nihilistic villain threatens to travel to the beginning of time and to enclose the monobloc in a powerful force field that will prevent it from exploding and becoming the universe;
heroes, pursuing villain, wage war at the beginning of time;
the conflict changes the distribution and configuration of energy within the monobloc just as it is beginning to explode;
the villain fails to prevent the universe from originating but the heroes fail to preserve the original course of history.
Observations
I thought that this was a better rationalization for DC's launch of new post-Crisis versions of their characters. (It is almost exactly what they did do except that they were incoherent about it.)
Imagine Manse Everard, returned from the War at the Dawn of Time, ending his days in a subtly different timeline from the one that he had previously guarded, e.g.: the history of Mithraism in ancient Persia is different; Sherlock Holmes is merely a fictional character...
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
An intriguing premise: a time traveling struggle over the monobloc! If we assume something like this, it would "explain away" the mistake Anderson made in his use of Mithraism in "Brave To BE A King." I had pointed out that the Mithraism we are familiar with was actually LATER than either the reign of Cyrus the Great or the entire Achaemenid period, being more a Greco/Roman development after Alexander the Great's time.
Sean
Post a Comment