Fulton Horizons

1746 Nov 27 Robert Livingston is born in New York City

1789 Robert Livingston meets the aristocrat Marie Moniceau, a vampress fleeing the fires of the French Revolution. He befriends the undead gentlewoman and creates a process to allow her to live indefinitely from the blood of livestock. Moniceau is so thankful for his help that she pledges to advise her saviour and all his descendants until her final death.

1797 Robert Fulton meets Robert Livingston in France

1800 Fulton tests the first practical submarine for French government

1803 August 9, Fulton tests first steamboat in France

1807 Livingston and Fulton operate first successful commercial steamboat, in New York

1808 Fulton founds Fulton Horizons as a subsidiary company to produce valves for his steamboat production

1812 Fulton is approached by Livingston to work on secret weaponry for the government at the outbreak of the War of 1812. They decide to use the Fulton Horizons firm as the public face of the secret project.

1813 January 2nd, Edward Livingston Jr. (Fulton's brother-in-law, Robert Livingston's nephew), head of Fulton Horizons, leads a team that defeats a band of British Werewolves that were attempting to disrupt the armaments production in Baltimore MD. This leads to a firmer alliance between the government and the firm.

1813 Feb 26 Robert Livingston dies in Clermont, NY (it is rumored he was killed by an Iroquois Vampire, which was hunted down later by Fulton Horizons).

1815 Feb 24 Robert Fulton dies in New York

1830 April 12 Edward Livingston steps down as president of Fulton Horizons, to be replaced by Robert Fulton Jr.

1860 President James Buchanan meets secretly with Robert Fulton Jr. to discuss the creation of a range of special weapons to deal with supernatural threats.

1870 Robert Fulton Jr. retires as president of Fulton Horizons after receiving a gunshot wound while defeating a Ku Klux Klan cell led by Zombie John Wilkes Boothe. Fulton is replaced by his nephew Osgood Wilberforce.

1881 Osgood Wilberforce gives up his position to his cousin, Felix Fulton just before his wedding night. However, the transfer of control is reversed once it is determined that Osgood's bride is in fact an agent of supervillanorg. Once the crisis is averted, Osgood takes his rightful place in control of Fulton Horizons LTD again.

1890 Fulton Horizons, aided by Zombie General Custer, defeat attempt by Indian Ghost Dancers to summon Great Cthulhu.

1895 The Fulton Horizons LTD fights a pitched battle in the caves of Tennesee against a race of space aliens who built a base on the moon. Once the aliens are driven away from the Earth, Wilberforce orders that the dimensional portal linking the Earth and moon be used to create the Fulton Starbase in the caverns beneath the lunar surface.

1898 Osgood Wilberforce is slain in a raid by Spanish gun-sorcerers during the Spanish-American War. Theodore Nickerson takes control of Fulton Horizons as the company enters the 20th century.

1900 American Samoa is annexed after the ghostly warriors of Malaeimi Valley are banished from this dimension by a strike team from Fulton Horizons LTD.

1912 Working closely with Millikan, Emory Fulton invents the Horizonscope - a device used for field work today for gathering and parsing vital environmental and object data.

1914 Nickerson is forced to step down as leader of Fulton Horizons after a no-confidence vote by the company leaders because of his various conflicts of interest arising with his connections with the kaiser. Dale Livingston becomes the first female leader of Fulton Horizons LTD.

1918 Defeat of the Kaiser's Invisi-Zepplins by the Fulton Advanced Lighting Squadron

1921 A plot to poison all of America's tropical fruit supplies by the gorilla-men of the Amazon rain forest is foiled by a troubleshooter team from Fulton Horizons posing as explorers looking for the Fountain of Youth. The gorilla-men leader, the demon-sorcerer Koko curses the Fulton team with her final breath, leading many of the team members to die mysteriously from demonic infestation. Some of those left over curses still linger despite Dale Livingston calling on the great white wizard Grimlocke Fizgig to perform an exorcism for her people.

1925 An ancient prophecy comes due, delivering Moloch, the most devious of the demon lords to the material plane to tempt innocent souls. Moloch is barred again by agents of Fulton Horizons, but only for the life span of a single mortal. That child is raised in tight security, in an undisclosed location. Only Dale Livingston knew of the child's location, and as far as anyone knew that knowledge died with her.

1933 As cancer ravages her body, Dale Livingston ends her tenure as President of Fulton Horizons after nearly twenty years. Her legacy as the leader of Fulton Horizons is marked with many successes in research and development. Three months after giving up her post, Dale Livingston dies on her 51st birthday. Theodore Roosevelt Fulton, later known as the “Playboy President” takes over control of FHL in a unanimous shareholder vote.

1935 Residents of Chatham, MA witness a strange orb passing through their small fishing village.

1938 Theodore Roosevelt Fulton looses the presidency of the company to Tyrone Livingston in a poker game

1938 Grimlocke Fizgig perishes, leaving his collection of ancient tomes and artifacts to Fulton Horizons Limited. To this day, over half of the items in Fizgig's collection remain uncataloged in the Fulton Horizons armory.

1942 Tyrone Livingston resigns as president to join in work on the Manhattan Project. He is replaced by his sister-in-law Honoria Glossop Livingston.

1947 A Martian invasion craft crashes in the New Mexico desert. Evidence that another alien race is setting up a base under the surface of Mars leads Fulton Horizons to create their space branch. The Fulton Horizons moon base is refurbished and reconfigured to keep an eye on the the potential Martian menace and provide advanced warning of any attack.

1949 Honoria Glossop Livingston retires as president after a terrifying set of attacks against her by an extra-dimensional entity. She is replaced by head engineer Roscoe “Pappy” Wilberforce, and Fulton Horizons gets into the business of building clandestine secret agent gear to aid the United States in the Cold War.

1951 Under “Pappy”, Fulton technicians come up with a basic emergency spy kit that is still offered to troubleshooters to this very day. It includes a mini med-kit (including bandages, vaccines, and wolverine repellant), two one-shot ultra-heavy caliber shoe pistols (one for each foot), a communicator that can be built from the belt assembly that can communicate anywhere in the world at certain periods of the day (by relaying messages from the moonbase) and of course a wristwatch Horizonscope.

1955 Fulton team uses adapted Invisi-Zepplin techonology to inflitrate the Kremlin and prevent the re-animation of Josef Stalin.

1969 Fulton Horizons is briefly taken over by Zombie Marilyn Monroe.

1970 (July) Philo Livingston leads a Fulton Team to intecept a group of trans-dimensional Rat-men marauders at the Hollywood gala opening of the Frank Sinatra movie “Dirty Dingus McGee.”

1970 (October) Fulton Horizons joins the CIA and the Bolivian Army in the operation to hunt down Che Guevara, when it turns out that Che's Communist guerillas were actually Communist Gorillas. In fact, Che was allied with the Mumu, grandson of Koko the Amazonian Gorrilla-man shaman who had been defeated by the company in 1921. While the Bolivians killed Che, Fulton Horizons took Mumu prisoner and are rumored to have placed him into suspended animation on their moon base.

1972 Using the cover of being an international recording artist, Paul Zim (“The Zim-Master”) brings his unique and powerful blend of ancient Japanese martial arts and Hebrew mysticism to bear as a troubleshooter for Fulton Horizons.

1975 Fulton Horizons opens an embassy in the sewers of Hoboken to normalize relations with the mutant nation of New-New Jersey. Riley Doxey is appointed the first embassador of mutantkind to the United States. Doxey, still has his office in the East Lancaster-Mountville annex of Fulton Horizons where he negotiates on behalf of all North American mutantkind.

1985 Zombie John Lennon and his snake-men minions defeated by Fulton operative Philo Livingston. Zombie Paul McCartney (he had died originally in 1969) is spared because of his aid to authorities in the matter.

1988 Samantha Nickerson takes over as president of the company, and began the financial down-turn for the firm. Her almost single-minded obsession with an Earth-core expedition depleted company reserves and lost many lucrative contracts.

2000 When the Earth-Core Drill Machine Mark III was destroyed at a depth of 300 miles, the board of directors fires Samantha Nickerson, replacing her with Dylan Waterhouse Fulton, the company's main accountant. Dylan “The Ditherer”, as he was called, in fact accelerated the company's financial troubles through fiscal imprudence (mainly involving investments in the Globex Corporation, headed by the Supervillan Hank Scorpio).

2008-March 1 The entire board of directors of Fulton Horizons LTD, including the president Dylan Waterhouse Fulton, former president Samantha Nickerson, top trouble-shooter Philo Livingston, and chief engineer Chester Fulton (among a dozen or so others) were killed simultaneously in a mysterious explosion at the company's mountain cabin conference complex in Montana. A new board was hastily assembled from the named heirs of the chief stockholders. These new directors mostly were completely unaware of Fulton's true nature and purpose.