Editing New Wave (section)

===Background===
The Brockton Bay Brigade was a standard, unofficial superteam founded by the three siblings Lady Photon, Brandish and Lightstar. Each brought their current partners at the time into the team, husbands (Manpower and Flashbang), and Lightstar's girlfriend Fleur.<ref name="WoG2"/> The Brockton Bay Brigade was led by Manpower.<ref name="Wedit">[http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Manpower?oldid=4536 Edit by Wildbow]<br>Note that some of this edit [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37804044/ is not canon].</ref> They clashed with [[Marquis]] and [[Empire Eighty-Eight]] among other Brockton Bay villains.

The team was rechristened New Wave and its members unmasked, in an effort to be a new breed of publicly accountable superhero. Leadership of the new team was passed to Lady Photon. For a time they became national celebrities. They even deployed to [[Boston]] to deal with an upswing in the criminal community there.<ref>“Heroes, like the PRT, and like my family’s team, followed, to try and keep the peace until things settled.  My family’s team was Lady Photon, Manpower, Flashbang, Brandish, Lightstar and Fleur.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23/flare-2-5/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

The group's sucess would not last. The wind was taken out of their sails when Fleur was assassinated in her civilian identity by an unpowered street criminal looking to gain influence with Empire Eighty Eight; Lightstar left the team shortly thereafter.<ref name="WoG2">[http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/New_Wave?oldid=4170 Edit by Wildbow]<br>Later [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37804044/ updated by Wildbow].</ref> With the risks of publicly unmasking now on full display, the driving concept of unmasked heroism failed to gain traction outside of the two founding families of New Wave. Despite their ideological defeat, the team retained some degree of celebrity.