#AlternateWars

Camouflaged Hunters

Location:
Earth, South America and Earth, Wonderland/Underground

Teams:
Yautja vs Wonderlanders

Players:
Un-named Yautja vs "Cheshire Cat"

Comparative Incident Summary:

Alice
A youngwoman journeying across South America during her gap-year was accompanied by a group of other students and low-lifes, when they encountered an example of Smilodon Oscura Ubiquitous.
No one survived.

Anna
A child of school-age was journeying across England when she was taken hostage by a group of British Transport Police affiliated MAGA ticket inspectors. Having befriended a lonely teenage extraterrestrial, they worked together to free themselves of the rentier class using stuff that came to hand like the A-Team used to do.
No one survived.

cctv clips follow

(QuangoNote: Hang on. Did I get those stories mixed-up? I don't think no one noticed.)

#CheshireCat #Yautja

#AlternateWars #Spoilers

"Zapatistas"

Location:
Historical Mexico, Earth (late C19th & early C20th) and Jupiter penumbra orbit, Earth Solar System (mid C24th)

Teams:
Emiliano Zapata & Zapatistas (Mexican Revolutionary Force) and Thomas Wade (Halo City "City self-defense force")

Comparison:

Zapatistas
Zapatistas armed with conventional weaponry of the time; rifles, explosives, using military and insurgency & counter-insurgency tactics.

Halo City "City self-defense force"
(General clothing black but with Zapatista style bandoliers holding bullet cartridges.)
Wade: “As I said, the cartridges are basically of ancient design, but the bullets are new. So new, in fact, that they might as well come from the future. The bullet is a superconducting container and the interior is a pure vacuum. A magnetic field suspends a small ball in the middle to prevent it from contacting the bullet’s body. The ball is made of antimatter.”

#Zapatistas #EmilianoZapata #3Body #ThomasWade

#AlternateWars

Sunita's ... I think that's right ...

Location:
Earth (C30th) and Earth ("present day")

Teams:
Sentient-Weapons vs Binge-Eaters

Players:
Suneater vs Galactose

Comparison:

Suneater (Adventure Comics #352-353 (1967)) (sauce QuangoBrain)
The Suneater is a living-plasma based weapon created by an offshoot of the same race which created the Green Lantern Corps. Its purpose is to annihilate worlds by consuming their number one power source; their sun (... though as Solar Systems usually have at least two suns on average, at least two suneaters would be needed. But I digest ...)
A Suneater was destroyed by a member of the Legion of Superheroes in the Thirtieth Century in a needlessly complicated plot designed to make some guy look like he was making a heroic sacrifice.

Galactose (Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966) (sauce Wiki)
Galactose (/ɡəˈlæktoʊs/, galacto- + -ose, sometimes abbreviated Gal), is a common monosaccharide, i.e. a simple sugar. It is classified as a reducing hexose, more specifically an aldohexose. In terms of structure, it is a C-4 epimer of glucose. A white, water-soluble solid, it is about 80–90% as sweet as glucose and about 65% as sweet as sucrose.
With its intention (to cause everyone in the Universe to get Diabetes!), Galactose is accompanied by the SilverSpoon on his journey through the Universe and often visits his doctor in Manhattan on the planet Earth (very reasonable insurance plan).

#LegionOfSuperHeroes #SuneaterDC #Galactus

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Immortality Drug
(all wiki sauces, mmm)

Jon Michaud of The New Yorker wrote: "Imagine a substance with the combined worldwide value of cocaine and petroleum and you will have some idea of the power of melange."

Location:
planet Old North Australia "Norstrilia" and planet Arrakis "Dune"

Teams:
The Instrumentality of Man (Norstrilia,1964) vs The Landsraad Houses of the Imperium (Dune, 1965)

Players:
Norstrilia-Stroon vs Dune-Melange

Descriptions:

Stroon
The immensely wealthy planet Old North Australia ("Norstrilia") is the only place in the universe which produces the precious immortality drug "stroon". The Norstrilians cull their young in order to prevent overpopulation, and only those who pass the test of the "Garden of Death" are allowed to enter adulthood.
(QuangoNote: Stroon is harvested from sheep "suffering" from a condition similar and common to a few Instrumentality planets idiopathically causing gigantism in living organisms.)

Melange
In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater vitality, and heightened awareness. In some humans, the spice can also unlock prescience, a form of precognition based in genetics but made possible by use of the drug in larger dosages. By far the most important of prescience’s functions is that it makes safe and accurate interstellar travel possible. However, melange is also highly addictive, and withdrawal is fatal. Harvesting melange is also hazardous in the extreme, as its only known source is the harsh desert planet Arrakis, where its deposits are guarded by giant sandworms.

Quango Explanation:
The CIA/FBI/NSA/ETC read Moby Dick and set out to create a custom pro-capital friendly version which would influence 12 to 32 year olds.

Quango Note:
Both the "Instrumentality" and the "Dune" series can be said to exist before the official publication dates (way before in the case of Instrumentality) as novelisations, so giving the date of pub of the relevant novels is only meant as a guide.

wiki
... "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" was published in 1851 (QN: and the most famous screen-adaptation came out in 1956) ...

... Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical drama film ... It was based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert) ...

... Spartacus is a 1951 historical novel by American writer Howard Fast. It is about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BC. The book inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick ...
... Spartacus, 1931 novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon ...
... The Gladiators, Arthur Koestler's 1939 novel on Spartacus ...

... The Order of Assassins (Arabic: حَشّاشِین, romanized: Ḥaššāšīyīn; Persian: حشاشين, romanized: Haššāšīn) was a Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islamic military order founded by Hasan-i Sabbah in 1090. Based out of the Nizari Isma'ili state, which comprised a network of mountain castles in Persia and Syria, they conducted several high-profile assassinations throughout the Levant during the Crusades. The Assassins held a strict subterfuge policy in the region and are believed to have killed hundreds of people who were deemed enemies of their state over the course of 200 years, including other Shias (the Fatimids), as well as Sunnis (the Abbasids and Seljuks) and Christians (the Crusaders) alike ...
... the word hashish, supposedly referring to the order's tactics and a common but contested belief that many of their assassinations were carried out by individuals under the influence of the drug ...

#AlternateWars

Astrononomical Object Boppers

Location:
Veil Nebula and Alderaan System

Teams:
Earth Spaceship DarkStar in orbit around the sun of the Veil Nebula System and Galactic Empire Death Star 1 near the planet Alderaan in the "Galaxy Far Far away" Galaxy

Players:
Bomb Number 20 vs the Death Star

Comparison:

"Armed with Artificial Intelligence Thermostellar Triggering Devices (bombs which can talk and think), the scout ship Dark Star ..."
BombNumber20 appears to be about the size of two or three of the largest size of commercial cargo shipping container laid end to end. The mechanism of detonation is not explained but possibly involves artificially causing a gravitational collapse of "unstable" stars thus leading to a supernova explosion.
Due to managerial ineffectiveness and a series of issues with the ship's crew, pets and systems, BombNumber20 prematurely detonates with no blame to be apportioned on it for this incident.
-- report of the Independent Artificial Intelligence Thermostellar Triggering Devices Bomb Select Target Committee, 2142

Death Star. lol. Whatever dude. A cobalt-thorium bomb would be much more practical.

#DarkStar1974 #ANewHope1977

#AlternateWars

Nameless Attacker's with Buzz Saw Yo-Yo's

Location:
floating palace in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India (Bharat) and O'ahu, Hawaii

Teams:
Nameless Indian Man and Nameless Alien Invasion Force

Events:

Nameless-Indian-Buzz-Saw-Yo-Yo-Assassin interrupts Bond making out with a Death-for-Breakfast-lady but thanks to being alerted by a drop of water (or something) from the buzz-saw-yo-yo, Bond and the lady avoid being processed into salami slices.

Several Nameless-Alien-Buzz-Saw-Yo-Yo-Devices are fired at O'ahu from the Alien-Invasion-Force and go on to destroy an airbase and elevated highway but fail to take out the true threat to both aliens and the Earth alike (i.e. "baseball", though baseball is as much a concept as it is a physical game. 🤔 sela.).

#Octopussy1982 #Battleship2012

#AlternateWars

Location:
Earth beyond Jupiter and planet the invaded planet Burada

Teams:
San-Ti WaterDrop/Droplet vs Steel Rat Engine Sabotage Drone

Appearance:

Droplets appear near mirror-sheen and the size of a small van

Steel Rat Drones are about the size of a toaster but covered with various devices such as molecular debonders and lasers

Comparison:

Due to their molecular arrangement and drive systems, Droplets merely need to achieve a velocity of 30 km/s to hit things and mess them up causing massive impact damage resulting in thermal release causing secondary damage.

Rat Drones have a specific function of locating the Hyper-Drives of spaceships and destroying them with minimal damage to ship life-support and therefore potentially no loss of life.

#AlternateWars

Location:
Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri

Teams:
Centauri Imperial Telepaths vs the San-Ti Sophons

Abilities/Powers:

Sophons relay real-time information faster than light due to (*sigh*) Quantum Entanglement yet have the ability to be really annoying making you behave (intellectually) like a person afraid of a teeny tiny wasp so you get no work done.

Telepaths are DistractinglySexy but can only convey real-time information between the Emperor's present location and the Imperial Court on the homeworld by perfectly ordinary bog-standard faster-than light psychic ability.

(both come in groups of four but travel in twos)

#Babylon5 #3Body