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The Black Terror Division
The Black Terror Division was a division of the US armed forces created by mass producing the terror formula that empowered chemist Robert Benton and his assistant Tim Roland. The Black Terror soldiers were the backbone of the Allied military. With consistent powers and consistent training, they were able to be coordinated into incredibly skillful units–and not only fighting units but engineering units. The Black Terrors were able to strip a battlefield of wreckage and rebuild it into fortifications in minutes.
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Original Prime
Within the Interway, the world splinter system used by ARGO and the Warp and Weft Authorities, there is a restaurant called Original Prime Pizzeria. According to Original Prime, they are the first pizzeria ever to link with the multiverse, and given how variable time can be throughout the multiverse, they may be right. At the very least, they’re right enough so that they can’t be sued for false advertising. But don’t share this disputed fact when you’re around Pizza Planetoid and M-HOP, the Multiversal House of Pizzas.
The culmination of the business acumen and culinary skills of countless Italians, super-Italians, proto-Italians, and quasi-Italians, Original Prime is a franchise with locations around the multiverse (it helps a lot with their delivery service), but the nerve center is an enormous tower in the Interway that cuts through several floors. Many businesses located in the Interway construct towers where each tier is designed to attract the eye of a different culture. For instance, the multiverse hotel L’infini designs each tier to look like different cultural conceptions of “inn” and “hotel.” Some tiers look like wooden cabins where the smell of fireplace cooking streams from open windows, others look like giant bee hives (because they’re for giant bees), and still others look like five-star Earth hotels with rotating glass doors and a concert pianist working a black grand piano in the lobby next to a marble fountain. But Original Prime aims for brand recognition. Each tier looks the same–a red brick building with an awning striped in the colors of the Italian flag (the awnings were put to a vote and ended up being a tie between the tricolore and the aquila from universes where Rome never fell. The tricolore won to avoid confusing the brand with worlds where the Holy Roman Empire, Nazis, the United States, and Hawkmen conquered the planet), wide-open windows, and comfortable music playing over the wafted scents of mozzarella and sausage. On the door and on every employee uniform and pizza box is the Original Prime logo–a yellow circle with a red “P” which stands for pizza and O P.
It is on the inside that the tiers of Original Prime differentiate themselves. Every culture in the multiverse has its own take on pizza, and if you want pizza like you can get back home, sit in the Original Prime that looks like the Original Prime from back home. But if you feel adventurous, sit down in the Original Prime with wooden seats, fairy waitress, and goblets made out of golem hands.
Don’t sit in the Nazarth section and ask for a Hawaiian pizza, and don’t expect the crust to be anything but thin and crunchy.
Pizza came to rule the multiverse because of pizza’s amazing cultural adaptivity. Look no further than our own world for examples. New York pizza is not Chicago pizza is not California pizza.
Pizza is the student and the master. Wherever it goes, it both teaches and learns. Chefs from throughout the multiverse have been recruited by Original Prime to make pizza in their own styles. Universe 161 has a broccoli and cheese pizza that’s to die for. Willow-Wells has a steak and red weed pizza. Nazarth has a “jewel pizza” made with tiny protoslimes. Pizza is the wheel upon which the multiverse turns.
Though Original Prime attracts plenty of Interway travelers to its doors, the secret to its success comes from its delivery service. Original Prime employs an army of superspeedsters and teleporters to fulfill orders from anywhere in the multiverse. So good is their recruitment program that ARGO has expressed concern, internally if not externally, that they’re “losing potential vectors to a f@#$%^& pizza joint.”
Sorry ARGO, that’s just how the pizza pie turns.
Tipping Original Prime delivery personnel has been a matter of dispute. Tipping as a practice has always varied by culture, and there are many cultures in the multiverse. Currently, it is considered polite to tip if you “are affiliated with or are currently within a culture that encourages tipping,” basically, please tip, especially if the delivery guy had to navigate an arcology of neon capsule hotels to find your micro-apartment or traverse a dungeon full of monsters and acid pit traps to reach your inner sanctum. It’s the least you can do, and in turn delivery personnel are appreciative or whatever form the tip takes–magic scrolls, dragon scales, cybernetic implants, etc.
But please don’t tip with living beings. It causes complications with Weft Authority customs.
The most common pizza ordered from Original Prime is their trademarked prime pie, which is very likely the most popular pizza in the multiverse.
Click here to learn about the prime pie, if you dare.
The Skyman Air Force
The Skyman Air Force, named after its leader, was one of the most effective fighting units of the Worlds War. Bohemian in its membership, decentralized in its structure, and officially unconnected with any military organization, the Skyman Air Force provided a model for post-war superteams. It survives to this day as the enforcer of internationally neutral airspace
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