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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Try this idea. On this Q6 world superheroes have historical effects. Carter Hall (Hawkman) and Ted Knight (Starman) colaberate in 1942 to create a means to make full size cargo ships fly. Between Hawkman's Nith Metal and Starman Cosmic Ray collectors, they succeed. There was no battle of the Atlantic, the Americans built vast flying saucers to transport troops and material.
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The Battle of the Atlantic started in September of 1939, so that much needs amending. As long as Admiral King remains Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet, it's unlikely that flying saucers will be used to move materiel. Historically, he refused to institute escorted convoys as protection of troop transports had priority. (It doesn't explain his refusal to institute unescorted convoys, though.) It seems likely that flying saucers to move materiel wouldn't be a thing until all troop transports cwere converted to flying saucers. There's also the question of just how much Nith metal is available. By comic standards, it's at least as rare as the uranium isotope used in the A-bomb.
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From August of 1942 on, Germany and Japan were subjected to bombing raids from saucers far to high for their fighters to reach.
Following an idea given to Hawkman and Starman by Arthur C. Clarke, though his friend and lover Happy Terrill (The Ray), in November of 1942 the first comunication satilites go into orbit.
Homeline, Centrum, and the Cabal, are all interested in this parallel mainly because of Nith Metal seems to retain some of its properties in any parallel. Meanwhile, Centrum is looking to recruit the soon to be unemployed Nazi supers. They see them as expendable trash to throw against Homeline. Meanwhile the Cabal is looking for help against Midwinter Anton (Nazi Mages allied with demon lords) to keep them form recriuting Nazi supers.
More later...
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Centrum didn't have a WWII, but they don't particularly like Reich-5. Given those facts, access to worlds where Australia did fight the Nazis in WWII, and the fact that Centrum isn't Nazi in practice or theory; I'm inclined to doubt that Centrum has any interest in recruiting Nazi supers.
Given that Centrum arose from a conflict that spiraled out of control, I can't see them recruiting anything with a similar potential to go south in a big way and recruiting Nazi supers seems to fall firmly in that category, unless Centrum either has its own comparable supers or a surefire method of controlling supers. Barring that, neutralizing or eliminating Nazi supers seems more likely. If they have a surefire method of controlling some supers, supers that can't be controlled by that method will still be neutralized or eliminated.