, none greater than 15SA.
Research begins immediately on a method to Mass produce the effect,
and limit or remove the draining of the donor.
�
Lex, Gretchen and Asabi slowly start building up a very small group
of trusted enhanced henchman around 9SA they essentially act as
guards and as self re-charging donors for Gretchen's machine.
�
?GIJANE? has a hobby of filling in at regular intervals, for
superman usually alternate weekends and holidays also doing a few
military missions, mainly backup for the special forces personnel she
has enhanced.
�
China worried by the two new american �Kryptonians� creates a full
production line and starts production of their battlemech accepting
the 10% death rate from implanting the neuro interface in pilots.
�
1999.5
Lucille finally back near 93SA enhances a high ranking special
forces officer to 15SA.
�
The first successful test of the kryptonian aura modulation chamber
produces a Hundred and three that will in six months reach 5SA the
next test trying for 10SA burns out the aura modulation chamber and
badly pits the synthetic kryptonite, six months later these subjects
only reach 8SA.
�
The lack of immediate results in the tests causes all to deem it a
failure and the research is slowed.
�
The funding for the unrelated armour program that produce the
synthetic krypton is canceled.
�
Russian starts a full production line of Battlemech, inferior to
China's but costing half as much, only 5% produced have the
expensive direct neuro interface subsystem with the remaining 95%
using sensors embedded in exosuits and other more traditional
controls systems.
�
A man and his son looking for obscure fighting techniques, arrive at
Jusenkyo, the boy falls into the Kryptonian enhanced pool, as
designed the pool creates the an alternate female form, for the boy
giving it a partial Kryptonian aura of about 20SA and 20SR, however
as the confused boy now nearly five inches taller and a red headed
female in her early twenties staggers from the pool she shorts the
energy shield that surrounds all Jusenkyo pools and the pool
discharges most of the stolen aura energy directly through her body
stunning her, throwing her from the pool and increases her kryptonian
enhancement to 36SA and 32SR.
�
A few days later the Saotome boy in his female form accidentally
breaks the lower jaw of a nearby village's champion in a challenge
match over a panda. In the violence that follows the boy
inexperienced with the power levels of his female form accidentally
levels the amazon village and badly mauls three village elders as she
escapes with the cause of the trouble, a greedy pet panda. The
majority of the warriors and the last two unhurt village elders now
carrying several powerful and ancient artifacts start chasing the
girl while, the least hurt village elder interrogates the young
woman's guide, finally returning with him to Jusenkyo, the elder is
escorted by a few of the walking wounded. The elder test the pool
first with the guide and then with two volunteer warriors and finally
with herself.
The elder realizes the pool of drowned girl has changed and now gives
a slightly older and superhuman female form. Eventually the tribes
around Jusenkyo determine that the pool's template has been modified
from a normal young girl to that of a superhuman young woman with a
partial kryptonian aura, that is initially around 1 SA and 0.1SR and
slowly builds over twelve months to 20SA and 20SR.
�
1999.9
A security guard that was part of Lucille's's first enhancement test
starts manifesting powers the two hundred odd subjects of the army's
first two test are called back to the project for full testing.
�
Russia makes a break through in power storage laying the ground work
for a smaller battlemech, they trade it to China for updated neuro-
interface technology.
�
A Russian study estimates that at their current levels 50 Russian
Battlemechs would be required to stop ?GIJANE?, Ultrawoman or
Superman.
�
The Soatome girl and a panda, still running from the Amazon
village's war-party encounters Herb the prince of the exiled musk
dynasty, in the fight that follows this encounter Herb is quickly
defeated, turning from Musk territory the girl and her panda start
to climb Phoenix mountain. The following Amazon war-party now in an
uneasy alliance with the Musk prince and his escorts arrives at the
edge of the the bird people's territory unwilling to anger the bird
people or their temperamental and powerful self proclaimed Phoenix
god, they camp almost two miles from their territory, giving up the
chase and planning to return to the their homes in the morning.
�
During the night a fight starts a quarter of the way up the
mountain and the combined war party watches as the fire magic of the
bird people's God proves ineffective and the flares and fireballs of
his attacks show that he is being forced up the mountain and deeper
into his sacred territory.
� Finally near the summit there is a large explosion, followed by a
burning flare that is thrown off the mountain slamming into the
ground just outside the Phoenix's territory and relatively close to
the Amazon and Musk encampment, the elders rush to see if anything
was left of the outsider that destroyed their village, they instead
discover the badly beaten form of the Phoenix, a being they believed
was the most powerful person on the planet.
The first aid the Amazon elder gave the bird people's self
declared god prevented a fight between the distrustful neighbors and
for the first time in over a three thousand years started to lay the
foundation for a peace between the two groups, later the Amazon, Musk
and Bird People of Phoenix Mountain stand together and stop the
Chinese just over ten years later when the communist discover the
existence of the kryptonian enhancement pool and move to finally take
control of an area that had been largely ignored.
The next day the three groups debate what to do about the escaping
superhuman girl when the recently enhanced elder arrives with the
news of the girl and panda's true forms and the creation of a new
powerful Jusenkyo pool, after a short debate the amazon elders decide
it is better to reveal the new powerful pool at Jusenkyo than risk
the outsiders escaping with the knowledge. The Amazon elders beg the
birdmen to follow the Saotomes until enough warriors can be enhanced
in the new pool to make sure of defeating them.
Waldeker and the other enhanced secret service agent's SA levels
have reached levels that allow flight capability again.
Several Jewelry stores along a city block in the Jubin District of
Tokyo are heavily damaged in a fight between apparent superhumans a
jewelry store security camera manages to capture thirty seconds of a
masked teenager in a brightly coloured copy of a Sailor V costume
trading concrete cracking blows with a female figure dressed all in
black. Eyewitnesses claim the young girl called herself Sailor Luna.
2000
Lucille settles into enhancing five carefully selected special
forces officer to 10SA every ten months, this continues for the next
10 years causing ?GIJANE?'s SA levels to hover around 85SA.
The Soatomes unaware of being followed by the birdmen are cut off and
attacked by twelve warriors. The attacking party made up of four
Amazon elders, four high ranking Musk warriors and four Birdmen all
have been enhanced in the new Jusenkyo pool and believe that their
new form's initial 1SA enhancement is the same as the Soatome boy's
and are unaware that the pool had discharged a one time reserve of
aura energy that places her enhancement nearly forty time higher than
their current levels, the fight last longer than the fight with the
still disabled Phoenix god, but not by much.
�
The subjects, from Lucille's first large group enhancement test have
reached a maximum around 5SA the overseeing General ask a senator
to have the unrelated armour program restarted just to produce the
synthetic kryptonite, the General tells the senator that it is for
the �Ultraman� project, two weeks later the senator's son is killed
by terrorist and at roughly the same time the American president and
Japan's emperor are attacked in Japan, forcing three of the enhanced
secret service agents guarding the president to use the full ability
of their enhancement to save his life and the life of others, this
is during a live news broadcast revealing their enhancement to the
world.
�
(RISING SUN)
A nineteen year old japanese girl is badly wounded protecting the
U.S. president (Elvis Presley) from a ninja assassin. The girl in
her last year of high school wins a cooking contest along with nine
other Japanese high school students, the contest was to cook and
serve one dish each for a historic meeting of the U.S. president and
Japan's emperor. One of the girls the eldest daughter of the master
of an obscure martial arts form, recognizes a ninja style attack and
takes a dart meant for the president, at that moment most of the
security is occupied stopping twenty additional heavily armed
assassins. When President Elvis learns that the poison has no cure
and will kill the young lady within twenty-four hours he orders one
of his enhanced secret service agents to take her to their
�enhancement� facilities and try to use a Presidential level
enhancement to save her life.
This order is given as both the Japanese emperor and the President
huddle under the protection of two enhanced secret service agents
and is later carried out by enhanced Secret service agent Dan Bar,
only the Japanese emperor is aware that an enhancement is the true
method of attempting to save the girl's life.
The unconscious Japanese girl is enhanced in a thunderstorm over
the Hawian islands and then taken by Dan Bar to a military hospital
in that state and a cover story is prepared, but her heroic sacrifice
is largely missed in the shuffle and shock as live video feeds shows
a secret services agent tossing a bomb laden car out to sea, while
two other agents blur picking bullets and out of the air as they move
to disable several assassins.
�
Three days later, when it is clear the enhancement is going to save
the Japanese girl's life the U.S. president announces that as an
apology, he has allowed the secret enhancement of a single female
Japanese police or military officer to the level of his secret
service agents.
2000.5
The senator reinstates the requested armour project and mistakenly
believes the Military and Presidential enhancements are from the
same program, he request in a impassioned public speech that the
Ultraman project be applied to all military personnel in memory of
his son who was a captain in the air force.
The Ultraman fact sheet made up by the general overseeing Lucille's
enhancement program to help convince the senator is leaked to the
press, the fact sheet part cover story and part hard statistics on
the enhancement rate, appears to reveal that a renegade New
Kryptonian developed a way to pass limited copies of her power to
humans and sold it to the American army.
�
China doubles it research expenditures into more powerful
battlemechs to counter the Ultraman threat.
The Silver Millennium advisor worried about the �Kryptonians� and
thinking they may be agents of Beryl quickly hands out the seven
remaining Hinshin rods she has and begins training the planetary
princesses.
�
Unknown to China, a spy working for Israel manages to copy and pass
on all their advances in Battlemech technology to Israel's military.
�
The subjects from the American army's second test reach a maximum of
8SA.
�
The construction of three enhancement centers are started at three
high security military bases across the US and the first experimental
facility is put back into operation enhancing 250 military personnel
a day to 3SA.
Most countries start working on upgrading the firepower of their
troops.
Elvis, in spite of the controversy over giving out such a powerful
secret wins reelection as president of the United States.
�
China/Russian Scientist test a magnetic pulse gun that can fire a
two kilogram iron rod with a titanium needle core at 5 km/s every 35
minutes, re-charging and overheating problems plague the weapon.
�
The Calm Years
�
2001
Canada makes a secret deal with the US and pays for the construction
of a enhancement facility at a joint military base in canada that
will enhance 100 americans and 200 canadian military personnel a day.
�
The US military now has over 40,000 enhanced personnel the majority
are army personnel most have yet to reach their full 3SA enhancement
level.
�
A large set of regulations are put into place to control the
Presidential package, and initially were applied to the Military
package, but later as more was learned about the military packages
the laws applied to enhanced personnel were reduced greatly,
especially after the civilian program was started.
�
The Number of active Secret service agents that can be enhanced with
the Presidential package is limited to Ten, with a special per case
vote by the senate and congress to allow more enhancements and the
disallowing of political office to any person with what is now called
the Presidential enhancement.
�
Luther is doing well and over the year enhances a number of the
rich and wealthy most are 1SA to 3SA with several higher exceptions
from the ruling class in arab countries. The core of the Communist
party in China purchased 5SA packages and the current chinese leader
acquired a 7SA package in a closely guarded supposedly secret trip to
Luther's enhancement facility in the United States.
�
2001.3
(Rising Sun)
Japan's new super hero code named �RisingSun� is introduced by the
emperor, the same day China and North Korea deny her the right to
use their airspace.
Rising Sun received a year of intensive special forces and military
training, as her enhancement slowly built to it's maximum level and
this has exposed the Secret Service and military forces in the US to
RisingSun's supposedly minimal training in her families martial arts
style, the military and secret service were very impressed when the
girls training allowed her to hold her own against one of the
president's fully enhanced agents even when her enhancement was still
only at thirty percent of his.
When the girl was free to return from her �treatments�, in America
she also started a regular flow of military and Secret Service agents
for her father to teach, this eventually included all presidential
enhanced secret service agents and a selection of enhanced special
forces from various branches of the armed forces rotating through
several months training from her father.
�
A reporter discovers Waldeker's identity and connects him to his
first appearance in metropolis, forcing the secret service to
release a cover story of him being the first volunteer recipant of
the presidential package.
��
Continuing problems with the magnetic driven gun causes China and
Russian to instead install a 120mm auto cannon in their second
generation mechs.
�
England and Japan both make a similar agreement to the Canadians and
construction of an enhancement center begins at an American military
base in each country.
�
2001.6
Enough synthetic kryptonite and resonance chambers are produced to
finally put three more enhancement centers into operation, in
America. A laser miss calibration at one enhancement center results
in 600 personnel enhanced to 8SA and the synthetic kryptonite and
resonance chamber burned out after two days use.
Taiwan worried about spy reports of Chinese battle mech advances
approaches the American government and manages to buy twenty 3SA
enhancements for their special forces.
A Japanese trawler and cruise liner both report seeing a red
headed woman towing a panda as she ran on the water to Japan, the
report would have been discounted, save for a few fishermen fired
for drinking, except for the nearly ten minutes of video shot of the
girl after she had passed a cruise liner, analysis of the video
indicated she was not walking, but skiing. The Japanese coast guard
called it a college prank performed with a submarine or some form of
submersible powered skis. The Actual reason was the Soatome boy's
extreme training in martial arts allowed the female form to access a
very limited form of a kryptonian's flight ability, in spite of not
having the required 40SA enhancement level. His training allowed him
to focus the enhanced aura of the female form enough to generate a
force that could cancel out 95% of her weight, while not allowing
flight, it did allow her to water ski at close to 30 km/hr while
towing a very bruised panda on a log.
China tests several Luther enhanced 2SA military officers against
there current Battlemech design, causing them to increasing the
armour and firepower significantly.
�
2002
Waldeker is officially transfered from the Secret Service around the
president to NASA. Congress and the Senate vote to allow an
additional Secret Service agent to be enhanced and she is tasked with
patrolling washington DC, protecting government facilities and
helping around the nation.
�
Waldeker is employed, by NASA to clear space junk and fix the orbits
of satellites and as a flying lifeguard or watchdog for shuttle
flights.
�
A reporter jokingly calls Waldeker �Captain Spaced�.
The residents of the Nerima district of Tokyo are rudely awakened one
night to RisingSun fighting five possible alien women, she was
assisted by a Red Hawk an enhanced masked vigilante relatively new to
the area, but known to have assisted RisingSun in the past.
Eyewitness's claim the women were weaker than Red Hawk, but
demonstrated abilities not associated with kryptonian enhancements
the purple haired sisters abilities could best describe as weather
witches or possible telekinetic and were able to summon tornadoes
move small objects without touching them the others were winged women
and their agility and skill in the air was barely matched by
RisingSun's superior speed and strength, the battle ended abruptly
after thirty-five minutes when �Captian Spaced� arrived from orbit to
give assistance and the five attackers regrouped and vanished in a
cloud of dust into the sewer system and were lost.
�
Russia develops a software system that when coupled with the
invasive neurointerface technology allows a pilot to use the
electronics of his Battlemech to speed up his thinking and reaction
time by a factor of five.
�
China and Russia start selling early model Battlemechs, these lack
the super-strong armour, the 120mm auto cannon and have a more
traditional control interface technology, that does not require
implants.
�
Gretchen and Luther discover the 1SA limitations of her machine when
trying to use the twenty Taiwan enhancements as donors. Taiwan had
initially approached Luther and made a deal where they would supply
twenty donors taking half the 3SA enhancements for their military and
allowing him to use the others, nobody is happy with the newly
discovered limitation, or that further test show that each donor can
only be used once a year.
Taiwan finally makes an agreement to allow luther to use these 3SA
special forces every year to enhance ten additional Taiwanese
personnel to 1SA while allowing Luther to sell the 1SA enhancements
he gets from the other ten.
�
2002.5
Waldeker is loaned at his request to a group of private companies a
week later he places a specially modified super-tanker into orbit
and Space-conductors Inc. is born.
�
Ultrawoman pounds sixteen very early model Chinese Battlemechs into
scrap after a General in a South America supported by China attempts
to use them to stop free elections and set herself up as a dictator.
�
The enhancement site in canada receives it's synthetic kryptonite
and resonance chamber and goes into full operation enhancing
American and Canadian personnel, a month later the facilities in
England and Japan receive their materials and quietly go into full
operation.
�
Israel starts construction of a secret Battlemech research and
limited production center, research is already underway to find a
safe non-invasive way of mentally controlling battlemechs.
�
2003
Space-conductors announces limited production of 8192 gigabyte 3D
ram chips.
�
The U.S. military is approaching 600,000 enhanced personnel, with
over 100,000 enhanced allied military personnel in Japan, Canada and
England combined.
�
America agrees to enhance seventy-five special forces personnel to
3SA for each nation that is a member of NATO.
�
Waldekar is making weekly supply pod runs to orbit with consumables,
and returning with rotating crew and memory chips.
�
China demonstrates what they call a full production model Battlemech
they claim able to stand up to the Ultraman project.
�
China prototypes a slightly larger Battlemech, with the magnetic
rail-gun, but it is severely power limited and prone to overheating
in both the cold fusion reactor and the magnetic gun.
�
2003.5
Waldecker puts two rebuilt submarines into orbit as part of a joint
NASA/Navy program.
The subs retain their torpedoe tubes and use the torpedo storage to
house space worthy guided missiles, but the ballistic missile bay is
replaced with labs, life support and additional living space. The
atomic reactor's power is tied into four ion rockets each rated for
a thrust of 1/50 gravities.
�
Waldecker allows himself to be used to enhance one army officer and
four members of a naval seal team to 10SA using ?GIJANES?'s
enhancement facilities
�
A joint resolution is put before the UN to force America to reveal
to the world the techniques of the Presidential enhancement package
for the good of humanity, vetoed by the U.S.
�
Israel's first two experimental battlemechs have controls similar to
the russian design and lack a neuro interface. Two Battlemech pilots
are put into year long coma in the first test of an experimental
non invasive neurointerface that used intense magnetic fields to
sense key areas in the brain.
�
2003.6
One american "space-sub" breaks earth orbit and heads for the moon
returning two months later after successfully placing a tethered
basket on the moons surface and then reeling it back with a kilogram
of lunar dust. During the return flight it also carefully places 300
stealthed micro-sat's in many orbits around the earth and moon to
watch for another kryptonain invasion.
�
The U. S. military is nearing 60% enhancement for it's personnel,
Australia buys 3600 3SA enhancements from the US, after spending six
months testing eight military personnel enhanced by Lex Luther to
1SA.
�
2004
Superman and Ultrawoman lift two super-tankers wielded top-deck to
top-deck into LEO for consortium of micro-chip makers trying to
compete with Space-conductors Inc. now the makers of memory chips
that �bring space to your computer's memory.�
�
In return for releasing 5,000 dissidents Superman puts a super-
tanker called RedStar into LEO for the chinese government. A week
later the first three ton supply shell is lunched from a super-gun
deep in China, called "Spaceguntwo". The Redstar's large crew is
rotated infrequently with monthly launches of a ballistic system
similar to America's Mercury program.
�
Israel successfully test a safer version of their non invasive
neurointerface and start limited production of a Battlemech that
lacks the super-armour of the Russian and Chinese mechs, but are
slightly smaller, faster and very stealthy.
�
Lex enhances several Russian and Chinese agents to 10SA learns about
a plan to rob Fort Knox were it is rumored a large concentration of
enhancement supplies are stock-piled.
�
An experimental garden in one of the Navy's space-subs succeeds in
taking 50% of the carbon out of the life-support cycle doubling
range, but it converts it to mostly inedible plant material with
only 10% being recycled as food.
�
China reports to the UN that 20 battlemechs were stolen from a
research center, they fail to mention that 12 have the still
experimental magnetic pulse gun installed and all have the high
strength armour.
�
2005
Thirty �criminals� attack Fort Knox piloting "stolen" Chinese
battlemechs the fight is fierce and deadly because the battlemech's
heavy firepower is more than a match for the 3SA guard forces.
Thanks to Lex the attack is not a surprise, but the Chinese
battlemechs, discounted by American experts allows them to reach the
vaults, the �criminals� are dismayed by the absence of synthetic
kryptonite and surprised by the arrival of ?GIJANE?, and RisingSun
who with the help of the counter attacking 3 SA regular forces takes
the supermechs down in a destructive running battle that is spread
across half the state of Kentucky. Superman and Ultrawoman are
working major accidents in Russia and Europe, Waldeker is doing a
Lunar water survey for the UN, RisingSun was filling in patrolling
the US, while the enhanced presidents secret service agents where all
tasked with Japan and the security of a major summit meeting being
held there.
�
Some reporters start referring to Waldecker respectfully as �Captain
Space�.
�
The UN clears China of any wrong doing, because they warned most
national governments of the battlemech �theft� a week before the
attack and had informed high ranking UN officials a month before
that.
�
Israel worried about reports of enhanced Arabs above 15SA purchases
two 20SA enhancements from Luther and start production of an
upgraded battlemech.
�
Prince Herb of the Musk Dynasty, an expert at chi or aura
manipulation develops a way to transfer a 1SA 5SR enhancement from
his female form to his warriors without using the Jusenkyo pool, the
process a modified healing method that transfer small amounts of Chi
from a donor requires a very large sample of Amber and the user of
the technique must have a high level of martial arts training as well
as being an expert in Chi manipulation, the technique isn't
particularly draining of the expert, but to reach the full 1SA
enhancement requires it be applied daily for at least four months.
Prince Herb attempts to teach the technique to both the Amazons and
Birdpeople, but only a single Amazon elder who is an expert healer
manages to quickly learn it. The Phoenix argues that Herb and later,
the Amazon elder must give preferential treatment to the winged form
of his birdpeople. He points out that the resulting enhanced winged
form would allow near supersonic flight and might match the military
aircraft that sometime fly over the region.
2006
The US military starts modifying and distributing current stocks of
what was previously crew served heavy weapon as the personal arms of
enhanced infantry, in a stop gap measure to allow their 3SA military
to better stand up to the new Chinese battlemech technology.
�
Research programs are started on picking the new super heavy hand
weapons for the enhanced US armed forces.
�
A deal is made with Israel trading military enhancement technology
for their experimental battlemech technology. A 3SA enhancement
facility is started at a military base in Israel and a Battlemech
production center is started in the U.S. In return for a dozen
functional battlemechs, the U.S. secretly enhances two officers in
Israel's military to 15SA.
�
All branches of the U.S. military are approaching near 95%,
enhancement of all active duty personnel. All branches of the U.S.
military starts enhancing reservist enlisted for more than 5 years.
2007
A super-gun much smaller than the Chinese super-gun is finished in
the canal zone funded by Space-conductor Inc, NASA and a group of
Japanese companies, it starts putting 1.5 tons per week of high grade
silicon and other consumables into orbit.
�
The PLO is shattered in raids that captures or destroys roughly 95%
of their military assets and kills or captures 85% of the terrorist
leadership and training core.
�
Waldecker orbits two �ferrys� for Space-conductor, solar powered
they don't have rockets instead using two mile long conductive
tether lines and earth's magnetic fields to move from the main
factory to other orbital facilities.
�
Waldecker is now commonly referred to respectfully as �captain
space�.
�
A Military study group recommends all American troops be armed with
a minimum of a 0.50 caliber Rifle that is able to sustain multiple
twenty round burst of saboted high velocity ammunition.
�
Israel researchers develop a super-conducting overlay for their
suits that stores energy in a fractal 3 D pattern that �gels� the
air around the suit, the �gelled� air uses the stored energy to try
and absorb the kinetic energy from any incoming projectile before it
can damage the battlemech.
�
2007.2
Waldeker puts a specially constructed Japanese super tanker sized
station into LEO, a week later the station splits into 3 sections
connected by cables that slowly separate until they are kilometers
apart, creating significant gravity effects in the upper and lower
sections.
Waldekar spends a month lifting clear curved panels to enclose the
cables in long tubes between the 3 sections, of the Japanese
station, the clear tubes are designed to have half sections that are
pressurized, with the transport elevators running in vacuum..
�
�
2007.5
A Japanese robotic jet-rocket plane is destroyed when a tether
extending down within 300 kilometers of the earths surface is missed
and the end coupler on the tether shatters the experimental craft's
composite hull.
�
Japan offers hotel rooms with �gravity� to crewmen in space and
Space-conductors Inc. rents the the highest gravity floors on the
low side and starts giving groups of personnel one week stays on
these floors allowing them to extend the crew's time in orbit.
�
The panama space-gun starts orbiting supplies for the Japanese
station, now lunching a total of 2.5 tons a week.
�
Construction of a second space gun is started in the canal zone and
a large space-gun is started in Russia.
�
2007.8
Space-conductor Inc., NASA and a small group of Japanese and
Canadian investor successfully lunch and link up a modified SR-71 to
the Japanese tether and bring back a ton of micro-chips and
experimental foundry materials.
�
The U.S. military chooses a new personal rifle, it is a 0.50 caliber
weapon with a thirty round magazine that can fire in three round
burst.
�
The Japanese station starts using conductive tethers and earth's
magnetic fields to slowly compensate for the movement of cargo from
and to earth's orbit.
�
Waldeker puts three more solar powered �tether ferrys� in orbit, two
for Japan and one for NASA.
In return for the release of 2000 political prisoners superman puts
a Chinese �space-sub� into orbit.
�
Superman, at their request also puts a Russian �space-sub� into
orbit.
�
America makes a deal with Israel and converts and orbits an obsolete
atomic sub for them, in return Israel's experts supply the materials
and expertise to add the fractal energy shield from their battlemechs
to all of america's space-subs.
�
2008
In a surprise outgrowth of an attempt to improve on ion rockets a
Mississippi based company develops a hot fusion drive that can in
near vacuum produce 105% of the power input as well as high thrust
as a side benefit.
�
Waldeker, Utrawoman and Superman place eight super tankers on the
moon, as a part of a UN project all are to be essentially linked Bio-
domes that will hopefully become a self supporting colony of up to
8000 "lunarians" it is a UN project with the tankers rebuilt for
space by various UN member nations.
�
A medical report detailing a ten year study of the Ultraman project
is �mistakenly� posted to a medical journals web-site, it contains
proof that the Ultraman enhancement appears to be slowing the aging
process by a factor of five to nine, with an initial regeneration
surge that often halves the apparent biological age of the enhanced
personnel.
�
Two Modified NASA SR-71s start carrying supplies to the Japanese
station and returning to earth with semiconductors and experimental
products.
The first Japanese Green house section, in their stateion goes into
operation and starts selling novelty vegetables on earth.
�
2008.3
NASA uses Waldeker to accelerate twelve large probes to mars, in
preparation for the crewed flight late next year of a "Space-sub" to
mars.
�
The air-force pulls several moth-balled SR-71's out of storage and
starts converting them to an improved version of NASA's commercial
near sub-orbital tether design.
�
Three cruiser sized cargo vessels nominally under UN control, but
paid for by individual states or groups of states are orbited by
Risingsun and Ultrawoman. They have ion drives that produce 2/50 g
thrust combined and a tether skyhook system for accessing the moon's
surface from extremely low lunar orbits.
�
Political pressure is being placed on the military and voters are
wondering about the military package's health benefits, Politicians
are feeling the heat and wanting it for themselves.
�
2009
America starts overhauling one �space-sub�replacing the four ion
rockets with two fusion impulse rockets.
�
France pays Waldeker to orbit a "space-sub" and a super tanker
station for them, it does not break apart into sections, but a
tether is dropped within 800km of earth's surface.
�
A non military kryptonian enhancement program is proposed, the US
military fights to keep it's methods secret and fears the massive
cuts it knows will be required to pay for any realistic civilian
program. The military finally agrees but requires the enhancement
centers be built at military bases in each state.
Two space-cannons in the canal zone are now orbiting five tons of
supplies a week.
�
The Russian's complete a very large space-gun and start orbiting
three tons a week.
�
Japan's space farms start selling space chicken, duck and fish meat
to earth, as a novelty and as a luxury to the facilities in space.
The station will take partial payment in the �waste� organic
materials from the life support systems of other facilities and
ships in space.
�
The first fusion impulse converted sub is a limited success the two
impulse rockets can produce rapid pulse accelerations of up to 0.8
gravities, but the pulsed nature of the drive requires the
reinforcement of the �space-sub� adding mass and reducing the
maximum acceleration to 0.5 gravities.
�
2010
The American civilian enhancement program is started and three of
the military facilities switch to enhancing 300 civilians a day at
3SA that is eventually called the civilian package.
�
Construction of 48 civilian enhancement sites roughly one in each
state is started at various military bases in america.
�
The UN and other countries demand the US make the civilian
enhancement available to the world.
�
The air-force starts sub-orbital testing of three converted SR-71's.
�
The original enhancement center under ?GIjane?'s control switches to
improving military personnel enlisted for 7 years or more from 3SA
to 5SA or higher.
�
Canada makes a deal and agrees to pay for the construction of an
enhancement center at a Canadian air base, to enhance 300 civilians
a day to 3SA.
�
Japan develops a way to use salvaged material from the single joint
american/Japanese enhancement center and starts enhancing 200
citizens a day, to 2SA a hundred and fifty are picked by a national
lottery and the rest are given as awards to emergency personnel.
�
Reluctantly the U.S. military puts the crystalline structure of the
civilian grade material along with the complete plans for the
resonance chamber into the public domain the released design is able
to enhance three hundred per day to the 3 SA level.
�
China accuses America of holding back, and cheating the world.
�
Russia accuses the USA of having a cheaper method of producing
synthetic kryptonite, America denies this points to the changes
occurring in their budget.
�
Russian hard liners claim America hasn't fully revealed its
enhancement process and is dragging its feet to keep the rest of the
world from having the full benefit.
�
2011
China loses an experimental lifting body spacecraft while testing it,
the flight controls partially lock at 200000 meters and the craft
veers into a mountain range, the pilot has a 3 SA enhancement and
rides it down to 1000 before ejecting.
An event long dreaded by the Birdpeople of Phoenix mountain occurs
and their existence is revealed by the spacecraft recovery teams,
shortly there after the Amazons and Musk dynasty are brought to the
attention of the Chinese Government, when it is discovered that
several women have a very high kryptonian enhancement and that it
came from a pool somewhere in the valley.
Their are dozens of resolution put forth by various countries in the
UN to have the western countries build their enhancement centers,
each is vetoed.
�
Religious riots in India centered mainly around rumors of babies
being born with no souls, the enhancements are already supposedly
keeping souls from being freed for new birth, no damage is done, but
work on that countries single civilian kryptonian enhancement center
is slowed.
�
France starts secret construction of a half sized enhancement center
at one of its military ports, they plan on using reconditioned
salvaged material purchased from Japan.
�
The first fully Canadian owned facility goes into operation and a
second facility is started at another Canadian military base.
�
The US publicly enhances five Canadian and five Japanese special
force personnel to 10SA.
�
Rumors appear that claim the enhancement process alters the DNA of
the recipient, claiming that the human race is replacing itself with
alien half breeds.
2011.5
A third Japanese/American facility is completed and starts enhancing
310 civilians a day at 3SA. The original American/Japanese facility
switches to 5SA and continues enhancing Japanese and American
military personnel. .
�
The Japanese self defense base housing the civilian facility is
attacked, by unknown terrorist, but they are stopped by enhanced
military personnel.
�
France, after citing several genetic studies, that prove their is no
change in the DNA of enhanced personnel starts construction of a
full sized civilian facility near their capital.
.
The Air-force succeeds in flying a modified SR-71 into LEO and back
down, it is armed with a chemical laser that can be fired more than
5 times and four guided 100 kilogram kinetic kill spikes.
�
The Second Japanese facility replaces the salvaged enhancement
materials and switches to enhancing 300 civilians a day to 3SA.
�
2012
A large "Earth first" group appears and destroys or damages
enhancement facilities being constructed around the world these
attacks fail completely in the US, Canada, Israel and Japan largely
because all the facilities are built or being built at military
bases. Most of these surviving enhancement centers were constructed
as part of deals made with the US government and have large numbers
of 3SA military personnel present. The rest of the world's known
facilities are civilian projects and lack the enhanced military
personnel present at the surviving sites.
�
After England's newly started civilian facility is badly damaged,
the government announces a lottery enhancing fifty citizens a day to
3SA along with british military personnel at the american base in
England.
�
The Public civilian facility in France is badly damaged and work is
slowed to a crawl.
�
Russia votes in communist hard-liners who promise to complete a
enhancement facility within two years.
�
China implements a new crack-down filtering all electronic
communication into or out of China.
�
2012.5
Japan completes two more enhancement centers and both combined start
enhancing an additional 600 civilians a day at 3SA.
�
Canada's second civilian facility goes into operation enhancing 305
civilians a day at 3SA
�
Late in the year France's small secret enhancement facility goes
into operation, using the salvaged material from Japan and starts
enhancing ninety military personnel every two days at 3SA along with
twenty randomly selected French citizens, from law enforcement..
Chinese police forces are stopped forty miles from Jusenkyo valley at
the largest major pass into the area, the thirty thousand man
conventional armed force is surprised and overwhelmed when they
suddenly lose air cover and a relatively small force of kryptonian
enhanced female warriors stage a surprise attack in one of the narrow
passes.
The Chinese government decides to send infiltrators into the area,
over the next two years, none of these return.
�The Cold years start
2013
Countless attacks by the well armed and apparently well funded
�earth first� group slows work on all sites, but especially the
purely civilian projects in other countries.
�
2013.3
The �Earth firsters� succeed in closing all civilian enhancement
sites in Europe the surviving production equipment is moved to
military bases in each country and construction is restarted.
�
The first EU site is finished from salvaged material taken from
several destroyed civilian enhancement sites in the EU and starts
enhancing 310 military personnel a day at 3SA.
�
2013.5
A Russian enhancement center 90% complete is destroyed by a terror
attack consisting of five stolen and then armored tanker trucks
driven through the surrounding military base into the enhancement
center and detonated eyewitness claim the drivers were seen leaping
unhurt from the flames.
�
A week later a A Chinese facility is heavily damaged when a barge
loaded with fuel and explosives is detonated on a nearby river.
�
China and Russia accuse America and form a WARSAW type organization
to rival NATO.
�
Dozens of Attacks continue on enhancement sites around the world.
�
Several middle east countries join Russia and China soon followed by
several african nations.
�
A small cargo ship loaded with explosives is stopped and then
detonates just outside the French port that houses their only
functional enhancement center. The port and military base are
damaged, but the enhancements are not slowed.
�
The EU site starts a lottery picking 30 civilians a day to be
enhanced.
�
2014
China shocks the world by using atomics to put a battleship sized
spaceship into orbit, it retains a destroyers class firepower and
using its atomic powered ion rockets can reach 1/50 gravities
acceleration. It is later revealed to have atomic steam rockets that
allow 1.5 gravities acceleration for an unknown period of time.
�
The same week Russia puts a super-tanker sized spaceship into orbit
using atomics it is tentatively classed as having a cruiser class
armament, but lacks the armour of the Chinese ship, also its ion
rockets can only provide 1/75 gravities acceleration.
�
It is leaked that the royal families of several arab states are
already enhanced resulting in several families being ousted
including most that were friendly to the US.
�
Riots occur in England when it is revealed that the extended royal
family has a 7SA package purchased over the last twelve years from
Luther.
�
Two civilian enhancement centers are hurriedly completed at British
military bases, and using badly burned synthetic kryptonite and worn
resonance chambers nearly ready to be discarded from America's 5SA
military program starts enhancing 500 British citizens a day to 2SA.
�
Russia produces evidence that appears to show America, Japan and
possible France and Israel have been bank rolling the Earth First
terrorist, only America's Veto power prevents the UN from passing a
resolution to put troops into the terror states to "inspect" all
military sites and free up enhancement centers for other nations.
2015
The Navy/NASA starts replacing the ion drives with the fusion
impulse drive in all �space-subs�.
Attacks continue on enhancement and synthetic kryptonite production
facilities world wide mostly annoying, but does slow construction.
�
A huge heavily guarded �kilo� site in the EU goes into operation
enhancing close to 3000 civilians a day at a 2SA level.
�
Waldecker orbits a heavily modified super-sub, a submarine
conversion originally intended for mars it has been altered into a
full warship its two fusion impulse drives each produce 0.4
gravities acceleration and it has externally mounted solid fuel
sprint rockets that allow it to exceed 5 gravities for short
periods.
�
China and Russia secretly complete their first enhancement centers
ignoring their civilians they instead burn all the civilian class
synthetic kryptonite and resonance chambers they can produce
enhancing more than 400 loyal special forces personnel a day to 7SA.
�
Japan has managed to finish five additional enhancement centers, and
are enhancing over four thousand a day at 3SA, america is enhancing
more than 10000 civilians a day.
�
The Chinese again uses atomics to put a armored super-tanker into
space, but instead of going into earth orbit the ship continues to
the moon and a month later two russian �space-subs� detach going
into lunar orbit, while the super-tanker uses steam and solid fuel
rockets to land on the moon and declare itself a lunar colony..
�
The Chinese and Russians claim an area 2,000 kilometers across
centering on their new moon base placed close to the top or north
orbital pole of the moon.
2016
China sends a major force into the Jusenkyo area spear headed by
their latest battlemech and a a significant number of the newly
enhanced special force units, the battlemechs are blinded in freak
storms that produce multiple tornadoes and the special forces are
outclassed by the enhanced amazon warriors and the near supersonic
birdmen..
The American �Space-subs� increase the number of earth/moon patrols.
�
The America congress and senate allows three more secret service
agents to be enhanced with the Presidential package and then loan
them out to the various branches of the military.
�
Every American state has at least one civilian enhancement facility
in full operation enhancing just over 300 civilians a day to 3SA.
�
A Joint American/Korean 1SA enhancement facility is built in South
Korea using salvaged synthetic kryptonite it starts enhancing 500 a
day with half the enhancements being sold for 35,000 dollars each.
The other half are used to enhance South Korean military personnel
and 50 civilians chosen at random.
�
A Russian civilian enhancement facility is destroyed by an old 747
packed with explosives and crashed into it, they claim it was 80%
complete, America and France release satellite photo's showing it
was only 30% complete.
�
?GIjane? sets up one super-tanker biosphere base on the moon for
joint American/Japanese/ Canadian colony and another super-tanker is
placed by Waldeker for a British/Australian/ Italian/Spanish colony
each base claims 1000 kilometers radius around itself both bases are
placed to cover the bottom or southern orbital pole of the moon.
�
The South American section of the UN moon base succeeds in forming a
semi-stable Biosphere able to completely recycle 85% of the carbon
in their life support into human food, it still produces a 15% waste
of unused plant material.
�
Russians presents evidence that the explosives used to destroy their
enhancement facilities came from Japan and increase their claims
that the U.S. and her allies are trying to keep the enhancements
from them and the rest of the world.
�
NATO loses eight nations seven form a smaller organization, but one
joins Russia and China.
�
The Storm years
�
2017
China and Russia cut all connections to the west and pass strict
laws making it illegal to contact any nation not from an approved
list.
�
China moves massive numbers of troops and Battlemechs to the coast
adjacent to Japan, spies report that large numbers of Warsaw member
troops are also present.
�
China and Russia demand that Japan dismantle half her enhancement
facilities and give them to China, Russia and their allied
countries.
�
A �miss-fire� in one of the Chinese space-guns drops a 4 ton
resupply shell in Missouri no one is hurt, damage is minor.
�
France hires Waldeker to place a super-tanker sized biosphere base
on the moon and then orbit a cruiser sized armed supply ship able to
accelerate at 2/50 gravities.
�
While the Japanese politicians debate in a closed session giving
into China's demands the emperor personally and secretly presents
the American president with a complex plan to admit Japan as twenty
separate states into America's union.
�
The emperor calls a national news conference and demands that the
Japanese people be allowed to choose between the eagle or that dark
dragon.
�
The single American carrier group in the area is ordered to extreme
alert, the same day Risingsun captures a Chinese sub in Japanese
water, it is armed with atomic tipped torpedoes.
�
Two young adults are noticed to be helping Superman and Ultrawoman,
when pressed earths only officially recognized kryptonian family
admit that they are two of their children.
�
2018
Japan holds a vote and in a move that surprises China, America and
Japan's politicians 80% vote to join the US as outlined in the
emperor's proposal.
�
Three days later four additional carrier groups suddenly appear in
the area after being moved at high speeds by Ultrawoman, Waldeker
and most of the presidential enhanced secret service agents.
�
The United States holds a vote and Japan is reluctantly allowed to
join the United States as 20 Japanese states.
�
France completes two small space-guns and starts orbiting 1.5 tons a
week of consumables for their military and civilian space assets.
�
In a secret deal worked out in the ads section of the Daily Planet
Luther is allowed to �steal� enough badly worn synthetic kryptonite
and resonance chambers to build two civilian level enhancement
centers. He �escapes� to mexico and makes a deal with their
government granting him immunity from extradition he establishes two
civilian class enhancement centers and a copy of Gretchen's system
at three mexican military bases.
�
The American Government complains of Mexico harboring a criminal,
but does little else.
�
A copy of Gretchen's machine goes into operation at a mexican
military bases enhancing one military officer a week to 3SA,
Gretchen continues operating the hidden facilities in the US.
�
2018.4
The first civilian class enhancement center is put into operation at
another mexican base, it enhances 210 military personnel and 200
randomly chosen mexican civilians a day to 2SA.
�
The second mexican civilian class enhancement center goes into
operation enhancing 310 people a day to 2SA, it splits the
enhancements between 200 military personnel and 110 who can pay the
50,000 dollar price tag.
�
Israel is attacked by five arab countries, the attack was massed
well back from Israel's borders and is a complete surprise that is
blunted by the eighteen hours the mechanized ground forces take to
reach Israel's borders. The older first and second generation
chinese battlemechs and Russian tanks are nearly matched by Israel's
fewer third generation Battlemechs, tanks and enhanced personnel, in
a related move North Korean troops mass along the border with South
Korea, slowing America's aid to Israel as her defenders are slowly
pushed back into her borders at a half mile a day.
�
Libya invades Algeria spear headed by several old first generation
chinese Battlemechs and Russian tanks.
�
Superman, Waldeker and the most of the presidential secret service
agents move a carrier group from Asia to the Mediterranean sea and
it's aircraft help Israel to establish air superiority over the
area, allowing Israel to start driving the Arabs back.
�
Libya declares violation of their airspace and national borders and
starts launching missiles at the US carrier group.
North Korea Invades South Korea using Fifteen third generation top
of the line Russian and Chinese ultra class battlemechs to break the
South Korean defenses.
�
The same day four North Korean cargo ships each packed with over 230
scud sized solid fuel ballistic missiles bombard the east coast of
the US from 110 miles off the coast, each missile is packed with a
radar altimeter and a small amount of conventional explosives that
scatters supersonic ball bearings across several city blocks, in the
targeted coastal cities.
�
North Korean forces overrun the enhancement center in South Korea
due to the speed of the Ultramechs they capture it mostly intact.
�
The North Korean invasion is stopped just outside South Korea's
capital when the air-force uses two orbital SR-71's carrying kinetic
missiles to destroy the four remaining operational ultrabattlemechs
along with ten heavy russian tanks, the SR-71's are damage, but make
it back to orbit when China reveals a ground based national Laser
defense grid, by firing on the spacecraft as they skip back out of
the atmosphere.
�
North Korean moves the South Korean enhancement facilities to
specially prepared underground enhancement center near the Chinese
border and quickly start enhancing over 500 military personnel a day
to 1 SA.
�
2019
The US launches 400 cruise missiles at North Korean military bases
and supply grid.
�
Algeria falls to the Libyan forces, Libyan military bases are hit by
Cruise missiles, long range stealth bombers and kinetic strikes from
converted SR-71.
�
Two more Korean cargo ships bombard the east coast from 500 miles
out, 85% of the missiles are shot down by patrolling enhanced secret
service agents, hastily installed orbital and ground based Lasers,
Patriot and Arrow anti ballistic missile systems.
�
The US secretly takes 2500 Algerian refugees and enhances them to
3SA followed by the beginning of intensive year long military
training program.
�
2019.5
American and South Korean forces push the North Korean forces back
across the 38th parallel and continue a slow advance into North
Korea.
�
Los Angeles is bombarded by two North Korean cargo ships 200 miles
off the coast, only 60% of the missiles are stopped from hitting the
LA area with supersonic nails.
�
Chinese reinforcements cross into North Korea and troops start
boarding ships in several Chinese harbors the South Korean advance
stops and holds after pushing the border forty-five miles further
north.
�
Several incidents of Russian �space-subs� obtaining weapons lock on
rival lunar facilities, causes most nations to arm their lunar
bases.
�
An eccentric billioneir pays Waldeker to orbit four converted super-
tankers and a specially built ship that looks like a sky scraper the
five ships link up and the Billioneir ask for 4000 enhanced
volunteers to join his crew and become the first mars colony.
�
The mexican enhancement facility that uses a copy of Gretchen's
machine starts enhancing 2500 people a day to the 1SA level 1500 of
these slots are being sold by Lex Luther to any taker, mostly the
upper middle class from South American countries. Luther has made a
deal that requires the mexican citizens enhanced at the other
facilities show up once a year to �power� Gretchen's machine.
�
2019.8
The Billioneir's composite super ship breaks orbit with 4800
colonist and Waldeker providing two gravities of thrust.
�
Two months later the ship enters orbit around Mars and the colonist
and crew start to separate the ships as they try and find places to
set the colonies on mars.
�
Libya crippled by intense U.S. bombardment after the pressure eased
on Israel, formally joins the Warsaw pact, China and Russia lunch a
warning shot of ten ballistic missiles at America, all are shot down
and revealed to have concrete slug warheads as announced.
2020
The U.S. sends the enhanced Algerian volunteers swimming ashore
relatively lightly armed compared to current American troops, they
quickly out match the mostly conventionally armed and un-enhanced
libyan forces. China and Russia respond by loaning Libya several
third generation battlemechs that are not allowed out of libya's
original borders.
�
The locations carefully chosen Waldeker places four colonies on the
surface of Mars around the northern polar ice cap, each within 500
miles of it.
�
The central sky-scraper section is moved into a low polar orbit and
separates into 3 sections much like the Japanese station lowering a
tether to within 200 km of mars surface and a small space gun is
unpacked and put into operation on the surface at one of the
colonies.
�
Two enhancement facilities in the Japanese states start enhancing
1200 South Korean military personnel a day to 2 SA.
�
The martian colonies successfully complete what they call a carbon
garden, a kilometer long green house made from local sand and iron,
airlocks are installed and they harvest enough dry ice off the polar
icecap to create double earth normal pressure. Never intended for
human habitation work crews wearing scuba gear plant crops in the
high pressure CO2 environment.
�
2020.8
Waldeker returns to earth after a careful study of the first carbon
gardens production rate show that it can feed well over 10,000
people.
�
North Korea fires 600 land based ballistic missiles at Tokyo,
RisingSun, Ultrawoman and the in place anti-missile and laser
systems stop 480 of them, but 120 missiles carrying 240 tons of
nails succeed in penetrating these defenses and release four waves of
supersonic nails into the Tokyo area a defense shield of unknown
design and technology manages to stop the smaller first and second
waves of super sonic nails, but it flickers during the larger third
and collapses completely under the fourth wave allowing an estimated
60 tons of supersonic nails to strike all across Tokyo.
�
In retaliation for this attacks and earlier attacks, America
destroy's the North Korean capital city using conventionally armed
cruise missiles and simultaneously strikes all remaining North Korean
military bases with kinetic warhead ballistic missiles, including
the ones occupied by Chinese and Russian advisors.
�
Two additional Secret Service agents receive the presidential
enhancement and are based in the Japanese states, GIjane, Ultrawoman
and Waldeker also increases their patrols in the area helping
RisingSun to protect the the area until the two new agents gain the
ability to fly.
�
2021
One of the two Russian space-subs in orbit around the moon breaks
orbit and uses the Earth to sling shot itself out of the Earth/moon
gravity well, the ship is under continuous ion drive at 1/50 gravity
apparently making for mars.
�
A hastily resupplied American spacesub with a few minor changes to
it's crew leaves Earth orbit at 0.4 gravities three weeks later
headed for mars.
�
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