S.W.O.R.D. (comics)

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S.W.O.R.D.
Sentient World Observation and Response Department

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Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Astonishing X-Men #3 (2004)
Created by Joss Whedon
John Cassaday
In story information
Type of organization Intelligence agency
Base(s) The Peak
Agent(s) Abigail Brand
Agent Deems
Sydren
Lockheed


S.W.O.R.D. (an acronym for Sentient World Observation and Response Department) is a fictional counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Universe which deals with extraterrestrial threats to world security.

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The group was first introduced in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #6 by Joss Whedon. S.W.O.R.D. is a counterpart of the better known S.H.I.E.L.D. but since the departure of Nick Fury as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., relations between the two organizations have become strained. The head of S.W.O.R.D is Special Agent Abigail Brand. Its primary command-and-control HQ is aboard the orbital space station known as the Peak.

S.W.O.R.D. had an undercover operative in the X-Mansion. In Astonishing X-men #17 the identity of this undercover operative was revealed as Lockheed.

[edit] Unstoppable

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The Astonishing X-Men, Hisako Ichiki, Ord of the Breakworld, and Danger, were taken to deep space by S.W.O.R.D. and Agent Abigail Brand. The psychics on the S.W.O.R.D. ship don't detect Cassandra Nova in Emma's shattered psyche. Though emotionally wounded, Emma recovers fast enough to be present for the team's departure to the Breakworld. On their way there, where they aim to disable a missile capable of splitting the Earth in half, they are attacked by Breakworld vessels. After using a diversion, the X-Men, alongside Agent Brand, land on the planet, where Agent Deems is tortured in prison.

Brand, Cyclops, Emma, and Beast land together while Wolverine, Hisako, Colossus, and Kitty land elsewhere. Wolverine's spacecraft begins to disintegrate in mid air and thus they are forced to abandon the ship. Kitty and Colossus phase through the pod and through to the planet's surface, where they land unharmed while Hisako and Wolverine land with the impact burning Wolverine's skin.

Another team composed of Lockheed, Sydren and S.W.O.R.D. troops converge upon a place called "the Palace of the Corpse" which supposedly is connected to the prophecy stating that Colossus will destroy the planet.

Agent Brand finally informs Kitty that Lockheed is working for S.W.O.R.D. as their undercover agent.

[edit] Secret Invasion

S.W.O.R.D.'s headquarters, The Peak, is destroyed by a Skrull infiltrator posing as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Dum Dum Dugan, during the Secret Invasion crossover storyline.

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