Suggestion : Fanfiction of Atari Force

[kaiserleomon]

Do you know something I was thinking? Since we're talking about making fanfictions with Universe DC Pre-Crisis series why not make a fanfiction with a group of cosmic superheroes in the same style as the Universe Marvel Starjammers? I am talking about a group of very cool Universe DC cosmic heroes who are now completely forgotten. The Atari Force:


The original Atari Force was a team of humans from different nations using the multi-dimensional starship Scanner One to search for a new planet for humanity to inhabit as the Earth was facing ecological devastation. The team was handpicked by A.T.A.R.I. (Advanced Technology And Research Institute), and consisted of Martin Champion as mission commander, Lydia Perez as pilot and executive officer, Li-San O'Rourke as security officer, Mohandas Singh as flight engineer, and Dr. Lucas Orion as medical officer. A semi-sentient alien creature, named Hukka because of the noise he made, later joined as team mascot.



The second team, formed approximately 25 years after the first, was also led by Martin Champion. He was convinced that the original team's nemesis, the Dark Destroyer, still existed. Although he was correct, most of the rest of humanity did not believe it, but humored him due to his heroic status in successfully the original Atari Force to find New Earth. Other team members included Christopher "Tempest" Champion, son of Martin Champion and Lydia Perez with the power to create space warps around your body and teleport fully or partially; Erin "Dart" Bia O'Rourke-Singh, daughter of Mohandas Singh and Li-San O'Rourke with the power of precognition; Hukka; Taz, a short alien warrior which that despite her male body, she hid the fact that she was a female and was pregnant with her husband killed in combat while help the Atari Force (a fact known only to Morphea) and that when she finally gave birth her children they were born bearers of super intellect who lose as they grow up having to relearn all the knowledge they are born with; Morphea, an insectoid telepath; Babe, an alien toddler of immense size and strength belonging to a race of gigantic creatures that turn into conscious mountains as they reach old age, and Babe is only a child of a few years of age by the standards of this race; and Pakrat, a humanoid rodent thief that every time it is cornered by several people in a corner without escape it has a reaction of irrational fury. Later additions to the team were Blackjack, Dart's human lover; and Kargg, the Dark Destroyer's former chief officer and second in command.


Martin Champion




Tempest Christopher Champion





Erin "Dart" Bia O'Rourke-Singh




Hukka



Taz



Morphea





Babe




Pakrat




Blackjack





Kargg



Through various forms of sabotage created by Blackjak, the Atari Force team was led again toward the Dark Destroyer, who this time was waiting on a planet ready to detonate an anti-matter bomb which he believed would destroy the universe Martin's people were living in. Much to Martin Champion's surprise, the Dark Destroyer unmasked himself to reveal his new form -- that of Martin Champion himself! He explained how he escaped death and how he took on this new form, and that with a ship equipped with a Multiversal drive he can destroy countless worlds. Realizing that the destruction of his own universe wouldn't be enough to satisfy the likes of his enemy, Martin engaged the Dark Destroyer in a fistfight, avenging himself for the suffering his enemy has caused as he felled him to the ground. Unfortunately, Dart wasn't able to stop the bomb from detonating as she accidentally tripped a fail-safe mechanism, so as the Atari Force team raced to Scanner One to escape the planet before the bomb exploded, the Dark Destroyer sent his lieutenant Kargg to go after them while he remained on the planet, dying in the explosion of the bomb he created.



Though the Atari Force team safely escaped the explosion, Kargg managed to sneak on board Scanner One and chased after Pakrat, who escaped by shuttle unto a planet where his brother Rident Oly had crash-landed on. After the three of them were brought back on board the ship, Morphea probed Kargg's mind and realized that the Dark Destroyer now lived on through the alien implant that was in the alien humanoid's brain. The Dark Destroyer attempted to destroy Morphea while she was in Kargg's mind, but she succeeded in fighting back, releasing Kargg from the alien implant's control and putting an end to the threat of the Dark Destroyer.

What do you think about this idea of making an Atari Force fanfiction?

PS: Sorry for this last image that shows Kargg still as an evil being executing Dark Destroyer's last order to hunt and kill one by one the members of Atari Force inside Scanner One but unfortunately I didn't find any artwork on the internet decent of Kargg on his phase of Atari Force member and hero in which he was a type of "Wolverine Alien" from the group and making a pair style "The Beauty and the Beast" with Morphea in which she was "The Beauty" of psychic powers and he " The Beast "of super strength, super senses and claws and fangs, and the insectoid alien showed sympathy for he despite the vast differences between their races for as Morphea discovered to scan Kargg's thoughts his race despite being composed of Barbarian Tribal Warriors of nomadic nature were not "evil in essence". Kargg is not so "ugly" ,not so "scary" nor so "sinister" like this picture believe me. After Morphea frees him from the mental slavery imposed by the Dark Destroyer Psychic Implant Kargg becomes much more sociable and even intelligent and wise and starts to speak eloquently being that before he was completely mute and only uttered guttural sounds. But unfortunately it seems that people on the internet do not see it that way and just have this image of him as a type of "Alien The Eighth Passenger" inside the Scanner One with the form of a six-foot muscular alien with green skin goat-head and fangs and claws capable of tearing steel.

[redsycorax]

Just a thought, but given the enabling scenario for Atari Force is that it's in response to ecological disaster, that brings Earth-31 in the current DC multiverse to mind. We've only ever seen the present day Earth-31, still in the process of recovery from devastating climate chamber and cataclysmic global warming. So, Kaiser, what you could do in this context is place Atari Force fanfiction in Earth-31's future and specify that the ecological disaster was Earth-31's climate change ravages. As to how far in the future, perhaps the twenty second or twenty third centuries, enough time for the technological shortfall from the climate change disaster to have been partially overcome and for starflight to emerge.

[redsycorax]

The other prospect is Earth-37, where Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller, which also has an accelerated technological headstart with moonbases in the sixties, Mars reached in the seventies and Europa (Jupiter) in the eighties and nineties. Given that accelerated technological development, Atari Force wouldn't have to be quite so far in the future as if it were Earth-31, but suppose the technological development might have had severe ecological consequences as a result? That way, it could also fit in with all the DC multiverse's future heroes in its Twilight scenario, which is also set later in that universe's future history.

[kaiserleomon]

Oct 3, 2019 22:08:51 GMT redsycorax said:

Just a thought, but given the enabling scenario for Atari Force is that it's in response to ecological disaster, that brings Earth-31 in the current DC multiverse to mind. We've only ever seen the present day Earth-31, still in the process of recovery from devastating climate chamber and cataclysmic global warming. So, Kaiser, what you could do in this context is place Atari Force fanfiction in Earth-31's future and specify that the ecological disaster was Earth-31's climate change ravages. As to how far in the future, perhaps the twenty second or twenty third centuries, enough time for the technological shortfall from the climate change disaster to have been partially overcome and for starflight to emerge.

My original idea was to retake the Atari Force saga from the exact point where it stopped at comics book titles with Martin Champion and Atari Force leaving New Earth after realizing that under the command of A.T.A.R.I. the New Earth society became an abusive, totalitarian, corrupt and totally xenophobic government, and Champion his son and the rest of Atari Force using the multi-universal teleportation machine invented years before by Martin Champion would teleport to the old Earth that, although ecologically devastated would still be able to sustain the life of a small group of living beings so the fanfiction could start from there with the Dark Destroyer reemerging alive once more and more powerful and threatening than ever and Atari Force having to take action again by rallying a group of new heroes inheriting from Atari Force's Second Formation legacy to address the threat under the tutelage of some of the group's veteran members. What do you think about this idea?

[DocQuantum]

I think Libby has used the characters once or twice in a story, but for the life of me I can’t recall which ones.

[kaiserleomon]

Oct 4, 2019 19:20:37 GMT DocQuantum said:

I think Libby has used the characters once or twice in a story, but for the life of me I can’t recall which ones.

Really the Atari Force is little known and remembered by readers of DC Comics. She was a science fiction comics book series with elements of superheroes. For nostalgics it's part of the memory of the things we remember from the 80s like Indiana Jones movies, Top Gun, Back to the Future, Big Trouble in Little China, Atari video games, arcade game rooms etc.

[kaiserleomon]

Oct 3, 2019 22:19:30 GMT redsycorax said:

The other prospect is Earth-37, where Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller, which also has an accelerated technological headstart with moonbases in the sixties, Mars reached in the seventies and Europa (Jupiter) in the eighties and nineties. Given that accelerated technological development, Atari Force wouldn't have to be quite so far in the future as if it were Earth-31, but suppose the technological development might have had severe ecological consequences as a result? That way, it could also fit in with all the DC multiverse's future heroes in its Twilight scenario, which is also set later in that universe's future history.

Another thing worth mentioning is that in Universe of Atari Force there are no counterparts how far does my knowledge of the DC's heroes. There is no Superman, Supergirl, Superboy , Steel , Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Green Lanterns, Flash, Aquaman , The Atom, Firestorm, Elongated Man, Hawkman, Hawkwoman, Zatanna, Vixen, Green Arrow , Black Canary , The Titans, The Outsiders, The Doom Patrol, The Young Justice etc.I mean . There are meta-humans and beings with superhuman powers, there are super powerful alien races but in this Universe outside Atari Force there is no group of Universe superhuman defenders who protect their races during crises. Atari Force is for all intents and purposes the only group of super powerful superheroes of this Universe.

[lawrenceliberty]

I did use them in a Captain Comet story in which he, Prince Gavyn the Starman, and Marvel Maid encountered some space heroes from different eras like Barren Earth and

Starhunters.   Their old foe Dark Destroyer battled the heroes in an earlier story. Unholy Homecoming.

[redsycorax]

One other interesting thing about Earth-37 is the apparent disjuncture between the future of DC space heroes and the Thrillkiller scenario. In the latter, which occurs in the sixties, Batgirl, Robin, Batman, Black Canary, Speedy, the Joker and Harley Quin are the only superhero/supervillain protagonists visible. By the end of that storyline, only Batman, Speedy and Black Canary are still active. Their descendants, if any, may not have adopted superhero careers or may have otherwise retired by the time its space hero contingent emerged, explaining their lack of visibility and marginality in Earth-37's future history. It would therefore be comparatively easy for Atari Force to rub shoulders with Tommy Tomorrow, the Planeteers, Star Rangers, Star Hawkins and Manhunter 2070 within that context (although apparently Tommy Tomorrow went insane in Earth-37's Twilight future, so perhaps a younger version of him if anyone takes up the suggestion).

[kaiserleomon]

Oct 7, 2019 17:43:15 GMT lawrenceliberty said:

I did use them in a Captain Comet story in which he, Prince Gavyn the Starman, and Marvel Maid encountered some space heroes from different eras like Barren Earth and

Starhunters.   Their old foe Dark Destroyer battled the heroes in an earlier story. Unholy Homecoming.

Very interesting to know from this fact lawrenceliberty that proves that there is really potential to make a fanfiction using Atari Force this time as main protagonists rather than simply supporting characters. I think if properly done an Atari Force fanfiction could be super cool type a version of "Star Trek" with superheroes focused on Atari Force adventures through the Universe.

[kaiserleomon]

Oct 7, 2019 20:45:31 GMT redsycorax said:

One other interesting thing about Earth-37 is the apparent disjuncture between the future of DC space heroes and the Thrillkiller scenario. In the latter, which occurs in the sixties, Batgirl, Robin, Batman, Black Canary, Speedy, the Joker and Harley Quin are the only superhero/supervillain protagonists visible. By the end of that storyline, only Batman, Speedy and Black Canary are still active. Their descendants, if any, may not have adopted superhero careers or may have otherwise retired by the time its space hero contingent emerged, explaining their lack of visibility and marginality in Earth-37's future history. It would therefore be comparatively easy for Atari Force to rub shoulders with Tommy Tomorrow, the Planeteers, Star Rangers, Star Hawkins and Manhunter 2070 within that context (although apparently Tommy Tomorrow went insane in Earth-37's Twilight future, so perhaps a younger version of him if anyone takes up the suggestion).

I did not know that redsycorax. I think in this context maybe we could even situate Atari Force's adventures in the future of Earth-37 and put the group of interplanetary heroes battling threats in the future of Earth-37 with perhaps the participation of other superhero groups of explorers from the Universe of the Universe DC and we could devise a new formation for the Universe of Earth-37 of the team of Atari Force with unique Universe cosmic explorer characters that would move on with Atari Force's mission to explore the unknown and go where no group of superheroes Cosmic of Universe DC has never been fearlessly exploring and discovering Universe.I think that in this respect it might be perfectly possible to use Universe of the Earth-37 and its particular features and put Atari Force as a kind of Universe DC "Starjammers" and create a new Atari Force group with new and unexpected members.No doubt it would be fascinating to make an Atari Force fanfiction with the participation of the futuristic cosmic Universe DC characters that you quoted equal : Tommy Tomorrow, the Planeteers, Star Rangers, Star Hawkins and Manhunter 2070 I would particularly find this extremely cool and would be contextualize the Universe of Atari Force fanfics. We just need to define who the fanfic characters would be and who knows how to create some extremely powerful and fascinating alien races to serve as supporting characters of the fanfic scenario. Anyway I think it would be a real and interesting challenge to make a fanfic with Atari Force.