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The Ruler of Earth
1st app.- Strange Tales #81
In the year 1990, the United Nations determined that to solve the earth's problems, they would devise a machine with amazing calculating abilities which could solve their problems for them. They decided to make it in the form of a man, so that the people of the earth would accept it as their governor.
After months of work, "R.O.E." was completed, set atop a mountain, and housed within a palace, with directions to never solve its problems with war, and to believe itself to be inferior to men, so that it would have no personal ambitions.
Soon, R.O.E. set to work, and the United Nations followed its directions, bringing rivers to villages, directing farmers in how much food to grow, and military bases slowly dismantled. However, a band of Communists who loathed the new world order, created a device with which they could control R.O.E. themselves. Overpowering the Ruler of Earth's guards, they placed the device into R.O.E., and commanded R.O.E. to be their partner, and assist them in the conquest of earth. They set out to capture Andre Dubois, a prominent member of the UN, but were captured by UN soldiers, alerted to their actions by R.O.E.
The attempt to subvert R.O.E. failed, thanks to the machine's own humility-- it rejected the Communists' desire for power, greed and deceit, because, unlike man, the Ruler of Earth possessed no evil. Credit- marvunapp.com |