When in 2012 on December 21 the Harvester spaceship “Bolon Yokte’ K’uh” appeared in Earth’s atmosphere, a strange object, that had been storaged in a warehouse on a secret army military base referred to as “Area Zero” since the late 1940’s, was suddenly activated and formed multiple tiny wormholes in it’s vicinity before it could be shut down. According to the warehouse files the object was part of the wreckage that was found in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and highly likely of alien origin.
Soon after the victory over the Croa’to’an, the army started to investigate the alien object and founded a research operation under the codename “Project Blackgate” which finally managed to create a functioning wormhole generator, with which one could penetrate into alternative or parallel realities and dimensions. This in turn led to the creation of a new top-secret government agency called S.H.A.R.D. (Surveillance Headquarters for Alternate Realities & Dimensions), under whose direction the newly discovered realities should be researched and cataloged by a team of military personnel with both superhuman abilities and expertise in different fields of scientific knowledge.
These daring researchers are known as “Team Vanguard“.
The team members from bottom left to top right:
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KILLJOY
Real Name: Kim Jeong
Ethnicity: Korean American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: sharpshooting & surveillance; archaeology & history
Powers: Hyperkinetic (possesses flawless aim, perfect balance, and greatly enhanced motor skills with perfect synchronization between thought and action)
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JACKHAMMER
Real Name: Jackson “JJ” Jareau
Ethnicity: Afro American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: recon & observation; geology & meteorology
Powers: Enhanced Speed (ability to move at extraordinary physical speed (373 mph)) & Additional Limbs (possesses 4 arms)
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GREAT DANE
Real Name: Dane Nielsen
Ethnicity: Danish American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: tracker; ecology & botany
Powers: Canine Physiology (abilities of a domestic dog including Enhanced Senses, Stamina, Strength and Reflexes)
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BLACKBIRD
Real Name: Naomi Blake
Ethnicity: Afro American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: hand-to-hand combat; linguistics & mathematics
Powers: Wing Manifestation (allowing flight) & Sonic Scream (the power to emit highly enhanced destructive and deafening scream of a high amplitude)
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MIMICRY
Real Name: Luther McNamara
Ethnicity: German/Irish American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: infiltration; zoology & exobiology
Powers: Shapeshifting (power to transform and reshape the form of his body down to the genetic and cellular structure)
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RUBICON
Real Name: Portia Russo
Ethnicity: Italian American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: psy-war; social anthropology, ethology & psychology
Powers: Telekinesis (ability to manipulate objects with the mind) & Telepathy (power to mentally receive and/or transmit information)
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GRUNT
Real Name: Ray Borowski
Ethnicity: partially Polish American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: hand-to-hand-combat; biophysics & quantum chemistry
Powers: Muscle Manipulation (ability to manipulate the muscular structure of oneself), Supernaturally Dense Body-Tissue (extremely dense/solid body-tissue, skin, muscles, bones, etc.), Invulnerability (immune to all forms of physical damage), Supernatural Stamina, Ground Pound (ability to slam the ground to produce different effects) & more
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HARDWIRE
Real Name: Ric(ardo) Garcia
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican American
Affiliations: Team Vanguard
Field of expertise: information procurement; computer science & applied physics
Powers: Computer Interaction (power to interface with computers, data, internet and world wide webs), Technology Manipulation (ability to control electronics and machinery), Technological Assimilation (power to assimilate any technological objects into one’s body and make it part of oneself), Bionic Physiology
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