Earth 9

The Tropico (Cuba) Missile Crisis turns into World War III and then nuclear war, which nearly wiped out humanity.

Cassidy is hated and detested by the remnants of the American population, starting to revive by their own efforts in small pockets here and there. Generally considered "The man who destroyed the country", Cassidy's exact whereabouts are unknown, and he is rumored to be "hiding out in a bunker somewhere."

Florida and Tropico were destroyed. The city of New Atlantis was created out of the remains of the city of Atlanta and was later the birthplace of the next version of the Joker. A group of sea creatures were mutated by the radioactive fallout into humanoid form and became the Sea Devils(the species from Doctor Who). France and the UK forged a close if strained alliance, the nuclear war between the US and USSR made them the world's leading (and only nuke-holding) superpowers. A joint Anglo-French campaign was launched on American soil in 1967. Charlton Heston rose as the fundamentalist leader of the neo-Confederacy, which allies fire-and-brimstone preaching with The Klan. Richard Monkton was the governor of California, and was thinking of seceding from the neo-Confedederacy before the Anflo-French campaign. The other major event to have repercussions was the Soviet Union's invasion of Ixania in 1968, which lead to the creation of a robot known as the Manhunter and deployment of the Metal Men as a U.S. black ops squad. As a result of the Tropican War in this timeline, the Soviet Union still existed in the late 90s and was still a world superpower. However, China was not involved in this nuclear exchange and has its own metahuman genetic experimentation program, resulting in the creation of the Supergirl and Powergirl of this universe. The Sarkhan War ended in 1968 with an American victory, President Monkton was assassinated on a visit to China in 1975, and the Soviet Union remained a superpower in global politics up through 1998 (*Astra Lost in Space, Chrononauts).*The creation of this Earth's Ultra-Humanite in 1998 triggered a global electromagnetic pulse, leaving the population, normal and meta alike, struggling to adjust.

Among those who gained Superhuman abilities, was Harvey Dent II, a black man, who declared himself the new Superman. He became a godlike being and took over in 1998, before he was defeated by a combined group of heroes in 2008.

**2063**

space travel has become possible and commercially viable; a group of students from Caird High School departs to the nearby planet of McPa for their Planetary Camp. Soon after the group arrives on the planet, the nine children encounter a mysterious and unforeseen intelligent sphere of light; it attacks them, transporting them into the distant depths of space. Floating in orbit around an unknown planet, they discover an old abandoned spacecraft nearby. Finding it in working order, they resolve to use the ship to return home. To do so, they must cross the 5,012-light-year gulf of space separating them from home by visiting alien planets harboring life to replenish and manage their limited resources.

The long and dangerous journey home aboard their vessel, which they name *Astra*, brings with it new character revelations, strengthening the bonds they share, and the eventual realization that the stakes of their journey are far higher than any of them could ever have realized.(*Astra Lost in Space*)

Presidents:

James T.Cassidy (1961-1962)

Charlton Heston(1962-1969)

Richard Monkton (1969-1975)

"Harvey Dent II" Superman II (1998-2008)

## **Earth 9 DC Characters**

### **Captain Boomerang**

Adam Clay is a disenfranchised pilot after the Japanese army marched on Burma and killed his family whilst they were at their plantation there. Clay escapes in his family's cropduster and forms a group of fliers during World War II. He is nicknamed "Captain Boomerang" because of his family's Australian origins and the unique "V" Shaped planes his Corp. The Digger Harkness Captain Boomerang never becomes famous, likely due to dying in the 1962 nuclear bombardment, meaning he was only active for three years in this timeline.

### **The Atom**

Jon Osterman never suffered the accident that transformed him into Doctor Manhattan. Instead, Arthur Thompson became the similarly powered, the Atom, however he failed in preventing the outbreak of World War III in 1962(and in fact accidentally caused it to escalate), afterwards he refused to get involved in the Czech War and moved his family to the moon. He had at least two successors, a son and a grandson.

The third Atom, Adam Thompson, was raised on the moon by his father(Atom II). Adam would attend Presidential dinners with his parents. When he was a young boy his father was killed by the Fatal Five, led by the Shadow Thief. Adam learned of his grandfather's actions in causing World War III and vowed to work to redeem the name of the Atom.

Thompson formed a group of heroes called the Secret Six to defeat an invasion by the Sea Devils. The Secret Six would try and fail to defeat Superman's attempted takeover, though a group of heroes from another universe helped defeat Superman.