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The Engineer is the name of two fictional characters in the Wildstorm Universe. The current...

The Engineer is the name of two fictional characters in the Wildstorm Universe. The current Engineer, Angela Spica, is a member of the Authority, first appears in The Authority #1 and was created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch. The Engineer first appeared in the 1997 final story arc of Stormwatch volume 1, ("Change or Die" - Stormwatch issues #48-50), by Warren Ellis and Tom Raney. He was part of a superpowered group called the Changers, led by The High, who wanted to change the world by removing the structure of society itself. There would be no more laws, no authoritarian structures, no crime and no war. The Engineer's role in this plan was to seed nanotechnological oases across the planet. These oases would serve as "horns of plenty" providing every imaginable food, product and tool anybody needed. This first Engineer died with the rest of the Changers in issue #50 when Stormwatch, under the command of an increasingly maverick Henry Bendix, destroyed their base with Hammerstrike Deep Sanction missiles consisting of biowar payload and tailored acid bombs. A later Stormwatch arc, collected as the trade paperback A Finer World (Stormwatch vol. 2 issues #2-4) explored this