The Astro-Naut - Revision history

Infobroker: polish and shine

2022-01-10T18:53:00Z

polish and shine

Infobroker at 18:31, 10 January 2022

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Infobroker: polish and shine

2022-01-10T16:44:45Z

polish and shine

Infobroker at 22:52, 9 January 2022

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Infobroker at 20:58, 22 February 2018

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Dornbeast at 02:42, 20 February 2018

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Dornbeast at 02:35, 20 February 2018

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Infobroker: ditto

2017-09-05T18:31:06Z

ditto

Marin at 18:39, 2 July 2017

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Infobroker at 04:44, 19 April 2017

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 The word you are looking for, friends, is '''"Astronaut."'''
 |history      =
-Wearing pilot goggles, leather jacket, and a long red scarf, {{PAGENAME}} made no pretense for a secret identity.  He was testing rocket ship engines in flights over the city. Everyone knew him by his name, Roy Virgil. They also knew he was a bit eccentric, very wealthy, a visionary.  His passion for traveling to space gave him the nickname, {{PAGENAME}}. That became his calling card.
 During the Great Depression, organized crime families in Romeyn Falls dug themselves in, diversifying their operations. In 1936, the Ingels Street mob tried muscling in on Roy's work, demanding protection money, and he refused. They sent round the Convincer, a one-man wrecking crew, to convince him, but Roy took care of him, dropping him off with the police to tell them about his bosses.
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 Circa 1942, Roy came across a nearby star system under attack from the [[Mrevani]], a ruthless race bent on conquest. He discovered that when the Mrevani had first been visited by interstellar explorers, they'd killed them and taken their technology, turning their warlike ways out towards the universe at large, attacking everyone they met. They'd got the technology before they were ready to handle it, and Roy feared that if he gave humanity that technology, then they'd end up going down a similar route. Shaken, he withdrew from human society, becoming a recluse. Soon agencies with the American government made visits, requesting access to his inventions and know-how to aid in the war effort. He refused.
-The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public shunned  him, favoring heroes who were more patriotic, heroes they could be certain of, and he disappeared from view.
+The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public shunned  him, favoring heroes who, from their perspective, seemed more patriotic, heroes they inspired more confidence. Thus he soon faded from public view.
-In late spring of 1946, the Mrevani came to Earth, laying waste to Romeyn Falls. The Astro-Naut returned to stop them, a fleet of drone ships with him to defend his home city. Deftly avoiding the Mrevani's attacks, he piloted his ship into their flying base and blew it up, but took serious injuries in the process. He used a teleporter to return to his base in Romeyn Falls, the Gernsback Building, and with Joe's assistance destroyed his remaining work in order to avoid anyone else using them. Once that was done, he used the teleporter once again, but where he went, whether he lived or died, what ultimately became of him is a mystery.
+He then took one more journey through his teleportation device.  The assumed destion, the sanctuary of his orbiting asteroid base. Perhaps to use some form of advanced technology to heal himself, or perhaps to die in isolation. What ultimately became of him is a mystery.
 The town renamed itself in honor of his bravery, becoming Astro City in 1947. The rocket beacon on [[AstroBank Tower]] was reconfigured as a signalling device, alerting heroes of impending dangers.
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 |speculations =
 * Joe notes he only knew some of Roy's secrets, perhaps less than a half. Roy was probably the only one who knew everything.
-* It's not mentioned why the Mrevani targeted Romeyn Falls - perhaps in retaliation for Roy's earlier fight with them?
+* It's not mentioned why the Mrevani targeted Romeyn Falls - perhaps in retaliation for Roy's earlier fight with them.
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 Circa 1942, Roy came across a nearby star system under attack from the [[Mrevani]], a ruthless race bent on conquest. He discovered that when the Mrevani had first been visited by interstellar explorers, they'd killed them and taken their technology, turning their warlike ways out towards the universe at large, attacking everyone they met. They'd got the technology before they were ready to handle it, and Roy feared that if he gave humanity that technology, then they'd end up going down a similar route. Shaken, he withdrew from human society, becoming a recluse. Soon agencies with the American government made visits, requesting access to his inventions and know-how to aid in the war effort. He refused.
-The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public preferred to forget about him, turning to heroes who were more clear-cut, heroes they could be certain of, and he disappeared from view.
+The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public shunned  him, favoring heroes who were more patriotic, heroes they could be certain of, and he disappeared from view.
 In late spring of 1946, the Mrevani came to Earth, laying waste to Romeyn Falls. The Astro-Naut returned to stop them, a fleet of drone ships with him to defend his home city. Deftly avoiding the Mrevani's attacks, he piloted his ship into their flying base and blew it up, but took serious injuries in the process. He used a teleporter to return to his base in Romeyn Falls, the Gernsback Building, and with Joe's assistance destroyed his remaining work in order to avoid anyone else using them. Once that was done, he used the teleporter once again, but where he went, whether he lived or died, what ultimately became of him is a mystery.

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 Along the way, he met Xalzana, the one woman he might have left Earth behind for, but though they met numerous times, and something he thought was love developed, there was a fear in her, not of him, but of something she wouldn't say. On the night he intended to propose to her, there was an attack, separating them, and though he searched more than a dozen worlds for her afterwards, he never saw her again.
-Around 1942, Roy came across a star system under attack from the [[Mrevani]], a ruthless race bent on conquest. He discovered that when the Mrevani had first been visited by interstellar explorers, they'd killed them and taken their technology, turning their warlike ways out towards the universe at large, attacking everyone they met. They'd got the technology before they were ready to handle it, and Roy feared that if he gave humanity that technology, then they'd end up going down a similar route. Shaken, he withdrew from human society, becoming a recluse; when the American goverment came round, looking to use his inventions in the war, he refused.
+Circa 1942, Roy came across a nearby star system under attack from the [[Mrevani]], a ruthless race bent on conquest. He discovered that when the Mrevani had first been visited by interstellar explorers, they'd killed them and taken their technology, turning their warlike ways out towards the universe at large, attacking everyone they met. They'd got the technology before they were ready to handle it, and Roy feared that if he gave humanity that technology, then they'd end up going down a similar route. Shaken, he withdrew from human society, becoming a recluse. Soon agencies with the American government made visits, requesting access to his inventions and know-how to aid in the war effort. He refused.
 The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public preferred to forget about him, turning to heroes who were more clear-cut, heroes they could be certain of, and he disappeared from view.
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 |equipment    =
-* [[Astro-naut's Orbital Airstrip]] harbors spacecrafts, special weapons, advanced technical gear, amazing manufacturing tools, and who knows what other equipment for traveling to outer space, distant planets, and perhaps even time itself.
+* [[Astro-naut's Orbital Airstrip]] harbors spacecrafts, special weapons, advanced technical gear, amazing manufacturing tools, and who knows what other devices for traveling through outer space, visiting distant planets, and who knows, maybe even traveling through time itself.
-|observations = Roy had a once-in-a-lifetime mind, coming up with inventions far in advance of Earth technology at the time. As Joe put it, Roy made breakthroughs practically by force of will, simply by knowing they were possible. He doesn't seem to have realized he was anything exceptional, assuming anyone could do it if they put their mind to it.
+|observations = Roy had one of those minds that comes up once-in-a-generation, developing inventions far in advance of current Earth technologies. As Joe put it, Roy made breakthroughs practically by force of will, simply by knowing they were possible. He doesn't seem to have realized that he was anything exceptional, his basic assumptions were that anyone could do. They just had to put their minds to it.
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 |history      =
-Wearing pilot goggles, leather jacket, and a long red scarf, {{PAGENAME}} made no pretense for a secret identity.  He was testing rocket ship engines in flights over the city. Everyone knew him by his name, Roy Virgil. They also knew he was a bit eccentric, very wealthy, a visionary.  His passion for traveling to space gave him the nickname, {{PAGENAME}}. That become his calling card.
+Wearing pilot goggles, leather jacket, and a long red scarf, {{PAGENAME}} made no pretense for a secret identity.  He was testing rocket ship engines in flights over the city. Everyone knew him by his name, Roy Virgil. They also knew he was a bit eccentric, very wealthy, a visionary.  His passion for traveling to space gave him the nickname, {{PAGENAME}}. That became his calling card.
 During the Great Depression, organized crime families in Romeyn Falls dug themselves in, diversifying their operations. In 1936, the Ingels Street mob tried muscling in on Roy's work, demanding protection money, and he refused. They sent round the Convincer, a one-man wrecking crew, to convince him, but Roy took care of him, dropping him off with the police to tell them about his bosses.

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 The refusal shook people's faith in him. Though he still did his own part for the war effort, at one point getting captured by the enemy and escaping, the American public preferred to forget about him, turning to heroes who were more clear-cut, heroes they could be certain of, and he disappeared from view.
-In late spring of 1946, the Mrevani came to Earth, laying waste to Romeyn Falls. The Astro-Naut returned to stop them, a fleet of drone ships with him to defend his home city. Deftly avoiding the Mrevani's attacks, he piloted his ship into their flying base and blew it up, but took serious injuries in the process. He used a teleporter to return to his base in Romeyn Falls, the Gernsback Building, and with Joe's assistance destroyed his remaining work in order to avoid anyone else using them. Once that was done, he used the teleporter once again, but where he went, whether he lived or died, what ultimately became of him, no-one on Earth knows, and his asteroid base has never been found.
+In late spring of 1946, the Mrevani came to Earth, laying waste to Romeyn Falls. The Astro-Naut returned to stop them, a fleet of drone ships with him to defend his home city. Deftly avoiding the Mrevani's attacks, he piloted his ship into their flying base and blew it up, but took serious injuries in the process. He used a teleporter to return to his base in Romeyn Falls, the Gernsback Building, and with Joe's assistance destroyed his remaining work in order to avoid anyone else using them. Once that was done, he used the teleporter once again, but where he went, whether he lived or died, what ultimately became of him is a mystery.
-The town renamed itself in honor of his bravery, becoming Astro City in 1947. The rocket beacon on [[AstroBank Tower]] was reconfigured, becoming a warning signal, alerting heroes of impending danger.
+The town renamed itself in honor of his bravery, becoming Astro City in 1947. The rocket beacon on [[AstroBank Tower]] was reconfigured as a signalling device, alerting heroes of impending dangers.
 Virgil Air Systems would eventually rename itself to Virgil Aeronautics, then Virgil Aero, before being absorbed by N. R. Gistics.
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 |equipment    =
 * [[Astro-naut's Orbital Airstrip]] harbors spacecrafts, special weapons, advanced technical gear, amazing manufacturing tools, and who knows what other equipment for traveling to outer space, distant planets, and perhaps even time itself.
 |observations = Roy had a once-in-a-lifetime mind, coming up with inventions far in advance of Earth technology at the time. As Joe put it, Roy made breakthroughs practically by force of will, simply by knowing they were possible. He doesn't seem to have realized he was anything exceptional, assuming anyone could do it if they put their mind to it.

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	The town renamed itself in honor of his bravery, becoming Astro City in 1947. The rocket beacon on [[AstroBank Tower]] was reconfigured, becoming a warning signal, alerting heroes of impending danger.		The town renamed itself in honor of his bravery, becoming Astro City in 1947. The rocket beacon on [[AstroBank Tower]] was reconfigured, becoming a warning signal, alerting heroes of impending danger.
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		+	Virgil Air Systems would eventually rename itself to Virgil Aeronautics, then Virgil Aero, before being absorbed by N. R. Gistics.

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