Battalion
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Battalion |
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| Battalion, the son of a WarGuard member and thus a probable seedling, was one of the first recruits into the United Nation's StormWatch program. Displaying strong psionic powers upon activation, an athletic physique, and a cool head under pressure, Battalion became an early candidate for StormWatch team leadership. When his StormWatch Prime team-mate and fellow leadership candidate, Flashpoint, proved to be too ill tempered for the position, Battalion was given the job. | |
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Weather Man 1 |
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| Career bureaucrat Henry Bendix was
headed for a solid career in the National
Security Agency when he was tapped for the Sky Watch
position. As StormWatch Control Officer, he lives and
works on Sky Watch. Under his command are hundreds of geo-analysts,
each responsible for monitoring his or her own micro-sector of Earth and reporting those findings, via cyber- communication technology, to Weatherman One. Bendix processes the information received and decides whether or not a situation warrants sending a StormWatch team. |
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Diva |
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| Alessandra's mother, Maria Fermi, a brilliant opera singer, dreamed of Alessandra one day following in her footsteps as a great diva. Alessandra, on the other hand, lived for music and wanted nothing more than to spend her life immersed in it -- dreams of fame did not interest her. It seemed as if both mother and daughter's dreams would be granted when Alessandra began taking voice lessons at age fourteen with the greatest instructor in Italy. Things did not go quite as planned, however. Alessandra's first lesson ended with with the emergence of her latent sonic powers, which destroyed all the windows in studio along with her instructors glasses and eyesight. The occurrence effectively ended her hopes of a musical career, but it attracted interest from Sky Watch. | |
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Winter |
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| Nikolas Kamarov grew up
in the frigid wastes of Siberia, the son of a purged Soviet
test pilot and a mother of aristocratic background. As a young man,
he saw gymnastics as a way out, a means by which
he could overcome his families shame and
experience warmer climes. He worked and worked, finally achieving his goal - a position with the Soviet Olympic team. When Nikolas was wounded in Kabul, Afghanistan during the ill fated Soviet occupation. Anomalies in his medical charts were noticed and forwarded to Sky Watch. When the Soviet Union started to come apart at the seams, Sky Watch, monitoring the situation, decided it was time to go in and activate him. |
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Fuji |
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| Fuji was nicknamed after the
famous mountain by his school mates when a pubescent growth spurt
caused him to tower above his friends and teachers. Trying to
put his superhuman size to it's best use, Fuji spent some time
as a teenager on the Sumo wrestling circuit. When Fuji
was activated by StormWatch, his body, already generally unstable, de-stabilize completely. Quick thinking and a dedicated scientific staff were able to save his life, but only at the expense of living out the rest of his days within the confines of a special uniform. |
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Hellstrike |
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| Hellstrike shares a past
with Deathtrap, but the full details of
both men's origins have yet to be revealed. In any case, Hellstrike has a strong hatred for the leader of the MERC's, one which overwhelms even his sense of duty to StormWatch. |
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Cannon |
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| Arrogant, cocksure and hot tempered, Cannon is the team leader of StormWatch Two, and would like nothing better than to someday take over Battalion's job as leader of StormWatch One. Cannon has displayed an otherwise unseen softer side in his dealings with fellow StormWatch member Diva. | |
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Fahrenheit |
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| Lauren's latent powers were revealed when she found her self trapped in a burning building as a young woman. The building was ravaged by the fire, reduced to ash and cinders, but when fire-fighters combed through the wreckage, they found Lauren unconscious but other wise unhurt. Hearing of her miraculous survival, Synergy tracked her down and activated her powers. | |
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Flashpoint |
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| Foster McClane was born in South Central Australia, a hard country that bred hard men. He grew up strong, arrogant, racist and sexist in a society that not only accepted such attitudes, but prized them. Being recruited into StormWatch meant having to work with men and women from all over the world on a more or less equal level, which required some attitude adjustments that were hard for Foster to make. As Flashpoint, he was in the running for leadership of StormWatch Prime, but his hot-headedness got in the way of his ambition and the position fell to the cooler Battalion. | |
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Nautika |
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| Nautika was one of the original StormWatch members, trained by Backlash to make full use of her aquatic/electric powers. She served as a moderating element in the early days of the team, keeping peace between rivals Battalion and Flashpoint. When Sunburst joined the team, Nautika and he gravitated towards one another, eventually getting married shortly before StormWatch Prime's disastrous mission to Kuwait during the close of Desert Storm. | |
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Sunburst |
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| Sunburst was the final member of StormWatch Prime, the first active StormWatch team. He joined established members Nautika, Flashpoint and Battalion when SkyWatch command decided the team needed an additional member to dilute the enmity between Flashpoint and Battalion. Psych profiles indicate that Sunburst has one of the strongest wills of any StormWatch members. It is believed that his willpower in some way fuels his solar powers. | |
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Backlash |
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| A former member of the U.S. government's ultra secret Team 7 commandoes, Backlash was transferred into the U.N.'s StormWatch program at it's founding. The reasons for the transfer remain classified and are believed to be known only by Backlash and the highest ranking U.S. government intelligence officials. Certain other details of his past are unknown to anyone save Backlash himself, despite extensive security checks by various intelligence agencies. After a disastrous mission battling the MERC's in Kuwait, Backlash stepped down as an active StormWatch member, choosing instead to act as drillmaster for all new StormWatch recruits. | |
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Synergy |
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| Christine Trelane's psionic talents prepared her perfectly for a position with Sky Watch. She took a leading role in the formation of the StormWatch teams and agitated on behalf of the seedling program, finding and bringing along people with latent powers of which even they themselves were often unaware. When she felt it was time, she was able to activate these powers, creating new members of StormWatch teams. Synergy's position with Sky Watch is primarily administrative, but she can and does, see combat from time to time. | |