Cosmic
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Halloween Break
We’re taking a break this month to celebrate the annual #countdowntohalloween at our sister site, ClassicHorrors.club. Join us there daily for discussions of classic horror films, sci-fi movies, and psychological thrillers. Have a super-Halloween!
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14th Century
Many centuries ago, a supernova of “celestial cataclysmic force” altered the constellations that ruled the mystic abilities of those attuned to them. But there was one among them, a young witch named Citrina, whom the wizard-leaders of the 12 cities of gems had prepared with a magic stone… One whose power would come alive only…
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13th Century
Decades after Chang created a lantern from a crashed meteor in China, his grandson gave it to Kublai Khan, the founder and first emperor of the Yuan dynasty. Then, after Marco Polo, an explorer traveling through Asia, helped him uncover a conspiracy… Amidst all the glitter and gold, he sees it… a single, vibrant shard…
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Spider Guild
The Spider Guild are a coalition of arachnids that developed the ability to travel through space. They used that ability to conquer other races using fleets of drones that released robot spiders to wrap their victims in webbing. (They’re used later as food for their hatchlings.) Brin was an equine Green Lantern who faced the…
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Dru-Zod
Who was this “Colonel Zod” that appeared to save Krypton from Doomsday? Dru-Zod came from what was traditionally a house of warriors; however, he was the son of a pair of Kryptonian scientists. When they were attacked by dangerous animals on a wilderness expedition, his mother was killed and he killed his father, creating a…
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Doomsday Pt. 2
The monster created by Bertron 300 years earlier was featured in stories that prophesied that the last knight of the House of El would travel to a new world to become its protector, fighting to defend it from Doomsday. The Kryptonian word, Shik’lrith, is similar to the English term “urban legend.” However, in the case…
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Doomsday Pt. 1
Thousands of years ago on the planet Krypton, a rogue scientist named Bertron created a being of immense power and animal cunning. —but you will one day become perfection embodied. The infant, and many subsequent versions, did not survive the harsh environment of Krypton, but Bertron persisted for at least thirty years, cloning a new…
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Helspont
Millenia ago, the Daemonites, an alien race from the planet Daemon, discovered interstellar travel and began conquering the universe. Although they had the ability to possess other species, they met their match when they encountered the Kherubim, a race of nearly immortal warriors that had created the Daemonites as their slaves. During one of their…
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Tchk-Tchk
In Sector 407, at the parting of the Greater Magellanic Clouds, a small planet orbits a brown dwarf star. Its natives call it Tchk-Tchk. After millennia of bloodshed, every hive had been slaughtered but one, the final victor in the wars for control of Tchk-Tchk. But peace did not follow conquest. The Tchk-Tchkii turned their…
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Nth Metal
You’ll remember that when Perpetua was sealed behind the Source Wall and the multiverse restarted, one of her sons, Alpheus returned to the dark realm where he continued to created new worlds inside his World Forge. Stable worlds ascended to his brother Mar Novu’s “Orrery of Worlds” to become part of the Multiverse. Unstable worlds…
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