Crossposting from the RPGnet forum awesome-crossovers thread:
It's time to break out my heaviest artillery.
A thousand years from now, routine excavation of a new cross-continental tubeway breaks into a previously unknown cavern system. In these caverns, workers discover an ancient alien installation -- dating back to the late 1940s, a century before humans even contacted our nearest neighbors on Mars and Venus!
Here lie working stasis tubes, containing several humans and two animals. Once they are awakened, the startling truth is revealed -- these are the greatest adventurer-hero of the twentieth century and his assistants. In their last recorded exploit, they encountered strange beings claiming to be damned souls and devils from Hell itself -- but the adventurer later realized that this was a false front, and returned to the caverns to foil an impending alien invasion. Trapped by a cave-in, he and his group resorted to the aliens' stasis gear in hopes of eventual rescue... though they hadn't imagined waiting this long.
The adventurer, a genius beyond compare, quickly masters the new technology of this bright and star-spanning future. A paragon of physical might and moral rectitude, he is offered a fast-track through their space navy's command school -- and, at graduation, is honored with the highest badge of authority their civilization acknowledges.
That space navy is the GALACTIC PATROL. That badge is no less than the LENS OF CIVILIZATION itself -- and that adventurer is...
DOC SAVAGE: THE BRONZE LENSMAN!
(It is, incidentally, obvious to any sufficiently advanced intellect that Doc and Pat are ancestors/relatives of the MacDougalls and full inheritors of that side of the Arisian human-eugenics program. Which leads us to the further conclusion that the Wold-Newton "meteorite" and its suspiciously beneficial "radiation" was really an Arisian genetic modification tool of some sort. ^.^ )
--Sam
"Absolute power is a sticky wicket."
It's time to break out my heaviest artillery.
A thousand years from now, routine excavation of a new cross-continental tubeway breaks into a previously unknown cavern system. In these caverns, workers discover an ancient alien installation -- dating back to the late 1940s, a century before humans even contacted our nearest neighbors on Mars and Venus!
Here lie working stasis tubes, containing several humans and two animals. Once they are awakened, the startling truth is revealed -- these are the greatest adventurer-hero of the twentieth century and his assistants. In their last recorded exploit, they encountered strange beings claiming to be damned souls and devils from Hell itself -- but the adventurer later realized that this was a false front, and returned to the caverns to foil an impending alien invasion. Trapped by a cave-in, he and his group resorted to the aliens' stasis gear in hopes of eventual rescue... though they hadn't imagined waiting this long.
The adventurer, a genius beyond compare, quickly masters the new technology of this bright and star-spanning future. A paragon of physical might and moral rectitude, he is offered a fast-track through their space navy's command school -- and, at graduation, is honored with the highest badge of authority their civilization acknowledges.
That space navy is the GALACTIC PATROL. That badge is no less than the LENS OF CIVILIZATION itself -- and that adventurer is...
DOC SAVAGE: THE BRONZE LENSMAN!
(It is, incidentally, obvious to any sufficiently advanced intellect that Doc and Pat are ancestors/relatives of the MacDougalls and full inheritors of that side of the Arisian human-eugenics program. Which leads us to the further conclusion that the Wold-Newton "meteorite" and its suspiciously beneficial "radiation" was really an Arisian genetic modification tool of some sort. ^.^ )
--Sam
"Absolute power is a sticky wicket."