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Gulf Coast Avengers Campaign Sourcebook UNOFFICIAL GAME ACCESSORY SOURCEBOOK GULF COAST AVENGERS CAMPAIGN SOURCEBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................... 2 Kennedy Space Center ......................................... 48 Gulf Coast Avengers Background ......................................... 2 Marshall Space Flight Center ................................ 48 Michoud Assembly Facility .................................... 48 Chapter 1: GCA and the Government ................................ 3 Stennis Space Center ........................................... 48 Texas Rangers and the Government ..................................... 7 Space Station Eight ............................................. 48 Nexus of All Realities .................................................. 48 Chapter 2: Marvel Guide to New Orleans Roxxon Tower ........................................................... 49 The Big Easy ............................................................... 9 The Vault .................................................................. 49 New Orleans Boroughs ............................................... 13 New Orleans Organizations ......................................... 23 Chapter 5: Groups/Organizations Avengers’ Plantation ................................................... 28 Adrenamix Corp ......................................................... 53 Army of Moctezuma ................................................... 53 Chapter 3: Marvel Guide to Latin America Brand Corporation ...................................................... 53 Caribbean.................................................................. 35 Cybertek Systems, Inc. ............................................... 53 Central America ......................................................... 35 Mutants For Earth (MFE)............................................. 53 South America ........................................................... 37 The Pantheon ............................................................ 53 Quantum Dynamics, Inc. ............................................ 53 Chapter 4: Other Locations of Importance Roxxon Oil ................................................................ 54 Arcadia ..................................................................... 45 The Aztec Gods ......................................................... 54 Black Butte Special Purpose Penitentiary ...................... 45 The Incan Gods ......................................................... 55 Brand Corp. Complex ................................................. 45 The Mayan Gods ........................................................ 57 The Colony ................................................................ 45 The Voudoun (Voodoo Gods) ...................................... 59 Dominus’ Mountain HQ ............................................... 45 Gamma Base ............................................................. 47 Chapter 6: Vehicles Lackland AFB ............................................................. 47 Avengers’ Quinjet .......................................................... 62 The Mount ................................................................ 47 Avengers’ Searay .......................................................... 65 NASA MV-22X Super Osprey .................................................... 66 Johnson Space Center .......................................... 47 STSX Defiant-Class Space Shuttle ................................... 67 1 INTRODUCTION What I Did Navy, and has worked on nuclear reactors team headquarters. He offered his Gulf Coast Avengers™ is an for the navy for the last 20 years. There ancestral home as the GCA’s new accessory for the MARVEL SUPER have been (as of yet) no known instances headquarters, and it was upgraded with HEROES™ Advanced Set. This covers the of glowing in the dark or growing in size Avengers technology. formation and history of the newest team when he gets angry. Conferring with Tony Stark, he of Avengers™. recommended his former adversary- One thing that needs to be brought Thanks! turned-ally Clayton Wilson (Force II) as up is that the timeline and current events Thanks to Nightmask, Nightson, well as Dr. Grant Fitzpatrick (Devilray) to in the Marvel Universe have not Tystates, Relic, and all the rest of the join the team. During the renovation of happened. I have essentially split the Classic Marvel Forever forum for their Wormwood Plantation and the formation timeline shortly before the contributions to this. There were some of the team, Swamp Fox and Captain disestablishment of the West Coast gaps in the GCA campaign world, and Marvel found the being known as Thorn Avengers, but after the “Terminus they deftly filled them! wandering the swamps of Louisiana, and Factor.” In this alternate timeline, the Also, thanks to Major Tom Sawyer determined to add her to the team – that West Coast branch does not split up, but for his assistance as well as for hosting way they could keep an eye on her and continues on, and the Avengers are this work. try to determine her origins. reorganized under the United Nations As for the artwork, I lay no claim to Swamp Fox continued to assist the Charter. If you really want, consider this any of the artwork here – with the Gulf Coast Avengers (jokingly called the Earth-1232. exception of the low-grade stuff made at Geckos) as a reserve member of the These characters were devised & the heromachine.com website. There is a team. Meanwhile, Captain Marvel brought together during the late ‘80s – ton of great art out there on the web, and recruited the fifth member of the team, early ‘90s, and so there is a lot of history was inspiring – much better than Pig Iron. The last member recruited to in them that have to be made up to bring anything I could ever do! the team was Weaver, who struggles to them to the current Marvel timeline. Feel balance her civilian life with her super- free to change whatever you want. I just heroic life. wanted to provide a fun look at an Gulf Coast Following the battle between the alternate Avengers team. combined East Coast/Gulf Coast Avengers Regarding the character statistics, I Avengers and the Leviathan, Captain Marvel lost placed them in a separate file in the her powers and had to take a leave of GHotMU format. You will find author’s Background absence, turning over the chairperson notes at the end of several entries. I Following the formation of the West position to Force. She later rejoined the simply added those to discuss why they Coast branch, Captain America saw how team after regaining use of her powers, are the way they are and some potential successful having a second team is. In but Force retained the Chairperson changes to their background. 1987, immediately after Wasp resigned as position, as he continued to develop his Also, please forgive the obvious G.I. chairperson and went on a leave of leadership potential. Joe pictures & references. I am a child of absence, he decided to expand the Over the last few years, they have the early ‘80s, and loved my G.I. Joe toys Avengers to a third team, nominating battled zombie hordes led by Black Talon as a kid. The outfits and vehicles inspired Captain Marvel as the chairperson of the and Aleister Crowley, Latin American me for my Marvel campaign. new Gulf Coast Avengers. Thor resumed dictators and their super-powered his position as Chairperson of the East minions, and chaos-causing super groups. About the Author Coast branch. Through it all, though, they have Captain Marvel started the search for remained a cohesive team inspired to do Hawkeye has played Marvel Super the best for the world! Heroes since the ‘80s. After getting older members, and relied on a local friend, (he has yet to grow up!), he joined the Jean-Louis Dubois (Swamp Fox), for the 2 CHAPTER 1: Gulf Coast Avengers and the Government The Avengers are the first hero a unique random sequence code that Stark, Reed Richards, and King T’Challa of group to receive official recognition from initiates information checks through the Wakanda provide all Avengers with U.S. Government (and from international data banks of the FBI, the CIA, Interpol, cutting-edge vehicles, weaponry, and organizations as well). National the U.S. and the United Nations National more. governments realized that the Earth could Security Councils, and AMEX. The checks be threatened by alien races like the are disguised by encoding, identifying United Nations Status Skrulls or despots with world-wide them as standard background checks for All members of the Avengers have a ambitions The Avengers were therefore prospective employees of the U.S. special status as a peace-keeping agent sponsored by the National Security Department of Agriculture. Areas of focus of the United Nations. They have the Council of the U.S. Government and by for the program include checks on family authority to operate as deputized law the United Nations as well, and this status, past criminal behavior, psychiatric enforcement officials in any country of support was written into the Avengers treatment, substance abuse, and Earth with the express permission of that Charter. This support has been retained participation in anti-American (recently nation's government. United Nations and expanded over the years, but not changed to "anarchist") groups. The member nations can choose to reject the without difficulty. system also looks into any outstanding aid of the Avengers, but currently, the Government support for the debts
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