1900-1946 [Wildstorm Updates]

1900

• The "Century Baby" Jenny Sparks is born in England, and will live as a pivotal figure for the entire 20th Century. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]

1906

• San Francisco: While acting under an undisclosed alias, the Kherubim Lord Emp foiled a Daemonite plot to assassinate legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, for unknown cause. During the encounter, Emp unintentionally helped cause an earthquake, to his great embarrassment. However, the clash ended "a reign of terror the Daemonites had begun at the turn of the century," and Emp would not encounter another Daemonite until the 1960s. [Team One: WildC.A.T.s #1, 1995-07]

1920s

• Jenny Sparks had stopped aging at age 20, just in time for the first recorded interdimensional "door" to open. Shiftships from Sliding Albion arrived in the United Kingdom, which handled the ongoing matter as quietly as possible. Sparks threw herself into the "age of scientific romance," battling The King of Nails and bedding blue-skinned princes. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]

1930s

• Jenny Sparks moved to the United States, chasing "madness" and the manic energy of Depression-era America. She sometimes worked with reporter Clarence Cornwall to take down the likes of corrupt munitions dealer Boss Moseley. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]

Golden Age

• Other figures noted as active during World War II without further details include Mr. Majestic & Marc Slayton.

1940s

• Jenny Sparks overstayed her welcome in the United States, leaving for England after her extra-legal electrocution of Clarence Cornwall, when he was caught in a plot to release Zyklon-B gas into a city orphanage solely because it housed children of color. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]

1950s

• Colonel Jenny Sparks served in the British Space Group, a clandestine operation that actively concealed from the public the ongoing interdimensional relations between the U.K. and parallel universes. For instance, to cover up shiftships moving through British airspace, they publicly declared them as a new scientific breakthrough dubbed "helicars." During a banquet, Sparks met the American industrialist known as Saul Baxter, a cover identity of the Kherubim Lord Emp. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]
  
  “Equipped with a network of government connections, and loads of political influence, Baxter helped make... reality– but for what reason? …It’s a secret… His involvement with Hughes Aircraft… And the oil fields of Texas. With television. With armaments. With milk and pork bellies and New York real estate and Montana cattle. Then there’s the people he’s ruined and killed to get where he is. The depths he’ll sink to to get what he desires… It’s all secret. All of it. No one knows who he is, nor what he does. And especially not… his importance to the country… Oh yes, he’s good with lies and aliases and secrets. Very good. After all– he’s had a long while to learn.” [Team One: WildC.A.T.s #1, 1995-07]
  
  During the banquet, an incursion alarm sounded. A parallel World War I had begun between Sliding Albion and Sliding Europe, per a message capsule shot through a shiftdoor at British Space Group H.Q. Sliding Albion then closed all shiftdoors to conserve energy. It was over within hours, as their parallel to London was depopulated through bacterial weaponry. In a desperate bid, they reopened a massive shiftdoor in an attempt to shunt the bacterial assault to our world. The dimensional passage neutralized most of the bacteria, but what remained had been changed such that it caused a small, localized manifestation of super powered beings in the greater London area. [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]
  
  John Colt is billed as "America's greatest fighting man of the late '50s and early '60s. [1994 Image Wildstorm WildC.A.T.s Chromium #43]

1960s

• Jenny Sparks left the British Space Group, as an increasing number of S.P.B.s began operating around London. "And what a bleedin' bunch. All taking on pseudonyms, dressing as weirdly as possible to make sure the neighbors didn't recognize them..." [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]

1962

• While acting in the guise of unscrupulous industrialist "Saul Baxter," Lord Emp prevented the attempted takeover of a U.S. nuclear submarine by the first Daemonite he'd seen since 1906. Shortly after, another Daemonite was killed by Marc Slayton during a bid for the Icarus 5 communications satellite as it was launched. Using his government connections to suppress knowledge of the existence of the warring alien races, Baxter nonetheless engineered the implementation of the U.S.'s Operation Wildstorm to address the threat of such Unidentified Life Forms, or U.L.F.s. After a period of distance and seeming acrimony, Baxter enlisted "Lucy Blaize," an assumed identity of Zealot within the espionage community, to select operatives to serve as Team One. Blaze chose John Colt, Mason, Mr. Majestic, Khasm, Marc Slayton, Think Tank, King, and Regiment. Miles Craven, technically the head of the operation, refused Khasm. [Team One: WildC.A.T.s #1 & Team One: Stormwatch #1, 1995-07]
  
  Team One trained for two months ahead of their sole significant mission, to stop the forces of Lord Helspont and Slaughterhouse Smith from acquiring by force the nuclear weapons at Camp Williams in North Dakota. Mason and Regiment were believed killed in action. John Colt was severely injured and presumed dead by most, but was taken for future use by Craven. Saul Baxter was rendered amnesiac by Lord Helspont, and wandered destitute until 1990. [Team One: WildC.A.T.s #2, 1995-9; & Team One: Stormwatch #2, 1995-08; as well as supplemental resources]
  
  This same year, Mary King was pregnant with Jackson King, and Zealot with Savant. A woman named Trelane, who was presumably related to Stormwatch's Christine Trelane, served in Operation Wildstorm.

Late 1960s

• Jenny Sparks' counter-cultural S.P.B. group fell apart after a disastrous festival on the Isle of Wight left dozens dead. Bikers instigated the drug overdose of Abel Eternity, who went on an hallucinogenic killing spree, until Sparks electrocuted him. Sparks then "went to bed and didn't get up until 1982." [Stormwatch #44, 1997-01]