Doomsday Clock

## History

### Prelude

In 1966, Ozymandias was summoned by Captain Metropolis with five other individuals to organize a new superhero team, the Crimebusters. Their meeting would be disrupted by the Comedian, who how petty costumed heroes were. Veidt tried to explain that everything can be achieved with proper planning & leadership, but the Comedian reminded him how powerless the crimefighters were during the threat of nuclear war that currently was hung. His statement, along with Nelson's coda that "someone must save the world" inspired to do just that.

By 1970, Veidt had enough fortune to stage his plans. His would create a catastrophic event & deceive the world into uniting against a common enemy, Manhattan. Upon completion, he would get rid of everyone involved to maintain the illusion.

Veidt correctly foresaw that the costumed hero fad would end so he retired from superheroism in 1975. He marketed his image, to give the public a good perception of him. He developed spark hydrants & with the proceeds he financed Dimensional Developments. To further his mission of getting rid of Dr. Manhattan, Dimensional Developments started hiring people associated with Manhattan & secretly exposed them to radiation to induce terminal cancer in them. Shortly after, he engineered a rumor that he was responsible.

He brought Edgar Jacobi (aka Moloch) into his plans after helping his parole. The health of both he & Janey Slater (Manhattan's former lover) started to deteriorate, causing massive vomiting, feeling tired & suffering from insomnia, headaches & diarrhea. Presenting himself as a savior, Veidt offered him a leave & to cover his medical costs.

When the Comedian discovered Veidt's plan, his island & list of infected people, he realized that Jacobi was one of the few people he was certain was not a part of Veidt's plan. Drunk & hysterical, Blake broke into Jacobi's home at night & told him about the list. The next day Jacobi reported it to Veidt, who assured him that the Comedian was just becoming delusional & gave him guards to watch over his place safe. It was her that he knew he had to kill the Comedian.

In 1985, the death of the Comedian caught the attention of Rorschach, who investigates the crime & mistakenly theorizes that there's a conspiracy to murder masked vigilantes. While he warned the other crimefighters, Veidt had started accusations against Doctor Manhattan to drive him off the planet..

Rorschach visited Moloch's house & he told him about the Comedian's visit. After becoming aware of this, Veidt decided to dispose of both Moloch & Rorschach. He even arranged an assassination attempt on himself to throw off suspicion. The next day, while Jacobi was expecting Rorschach in his house, he realized that Veidt was behind the cancer instead of Dr. Manhattan who the media was blaming. Soon after, Veidt came over, explained his plan to save the world then offered him the chance to save the world with his death like Jesus. He accepted then Veidt shot him in the head. When Rorschach later broke into his house, he found Jacobi dead & was framed for the murder.

Unknown to him, Nite Owl & Silk Spectre believed that Rorschach's investigation had merit & sprung him from prison to investigate the matter. In addition, Manhattan took Silk Spectre to Mars where she convinced him to return to Earth. However, the crimefighters were unable to stop Veidt's scheme, which led to the deaths of over three million people in New York City.

### Overview

On November 2, 1987, Veidt detonated energy reactors in the world's major cities, generating a radioactive signature similar to Doctor Manhattan's. The cities affected by the intrinsic bombs were:

1. Beijing, China
2. Buenos Aires, Argentina
3. Cairo, Egypt
4. Chicago, Illinois, United States
5. Houston, Texas, United States
6. Instanbul, Turkey
7. Lagos, Nigeria
8. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9. London, England
10. Los Angeles, California, United States
11. Manila, Philippines
12. Mexico City, Mexico
13. Moscow, USSR
14. Mumbai, India
15. New York City, New York, United States
16. Paris, France
17. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
18. Portland, Oregon, United States
19. Pyongyang, North Korea
20. Sao Paulo, Brazil
21. Seoul, South Korea
22. Shanghai, China
23. Shiruta, Kahndaq
24. Sydney, Australia
25. Tokyo, Japan
26. Warsaw, Poland
27. Washington, DC, United States

The world governments fell for this ruse & agreed to an union to oppose their common enemy: Doctor Manhattan. Although they agreed to conceal the truth to preserve the new global peace, Rorschach refuses to keep silent, telling Doctor Manhattan that he will *never* compromise. Jon intervenes & complies with Rorschach's demand to kill him to keep him from revealing the truth.

Veidt then asks Jon for verification that he did "the right thing" & is his plans "worked out in the end", Jon only replies that nothing ever ends, leaving Veidt in doubt as to whether his plan was successful.

### Aftermath

The United Nations begins its campaign for world peace & the long-term survival of humanity. In the following years, the world would see

* Organization an international accord for nuclear disarmament, the NTA. All nuclear-armed nations eventually join the accord
* Creation of the Global Data Exchange Program to assist in this effort, which allowed for the free flow of information between each signatory nation
* A timetable for total nuclear disarmament within twenty years
* North Korea & South Korea form the new country of Rhelasia
* Dictator Asim Muhunnad seize rule of Kahndaq
* The US Capital was reestablished to National City, California.
* The city of New York City was rebuilt & renamed Capital City.
* The city of Los Angeles was rebuilt & renamed Jump City.
* The United States passed a law to help rebuild the damaged cities from the intrinsic bombs. The law provided financial assistance for reconstruction & the donation of land that was owned by the government.
* The fall of Yugoslavia after a series of political upheavals & conflicts. A large portion of the land became Bulgravia then Kasnia, Vlatava & Markovia splitting the remainder.

The states would stay in this union for almost ten years until the contents of Rorschach's journal are published. As the journal only implicates Veidt in the Comedian's murder, the international community ignores the information as tabloid gossip until a series of suspicious events lead to increased scrutiny against Veidt. In a matter of weeks, everything would fall apart & Veidt became the most wanted man in the world.

The bombings also personally effected people:

* Deaths: the parents of Jennifer Sparks, Elaine Marsh-Morton, Martin Stein, James Gordon; the mothers of Simon Jones, Alfred Pennyworth; the fathers of Dora Leigh, Konstantin Kovar, Lucius Fox; the grandfather of Raj, Ajeet, Kiran & Naomi Singh; the families of Anatoli & Nadezhda Knyazev; the boyfriend of Fig Keele
* The intrinsic radiation affects a pregnant Casey Jones, causing her to give birth to her son Simon premature & him developing birth defects
* The parents of Nina Chen moves to the United States following the devastation of Hong Kong
* Reconstrction of Trent Indsutries
* Rex Tyler uses independent patent royalties to purchase what remained of Bannerman Chemical & renamed it Tyler Chemical Company (or TylerCo)
* The original Fabletown is destroyed.
* Clayton Abernathy & his family move to Souther Virginia after their house was destroyed while on vacation

## Notes

* Per usual, major shoutout to roysovitch & the Earth-27 fandom for inspiration.