Coup D'Etat (2004)

The Stormwatch team are in Hungary, slowly defeating Baron Chaos. After they defeat him, they find out about the Authority's coup, fleeing just in time to avoid being apprehended by the Authority.

Jack Marlowe (formerly Spartan of the Wildcats) speaks to the Authority about the dangers of using endless cycles of violence for what amounts to be only short-term effects.

The Authority sets out to stop the American military and gain custody of the President. The team seeks to appease the aliens whose ship was destroyed when the US government negligently sent an engine into the Bleed.

Tao places a device in the hands of the U.S. Government that allows them to enter the Bleed, where it exploded, damaging a vessel of an alien race and starting an interdimensional war. Florida is almost completely laid to waste when an accident in the Bleed destroys a massive ship of very powerful and big aliens. The Authority determines that the US Government was responsible for the accident. Because of the government's cavalier actions the Authority moves in and takes over the United States.