The planet Thanagar-One orbited the star Polaris in the Alpha-Centari System, a world that reached the pinnacle of peace for over two hundred years. No longer in need of a monarch or sole-authoritarian, this world was ruled by a benevolent council, and guarded by their Wingmen. These flying foot-soldiers were tasked with dealing first with invading Man-Hawks from outer space, and later thrill thieves.
One of these, the criminal known as Byth, was followed to Earth-One by a pair of Wingmen... Katar and Shayera Hol. Assuming the masked idenities of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, aided in their winged flight by the anti-gravity metal discovered by Katar's father Paran, the pair captured the shape-shifting Byth and stayed on Earth to study its crimefighting techniques.
This began when the Thanagarian fleet and its Wingmen expanded across the galaxy and came into conflict with the Infinite Empire. This alien armada decisively defeated the Thanagarians, and false evidence indicates that Katar has betrayed his peoples’ location to the Empire. Although revealing the true betrayer and helping locate the means to neutralized the Empire, Katar and Shayera found a permanent rift between they and their fellow Wingmen. This would be exploited later when alien Empress Hyanthis cured the Thanagarians from an Equalizing Plague which crippled them, turning their planet into her dictatorship.
While the Carter Hall native to Earth-Two developed the nth metal (his universe’s version of anti-gravity metal) belt with wings based on the long abandoned Thanagarian spacecraft found in ancient Egypt, the residents of Thanagar-Two had advanced their method of winged flight in the centuries since the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs. This technology incorporated a wing harness powered by an "atom-breaking engine" to achieve both altitude and substantial speed.
These renegade minions of the Vulture King apparently originated from Thanagar-Two. Centuries earlier, an advanced armada of these Wingmen had attempted to found a colony on Earth-Two, whom the armored avenger known as Silent Knight encountered during one of his adventures. Now seeking to recruit humans into his forces, the Thanagarian Vulture King and his lieutenants used a device known as the Electromizer (their version of the more benevolent device known as the Absorbacron developed on Thanagar-One), which temporarily even brainwashed the Amazing Amazon herself, Wonder Woman! Once defeated, these rogues were placed in Earth prisons.
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