DEEP ARMAGEDDON Virtual Trade Paperback

    While not posted initially as being part of the crossover, these stories help establish some of the background for it. Where Triton got the motivation to raid Haven, how the Conclave of Super-Villains captured its pawns and drew in the other heroes.

• Time Capsules #2 - [UUR 500] [VAI 980]: Excerpts from Triton's autobiography, describing how he found out about Haven while in jail.
• CSV #3 - And A Partridge In A Pear Tree: Triton gets the Conclave of Super-Villains to help him take his revenge against several of his old classmates, resulting in the CSV's convenient lie about having them held hostage.
• Time Capsules #1 - Conclave Arise!: The ransom tape sent by the Conclave of Super-Villains after the events of CSV #3 forms the central item for this story.

    In order to keep most of the world's well-trained superhumans occupied, the CSV sets a mass-bombing plot in motion while also acting against Warden in Manhattan (which is not so much to occupy Warden as it is meant to distract other criminal powers). The crossover officially starts here.

• CSV #4 - Collision Course: ASH and STRAFE follow a trail of clues left by Rebus and Triton, coming to the realization that a series of bombs would go off at midnight, January 1, 2024. The targets: Anchors, their elimination being another of the CSV's goals. Meanwhile, Manhattan's major powers are collected together to witness the CSV's power as a mystical golem is sent to kill Warden.
• Warden #8 - Hunting the Hunter: As Warden patrols the early morning rooftops of Manhattan, the heroes supposedly captured by the CSV fight the mystic Weregild as well as Caryatid, one of the three co-leaders of the CSV.
• ASH #13 - A Bomb In Nation: With some help from STRAFE and the LNH 2023, ASH splits into teams and rushes around the world in an attempt to disarm the seven bombs the CSV has planted near the world's gambling capitals, places rife with Anchors.

    With most of the world's heroes and villains otherwise occupied, it's left to an alliance of EUROPA and the remains of STRAFE to fight the CSV in and around the ruins of Haven, a late 20th-Century den of supervillains. The battle is brutal, leaving both sides with casualties.

• STRAFE #5 - Falling Stars: Both factions home in on Haven, the battle claiming one dead in its first moments and reaching a climax with the detonation of a neutron bomb inside one of the STRAFE agents!
• CSV #5 - Fallout!: The battle comes to its bloody conclusion, with victories and losses on both sides.

    While the battle is over, there's still some wrapping up to do. Not all of these tales are tied closely to the crossover, but all help close off bits of the storyline.

• Warden #9 - Critical Care Ward: The Weregild has reformed itself, and this time there's no one to save Warden from meeting it.
• Time Capsules #3 - Dust to Dust: A memorial service is held for the fallen Pollux of EUROPA, and a second story looks at some of the fallout from the incidents in New York City.
• ASH #14 - Academic Year: While mostly concerned with setting up plots for the future, this story does have some wrapup of the battle at Haven.
• STRAFE #6 - We Care A Lot: STRAFE sets up shop in Manhattan and starts to try and deal with the paragang situation there.
• CSV #6 - Loyalties, Lusts and Lies: The CSV also starts to pick up the pieces, in more ways than one.
• EUROPA Miniseries: Rebus and Peryton are taken to more permanent holding facilities, but things go wrong....