So I was bored and created new line-ups for Checkmate and the Global Guardians:
The idea here is that
Sasha Bordeaux and
Brion Markov (Geo-Force) would rebuild Checkmate to oppose Leviathan.
They would be queen and king.
Their bishops and advisors would be Taleb Beni Khalid and Valentina Vostok.
Khalid would be especialized in Checkmate's black ops side, while Vostok would handle international relations, effectivelly becoming the head of Checkmate's public face: the new
Global Guardians.
The rooks would be Faraday (coordinating covert missions) and Dr Mist (coordinating the Guardians).
Tiger and Lady Blackhawk would be the knights, the leaders of the other knights pictured. The pawns would handle support and are not on the image.
The book would start like a game of chess: one queen, one king, two bishops, two rooks and so on. Things would change and evolve as the stories progressed.
At first there'd be no Black and White divide, they'd all be part of the same side against Leviathan. Of course, Valentina would try to get the White Queen position back as her role as head of Guardians grew...
Meanwhile, Maxwell Lord would return and take over America's secret agencies, controlling both what remained of A.R.G.U.S. and Task Force X.
The Guardians would be oblivious to their Checkmate connection, but Vixen and Nubia would soon find out they're just pawns in a larger game..
Someone that looked a lot like her appeared in Leavithan Dawn alongside Mark Shaw.