Alpha Flight
Formerly Canada’s mutant response force, Alpha Flight was disbanded by the order of Director Colcord in 2005. In 2006, the Alpha Flight program was reactivated, with a goal of three full teams in operation by 2009.
Roster
• James MacDonald Hudson – Vindicator
As the field leader, Hudson used a prototype exosuit to allow him to fly and fire energy burst from his hands.
• Heather Hudson
Team liaison. Heather commanded communications and coordinated Alpha Flight operations from the home station.
• Walter Langkowski – Sasquach
Transformed into a superstrong sasquach-like creature. Served as the field science officer.
• Joseph Twoyoungman – Shaman
Manipulated totemic First Nations magic, through spells and a special medicine bag. The team’s psychologist.
• Col. Eugene Judd – Puck
Enhanced physical abilities and damage resistance. Primary tactician and military specialist.
• James ‘Logan’ Howlett – Wolverine
Temporary team member while on leave from the X-Men.
• Marie D’Ancanto – Rogue
Temporary team member while on leave from the X-Men
• Jean-Paul Baubier - Northstar
Former member of both Alpha Flight and the X-Men. Resigned in 2004.
• Marie-Ann Baubier – Aurora
Former member of both Alpha Flight and the X-Men. Resigned in 2004.
• Garrison Kane – Dominion
Auxiliary team member, trainee from Beta Flight program.
Details
Alpha Flight was originally the idea of James Hudson, a final extension of his Flight program of mutant registration and training. He saw it as a mixed group of mutant and human specialists, supported by advanced or esoteric technology and developments from various Department H programs, designed to respond to strange or preternatural events. Hudson and his wife Heather had worked on the program for years, trying to convince both the Director of Department H and the Canadian Defense Ministry. It was only after the success of the Flight program in general that they reluctantly agreed to fund a test initiative of the Alpha level.
Alpha Flight was formed, using the best of the Beta Flight graduates they could find. The original team was dispatched in several missions, mainly natural where their powers could lend powerful assistance to local authorities, or mutant related crisis. While the group generally garnered positive media coverage and a record of success, there were serious flaws in the design. Most of the small team did not come from a military or police background, and their training in direct combat situations was badly lacking.
Following the events of Liberty Island, there was a strong call to create a group that could actively respond to a threat like Magneto, and the current group was unable to confidently make that claim. While their operational prowess was highly increased by the inclusion of former X-Men Wolverine and Rogue, the obvious limitations had become apparent to all, especially with the active efforts of Department H’s Director, Malcolm Colcord, to undermine their group. Colcord wanted more control over any kind of active group of operatives, in case they compromise his secret initiatives accidentally.
Alpha Flight was finally disbanded in late 2005, and their personnel transferred to other programs in Department H. However, Heather Hudson continued to stress the need for a program which could serve the needs that Alpha Flight was supposed to address. In mid-2006, both MacDonald and Colcord agreed to revisit the Alpha Flight program under a new structure and design, focusing on developing answers to the prior shortcomings and sending Garrison Kane to study the operations of the only successful example of that type of team, the X-Men.
The goal is to have three teams in operation by the end of 2009, tasked to the military, the police, and to civil authorities respectively.
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