Tuesday Tangents: Image Founders finale
Apr. 8th, 2008 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutAnd with a look at Valentino's Shadowhawk we finish with the Image Founders. Next week back to Marvel. Did someone already do Ghost Rider? I can't recall. Though I've got some vague ideas for a Fantastic Four re-imagining as well...
The Pitt Corporation. The leading edge in colonial habitats. And in the slow work of terraforming dead worlds into eventual living ones. But the Pitt Corporation has a secret. Well working on the Io colony their workers discovered a crashed alien craft. The only evidence of non-human extra-terrestrial intelligence. And for the last 10 years their scientists have been studying it in secret. The remains of the avian aliens offered few answers, but lead researcher Ben Johnstone dedicated himself to unlocking their secrets. And finally he got the breakthrough he'd been wanting, though not how he expected...
While running one of the alien artifacts through a battery of tests involving exposure to various kinds of radiation Something Happened. Ben found himself fused with the essence of the alien pilot. This fusion caused him to black out. When he woke "they" found they could listen in on the thoughts of his fellow scientists. Where he learned that his "friends" planned his eventual dissection after extensive and painful tests. Panicking Ben and The Other somehow d-shifted. Together they folded space moving them from the Venusian laboratory to Ben's childhood home on Mars...
Now Ben is on the run across the System from Pitt wetworks teams. His former employers will do anything to both capture and keep Target: Shadowhawk a secret. As for Ben/The Other. They just want to understand how the fusion happened and what caused the alien crash...
The Pitt Corporation. The leading edge in colonial habitats. And in the slow work of terraforming dead worlds into eventual living ones. But the Pitt Corporation has a secret. Well working on the Io colony their workers discovered a crashed alien craft. The only evidence of non-human extra-terrestrial intelligence. And for the last 10 years their scientists have been studying it in secret. The remains of the avian aliens offered few answers, but lead researcher Ben Johnstone dedicated himself to unlocking their secrets. And finally he got the breakthrough he'd been wanting, though not how he expected...
While running one of the alien artifacts through a battery of tests involving exposure to various kinds of radiation Something Happened. Ben found himself fused with the essence of the alien pilot. This fusion caused him to black out. When he woke "they" found they could listen in on the thoughts of his fellow scientists. Where he learned that his "friends" planned his eventual dissection after extensive and painful tests. Panicking Ben and The Other somehow d-shifted. Together they folded space moving them from the Venusian laboratory to Ben's childhood home on Mars...
Now Ben is on the run across the System from Pitt wetworks teams. His former employers will do anything to both capture and keep Target: Shadowhawk a secret. As for Ben/The Other. They just want to understand how the fusion happened and what caused the alien crash...
