City of Heroes has released a lore story in leading up to the upcoming Issue 10: Invasion, which will see an alien threat come to Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.

n this lead up to the next free expansion, Issue 10: Invasion, the Paragon Times reports on a Senate inquiry questioning the role of the Vanguard today.

"Senator Gilmore of Rhode Island today announced an inquiry to examine the United States' role in funding of Vanguard, the United Nations special forces unit with a focus on extraterrestrial threats. Senator Gilmore said, "The Vanguard is an outdated, old-fashioned institution. It has no foreseeable purpose anymore, yet the members of the UN Security Council are expected to fund it to the tune of several billion a year?"

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