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dewlineOkay, two Wednesdays ago, the first issue of House of X hit the comic book shops and the online subscription services. And Jonathan Hickman introduced this new/old thing called "Orchis". It seems to be the latest in a chain of things from the Weapon Plus program to Project Wideawake, hostile responses to the existence of superhuman mutants with heavy USGov involvement.
Orchis pulls its personnel and resources from a number of different sources across the history of Marvel-Earth-616:
SHIELD
STRIKE (a British-owned counterpart to SHIELD)
SWORD (an offshoot of SHIELD devoted to planetary defence against extrasolar threats)
Alpha Flight v.2 (SWORD's successor-organization; not the Canadian super-hero team originally sponsored by DND)
ARMOR (another SHIELD off-shoot, focused on extra-dimensional threats to Earth)
HYDRA
AIM (all incarnations, I assume, from the original HYDRA offshoot to the American Idea Mechanics organized by Roberto "Sunspot" da Costa)
HAMMER (Norman Osborn's American-owned would-be successor to SHIELD)
That's going to be an interesting mixture of people. Alpha Flight v.2 and HYDRA are still going concerns to varying degrees, as far as I can tell. The rest of them are out of commission, with a lot of people "in the wind". And they seem to be pulling together hardware from a lot of places too. These people are going to have lots of conflicts of interest. With each other.
Orchis pulls its personnel and resources from a number of different sources across the history of Marvel-Earth-616:
SHIELD
STRIKE (a British-owned counterpart to SHIELD)
SWORD (an offshoot of SHIELD devoted to planetary defence against extrasolar threats)
Alpha Flight v.2 (SWORD's successor-organization; not the Canadian super-hero team originally sponsored by DND)
ARMOR (another SHIELD off-shoot, focused on extra-dimensional threats to Earth)
HYDRA
AIM (all incarnations, I assume, from the original HYDRA offshoot to the American Idea Mechanics organized by Roberto "Sunspot" da Costa)
HAMMER (Norman Osborn's American-owned would-be successor to SHIELD)
That's going to be an interesting mixture of people. Alpha Flight v.2 and HYDRA are still going concerns to varying degrees, as far as I can tell. The rest of them are out of commission, with a lot of people "in the wind". And they seem to be pulling together hardware from a lot of places too. These people are going to have lots of conflicts of interest. With each other.
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Date: 2019-08-05 12:31 am (UTC)https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8453375.html#cutid1
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Date: 2019-08-05 02:18 am (UTC)Also, I'm guessing the SHIELD people who've fallen in with Orchis...probably wouldn't be the sort of people who ever believed that mutants should have any rights that attach to their baseline-human ancestors and other relatives. No matter how carefully the better SHIELD Executive Directors had their Recruitment Division screen for that flaw.