I know a lot of readers of the Milestones’ classic comic series: BLOOD SYNDICATE all remember that their original leader and fan favorite, Tech-9 died only four issues into the series. Tech walked away from the other members following a celebration of their victory against the S.Y.S.T.E.M to take a piss, when Tech noticed Fade (or what appeared to be Fade) up in front of him; Tech began to walk towards Fade..then it happened: Tech’s began to scream in pain as his skin began to melt off his body.

As the other Syndicate members raced to their leader, they saw nothing but Techs’ uniform enclosed in blood and bones. Tech-9 had died as the skin all but melted off his bones by the time a shockened Fade was able to hold his friend for one last time. With smoke being risen from his blooden skeleton, Flashback yells “IT’S THE GAS. IT HAD TO BE THE GAS!”.

While The Syndicate accepted this as the cause of death…I happen to believe differently. Over the past 20 years since the birth of the DakotaVerse and even during the Milestone Comics run in the mid 90’s, there was no other Bang Babies that died from the “side effects” of the Bang. Not like that. Maybe it was a member of the SYSTEM who came back to attack their leader or possibly a gang member who wanted to get revenge on Tech for taking down the crackhomes and drugs being circulated within the city or maybe it was an old teammate who has the ability to create fire…burn others and recently got his ass whupped in front of everybody before promising to get revenge. Who am I referring to…who else :Holocaust

Holocaust has the ability of PyroKinetics and a power hungry pyschopath. After nearly killing residents of a near by building and being questioned about his actions by Tech 9, Holocaust decides to challenge Tech for leadership of the Syndicate. The two fight for leadership and though it seems as if Tech was going to lose…he flips the script and defeats Holocaust by shooting an endless amount of bullets at him non stop until he admitted his defeat. Tech then tells Holocaust that he can keep his role on the team but cut all the bullsh*t. Holocaust response is cussing the others out and promising to get revenge. Holocaust is one of the most powerful beings in the Milestone universe who originated from the Big Bang battle. He even at this young stage had a good idea on how to use his powers. Holocaust even became more powerful towards the end of the Milestone era as he took a chance to increase his powers and inhaled a vial of the same gas that gave him his amazing power.

Power that would include making every and anything burn including people burn. Which is what I think happened to Tech. Techs’ skin MELTED off of his bone man. Let me repeat that; his skin MELTED off of his BONES!! Then if you look at the above pic, u will see that there is smoke coming from the skin being melted off his bones. I don’t think this is a coincedence. I believe that HOLOCAUST is the reason Tech-9 was killed as he was the Murderer. The two had a disagreement in Issue # 1, they had a fight in issue # 2, and in Issue # 4, Tech dies at the end by what is believed to be a side effect from the Big Bang. Lets keep it real here people, Tech 9 was killed by Holocaust who burned him to death. In my opinion, This revealtion would have been revealed at some point if the BLOOD SYNDICATE series had continue. What do you think?