This section details the events that occurred when the Wildstorm titles came under the "New Horizons" banner. The titles are roughly listed in their order of release.

(SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT)

1997-

• Jakita Wagner & The Drummer raid an old KGB vault and steal, among other things, diaries containing information about Axel Brass. ("Two years" before Planetary #1)

• The High assembles his Changers and attempts to overthrow the world's way of life. Blind attempts to kill Jenny Sparks. Malcolm King meets the Changers in Paraguay, but is tortured for information. The Eidolon disrupts a Christian rally in Germany. The Engineer creates the Nevada Garden. Smoke kills the president of a corrupt African nation. (StormWatch Vol 1 #48)

• The High speaks to the media outside the United Nations Building in New York City. StormWatch Prime attacks him but the High escapes. The Doctor drugs London with hallucinogens. Rite murders Chinese people who are drowning baby girls. Wish unlocks secret American military strongholds. (StormWatch Vol 1 #49)

• StormWatch and the Changers battle to a standstill in Paraguay. Henry Bendix orders the Changers killed by StormWatch biological missiles. Jenny Sparks confronts Bendix, who admits he only wants the Changers dead so that he can control the world himself. Sparks tries to kill Bendix, who manages to escape by shutting down SkyWatch's power and escaping through the transfer bay. The High attacks SkyWatch and is obliterated against its Storm Door forcefield. (StormWatch Vol 1 #50)

• The SkyWatch science deck runs an experiment on a description engine when Bendix shuts off the power. The description engine went looking for another SkyWatch reactor to run off and punched a hole into another universe. (Events explained in StormWatch Vol 2 #7 that occured during events in StormWatch Vol 1 #50)
  

• Planetary raids The Four's Fictionaut project in England; Ambrose Chase is shot and disappears in a reality distortion field (Planetary #9)

• Max Faraday obtains the power of the Orb and saves the Hollow Realm (see Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday series).

• Savant leaves the WildC.A.T.s after forming a new WildC.A.T.s team while the original team was in space. She then forms Savant Garde (see Savant Garde series).

• Jackson King becomes the new StormWatch Weatherman (This happened at some point between StormWatch Vol 1 #50 and StormWatch Preview).

• Weatherman Jackson King manipulates funding money from the French government (StormWatch Preview).

• StormWatch rescues geneticist Robert Girard from a militia in the California desert. Jackson King holds his first press conference as Weatherman where he officially denies the existence of StormWatch Black. (StormWatch Vol 2 #1).

• Weatherman Jackson King sends StormWatch Black into Pavane, New Orleans, to investigate rumours of International Operations breaking the Caetano Resolution that bans superhuman genetic engineering. (StormWatch Vol 1 #2).

• StormWatch destroys International Operation's secret stockpile of illegal genetic experiments in Pavane. (StormWatch Vol 1 #3)
  

• Backlash forms the team Wildcore to combat the threat of the D'rahn (see Wildcore series).

• Voodoo leaves the WildC.A.T.s and heads to New Orleans (see Voodoo series).

• 11 July: TAO's Syndicate is responsible for a firebombing in Reno. (Sleeper #2)
  

• The WildC.A.T.s have a crossover with the Justice League of America (J.L.A.)- (see JLA/WildC.A.T.s).

• Trance tracked down Carlos the Jackal in a bar, and used his mind powers to discover the location of Vortex. He then commanded Carlos to kill himself. Trance and his Freaks found and abducted Vortex from his containment center. This caused the mutant Emplate to sense the being's existance, and he began to search for this new potential power source. The abduction also set off Cerebro, alerting Banshee to the situation, just as Lynch was alerted to it by the government. Cassidy's team Generation X and Lynch's team Gen 13 arrived moments apart, and the three groups had a stand-off, Emplate, from his dimensional prison revealed himself and tried to feed on the power source he sensed earlier, but Trance convinced him to work with him in return for the secrets to the powers of Qeelocke, Gen 13's teleporting "pet." Emplate, Trance and the Freaks escaped just as Vortex woke up from his containment. At first startled to see Lynch, the being responsible for imprisoning him, the two teams pleaded with him to trust them. As Emplate and Trance's alliance began to quickly crumble, Vortex transported the heroes to their location. During the fight, the villains were defeated and escaped. Generation X and Gen 13 parted on amicable terms, leaving Vortex to find his own destiny. Gen 13/Generation X) (see

• While perfecting his organ-transplant process utilizing the organs of super-powered beings to normal humans, Pretorious learned of the existence of Gen 13, a group of superhuman teens and their mentor John Lynch. Deciding to create a situation in which he could capture these children without anyone realizing he was behind it, he invited several private schools to visit his castle, La Casa Del Sol, which he purposely misrepresented to be a modern resort hotel. Pretorious welcomed the arriving members of Gen 13 to his home, and had his assistants, Nook and Cranny, carry their bags. After they were attacked in a hallway by his ape-hybrid, Pretorious told them it was just a normal ape that he kept in his lab for studies that got loose. He then left to welcome the next group of students to arrive. Pretorious welcomed the arriving members of Generation X to his home, not realizing they too, had superpowers. The next morning, the two groups of students and Pretorious enjoyed breakfast. Later that day, while at the beach, the teen heroes were attacked by "Salty," Pretorious’s man-fish hybrid. The creature returned to the castle, bringing the unconscious bodies of Freefall and Synch with him. Realizing this creature was tied into their host somehow, the members of Generation X and Gen 13 returned to the castle, where they witnessed the professor explaining his plans. They crashed through the ceiling and confronted Pretorious, but he quickly subdued them with poison gas. When he learned one, Burnout, was missing and had gone back to town for help, he took the Hybrids with him to track the teen down. Shortly after finding Burnout, the rest of the members of the two teams, having escaped, joined in the fight against the Hybrids, many of whom escaped. Trying to get away, Pretorious was cornered by M and Freefall. John Lynch later handed him over to a government project where he could use his knowledge for their benefit. (Generation X/Gen 13).

• World War 3 Universe: The combined heroes of WildStorm and Marvel defeat the Unholy Trio of Doom, The Skrulls, and the Daemonites and restore their merged world into two separate realities.
  

1998-

• 22 March: TAO's Syndicate is responsible for a kidnapping and murder in Rome. (Sleeper #2)

• Synergy cracks Henry Bendix's secret database and learns of the existence of two rogue StormWatch agents, Apollo and Midnighter. Apollo and Midnighter intercept guns created in the Nevada Garden. (StormWatch Vol 2 #4)

• StormWatch tracks down rogue agents Apollo & The Midnighter, who are en route to the Nevada Garden (StormWatch Vol 2 #5)

• StormWatch, along with Apollo & Midnighter, take the Nevada Garden away from the US Military, who was using the technology to create weapons and sell them to acquire more black budget money. Apollo & the Midnighter are given new identities, and allowed to retire. (StormWatch Vol 2 #6)

• StormWatch discovers a way to look through the Bleed, the membrane that separates parallel realities, and bears witness to a universe where an alternate StormWatch, led by Weatherman Jack Hawksmoor, fought off a Kherubim invasion. (StormWatch Vol 2 #7-9)
  

• The Bleed Universe:
• StormWatch discovers a piece of buried alien technology in the Arizona desert, which Weatherman Jack Hawksmoor recognizes from the aliens who abducted him as a child. (StormWatch Vol 2 #7)
• StormWatch assembles an army of superhumans and destroys a Kheran warship that was sent to Earth to eliminate its population (StormWatch Vol 2 #9)
  

• SkyWatch sends two shuttles to deflect an asteroid from passing too close to the Earth. After discovering mysterious organic catacombs on the asteroid, the shuttles are called back. One is destroyed, but the other shuttle returns to SkyWatch under radio silence. (StormWatch Vol 2 #10)

• SkyWatch drops an escape module containing Flint into New York, who reports that SkyWatch has been overrun by Daemonites. Grifter re-forms the Wildcats to mount a rescue operation. Upon teleporting to SkyWatch, the Wildcats discover that the aliens are in fact xenomorphs of an unknown origin, and tha they've killed the other members of StormWatch save for Jackson King, Synergy, and Winter. The Wildcats evacuate the remaining personnel and Winter pilots the station into the sun. (WildC.A.T.s/Aliens)

• The United Nations can no longer afford to run the StormWatch Program. Jenny Sparks kills Henry Bendix, recovering in the care of International Operations. Jack Hawksmoor and Swift thwart an attempt on Malcolm King's life. Jenny, Hawksmoor, and Swift disappear into a door. (StormWatch Vol 2 #11)
  

• The missing era between the end of Team 7 and the beginning of Project Genesis in Gen 13 is revealed (See Gen 12 series).

• Gen 13 crosses over with Monkeyman and O'Brien (see Gen 13/Monkeyman and O'Brien series).

• Even though the Wildstorm Universe is no longer part of the Image Universe, an event happens that brings the two universes together once more (see Altered Image series).

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