Five years after the Supreme Squadron clashed against the Ultimates, a new ship to explore the moon was alunched.Thecrew of the ship, Icarus One, landed in the moon surface and found a mysterious object, which was a probe with aliens spores similar to the ones who had traveled when Hyperion reachedearth and which triggered anew breed of superhumans beings, starting with the astronauts themselves, giving them fantastic powers. They later would be recruited by Nick Fury to a new SHIELD force and would clash with the original Squadron Supreme andd later they went agaist a middle east nation populated by superbeings.

Eventualy the spores were deactivated and the members of the crew lost thir powers and recovered their humans forms, not without lose oneof their members.