Saturday, April 22, 2006

The Fourth World
I've come up with a few ideas for New Gods, denizens of both gentle New Genesis and harsh Apokolips: Solon and Oceon of New Genesis, young lovers and Monitors-in-training, and Zaladin of Apokolips, a young officer of Aero Troopers. Solon is named after the ancient Athenian lawgiver, though unlike her Greek counterpart Solon of New Genesis is female. Oceon (derived from ocean) is as at home beneath the seas as he is in New Genesis's lone city, Supertown. Zaladin is derived from Saladin for no other reason than I've thought Saladin was a cool name since Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves first prompted me to study the Crusades. While on a distant world, Solon's patrol is ambushed; she alone escapes Zaladin's Aero Troopers, though they are soon on her trail. Solon's Mother Box is grievously wounded and thus unable to summon a boom tube back to New Genesis. Back in Supertown, Solon's unit are given up for dead, "They have all been claimed by the Black Racer." Oceon's Mother Box insists that she has made sporatic contact with Solon's Mother Box; Oceon resolves to rescue his love if he must move heaven and earth to do it. Zaladin hunts Solon, resulting in some most ungodly warfare, while Oceon assembles a search party, eventually recruiting the second fastest of all the New Gods, Fastbak. Since the war of skirmishes between New Genesis and Apokolips seems to be as eternal as the New Gods themselves, I quite like the name "The Forever War."

Plus, I have an idea for a tale about the legacy Izaya the Inheritor, the late Highfather, has left for his two sons, Orion and Scott Free, but "The Inheritance" just occured to me this afternoon and details are less than sketchy.

So, "Supertown," "The Never People," and "The Forever War." By Steppenwolf, I love Kirby's Fourth World!

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