Vega City Team

The Vega City Team or the V.C.T. is an American Syndicate of Heroes Team assigned to the protection of Vega City.

Formation
The Vega City Team was formed by Celestia, or Ramona Ross, when she was only 22 years old. She had been Celestia for seven years at the time and had been fighting against the A.S.H. to remove Black Patriot from Vega City, claiming he was a danger to the people of the city. With the help of Martin Perry swaying the people through the press. She soon gained the support of two other local heroes, The Jersey Devil (Arnold Miller) and a young Silver Bullet (Marlon Tucker).

With the public's support, the A.S.H. was forced to remove Black Patriot from Vega City and soon accepted Celestia and her team as Syndicate Members, forming the Vega City Team.

Death of the Jersey Devil
During a mission that led Celestia and the Jersey Devil into space, the Jersey Devil sacrificed himself to save Celestia's life. This resulted in Celestia choosing to retire as a hero indefinitely. Her protégée E.T. left with her.

After Celestia's departure, the Vega City Team's popularity decreased and many other members moved on to different teams or to higher levels in the Syndicate.

Excommunication of Hummingbird
Many years after Celestia left the group, Hummingbird, a member of the Vega City team was excommunicated for assisting a Rogue villain in escape from the law. This villain, Erika Tanaka also known as Kamakiri, was a serial attacker who preyed on the Kingpins of Sex Trafficking in Vega City. Rather than killing her targets, Kamakiri would perform "greater castration" on these men. This had mixed responses from the public, some praising her for taking down a line of evil men, others hated her for removing a man's most prized body part.

Regardless, her assaults were followed closely by the Vega City Team, who attempted to catch her many times, trying to protect the targets she was after next. Unknown by the A.S.H., but one of the VCT members had come into contact with Kamakiri in an attempt to reason with her. In Kamakiri's last "hunt", she had made it clear her intentions were to murder her last victim who she had personal ties to. But at the last minute she pulled out, planning to instead expose the man in question for his various crimes rather than get personal revenge.

Surrounded by the police, Kamakiri was only able to escape with the help of Hummingbird, who flew her out of the area.

This led to Kamakiri escaping arrest and Hummingbird being permanently banned from the American Syndicate of Heroes. Hummingbird's actions negatively impacted the reputation of the VCT, but Kamakiri did gain more positive recognition as she continued to protect Vega City from organized crime and sex trafficking, updating her status to Vigilante hero rather than Rogue. Hummingbird, however, fell out of the eye of the public, and has since been reported to do unlicensed hero work under a new name, Violetear.