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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 12, 2013 13:41:47 GMT -5
Okay so here are some of the ideas I have for Time Masters and how you can integrate it into your series if you like.
Booster Gold - He exists in our time. He's based out of NYC and at this point of 2013 has been around for a couple months, already getting some corporate sponsors. If you want to use him or mention him just let me know. Heck you could even show a commercial with him or something.
Vandal Savage - Hes around, of course. He's behind the scenes at this point in our time. Just let me know if you'd like to use him for anything.
Maxwell Lord - He is the CEO of Chemtech, one of the biggest chemical companies in the country. Let me know if you want to use him.
Now on to how I want to incorporate you guys into TM. Obviously this is going to be a time travel series. So I'd love to set stories during the past or future of your characters lives. If you're interested in doing a story where we go back to fix something in your characters history, Id love to. If you want to use Time Masters to hint at something in the future of your series, foreshadowing where you plan to go, I'd love to. I can just name drop something, offhand mention something, or have a story set in the middle of it.
Or lastly, if you want to do a story set in a POSSIBLE future, hinting at things to come or showing how things would have gone had something different happened in your series, I'd love to do that.
Obviously I'm not asking you guys to plot my series for me. But I really hope to use TM to help tie our universe together a bit. PM me with any ideas or anything I haven't thought of that you might want to do. I'll be PMing some of you guys too.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by DiscipleofBob on Jul 12, 2013 14:07:25 GMT -5
Well, from Ultimate Wonder Woman alone we have all sorts of Ancient Greece and mythology potential, and a significant amount of backstory taking place in World War II.
Don't really have anything for possible futures.
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 12, 2013 17:41:21 GMT -5
Psst! There's a reason I said to PM me! Cuz if I decide to do it you've just spoiled everything!
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Post by Ultimate Silentking on Jul 12, 2013 17:42:30 GMT -5
Spoiled what?
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 12, 2013 19:28:16 GMT -5
Side note, what should our Earth/timeline be called?
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 12, 2013 19:39:17 GMT -5
One word...
Ulti-time.
It's like hypertime but ULTIMATE.
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Post by Ultimate Silentking on Jul 12, 2013 19:44:32 GMT -5
Earth-52
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 12, 2013 19:45:10 GMT -5
One word... Ulti-time. It's like hypertime but ULTIMATE. ...not sure if serious? I mean I need a way to identify different timelines. I don't personally like saying Earth 2 or Earth 616, in regards to a whole universe, since its pretty damn arrogant. It makes it sound like Earth is the center of the universe. So I'm thinking referring to them as Universe _ or Timeline _. But then they need numbers or letters or some such. |
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 12, 2013 19:51:05 GMT -5
Mostly serious. It's in the site's name. This is the Ultimate Universe. Better yet, it is now U2 (haha... Or U3 if you include the original site that a lot of the original members came from).
In the end, that's what the site is called.
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 12, 2013 19:55:06 GMT -5
I would be fine using the term U3, since I can say U is short for Universe. We'll just be the third catalogued. Oh and the possibilities the spring to mind about U1 and U2...
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 12, 2013 19:59:39 GMT -5
Could be called W.
<_<;;
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Post by DiscipleofBob on Jul 12, 2013 20:10:11 GMT -5
Just to make sure I'm clear, is this different from parallel universes we might do in the future, like Crime Syndicate or Justice Lords or Infinite Crisis or anything like that?
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Post by Ultimate Silentking on Jul 12, 2013 20:13:20 GMT -5
Question, can I still do a Booste Gold title only it is Booster Gold from U2 and he is trying to find out how his universe disappeared?
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 12, 2013 20:25:33 GMT -5
Unless Crime Syndicate is a site project, those characters traditionally require claiming unlike most alternate incarnations.
SK:
For now, no.
Star asked permission, he is one of our most active contributors, and he agreed to a set of restrictions so that the title remains true to the premise of a shared sandbox so I granted permission. For now, he's the only one who can deal with realities and times on such a scale outside of a possible Legion title.
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Post by DiscipleofBob on Jul 13, 2013 8:46:40 GMT -5
Unless Crime Syndicate is a site project, those characters traditionally require claiming unlike most alternate incarnations. Not really what I was asking. Conversations about this have me confused. Is this title just about time travel (Past, possible alternate futures) or is it going into parallel universes? If so, are we doing the traditional classifications of Earth-One (Main Earth), Earth-Two (Crime Syndicate Earth), Earth-4 (Arcane Earth), Earth-8 (Pirate Earth), Earth-13 (Nightmare Earth), Earth-63 (Gender Swapped Earth), etc. |
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 13, 2013 9:49:24 GMT -5
I'm gonna lay everything out since there's some confusion. The series is going to be about time travel and travel through alternate realities. But part of the agreement for me to do it is that it has to be a majority of our timeline or alternate futures that directly diverge from ours.
This will also be a team title with a bit of a rotating cast, like Marvels Exiles. But part of the rules I have to follow is that any alternate reality or future characters I want to use that are recurring I have to either claim them or get permission from the people who have the claims. So if I wanted to have an alternate reality Lex Luthor be a recurring team member or villain, I'd have to get Silentkings permission. If I wanted to do an alternate Shazam, I'd have to use a claim since no one has him right now, and someone could still claim our universes Shazam.
The claims I have right now are all our reality version btw.
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 14, 2013 4:56:32 GMT -5
I never said it had to be a majority but yeah basically.
I gave him two basic conditions (though there were more specifics on his character use as he said) on the title so as to fit into the rules and to stay true to the premise of Ultimate DCU.
First was early on, he had to overlap with U3 (I guess we're calling it) and had utilize at least one character from there. This fulfilled the shared sandbox idea and based on what I heard from Star, he still wants to make the title very much part of our shared mythos.
The second was what he said about Shazam. This is to curtail any unlimited use of the DC library. Obviously, if the character is from U3, you can't have two of them running around. Meaning some of his characters can't also be claimed by others. But if he wants to use an alternate reality version of a character not claimed, he has to claim them (that way he doesn't bend the rules to use any and all characters) and since they're from a different universe, I'm okay with someone claiming the U3 version.
It's a special title and since Star came to me and asked about it, we worked things out hopefully in a way that won't cause any problems.
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As for your specific issues, Bob... *shrug* I don't know. Doesn't seem like Star is gonna use those classifications but that doesn't mean he won't mess with them or their concepts in the long run. For now, assume that this is the Ultimate Multiverse as part of a larger DC Omniverse.
Now if you're asking about something specific... you're gonna have to try to be clearer and give an example or something. Seems to me that you're just asking if these universes exist.
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Post by DiscipleofBob on Jul 15, 2013 14:21:51 GMT -5
I never said it had to be a majority but yeah basically. I gave him two basic conditions (though there were more specifics on his character use as he said) on the title so as to fit into the rules and to stay true to the premise of Ultimate DCU. First was early on, he had to overlap with U3 (I guess we're calling it) and had utilize at least one character from there. This fulfilled the shared sandbox idea and based on what I heard from Star, he still wants to make the title very much part of our shared mythos. The second was what he said about Shazam. This is to curtail any unlimited use of the DC library. Obviously, if the character is from U3, you can't have two of them running around. Meaning some of his characters can't also be claimed by others. But if he wants to use an alternate reality version of a character not claimed, he has to claim them (that way he doesn't bend the rules to use any and all characters) and since they're from a different universe, I'm okay with someone claiming the U3 version. It's a special title and since Star came to me and asked about it, we worked things out hopefully in a way that won't cause any problems. --- As for your specific issues, Bob... *shrug* I don't know. Doesn't seem like Star is gonna use those classifications but that doesn't mean he won't mess with them or their concepts in the long run. For now, assume that this is the Ultimate Multiverse as part of a larger DC Omniverse. Now if you're asking about something specific... you're gonna have to try to be clearer and give an example or something. Seems to me that you're just asking if these universes exist. Well, if there ARE parallel universes, then keeping track of which parallel universe is which is an issue to keep track of in continuity. This should probably warrant a section in the Continuity boards, and they would be stuff like... U3 - Primary universe for most Ultimate storylines. U4 - Alternate future for Legion of Superheroes U6 - Home Dimension for Ultimate Crime Syndicate U13 - Horror Earth where Batman is a vampire and other characters are nightmare versions of themselves. These are of course just examples of what could happen. Stuff like that. |
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Post by Stardrifter on Jul 15, 2013 17:07:46 GMT -5
That is something I will be keeping track of and recording as I go. The first issue, which should be done by the end of this week, will address that.
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Post by The Wonderful Wachter on Jul 15, 2013 23:07:17 GMT -5
Well, if there ARE parallel universes, then keeping track of which parallel universe is which is an issue to keep track of in continuity. This should probably warrant a section in the Continuity boards, and they would be stuff like... I actually covered that back when the continuity board was created. That's what the 4th post on the timeline will be for at least in terms of futures. If Star ends up wanting me to create up topic so he can go into detail on the realities/universes... That's up to him. If it's just me, I'll get to it when I get to it and have time to go over the Title with attention to detail. I'll be following his lead though he's been considerate enough to talk about his plans with me. I will say, I've always worked with the idea that the Ulti-monitor exists in universe. <_< |
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