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The Authority Proposal by Warren Ellis
the front line
the last chance
the final defense
the only hope
The Authority.
STORMWATCH has collapsed; the Skywatch station destroyed, the United Nation coffers effectively empty. The UN simply cannot support another undertaking like Stormwatch. For the first time in ten years, there is not a powerful neutral defensive force of superhumans watching over the planet. No-one to protect the Earth from threats from outside. No-one to protect the Earth from itself.
Earth is suddenly a more dangerous place than it’s ever been.
Down in the dark, Stormwatch Black have been cut loose. Officially, they never existed anyway; three superhumans who performed covert Stormwatch missions under complete deniability. However, unknown to their paymasters, they’ve been using their downtime between missions to make connections of their own. When Stormwatch goes, they see it’s time to make their own move. JENNY SPARKS, the electric woman, the spirit of the 20th Century: JACK HAWKSMOOR, designed by aliens as the king of cities: SHEN LI-MIN, swift and predatory winged woman; These three have always wanted to make the world a better place. Now’s their chance; also, Earth’s last chance of any real defence.
Jenny Sparks, Jack Hawksmoor and Swift form THE AUTHORITY; a replacement force that answers to nobody.
Joining them are; APOLLO and THE MIDNIGHTER, soldiers remade by mad covert science into the sun king and the bringer of war; THE ENGINEER, the woman who exchanged her blood for nine pints of living liquid machinery; and THE DOCTOR, urban shaman, a mystic for the new millennium.
These seven, based in a fifty-mile-wide alien vessel existing outside space and time, provide Earth’s ultimate defence, dealing with threats on the vastest possible scale. Invasions from beyond space and time, the return of insane and ancient deities, the advance of huge and pitiless assassination squads trained to kill countries... in such matters, they are the final authority.
GENERAL NOTES;
The intention of THE AUTHORITY, from the perspective of Bryan and myself, is to go utterly nuts. To do all the huge-scale insane concepts that’d’ve never have fitted in STORMWATCH. To, in the parlance, turn the volume up to eleven.
We’re going to take a crack at redefining the large-scale superhero book. We’re going to see just how vast and cosmic and crazed we can get. In many ways, this sounds like the utter antithesis of STORMWATCH, I know, and, yes, THE AUTHORITY will be very different... but it will retain some key concepts of my STORMWATCH run. Chiefly its attention to nasty little details, its appalling bad attitude, and the utter carnage the cast are capable of creating when they work together -- Wizard called attention to this, and likened their exact and violent teamwork to the Green Berets. This is what people liked; the mad little ideas, the edge and the kicking of arse. And Bryan Hitch. That’s what we’ll keep for THE AUTHORITY.
What we’ll add is stories on the biggest scale we can imagine.
the last chance
the final defense
the only hope
The Authority.
STORMWATCH has collapsed; the Skywatch station destroyed, the United Nation coffers effectively empty. The UN simply cannot support another undertaking like Stormwatch. For the first time in ten years, there is not a powerful neutral defensive force of superhumans watching over the planet. No-one to protect the Earth from threats from outside. No-one to protect the Earth from itself.
Earth is suddenly a more dangerous place than it’s ever been.
Down in the dark, Stormwatch Black have been cut loose. Officially, they never existed anyway; three superhumans who performed covert Stormwatch missions under complete deniability. However, unknown to their paymasters, they’ve been using their downtime between missions to make connections of their own. When Stormwatch goes, they see it’s time to make their own move. JENNY SPARKS, the electric woman, the spirit of the 20th Century: JACK HAWKSMOOR, designed by aliens as the king of cities: SHEN LI-MIN, swift and predatory winged woman; These three have always wanted to make the world a better place. Now’s their chance; also, Earth’s last chance of any real defence.
Jenny Sparks, Jack Hawksmoor and Swift form THE AUTHORITY; a replacement force that answers to nobody.
Joining them are; APOLLO and THE MIDNIGHTER, soldiers remade by mad covert science into the sun king and the bringer of war; THE ENGINEER, the woman who exchanged her blood for nine pints of living liquid machinery; and THE DOCTOR, urban shaman, a mystic for the new millennium.
These seven, based in a fifty-mile-wide alien vessel existing outside space and time, provide Earth’s ultimate defence, dealing with threats on the vastest possible scale. Invasions from beyond space and time, the return of insane and ancient deities, the advance of huge and pitiless assassination squads trained to kill countries... in such matters, they are the final authority.
GENERAL NOTES;
The intention of THE AUTHORITY, from the perspective of Bryan and myself, is to go utterly nuts. To do all the huge-scale insane concepts that’d’ve never have fitted in STORMWATCH. To, in the parlance, turn the volume up to eleven.
We’re going to take a crack at redefining the large-scale superhero book. We’re going to see just how vast and cosmic and crazed we can get. In many ways, this sounds like the utter antithesis of STORMWATCH, I know, and, yes, THE AUTHORITY will be very different... but it will retain some key concepts of my STORMWATCH run. Chiefly its attention to nasty little details, its appalling bad attitude, and the utter carnage the cast are capable of creating when they work together -- Wizard called attention to this, and likened their exact and violent teamwork to the Green Berets. This is what people liked; the mad little ideas, the edge and the kicking of arse. And Bryan Hitch. That’s what we’ll keep for THE AUTHORITY.
What we’ll add is stories on the biggest scale we can imagine.
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