Vanguard

Vanguard (or "The Vanguard") is a name that has been applied to several Colonial Bay heroes, a few villains, several forerunners of alien invasions, at least two groups (the Vanguard of Tomorrow and the Vanguard Initiative) and finally Evan Hampton.

Evan Hampton
Evan Hampton was born in 2013. His father was a sustenance farmer and also maintained a flourishing mail-order business buying and selling survivalist gear. His mother was a sculptor who welded recovered trash into works of art. Both parents had engineering degrees.

At age 12, Even was disqualified on a science fair project when he claimed that he designed and built a working model hovercar ... and punched the principal when the man said this was impossible. His mother was more concerned by the principal's "lack of basic science knowledge" than her son's violent behavior and started home-schooling immediately.

At age 18, Evan joined the Vanguard of Tomorrow, a high-tech terrorist group, where he began designing and constructing power suits. He was arrested in 2028 and sentenced to twenty years in prison.

In prison, Evan reflected on the circumstances that landed him in prison and wrote several eloquent letters on the moral use of technology. These letters were very well received by most of the scientists who received them: scientists who were themselves living under the NeoLuddite movement.

He also designed several "power-specific" restraint systems in an effort to reduce chemical restraint and other metahuman holding techniques in use for metas but considered inhumane for the general population.