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== Overview ==
== Overview ==


'''Hero One''' was Great Britain's foremost hero and the predecessor to the Vanguard's [[Hero 1]]. He was a member of the [[Dawn Patrol]].
Very little is known about the British crime fighter known as ''''Hero One'''', save that he was active in 1976 and helped save the world from nuclear annihilation. That year, the American hero known as the [[Statesman]] entered the Soviet Union to rescue the pilot of a downed spy plane. The Soviets reacted by launching a tactical nuclear missile at the Statesman. Hostilities soon escalated, forcing the world's heroes to step in and prevent a full-scale nuclear strike. Hero One then emerged as an international diplomat, negotiating a peaceful resolution to the crisis.


During the Cold War era, as the United States and the Soviet Union governments were stopped by the efforts of the Dawn Patrol and the [[Freedom Phalanx]], who would not tolerate nuclear war, Hero One negotiated a peaceful solution between the two governments, opening up the beginning of the break in close cooperation between governments and hero organizations.
This heroic intervention had a lasting impact on world politics. While the governments involved were quite resentful towards the heroes, the world at large came to adore them – as far as the public was concerned, they truly were the saviors of the world. This marked the beginning of the break in close cooperation between governments and hero organizations that had characterized much of the post [World War II] period. The many events of the cold war had shown heroes that they often worked better outside of government policies and politics. They began to see themselves as a kind of fifth estate, standing as guardians not only of the world’s safety and physical well being, but also of the rights of humanity as a whole.
 
At some point after the 1976 crisis, Hero One presumably retired (or died) and was replaced by Hero 1, another champion from Great Britain.


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Revision as of 13:06, 28 December 2009

Overview

Very little is known about the British crime fighter known as 'Hero One', save that he was active in 1976 and helped save the world from nuclear annihilation. That year, the American hero known as the Statesman entered the Soviet Union to rescue the pilot of a downed spy plane. The Soviets reacted by launching a tactical nuclear missile at the Statesman. Hostilities soon escalated, forcing the world's heroes to step in and prevent a full-scale nuclear strike. Hero One then emerged as an international diplomat, negotiating a peaceful resolution to the crisis.

This heroic intervention had a lasting impact on world politics. While the governments involved were quite resentful towards the heroes, the world at large came to adore them – as far as the public was concerned, they truly were the saviors of the world. This marked the beginning of the break in close cooperation between governments and hero organizations that had characterized much of the post [World War II] period. The many events of the cold war had shown heroes that they often worked better outside of government policies and politics. They began to see themselves as a kind of fifth estate, standing as guardians not only of the world’s safety and physical well being, but also of the rights of humanity as a whole.

At some point after the 1976 crisis, Hero One presumably retired (or died) and was replaced by Hero 1, another champion from Great Britain.