Armorines
issues:
0,1-12
(issue 0 is an insert in X-O Manowar 25)
Character Info:
The Armorines
original Armorine 01 (Anchor Man): Gunnery Sergeant Harold Lewis
replacement Armorine 01 (Anchor Man): Sergeant William Sturgess
01 Co-Pilot: Major Myra Lane
Armorine 02 (Point Man): Staff Sergeant Michael Sirot
02 Co-Pilot: Second Lieutenant Clark Hossen
Armorine 03 (Wing Man A): Lance Corporal James Earl Williams
03 Co-Pilot: Lieutenant Pierce
Armorine 04 (Wing Man B): Lance Corporal Antonio Cordova
04 Co-Pilot: Lieutenant Manuel Dominguez
Other Characters
Colonel Gardner- in charge of Armorines in issue 0
General Kendall- in charge of Armorines after issue 0
Dr. Phillip Zahn- creator of Amorine suits and weapons
Senator Ackerman- head of Armorine program until issue 9
The Story:
The U.S. Government took X-O Manowar as a threat. The Armorines were created by
Dr. Phillip Zahn to deal with this threat. After they got the go ahead on the
project from Senator Ackerman, Colonel Gardner recruited eight soldiers to
function as the Armorines. Four would be trained as the field agents with the
other four acting as their co-pilots from the base. Gunny Lewis, an aging war
veteran, was chosen to be their field leader. Ackerman, however, made it
perfectly clear to Gardner that he wanted Lewis out of the program as soon as
the others were properly trained to function without him.
Initially a truce between X-O and the Government was formed, but this irritated
CIA agent Peter Garrett and his associate, Ms. Mandrake of the IRS. The two
forged orders from the Government which ordered the Armorines to take out X-O
and sent them to Gardner. The Armorines attacked X-O and may have even defeated him,
but their attack was called off by orders from General Kendall. Colonel Gardner
was arrested for ordering the attack (the poor guy had no idea that the orders
were fake), and Kendall took his place as head of the Armorines. Meanwhile,
the Armorine Sirot, who is also an agent of the National Security Agency, met
with Garrett and forged a truce of sorts.
The Armorines went on to face other threats, but their biggest adversaries
were the Spider Aliens. They first faced them in an under water adventure, and
then in a huge battle in space itself. They were teamed with X-O Manowar and
the HARDCorps in the space battle. While they were in space fighting the aliens,
the Chaos Effect broke out on Earth cutting off all communication with the
military. Eventually the Chaos ended and the Spider Aliens were defeated, and
the Armorines returned home.
The Armorines recieved medals of honor from the President himself upon their
return. At the same time, however, Senator Ackerman ordered Gunny out of the
Armorines program. When the President found out about this, he wrote a presidential
order that took away Ackerman's control over the program and ensured that
Gunny would remain in the Armorines. This didn't sit to well with Ackerman, so
with Peter Garrett's help, he devised a plan to get Gunny out of the program
anyways. The two rigged a hidden camera on Sirot's armor and shot footage of
the destruction of a building on one of the Armorine's missions. Ackerman
used this footage as a way to frame Gunny. If Gunny didn't leave the program,
the footage would be used to ruin his career. He chose to leave. Sergeant
William Sturgess was sent as his replacement.
When Sirot caught on that Garrett and Ackerman were involved, he decided to
send the Senator a message. And so Ms. Mandrake came home to find Peter
Garrett's dead body hanging from the balcony. Message sent.
After the series:
Not much of a life-after-death-of-series was in store for the Armorines.
They made one single appearance in the pages of Solar 57. They tried
to fight Solar. Nobody can beat Solar.
The Same As It Never Was:
The Armorines went on to make several appearances in the new Acclaim VH-2 Universe as guest stars in X-O Manowar vol. 2. They barely resembled the Armorines of old. Their armor was a completely different design. This remained true when Acclaim went on hiatus, cancelling all their titles. Recently, a new Armorines have appeared in a mini-series that was released when Accliam returned to publishing. The old VH-2 team was killed in action with only one surviving member, who joined the new replacement team. They now more closely resemble the original VH-1 Armorines. Their members include Gunny Lewis, Myra Lane, Michelle Sirot, and James "Tork" Torkelson. Gunny is basically the same guy he was in VH-1. Same with Myra Lane, though she's actually one of the armor-wearers this time. Michelle is the counterpart of Michael Sirot, but I have no idea why they made him a female this time. As for Tork, I assume he's the VH-2 counterpart of Harbinger John Torkelson, aka Torque. Consider him as good as dead in the coming issues.
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