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Team 7 is a covert strike force sponsored by a mysterious government agency called I.O., headed by the cold-hearted Miles Craven and his somewhat more conscience-driven assistant Gabriel. The team is routinely sent on missions that help Craven get ever closer to his goal of achieving immortality. Team 7 believes they serve their government, and are not aware of Craven’s personal agenda.

Composed of some of the most skilled agents from the various armed forces, Team 7 is able to tackle missions in any type of environment. An accident orchestrated by Craven gave the team members powers that are mutating into what forms even they do not comprehend.


Publishing History:
Team 7 was a four-issue limited series published by Image Comics between October 1994 and February 1995.

The sequel, Team 7: Objective: Hell was a three-issue limited series published by Image Comics between May and July of 1995. The first issue served as a prologue to the WildStorm Rising crossover.

A third four-issue limited series, Team 7: Dead Reckoning was published by Image Comics between January and April 1996.

A fourth series, titled Gen 12, was a five-issue limited series published by Image Comics between February and June 1998. It chronicled events between the end of Dead Reckoning and the beginning of the Gen 13 miniseries.


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History
Team 7 was officially the seventh incarnation of a group of military specialists gathered from various government forces. (Recently a Team Zero has been revealed though, making Team 7 the group's eighth incarnation.)

Team 7 took its orders from Miles Craven, director of International Operations. Craven wanted his own army of superhumans, and therefore dropped a chemical known as the "Gen-factor" on the members of Team 7 during a (suicide) mission. When they awoke from their Gen-factor induced comas, Team 7 was told that the enemy had dropped a chemical weapon on them. As a result of the Gen-factor, Team 7 (except for Michael Cray) started to develop superhuman powers. It would be years before Cray himself would develop similar abilities. Team 7 member Cole Cash distrusted Craven and suspected that he was behind the experiment. Several members of Team 7 were unable to cope with their new powers and went mad or committed suicide. At least one had to be shot and killed dead during a subsequent mission, as he was glorying in his ability to make people kill themselves. As a test, Craven dropped a nuclear weapon on Team 7. The members survived through cooperation and went into hiding.

Some time later, Team 7 returned to work for I.O. and were sent to destroy a cache of nuclear weapons from Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge could get them. The team succeeded, but found out that a pair of Soviet superhumans were trailing them. They battled them, but they turned out to be too strong and Jackson Dane went into a coma. The Cambodian blind girl X'ing X'iang, who had displayed superhuman mental powers before, overpowered one of the Soviet agents, while Michael Cray shot the other one. The team returned to the US and took X'ing X'iang with them.

Years later, the Team 7 members were ordered to bring in the Soviet scientist, Dbovchek. Cole Cash entered the Soviet Union on his own to find out more about Dbovchek, while the rest of the team went on the mission. Dbovchek turned out to be one of the main scientists behind the Russian psionic program. The mission turned out to be a failure; Dbovchek was killed and Cash was captured. Cash discovers that his mental powers were waning, but John Lynch saves him.
Back in the US, Jackson Dane awoke from his coma, under the influence of International Operations. Dane's powers turned out to be far stronger than the rest of Team 7 combined, but Cray brought in X'ing X'iang who freed Dane. She found out through Dane that Miles Craven had become interested in the children of Team 7, so most Team 7 members took their families and went into hiding. This would turn out to be the end of Team 7, though most members would stay in contact and occasionally reunite.

Jackson Dane would lead a new Team 7 years later.

The members of Team 7 all share a strong sense of loyalty to one another, and occasionally reform the group to deal with common threats.


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