GEORGETOWN STATION:-------------- T E C H N I C A L D A T A --------------
Official name: Georgetown Station
Operations Status: Unit headquarters for Checkmate DC (Classified)
Known Occupants: Princess Diana Themyscira - Wonder Woman, Colonel Stephen (Steve) Rockwell Trevor, Commander Etta Beth Candy, Dr. Barbara Ann Minerva (Cheetah), Prince Siegfried of Asgard
Location: Classified/undisclosed in Washington, DC (USA)
Group Affiliation: Checkmate DC and ARGUS/U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Height: 46' (19 m)
Width: 61' (14 m)
Color: Cobalt blue
Design: based on design by Ammi B. Young, Renaissance Italian Palazzo style, circa 1857
First Appearance: Wonder Woman, Issue #788 (2022)
'Wonder Woman' art and story: Travis Moore, Emanuela Lupacchino and Rosi Kampe (art), Tamra Bonvillain (colors), Pat Brosseau (lettering), Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan (story)
'Secret Files' art and story: APK (photo), Mel Dyer (photomanipulation, colors and lettering), ImgFlip.com (gif animation)
Checkmate HQ created by: Michael W. Conrad, Becky Cloonan and Emanuela Lupacchino
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Origin: Construction was completed on Georgetown Station in 1858, as the United States Customhouse and Post Office in Washington, D.C. - a Renaissance Revival–Italian Palace style for $55,468. Occupied on its first floor by a branch post office - its second floor by the Customs Service. The main building was designed circa 1857, by Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, Ammi B. Young (1798–1874).
Sixty-one feet (19 m) by forty-six feet (14 m), it has a low seamed-metal roof and additions to the north and to the east.
On June 23, 1967, the U.S. Customs Office moved from its 31st Street location to a new building in northeast Washington. Already recognized as an important building within the Georgetown Historic District, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Covert Reassignment: Commissioned in 2022 by Colonel Stephen Rockwell Trevor, as a Project Checkmate covert operations unit headquarters, under ARGUS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the existence of its offices are classified; their physical location and coordinates, undisclosed to the public and accessible only with the highest top-secret government security clearances. Since occupying Georgetown Station, Colonel Trevor has made changes to the main building to support a sublevel workspace and fitness room, rooftop event space and an underground garage for agency vehicles, ..while still more tactical modifications remain classified.
A holographically concealed Checkmate emblem is mounted on the front of the building, over its front entrance - covertly visible to authorized personnel and ARGUS satellites. To the general public, ..it simply appears as another window.
As in so many other parts of Washington, DC, there have been multiple and well-documented incidents of paranormal activity at and in areas surrounding Georgetown Station. Most frequently, eye-witnesses have reported sightings of cheetah women, half-naked Amazons, UFOs, ghosts, giants and Pegasi ..in the park, cafes, sports bars, sidewalk, front door, roof, windows.
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Among Colonel Trevor's tactical and defensive modifications to Georgetown Station, only speculated even at the highest offices, are the following: global cyber-command center with Magic Sphere, infirmary, hi-tech weapons firing range, hi-tech and occult weapons arsenal, human/metahuman combat training hall, barracks, kanga and Pegasi stables, chimney laser cannon array, hidden gun and cannon ports, exterior perimeter surveillance devices, rooftop Invisible Jet port, garage for Esmerelda (modified, heavily armored Humvee, with hi-tech weapons), Asgardian sauna (with necromantic access) ..and secret tunnels into DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Georgetown Station's primary defense? Chimney ..laser ..cannons...from Venus!
A gift from Queen Desira of Venus (installed by her artisans), these laser cannons are built into the chimneys, ..which actually work. These chimneys fractally transform into Venusian laser cannons, ..powerful enough to repel an attack from Darkseid, Warworld, Atlantis or the war god Mars. The Station's chimney laser cannons are supported by other laser weaponry and missiles strategically arrayed along the exterior walls, concealed by false windows, ..and more still on the roof.
Checkmate DC's tactical communications surpass state-of-the-art capabilities. Using the Magic Sphere, Colonel Trevor and his task force specialists can call together the greatest minds, experience and abilities of the Amazon world - of the time-lost islands Themyscira and Thalarion ..and of the mystical realms Mount Olympus, Hell and the Dreaming - for consultation or action in cosmic and supernatural crises. Through the necromantic power of an Asgardian Sauna, he and his team can commune with the Norse gods and the Dead, bringing the occult knowledge of intellects from the near and distant past to bear on paranormal threats to the U.S. and her allies...
And the exfoliant advantages are fabulous!
Presently, the existence of the above-listed tactical and defensive modifications to Georgetown Station cannot be verified by Checkmate DC's parent agencies, ARGUS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or any branch of the U.S. Military - or the Justice League - while more still remain entirely unknown.
One of Georgetown Station's even more unique and better known defenses is the Amazon superheroine, Wonder Woman. Of course.
'Fantasy Secret Files' by Wondabunga
COLONEL STEVE TREVOR, ETTA CANDY, KANGA, AMAZON, WONDER WOMAN, CHEETAH, SIGGY, GENERAL PHILLIP DARNELL are TM and © 2021 DC Entertainment.
Mel Dyer, without his fine, coyote-hatin' Goldiweiller, Kirby (now moved on to that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky) continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. He has been an active member of the Latino Culture Council of the Capitol Area (El Consejo de Cultura Latina – La Zona del Capitolio) and the Kiwanis Club of Capitol Hill.
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