Armorines
The Armories are a team that feature in Valiant Comics.
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The Armorines
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.
Arriving to an abandoned armory in Hudson, New York, Harold Lewis, Antonio Cordova and James Earl Williams met with Colonel Gardner, who took them down to the Factory, a workshop where Dr. Phillip Zahn inducted them on the specifications of the Armorines battle–suits while Michael Sirot, an NSA agent attached to the project, demonstrated its weapons systems to them. Skeptical of Sirot’s code of honor, Lewis questioned his qualifications, so Gardner revealed the existence of the X–O Manowar to him and said hat Sirot was the only survivor of Operation Deep Freeze. Ordering Lewis and the others to report to Camp Pendleton to meet their co–pilots, Gardner told them that their first mission would be to seize and destroy the X–O Manowar. Several hours later in Gardner’s office, Zahn expressed concern over the Armorines being ready to face Aric two weeks from then, as well as worry over what Peter Garrett would think. Dismissing his qualms, Gardner assured Zahn that once this affair was over Garrett would find himself in trouble with his superiors. The next day at Camp Pendleton, as Lewis stepped out to the stairway for a smoke while he waited for the briefing to start he met Major Myra Lane, who he defined on the spot as being top of her class and decorated for superior performance during training but lacking actual combat experience, a combination he deemed dangerous. Before Myra could retort, Lt. Hossen walked in and let them know that the meeting had begun.
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Members
- Antonio Cordova :
- Gunny Lewis :
- James Earl Williams :
- Michael Sirot :
Notes
- The Armorines were created by Jorge Gonzalez and Jim Calafiore where they made their first appearance in X-O Manowar v1 #24 (January, 1994).
- The rebooted version of the group was made by Robert Venditti and Diego Bernard where they featured in X-O Manowar v3 #30 (November, 2014).
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