#bronzerealms federation

[bronzemettle]

Being an immortal demon hellbeast thing, what becomes of Trigon after the age of the Justice League, Avengers, and Titans?

At some point in near-ish future decades, Raven will get extremely sick of her father always coming back to life over and over and instead of trying to kill him again or sending him to some Hell dimension again, she'll go out into deep unexplored space and mystically bind him to a lifeless alien rock.

He remains there, withering and forgotten, for hundreds and hundreds of years. In total isolation, not even any fellow demons, no animals, no stray telepathic signatures for lightyears in any direction. His mind slowly fades. He ceases to see the point of maintaining a physical form, and it festers and ferments into a dark bubbling ooze.

When he's found in 2964 by a human starship, he's delighted to have victims he can toy with again. When they ask what he is, all he can remember is that he is the cast-off Darkness of an ancient and noble people of dazzling beauty (Azarath), and that "Titans" were the ones who trapped and abandoned him here to rot until there's nothing left but a Skin of Evil.

The Enterprise leaves him there again. Tasha Yar is his last victim.

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Gary Mitchell was a Mutant, then, right? Like if he'd been born a few centuries earlier, he'd be a Brotherhood of Mutant?

It is a relatively common mutation for Mutants to get to turn them into very powerful psychics, but non-Mutant psychics, ESPers, are still their own thing too. Gary Mitchell's power was vastly amplified by cosmic radiation at the Galactic Barrier, similar to Franklin Richards being stronger thanks to strange energies inherited from his parentage. Before that Gary was on the lower end of the human ESPer spectrum. Flashes of insight, not much more.

For 21st century examples you could look to Manchester Black, Maxwell Lord, Psimon, the Leader (albeit very weak before getting Gamma-amped), Franklin Richards (as mentioned), and April O'Neil, among many more.

But at the time these were all considered random, isolated cases with unknown/misattributed origins to their abilities. Real in-depth scientific study around ESPers as a group at large tracing the common qualities between them wouldn't come until the early United Earth years after the Post-Atomic Horrors.

ESPers do have their own historical bigotry, though. While in the 21st century Gary wouldn't join the Brotherhood, if he'd been born in that United Earth era before the founding of the Federation, he might have found himself being pressed into service with Psi Corps.

[bronzemettle]

Is there any relation between Donna Troy of the Amazons and Deanna Troi of the USS Enterprise-D?

"Correct me if I'm wrong… Deanna Troi, it's a bit unusual for a Betazed women's name, isn't it?"

"You're correct. My parents were both a bit eccentric, each in their own ways. My name is a pun, of a sort. The root word 'deannic' means 'a strong alloy with secret component materials', or sometimes, 'a tool built to last longer than its creator'. And you're right, the masculine forms of the name, Dearnno and Dancst are much more common. It's not quite an invented name, but not far from it."

"It's beautiful. Your father must have loved your mother and her culture very much. Either he let her name you on her own, or he knew enough about the language to find such a name himself."

"He did, yes. In fact, that's where the pun comes from. He suggested the name to my mother because it sounds similar to the name of an old earth hero, Donna Troy of the Amazons, who was his maternal grandmother, still is my great grandmother, and Diana, the ruling Queen of Themyscira and representative on the United Earth council. That was their 'secret ingredient'. When he told my mother, she fell in love with the idea that the women of his family would be my... advantage over other human hybrids. Amazons are much stronger on average than humans. But by their standards I've turned out rather frail as I've grown."

"Strong enough, where it counts. Have you ever tried to connect with your Amazon roots?"

"Well my grandmother had already died by the time I was born. It's hardly a culture I feel entitled to claim. And transporters can't go to Themyscira. You need one of their own special shuttlecraft with enchanted navigation systems. Donna is still alive, and I reached out to her, but we've only met a few times. When you've lived that long you can't stay close with all your great grandchildren, and it's not her responsibility to educate me on some distant heritage."

"But you could stop aging if you move to Themyscira, right? Do you ever think about retiring there? Or is that a myth?"

"It's true, anyone could. You don't need Amazon blood to receive Hera's Blessing. You only need to not be a cis man. But I don't need to live forever on some island. It's a nice place to visit, but I couldn't stay cooped up there for millennia watching the world pass by around me... - Excuse me, my husband's here. Will, over here! This gentleman was saving your seat at the bar. Isn't that kind?"

[bronzemettle]

So your timeline stretches pretty far, ranging from the Age of Myth to the time of the Legion of Superheroes. And time travel has come up now in the histories of Donna Troy and the Captain Marvel moniker. Presumably characters like Booster Gold and Reverse Flash exist, and the mention of UNIT in the original post implies that Doctor Who exists, meaning time travel is pretty firmly entrenched in the BronzeRealms. What forms does this take? Are there any unique rules to time travel in the BronzeRealms? Are there groups that deal with time travel violations like the Time Variance Authority or Rip Hunter’s Time Masters? Are there any other regularly time traveling superheroes, supervillains, or teams? Are there threats that span the timestream like whatever it is Hal Jordan did in Zero Hour? …This might need to be broken into several posts, honestly.

Let's talk about the second part of this first, and maybe I'll come back for the rest in a Part 2 or Part 3 later. So for now, authority figures who try to enforce some conduct of time travel as their jurisdiction, and/or try to preserve the timeline from negative/excessive interference.

There aren't as many as you might think by looking at how many things the BronzeRealms covers! That's bc I've consolidated a lot of them. Rip Hunter, Jack Harkness, and Bruce G. Braxton of the USS Relativity all went rogue from the same organization. They were all Captains of Federation Timeships from the Federation Time Agency in the 3360s through 3540s. Colloquially, Time Agents.

Time Agents are by far the most likely temporal enforcers or protectors for any given would-be time criminal to have to evade. It was a whole fleet that operated basically unchallenged for almost 200 years, and that's just before the Temporal Cold War started taking up most of their schedule. They were technically still active as far as the 3620s, albeit stretched much, much thinner.

The Legion of Superheroes, formed in 4037, has a much lighter touch than the Agents, but will step in when it's most needed. And when they do, they are a force to be reckoned with. And when they're done, few people will even know there was a crisis at all. In the timeline of the BronzeRealms, they are more or less the "Happily Ever After".

The Legion of Doom is the anti-Legion of Superheroes, so despite being a little off-topic I'll bring them up anyway. A coalition of supervillains trying to subvert the timeline for their own personal gain. Vandal Savage, Reverse Flash, Per Degaton, Tempus, Epoch, Abra Kadabra, Chronos, Nimrod, various incarnations of Kang (at different times), and others. The exact roster varies from scheme to scheme due to constant infighting and directly conflicted end-goals as to how exactly they want to change the timelines.

Once, there were Time Lords. That was before the Great Time Wars (sometimes called the Last Great Time War, but... that proved kind of aspirational, kind of like World War 1 being called "the war to end all wars"). However, despite the Time Lords now being sealed inside a painting where they can no longer interfere with the timestream, time travel being time travel, from time to time someone will still encounter pre-War Time Lords who accidentally slipped through the Time Lock and will try to enforce their own long-forgotten law.

The Doctor is still here. That painting is in their study. The Doctor may be only one person (with many faces), and isn't even looking for trouble most of the time, but, they have nothing but time to happen across it and set things right. By pure abyss of age, The Doctor's presence approaches rivaling the Legion's.

Bunnyx is also only one person. But she may wield more power than anyone else here, possibly put together. Her command over the Time Vortex is so deep she can actually just shut down nearly any technological method of time travel, permanently, with a wave of her hand. However, she has sworn to non-interference except in cases of galactic extinction or greater. Her perspective even allows her to see some yet-to-come timestream alterations before they take effect, travel through most Time Locks, or revisit defunct timestreams with less (not none, but less) risk of destabilization or leakage into the current timestream.

The Legends of Tomorrow, founded by Rip Hunter, but very early taken over by White Canary (Sarah Lance), are a team who travel on the stolen Federation Timeship USS Waverider. Despite this shaky, criminal start, their relationship with Agents has progressed into more rivalry than hostility, thanks to many years of doing more good than harm.

The TVA is also a thing that was founded by Kang in one period of his life, and, because it failed, there are multiple versions of the TVA that persist after Kang's departure, all from different timelines that responded differently to the resulting power vacuum, all trying to enforce their own interests and prove themselves as the "true" TVA. You might even get TVA Hunters from competing TVAs responding to the same incidents, or responding to each other. Some of them are reformed, most are diverse shades of bad, and they all look identical on first glance. It's generally a mess and the reason they're not more of a problem for everyone else is because they kind of keep each other busy.

Kang will return (in his own post).