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3Steve Weinberg, MD PhD is a Class-9 clone of Professor Steven Weinberg of Columbia University (referred to hereafter as 'Steven Prime'). 3Steve travels in his own scout ship, The Drosophila, along...
Incompetent "Hero" Allows Crooks to Walk
I know you've read my opinion on Acrobot before, but the latest outrage (detailed exclusively on the front page of this very paper) makes it clear that I...
It’s a great mystery where super-fly crime stomper Afro-Man came from, exactly. Is he human or alien? How did he come to have his super-powers? Where did he get that cape? What’s up with the...
After the Mask is a support group for former Supers, those that have retired from the life of the Hero for one reason or another. Like any other support group, it encourages speaking about past...
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Bounce
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Reported by Captain Zot Chesthair
Subsequent missions to Polvera have confirmed the phenomenon first noted by the crew of the Garrulous during the initial survey mission. Due to the mass and...
Aries! Pisces! Sagittarius!
These names ceased to be the province of bored, newspaper-reading housewives and came to be feared by the populace of Cosmopolis. The twelve criminals who comprised the...
Marduk Intelligence cognition upload:
On site examination of the area of the eastern continent known as the Aurocha Expanse continues, despite the complete lack of interest by other intelligences,...
is the expedition troubleshooter. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, and Theatre with numerous patents on 3 worlds. If you can think it, he can build it. If it's been built,...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
Biblio-Exo-Archeology is a a new field of archeology derived from the archaeological discipline of paleography and expanded upon by Dr. Rudolph Horn to apply to...
The inhabitants of the southern area of Polvera's largest pre-catastrophe continent (designated as Culture B, by the initial survey team) were, by far, the most advanced civilization of their era....
Never before have I seen a case of drug abuse that was as devastating and as self-destructive as the cases that I have seen involving a substance most commonly known as Blue Goop. Blue Goop is an...
Well, friends and neighbors, I think it's pretty much happened. Our favorite Supers Club seems to be on the decline and may be closing its doors in the very near future.
When Bounce opened about...
Calypso MacTavish is listed as "Cultural Advisor" on the Drosophila. Calypso is best known as the creator of BTL Studio's hugely successful Tri-V show, "BLAZE!". The eponymous heroine is Desire...
Evidence from Daria suggests that in some areas an extended period of Carnivale preceeded the Catastrophe (see Catastrophism). It has been suggested that the meat consumed after the fasting month...
Reported by: Jedikiah Drake
There is a certain sameness to most Polveran narrative art dating from the final century of the civilization. Frequently set on other worlds and only rarely with...
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OMG! I just saw Doctor Quantum!!!
It was totally unexpected! I don't usually get to hang out downtown, since campus is all the way on the east side of town. But this evening I needed a book from...
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Acrobot
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Flying Squirrel
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Good Triumphs Initiative
Grav Suit
Hairdo Heroes
Heinzebacher effect
Hierophant, The
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Killraven Prison
Kinky Kapers
Letdown, Dr.
Limitless Placement Agency
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Magnum
Mayoral election
Megasaurus Rex
Neptune Suit
Newton, Alexandra
OctoPersia
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Palka Heist, The
Red Goop
Ruthless Cosmopolitan, The
Scarab King —dibs Andrew Webber
Sidekick Sabotage
Spontaneous Power Receival
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TreeForce - dibs Roxy Aldona
UnMan
Vermillion Detonator Centre
Their Many Hidden Weaknesses
Virginia Blossom —dibs Jim Lang
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Witch Doctors Without Borders
Wilhelm Von Winter
Yobman, Martha
Xerxes -dibs Frank Cooper
Zzorgulax The Conqueror
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The Cosmopolis lexicon will consist of eight rounds with the letters arranged as they are on a phone pad. The schedule will consist of two rounds a week. Entries will be due on Wednesdays and...
Recordings reconstructed from the Xanadu Dig suggest dance is an exception to the recurrent theme of violence in Polveran art (figurative/narrative art cf Aurocha Expanse, Catastrophism.)
Images of...
Reported By: Jedikiah Drake
The quickest way to understand the Darian culture ("Culture A") is to note that nearly everything that the scientists abouard the Garrulous believed about them was...
Time to Pull the Plug
When Denataview Labs was first chartered in 1949, the idea was sound and seemed worthwhile: collecting the nation's most brilliant scientists together to harness the...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
As the Insurmountable studied the phenomenon of the Apogee Flare as discovered during the P-3 orbit, as originally spotted by the original voyage of the Garrulous,...
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Roxy: Welcome back, Fans! Today we will be in conversation with Sir Ivan Newton, the infamous supervillain known as Dr. Letdown...
Dr. Webber is a psychologist for the rich and famous. He has gained enough notoriety to attract some superhero clients. Dr. Webber has written a number of books on the psychology of superheroes and...
Dr. Genesis Schebel is the resident exo-archeologist on board the Insurmountable. Previously, before leaving to Polvera, she was a Professor of Archeology at Princeton University. She is an expert...
The Drosophila is a scout ship primarily assigned to exobiological surveys. It is currently assisting the Insurmountable in her mission to Polvera.
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by 3Steve Weinberg
I am becoming concerned about one of my research assistants. I gave him the simple task of producing an artistic interpretation of the Great Temple of the Elements created by...
Recovered from the personal logs of Captain Zot Chesthair.
Cartographic surveys are complete and I am becoming convinced that the Culture B Polverians were more complex than we have previously...
The Fearless Friends of Freedom were formed from the remnants of the Patriots, the group of superheroes who fought the NAZIs during and slightly after WWII. Once the work in Europe was done,...
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Roxy: Welcome back, Fans! On the phone we have Donny from 84th Street
Donny: Yeah, and that’s why the election needs to...
Frank Cooper's daily editorial column (unimaginatively titled "Frankly Speaking" by management decree) is the primary driver of readership for Cosmopolis's second-largest newspaper, the...
An Excerpt from an interview with Andrew Webber as seen on CSSN.
A colleague and a very good friend of mine, Dr. Alexandra Newton , has started a special support group a few years back. It's a...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
The Garrulous was the original survey expedition vessel sent to Polvera. After Polvera was found, and confirmed, by planetary astronomers and physicists, the...
Recovered from the personal logs of Captain Zot Chesthair, Incredulous.
Schebel has been smuggling those damn Gearboxes onto the ship. She says they are necessary for her research, taken from the...
Wolves in Sheep's Capes
We all knew that it was only a matter of time. At least, those of us who were not addle-brained by a sappy sentimentality and a "love conquers all" mentality. I am, of...
Hi, friends! Sorry I haven't written my blog for the past couple days. I've been doing a paper on the ubiquitous Super(H/V) hardware known as a Grav Suit - or more properly for today's users,...
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It would appear that the serum known as Concentrated Hypersomatropine created by the famed medical researcher, Dr. Adolf Heinzebacher, does more to its subjects than help...
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Reported By: Jedikiah Drake
As tremendously useful as the techniques of Manichean Linguistics can be, it is somewhat annoying that their end result is not an actual translation of an alien text...
The Insurmountable is one of the ships exploring the planet Polvera. It is primarily a cartographical ship, though with the discovery of past civilization on Polvera, it has repurposed...
Former right-hand girl of the wicked Dr. Huh, daughter of the horrid Moreau, Iona Zanthe has left behind a life of looking good being bad to become an advice column writer. The whys are still left...
Excerpted from an interview featuring Dr. Andrew Webber on Good Morning Cosmopolis.
Mary Weather: I'm sure you all remember Jack Hopp, although most of you knew him as the masked crime
fighter,...
Jedikiah Drake received full and complete pardons from the President and both the UN Security Council and General Assembly that cover all alleged misdeeds during the Equatorial Conflicts.but...
Recovered from the personal logs of Captain Zot Chesthair, Insurmountable
Continued analysis of the cartography of Polvera has highlighted several regions of crust damage incongruous with known...
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Jim Lang has written several books based on his years as a reporter for the Cosmopolis Ledger. He is generally regarded to be on the "supers beat" but his actual position is that of senior...
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The disappearance of the Garrulous may not be nearly so mysterious as some think. Like the Insurmountable and the Drosophila, that ship was outfitted with the Kerebos...
The question of what to do with criminals who can walk through walls, shatter steel, or teleport has no greater answer than Killraven Ultra-Security Prison. Housed on an island just off the coast...
Shameful Shockumentary Turns Tragedy to Titillation
While movie reviews are usually left to the good people on the arts page, the latest effort from documentarian Lester Moore (of "Secret Identity"...
I understand the drawing now. I also understand a great deal more than I did before I ingested the lavender moss. The wild revels depicted at the Xanadu Dig and even some of the pictographs used...
Lexicon: an RPG
Originally Posted by Neel Krishnaswami on The 20' by 20' Room on November 20, 2003.
Here's a little roleplaying game that I've been toying with. I call it the Lexicon rpg, in honor...
From the log book of Dr. Genesis Schebel:
The research on board the Insurmountable has crawled to a stand still ever since Zot Chesthair became obsessed with the Gearbox. He is somehow convinced...
I'm a bit depressed today. I've been trying to get someone at the Limitless Placement Agency to contact me for the past week, but so far haven't had any luck.
Limitless started operating back in...
Recovered from the journal of Captain Zot Chesthair, Insurmountable
Damn Horn and his damnable systems.
The big brains on the mission have thoroughly embraced the precepts of Manichean Linguistics...
Marduk is an artificial intelligence typically inhabiting a deployable satellite located above a stellar or planetary body to be studied. Telepresence operations are generally executed by...
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Frank Cooper
Doctor Letdown
Afro-Man
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Tony Camacho
Hairdo Heroes, Hierophant, The,...
Here We Go Again
How, exactly, did we get here? A brief recap is in order. For the first few weeks of this election, it appeared to be a fairly normal affair for the city, with challenger Vincent...
One of the sadder villain origin stories I've ever witnessed was that of Megasaurus Rex, originally known as Oliver Small. Oliver Small was a scientist working for Denetaview Labs. He was...
Reported by: Jedikiah Drake
During the recent Equatorial Wars, the most-feared leader of the losing side was Colonel Ndonilala. A man of unique vision and military genius, he was prone to be even...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
The Nebuchadnezzar Transfer Orbit maneuver was pioneered by the Steve during the original scans of planet Pledra Theta around Proxima Ophiuchi (Barnard's Star) many...
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Roxy Welcome back Fans! While the police and Super Groups are still trying to figure out what happened with the break out at Killraven Prison, we have brought back an old...
Nobel Laureate, runway model, neurosurgeon, inventor, sometime crimefighter, and sometime supervillain, OctoPersia has had more careers and labels than any random ten people put together. As the...
I write this from the medlab of the Insurmountable. The Drosophila is no longer safe. Calypso has become paranoid as has most of the rest of the crew. They can no longer be trusted. For example,...
Humanity is making halting steps toward other star systems. An exploratory trip to the worlds around Tau Ceti has revealed the first conclusive evidence of an advanced civilization on an...
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The brave scholar/astronauts who got their hands dirty in the wretched dustball called Polvera.
Zot Chesthair, captain of the Insurmountable.
Marduk, orbiting AI / telepresence drone operator.
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Apogee Flare
Aurocha Expanse
Binary Accounting
Biblio-Exo-Archeology
Carnivale
Catastrophism
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Dance
Daria
Dje Dje Mountains
Elemental Temple
Esoteric Geography
Flourine
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Garrulous
Gearbox
Horn, Rudolph
Ia Ia Mene Tekilath
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Jettison Scar
Kerebos Sanction
Lavender Moss
Limbo
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Manichaean Linguistics
McMahon, Valeria
Nebuchadnezzar Transfer Orbit
Ndoniliala Mark
Omnitextiles
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Phantom Poltergeist Effect
Polarized Sound
Polverite
Rastuvat Crater
Ritualised Cannibalism
Samaelra
Salt Wars
Sasquatch 2
Space Madness
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Taboo Against Spaceflight
The Steve
Theo-Babble
Uriel...
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Weeping Ones
Xanadu Dig
Zeitgeist Prescience
Zeta Conjunction
Ziggurat of Heos
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The Polvera lexicon will consist of eight rounds with the letters arranged as they are on a phone pad. The schedule will consist of two rounds a week. Entries will be due on Wednesdays and...
Reported by: Jedikiah Drake
The chemical composition of the substance known as 'Polverite' is relatively mundane: Aluminum, Silicon, Oxygen, and Carbon make up the bulk of the material, with trace...
Reported By: Jedikiah Drake
At this point it is clear that Polveran culture B was capable of planetary-scale geoengeneering. However, the surmise of the captain that the Rastuvat Crater was a...
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Roxy Hello Fans! Welcome back. Today we are talking “art and design” with Papa Ratzi, Super Hero and photographer...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
According to Archeological and Anthropological evident, ritualized cannibalism existed among Homo Sapiens since the dawn of time. Some evidence of ritualized...
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We talk to the movers and shakers, the...
Dr. Rudolph Horn never left Earth but we could not have performed this survey without him. He is best known for his work deciphering the Gearbox but his earlier breakthroughs in paleography and...
Reported By: Dr. Genesis Schebel
The Salt Wars was a series of wars fought between two different factions within the unearthed Culture B found on the Polvera surface apparently focused on the...
Sasquatch 2 was an unmanned planetary lander and provided us with the first significant data from the world. It was not the first craft sent from Earth to the Tau Ceti system but it was the first...
by Andrew Webber
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The Kids Are Not All Right
In the news today we find that Cosmopolis has a new "hero": a youngster who can be no older than 12, going by the sobriquet of "J.S. Junior", has apparently taken up the...
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There is no such thing as Space Madness.
There is no such thing as Space Madness.
There...
Do We Need Border Guards Along The Dimensional Boundaries?
Apart from those of you, bless your hearts, skip straight to this page without glancing at the day's headlines, I'm sure you are all aware...
From an interview published in Ultra Magazine by Jim Lang
Ultra: You're new to Cosmopolis but you've been active in Europe for quite a while. What brings you to the States?
Hierophant: I have...
Unlike many superheroes, The Ruthless Cosmopolitan never chose his alter-ego's name. It was a headline in the Clarion that named him and the public has called him that ever since. It is worth...
Reported by: Jedikiah Drake
It came as a profound surprise to me when I discovered the well-preserved remains of legendary pilot Steve "The Steve" Kowalski during an exploration of the Jettison...
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I have been having dreams. Many of them are disturbing but last night's was stragely calming.
Everything is going to be all right.
Dr. McMahon spoke to me at length last night. She did not go mad,...
by 3Steve Weinberg
Biological samples collected from as far away as Daria have shown that the majority of Polverans had 27 pairs of chromosomes. However, there are many samples that only show 25...
by Jim Lang
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Reported By: Jedikiah Drake
Everything is clearer now.
They are, of course, the enemy of everything that yet leaves. They weep in mourning for an empty galaxy, but theirs are crocodile tears. They...
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by 3Steve Weinberg
When we speak of Culture B we oversimplify but it is difficult not to do so. The culture spanned several eras and was so geographically spread out at the height of its power that...
Zot Chesthair (pronounced ches-THAY) is the captain of the Insurmountable. He has a chiseled jaw, manly stubble, and a ray gun. He enjoys exploring the galaxy and chasing women.
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