Countries fought wars over lines on a map, occupying conquered territories with tanks, armies, fleets. Men battled on land, at sea, or in fighter planes. They fought, they fell, and they died. Except for Captain America. In 1945, near the end of the Second World War, he fell in battle…but he didn’t die. Through a fluke of nature, he was preserved in a state of suspension, fated to awaken decades later in a very different world. A world of global communications, satellite tracking, of cameras and computers smaller than a speck of dust. A world where wars were fought very differently, for different causes, with startling new technologies. Technologies such as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Built during the Cold War, the Helicarrier served as command post and staging point for all major operations of the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate. Half a mile wide, the size and bulk of a small city, it soared above the Earth, powered by several breakthrough technologies developed by Stark Enterprises.
