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Jules Verne

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Jules Verne is a famous French science-fiction author best known for his works including: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island. Lesser known facts about him include his participation in a millennia-old battle between alien robots here on Earth and his status as a time traveler.

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Hearts of Steel

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...Whatever one of those may be.

Some time in the mid-to-late 1800s, while visiting San Francisco, Verne rode a chartered ferry with Mark Twain into the middle of San Francisco Bay to witness Tobias Muldoon's new invention, a "sub-marine" named the S.S. Vicuna. However, a technical mishap plunged the Vicuna to the bottom of the bay, a misfortune that brought laughter from Verne, Twain, and the ferry's skipper. Hearts of Steel #1

A few years later, Verne published Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Coincidence? We think not.

"Strange Visitors" establishes that events identical to those of Hearts of Steel and Infestation 2 occur in the 2005 IDW continuity; however, they happened to Maximal explorers brainwashed by Shockwave into believing they were the Autobots and Decepticons of the Great War.

Rescue Bots cartoon

Voice actor: Diedrich Bader (English), Robert Dubois (French), Armando Tiraboschi (Brazilian Portuguese)

In 1862, Jules Verne met Thaddeus Morocco at the London Exposition, and the pair became friends, sharing scientific breakthroughs and even the "Verne device" Jules had developed. Verne used the device to create a balloon capable of time travel, and on a journey to the future, encountered Autobots. He did not share with Morocco the power source that allowed him to time travel, and as time went on, the two friends grew distant.

In 1869, Verne got a note from Morocco directing him to a place and date over 140 years in the future. Verne used his balloon to travel there and encountered the Griffin Rock rescue team, who helped reunite him with Morocco. Verne soon found his friend had changed, and on learning the crimes Morocco was charged with, wanted to take Morocco with him. Verne later took Morocco to the future and showed him around Paris. The Last of Morocco

Notes

  • In the real world, Jules Verne never visited San Francisco and did not know Twain personally. Of course, the real world has no cool giant robots, either, so we'll take the fiction.

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