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Post by dans on Feb 23, 2020 13:59:54 GMT
I need to get two super heroines to Roswell, NM. One is starting from Chicago, the other from San Francisco. They undoubtedly have cars, and both ride motorcycles. Neither has a plane at her disposal. Were there charter plane services in 1961? Any other suggestions?
Google says it is about 1200 miles from either starting point to Roswell. So at worst case, I suppose they could both ride their bikes and make it in a day or so.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Post by johnreiter902 on Feb 23, 2020 14:18:29 GMT
Charter planes were certainly available. If they have friends in the Superhero community who could give them a lift, that would work too.
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Post by dans on Feb 23, 2020 14:29:31 GMT
I wonder if police departments had small planes back then? Maybe Palette can convince the Police Department of San Francisco to fly her to Roswell... She is very popular in San Francisco, so maybe it isn't too much of a stretch.
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Post by dans on Feb 23, 2020 15:48:35 GMT
Thanks, John, one does and one doesn't. So one is taken care of. Working on the other.
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Post by jonclark on Feb 23, 2020 19:19:27 GMT
Any reason they couldn't fly commercially to the nearest airport and find transportation from there? I know car rentals existed by 1970, but not sure if it was as practical in the early 60's. Might be worth a shot. Worse comes to worst create a UFO-tourist charter from that nearest airport/train station that takes people to Roswell like once or twice a day.
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 24, 2020 1:02:59 GMT
I'm glad you're giving it some thought, Dan! All too often I've read an old comic that had the heroes get from one part of the world to another in an impossibly short period of time. I think a lot of the logistical details weren't thought about much in older comics.
And then there's the Silver Age/Bronze Age comics that had various heroes traveling around the entire universe with little difficulty, either, which just makes the problem so much worse given the impossibly vast distances that exist between heavenly bodies. It's one thing if a starship of some kind is involved, because then you can use pseudo-science like a 'wormhole drive' and such to handwave the problem away, but when the heroes are traveling under their own power, how the heck would that even work? The most egregious one I can recall is a Superman/Flash race across the universe.
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Post by dans on Feb 24, 2020 12:48:40 GMT
a certain amount of handwaving is required, but I try to keep it to the minimum. But it's one of the reasons I wrote my alien invasion story, to get the Super Squad on Earth S access to fast transportation.
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Post by dans on Mar 1, 2020 17:32:55 GMT
You know, the more I try to make this story a little more realistic, the more I realize just how unrealistic it is. Alien saucers have landed in 6 cities, killed people, and escaped. And only 3 super heroes are trying to track them down? All 3 know where the aliens are, but they aren't asking for military aid? Comics don't require just willing suspension of disbelief, they also require total suspension of common sense and relationship with reality....
Oh, well... I keep telling myself, 'it's a comic book'!
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Post by johnreiter902 on Mar 5, 2020 0:50:04 GMT
You know, the more I try to make this story a little more realistic, the more I realize just how unrealistic it is. Alien saucers have landed in 6 cities, killed people, and escaped. And only 3 super heroes are trying to track them down? All 3 know where the aliens are, but they aren't asking for military aid? Comics don't require just willing suspension of disbelief, they also require total suspension of common sense and relationship with reality....
Oh, well... I keep telling myself, 'it's a comic book'!
Most heroes would say that military aid just mean more people they need to protect. Heroes themselves are typically one-man armies. |
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 14, 2020 22:27:50 GMT
Presumably, there's a standing protocol that the military will hand over to metahumans in the context of major unforeseen contingencies when they realise they're out of their league, otherwise valiant members of the armed forces would die in combat in their hundreds or thousands. Possibly, this might have been imposed in the aftermath of an earlier interstellar invasion when this was the case- say, perhaps, this universe's Mars is inhabited by analogues of the War of the Worlds or other aliens? As for alien ease of escape, yes, well they obviously have access to FTL technology, possible invisibility cloaks, and would have disabled any Terran weaponry capable of striking back against them as a matter of course- strategic logic. If these superheroes have metahuman abilities, access to advanced technology or earlier combat experience against extraterrestrials , then logically they will be far more able to more effectively challenge a limited number of hostile extraterrestrials. Presumably then they will hand them over to a benign interstellar confederation for punishment and imprisonment at the end?
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Post by dans on Mar 18, 2020 15:29:51 GMT
No established protocol for handing affairs over to heroes yet, although maybe after this alien invasion they will establish one. Nobody in this particular world has experience handling a world-wide crisis other than a World War. So when 6 flying saucers show up across the country, there really isn't an established protocol.
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 19, 2020 20:31:48 GMT
I also suspect that the leadership of the armed forces of this world would have worked out that the limited scale of the attack indicated that it was a preliminary hostile exploratory mission. It depends on where the initial attacks were centred. Would this be targeted predominantly at major industrial centres, scientific development hubs, military base concentrations or significant state or national administrative centres? If there was a definite pattern, that would lead to some logistical and strategic conclusions in Washington, one suspects.
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