MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

Back before World War II, the United States Military Research & Development Branch attempted to build an armored suit for its troops to use.  Decades of research and technological advances went into designing the final three prototypes by the summer of 1940. One of the lead designs, provided by Professor Stuart Hamilton, was for the Navy to use not only as an armored suit for combat, but also as a deep sea suit. The Pentagon looked over the designs for the final three competitors and said they'd have a decision no later than 1 January 1942.

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Pearl Harbor was bombed on the 7th of December 1941.

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With America's catapulted entry into World War II, the decision for a highly expensive and 'dangerous' choice of armored suits led the Pentagon to squash the whole program in lieu of building up existing resources and materials to fight the war at that time.

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Professor Hamilton fought time and again to get the military to see the uses and applications his suit he deemed as a 'walking battleship' would provide in combat, but it continued to fall on deaf ears with the military.  That's when Professor Hamilton brought in his nephew, Clyde Hamilton.

 

The Professor intended for his nephew to help him test the suit out to work out several other small issues with his suit so that when the time was right, the professor would be able to show everyone what a great engineer he was.  They toiled day and night, under adverse weather and and sleep deprivation for over a month, perfecting the suit as best they could.  They even lined the steam-powered suit's interior with thick layers of asbestos to be able to provide amazing heat protection from fires and flamethrowers.  On January 30th, 1942, the Professor and his nephew performed the suit's final tests...terminally for one of them.

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After exceeding all their design specs for the final testing, Professor Hamilton and nephew Clyde were ecstatic over the positive results.  Unfortunately, in their moment of celebration, the professor had a fatal heart attack. The day after his uncle's funeral, Clyde received his draft notice to join the war effort.  He ran to his local congressman's home and told him that he had a better idea.  Clyde would join the military as required, but he'd do it with his uncle's armor.  The congressman was a tough old bird that usually didn't take 'no' for an answer. He saw the determination and drive in Clyde's eyes that day and knew he couldn't let a situation like this slip by.  After several calls, one to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clyde was assigned to a 'special operations team' already in the field known as the "Allied Fighters".

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After a few weeks of basic training and upgrading his armor for field use, Clyde became a highly valuable member of the Allied Fighters.  His bravery and steadfast manner made him a hero in every battle he fought in.  Clyde recruited a team to create copies of his armor in the event that his existing one was every severely damaged, he could replace it immediately.  As such, throughout his battles in the duration of WWII, Clyde had to don copies of his armor over 50 times due to it being so severely damaged in combat.  Time and again Clyde would come back from a battle with half of his suit torn to shreds, with him spitting out chunks of asbestos insulation yet cheerfully ready to don a new suit for the next fight. 

The tales of Captain Clyde Hamilton (later dubbed as "Captain Battleship") made him legend. He was awarded nearly every medal a service man could wear in the navy, as well as in the Army and Marines.  To this day, no one has been able to tally the final count of how many enemy soldiers he took out, or for that matter, how many allied and civilian lives he saved throughout the war.  When victory in Europe (V-E Day) finally occurred, Clyde asked his high school sweetheart to marry him.  Weeks later, they were married.

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The day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima was also the same day Clyde's new wife, Beatrice, discovered she was pregnant. 

 

Clyde continued to fight on through the rest of the war right up to the day before Japan's signing of surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.  On that day, Beatrice demanded Clyde to give up being Captain Battleship and become a true father to their expecting son.  On V-J Day, Clyde turned in his resignation to the military, left his battle-suits with the Allied Fighters and never looked back.  Clyde and Beatrice went on together as loving parents to five children.  Clyde never again wore the Captain Battleship armor.

 

Clyde Hamilton died in 1956 from Mesothelioma.

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Due to Clyde's routine exposure of all the shredded asbestos fibers from his damaged battle-suits, those same fibers got into his lungs and eventually killed him. His funeral was on par with the passing of a US president.  The nation mourned.  The leader of the now-defunct Allied Fighters, Major Invader, swore to always take care of Clyde's family from that day forward.  Major Invader was already Clyde's childrens' godfather, but after Clyde's death, Major Invader made it a mission to ensure Clyde's children would never see the horrors of war or poverty and worked hard to help keep them safe, educated and as normal as a middle class family could be.

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