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Force of July – A new U.S. Government Task Force assembled to defend America’s interests when other more global-minded super-hero teams, such as the Justice League, don’t put them first. A powerful team compromised of loyal government agents, well-paid contractors and even pardoned meta-humans with a criminal record. Answering to DOD handler Gen. Synge, and NSA liaison, Heather Burke, the team can count with impressive resources and a vast number of support personnel. Among the major threats they face are the reorganized Russian People’s Heroes and China’s Great Ten. The Force of July also deals with homegrown terrorists. They are:
• Spy Smasher – Katarina Armstrong. The high-ranking anti-terrorist agent is the assigned leader of the team. Ruthless and determined, Katrina is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, an exceptional markswoman, a prodigal scientist and inventor and a master detective. However, she is not an inspiring and charismatic leader, and that brings problems to the team.
• Technocrat 2025 – With his company in financial trouble, Geoffrey Baron not only offers his latest and greatest security technology marvel to the U.S. Government, but is also recruited to pilot it. One of the world’s leading engineers, Baron encased in the high-tech armored suit, with its vast array of advanced weaponry, is an asset to the team.
• Ironfire – U.S. Airforce Captain Martin Allard was captured by the terrorist Ghost, brainwashed and submitted to a quantum experiment that gave him the ability to shift between a powerful energy force-field that disintegrated almost everything it touched, and allowed him to fly, and a tough rocky form with great strength, so much strength that he could barely control and finetune it. As a downside, while he could shift between forms, he could not turn his powers off, making him incapable of having any kind of meaningful interaction with other human beings. The Airforce was able to recapture Allard, reverse his brainwashing, and give him a special suit that allowed him to turn off his powers, making it possible for him to have a minimum of human contact while wearing the suit. Now, his is able to assume only one of his forms at a time, instead of mixing them, as he was able to do before. Arguably one of the team’s heaviest hitters, Ironfire’s teammates don’t trust him very much, fearing his emotional instability, and wondering if the reversal of the brainwashing really took.
• Psi – Gayle Marsh. Retrieved barely alive after a suicide mission in Nicaragua, Psi was slowly treated back to health by A.R.G.U.S., and, while her memory is still spotty, in gratitude, she agreed to serve the U.S. in the Force of July. Although meek in personality, Psi exhibits a vast array of powerful mental abilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, illusion casting, levitation and others.
• Argus – Former FBI agent Nick Kovak was happily enjoying his retirement when he was strongarmed by A.R.G.U.S., the organization that his own previous super-hero identity had inspired, to once again don his mask and join the federal strike-force. Experienced and level-headed, Kovak actually becomes a challenge to Spy-Smasher’s leadership. Argus has enhanced senses and physical attributes, a fast-healing factor, and the ability to shadow meld, making him completely invisible in the shadows.
• Aura – Always a trouble-maker, Chinese-American Lindsay Wah is blackmailed to join the Force of July in exchange for a clean record. A rebel by nature, Aura obviously doesn’t get along well with Spy-Smasher and, instead, is more loyal to Argus, which she truly admires. Lindsay also becomes a good friend to the shy Psi. Control of magnetic fields.
• Triumph – Failed super-hero Will McIntyre was actually sprung from jail to join the Force of July. Though believing he is, by far, the best qualified to lead, he reluctantly accepts Spy-Smasher as team-leader, keeping his ego in check and grateful for a second chance. However, his relationship with her, and with the rest of the team, is not always the most harmonious. His mastery of the electromagnetic spectrum gives Triumph a vast array of physical abilities, such as super-strength, some invulnerability, flight, energy absorption and release, etc…
• Agent Liberty – Not much is known about Agent Liberty, he is rumored to be Ben Lockwood, a former member of a C.I.A. anti-terrorist group who was believed to be dead. A highly trained combatant, the Agent is proficient with various firearms and wears a high-tech suit that allows him to fly and generate a personal force-field.
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