It's not just a mystery - it's a way of life.




It's a bit ambiguous. A long time ago, at the end of the Technopolis War, I had the Abandoned Legion dissapear. It wasn't clear if they'd been killed in action, or if they'd gone away with Technopolis, or if something else had happened.

HV, Cap, Cobra, and Paste Pot Pete all vanished (until their posters return), in line with my usual unease about continuing to feature and especially to develop characters whose regular writers are no longer active on the board.

A long time later DK wrote a story in which it looked like Cobra might have turned up again and then been murdered. He never finished the story arc so I'm not sure if it's "DK canon" or whether that was meant to be the real Cobra or not. My general feeling is that it probably wasn't Cobra - poster character deaths should be a big deal, not an almost-off-screen end to establish a new villain as a big threat.

There's no reason not to explain what became of the original AL. It'd be a good story premise. It's just not one I want to write. It would probably have to get into whatever HV was up to, and maybe even explain the whole HV thing through history. I was once going to attempt that since it was so long since the poster was around, but then he turned up for a few weeks and seemed interested in picking the character up again.