Alpha Flight

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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

James MacDonald Hudson

As the field leader, Hudson used a prototype exosuit to allow him to fly and fire energy burst from his hands. He has no actual mutant powers of his own, relying on the suit.

Heather Hudson

Heather Hudson

Team liaison. Heather commanded communications and coordinated Alpha Flight operations from the home station. baseline human, no mutant powers. She and her husband James MacDonald Hudson found the feral Wolverine in the woods following his escape from the Weapon X project and took him him, giving him the name 'Logan' for Mount Logan, where he was found. She remains a close friend to him, and one of the stable influences in his life.

Walter Langkowski – Sasquach

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Walter Langkowski

A mutant, who transforms into a superstrong Sasquach-like creature. Served as the field science officer. Was for a time romantically involved with Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, proposing to her, but the relationship ended when she blamed him for her estrangement with her brother, Jean-Paul.

Dr Michael Twoyoungman – Shaman

Michael Twoyoungman

Manipulates totemic First Nations magic, through spells and a special medicine bag. The team’s psychologist. It was his training that helped Marie D'Ancato learn to control those personalities her powers had near-permanently absorbed, coming close to driving her insane.

Col. Eugene Judd – Puck

Eugene Judd

Enhanced physical abilities and damage resistance. Primary tactician and military specialist. Responsible for the training regime of Alpha Flight, and the subsequent programs. A close friend to Logan, during his time with Alpha Flight.

Logan – Wolverine

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Logan

Temporary team member while on leave from the X-Men, May 2004 - March 2006. Natural power; cellular regeneration talent or a healing factor. Logan heals at an extraordinary rate of speed. Cuts and scrapes disappear in seconds. Gunshot wounds, seconds to minutes. The more extensive the damage, the longer it takes to heal, but there is little save for total incineration or disintegration that can permanently put Logan down. As a side-benefit to his enhanced cellular regenerative rates, he has enhanced senses of smell and hearing and extreme longevity. As the result of the Weapon X experiment, Logan's skeleton is granted with adamantium, a virtually unbreakable metal, and he has three foot-long claws granted along the bones in each forearm.

Marie D'Ancato – Rogue

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Marie D'Ancato

Temporary team member while on leave from the X-Men, May 2004 - May 2006. Primary power is the ability to absorb the life force and mutant ability by skin to skin contact. She does not have the ability to turn this power off and it automatically kicks in at the smallest contact. In general, she actively retains the power of the person she’s absorbed for 60 times longer than she was in contact. Further, Rogue absorbed the abilities of flight, superstrength and invulnerability permanently when she accidentally killed another mutant.

Jean-Paul Beaubier - Northstar

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Jean-Paul Beaubier

Former member of both Alpha Flight and the X-Men. Resigned in 2004. Ability to direct the kinetic energy in his molecules to propel himself through the air at superhuman speeds, manipulate the atomic motion of other objects upon contact and generate innate radiant energy as dazzling flashes of light when in contact with his sister.

Jeanne-Marie Beaubier – Aurora

Jeanne-Marie Beaubier

Former member of Alpha Flight. Resigned in 2004. Ability to direct the kinetic energy in her molecules to propel herself through the air at superhuman speeds, manipulate the atomic motion of other objects upon contact and generate innate radiant energy as dazzling flashes of light when in contact with her brother. Suffers from DID and is mentally very unstable.

Garrison Kane – Dominion

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Garrison Kane

Auxiliary team member, trainee from Beta Flight program. On 'loan' to the X-Men as of November 2006. Enhanced physical abilities: strength, agility and endurance are many times that of a normal person. In addition, he has bioware systems in his body. Those include an organic reflexive memory chip built into the top of his spinal column, and a pair of neural charge emitters built into his arms and terminating through his hands.

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.

Plots

None.

Meta

Socked by: Dex and others to be determined

PBs:

• Mac Hudson - Paul Gross

• Heather Hudson - Sarah Polley

• Walter Langkowski - James Allodi

• Eugene Judd - Jed Rees

• Michael Twoyoungman - Graham Greene

Three of the PBs used for Alpha Flight - Paul Gross, Jed Rees and James Allodi - appeared in the Canadian movie Men With Brooms. All the faces for Alpha Flight NPCs (not currently or previously-played PCs) are Canadian actors.