Engineer (comics)
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The Engineer is the name of two comic book characters in the Wildstorm universe.
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[edit] The First Engineer
He was part of a group called the Changers, led by The High, who wanted to change the world by removing the structure of society itself. There would be no more laws, no authoritarian structures, no crime and no war. The Engineer's part of this plan was to seed nanotechnological oases across the planet, that would be "horns of plenty" providing every imaginable food, product and tool anybody needed. Stormwatch attacked their base to stop them and the Engineer was killed by a Hammerstrike Deep Sanction Missile, a biowar payload and tailored acid bomb that destroyed him and his nanotechnology.[1]
The first and only one of his nanotechnological oases, the Garden of Nevada, came back to haunt Stormwatch. It was used to create weapons, such as brain-powered guns, before being neutralized by Apollo and Midnighter on behalf of Stormwatch.[2] Most of the trees ended up on the Stormwatch spacecraft.
[edit] Angela Spica
After the first Engineer was killed, Angela "Angie" Spica's home computer filled up with all his nanotechnology notes and started linking it to her work in human-machine fusion. Spica had known him in real life, but she didn't know he was the Engineer until then. She distilled an incalculable number of intelligent devices into nine pints of liquid machinery and replaced her blood with it. This nanotechnology gives her vast mechanical abilities: the liquid metal covers her body at will, allows her to fly and to create many things, such as radio-telepathy bugs, weaponry, rocket engines, replacement lungs to cope with unfamiliar atmospheres and even additional copies of herself.
Jenny Sparks recruited her as a founding member of The Authority.
In the "Transfer of Power" storyline, Spica was replaced by "Machine", a woman from Japan who received the nanotechnology extracted from the Engineer's body. Spica's blood was temporarily replaced with that of an HIV Positive heroin addict. She was given memory implants and forced into the life of a minimum wage worker in a Seven-Eleven, with an abusive husband and six children (all of them actors paid by the Powers-That-Be), until she was saved by Swift. Spica's deep desire for revenge on Machine was thwarted when it was learned she had been killed by fellow teammate Apollo.
Spica has an open on/off relationship with Jack Hawksmoor, but she also slept with The Doctor on one occasion. She also had a brief fling with a squat, hairy Mexican she picked up in a bar. It ended badly.[3]
Spica was sexually assaulted during her school-age years by a renegade Doctor who travelled back in time while they were fighting.[4]
[edit] Background
The second Engineer is based on a previous creation of Warren Ellis: "Steel Rain", a character Ellis created with artist Gary Erskine. Steel Rain's first and only appearance was in Marvel Comics' 2099 Unlimited #9 (July, 1995).
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Stormwatch: Change or Die graphic novel
- ^ Stormwatch: A Finer World graphic novel
- ^ Wildstorm Summer Special one-shot
- ^ The Authority #20, January 2001
