Profile: Vindicator

Additional Information

Ramsey McNeil (father); Claire McNeil (mother); Unnamed uncle (deceased); Becky McNeil (sister); 5 unnamed brothers; James Hudson (Guardian) (husband); Claire MacNeil Hudson (daughter); David and Yvette MacNeil (cousins, deceased).

None, Heather has worn two advance battlesuits since becoming a member of Alpha Flight.

Myopia: Heather is nearsighted and without corrective lenses she suffers a -2CS to all actions involving anything to do with the distance beyond 1 area.

Leadership: Heather is a natural leader and in any group where she is elected leader receives 50 karma points for their karma pool.

Researcher: Heather has Good Reason when researching, searching or finding bits of data.

Hudson is a strong-willed woman who prefers to stand on her own. Since the death of her husband, she has learned self-reliance and at times comes across as domineering.

• Glasses and Goggles: Heather wears a pair of specially modified Polycarbonate eyewear of Remarkable material strength, this eyewear allows her to function normally and the goggles provide Remarkable Protection vs. blinding attacks.

Guardian Battlesuit

• • Ability Enhancement: With this suit on her agility and strength increases by 3 ranks with health increasing accordingly.

  • Force Field: Personal force field of Amazing strength against Physical and Energy attacks. Guardian can however be slammed or stunned.

  • Flight: Shift-X, 50 areas/round.

  • Energy Beams: Incredible force damage at 10 areas or a vortex of Excellent energy damage to all in 1 area at a 2 areas range.

  • Digging: at 3 areas/round or 2 areas/round when others must follow.

  • Transport: Guardian's suit has a special movement system which could manipulate gravitons to stop Guardian from moving with respect to the rotating Earth below. This gives him air speed ranging from Shift-Z (near the equator) to Incredible (near the poles). Regardless of speed, the movement occurs so instantaneously that it appears as teleportation to the naked eye.

Vindicator Battlesuit

• • Ability Enhancement: With this suit on her agility and strength increases by 3 ranks with health increasing accordingly.

  • Vindicator wears a new battlesuit readusted to tap into and manipulate geothermal energies such as heat, steam and molten lava with Amazing ability.

  • Flight: Shift-X, 50 areas/round.

  • Body Armor: the suit provides Excellent protection vs. physical and energy.

  • Heat Aura: Personal force field of Amazing strength against Physical and Energy attacks. Guardian can however be slammed or stunned. Other's take Incredible damage from touching or attacking her.

  • Heat Blasts: Incredible damage at 10 areas range

  • Generate Steam of Incredible intensity.

Alpha Flight, Department H and the Canadian Government.

Heather grew up as a neighbor to the Twoyoungmen family. Michael Twoyoungmen's daughter Elizabeth was like a sister to Heather and moved in with the MacNeils after her mother died and Michael went in retreat, eventually becoming the mystical hero Shaman. Because Heather's parents had seven children of their own to support as well as Elizabeth, Heather took a job as a secretary when she was just 17 in order to help support the family. Heather was working as a secretary to Jerome Jaxon of the Am-Can petroleum company when she met James Hudson, one of the company's research scientists. Hudson had invented a cybernetic suit for geological exploration. Heather learned Hudson had resigned from the company after learning his suit was to be sold as a weapon by Jaxon, and stole its cybernetic helmet, rendering it inoperable. Heather too resigned, and followed him. The two were attracted to each other and were soon married. Heather also explained that the Canadian government could help them, and they approached Department H, with a view to starting a superhero team, using Hudson's suit. The team came to be known as Alpha Flight, and Hudson became its leader.

While on their honeymoon in a cabin in a Canadian National Park, the couple encountered Wolverine while he was only known as a rampaging 'wild man.' Heather had a calming influence on Wolverine. Wolverine was eventually groomed to become the leader of Alpha Flight, and there was an obvious attraction between he and Heather. However, Wolverine left rather than cause difficulties in the Hudsons' relationship. Soon after, Alpha Flight had their funding revoked and disbanded. After Alpha Flight's initial disbanding, Heather secretly called the members together first to battle Tundra, and later Omega Flight, a villainous team which was led by the Hudsons' corrupt former employer, Jerome Jaxon. James appeared to die in the battle when his suit's power pack was sabotaged by Jaxon.

After a subsequent battle with Omega Flight, Heather acquired Delphine Courtney's suit, which had been based on James's Guardian suit. Heather began to use it as Vindicator, hoping she could uphold his legacy by leading Alpha Flight. While James was missing presumed dead, Heather was involved for a time with her teammate Madison Jeffries, and was loved unrequitedly by another teammate, Puck. Under Heather's leadership, the team battled a number of enemies including the Dreamqueen, Pestilence, Scramble, Mesmero, the Sentinels, and Attuma, recruited many new members, and lost several of them in battle, including Roger Bochs and Narya. Upon James's unexpected return, he and Heather switched codenames, and she became known as Guardian.

While James was again presumed dead Heather was in command of Alpha Flight until a younger clone of Hudson emerged. She found it odd to be working with a much younger James until the real Hudson returned with several other Alpha Flight members to confront the current team about Department H's dealings. Heather had proved herself as both a team leader and a capable combatant. The Hudsons continued to serve alongside each other, although his absence and cyborg conversion caused some difficulty in their relationship. Heather recently gave birth to a daughter. Like the rest of Alpha Flight, She and James were temporarily abducted by the Plodex. Heather is presumed dead after Alpha Flight's disastrous bout with the Collective. It was revealed that she had in fact died, when the Chaos King attacked Earth and basically all of reality, the gates to the Underworld opened and Heather managed to escape along with Guardian, Shaman, and Marrina as well as many other who returned to the land of the living.