"Just watch your step, Mister Hawksmoor." When was the last time you saw an invasion force persuaded to retreat without a single shot being fired? You would have thought that a nation allegedly espousing democracy enough to oppose dictatorships and invade their sovereign states would welcome these moves, but the American government is far from happy. They use that swift and effortless victory in Southeast Asia - along with the somewhat intimidating shadow of their 50-mile-high shiftship - to persuade the Russian army to back off from Chechnya and China to withdraw from Tibet. Unilaterally they decide to depose a tyrannical regime in Southeast Asia and, led by Jack Hawksmoor, they do so with military precision and a ruthless efficiency. Having defended the Earth against alternate dimensions and the closest thing to God, The Authority now turns its attention to Earth's own dictators, reasoning that if they're going to risk their lives defending this planet, it ought to be one worth saving. In Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch's blistering series of pyrotechnic crescendos which was AUTHORITY VOL 1, Jenny Sparks declared that they would make this a better world whether we liked it or not. "Why do super-people never go after the real bastards?"
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