Guardians of the Galaxy: Dangerous Freedoms

A classic Marvel Super Heroes game run by Lord Stilt-Man

Interest Thread

OOC

House Rules

Our Heroes

Aedemi Graeae, played by The Tim

The Eternal Iron Fist, played by the Watcher

Icestar, played by Unka Josh

Kaul Lokison, played by t@nya

Rex, the spaceknight, played by Fred

Weaver, played by MrPrim

Timeline

66 Million Years Ago

• The Chicxulub impactor hits the Earth, leading to events causing the extinction of 75% of plant and animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs

8000 BC

• Koelbjerg Man, the oldest known bog body, found in Denmark

34th Century BC

• The first formal Sumerian writing system

32nd Century BC

• The reign of Iry-Hor, the earliest Egyptian pharoah to be known by name, and possibly the earliest living historical figure to be known by name.
• King Narmer unites Upper and Lower Egypt
• The first formal Egyptian writing system

30th Century BC

• Stonehence begins construction around 3000 BC; finished by 2000 BC
• The Pyramid of Djoser, the earliest Egyptian pyramid constructed (constructed 2630 BC–2611 BC)

2000 BC

• Rough date of the composition of the Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Antikythera Mechanism

17th Century BC

• The creation of the Phaistos Disc, still a mystery today.

12th Century BC

• The traditional date of the sack of Troy in ancient Greek chronology
• The beginnings of the invasions of the Sea Peoples, which continue on until the 9th century

8th Century BC

• Rome is traditionally founded by Romulus and Remus
• Homeric epics most likely composed at around this time

2nd Century

• The disappearance of the 9th Legion (Hispana) of the Roman Empire

5th Century

• The end of the Western Roman Empire (476)

6th Century

• The earliest poetical mention of the legendary Germanic figure ‘Wayland the Smith’
• The age of ‘King Arthur’ (ie, time period in which later writers thought he had lived)

7th Century

• Many scholars believe ‘Beowolf’ was composed around this time

9th Century

• Tønsberg, oldest town in Norway, founded by vikings

10th Century

• The poems comprising the Poetic Edda date to at least this early (note, some poems may not exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, due to the fact that Loki didn’t become a villain in that setting until the modern era; or, time travel was involved)
• Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz was, legends say, eaten alive by mice

12th Century

• The legendary sea voyage of Madoc, a Welsh prince, who visited America in 1170

13th Century

• The green children of Woolpit; Flemish? Or extra-terrestrials (probably not but, in a game, who knows!)

14th Century

• The destruction of the Knight Templars
• An entry in the chronicles of the town of Hamelin, dating to 1364: “It is 100 years since our children left”

15th Century

• The fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire
• The creation of the Voynich Manuscript (between 1404 and 1438)

16th Century

• The legendary cannibalistic Scottish clan of the Beans, led by Alexander (Sawny) Bean, is discovered and executed
• The Dancing Plague of 1518 (Strasbourg, Alsace)
• The colony of Roanoke is abandoned
• The legend of Juan Ponce de León, and his search for the Fountain of Youth in the land of Bimini

17th Century

• Countless Elizabeth Báthory is walled up alive, after being found guilty of serial murders
• The Uranian Eternal Valamor is born on Earth.

18th Century

• The crew of the brigantine Sea Bird disappear, never to be seen again

19th Century

• Charles Babbage’s ‘Analytical Engine’
• Spring-heeled Jack spotted in 1830s and 1840s in the United Kingdom
• The crew of the brigantine Marie Celeste disappear, never to be seen again
• The London Beer Flood (1814)

The 20th Century

• The Tunguska Event (1908)
• The USS Cyclops disappears (1918)
• The Great Molasses Flood (1919)
• The crew of the schooner Carroll A. Deering disappear, never to be seen again (1921)
• The disappearance of the Nazi “ghost train” (1945)

The Heroic Age

• Kaul Lokison of Asgard is born. The half-Asgardian/half-Frost Giant is raised on Earth to keep him away from the influence of his father, Loki, God of Mischief.
• Valamor begins his centuries-long training in the martial arts.

2099

• The outlaw science-hero Weaver's long-distance teleportation experiment is interrupted by the mercenary-organization known as the Wrecking Crew. Weaver and the mercenary known as Piledriver disappear in the resulting spatial-displacement rupture.

The Cosmic Age

2813

• Valamor enters the Tournament of the Heavenly Cities. During the Tournament, he unmasks and defeats the demonic entity the Beast, earning him a place among the Immortal Weapons. He chooses to train under the Iron Fist and takes that mantle for his own.

The Badoon War

Present-300

• The war-like Badoon conquer the Earth and associated worlds.

Present-19

• Artour Capudrac is taken in by the Wizard to be trained in the ways of the Galadorian spaceknights.

Present-4

• Rex, the spaceknight, completes his training and liberates the laborers of his home, a Badoon-controlled colony world.

Present-?

• The Super Skrull Syla goes rogue, faking her own death to forge a better life. She adopts the name and identity of Icestar as she joins the Badoon-resistance, trying to earn a place for herself in the greater civilization.
• The Eternal Iron Fist receives an emergency message from his mother, calling him back from Kun Lun to face the Badoon who have invaded his home.

Present

• The Present Day.