Readers may recall that heroes from Seedubb Earth, having become acquainted with Groan Starr and Princess Vixen, ended up assisting House Ashtrayides and its friends to defeat the aggression by Hotblood Matrons. The helpful heroes back then included The Whoosh, Cyberdork, and Raisin of the Teen Tryouts. Giles Magg, the Goulash clone of Duke Neato, had participated as well.
Since that time, Seedubb had enjoyed a considerable cleansing from super-villain problems. This potentially freed up many metahumans to combat evil elsewhere. Not only were Seedubb's heroes on friendly terms with House Ashtrayides, but one of their own, the Mexican wrestler-hero Luchador Hidalgo, still was in the Dune-derived sub-reality, helping to control prisoners of war. Three locals and a guest-hero ended up going to see how their Ashtrayides friends were doing. These were Steve "Captain Patriot" Roughroad, the college-age martial-artist girl nicknamed Degreaser, and Green Flashlights Ryan Pebbles and Bowsaw of Anoxia. The last still was green as a Green Flashlight, so Master Katmatao on Planet Wawa had sent him to Seedubb to "learn by doing" alongside the experienced Ryan.
For best effect, Katmatao sent these four, with advance notice given, to Healthyopolis, formerly Filthopolis, the former Snarkonnen capital city, where they could meet up with Tutti Howizzit for some two-way fact-sharing. It was recommended that the two Flashlights then facilitate Holecard and his volunteers transiting to Greedy Crime and meeting with reinforcements to be chosen by the young Mentalcat woman.
Early on in the planning stage, even before the Seedubb contingent arrived, Captain Kracknuck joined in with men of his own, so he and Holecard would be able at need to lead their respective teams in pincer movements against any foe in ground combat.
The Chimpanzian people already knew what Green Flashlights were. When Likkoreesha the ape-girl exchange student found out that two Green Flashlights were coming to Greedy Crime, she began urgently requesting a chance to go with Kracknuk and Holecard and meet the Flashlights.
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In the star system which contained the planet Vojodren, there was an asteroid station which was in good condition for occupancy, but which had fallen into disuse years ago. Narzississa the Hotblood Matron, and Mentalcat Piper Dizeeze with his robot Ironhide, secretly took possession of this useful base. Piper and his robot possessed the knowledge to construct a Starhatch..... which could be used to smuggle more Hotblood Matrons into Galactic Empire territory.
Eventually, given the advantage of surprise, they could hope to conquer Vojodren, and even keep this takeover secret for a time. Time in which the creation of more automatons like Ironhide could proceed.
