History
John Dixon was a test pilot native to Earth-5106, a world that saw remarkable advancements in space travel in the mid-20th Century.
In the spring of 1953, John volunteered to test pilot a new military rocket ship that could travel at speeds of up to a thousand miles a second. While in space he found himself pulled to the planet Stygia by a magnetic ray created by its ruler. Waking up on the planet's surface, he learned how the Stygians were going to use their magnetic technology to send a planetary mass (that they incorrectly referred to as a star) at the planet Earth in order to destroy it. Learning that the entire process would take 2 and a half years, John Dixon played on the Stygian leader's arrogance and convinced the leader to let him go on the grounds that the human race could not come up with a means of saving themselves.
Freed, John returned to Earth where he warned his superiors and spent the next two years working on a solution to save the planet Earth. In February of 1955, Dixon led another rocket flight into space, this time armed with a nuclear missile which he then used to destroy the planetary mass threatening the Earth. Ironically, the nuclear blast caused a boomerang effect that sent a chunk of the mass flying to Stygia destroying the planet. Another chunk crashed onto the planet Mercury. When John Dixon died in 1991, the planet Mercury had been colonized by the people of Earth and his the chunk of the planetary mass became his tombstone and memorial.
John Dixon's great grandson Jet Dixon would follow his ancestor's heroic tradition by becoming the commander of the Space Squadron in the year 2000.[1]