Else Earth: Operation Prometheus

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Very nice.

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More on Atlas:

 

The man that would be Captain Atlas and then Atlas, was an astronomer named Dr. George Lester Grant. Dr. Grant's life had been fairly boring before his transformation and he'd had a long-suffering crush on a woman from his past. Though she'd been educated as a Teacher for a girls' school, Harriett Margaret Hamilton (Maggie to her friends) had found work as a reporter as men were being called to war. Though she was less often credited with her stories she was your typical super-heroic nosy reporter NPC.

 

She figured out her old friend (and timid suitor) George Grant was Captain Atlas with relative ease, and it was with Captain Atlas she found an exciting passionate outlet. If this bothered George he never really showed it. When Captain Atlas had finally completed his transformation he found that despite George's affections for Maggie the new gestalt found her somewhat lacking in virtue and not really good enough for him. 

 

When he left Earth to better understand himself, Atlas unknowingly left Maggie with child - a fact that might have kept him around. Sure he was arrogant and a control freak but the George Grant part of this new individual loved her and was a good man. 

 

Maggie wouldn't let him know, she had seen the changes and didn't want to have anything to do with that arrogant jerk. 

 

Shortly after her pregnancy began to show, Maggie was approached by a tall, handsome man with a German accent. The one time Nazi hero, Aryan Ubermensch had know of Atlas's secret identity for years and had been keeping tabs on the important people in his rival's life. With the war over and Atlas's strange behavior culminating in his abandonment of Earth, Günther Henrick Neumann had decided to look after them. When he found out Maggie was pregnant, he introduced himself and offered her assistance. 

 

 

Aryan Ubemensch had been tried in Nuremberg in 1946, his guilt established and he'd been imprisoned. When the Hyrn invaded in 1948, he asked to take part in the defense of Earth and was allowed, and he behaved valiantly. His actions in defense of Earth brought him an unprecedented appeal and retrial in 1949, new evidence as well as testimony from those who had served with him and against him and the very publicized actions of his heroism during the invasion led to him being exonerated.

 

Günther actually operated as Atlas II for much of the 50's, in addition to looking after Maggie and her daughter, Gail Leslie. Maggie and Günther married in 1952 and Gail's patronage was never really questioned. She took both her fathers' last names as an adult Gail Leslie Grant-Neumann and later became Electra one of the more potent heroines of the 1970's til today. 

 

Günther's powers waned considerably after 1962, and though he is still unnaturally hale for a man in his 90's he's no longer capable of most of the superhuman feats he was as a young man. Maggie Neumann died in 1993. 

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The Ubermensch wore a white bodysuit with an "nazi eagle" design on his chest, a red cape, black boots and gloves and no belt. He appropriated the Atlas costume for his decade or so in the service of the world as Atlas II

 

Electra's costume is white, powder blue, and gold and features lightning bolt designs. She's updated and reinvented it a few times over her career. She seems to have inherited her father's immortality as while she is in her mid sixties she looks not quite thirty. 

[Major Tom 2009]

Here's another WWII pic that I'd originally done with FH2011, but as a villain -- the Red Commissar:

 

 

 

 

The idea behind this character was that he had a pair of life-threatening secrets -- first, that he was a

member of the Russian nobility under the reign of the Romanovs before the revolution that transformed

Czarist Russia into the Soviet Union, and second, that he was a vampire. His skills enabled him to create

a new identity as a dedicated member of the Communist Party, and worked his way into the intelligence

apparatus of the new nation -- as, in a particularly ironic way, a hunter and eliminator of those members

of the Russian nobility that had managed to avoid capture. This enabled him to eliminate those who

would be most likely to expose him to the authorities as one of them. He managed this by having his

men carry out the actual captures of the fleeing nobles and their families, and -- with the exception of

any attractive of-age daughters, who he would 'turn' and make into his slaves -- executed for "crimes

against the people".

 

He was so successful in this task that he earned the nickname of the Red Commissar (because of all the

noble blood that he'd spilled), and eventually took to wearing red versions of the Russian military uniforms.

His collective of slave 'brides' provided him with a force of assassins and spies that would have been the

envy of Soviet Russia's espionage establishment -- had they known of it (he was very careful to conceal

every aspect of his life from those who would use it against him).

 

 

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[Major Tom 2009]

A Red Cossack, one of the members of the Red Commissar's noble-hunting death squad:

 

 

 

 

The standard weapons used by the Red Cossacks are the PPSh-41 submachine gun and the

TT-30 automatic pistol.

 

None of the Red Cossacks are aware of the true nature of their commander (he's not crazy

enough to 'turn' one of them, as whoever he'd do it to just might be ambitious enough to try

to take his place), as he's made certain of their loyalty by making certain 'perks' available

to them so they won't ask any questions that might prove more than just a little dangerous

to his continued existence.

 

EDIT: I had to change the pistol from what I'd originally posted here, as the Makarov pistol wasn't

in use until the '50s.

 

 

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