Henry Ballard (New Earth)
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Destroy the world around the hero... and ultimately the hero is defeated before the battle! 
- -- The Director [[ |[src]]]
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History
It is unknown if Henry Ballard was directly involved into the criminal gang of the 100 or even then, but after Black Lightning destroyed the 100 Ballard rebuilt the remnants of the organisation into the high tech criminal juggernaut the 1000. And layered there outposts in lead preventing the man of steel from detecting them. No longer leading a gang of common criminals Ballard boarded his horizon to bigger things.
The Corporate Crusader
As the director he hired the killer Chiller to assassinate the president and vice-president of the united states. [1] Where Chiller had to take on the president identity and play out a hostage deal, where senator Henry Ballard engineers a fake rescue deal that would free the president and make Ballard a hero. Chiller would appoint Ballard as the new Vice president and then resign his post due to ill health, leaving Ballard as President - free to appoint members of the 1000 to positions of influence and authority around the US. The plan was foiled by Booster Gold with help from Brainiac 5, Ultra Boy and Chameleon Boy. With his political career ruined Ballard wanted to discover Boosters identity and dispose of this new nauseous.
a operative got boosters fingerprints at the health club, but there was no match as if the person in question never existed. Ballard believed this was the cause and used it to his advantage, a man that doesn't exists can't pay his taxes. And as a result brought Booster to court, but the judges took his accomplishment into account and gave the hero a identification number so he could pay the state from now one.
The 1000 stole a satellite guiding system from S.T.A.R. Labs but the man under Blackguard and the man himself where stopped by the golden hero The hired mercenary Mindancer bested booster gold and recaptured the device. Impressed by her latest exploit he offered her a new assignment, springing Blackguard out of jail so he could be disciplined for his failure. As a added bonus she also captured Booster Gold at the cost of the lives of 90% of the thousand presented at that point. Booster Gold and Blackguard would has surely perished if the super heroin Thorn hadn't rescued the two and shut down the hideout.
Directing His Demise
Thanks to these defeats Ballard realised he underestimated Metropolis new hero, it became personal. He and Doctor Shocker discovered the heroes energy weakened with every charge of his power suite at the cost of 3 battle robots. Ballard began to realise it wouldn't be long until the hero lost his powers, but as the Director he couldn't wait. He ordered the capture of the creative crew of the published Booster Gold Comic from Blaze Comics in the hope they had inside source about the hero. After the 1000 was done with them Ballard made sure the men would bring over an messages that the 1000 was after Booster Gold, there shot corpses where later found by the police.
Ballard also ordered the abduction of Dirk Davis' daughter Sarah Davis and his assistant Trixie Collins, the 1000 warned the manager they would kill the two females if mr. Davis wouldn't comply to there demands. With Dirk Davis at there mercy the 1000 was able to hack into Skeets the robot sidekick of Booster Gold.
Ballard and his troops sprung Shockwave out of prison and gave him the assignment to wreck Booster Golds home. Ballard was furious when Shocker did a to good job and almost killed the far weaker then expected hero, but was defeated by the combined effort of Booster and Davis. Davis confessed the 1000 blackmail to his friend. Pleased to see that his nemeses was still alive Ballard challenged Booster, as the Director to go to the Millenium Shipping Warehouses and rescue the women. The many traps stationed brought Booster Gold bleeding and powerless. Ballard ordered the compound to be evacuated as he planned to fight the hero on equal terms. Before the women where rescued Ballard made sure they had seen the captured senator when they where moved to an other cell. Trixie pleaded to Booster to rescue the man, unaware she was leading her friend into a trap.
Booster "rescued" the senator and for his trouble Ballard revealed his true color, activating Skeets to fire at the hero until its power battery was depleted. With the hero at his mercy now Ballard schemed to simply shoot the hero and dump his corps in a dark back alley[2], but he did not take the droids reserve batteries in account and Ballard was blasted by Skeets in a attempt to save his friend live. Booster got the upper hand again but before, Ballard could be captured both man where caught in an explosion. Only Booster Gold carrying a deactivated Skeets came out alive from the destroyed building. If Ballard survived has of yet been unconfirmedPowers and Abilities
Powers
- Symbiotic Link (Android)
- The Director can enstable a short range link with a android of the 1000 and control it mentally.
See Also
- Discuss Henry Ballard (New Earth) on the forums
- Appearances of Henry Ballard (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Henry Ballard (New Earth)
- Images featuring Henry Ballard (New Earth)
Recommended Reading
Links and References
Footnotes
- ↑ as president Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush but this is probably not the case any more
- ↑ It is ironic that Booster Golds best friend Ted Kord met his end with a similar faith at the hands of Max Lord
