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First seen in [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] 12.
===History===
As Cadets Sixth Class (seventh-grade students), all incoming cadets are placed together in a 'training cadre' - a grouping of students that would remain together for classes and other activities throughout their six years in the ''First Academy''. Under the guidance of [[Professor Richard Hiram Blumenberg]] (and initially as Phase One of '[[Project Alliance]]'), the ten cadets were designated [[Training Cadre 2996]], and as such, completed the ''First Academy'' and went together into the ''Elite Academy''; even though they were in different majors, they stayed together as a group. Inspired by Professor Blumenberg (as well as comics, television shows, and the stories of the P.O.G.O. teams of [[DELPHI]]), the cadets of T.C. 2996 used free time, and liberty periods (weekends off and vacation periods during holidays) to practice and train together, creating their own strategies and
They refer to themselves as '' 'The Alliance' '' because of the philosophy that while they come from different backgrounds, they have
The members of ''The Alliance'' have effectively formed a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nakama nakama]; many observers refer to them as basically being more or less a family grouping (to the point that they have been referred to collectively as '' 'Blumenberg's litter of puppies' - '' a reference to how the Professor instilled a sense of togetherness in the cadets, as well as (unintentionally) an unwavering sense of loyalty to him.) One of the many things that the cadets do together is, after visiting with family or attending summer studies, take up residence at [[Zoey Robertson]]'s family home in California for the two weeks before classes resume at USAES - a tradition they have had since their third year in the Academy.
In the aftermath of the virtual reality battle simulation where ''The Alliance'' battled the members of the [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]], their showing (calculated as a 'technical stalemate' by [[USAES]] officials) led to a surge of USAES cadets forming similar groups, as well as other official training cadres beginning similar training procedures. ''The Alliance'', as well as each cadet in the cadre, has several information-rich entries available for view on the USAES [[Academy Wiki]], as well as a couple of unofficial web sites on the USAES Intranet set up by fellow cadets.
===Alliance special training===
Because of the special training procedures they trained in under the tutelage of Professor Blumenberg, the members of ''The Alliance'' all have a number of special skills and capabilities not enjoyed by the grand majority of young metahumans who have matriculated at USAES (until the ''Metahuman Special Operations'' metahuman studies track'' was created, using the training materials created by the Professor). Among those skills:
* All ''Alliance'' members have been trained to resist high-power/median-duration telepathic scans through use of 'negative data feedback' (resisting the pain and stress while concentrating on events/images and concepts that the telepath scanning will find repulsive, such as continuous bowel movements).
* Each female ''Alliance'' member has been psi/sleep-taught Arabic, while each male member of the ''Alliance'' has been psi/sleep-taught Spanish; each can speak and read those as a second language. (Any member who already has these languages will be assigned a different language.)
* All ''Alliance'' members have been extensively trained in 'virtual reality' simulations; as a result, ''Alliance'' members are less subject to the disorienting mental effects of reality-altering experiences, and are more resistant to the physical side-effects of being active in 'virtual reality' chambers. A side-effect of this training provides each member with a ''slight'' resistance to the effects of psychotropic substances and powers that act upon a person's perception of reality.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught the basic knowledge of piloting light aircraft (light airplanes and helicopters). Those who are not fully-trained pilots (like Kelly and David Allen) can safely take off, keep a plane/helicopter aloft and land, but not much else; this skill can be augmented through experience and further standard flight training.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been given advanced multi-environment survival training (forest, arctic, desert, tropical, mountain, aquatic, subterranean and urban phases) during their first and second years in the ''Elite Academy''. This training included (during the urban and mountain phases) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape SERE training] to resist physical/emotional abuse.
* All ''Alliance'' members receive First Aid training equal to [https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/first-aid/first-aid-training the training required for American Red Cross First Aid certification.]
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught basic fluency in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand shorthand], and are required to take a fluency test each semester to maintain those skills. They receive psi/sleep-training upgrades to remain current in their skills, and retake the actual ''Alliance'' medical training yearly.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught to operate and repair [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave shortwave] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_transmission Low probability of intercept (LPI)/ Low probability of recognition (LPR) radio equipment] for communication purposes. Each member undergoes a twelve-hour refresher course in operations and repair each semester to maintain those skills.
* All 'Alliance' members have been psi-sleep taught the martial arts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskrima Kali] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Jujitsu Brazilian Jujitsu], in order to provide them with an effective set of hand-to-hand fighting skills. They receive annual mental implantation in order to keep those skills from degrading and to receive skill updates.
==='The Lynchpin Factor'===
In the planned LLH 'Mini' ''Ten Little Secrets'', it is revealed that each member of ''The Alliance'', during the [[Summer of Light]] they went through at the start of their time as Cadets Second Year, they were all subjected to an ultra-secret power augmentation procedure that gave each of them an as-yet unrevealed 'extra' metahuman ability. That ability was then suppressed totally from their physical selves, yet in the advanced sleep-training they received, each cadet was given subconscious training in the use of that ability (with actual hands-on training with those powers in VR sessions, where special systems were used to allow the cadets to unknowingly divide their consciousness, and that secondary part was the beneficiary of that power and training.
This procedure was conceived (by [[Russell Stark]] himself) as a last-ditch fail-safe for each cadet in case of extreme threats that were specifically trained/equipped to deal with their specific known abilities and capabilities. None of the suppressed abilities are known; as the events of ''LLH'' 13:3 showed (when [[Julia Carlyle]] was scanned by [[Jodie Landon]] with a device capable of detecting and identifying powers, her suppressed ability was not detected) the procedure used also provides a quantum-level suppression of the abilities they were gifted with which includes extraordinarily high levels of resistance to powers and devices capable of detecting powers.
The secondary, suppressed section of their consciousness has been configured to reveal itself and reintegrate with each cadet's full consciousness (along with knowledge of/ability to use the new ability) in a case of perceived mortal danger and the knowledge that danger directly affects them, upon their twenty-fifth birthday, or upon hearing the term 'Lynchpin', followed by a fourteen-digit number (each cadet has a specific numerical activation code). It has been shown that only Russell Stark, [[Dawn Hall]] and Professor Blumenberg have the ''Alliance'' numerical activation codes, and that all of the USAES personnel involved in the power-implantation process have had their memories altered to forget the events/that the cadets have extra powers.
Despite this, the 'extra' metahuman abilities each has received are actually starting to manifest in some of the cadets. In the LLH 'Mini' ''Clarity'', Julia Carlyle seemingly demonstrated a possible telepathic ability (although it may have just been that she read [[Elsie Sloane]]'s lips as the latter sat in her car).
===Team Jackets===
Each member wears a black jacket, made from unstable molecules and a very thin lining of [[Salazarium]]
[[Image:AllianceBadge.gif|right|thumb|Alliance jacket logo.]]
The jackets also have the unofficial symbol of ''The Alliance'' on the left breast. The symbol is thirteen stars (representing the thirteen American Colonies before the formation of the United States, as well as all metahuman cadets who have gone through the Academy before the public
===Membership Roll===
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The members of The ''Alliance'' are:
*[[
*[[Julia Carlyle]]/'Star Angel', later 'Archangel' (Deputy Leader - possesses functional wings and the ability to fly at up to
*[[David Allen Farrington]]/'Esper Prime' - (possesses high-level psionic powers; has a limited connection with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Force_%28comics%29 Phoenix Force])
*[[Carolyn Field]]/'Shocklash' - (possesses electrical powers; can manifest 'whips' of solid electricity from behind her wrists that can slice through almost any form of matter, anti-matter or energy)
*[[Maryann Lyter]]/'Tempest' - (possesses Kryptonian-level/form abilities, but can only use one at a time. Also possesses 'True Vision'.)
*[[Lindy Lomard]]/'Backtrack' - (possesses a
*[[Fabian Nogura]]/'Typhoon' - (possesses
*[[Zoey Robertson]]/'Victory' - (
*[[Kelly Springer]]/'Monolith' - (possesses vast superhuman strength, speed, invulnerability and the ability to fly;
*[[Rafael Vargas]]/'Fortune' - (possesses the ability to actively control probabilities
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