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A race of superintelligent beings needed a human representative to deal with the outside world, so they made a creature with a human appearance but their level of intelligence; but the prototype was flawed with a psychotic imbalance, and overthrew their society, driving most of them out into the wilderness, but creating an escape rocket to save his followers. Dex was a more successful product of the same project, but escaped to find human allies that he could maneuver into attacking Totenkopf. |
A race of superintelligent beings needed a human representative to deal with the outside world, so they made a creature with a human appearance but their level of intelligence; but the prototype was flawed with a psychotic imbalance, and overthrew their society, driving most of them out into the wilderness, but creating an escape rocket to save his followers. Dex was a more successful product of the same project, but escaped to find human allies that he could maneuver into attacking Totenkopf. |
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== The movie takes place in the same [[Alternate History]] as ''[[The Rocketeer ( |
== The movie takes place in the same [[Alternate History]] as ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]''. == |
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Think about it: Airships still cross the skies, weird science like the one that created the rocket pack is not unheard of (and even goes ''further'') and the 1930s are still in full swing. It wouldn't be a surprise if Howard Hughes lent Dex a hand in customizing Sky Captain's planes. Though any US plans to start a war with Nazi Germany, especially in light of the Los Angeles incident, would have taken a backseat following Totenkopf's attacks. |
Think about it: Airships still cross the skies, weird science like the one that created the rocket pack is not unheard of (and even goes ''further'') and the 1930s are still in full swing. It wouldn't be a surprise if Howard Hughes lent Dex a hand in customizing Sky Captain's planes. Though any US plans to start a war with Nazi Germany, especially in light of the Los Angeles incident, would have taken a backseat following Totenkopf's attacks. |
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* I dig this theory. Though I think it would be more accurate to say [[The Rocketeer]] was an unofficial prequel to Sky Captain, since it happens before America entered the war, Sky Captain seems to take place after such a war happened, and there isn't as much rampant retrofuture tech around. Perhaps the notoriety that [[The Rocketeer]] garnered led to the formation of mercenary groups such as Sky Captain's private military with advanced technology as opposed to government-funded military, which led to a [[Weird War II]] that ended sooner than in our reality. |
* I dig this theory. Though I think it would be more accurate to say [[The Rocketeer]] was an unofficial prequel to Sky Captain, since it happens before America entered the war, Sky Captain seems to take place after such a war happened, and there isn't as much rampant retrofuture tech around. Perhaps the notoriety that [[The Rocketeer]] garnered led to the formation of mercenary groups such as Sky Captain's private military with advanced technology as opposed to government-funded military, which led to a [[Weird War II]] that ended sooner than in our reality. |
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