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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Battalion: Once upon a time, the Canadian Defence Ministry decided that since the most credible threats to Canada which would call on the deployment of the military were rampages by various superhumans, it would be a good idea if the Canadian military had weapons that might actually be effective against such opponent. So they invested a huge amount of taxpayer loonies into the creation of a prototype suit of battle armour which was, at the time superior to the suits being used by the American military. They fancied, unrealistically, that they could sell the suits to close allies, making Canada the cutting edge of battlesuit technology into the 21st century.
The Americans were impressed and appalled. They were impalled. They had no intention of cutting out their own contractors and buying foreign or allowing the Canadians to sell them farther afield for fear that one day they'd be facing suits based on Battalion's technology. They put pressure on the Canadian government to shut it down, destroy the prototypes and the blueprints.
But one of the suits was smuggled away...
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The first
Champions character that I played for any length of time was conceived on almost exactly this premise, except substituting Australia for Canada. Colonel Carnage.