Mar. 25th, 2008
Tuesday Tangents: Image founders, part 2
Mar. 25th, 2008 11:08 pmContinuing from last week we'll go with the titles of two more of Image's founders. Marc Silvestri's Cyberforce and Erik Larsen's The Savage Dragon...
Major Morgan Stryker is the head of Mars' Cyberforce Division. Elite police tasked with dealing with dangerous cyborgs. Rogue corporate drones, bitter and decommissioned war veterans or the product of black market chop shops. Its all the same for Cyberforce...
Savage's Dragoons; Captain John Savage is one of the few, the proud, a United Planet's Dragoon. Dragoons: one-man killing machines. Each is augmented with advanced cybernetics, equipped with deadly powered armor and the finest killing devices known to man. The Dragoon's were the heroes of the Colony Wars. Dropping from high altitude insertions, each with the power of a tank, they swiftly and surely broke the back of the rebel worlds. But the Colony Wars are 15 years in the past and the U.P. government doesn't see the need to maintain the expensive super-soldiers. Unit after unit is decommissioned and sent out into the civilian world, with heads full of violence and bodies designed to kill. Savage won't let that happen to his unit. Whatever mission is asked of them, he'll make sure they succeed. Whatever its costs to keep showing his troop's value he'll do...
Major Morgan Stryker is the head of Mars' Cyberforce Division. Elite police tasked with dealing with dangerous cyborgs. Rogue corporate drones, bitter and decommissioned war veterans or the product of black market chop shops. Its all the same for Cyberforce...
Savage's Dragoons; Captain John Savage is one of the few, the proud, a United Planet's Dragoon. Dragoons: one-man killing machines. Each is augmented with advanced cybernetics, equipped with deadly powered armor and the finest killing devices known to man. The Dragoon's were the heroes of the Colony Wars. Dropping from high altitude insertions, each with the power of a tank, they swiftly and surely broke the back of the rebel worlds. But the Colony Wars are 15 years in the past and the U.P. government doesn't see the need to maintain the expensive super-soldiers. Unit after unit is decommissioned and sent out into the civilian world, with heads full of violence and bodies designed to kill. Savage won't let that happen to his unit. Whatever mission is asked of them, he'll make sure they succeed. Whatever its costs to keep showing his troop's value he'll do...