Well as some of have you noticed I started another story:

Longshot: Galatian Strike Force



Well this story actually started for me in the 8th grade one Sunday after church. I had often daydreamed about super powers and such and I came home one day wearing this silverish looking suit (it was the 80's) and I thought how cool the Silverhawks were and started a little story about a man named Pe-Tor who was from a world divided in two Galatia was the side of good and Asarya was the evil side. He had teleportation powers and called himself Kid Dynamo. Kid Dyamo fought the Asarians for the next year by the side of his crew (made up of my closet friends) and Lady Dynamo (the girl I had a crush on).

Then came 9th grade and most of the toys I had used as their ships were thrown away (time to grow up...High School) and when I went to a movie (Day of the Dead) with that group of friends and the girl I had a crush on I was wearing Black pants and a dark Blue Sweater. When I came back home Pe-Tor was now clad in Black and Blue and the ship they used to fly around (called the Longshot) was now the group name. The Galatians won the war and all was right on the planet now called Galatia.

Another year went by and the girl I had a crush on was dating someone else (I was shy) and so I decided that Lady Dynamo would die and at the hands of a long thought dead Asaryan who had called himself Lord Volt. Kid Dynamo at this time had now evolved, he could teleport but it caused great strain on himself and he had lightning based powers. Lord Vold was actually possesed by Makelith. Makelith was once a hero in the old days who had a white cloak but each time he killed the robe/cloak became a darker shade of red, sybolizing the corruption of his soul. He was eventually killed but the cloak was lost and when Lord Volt found the cloak he became Makelith, cloned himself an army, killed Lady Dynamo and had cut off Kid Dynamo's arm from the elbow down and somehow depowering him.

Another year and Kid Dynamo now had a robotic blaster arm given to him by a strange alien race. He eventually led a rebbelion and married a childhood friend. His cybernetic arm given to him by the aliens not only restored his arm but it gave him quantum powers. Now Lord Dynamo was king of Galatia along with his queen Kell-Ee-Tor. They had children, Pete-Tor II and Paul-Tor, Pete having energy based quantum powers and Paul having strenght based quantum powers (in my mind his power up affect looked like Sunspot) and Athena-Tor who had light and speed powers. They formed the Magistrate and their adventures would last up until the 11th grade when Pete-Tor II becoming King. Along the way alliances were formed with Krypton, and another planet called Rome. All was too well.

Then I got a moped and wanted to change the story. N'Dare (nuh dar ray) was the great grandchild of Pete-Tor II. He was invunerable and somewhat of a rogue. Galatia had been taken over and it was his job to take it back.

My senior year, another descendent Peter of the house of Almeida, had similar quantum powers and married a woman from the House of Andromana named Carla.

When Carla left the real me in '89. I was in Germany, in the army and alone. This new Peter had lost his powers and was regaining them in a far away dimension, his wife had left him and he had gone mad. He had three seperate personalties each possesing different abilities...

The story had been ongoing for years and every now and then I would let myself wander off to Galatia. When I started customizing action figures they would be in the Red and Black colors of Galatia. (Black and Blue gave way to my high school colors of Red and White and then when my life went dark I changed it to red and black). I started using Poser to make these charecters and flesh out the stories more. One day I was experimenting with Poser and came up with what eventually become the Red Brigade. It seems people at Renderosity prefered hot chicks in scifi over stories about guys. Galatia was lost but not forgotten.

So here I am about 25 years later, trying to take bits and pieces of a story that lasted two decades for me and trying to take the best elements of that story along with the best bits of the Red Brigade (which lasted about three years on Renderosity before I was booted) and the Galatian Strike Force was born.

As you have noticed, a lot of that early influence came from comics (Krypton, Makelith, Sunspot, even the Marvel Family)and rather than write out the obvious copy cat stuff such a Lord El, I decided why not use it...so please forgive a 37 year old man for trying to make sense of a story that began when he was 12.