Who They Are, and What they Want.

GO-FORCE! We hate evil,

But GO-FORCE! We like to find it,

'Cuz GO-FORCE! We love to fight it and

WIN!

GO-FORCE!

GO-FORCE! theme[goforce.au - MISSING] (c) DDG unt GLO 1973

What is GO-FORCE! Well, wouldn't you like to know.

Ahem. Sorry. GO-FORCE!, as a concept, as an idea, is hardly definable. It is at once the latest trend in law enforcement, a confirmation of the idea of family, a team of skilled net ninja's, and a grave threat to the future of the Imperium.

The manner in which GO-FORCE! is perhaps most well known is as one of the most happening superhero teams to come out of Massachusetts since the Off-White Avenger, back in '76.

They appeared on the scene quite recently, largely through the press surrounding all the crimes of their arch-enemy, the disturbingly purple and undeniably evil A.Z.T.E.C. Lou, known for his arsenal of giant robots and his diabolical use of adhesives.

In 1992, while all Boston and parts of Connecticut and Montreal were in his thrall, it took a team like GO-FORCE! to drive A.Z.T.E.C. Lou and E.R.I.C., his team of cronies and look-alikes, back into the slime from which they came.

But that's common knowledge. What I really meant to talk about was GO-FORCE! behind the scenes: The side of these intrepid crime fighters that not one in a million has seen before.

First, I'll introduce you to the boys, and some other assorted characters:

Matt Force

(GONAD) Handsome, virile, and inexplicably wealthy, his good hair guaranteed him his position as leader of the GO-FORCE! team. He is legal owner of the GO-FORCE! mansion, a former professional football player, and has been trained extensively in the use of language in spoken conversation. Matt is recognizable by his fantastically normal hair.

Brett Force

(GOATEE) Many people consider Brett Force to be the black sheep of the Force family. He didn't grow up on the farm with the rest of the Force family: he was lost at a very young age, and spent his formative years in Australia, being raised by an abnormally friendly pack of wild dingoes. He speaks with a thick accent, and often wears his native garb around the house. Brett is the field operations specialist for GO-FORCE!, and is also a whiz at intrigue, which blends well with Matt's disdain for subtlety. Much more about Brett is not known, since he tends to keep to himself and not reveal much of his (presumably) sordid background. Brett is recognizable by his scary and bohemian goatee.

Professor Go

(GOMEZ) Professor Go is the only member of GO-FORCE! who is not a member of the Force family. He has known the Force brothers for years, though, and works with them as though he were the third brother. After a tragic singing accident, Professor Go is confined to a wheelchair most of the time. However, due to new technologies which he developed himself, in the GO-FORCE! mansion's secret lab, his GO-FORCE! exo-skele-suit allows him to regain the use of his legs. Many the evildoer has been surprised by the Professor's powerful kicks! Professor Go is the brain of the three, constantly tinkering around,devloping amazing new technologies that GO-FORCE! integrates into it's ever expanding arsenal of crime fighting devices and cooking tools. The Professor is recognizable by his bald pate and elegant sideburns.

Gail Force

While Gail Force is not stricly "one of the boys", she certainly deserves mention here. Gail is Matt and Brett's sainted mother, and a dear friend and mentor to Professor Go. Sadly, she died in a tragic boating accident 14 years ago. Luckily, divers were able to salvage her consciousness, and Gail Force is now the mind of GO-FORCE!'s intelligent supercomputer, Gail Force. With her access to intelligence from all over the world, she supplies GO-FORCE! not only with invaluable mission info, but also the odd bit of motherly advice. GO-FORCE! usually speaks to her through an interactive video display deep in the GO-FORCE! mansion's lab. Gail Force is recognizable because she's a computer.

Peter

Again, not one of the boys, Peter is a young orphan who was taken on as a ward by Matt and Brett Force in a bitter legal battle. He lives somewhere in the GO-FORCE! mansion, though nobody is entirely sure where, and always seems to be underfoot just when GO-FORCE! is leaving on an important mission. Even though he's usually just underfoot, Peter has been invaluable to GO-FORCE!, such as when they disguised him as a turkey to keep Bad Jim from realizing how horribly wrong his thanksgiving was about to go. Peter doesn't attend school, instead taking lessons from Gail Force in all the academics, and learning morals from the GO-FORCE! boys, who luckily are certain of everything.

A.Z.T.E.C. Lou

This nemesis of GO-FORCE! doesn't even deserve mention, but to truly undertand GO-FORCE! you must understand him, too. A.Z.T.E.C. Lou spends most of his time in his secret hideout, which lies suspiciously close to the GO-FORCE mansion (some even believe he may have infiltrated the mansion itself). A.Z.T.E.C. Lou is dedicated to world domination, or anything in the same vein, and spends nearly every hour plotting his megalomanic plan to coat the entire world with his twisted propaganda. A.Z.T.E.C. Lou, as he is ordinarily seen, is actually wearing a huge suit or articulated armor, a giant robot body, which most take to be his actual figure. In reality, through some tweak of mother nature, A.Z.T.E.C. Lou is only two feet, eight inches tall. From this comes the A.Z.T.E.C. portion of his name. A.Z.T.E.C. Lou can be recognized at a glance while piloting his robot body: Towering over everything in sight, he inspires fear in all but the most stoic of superheros.

These are the men and women that make GO-FORCE! the superhero team what they are. And what they are is a sight to behold. Wearing spage age battle armor, they need to carry no weapons when they fly into battle. Perfectly coordinated, they can subdue any opponent as quickly as they want, they just like to take their time sometimes. In battle, they are recognizable through the distinctive color coding of their battle suits: Matt is blue, Brett is green, and Professor Go a beautiful orange.

When in battle, GO-FORCE! often makes use of TIMM, the Temporally Instrasigent Morphing Machine that carries many of GO-FORCE!'s tricks and technological wonders, not to mention having plenty of cargo room and lovely upholstery.

When not in battle, GO-FORCE! spends their time at the GO-FORCE!, a huge mansion built on a hill barely outside the city. Though many people are afraid even to approach it's gates, inside the GO-FORCE! mansion is quite a happy environment, with projects, research, and experimentation going on nearly round the clock, and team members training in the multi-million dollar porch simulator, recently installed.

Only slightly less well known than GO-FORCE! the superhero team is GO-FORCE! the hack group.

Your average hack group (LoD, MoD, cDc) is dedicated merely to finding out new things, to discovery, to exploration. GO-FORCE! goes far beyond that. To the founding members of GO-FORCE!, Tweety Fish, Majikthys, and Zomba Soul, what the computer underground was really calling out for was a team of people who not only liked to explore and learn, but also had a deep and fundamental sense of superhero justice. They therefore decided that the net needed GO-FORCE!, and to keep GO-FORCE! off the information superhighway would all but insure the appearance of potholes.

The third incarnation of GO-FORCE!, barely known outside of certain literary circles is GO-FORCE! the show, a documentary program on their life and work that showcases everything GO-FORCE is.

A complete episode guide, along with plenty of other information on the superhero team and the hack group, is available on the GO-FORCE! mailing list. To join just mail go_force_request@world.std.com. Any questions or comments or credit card information can be mailed to tfish@yurt.tiac.net.

Don't just go for it! GO-FORCE! it!

GO-FORCE! yourself.

tfish / Tweety Fish / tfish@l0pht.com