The Coalition States of America “super-soldier” project is renowned to be the most successful in the world. Many people would be surprised to learn that the project (secretly dubbed “Godlike”) has only produced three viable outcomes. At the cost of dozens of non-operable results (“zeroes” as they are deemed by the research team) and hundreds of deaths. Even more surprising is that, despite that fact, it is the most successful program of its kind.
The common belief is that people with the gene that allows for chemical manipulation to exceed human baselines are one in a million. The truth is that they’re even rarer than that. The chances of someone having the necessary gene already being in the CSA military were exceedingly small. When Private First Class Amy Albright tested positive, the results were initially kept under wraps due to the high number of project failures. After she emerged from the program a complete success, she became a media darling.
A wholesome blonde girl-next-door type who had volunteered to serve her country that could fly at supersonic speeds and rip apart a tank with her bare hands? It was a public relations windfall beyond the wildest dreams of the military spin doctors. Her smiling face on 60 Minutes and the evening news did much to mitigate the (true) accusations of forced conscriptions and deadly consequences of the program.
She went from being the face of a public relations campaign to a true national hero following the release of the 1970 documentary “Angel” showing footage of her in action during the Argentine Conflict. The opening scene of a brutal looking staff sergeant explaining in no uncertain terms to his men that Angel One is a soldier and not “some mark in a pick-up bar” and will be treated as such in his unit unless they want a boot up their ass has become as iconic as the live footage of her turning the tide at Cordoba and saving the lives of thousands of CSA soldiers.
It is because of this movie that she is known mostly to the public by her callsign used during that conflict – “Angel” or “Angel One” rather than her focus group-chosen public persona “Iron Heart”. Angel One was reported KIA on March 4th, 1973, the details of which have not yet been released to the public. It is widely assumed that a new chemical weapon provided to Ñancahuazú Guerrilla fighters by German communists is responsible for her death. A sound clip of a CSA officer reporting “Angel One is down”, voice cracking with emotion, has become iconic.
