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dialamx
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Is there any Champions Lore based around the "Roswell Incident" in the 1940's? I was trying to see if the Qularr, or Gadroon, had something to do with the crashed UFO, but couldn't find anything.
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However, those invaders -- now known to originate from the Sirius B star system -- were encountered by superheroes on several subsequent occasions, most notably a much larger attack on New York City in 1967. If you wanted to base a story, origin, or the like around the Roswell Incident, those Sirians would be the likeliest creators of said crashed spacecraft, which was probably a scout ahead of the second invasion.
Let me know if you want more information.
Incidentally, according to Champions Beyond, Area 51 is just part of Nellis Air Force Range used for aircraft testing, just as the American government says it is. "Area 52," which UFOlogists in the real world claim holds the proof of aliens, also exists on Champions Earth, but it's mostly a decoy for people who are trying to unearth the truth. The real American repository for alien artifacts, biological materials, and even live prisoners from past invasions, is "Area 53," aka "the Tunnel" or "the Vault," a large complex dug out of the mountains near Nellis AFR. Only a very few people in the government know it exists.
If you want your character to be a "little green man," that raises some ironic possibilities re the Sirians. As described in Champions Beyond, the majority of the Sirian invaders resemble the "Greys" from popular UFOlogy: short (3'-4'), grey-skinned, with wedge-shaped heads and large all-black eyes. However, a minority of them are green-skinned, taller (up to 5'), intellectually superior, and sometimes manifest psionic powers. The Greens form the ruling caste over the Greys. Humanity knows little more than that about Sirian culture or history -- even the race-name is just what humans call them. So there would be no barrier to claiming that "Siria" is the Cryptonian colony world your character was searching for, if you wanted to.
(There's more to the Sirian story, but only necessary to know if you want your character to continue to seek them as part of his story-line.)
That's actually really cool. I could make that work well for my story, and Nemesis (even though that system is now obsolete)
BTW, Dial, Earth isn't "near" the Milky Way - it's deep inside the Milky Way, about two-thirds of the way out from the core to the edge, residing in what our astronomers have termed the Orion Arm of our barred-spiral galaxy. Galaxies are big. Really big.
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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As I mentioned, it's a truncated version of the backstory, so I didn't go into all the details. But, since this seems to be an issue that needs detailed clarification, that part of his story had him traveling to the center of the Milky Way galaxy to activate his ship's sensors. From the center, he could send out signals across the entire Milky Way, to try and track signals of his people. However, he got shot down before reaching his destination.
Humans actually know little about Sirian society or culture. Their caste distinctions appear quite rigid, but that could just be a feature of their military. Some of their captured records refer to a "Great Green" in a leadership role, but it's unclear whether that's an individual or some sort of ruling oligarchy.
However, if we're looking more into Sirian society there are a couple of points I should bring up. According to Champions Beyond the Sirians invaded because their home world was on the verge of environmental collapse due to "industrial accidents" (really more over-exploitation), and they wanted a new one. In the Earth year 1977 they were becoming desperate, and attacked Malva hoping to steal terraforming technology to save their planet. The attack turned out as any sane person would expect: the Malvans annihilated the Sirian fleet, then tracked them back to their home world and scoured it practically clean of life. A few hundred Sirians still cling to their dying world, but the majority of the scant survivors wander the stars in the few large ships they had left. They'll probably be extinct in a couple of generations.
OTOH, Golden Age Champions presents a very different version of the Sirian invaders, one clearly based on the radically nonhumanoid Martians from the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds novel. I corresponded with GAC author and former Hero Games president Darren Watts about the difference, and he said the humanoids from CB were Steve Long's interpretation of the Sirians, while those from GAC were his own. (GAC was published after CB, and after both Darren and Steve had stepped down from their respective administrative roles at Hero.)
The company's position during their tenure was that the latest published version of the setting should be considered the "official" one. However, I pointed out to Darren that since he asserted in GAC that his Sirians controlled a small interplanetary empire, keeping the conquered sapients under their rule as slaves (and food), the CB Sirians could be one of their conquests. As the GAC Sirians had the same physical restriction under Earth's gravity as the ones from Wells's novel, they might have used the CB Sirians as ground troops during the invasion. Humans not encountering the GAC Sirians, never knew the truth.
Darren agreed that that sounded perfectly reasonable. He even awarded me a No-Prize.
As does Andromeda, the other giant spiral galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies. In the Marvel Comics universe, the Kree Empire controls the Large Magellanic Cloud, fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group and a satellite of the Milky Way.
That mention of a 'Great Green' makes me wonder if it's some sort of expy/homage to the Mekon of Dan Dare in Eagle Comics, especially given mention of greater physical resilience, intelligence and Psychic powers among Greens
Granted that was Venus rather than Mars (or Sirius