Story:


"Attention Imperial Class Star Cruiser, Attention Imperial Class Star Cruiser, please identify or you will be fired upon." came a voice through the static. All eyes snapped to Rhomann Dey, Admiral of the fleet the Nova Corps had dedicated to a strike on the Clockmaker. "Identify yourself or we will fire, you are violating the sovereign space of Rimbor."
"This is Rhomann Dey, Admiral of the Nova Corps Empire. We were under the impression that Rimbor was under the control of the Clockmaker." Rhomann Dey spoke firmly, despite the confusion quickly spreading across the bridge of the NC Quasar.

"Sir, this was one of the first planets that fell to the clockmaker. We had a squadron at the battle of Rimbor, it was decimated by the clockmaker as we were driven back." The weapons officer informed Admiral Dey.

"I know. I was at that battle." Dey spoke slowly. "Mr. Grandor, what do our sensors pickup?"

The room went silent while everyone waited for the response. "Um... i'm not sure, sir. The audio and visual scanners show nothing abnormal. The cities, ships and people all seem as they were before the fall." The officer paused for a second, trying to find the right words. "But the planet is negative for any signatures. Of any kind."

"How is that possible?" Dey shot back. The response was interrupted by the radio, bringing the next message from Rimbor.

"The Clockmaker hasn't been present in this system for some time. He saved us and moved on to next system most likely to be targeted. It's good to see the Nova Corps again. We welcome you back as the allies you once where before our salvation."

"Sir, they have powered down all defenses. It looks like they are welcoming us. What is going on?"

"I'm not sure." Rhomann Dey answered.


"That's it then. Our most powerful defense systems have failed to slow his approach. Galactus will make planet fall in three months time." The council of Krypton's Elders sat silently before a young scientist got to his feet. "The council recognizes Jor-El."

"It is true that Krypton is doomed. Our world will be destroyed as countless others have been before now. Luckily, this eventuality has long been foreseen. For the past thirty years, ever since we first became aware of the devourer and his proximity to Krypton. We knew it was only a matter of time until he turned his hungry eyes to our planet. While the military ramped up production of our strongest weapons to repel him, I have worked tirelessly with our greatest scientific minds to find a way to preserve Krypton's culture, and potentially its people." Jor-El spoke strongly, aware of the value of his work.

"Excellent. What have you developed?" The council spoke.

"We have three options available to us. I suggest we utilize them all. Firstly, despite the fact that we have not pursued a space program for some time, I have designed several prototype rockets capable of carrying several members of our race to a distant planet. We can upload an almost unlimited amount of data into the rockets as well, so the survivors can carry our culture with them. In addition to this, I believe our race may benefit from the radiation from certain stars. I have identified a planet closer to the galactic core, The Tosev System, where we could send the survivors. There, they could grow to be gods among the planets primitive inhabitants."

"Only a handful of Kryptonians? And this journey would take thousands of years, whoever took such a trip would be dead long before reaching this Tosev Star System." One of the elders interjected.

"True, my lord, but that is why the rockets work as a cryogenics chamber as well. The children will not age a day until the rockets reach Tosev III. The third planet from the sun in the Tosev system." Jor-El explained. "And they may be few in number, but they play an important role in the survival of our race. For you see, we have found a second solution to the peril we currently face. A parallel dimension we have dubbed the phantom zone. We could shift major portions of our population into the phantom zone, escaping the death of Krypton. There are risks to the negative zone. Time passes quickly in that dimension, one year in the phantom zone is roughly equivalent to 5000 years in our reality."

"Why are the few survivors important to the phantom zone strategy?" Asked an elder.

"Because once inside the phantom zone, we would have no way to get out. Gates can only be opened from this universe into the phantom zone, not the other way around. After Galactus devours Krytpon, nobody will be left to open the door to the phantom zone and let our population out. It is my belief that our refugees to Tosev will be able to utilize the information in their ships to construct a gateway, allowing us to emerge, and set up a New Krypton alongside the Tosevites."

"This sounds promising. But why do you refer to the refugees as children?"

"Well, only a child could survive the freezing process. It's a risk, and we may never get out of the phantom zone, but it's safer than staying on Krypton." Jor-El concluded looking around.

"And what is your third solution?"

"Not a solution, as we see it. A means of preserving our culture should the first two plans fail. I have created an artificial intelligence I have named Brainiac. He is designed as a herald to Galactus. Brainiac can collect data from a planet, storing and recording everything he can while making available to the planet all the information he had collected from previous cultures. While we failed to stop Galactus, it is my hope that eventually, Brainiac will warn a planet of his coming, and provide them the data they need to defeat him. It is my sincerest belief, that one day the universe will praise the name of Brainiac as the savior that defeated Galactus."


"It is good to be back in the realms of Thanos." Proxima Midnight stated, looking around the bridge of the Death's Head. "Soon we shall reach New Titan, and Thanos will have his prize."

"Yes Mistress," Spoke a Sakaraan underling, working the controls. "Mistress, a ship has just appeared out of the warp, I believe it followed us from Havania. It identifies as a ship from Apokolips."

"Darkseid. That usurper has no idea what it means to be a god. Thanos will put an end to that Tyrants reign soon enough." Proxima Midnight glanced down at the controls, watching the other ship drawing closer and closer. Their cargo was easy to trace, and easily identifiable as extremely powerful. Proxima Midnight considered identifying herself to the closing ship. They probably would fall back if they knew this ship belonged to Thanos, Lord of the Death, Master of the Black Lanterns. But she was under strict instructions from Thanos himself to avoid identifying their loyalties. "Let them come. Prepare for battle. When they get close enough, begin boarding procedures. I will slay these scum myself."

Proxima Midnight gestured for her personal guard to follow him as the first sounds of the ships cannons began to sound.

Event: All HSR events are silver age with no tactics allowed unless specified by the event. The highlander rule is also in play, no duplicate characters unless they are generics, unless specified by the event. For Questions on these rules, please see the FAQ at the bottom of the page.

A few key words are used specifically when setting guidelines for team building. They are:

Character:A character refers to one person. Captain America is a character, Iron Man is a character and Thor is a character. Characters should be Proper Noun characters, not generics. This means that a figure like Avengers Prime is actually three characters, even though it is on one dial. Some characters, like Madrox or Ultron, can have many figures even though they only take up one character spot.

Generic: Generics will always be preceded by a keyword. An example can be seen below with Hydra Generic. This means that any number of hydra generic figures can be used.

Active Roster: Active rosters are the teams that are currently active in the story. When a team specifies it must be built from an active roster, any combination of the characters on that roster can be used. The active rosters also have any special effects a given character has. Relatively few characters will have special effects, but some will.

Behind the Veil

Special Map: The skilled mapmaker Traumador has created a unique map for this weeks epic battle! Below is a picture of the map, and a link to the complete file itself. While this weeks battle could be played on any map that resembles a spaceship, those of you inclined to do so can take this file to an office store and get a full sized custom map printed out for this weeks game!








































Traumador trades custom maps for clix, I sent him some booty for this maps commission, and you can see all of his other maps at the following link! Definitely worth checking them out!


Team 1: Proxima Midnight

Point Value: 700

Team Build:

Proxima Midnight
1 DC Character Who is Thanos's Daughter
Generics from the Regions of Thanos

Team 2: Apokolips

Point Value: 700

Team Build:
1 Named Character from Apokolips Active Roster
1 Marvel Alien Character
Generics from Apokolips

Specal Rules:
Two Ships: At the beginning of the game place two special terrain markers in the middle of the map. The side closest to the Thanos players starting area is their Ship, and the side closest to the Apokolips team is their ship.

While the boarding parties are fighting it out, the ships continue to fire on each other! At the beginning of each players turn, roll 1 die to see what happens!

1. It's A Trap: Your opponent can remove a total of three action tokens from their characters.

2. Focus All Fire: Choose a square on the enemies ship, deal 4 damage to any character in that square and 3 to any character adjacent to that square.

3. All Power to Shields: Gain a shield token.

4. Critical Hit: If you have a shield token, remove it from the game. If you do not, gain a critical hit token. If you have 3 critical hit tokens, every character on your ship is ko'd, and you no longer roll on this table at the start of your turn.

5. Shockwave: Roll one die for each character on the map. If a one is rolled, deal that character one unavoidable damage.

6. Reinforcements: Deploy 100 points of generic reinforcements to your starting area.


Results:

Post if either ship was destroyed, and who won. In addition post the Alien Marvel character who is with Apokolips, and post the DC character who is the daughter of Thanos. These slots will be made permanent this week based on a random drawing of characters used in these games!

Galactic Conquest Round 2

This weeks results see several empires getting decimated. It seems that galaxy is divided into more or less two camps: The people fighting against the clockmaker, and the people sucker punching the people fighting the clockmaker.

Galactic Conquest Round 1

Knowhere
Defender: Nova Corps with 0 points
Offense: 1000 Sinestro Corps led by Lyssa Drak

Ungara
Defender: Brainiac with 300 Points
Offense: 200 Sinestro Corps, 900 Kree, 700 GL (GL and Sinestro Corps not Allied)

Voori
Defender:Nova Corps with 0 points
Offense: 700 to Thanos, 300 Kree (Allies)

Okaara
Defender: Green Lantern Corps with 0 Points
Offense: 1000 Apokolips

Exxor
Defender: Green Lantern Corps with 0 points
Offense: 1000 Apokolips led by Steppenwolf

Xanshi
Defender: Brainiac with 200 Points
Offense: 1200 Shiar, 500 GLC (allies)

Space Battle Between (0,0,0) and Rimbor
Defender: Brainiac with 2000 points
Offense: Nova Corps with Booster Gold 1900 points

Sakaara
Defender: 1100 Empire of Thanos
Offense: 500 New Krypton

ACTIVE ROSTER

Generic: means any generics with this keyword
Character: means any character with this keyword

Active Rosters From Tale of Two Worlds

Green Lantern Corps (Emperor: Rurouni82)
Empire Points:1200
Generals: Guy Gardner (silverstreakhg)
Special Ability: All Characters without the Green Lantern Keyword gain the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.
Daredevil

1 Mutant Character from Marvel
1 Tech Hero from Marvel
1 Redeemed Villain from Marvel
3 Marvel Alien Characters
Character: Green Lantern Corps
Generic: Green Lantern Corps

The Regions of Thanos (Emperor: docsilence)
Empire Points: 1800
Generals: None
Special Ability: All characters belonging to Thanos gain the following trait:

Death Beckons: This character can use steal energy.

Thanos
3 DC Space Characters
1 DC Character Who is Thanos' Son
1 DC Character Who is Thanos' Daughter
Character: Black Lantern Corps
Generic: Black Lantern Corps
Character: Minions of Thanos
Generic: Minions of Thanos


The Shiar Spartax Coalition (Emperor: Baron Impossible)
Empire Points: 1200
Generals: None
Special Ability: All battles fought on a Shi'ar Spartax Coalition world gain the following effect during the battle:

The Imperial Guard Arrives: When Defending, the Shiar Spartax Coalition gains 200 points of reinforcements at the beginning of the 10th round of combat. These characters start in the Shiar Spartax Coalition players starting area, and do not have first turn immunity. These characters must have the Shi'ar Imperial Guard or Legion of Super Heroes Keyword.

Jason of Sparta
Character: Legion of Super Heroe's
Character: Shi'ar
Generic: Spartoi

The Kree Empire (Emperor: TheGoodReverendJLang)
Empire Points: 2100
Generals: Queen Agapo (thelovelymsziehl)
Special Ability: At the beginning of each game, the Kree player may use the following ability:

The Supreme Intelligence Knows What to Do! Choose one character, that character loses their team ability.

3 DC Character's Who are Kree
Character: Kree
Generic: Kree

The Sinestro Corps (Emperor: Gwachitallemalla)
Empire Points: 1800
Generals: Lyssa Drak(cy0nknight)
Special Ability: All Characters without the Sinestro Corps Keyword gain the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.

Red Skull
1 Marvel Villain
1 Mutant from Marvel
1 Tech Villain from Marvel
1 Corrupted Hero from Marvel
3 Marvel Alien Characters
Character: Sinestro Corps
Generic: Sinestro Corps

The Nova Corps (Emperor: Greth)
Empire Points: 1900
Generals: Booster Gold (Leigionarre)
Special Ability:All characters on this team gain the Nova Corps keyword and if they do not already have a trait with this name, the following trait:

Share Through the Worldmind: Friendly Characters with the Nova Corps keyword can use sidestep, but with a locked movement value of 1.
3 DC Alien Characters
1 DC Earth Character on the Corps
1 DC Green Lanter Corps Member (He becomes Both)
Character: Nova Corps
Generic: Nova Corps

Apokolips (Emperor: McGuffin)
Empire Points: 2000
Generals: Steppenwolf (MidKnightDreary)
Special Ability: During the Galactic Conquest Phase, Apokolips can send his troops to a planet regardless of the phase lanes. During the battle, the Apokolips player may use the following game effect:

Boom Tube Entrance: At the beginning of your first turn, the Apokolips may give all of his characters a move action that uses Phasing Teleport as a free action. If he does so, he must then immediately end his turn.

Hulk
1 Marvel Alien Character (Turned into a servant of Darkseid)
1 Marvel Earth Villain
3 Traded Children (McGuffin has been dealing with empires on trading babies. I think he recruited a Supergirl)
Character: Apokolips
Generic: Apokolips

The Skrull Empire (Emperor:Missing Lynk 75)
Empire Points: 1700
Generals: The Super Skrull (Dstructer)
Special Ability:

Duplicates: During team building, the Skrull player may use 1 character from an opponents active roster. This chacter gains the Skrull Team Ability.

3 DC Characters who now have Skrull origins
Character: Skrull
Generic: Skrull

Brainiac (Mikkisaur)
Empire Points: 2500
Generals: None
Special Ability:

Relentless Assault: Brainiac can make as many offensive actions on his turn as he wants.

Brainiac
Ultron
Iron Man (Unlimited)

New Krypton (Emperor: Ulvar)
Empire Points: 2000
Generals: None
Special Ability: At the start of a game role two dice and consult the following chart, applying all results to any character with the Kryptonian keyword.

2-5: Red Sun: This character loses flight, super strength and all damage reducers become toughness.
6-8: Blue or White Sun: No effect.
9-12: Yellow Sun: This character can use flight, toughness and super strength.

Sentry (Lets face facts here people)
2 Marvel Alien
1 Marvel Mutant
Skaar (I think this is who got traded with Darkseid)
Character: Kryptonian (Not Superman)
Generic: Kryptonian
Character: New Gods

I'm aware i'm missing some generals on my list, please post here if i'm missing you from the lists!

You are still missing me as general from The Nova Corps buddy!

Sure, who is your character?

Also, I apologize for the oversight. The enthusiasm and drive for this game has been a bit overwhelming and I missed more than a few things.

Booster Gold, son of the Mad Titan Thanos.

silverstreakhg is my general.

Yeh but how many points does he get ?

Following the action... Sadly no one in my area to play wi at moment

Kree General:

thelovelymsziehl : Queen Aga'po of Zamaron

The Skrull General - Dstructer (I would like to be Kl'rt)

Can team 1 substitute a daughter of Thanos for a son of thanos? :3

God on god violence this chapter. Fun!

Assuming it's cool if we're short on generics to fill in the rosters with theme-appropriate substitutes--we've got a whopping two parademons available and not even that many minions of Thanos or Black Lantern generics, but have plenty of options to fill in with named's for both squads.