MU3 - Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY date the public by assassinating,.--..
Mystique is a self-serving opportun- Senator Robert Kelly, who wa~
ist and master strategist. She wants Little has been revealed about Mys- investigating what he perceived as
to use her abilities to infiltrate the tique's past life. Indeed, since she the possible menace posed by the
halls of power and take over from can eliminate the outward signs of existence of superhuman mutants
within. Curiously, she has a soft aging with her shape-changing and other superhuman beings. The
streak towards Rogue; despite the power, it is not known exactly how X-Men thwarted the assassination
fact that they are now technically old she is. She apparently learned to attempt, and the Brotherhood later
enemies, Mystique cannot allow her use her shape-changing power at a clashed with the X-Men on other
to be harmed. Mystique has a spe- very early age, for there is no evi- occasions, as well as with the Aveng-
cial love-hate relationship with· dence that Raven Darkholme ever ers and the Dazzler. Rogue was a
Nightcrawler who, she once hinted, looked like anything but a normal member of the Brotherhood for a
is related to her in some way. human being. Mystique has hinted time, but finally left to join the X-Men,
at a possible relationship between in order to find help in learning how
herself and the mutant Nightcrawler, to deal with her superhuman
but it is not known if the two of them powers.
are indeed related. Mystique ,is
known to be a longtime friend of the Recently, anti-mutant sentiment
mutant Destiny. At some point in among normal human beipgs has
recent years, Mystique became the greatly increased, and the federal,,,-..
protector of the young mutant government has launched its own
named Rogue, whom she looks covert anti-mutant program, Project
upon as a surrogate daughter. Wideawake. Believing that the times
had thus become too dangerous for
Mystique has concealed her the Brotherhood to continue its crim-
superhuman powers and criminal inal activities, Mystique went to Dr.
intentions so well over the years that, Valerie Cooper, special assistant to
as Darkholme, she has been able to the head of the National Security
rise rapidly through the United Council, and offered the Brother-
States Civil Service to the trusted hood's services to the government....-.
position of Deputy Director of the Cooper agreed to convey the offer td
Defense Advanced Research Plan- the President, on condition that the
ning Agency (DARPA) in the United
States Department of Defense. This Brotherhood pass a test she
position gives her access to military imposed: the capture of Magneto.
secrets and to advanced weaponry, The Brotherhood, now renamed
both of which she has used for her Freedom Force, succeeded in bring-
own criminal and subversive pur- ing Magneto to the authorities
poses. (although, in fact, they did so only
because he voluntarily surrendered
To help her in her criminal activi- to them), and soon afterwards offi- ,.........
ties, Mystique organized the second cially entered the government's
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, which employ.
originally consisted of herself, Ava-
lanche, the Blob, Destiny, and Pyro. Recently, the government had
Mystique named her group after the Freedom Force take the Avengers
original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, into custody after charges of treason
a subversive organization founded were leveled against them. Mystique
by Magneto in his criminal days. remains leader of Freedom Force,
Magneto and Mystique chose that and the federal government is still
name ironically; if the public feared unaware of her identity as Raven
that superhuman mutants were Darkholme. In return for entering the
"evil," then that is what they would government's employ as Freedom
call themselves. Force's leader, Mystique has
received a presidential pardon for all
The second Brotherhood became criminal charges against her, but the
notorious when it attempted to intimi- pardon will be revoked if any mem-
ber of the Freedom Force is found
committing a crime.

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~ ~TATISTICS NAMORITA

F EX (20) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Namorita is trying to be a relatively
normal American teenager. Her exot-
S IN (40) ic background makes this difficult
sometimes, but it also gives her
E EX (20) options unavailable to most teens.
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
P EX (20)
Health: 110
Karma: 46
Resources: GD (10)

Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Namorita (Namorita
Prentiss in the surface world)
Occupation : Student
-. Legal Status: Atlantean citizen, nat-
uralized U.S. citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Talan and
Namora (parents, deceased), Namor
the Sub-Mariner (cousin)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Aquarian's
..-..._followers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Invulnerability: Namorita's physique
provides her with Good protection
from physical attacks.

Water-Breathing: Namorita has the
ability to breathe either air or water.
Water Freedom: Namorita's near per-
~fect adaptation to life in the sea
;ncludes an Excellent resistance to
cold.
Winged Flight: Namorita is able to fly
at Poor air speed (35 mph) via the
wings on her ankles.
Talents: Namorita has a natural
familiarity with oceanography and
ict hyology.

Contacts: She is close to both
Namor and Aquarian.

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HISTORY when Merro became attracted to plot against Namor. Under the threat,
Namora. A short time later, Namora of having her mother's body
Namorita was the only daughter of was found dead. Namorita suspect- destroyed, Namorita was sent to lure
Namora, the pink-skinned daughter ed that her mother's death was Lly- Namor into one of Byrrah's traps.
of a human mother and Atlantean ra's doing, but she could not prove it. Namorita reluctantly complied, but
father, and Talan , a blue-skinned Not long afterwards, Prince Merro due to fatigue, bungled the attempt.
member of the genus Homo mer- also died a mysterious death, and Byrrah captured Namor anyway, and
Llyra assumed the throne. Llyra later held him and his cousin prisoner
manus. Namorita's father, Talan, was attacked Karthon , who replaced while he attacked Atlantis.
Naga as emperor and took control of
killed when the Atlantean city of the Lemurian empire. Namor foiled Byrrah's plans and
Maritanis was destroyed by a nucle- exiled him from Atlantis, and then he
ar weapons test of the surface dwell- As empress, Llyra welcomed the placed Namorita in the care of his
ers when Namorita was three. She human friend Betty Dean Prentiss.
and her mother, among the survi- exiled Atlantean Prince Byrrah to She enrolled the young Atlantean-
vors, migrated across the Arctic to Lemuria, and the two plotted the human hybrid in an American high
reach the Pacific Ocean. They even- overthrow of Namor and the con- school , and had her learn the ways
tually came upon a small city at the quest of Atlantis. Byrrah took of the surface people. Around the
outskirts of the city-state of Lemuria, Namorita into custody and took her time Namorita began to go to col-
where they were met by the princess to one of the ancestral homes of the lege, Prentiss was murdered by the
Llyra. This city was ruled by Prince Atlanteans in the Antarctic Ocean criminal scientist Dr. Lemuel Dorcas.(
Merro, under the auspices of Naga, where he was assembling the weap- Namorita assumed her loving guard-
the emperor of the Lemurian empire. onry for his impending assault on ian's last name as a tribute.
Llyra was currying favor with Merro, Atlantis. Llyra joined them after
hoping to become his betrothed , being deposed from rule by a popu- At present, Namorita is a member
lar uprising. Llyra and Byrrah decid- of the Aquarian"s band of followers.
ed to use Namorita as a pawn in their She has not visited Atlantis in years.

,,.,.-...,

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NEBULA

- STATISTICS

F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S EX (20)
E AM (50)
R RM (30)
I RM (30)
P IN (40)
Health: 130
Karma: 100
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Space Pirate, merce-
nary, conqueror
,...-....Legal Status: Unknown
ldentity: Existence unknown to the
general public
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: Thanos (alleged
grandfather)
Base of Operations: Sanctuary II
Past Group Affiliations: Leader of a
mercenary band
,......,_Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Wrist Blasters: These devices are
able to fire plasma bolts of Excellent
Intensity with a range of 10 a~eas..
Talents: Nebula is highly skilled in
military strategy, space warfare,
leadership, astro-navigation , and the
operation of Thanos's technology.
,...-....,_Contacts: Her own pirate band.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY daughter of one of Thanos's sons or
- Nebula is a cruel, ruthless, relent- daughters. Her father and mo~her
Little is known about the life of remain unidentified. A short time
.ess foe who has no qualms about Nebula before the time she hijacked after Thanos became permanently
killing. She maintains a firm control Sanctuary II, the solar-orbiting satel- transfixed between life and death,
over her crew. lite built and used as a base of opera- Nebula sent a small band of her most
tions by the mutant Titanian named trusted aides to Sanctuary II to repair
Thanos, whom she claimed to be her its hyperdrive engines and teleport
grandfather. o _ver the .h~ndreds of the station out of the solar system.
years of his existence, 1t 1s probable The underlings, were met by the
that Thanos took many mates and Avenger Captain Marvel who had
consorts. Nebula is apparently the been sent to Sanctuary II to investi-
gate possible activity. Nebula's min-
ions warped the satellite out of the
solar system with Captain Marvel

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aboard and rendezvoused with Neb- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES While in her presence, he is subser-,,..-...
ula. Nebula planned to conquer the Gunthar is humorless and cruel. He vient and a little nervous. Away from
Skrull empire, now that it was in the likes to use his powers to bully oth- her, he is haughty, proud, and an
throes of chaos with the destruction ers, especially weak-willed under- able warrior. Levan was recently cap-
of the throneworld by the planet- lings like Kehl. tured by Skrulls.
destroyer Galactus. Not knowing
how to return home, Captain Marvel KEHL OF TAURAN SKUNGE THE LAXIOAZIAN
pretended to go along with Nebula's TROLL
scheme but actually helped the STATISTICS
Skrulls evacuate the outpost world F RM (30) STATISTICS (-
Nebula was intent on destroying. A GD (10)
The Avengers eventually located S MN (75) F GD (10) I
their missing member and allied E UN (100) A GD (10)
themselves with the Skrulls to R PR (4)
I FE (2) s TY (6)
oppose her. Before the Avengers P FE (2)
were able to catch up with Nebula, Health: 215 E EX (20)
she annihilated both the Skrull out- Karma: 8 R GD (10)
post and the planet Xandar, home I TY (6)
planet of the Avengers' ally Firelord. KNOWN POWERS p TY (6)
In battle with Nebula, the Avenger Body Armor: Kehl has Remarkable
Starfox, brother of Thanos, learned protection from attacks. Health: 46
that Nebula was Thanos' grand- Self Sustenance: This Good power Karma: 22
daughter, and thus his great-niece. enables Kehl to survive without food,
Shortly thereafter, the virtually drink, air, and such for long periods KNOWN POWERS
omnipotent Beyonder, curious about of time. Laser Pistol: This weapon does
the Avengers, arrived, and in an Excellent damage and has an Excel-
attempt to help the Avengers van- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES lent range. It is constructed of Excel-
quish Nebula, helped her and her Kehl is simple-minded, straight for- lent material.
minions to escape them by teleport- ward, and melancholic. Taurans are
ing them out of the Andromeda Gal- the orange-skinned survivors of one ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ~
of Galactus's attacks who now work
axy. Nebula's current whereabouts at various odd-jobs throughout the Normal Laxidazians are moralistic
and activities are unknown, but Star- universe.
fox and Firelord are searching humans. Since he is a rebel, Skunge
known space trying to find out.
was transformed into a small, satyr-

like hedonist. Skunge was later cap-

tured by the Skrulls.

GUNTHAR OF RIGEL SANCTUARY II

STATISTICS LEVAN Control Speed Body Protection.-..,.

F GD (10) STATISTICS MN C3000 MN MN :
A GD (10) F EX (20)
S GD (10) A EX (20) This starship has 10,000 crewmen of

E GD (10) S GD (10) various species. It is armed with hun-
R EX (20) E RM (30) dreds of Monstrous Intensity and
I EX (20) R EX (20) thousands of Amazing Intensity
I EX (20) energy weapons. The Hull is a Mon-
P IN (40) P EX (20) strous material. The Ship is pro-
Health: 40 Health: 80 pelled by a Class 3000 stardrive
Karma: 80 Karma: 60 (lightspeed) and a hyperdrive capa-
ble of instantly moving it anywhere in
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS the universe (within 1-100 days). The
Mind Control: Remarkable rank with Laser Pistol: This weapon does hanger deck holds hundreds of fight-
a range of 2 areas. Excellent damage and has an Excel- er craft (1-3 crew each) armed with
Mind Blast: Incredible rank with a lent range. It is constructed of Excel- Plasma Generation guns of Amazing
range of 2 areas. lent material. rank.
Density Increase: This Incredible
power gives him Incredible Armor ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Skin but decreases his Fighting and Levan is Nebula's first officer. She
Agility scores by 1 CS. recognizes his weaknesses and
uses them to dominate him totally.

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~ NEKRA

rTATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Nekra is a bitter woman seeking
F RM (30) revenge against America for its
A IN (40) rejection of her. She has expanded
S GD {10) her sights to world conquest and is a
E RM (30) canny strategist who makes exten-
R TY (6) sive preparations before striking.
I GD (10) She will gladly use others as pawns
P IN (40) and sacrifices in her schemes.
Health: 110
Karma: 56 105
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: -5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Nekra Sinclair
Occupation: Cult Priestess, revolu-

Jionary
.egal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
nal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Los Alamos, New
Mexico
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Gemma and
Buck (parents, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile

----.past Group Affiliations: Lethal
.:egion, former priestess of Black
Spectre and Kali
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Strength Increase: Once every eight
hours Nekra can boost her Strength

to Incredible for up to one hour. She
can trigger this power by extremely
- violent hatred or a Psyche FEAT.
\rmor Skin: As a side effect of her
increased strength, she gains
Amazing protection from both physi-
cal and energy attacks.
Tracking: Nekra has the Excellent
ability to follow trails left by others.
Zombie Creation: Nekra has the
Remarkable ability to create zom-

bies, an act requiring only 8 minutes.
She can control up to 30 zombies at
one time. As a Power Stunt, she can
transform a corpse into a lifelike
zombie with the original person's
personality and Abilities.
Weakness: Nekra is at -2 CS when
trying to resist any form of scent-

based attack.
,,......,_Talents: Nekra is familiar with Occult

_ore and Martial Arts A, B, and E.
Contacts: Nekra has worked with
both the Mandrill and Black Talon.

HISTORY rule. He took the name Mandrill, and clinic for emotional research, and,.-..
made Nekra the priestess of his per- taking her place. Nekra hoped to usl
Nekra was the daughter of Gemma sonality cult. But that plan was the clinic's resources to learn why
Sinclair, a black cleaning woman at thwarted by the jungle adventurer her powers depended on violent
the Los Alamos Atomic Proving Shanna O'Hara. In the aftermath of emotion, and why softer emotions
Grounds in New Mexico. A year their African fiasco, Mandrill and made her vulnerable. Nekra's con-
before Nekra was born, her mother Nekra regrouped and formed Black nection to the clinic was discovered
and Frederick Beachman, a Cauca- Spectre, an organization of black by Jessica Drew, the original Spider-
sian scientist, were exposed to a women dedicated to the overthrow of Woman, and in the ensuing battle,
massive dose of radiation . Beech- the United States government. Their weakened as she was by the Spider-
man 's wife gave birth to a son named plot, which culminated with a brief Woman 's pheromone emissions ,
Jerome at about the same time takeover of the White House, was Nekra sustained severe injuries.
Nekra was born, and somehow the thwarted by Daredevil, with the help
racial patterns displayed by the chil- of Shanna O'Hara and the Black Nekra was once again taken into
dren were reversed: the girl born of Widow. While the Mandrill escaped, SHIELD custody, and kept in a
the black parents had chalk-white Nekra was taken into custody by research hospital until she was well
skin, and the boy born of white par- SHIELD. enough to be moved to prison.
ents was a deep brown.
Nekra spent several months con- But Nekra recovered more quickly
The young Nekra grew up fined in a SHIELD holding facility, than her doctors had anticipated,
despised by her parents and hated drugged so that she would be unable and escaped from the hospital -
by other children. When she was ten to use her powers. But during her before she could be moved. Abam
years old, she ran away from home, incarceration, she saw the television doning the Cult of Kali, she made·
and met her male counterpart Jero- broadcast of a rally held by the Hate- contact with the voodoo-master
me Beachman (who had been simi- Monger, and responded to sublimi- known as the Black Talon, and
larly mistreated} in the New Mexico nal frequencies designed to through him met the Grim Reaper. In
desert. Sensing the kinship between stimulate hatred in the viewing audi- him, Nekra found a man whose pas-
them, the two began to wander sion for hatred matched her own,
together. For the next six years, they ence. This overwhelmed the effects and they became lovers in spite of
of the drugs given her, and Nekra their very different backgrounds.
lived on the edge of civilization, sur- escaped, vowing vengeance on the Nekra joined the Grim Reaper's,...-..
viving by stealth and cunning, and Mandrill, who had abandoned her. Lethal Legion, and assisted th~
educating themselves by reading Black Talon in capturing the Grim
stolen books. But one night, angry Nekra soon happened upon a den Reaper's enemy the Vision , and in
New Mexican townspeople , believ- of fanatics in an abandoned subway creating a zombie that resembles
ing the two children to be " mon- tunnel in New York City and, sensing the Grim Reaper's brother Simon
sters," attacked them with pitchforks opportunity, offered herself as a sac- Williams, alias Wonder Man. The
and guns. Nekra responded to their rifice to their death-goddess, Kali , Grim Reaper planned to give the
fear and hatred in kind, and as her knowing that her power would make zombie those brain patterns which
rage grew within her, her latent it impossible for them to kill her. the Vision and Wonder Man had in
mutant powers surfaced. She and When she "miraculously" survived common in order to create a Simon ...-...
young Beachman slew some of their the sacrifice, she told the cultists that Williams closer to what he remem;
attackers and drove off the rest. she was their goddess incarnate, bered his brother to be than were
and demanded that the current either Wonder Man or the Vision.
In the years that followed, Nekra priestesses of the cult, Shaya and The plan failed, however, and while
developed fangs and grew more Ushas, submit themselves to sacri- fleeing the two in a cave, the Grim
vampiric in appearance while fice as she had done. Those priest- Reaper fell off a ledge and was
Beechman grew to resemble a man- esses failed to survive, and with their impaled on a stalagmite. Nekra
drill. Beachman conceived the ambi- deaths Nekra became the High found his lifeless body and brought it
tious scheme of overthrowing three Priestess of the Cult of Kali. back to life as a zombie in order to
small West African governments and exact revenge on the Vision. Her
consolidating the nations under his Later, Nekra established a base of subsequent activities are as yet
operations on the West Coast by unknown.
murdering Adrienne Hatos, the
reclusive widow of the founder of a

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NIGHTCRAWLER

,.--.~. TATISTICS

J

F EX (20)
A AM (50)
S TY (6)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P EX (20)
Health: 106
Karma: 50
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Kurt Wagner
Occupation: Adventurer, ex-circus
performer
,..--Legal Status: West German citizen
dentity: Secret
Place of Birth: Bavarian Alps
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Eric Wagner
(father, deceased), Margali Szardos
(foster mother), Jemaine Szardos
(a.k.a. Amanda Sefton, foster sister),
Stetan Szardos (foster brother,
deceased)
--Gase of Operations: X-Mansion,
.=ong Island, NY; Great Britain

Past Group Affiliations: X-Men,
Excalibur
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Contacts: Nightcrawler is well ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Teleportation: Nightcrawler can known to the members of the X-Men , Nightcrawler is torn between two
transport himself across Feeble dis- X-Factor, and Excalibur. extremes. Most of the time he is a
tances (2-3 miles) with ease. dashing, flamboyant swashbuckler
~xceeding his normal range limits is ADDITIONAL NOTES: and ladies' man. This disguises a
_;ossible, but requires an Endurance darker side that makes him brood
FEAT. Failing this roll indicates dis- about relig ion , morality, and his
orientation or even unconscious-
ness for 1-10 turns. Teleporting with place in the scheme of things.
1-2 passengers causes everyone's Although level-headed when battling
Abilities and Powers to drop by 2 CS most foes (robots, supercriminals,
for two turns after the transfer. As a etc.), he becomes almost bestial
Power Stunt, Nightcrawler can tele- when confronting sadistic or bigoted
port away with part of a non-living foes.
target, severing it and causing
Amazing damage.
Prehensile Tail: Nightcrawler's tail
can be used to attack a foe with
Good Fighting rank.
Weakness: Whenever Nightcrawler
teleports he produces a loud Bamf, a
puff of smoke, and a strong smell of
--'1rimstone (sulphur).
.alents: He is an Olympic-class ath-
lete. He is skilled in hand-to-hand
combat and fencing.

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HISTORY and Jemaine. Long before his tele- Wagner into the X-Men. Wagney-...._
portation power emerged, Wagner agreed to join the group, but befor,
Kurt Wagner was born with certain had tremendous natural agility, and they left for America, he and Xavier
unusual physical characteristics, but by adolescence he had become the went to the Bavarian circus so that
his power of self-teleportation did not circus's star acrobat and aerial artist. Wagner could explain to Margali
emerge until puberty. Less than an Audiences assumed that he was a about Stefan's death. However,
hour after his birth , Wagner was normal-looking human being wear- Margali was not there. She held
found in a small roadside shelter in ing a demon-like costume. Wagner responsible for murdering
the Bavarian Alps by Margali Szar- Stefan, but years later, when she
dos, a sorceress and gypsy queen. Years later, the Texas millionaire learned the truth, she and Wagner
She found his father, Eric Wagner, Amos Jardine, who ran a large circus were reconciled. Wagner was also
dead of a heart attack on the road based in Florida, heard of the circus happily reunited with Jemaine, who
outside. Margali is said to have Wagner worked for and bought it. now lives in the United States under
found Wagner's mother lying next to the name Amanda Sefton. Known as
the baby and dying, but this asser- Jardine intended to move its best Nightcrawler, Wagner is still a mem-
tion has been called into question, acts into his American circus. How- ber of the X-Men today.
and not even Kurt Wagner knows the ever, he demanded that Wagner be
truth. Margali took the baby to the placed in the circus's freak show. Following a recent battle with the
small Bavarian circus where she Appalled, Wagner quit and made his Marauders, Nightcrawler was
worked as a fortuneteller as a "cov- way towards Winzeldorf, Germany,
er" for her activities as a sorceress. where Stefan was. He discovered 'wreocuunpdeeradtea.nHd esewnatstothMerueirwIshleanndtht6o,...~
Wagner was never legally adopted that Stefan had gone mad and had
by anyone, but was raised by all the brutally slain several children. Two X-Men apparently died in Dallas.'
members of the circus, who had no nights after leaving the circus, This caused him strong guilt and led
prejudices against "freaks." Margali Wagner found Stefan and fought to a streak of self-destructive behav-
acted as Wagner's unofficial foster him, hoping to stop his rampage. In ior. The sudden appearance of Gate-
mother. the course of the struggle, Wagner crasher and the discovery that
unintentionally broke Stefan's neck. Phoenix II had returned to Earth
Wagner grew up happily in the cir- Wagner was discovered by the vil- restored Nightcrawler's sense of
cus, and his two closest friends were lagers, who assumed him to be a purpose. After battling Gate-
Margali's natural children , Stefan demon who was responsible for the crasher, the Technety, and the,,......_
child killings. They were about to kill Warwolves over Phoenix, Night
him when they were all psionically crawler joined Captain Britain, Meg-
paralyzed by Professor Charles gan, Shadowcat, and Phoenix in
Xavier, who had come to recruit forming Excalibur.

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,- STATISTICS NIGHTHAWK I

F EX (20) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
A GD (10) Nighthawk is driven to battle crime to
atone for his father's misdeeds. He
S GD (10) strikes secretly at night in order to
make up for his lack of real powers.
E GD (10) Nighthawk remembers how his
father misused his financial powers
R GD (10) and thus is aware of the potential tor
I TY (6) superheroes to become corrupt.
P TY (6)
Health: 50
Karma: 2.2
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: 30

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Kyle Richmond
Occupation: Chief stockholder of
Richmond Pharmaceuticals, Inc;
_ former President of USA
\ egal Status: Citizen of Other-
Earth's USA (deceased)
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Cosmopolis, New
Troy, Other-Earth ·
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Cosmopolis,
New Troy, Other-Earth
-Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
3upreme, Redeemers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
None.
Talents: Nighthawk is skilled in Mar-
tial Arts (styles A, B, C, and E), Busi-
ness, Financial, Political , Espion-
age, Detection, and Police proce-

~ dures.

~ontacts: Knighthawk has worked
with both the Squadron Supreme
and the Redeemers.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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members to the Avengers' Earth to In the following months the Squad;.-...
battle the Avengers. Traveling to
HISTORY " Other-Earth" themselves, the Aveng- aron carried out their Utopia PrograrT
ers seized "Other- Earth's" counter-
Kyle Richmond was born and grew part to the Serpent Crown and and even made widespread use of
up in the city of Cosmopolis in the convinced the Squadron that they
state of New Troy in the United States were being misled by their President. behavior modification device invented
of the other-dimensional Earth The Squadron forced the President to
("Other-Earth "). Richmond's father, resign and saw to the dismantling of by Squadron member Tom Thumb,
the billionaire head of a pharmaceuti- the serpent Cartel.
cal manufacturing firm, died of a heart which brainwashed criminals into
attack when Kyle was eighteen. Kyle Richmond retired as Night-
Learning that the elder Richmond had hawk in order to enter politics, hoping becoming unable to commit further
made his fortune through highly to help undo the harm perpetrated on
unethical means, Kyle Richmond the nation by the Serpent Cartel. Rich- crimes.
vowed to devote his life to battling the mond was nominated for the presi-
evil perpetrated in the world by men dency and won by a landslide. Nighthawk tried to organize a coun-
like his father. Hence, Richmond
became the masked crimefighter While in office, President Richmond terforce powerful enough to oppose it.
known as Nighthawk. became mentally enthralled by the
Overmind, a collective alien intelli- This aggregat ion of superhuman
Although Nighthawk had no super- gence that was working in concert
human powers, he defeated numer- with Null the Living Darkness. The beings was informally called the
ous criminal opponents, his most Overmind also took over the minds of
frequent nemeses being the cos- the rest of the Squadron members, Redeemers. Nighthawk was also aid-
tumed criminals known as the Mink, except for that of Hyperion, who fled to
Pinball, and Remnant. Nighthawk and the Avengers' Earth for help. With the ed by Professor Imam, Earth's Wizard
Hyperion, who worked as a team, Squadron's help, the Overmind took
were two of the founding members of over the mind of every major political, Supreme, and by Hyperion's greatest
the Squadron Supreme. military, and industrial leader in the
world. The Overmind began to force foe, Master Menace. It was Menace
The cosmic gamesman called the the Squadron to build a vast nuclear
Grandmaster once used the Squad- arsenal on the moon with which he who devised the means of undoing the
ron members as pawns in a tourna- hoped to wage war on other worlds in
ment between himself and the the Squadron's dimension. Fortu- effects of the behavior modification
Squadron's foe, the Scarlet Centurion . nately, Hyperion returned with new
Later, the Grandmaster caused the allies, the superhuman champions of machine.
counterpart of Kyle Richmond on our the Avengers' Earth known as the
own "mainstream" Earth to launch his Defenders. One year after t he Squadron'r
own career as Nighthawk.
In the aftermath of this alien takeover, Nighthawk's Redeemers
Sometime later, the government of takeover, "Other-Earth" was in the
the United States of the Squadron's midst of nearly total collapse. Hype- entered Squadron City. Nighthawk
Earth came under its first covert rion proposed to the Squadron that
assault. A huge industrial complex they take it upon themselves to demanded that the Squadron surren-
called the Serpent Cartel was actually remake the world into a utopia, solving
the base of operations for various all of Earth's problems, such as pover- der all the authority they had usurped.
human agents of the extra- ty, economic instability, war, crime,
dimensional serpent-god Set, who and even disease and death. Rich- The longtime Squadron members
manifested itself in the Serpent mond, attending the meeting as Night-
Crown, a mystical object of power. The hawk, protested that for the Squadron were alarmed to discover that their five
Serpent Cartel placed the President to implement its " Utopia Program," it
and various other high-ranking politi- would have to take total control of the newest members, Haywire, Inertia,
cians under the domination of the world, and resigned once again from
Crown. At the same time, on the the Squadron. Moonglow, Redstone, and Thermite,
Avengers' Earth, Hugh Jones, then
president of the Roxxson Oil Compa- Determined to stop the Squadron were double agents sent by Night:.--
ny, was also made a slave of the from taking over the United States,
Crown and was attempting to master- Richmond planned to assassinate its hawk, as were Lamprey, the Shape·
mind a similar secret government leader, Hyperion, with a bullet made of
takeover. The Avengers intervened, argonite, an isotope whose radiation and Foxfire. Ultimately, the Redeem-
and the U.S. President of " Other- was lethal to him. When the time
Earth" dispatched several Squadron came, however, he found himself ers won the battle.
unable to kill his friend.
Nighthawk convinced the defeated

Hyperion that the main problem with

the Squadron's Utopia Program was

that they had used basically ignoble

means that violated human rights to

achieve noble ends. Since the Squad-

ron members were not immortal, theY,---._

could not ensure that future genera·

tions would not be tyrannized by the

utopian technologies that they had

created.

One of the Redeemers, Foxfire, had

fallen in love with Squadron member

Doctor Spectrum, and wanted to help

the Squadron win. She used her

superhuman power to weaken the tis-

sue of Nighthawk's heart muscles, giv-

ing him a massive heart attack. But

another Redeemer, the Mink, avenged

Nighthawk's death by killing Foxfire

with her metal claws.

But although Nighthawk had died,

he still had won the battle. The Squad-

r?n Supreme surrendered, and Hype-

non proposed that the Squadron

dismantle the Utopia Program. _.

110

NIGHTHAWK II

_..$TATISTICS

)

f EX (20)
A RM (30)
S RM (30)
E EX (20)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 100
Karma: 18
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Kyle Richmond
Occupation: President, Richmond
Enterprises; adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
,.-....,,deceased)

Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Mamaroneck, NY
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Arthur and Penel-
ope (parents, deceased)
Base of Operations: Richmond Rid-
ing Academy, Long Island, NY
Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
~Sinister, Defenders
1resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS HISTORY
Jet-Wings: These enabled him to
attain Good air speed with the Kyle Richmond was the son of Arthur
engines in operation or Typical air and Penelope Richmond, a wealthy
speed when gliding. industrialist and his wife. Upon his
Claws: Made of a Remarkable mate- mother's death when he was still a
rial , these claws allowed him to inflict child, Richmond was sent to a pri-
~dged damage equal to his vate school to be raised . By his
teens, Richmond was known as a
~trength. spoiled, irresponsible troublemaker.
Despite his poor academic record,
Weakness: When he was forced to
do battle during the day, his Fighting, 111
Agility, Strength, and Endurance
dropped to Good rank.
Talents: Richmond was skilled in
Martial Arts (types A and E), Acrobat-
ics, Business I Finance, and Aerial

Combat ( + 1 CS to any and all air-

borne combat FEATs).
Contacts: Defenders

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Richmond was initially an irresponsi-
ble rich kid out to alleviate the bore-
dom. Soon he developed a sense of
purpose, although without a coher-
ent plan of what to do. It was not until
he joined the Defenders that he
finally got his act together.

he was accepted into a private col- Richmond of this alternate Earth. that Doctor Strange created to save--..
lege, Grayburn University, entirely The Grandmaster's new team, con- Nighthawk's life after the Nebula
due to his father's generous endow- sisting of criminal versions of Hype- encounter was severed. Kyle Rich-
ment to the school. Kyle Richmond rion, Nighthawk, Doctor Spectrum,
still largely ignored his studies, and and the Squadron Supreme's Whiz- mond was left paralyzed except at
spent most of his time with his zer, was known as the Squadron Sin- night when he regained full mobility.
girlfriend Mindy Williams. One night, He stoically accepted his infirmity
while driving his car under the influ- ister. and reduced his involvement in
ence of alcohol, Richmond lost con- As Nighthawk, Richmond decided Defenders, activities accordingly.
trol and drove off the road. The Returning to the college he once
accident left Mindy almost dead, but to use his powers for "kicks" and attended, Richmond discovered that
he walked away unscathed. Rich- tried to make a quick reputation for Mindy Williams had not died in the
mond was expelled from college. himself by battling Daredevil. When car crash he caused, but was
this ploy failed, Richmond retired his severely crippled. Insane with bitter-
Shaken by the tragic conse- Nighthawk identity for a while. ness and possessing certain psionic
quences of his irresponsibility, Rich- powers, Mindy tried to kill the man
mond was glad when he was drafted Some time later, Richmond was
into the army, and hoped that he unwillingly reunited with the Squad- she blamed for her condition. Night-
would die in action. However, during ron, when Hyperion volunteered the hawk managed to survive the attack
his physical examination, a heart group to assist the alien Nebulon in with the help of Spider-Man. This
murmur was detected and he was his plan to melt Earth's icecaps. Act- encounter led Nighthawk to a secret,,___
rejected. On the same day, his father ing responsibly for the first time in his project in Colorado run by a superpa'
died in an airplane crash, and Kyle life, Richmond told the Defenders.
found himself in charge of Richmond Assisting them, Nighthawk was triot named August Masters who
Enterprises. Wisely believing him- struck by radiation from Nebulon's planned to launch a psychic assault
self to be incapable of handling the on the Soviet Union, employing the
business, Richmond turned over the "laser-cannon" and was on the brink minds of unwilling telepaths as
management of the firm to the com- of death. The sorcerer Doctor weapons. Mindy Williams was one of
Stephen Strange performed an elab- these telepaths.
pany's chairman of the board, J. C. orate spell to mystically resuscitate
his life force by drawing upon the col- When the Defenders were taken
Pennyworth. He then divided his lective life force of the Defenders. captive, Richmond established a
time between leisure and a search When Nighthawk revived, he began mental link with his former girlfriend -..
for a chemical cure for his heart ail- to associate with the Defenders. and contacted Doctor Strange t(
bring reinforcements. But the sub-
ment. Richmond revelled in the sense of conscious minds of the six psychics
Richmond soon discovered a mys- life and purpose that his association took control of Richmond's mind,
with the Defenders afforded him, conferring upon it their collective
terious book which contained and converted his private riding power. Through Richmond, they acti-
alchemical formulae, among which academy into their acting headquar- vated the destruct sequence on the
was a formula to increase physical ters. He later used his financial main computer/power system of the
strength. Concocting the formula, resources to develop for himself whole secret complex. Apparently of
Richmond drank it, and learned that powerful jetpack and wing apparatus his own free will, Richmond orderect--
it did confer upon him heightened to enable him to fly. With the increas- Doctor Strange to evacuate the othe.
strength, but only at night. Rich- ingly long absences of Doctor Defenders, while he remained
mond was then contacted by the Strange, Nighthawk became de fac- behind as a physical focal point for
Grandmaster, the cosmic games- to leader of the group. He remained the minds of the psychics. When the
man, who made Richmond and two active with the team until agents of secret complex exploded, Kyle Rich-
other human beings into counter- the Internal Revenue Service, inves- mond, the six telepaths, August
parts of members of the Squadron tigating tax fraud, brought forth an Masters, and his private army were
Supreme, a team of heroes of an injunction to prevent him from don- all inside. Possessed as he was by
ning his costume until the charges the six psychics, it is not clear if Kyle
alternate Earth. The Grandmaster were cleared. Richmond eventually Richmond purposely sacrificed him-
also transformed nonliving matter beat the charges. self so that a nation could live or if he
into a duplicate of Squadron was their pawn .
Supreme member Hyperion. Rich- Months later, when the Defenders
mond took the name of Nighthawk, were under siege by the demonic
the costumed identity of the Kyle Six-Fingered Hand, the mystic link

112

NIGHTMARE

~ $TATISTICS

F UN (100)
A CL1000
S CL1000
E CL1000
R UN (100)
I UN (100)
P CL1000
Health: 3100 (see below)
Karma: Not Applicable
Resources: Not Applicable
Popularity: Not Applicable

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed, perhaps
inapplicable
Occupation: Ruler of the Nightmare
-.. World
Legal Status: None
Identity: Existence unknown to the
general public
Place of Birth: Unrevealed, perhaps
inapplicable
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: The Nightmare
World within the Dream Dimension
....__Past Group Affiliations: None

?resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS the Class 1000 ability to spontane- "Maze of Confinement." In actuality,
Immortality: Nightmare can never be ously reshape any aspect of it. this spell is a combination of his Con-
truly killed until all dreaming beings Note: In addition to the above spells, fusion and Band powers.
in the universe die. Nightmare possesses all of the other Steed: Nightmare often rides a
Apparition: This power gives Night- available spells at Monstrous rank. black, demonic unicorn which has
mare the magical equivalent of Weaknesses: Nightmare is only tan- the following characteristics:
CL1000 Phasing. gible to sleepers. He is intangible
FASER I P
...... Astral Theft: Nightmare has CL 1000 and powerless when facing con- EX EX RM EX PR FE PR
~ontrol over the soul's of sleepers. scious beings. He can be harmed by Health: 90
Image Projection: Nightmare can the Eye of Agomotto. Karma: 10
create visions with CL 1000 ability. Nightmare's Wand: This arcane
Scrying: Nightmare is able to invoke KNOWN POWERS:
various Scrying spells with Mon- device gives Nightmare a + 1 CS to Nightmare's Unicorn has the follow-
strous effectiveness. ing powers:
Force Field vs. Magic: This spell pro- Agility when resolving his magical Apparition: Nightmare's steed
vides Nightmare with Monstrous pro- attacks. In addition , it bestows upon
tection from all forms of magical him the ability to create a CL1000 113
attack.
Bands: Nightmare can cause bind-
ings of Monstrous Strength to sur-
round a target.
Eldritch Attack: Nightmare can pro-
ject Monstrous intensity blasts of
pure magical force.
Illusion Casting: With this Class 1000

-.ability, Nightmare can cause others
.o see things that are not real.
Reality Alteration: As the ruler of the
Dream Dimension, Nightmare has

shares his magical phasing ability . Nightmare's ultimate goal is to
(t~ough _only at Monstrous rank). incorporate the waking world into hi ~
D1menst0n Travel: The steed can
cross dimensions with Monstrous HISTORY own domain by occult means there-
skill.
Flight: The steed can attain Mon- The origin of the malevolent human- by to rule it. In pursuit of this goal he
strous speeds via magical means. oid entity called Nightmare is
unknown. It is not even known ~as twice attempted to keep Eternity
Talents: Nightmare has a Class whether Nightmare was born in the
1000 knowledge of all Occult Lore. sam~ way that human beings are, or itself, the embodiment of the life
Contacts: None was instead created in some other
manner. Nightmare apparently forces of the living beings of the uni-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: draws mystical power and suste-
nance from the psychic energies of verse, his captive. But Nightmare
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES human beings, and therefore can be
Nightmare enjoys tormenting sleep- cl~ssified as a demon of some kind. has failed each time.
ers. He rarely kills because then he Nightmare dwells in the Nightmare
would have no further power over World within the Dimension of Nightmare has but one natural
that person. He prefers to strike from Dreams, from which he monitors the
the Dream Dimension because he is collec~ive uncon_sciou~ of humanity, enemy in all the dimensions: the
omnipotent.wit~in it and all but pow- sometimes manipulating an individ-
erless outside 1t. He has a special ual 's dreams for his own sinister creature Gulgol, which never sleeps
grudge against Dr. Strange. ends.
and therefore can resist his power.
Few mortals besides Doctor
Strange, Earth's sorcerer supreme Some time ago, Dr. Bruce Banner
have survived an encounter with
Nightmare in his own realm. had succeeded in retaining his nor-
Strange's first battle with Nightmare
has yet to be recorded , but they have mal personality and intelligence
fought each other many times since
then. Strange casts a protective when he transformed into the mon-
spell over himself before he goes to
sleep to guard against attacks by s~rous H~lk . But Nightmare, through
Nightmare.
his manipulations, turned the Hulk

savage. However, Banne r-

unleashed a dream manifestation 01

the savage Hulk from within his own

mind, and this dream Hulk, appar-

ently somehow beyond Nightmare's

control, pursued Nightmare through

the Nightmare World. When Night-

mare was last seen, the dream-Hulk

h~d p~lled him into an adjacent

d1mens1on, described as a realm of

insanity with which mthinedcsoncsacnion~ul-,,..........,.
and unconscious

cope. Nightmare's current where-

abouts and activities are unknown.

114

NIMROD

STATISTICS

F AM(50)
A AM(50)
S AM(50)
E ShX(150)
R RM(30}
I RM(30)
P GD(10)

Health: 300
Karma: 70
Resources: IN(40)
Popularity: 1O(in modern USA)

BACKGROUND himself if he has 10% of his Health turn.
left and enough time to make repairs Teleportation: Feeble range (5 miles)
Real Name: Nimrod (15 Health points are returned every Tractor Beam: Monstrous Telekinetic
Occupation: Hunter robot half hour). For each 20 points power to either repel or attract a tar-
Legal Status: None restored , the repairs temporarily get. It propells a target 1 area for
Identity: Secret lower at least one power - 2CS. each rank exceeding Good level.
Targets suffer power rank damage.
'Place of Creation: Project Nimrod, Shapechange: Nimrod can trans- Talents:
21st century USA form himself into appearing human. Contacts: If it can make contact,
Project Nimrod can supply aid. Mod-
Marital Status: Inapplicable Shockweb: Remarkable Intensity ern Sentinels might assist Nimrod if
Known Relatives: Inapplicable energy field that can be created up to they were convinced of Nimrod 's
Base of Operations: NYC area 2 areas away. The Shockweb has the connection to them.
Past Group Affiliations: None in equivalent of Amazing Material
20th century Strength and Remarkable Stunning. 115
Each Shockweb requires a Remark-
Present Group Affiliation: able FEAT to creature and lasts for 1

........

K NOWN POWERS
' Body Armor: Amazing resistance to
physical and energy attacks.
Disintegrator: Incredible rank.
Energy Beam: A variety of Mon-
strous Intensity beams that can be
fired from his eyes, hands, and
chest. Maximum range is 4 areas.
Known rays include Radiation, Light,
Lasers, Magnetism, and Heat.
Force Field Generation: Incredible
protection from physical and energy
attacks.

Hypersensitive Senses: Class 1000
sight, hearing, and radio links. He
does not suffer extra damage from
sensory attacks.

Neural Manipulation: Upon contact,
a target must make an Endurance
FEAT or be stunned for 1-10 turns. If
Nimrod grabbed them, they must
make a Red Endurance FEAT or
remain unconscious until let go.
Power Detection: Excellent rank and
range .
Power Negation: The ability to tem-
porarily negate all mental or psionic
- powers within 1 area. Affected peo-
ple must make a Red FEAT to retain
their powers.

Self-Repair: Good ability to repair

ADDITIONAL NOTES: ed States in order to carry out their Pryde thought Summers would b~­
mission of eliminating the alleged safe. But Summers did not journey t<
ROLE PLAYING NOTES menace posed to ordinary humanity the past of her own reality, but to the
Nimrod is the epitome of Sentinel by superhuman mutants. The Senti- past of our reality, where she
evolution. As such, he sees mutants nels succeeded in either killing all became a member of the present-
and most superhumans as criminal known superhumans, whether day X-Men , and eventually took the
renegades to be hunted down and mutants or not, or imprisoning them name Phoenix. The end result of
probably killed . His time trip has within concentration camps. Project Nimrod, the highly advanced
caused him to reconsider his goals Sentinel named Nimrod, killed Pryde
and methods. He is still considering In this alternate reality, the last after Summers' departure through
his options, hence he has not yet known su rvivors of the team of time.
begun an open war on mutants and superhuman mutants known as the
superhumans. He obeys his com- X-Men were the adult Katherine Nimrod attempted to follow Sum-
mand to protect normal humans and Pryde, known as Ariel (her counter- mers and was transported to a
will break off attacks if such harm part in this reality is known as Sha- moment in time shortly before a fish-
would result from his actions. dowcat), and the adolescent Rachel monger was mugged in Lower Man-
Summers. Pryde and Summers ille- hattan. Nimrod, programmed to
HISTORY gally entered a top secret "cyberro- protect humans who were not crimi-
botics" complex in order to deal with nals, killed the mugger and saved
In the early 21st Century of an alter- Project Nimrod, the effort to con- the worker's life. He was taken in by _
nate reality, Sentinel robots have struct the ultimate, most highly this worker, and eventually took 01{ '
effectively taken control of the Unit- advanced Sentinel robot possible
using the technology of that time; human form in order to blend in with
they were discovered and pursued his surroundings. He decided that
by guards, but they locked them- mutants who were classified as out-
selves within the laboratory. Howver, laws by the government should
the lab was shielded against the use indeed be exterminated, and fought
of Pryde's power to phase through the Juggernaut and the X-Men, but
solid matter, and hence Summers was defeated by Rogue. More
believed that both she and Pryde recently, he battled the X-Men and
were trapped. However, Pryde had the Lords Cardinal of the Inner Circl~,...-..
of the Hellfire Club, and was agair
given Summers a post-hypnotic
command to use her psionic powers defeated. He learns from these
to project herself into the past when defeats, however, and reconstructs
Pryde said the words " Dark Phoe- himself after each battle in order to
nix." Pryde did so, and Summers become more formidable. Presum-
was hurled into a time when Senti- ably he is at present continuing his
nels did not rule America, and when career as a vigilante crimefighter in
New York City.

.~

116

STATISTICS NITRO

F GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Nitro began as a mere eccentric but
A GD (10) has since graduated into being a full-
S TY (6) blown psychotic. His explosive
power matches his current personal-
E EX (20} ity perfectly. He has a monomaniacal
hatred of the Kree Captain Mar-Vell
R GD (10) and will attack anyone who remotely
looks or acts like him.
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 46
Karma: 22
Resources: GD (10)

Popularity: -1 O

SACKGROUND
Real Name: Robert Hunter
Occupation: Electrical engineer
turned professional criminal
..--"Legal Status: U.S. citizen
ldentity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Mary (wife,
deceased), Virginia (daughter)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Lunatic
Legion
r- ~resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Explosive: Nitro can transform any
and all portions of his body into an
Amazing explosion. Everything with-

in his area suffers Amazing damage,
while targets in the surrounding area

suffer Remarkable damage. He can
reform his body within two rounds. If
_,,,- he limits his explosive power to his
nands, he can punch with Remark-
able damage and Slam or Stun
opponents of up to Monstrous
Endurance.
Weakness: If, while he is in his gas-
eous state, any fraction of his body is
separated from the rest, he cannot
reform.

Talents: Nitro has Excellent Reason
in the fields of electrical engineering
and ham radio operation .
Contacts: Nitro was once a member

of the now-defunct Lunatic Legion.

117

HISTORY Mar-Veit, however, and Mar-Veil subdued him by capturing half of,,......--
defeated him by adding the transfor- Nitro's gaseous substance in a rein-
Robert Hunter was an eccentric mation al energy of his body forced container, which prevented
retired electrical engineer whooper- exchanging atoms with those of him from physically reintegrating.
ated a ham radio as a hobby. The Rock Jones to Nitro's own concus- This container, and a second one
Lunatic Legion , a band of renegade sive energy. This caused Nitro's par- filled with the other part of his gas-
scientists of the extraterrestrial Kree, ticles to become dispersed farther eous substance, was taken to the
monitored Hunter's broadcasts and apart than he could readily recall government energy facility Project:
chose him to become their agent. them. Pegasus for study. He was released
They took him to a hidden genetics when his daughter Virginia got a
laboratory and genetically re- After months of effort, Nitro reinte- court order to permit him to stand tri-
engineered Hunter's body to endow grated himself and went searching al. Once his substance was recom-
him with the power to explode his for Mar-Veit. Mistaking the alien bined, he easily escaped and
body's molecules and reassemble Omega the Unknown for Mar-Veit, wreaked havoc in Manhattan for an
them at will . Dubbing him Nitro, they Nitro attacked him and was finally afternoon until Spider-Man trapped
sent him to acquire Compound Thir- defeated when Omega placed a tita- his gaseous substance in a contain-
teen, a dangerous nerve gas being nium steel cylinder around him as he er partly filled with a nausea gas.
developed by the U. S. Army. He was exploded and shot him into the strat- Kept in a constant state of stupor,
opposed by the Kree warrior Captain osphere. Nitro is unable to escape. He has yet , ~
to stand trial for any of his deeds. "
When Nitro again reintegrated, he
lured Mar-Veit into battle. Mar-Veit

11 8

NOMAD

~TATISTICS

F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I GD(10)
P TY (6)

Health: 110
Karma: 22

Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: 9

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jack Monroe
Occupation : Professional adven-

,-. ~urer

dentity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: Bucky
Place of Birth: Naugatuck, Con-
necticut
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Past Group Affiliations: Former
-----oartner of Captain America IV, cur-
.ent partner of Captain America I,

Demolition Man, and Falcon
Base of Operations: Mobile

KNOWN POWERS Contacts: Nomad is a close friend of HISTORY
Stun Discs: Nomad wears two the Captain (Captain America I), and
detachable six-inch-diameter, steel a member of his current group of Jack Monroe was the third man to
alloy discs on his chest. He can allied heroes, which also includes adopt the identity of Nomad. The first
throw these discs as weapons with a Demolition Man and the Falcon. Nomad was Steve Rogers, the origi-
~-1 -area range; these discs stun oppo- nal Captain America, who became
1ents for 1-1O rounds if they do not ADDITIONAL NOTES: disillusioned with the American gov-
make an Endurance FEAT roll. If ernment for a brief time and
Endurance is less than Remarkable, assumed a costumed identity which
a red FEAT is required . If Endurance did not have patriotic symbolism.
is Remarkable, a yellow FEAT is When Rogers rededicated himself to
required, and if greater than American ideals, he abandoned the
Remarkable, green is required . Nomad identity. It was assumed
Other Nomad: The first Nomad was
Steve Rogers, the original Captain 119
America. The second Nomad was a
stunt man (now deceased) hired by
the Red Skull to trap Captain Ameri-
ca. He had the following stats:

FASER I P
RM EX GD EX TY GD TY

- Talents: Nomad has been taught by
.:;aptain America and has all martial
arts. He is a Weapon Specialist with
his discs.

years later by California-based stunt- original Steve Rogers, the would-be munists. The second Captain Ameri-..--.
man Edward Ferbel in a scheme successor was told that the project ca and Bucky believed that the
masterminded by the Red Skull. Fer- had been terminated with the end of original Captain America was a fake, -
bel was killed in the course of the the Korean War. and fought him and the Falcon until
the two were defeated and sent back
Skull's machinations. Finally, a mod- Rogers, as he was now known into suspended animation. The crim-
ified version of the Nomad costume legally, accepted a post at the Lee inal psychologist Dr. Faustus gained
was given to Jack Monroe by School, and met Monroe, who had custody of the two, and they became
SHIELD when he was sent on a mis- gone by the nickname Bucky. Shar- test subjects for his mind-controlling
sion to infiltrate the headquarters of ing a mutual obsession, the two gas. As a test of loyalty, the ersatz
the terrorist called the Viper. It was became friends , and Monroe Captain America was ordered to
thought that the Nomad suit would acquired Captain America and shoot his friend Bucky. He did so,
unnerve the Viper since the original Bucky costumes for them. Rogers
Nomad had defeated her once refused to play Captain America, unaware that the gun was not load-
before. however, until a new bulletin ed. After Faustus's defeat, Monroe
announced the return of the Red was placed in SHIELD custody,
Prior to donning the Nomad suit, Skull {though he was not genuine). where he was given special treat-
Jack Monroe had been a lifelong Injecting themselves with the Super- ments to restore his sanity.
admirer of Captain America and his Soldier formula Rogers had kept, the
deceased partner Bucky. As a youth, new Captain America and Bucky Released, Monroe sought out the
he was enrolled in the Lee School for went after the bogus Red Skull and original Captain America (the Cap-
Boys in Connecticut where he met a then other foes of America. Running tain America he had known was
man who shared his hero worship, out of enem ies to fight, the two killed in Faustus's scheme) and ,·
history instructor " Steve Rogers." began preying upon those they sus- after posing as Bucky for one night,
Rogers was not the original Captain pected of being Communists. When was given the Nomad identity. After
America, who had disappeared dur- the government learned of their helping his idol thwart the Viper's
ing the final days of World War II, but indiscretions, FBI agents went to scheme, Monroe decided to retain
a man so obsessed with his legend subdue them , and they were placed the identity of Nomad. He served as
that after rediscovering the original in suspended animation. Captain America's partner and
Super-Soldier formula in the note- apprentice for several months.
book of a Nazi spy, he offered to It was believed that without the Then, after apprehending a cos- ,,--...
exchange the formula for the oppor- " vita-ray" treatment that the original
Captain America had, the Super- turned foe by himself, he decided td
tunity to become the new Captain Soldier formula had detrimental
America. Administration officials effects on their sanity. They were leave the Captain's tutelage and find ·
approved his plan , hoping to have a released decades later by a govern- his own style of crimefighting. His
symbol of liberty to fight in the Kore- ment employee who was disgruntled current activities and whereabouts
an War. Soon after undergoing plas- by official policies toward the Com- are unknown.
tic surgery to make him resemble the

--

"'120

NORTHSTAR

-STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A EX (20)

s EX (20)

E RM (30)

R TY (6)

I TY (6)
p GD (10)
Health: 90
Karma: 22

Resources: EX (20)

Popularity: 40

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jean-Paul Beaubier
Alias: Jean-Paul Martin
Occupation: Pro skier, adventurer
~Legal Status: Canadian citizen
believed dead by all but Alpha
Flight); currently a citizen of the
Faerie realm

Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Jeanne-Marie
Beaubier (sister, a.k.a. Aurora), Lou-
~.Js Martin (adoptive father, deceased)
lase of Operations: Alpha Flight
HQ, Tamarind Island, British Colum-
bia, Canada
Past Group Affiliations: Alpha
Flight

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Contacts: Northstar is known to the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Flight: Northstar can attain Shift-Z air members of Alpha Flight and to the Northstar is driven by his strong pas-
,..-...~ peed (Mach 10, 7700 mph), mutant Wolverine. sions. He is a flamboyant hedonist in
ilthough he normally limits his his personal life. However, he is so
speed to Good (120 mph). He can ADDITIONAL NOTES: protective of his twin sister, Jeanne-
also hover in place. As a side effect Marie, that he has become a total
of his flying, Northstar gains enough prude where she is concerned. He
Invulnerability to counter the effects develops a dislike of his sister's lov-
of friction with the air. ers, even if they are Northstar's
Multiple Attacks: Northstar's speed teammates. He is a stoic in his per-
enables him to deliver repeated blows sonal troubles. Since his transforma-
for a total of Incredible damage. tion into ~ Faerie, Northstar may
Power Gestalt (defunct): When in have become wiser, more tranquil.
physical contact with his sister,

Aurora, they jointly possess the abili-
ty of Monstrous Light Generation.
This affects everyone in line of sight
with the couple.
Costume: His special costume has
Monstrous resistance to air friction
--,and tearing.
ralents: Northstar is a world-class
skier and is bilingual in French and
English.

121

adolescence, Beaubier was also personality. After the Beaubier sib...---...
apparently a member of a radical
French Canadian separatist group. lings had a particularly intense quar·

HISTORY To this point, Beaubier, unaware of rel over Jean-Paul 's sexual attitudes,
his true parentage, had called him-
Jean-Paul Beaubier and his twin sis- self Jean-Paul Martin. After James however, Northstar ceased to oper-
ter Jeanne-Marie were separated in McDonald Hudson recru ited
infancy after their parents were killed Jeanne-Marie Beaubier to be a ate with the team on a regular basis.
under circumstances yet to be superhuman agent for the Canadian
revealed. Jean- Paul was adopted by government's Department H, Hud- Aurora sought to break her ties to her
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martin, who were son 's wife Heather noticed the
cousins of his mother. The Martins resemblance between her and Jean- brother completely by altering her
could not afford to adopt Jeanne- Paul Martin. Hudson himself investi-
Marie as well, however, so they gated and discovered that Jean-Paul own superhuman powers so that
arranged for her to be raised at Martin was really Jeanne-Marie
Madame DuPont's School for Girls in Beaubier's brother. Agents of they were no longer the same as his.
LaVelle, Quebec. Soon afterward, Department H contacted Jean-Paul
Martin, a member of the Royal Cana- and informed him of his true parent- Her lover, Dr. Walter Langkowski,
dian Mounted Police , was posted to age; thereafter he called himself
northern Quebec, and moved his Jean-Paul Beaubier. Beaubier met known as Sasquatch, performed an
family there. When Jean-Paul was with Hudson, who told him that he
about six years old, Mr. and Mrs. had discovered his superhuman experiment in molecular rearrange-
Martin were killed in an accident, powers. Hudson invited Beaubier to
and Jean-Paul was placed in a foster become one of Department H's ment upon Aurora which did indeed
home. Jean-Paul and Jeanne- Marie agents, and then introduced him to
thus grew up separately, each his sister. Beaubier was overjoyed to alter her superhuman abilities. As a
unaware of the other's existence. learn that he had a sister, and
accepted Hudson's invitation. After a resu lt, however, Northstar and
During his adolescence, period of training, the Beaubier sib-
Beaubier's mutant powers began to lings both became members of Aurora can no longer touch each oth-
emerge. Beaubier was befriended
by Raymonde Belmonde, who Alpha Flight, the team of superhu- er without their temporarily becom-
helped him overcome his fears about man agents that Hudson created for
the ways in which Beaubier was dif- Department H. The siblings took the ing incapable of using their
ferent from the majority of people. code names of Northstar and
Having reached self-acceptance, Aurora. superhuman powers.
Beaubier now secretly used his
Even after Alpha Flight temporari- After the death of Langkowski:.
mutant powers to achieve success in ly lost the financial support of the
skiing. Beaubier became a world Canadian government, Northstar Aurora and Northstar became recon-
champion skier, winning a gold remained with the team in order to
medal at the Olympics while he was be with his sister. He not only cared ciled with each other. Northstar is
still in his late teens. He then turned deeply about his sister as his only liv-
professional skier and became quite ing relative, but was concerned once again a member of Alpha
wealthy. At some point during his about her because she had a dual
Flight, which is now led by Heather

Hudson and again receives funding

and support from the Canadian gov-

ernment.

Beaubier caught a fatal disease

recently that caused him to waste....-...

away over a period of several

months. However, before true death

would have resulted , Beaubier made

an astounding discovery. He was

contacted by his mother, a Faerie

who revealed that he and his sister

were human-Faerie hybrids. This

accounted for their powers and

appearance. By casting off his dead

human half, Beaubier became a.,-...

healthy, mtruoethFear,earined. Stohoenbtheeinrgeawfthe~r:·
he, his

was Aurora's Faerie self all left Earth

for the Faerie realm.

122

-~TATISTICS NOVAI

F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) Richard Rider was a normal high
S RM (30) school student who suddenly found
E IN (40) himself in the possession of awe-
R TY (6) some powers. Although he tried
I TY (6) passing himself off as an adult,
P TY (6) Nova's actions were dominated by
Health: 120 Rider's youthful exuberance and
Karma: 18 inexperience. His main allegiance
Resources: PR (4) was to his family, not the Nova Corps
of which he had accidentally become
Popularity: 1O a member.

BACKGROUND 123
Real Name: Richard Rider
Alias: The Human Rocket
Occupation: Student, adventurer
.--J~egal Status: U.S. citizen
Jentity: Secret; known to Xandar
and SHIELD
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Charles and Glo-
ria (parents), Robert (brother)
Base of Operations: Queens, New

York area
Past Group Affiliations: Champi-

""""ns of Xandar
resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Flight: Nova can fly through the air at
Shift X speeds.
Invulnerability: Nova's physique pro-
vided him with Remarkable protec-
tion from physical and energy
attacks.
~lniform: Nova's Internal equipment
)ves him the following powers and
abilities:

* Excellent protection from hard
vacuum and temperature
extremes
* Excellent radio reception
• Six-hour air supply
Contacts: Nova has worked with

SHIELD and was a member of the
now-defunct Champions of Xandar
and the now-destroyed Nova Corps.

of his computer to totally disintegrate Sphinx, Nova and the other~
him.
remained on Xandar to help th~
Enamored of his new powers,
HISTORY Rider, calling himself Nova, began to world defend itself against the
patrol New York City in hopes of find-
Richard Rider, a student at Harry S. ing criminals to battle so he could Skrulls.
Truman High School, was sitting at establish a reputation. Among the
Uncle Fudge's Ice Cream Parlor first of the superhuman criminals he For several months, Nova and
when he was struck by an invisible encountered were the Condor and
ray sent to Earth by Rhomann Dey, a Powerhouse, the latter an amnesiac most of the former members of the
Centurion in the Nova Corps, the Xandarian sent to find Rhomann
space militia of the planet Xandar. Dey. When the winged Condor Sphinx's crew aided in Xandar's war
Dey had been mortally wounded in learned of the Nova-ship in Earth
battle with an alien named Zorr, who orbit, he determined to raid it for ali- effort against the Skrulls, earning the
had engineered mass destruction on en weaponry to use against the
Xandar. Aboard his starship orbiting Sphinx. Accompanying the Condor, name Champions of Xandar. When
Earth, Dey used Xandarian technol- Nova visited the ship of his alien ben-
ogy to transfer his superhuman efactor for the first time. the Skrulls fi nally retreated, the
powers to an Earth being chosen at
random , gambling that the being Months later, following a series of Nova Corps starfleet pursued them
who acquired his powers would be exploits in which he encountered
several other superhuman crime- to make certain it was not simply a
willing to carry on his fight against fighters and criminals, Nova was
Zarr. Stunned by the sudden influx of again teleported aboard the Nova- ruse. Comet, Crimebuster, and
power, Richard Rider was taken to a ship, along with his new compan-
nearby hospital. As Rider lay in a ions, Crimebuster and the Comet. Diamondhead followed the Corps
coma, the dying Rhomann Dey tele- There they learned that the Sphinx
pathically explained to the youth was piloting it to Xandar, where there into battle, leaving Nova, Power-
what had happened to him and what was a vast computer system which
his mission was. contained the knowledge of how to house, and Xandar's Protector
lose his immortality which the
The acquisition of the superhu- behind as the planet's guardians.
man powers apparently did not out- Sphinx sought. It was this computer
wardly alter Rider's body. Shortly system , telemetrically connected to Months later, the Nova Corps
thereafter, Rider received Day's final all of the Nova-ships in the fleet and
gift, his Centurion uniform. Rider thereby to all of the ships' com- returned to Xandar, announcing that,_,.
soon discovered he had been manders, that conferred upon
endowed with superhuman strength Richard Rider the knowledge that they had achieved victory pver the
and resilience, as well as the ability the Sphinx wanted . On the way to
to fly. Rider had barely gotten the Xandar, the Sphinx and crew Skrulls. In reality, the Skrulls had'
chance to try out his powers when encountered a fleet of alien Skrulls,
Zorr betrayed his presence on Earth who had launched an attack on Xan- dimensionally displaced the entire
in a rampage through midtown Man- dar, and Earth's Fantastic Four. The
hattan. Rider sought out the alien Sphinx took advantage of the situa- Corps and had used their shape-
and engaged him in battle for several tion to descend to Xandar and
minutes until Rhomann Dey could extract the knowledge he required changing powers to take their plac-
lock onto Zorr's exact location from the Xandarian computers.
through his telepathic link with his Becoming immensely powerful, he es. The criminal Diamondhead had
successor. Then Dey teleported Zorr set forth for Earth to destroy it. While
to his starship and used the energies the Fantastic Four pursued the betrayed the Xandarians to the

Skrulls, causing the death of Crime-

buster in the process. With the aid of

Rom, Spaceknight of Galador, the,..-..

Xandarians crushed the final Skruf.

invasion . ·

Having been gone from Earth for

almost a year, Nova was very anx-

ious to return to his family and

friends. He was dismayed to learn,

however, that Xandar needed the

powers of every one of the surviving

Nova Corpsmen to rebuild Xandar's

line of defense. Although he protest-,,..-

ed that he had earned the powers d.

a Nova Centurion, Richard Rider

realized that the only way he could

keep them was to stay on Xandar.

Thus, he chose to forfeit his Nova

powers and return to Earth instead.

There, he was reunited with his fami-

ly and has tried to adjust to normal

life once more.

124

~TATISTICS

)

F AM (50)
A UN (100)
S AM (50)
E UN (100)
R GD (10)
I AM (50)
P AM (50)
Health: 300
Karma: 11 0

Resources: UN (100)
Popularity: 0

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Frankie Raye
Occupation: Interpreter turned Her-
ald of Galactus

,..-....Legal Status: U.S. citizen
·~entity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn,

NY

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Prof. Phineas T.
Horton (a.k.a. Thomas Raye, stepfa-
ther, (deceased)

Base of Operations: Galactus's
Worldship
__Past Group Affiliations: Fantastic
_=ou r

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS transformation by Galactus, Nova ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Fire Generation: Nova can create has no need to breathe, eat, or drink.
flames of Shift-X intensity and range. Immortality: Nova's eventual life-
By making an Endurance FEAT, she span is unknown . However, in an
can temporarily raise her power to alternate future, she is uncountable
Shift-Z rank. millions of years old, yet still looks
~ire Control: Nova can exert like her present-day self.
,\mazing control over flames of all Talents: Nova has the Astro-
types. navigation talent.
Energy Sheath: A layer of Unearthly Contacts: As his current Herald,
Intensity flame surrounds her body Nova can contact Galactus at any
and mimicks hair atop her head. It time. In addition, she is quite close to
provides her with power rank protec- the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer.
tion from physical or energy attacks
and, in combination with her other
powers, Class 1000 resistance to
temperature extremes. Matter of
less than Amazing material melts
upon contact with this barrier and liv-
ing tissue suffers Amazing damage
unless somehow protected.
True Flight: Nova can propel herself
at Class 1000 speeds.
Gateway: Her powers enable her to
- open Class 5000 spacewarps that
3nable her to travel as far as 5000
light years per turn.
Self Sustenace: Because of her

125

ROLE PLAYING NOTES er reconstructed by Horton as the used her flaming ability, had als9--
Nova has no compuction against tar- Vision .) Seized with the desire to
geting worlds for Galactus's con- recreate the android Torch , Horton hypnotically commanded her to fe:
sumption. She feels smug took his fourteen-year-o ld step-
superiority to most beings but great daughter to the warehouse where flame . '
awe of superior beings such as the government had stored equip-
Galactus and Eternity. She is ment. A rotting floorboard gave way But Storm and Raye dated each
devoted to Galactus and sees him as beneath Frankie's foot, and the agi-
an ideal mate. After an initial grim tated chemicals in the drum she was other many times, and the strength of
period of trying to impress Galactus, carrying exploded into flame, engulf-
she has begun to lighten up, espe- ing her body. The chemicals caused Horton's hypnotic commands upon
cially in the company of the Silver a mutagenic reaction upon contact
Surfer. with her body, conferring upon her her mind began to weaken. Eventu-
the android Torch's ability to burst
HISTORY into flame without harm to herself. ally, Raye saw herself in a mirror

Frankie Raye is the daughter of par- Overwhelmed with guilt, Horton wearing the costume Horton had
ents whose identities have not been hypnotized her in order to make her
revealed; hence, her original last forget not only this traumatic acci- given her. She regained her full mem-
name is not yet known . Frankie's dent, but also her life with him. He
father died when she was still a baby, also gave her a post-hypnotic sug- ory and could activate her flaming
and her mother soon married Profes-
sor Phineas T. Horton, who at that gestion. The guilt-ridden Horton left power. Frankie gloried in her newly
time had changed his name to her, but sent her money every week
Thomas Raye. Horton had been the for almost six years. Almost one year discovered superhuman powers, and
inventor of the original android after the accident, Horton sent her a
Human Torch, a crimefighter active package containing a costume he was very pleased that the Fantastic
in the 1940s and 1950s. However, had designed for her which would
the United States government had help her control her power, and Four wanted to train her to become a
decided that the android Torch was would not itself be harmed by her
so potentially dangerous that Horton flame, and an audio tape. On hear- member of their team.
could not be allowed to construct ing a specific word on the tape,
another. Therefore, the government Frankie fell back into a hypnotic For a few weeks Raye worked with
impounded Horton's chemicals and trance. The taped message com-
equipment. manded Frankie to put the costume the Human Torch and the Fantastic
on under her normal clothing, to
Frankie's mother died soon after destroy the tape, and then to awaken four, but their lives did not involve the
her marriage to Horton, leaving him with no memory of what she had just
to raise Frankie by himself. Horton done. kind of "cosmic grandeur," as sh'
whose spirit had been broken, con-
tinued to work as a repairman, and So it was that Frankie Raye had no put it, that she sought now that she
sometimes drank to excess in sor- knowledge of her superhuman
row. powers, nor of the fact that she wore had become a superhuman being .
a specially designed costume, for
When Horton read the first public the costume appeared to be invisible Then the planet-devouring alien
accounts of Johnny Storm, the new except when she had nothing else
Human Torch (who was not an on , and even then she was unable to Galactus returned to Earth. Raye
android but a human being), he see it due to Horton's hypnotic com-
became incensed that someone was mand. had learned from the Fantastic
using the name of his then-inactive
android creation. (The original Torch Frankie Raye worked as an inter- Four's records that the alien Norrin
would eventually be revived and lat- preter. Eventually she saw Johnny
Storm, the new Human Torch, and Radd had once become Galactus's
was immediately attracted to him.
But she was filled with fear when she herald in exchange for Galactus's
first saw him burst into flame, for
Horton, to insure that she never agreement to spare his home planet._

Seeking adventure and a chance t

see the wonders of the universe,

Raye volunteered to become Galac-

tus's new herald in exchange for the

Earth's safety. Richards pointed out

to her that inevitably she would

become an accomplice to Galactus's

destruction of worlds inhabited by

sentient beings, but Raye said she

cared only about Earth. Galactus-

accepted Raye's offer and aus

mented her existing powers with his

vast cosmic power. Frankie Raye

eventually took the name of " Nova"

since she now shone like an explod-

ing star.

Nova recently aided Galactus and

the Silver Surfer in stopping the

Elders of the Universe's plot to

destroy Galactus and the Universe.

As a reward and as a way of being

alone from her for a while, Galactus

sent her off with the Silver Surfer in

search of the Contemplator.

126

~STATISTICS NUKLO

i ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
In his early appearances, Nuklo was
F GD(10) a berserker because of his disorien-
A RM (30) tation and confusion. He was also
S IN (40) misunderstood or accidentally allied
E RM (30) with super-villains. Since his powers
R TY (6) have diminished, he has become a
I TY (6) relatively normal person w ho is inter-
ested mainly in leading a normal life.
P PR (4)

Health: 110
Karma: 16
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Robert Frank, Jr.
Occupation: Service station attend-
ant
,...- Legal Status: U.S. citizen
' 1dentity: Known to authorities
-Place of Birth: Mt. Athena, NY

Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Robert and
Madeline (parents, deceased; a.k.a.
the Whizzer and Miss America)
Base of Operations: Woodstock,
New York
Past Group Affiliations: None
~. Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Hard Radiation: Nuklo had the ability
to radiate Amazing Intensity radia-
tion.

Power Conversion: He could attain
several other powers by transform-
ing his radiation into other forms of
energy. These included:

• Amazing growth to 20 feet tall.
• Generation of Incredible bolts of
p lasm a.
• Poor ability to split into a maxi-
mum of 3 beings and reform into 1
at a later time.

Invulnerability: Nuklo had Amazing
resistance to radiation and Remark-
able resistance to physical attacks

and extreme temperatures.
Talents: Nuklo was skilled in auto-
motive repair and maintenance.
Contacts: Nuklo could get in touch
with the Avengers and Dr. Linda
Hyams whenever he needed to.

127

gotten. But while Madeline had died and wreaked havoc for the Avenger$.--._

shortly after giving birth to a second before his father, the Whizzer, wa

HISTORY stillborn son a few years later, the able to get close enough to knock
Whizzer was still alive and learned
him unconscious.

Robert Frank, Jr., is the son of about the capsule's discovery. He Nuklo was then taken to the newly
Robert Frank and Madeline Joyce, broke into the Avengers' Mansion to
also known as the Whizzer and Miss · take custody of the capsule but was opened government energy facility
America. The two retired from their prevented from doing so by the
careers as costumed crimefighters Avengers. Shortly thereafter, the Project: Pegasus for treatment and
several years after the end of World Avengers' probing devices tripped
War II, married, revealed their identi- the release mechanism of the cap- study. There his radiation level was
ties to the government, and took jobs sule and Robert Frank, Jr., was set
at one of the nation's first nuclear free. His body, which had only aged diminished significantly and his edu-
power plants. When a radiation approximately twelve years over the
experiment went awry, the Franks decades of containment, was still cation was started. After a few years,

rushed into a high radiation area to highly radioactive, and soon exhib- he was placed in the custody of sci-
manually activate the damping rods ited certain superhuman powers. His
that were malfunctioning and were mind, which was of above average entists in a special facility at General
intelligence, knew absolutely noth-
exposed to massive amounts of radi- ing about the outside world and was Hospital in Manhattan where he was
ation. Madeline Frank was pregnant consequently greatly disoriented.
at the time and when she gave birth Somehow fissioning into three sepa- treated by a psychologist named Dr.
eight months later, her son proved to rate duplicates, Frank Jr., who would
be a mutant who emitted toxic radia- soon dub himself Nuklo, ran amok Linda Hyams and a radiologist
tion levels. (Apparently, due to their through New York City. The Aveng-
own superhuman powers, the ers subdued the three doppelgang- named Dr. Ira S. Bishoff, who was
Franks were immune to the deleteri- ers and brought them together,
ous effects of excessive radiation.) which merged them into a single secretly the Whizzer's old nemesis
The Franks were persuaded by the being again. Nuklo was rendered
government to place their infant son unconscious by a hex cast by the lsbisa. Over the cNouurksleo'sofrmadoianttihos~ -..._
in a special capsule which would mutant Scarlet Witch, who at that lsbisa siphoned
time believed herself to be his sister.
retard his aging process while drain- and transferred it to himself, in orde/
ing him of excess radioactivity. Nuklo was returned to the capsule
and placed back in government cus- to gain sufficient power to exact
The capsule lay beneath the base- tody. The government placed him
ment of a government building for under the care of U.S. Army General revenge upon the Whizzer. When
several decades, until the building Jacob Pollock, who became a rene-
gade and allied himself with the Robert Frank finally managed to get
collapsed and the capsule was taken criminal Living Laser. Nuklo acciden-
into custody by the Avengers. By that tally escaped his containment vessel a court order turning his son over to
time, the classified records about the
capsule had been misplaced and for- his care, lsbisa attacked. At the bat-

tle's end, the Whizzer had died of a

heart attack rescuing his son, but

Nuklo was permanently cured of his

excess radiation.

Nuklo was placed in the custody o,_..._

Dr. Linda Hyams, his psychologist,

who took him to live with her family in

a small community in upstate New

York. Robert Frank, Jr., has passed

high school equivalency tests and

got a job at a service station. He was

recently attacked by the super-

human-hunting Tess-One robot, and

is currently recuperating.

128

~ STATISTICS DBLITERATDR
J
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
F IN (40) Obliterator is a bully and a brawler.
A UN (100) He revels in wreaking excessive
destruction. He can not seem to
S IN (40) understand that other people might
resent his attempts to kill them .
E AM (50)
R RM (30) 129
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 230
Karma: 60

Resources: AM (50)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Maht Pacle
Occupation: Executioner, wanderer
Legal Status: None
...... Identity: Existence unknown on
Earth
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Elders of
the Universe

Present Group Affiliation :

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Invulnerability: CL1000 resistance to
physical and energy attacks.

Immortality: CL5000 resistance to
aging, disease, and toxins. If
reduced to O Health or Endurance,

he does not die.
Regeneration: Unearthly rank

"Power Primordial": His connection
to the original energy of the universe

is used as power source for his
equipment.

Equipment: His harness contains
these powers:

Flight: CLSOOO speed (1000 times
lightspeed)

Missiles: Heat-seeking spheres do
Shift X damage

Plasma Blast: Shift X intensity
Concussive Blast: Shift X intensity
Fire Generation: Shift X intensity
Heat: Shift X intensity

Kinetic Bolt: Shift X intensity

Hard Radiation: Shift X intensity
Gas Spray: Shift X toxicity tailored to
current victim. One turn is needed to
analyze target and create a toxin
Light Generation: Feeble ability to
create harmlessly glowing bubbles
Talents: Monstrous Reason in the
field of weapons design
Contacts: Elders of the Universe

HISTORY Eventually, of course, the Oblitera- create a new universe, one in which.-...
tor reached his goal with the death of all the Elders would have Galactus
Five billion years ago, the Obi iterator his last distant relative. With that, he like powers.
came up with a purpose for his set about exploring the universe in
immortal life. He decided to track search of other things to kill. He When their activities were discov-
down and kill every other member of eventually met up with the Gardener,
his race. That kept him busy for a who introduced him to others like tehreedObbylittheeraStoilrvterireSdutrofekrilal nthdeMma.nTthis~
while as he developed new means of himself, the monomaniacal immor-
murder and destruction. He became tals who called themselves the Silver Surfer remolded the Oblitera-
quite proud of his accomplishments Elders of the Universe. They came tor's equipment into harmless
and gladly bragged about them to up with a plan to ensure their com- devices and left him stranded, weap-
anyone who survived his presence plete immortality by first wagering onless, on a world that possessed no
long enough to listen. against Death, then setting about animal life he could kill. Bereft of his
destroying Galactus. They thought purpose in life, the Obliterator was
that by destroying Galactus, they
could trigger a new Big Bang and shattered. He now sits in unimagina-
ble despair on that forgotten world,
vainly waiting for something to

evolve so he can kill it.

130

-· STATISTICS

F UN (100)
A UN (100)

S AM (50)
E CL3000
R IN (40)

I IN (40)
P CL3000
Health: 3250

Karma: 3080

Resources: CL1000
Popularity: 90

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Odin
Occupation: Monarch of Asgard
Legal Status: Citizen of Asgard
-... Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Frigga (wife),
Thor (son), Loki (foster son)
Base of Operations: Asgard
Past Group Affiliation: Gods of
Asgard
Present Group Affiliation :

.....--. KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Illusory Duplication: Odin can send Odin 's primary concern is the safety
forth an image with CL3000 range and leadership of the Asgardians.
Invulnerability: Excellent protection Humans are a secondary concern to
against physical and energy attacks him; if addressed by humans, he
While in Asgard , he has CL3000 may ignore them. However, since
resistance to disease, fire, cold, cor- Odin recogn izes the tie between
rosives, and toxins humans and Asgardians, he will pro-
Dimension Travel: Unearthly rank tect Earth if major disaster is immi-
Enchantment: Shift-Z ability to instill nent. He is able to organize the other
pantheons' leaders if joint action is
-.. Unearthly powers ln a target needed to deal with a special crisis.
Plasma Bolts: Shift-Z Intensity blasts He and Surtur hate each other.
of pure magical energy
Regeneration: Shift-Z ability to Heal 131
Spirit Vampirism: CL3000 ability to
absorb all Asgardian life forces into
himself and join their Abilities' ranks
with his. Their bodies enter a coma
until he releases their souls again.

Equipment:
Armor: Amazing protection from
physical and energy attacks
Gungnir, the Odin-Spear: An Uru
Metal spear of CL1000 Material
Strength which does Amazing dam-
age

Thrudstock: An Uru metal mace of
CL1000 Material Strength which
- does Shift-X damage
Contacts: Asgardians, rulers of oth-
er pantheons

Earth to mate with its patron goddess called the Destroyer, and transformed.,-
Gaea, who appeared to him in her per-
sona of Jord. Gaea bore Odin his son the Ring of the Nibelung into the
Thor, whom Frigga then raised. Thor,
HISTORY Destroyer's weapon, the Odinsword.
Odin's favorite son, became the god of
Odin was born ages ago as a member thunder: In the Twentieth Century, Odin
of the race of gods called Asgardians.
Odin is the grandson of Buri, the first of Odin led the Asgardians in a war became greatly disturbed by his son
the Asgardian race, who is said to have against the frost giants of Jotunheim in
emerged from beneath the ice of the which the giants' leader Laufey was Thor's headstrong nature. To teach him
extradimensional realm of Niffleheim. slain. Odin adopted Laufey's infant
Buri sired Bor, who took as his wife son, Loki, whose size was that of a humility, Odin gave Thor a new mortal
Bestia, one of the race of lost giants, god's, not a giant's. (Odin himself had
and they had three sons, Viii, Ve, and had a giant of Jotunheim as his moth· form, that of the crippled medical stu-
Odin. er:) Odin raised Loki alongside Thor,
but as an adult Loki would continually dent Donald Blake, sending him to
The three brothers led the Asgardian
warriors in a war against the frost challenge Odin's rule. Earth stripped ofthe memory of his true
giants of Niffleheim, and slew the frost The tale is told that Odin commis-
giants' leader Ymir: Legend has it that identity. After Blake became a success-
Odin, Viii, and Ve constructed much of sioned the giants Fasolt and Fafnir to
the cosmos from Ymir's immense build him a palace in Valhalla, where ful physician, Odin planted within his
corpse, but this statement is not widely the spirits of the heroic dead dwell. In
believed today. The surviving frost order to pay the giants, Odin, Loki, and mind the suggestion to take a vacation
giants settled in the otherdimensional Thor took the dwarf Alberich prisoner
world of Jotunheim. and forced him to surrender both his in Norway. There Blake stumbled into
gold and the incredibly powerful, mys-
Viii, Ve, and Odin went to explore tic Ring of the Nibelung. Alberich the cavern where Thor's magic ham-
another of the Nine Worlds, Mus- placed a curse on the mystical Ring,
pelheim, which was inhabited by which was carried off by Fafnir. Odin mer had been left in the enchanted
demons ruled by the monstrous Surtur. gave Thor two different mortal incarna-
There the three brothers learned that tions, Siegmund and Siegfried, in an form of a wooden cane. Blake struck
attempt to recover the Ring. Siegfried
Surtur intended one day to destroy the the cane against a boulder and
Nine Worlds with his gigantic sword, succeeded but was killed by Alberich's
which he would ignite with the Eternal son, Hagen. Siegfried's lover, Brunn- regained his godly form while the cane
Flame of Destruction. Odin and his hilde the Valkyrie, recovered the Ring
brothers magically merged into a giant but died herself. Odin brought Thor a~ain became a hammer.
of Surtur's own immense size and in and Brunnhilde back to life and took
this form succeeded in shattering Sur- In recent years Odin sacrificed his
tur's sword in combat. Surtur and his possession of the Ring.
hordes pursued the three Asgardians Odin learned of the coming of the right eye to Mimir, the sentient Well of
to the interdimensional Nexus between
Asgard and Muspelheim. Third Host of the Celestials, alien Wisdom, in order to learn how to thwart
beings of inconceivable power who
Odin rode through the Nexus, but his had influenced the evolution of Earth's ~agnarok, the end of Asgard. The eye
elder brothers remained behind, say- human race and intended to judge
ing that if they accompanied Odin, then humanity's worthiness to survive when itself became sentient and grew to
Surtur would follow the three of them the Fourth Host came. Odin contacted
wherever they went. Viii and Ve bade Zeus, ruler of Olympian gods, and the great size in astnoortiehserodfimOednins'ison~nwdhehries
Odin farewell, telling him to rule Asgard two monarchs met with the ruling gods it told Thor
wisely. Then, as Surtur came up behind of Earth's other pantheons to set a
them, there was a tremendous shock course of action. Odin, Zeus, and Vish- past, the truth of some of which is
wave and flash of light. When Odin nu of the Hindu gods confronted the
recovered, the Nexus to Muspelheim Third Host, which threatened to seal off debatable. The eye eventually shrank ,_
had vanished. Then there was a sec- the interdimensional passages
ond, more powerful shock wave of between the gods' realms and Earth and was hurled by Thor into Mimir:
energy, and the young Odin found him- unless the gods pledged not to inter-
self in possession of his two brothers' fere with the Celestials' activities on After the coming of the Fourth Host
Earth for a millennium. Acting on behalf
powers. of Earth's gods, Odin, Zeus, and Vish- of the Celestials, Odin withdrew all of
Odin made the Asgardian goddess nu were forced to agree. But Odin
began planning to thwart the Fourth the life forces of the Asgardians except
Frigga his queen. But he eventually Host, which would arrive roughly a mil-
decided to sire a son whose power lennium later: He constructed a suit of Thor into himself. Then Odin's spirit
would combine both that of Asgard and armor with nearly invincible powers
entered the Destroyer, animating it, and
that of Earth. Hence he journeyed to
Odin thus did battle with the Fourth

Host. The Celestials annihilated the

Destroyer but judged in humanity's

favor when Gaea presented them with ,,.---.

twelve genetically advanced human·

beings, the "Young Gods:· The other

pantheons of Earth gods granted Thor

the power to resurrect Odin, who then

revived the other Asgardians.

Recently Surtur launched a new

attack against the Nine Worlds. While

Surtur's demons fought the Asgardian

armies on Earth, Surtur himself battled

Odin, Thor, and Loki in Asgard City.

Odin grew to gigantic size and grap-

pled with Surtur, and both fell within a

huge crevice apparently leading to

Muspelheim, which then sealed shut.

Balder the Brave has been chosen to

succeed Odin as ruler of Asgard; Thor

refused the throne, preferring to remain

Earth's guardian. But there may be ,,--

trouble ahead, because Odin appar-

ently still lives.

132

OLYMPIAN GODS

GROUP BACKGROUND sied that Cronus would likewise be over- Olympian gods in the Roman Empire,
thrown by Cronus's children. As a result, Zeus decided that the time had come for
The Gods of Olympus are a race of upon the birth of each of Cronus's chil- the Olympians to break most of their ties
superhumanly powerful humanoid dren, he had the infant imprisoned in Tar- with Earth . Neptune, however, was still
beings who were worshipped by the tarus, the most dismal section of the allowed to watch over his Atlantean wor-
ancient Greeks and Romans from about Olympian underworld known as Hades. shippers. Zeus's children Hercules and
2,000 B.C. to 500 A.D. The Olympians Venus have spent periods living among
dwell in Olympus, a small " pocket" Appalled at the mistreatment of their Earth mortals.
dimension adjacent to Earth; an interdi- children, Cronus's wife, the Titaness
mensional nexus between Olympus and Rhea, concealed her sixth pregnancy An alternate future has been depicted
Earth exists somewhere on Mount Oly- from him and secretly gave birth to Zeus in which Zeus and the other Olympians,
mpus in Greece. The Olympians' human in Greece. Zeus grew to adulthood except for Hercules, leave their plane of
worshippers in ancient Rome called among the human shepherds of Crete. existence in the 23rd century so that Her-
these gods by different names than cules may father a new race of gods.
those by which the gods were known in Zeus set his siblings-Neptune, Pluto, Whether the Olympian gods will come to
ancient Greece: for example, the Greeks Hera, Demeter, and Vesta, now all grown such an end in what becomes the "main-
called the king of the gods Zeus, where- to adulthood-free from Tartarus. Zeus stream" future is as yet unknown.
as the Romans called him Jupiter or and his allies fought a ten-year war with
Jove. The Olympian gods, except for the Titans, a war which ended with Note: Despite previous accounts, the
Neptune, patron deity of the Atlanteans, Zeus's victory. He imprisoned most of beings known as Alars, Chronus, and
no longer have or actively seek worship- the male Titans in Tartarus and estab- Uranus and their followers were not
- pers on Earth. However, certain gods, lished himself in Olympus as supreme Olympian gods but Eternals.
notably Hercules and Venus, still take ruler of the Olympian race.
Legal Status: Citizens of Olympus
active interest in humanity. Zeus married the goddess Hera, but Identity: Believed mythical by the gen-
The Olympian gods all possess certain he engaged in many affairs with god- eral public
desses and mortal Earthwomen. Some Place of Birth: Olympus
superhuman physical attributes. They of his children were gods. Zeus, Hera, Known Relatives: see above
are true immortals, who cease to age Neptune, Demeter, and Vesta, together Base of Operations: Olympus
upon achieving adulthood , and who are with Zeus's children, Apollo, Ares, Past Group Affiliations: Olympian gods
unable to die by conventional means. Artemis, Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes,
The Olympians are immune to all terres- and Venus, comprised the membership APOLLO
trial diseases and are resistant to con- of the high council of the Olympian gods,
ventional inj ury. If an Olympian is known as the Pantheon. Vesta later STATISTICS
wounded, his or her godly life force will resigned her seat on the council in favor F MN (75)
enable him or her to recover at a super- of Zeus's son Dionysus. Zeus's brother A RM (30)
human rate. It would take an injury of S AM (50)
such magnitude that it incinerates an Pluto was not a member of the Panthe- E AM (50)
Olympian or disperses a major portion of on, preferring to stay within Hades, R EX (30)
his or her bodily molecules to cause him which he ruled. I GD (10)
or her to die. Even then, it may be possi- P IN (40)
ble for a god of greater or equal power, or After the end of the Hyborian Age, the Health: 205
several gods acting together, to revive Olympian gods sought worshippers on Karma: 80
the deceased Olympian before the god's Earth. Neptune became the patron god Resources: UN (100)
life essence is beyond resurrection. of the water-breathing Atlanteans. Zeus Popularity: 80
~, Olympian flesh and bone are about three worked for the Olympian gods to be wor-
times denser than similar human tissue, shipped by the people of the land now BACKGROUND
contributing to the gods' superhuman known as Greece. Mount Olympus lay Real Name: Phoebus Apollo
strength and weight. The metabolism of near Olympia, the principal city of the Present Group Affiliation:
the gods gives them superhuman endur- Eternals. Zeus and his daughter Athena
ance in all physical activities. In addition, met with Zuras, the leader of the Eter- KNOWN POWERS
many Olympian gods possess additional nals, and his daughter Azura. Noticing Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging,
superhuman powers which may be mag- the physical resemblance between Zeus disease, and toxins. He cannot die even
ical in nature. and Zuras and between Azura and her- if reduced to O Health and Endurance.
self, Athena suggested that the Olympi- Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to
According to ancient myths, the prime- an gods and the Eternals form an physical and energy attacks.
val Earth goddess Gaea is the progenitor alliance in which the Eternals would act Light Emission: Unearthly rank
of the principal Olympian gods. How- as the gods' representatives on Earth. Heat Emission: Unearthly rank
ever, it is unclear whether the Olympian The other three enthusiastically agreed, Precognition: Unearthly rank
race originated on Earth, on Olympus, or and Azura took her current name of Talents: Master archer and harpist
in another dimension linked to Olympus. Thena to signify the sealing of the pact. Contacts: Olympian Gods
However, over the years, many humans
Gaea gave birth to the sky god came to think of many Eternals not as the 133
Ouranos (who is not to be confused with gods' representatives but as the gods
the Eternal named Uranus). Gaea mated themselves. This led to a growing resent-
with Ouranos and bore him the first gen-
eration of the Olympian race, known as ment by the gods toward the Eternals, a
the Titans. One of the Titans, Cronus, resentment that recently erupted into
rose to power when he fatally wounded war, but today they are again at peace.
Ouranos. (Cronus is not to be confused
with the Eternal known as both Chrones Worship of the Olympian gods spread
and Kronos.) The dying Ouranos prophe- from Greece to Rome, and throughout
the Roman Empire. But when Christiani-
ty finally replaced the worship of the

ADDITIONAL NOTES: ATHENA Health: 120 .r----
Karma: 50
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES STATISTICS Resources: UN(100) 1
Apollo is a vain god who prefers to harp F UN (100} Popularity: 40
and wench to performing his godly tasks, A RM (30)
such as riding his sun chariot. He is a S AM (50) BACKGROUND
charmer where women are concerned, E UN (100) Real Name: Dionysus
although the Olympian goddesses are R MN (75) Occupation: God of Wine and Revelry
immune to his charms. I RM (30) Present Group Affiliation:
P AM (50)
ARTEMIS Health: 280 KNOWN POWERS -
Karma: 155 Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging,
STATISTICS Resources: UN {100) disease, and toxins. He cannot die even
F UN (100) Popularity: 40 if reduced to O Health and Endurance.
A RM (30) Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to
S AM (50) BACKGROUND physical and energy attacks.
E UN (100) Real Name: Pallas Athena Shape change: Remarkable ability.
R EX (20) Occupation: Goddess of Wisdom and Plant Control: Unearthly control over
I GD (10) War plant growth .
P RM (30) Present Group Affiliation:
Health: 280 Strength: In his younger, more active
Karma: 60 KNOWN POWERS days, Dionysus possessed Monstrous
Resources: UN (100} Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging , Strength.
Popularity: 40 disease, and toxins. She cannot die even Talents: Monstrous Reason in the fields
if reduced to O Health and Endurance. of winemaking, brewing, and distilling.
BACKGROUND Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to Co ntacts: Any vintner on Earth
Real Name: Artemis physical and energy attacks.
Occupation: Goddess of the Hunt Talents: Unearthly knowledge of any ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Present Group Affiliation: non-technical science. She is an expert
in hand-to-hand combat and swordplay. '.
KNOWN POWERS She is a better military strategist than
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging, Ares. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
disease, and toxins. She cannot die even Contacts: Olympian gods Dionysus is a hedonistic god who no
if reduced to O Health and Endurance. longer adventures if he can avoid it. He
Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to ADDITIONAL NOTES: prefers to surround himself with mortals
physical and energy attacks. full of the partying mentality. He thinks 1,,..-..,
Talents: Master huntress and archer ROLE-PLAYING NOTES most of the gods are crashing bores. \
Contacts : Olympian gods Athena is the most brilliant of the Olympi-
ans. Her knowledge makes her their HEPHAESTUS
ADDITIONAL NOTES: acknowledged expert on everything.
She balances her academic powers with STATI STI CS
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES martial skills. Her calm, rational mind F EX (20)
Artemis vowed long ago to retain her A GD (10)
purity and virginity forever. The only men provides a needed balance to the more S AM (50)
who interest her are hunters, archers, E AM (50)
and occasional fighters. She holds a tempestuous gods' actions. R MN (75)
slight grudge against Apollo for tricking I TY (6)
her into killing her lover Orion. DIONYSUS P TY (6)
Health: 130
STATISTICS Karma: 87
F GD (10) Resources: UN (100)
A EX (20) Popularity: 20
S AM (50)
E IN (40) BACKGROUND
R TY (10)
I TY(10) Real Name: Hephaestus ,.--..
P RM (30)
Occupat ion : God of Metalworking, ·

Weaponsmaker for Olympus

Present Group Affiliation:

134

OLYMPIAN GOOS

~NOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging , ADDITIONAL NOTES:
disease, and toxins. He cannot die even
if reduced to O Health and Endurance.
lnvulnerablllty: Incredible resistance
physical and energy attacks.

Talents: Unearthly Reason in the fields
of invention, engineering, manufacture,
metalworking, etc.
Contacts: Olympian Gods (except for
Mars}

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Hephaestus is an industrious god who Hera resents her husband Zeus's adul- Hermes is the messenger of the gods,
prefers to spend his time in his work- tery. This makes her a bitter goddess the one most mortals would be likely to
shop, surrounded by his inventions, who occasionally tries either to prevent contact . He runs errands, retrieves
tools, and assistants. Although he is Zeus from wandering or to do away with objects and mortals, and acts as Olympi-
- married to Venus, he prefers to have little his mistresses. For a long time, she tried an ambassador at large. His wide travels
.o do with her. He openly distrusts Mars, to kill Hercules, but she later mellowed and observations led to his phenomenal
ever since he caught him with Venus. out and begrudgingly accepted him. medical knowledge, which he shares
with those in need.
HERA HERMES
NEPTUNE
STATISTICS STATISTICS
F GD (10) F EX (20) STATISTICS
A EX (20) A AM (50) F ShX(150)
S AM (50) A UN (100)
S AM (50) E ShX (150) S AM (50)
R RM (30) E ShY (200)
- E IN (40) I TY (6) R MN (75)
A RM (30) P GD (10) I MN (75)
I GD (10) Health: 270 P UN (100)
P RM (30) Karma: 46 Health: 500
Health: 120 Resources: UN (100) Karma: 250
Karma: 70 Popularity: 40 Resources: UN (100)
Resources: UN (100) Popularity: 10 (100 with sailors)
Popularity: 30 BACKGROUND
Real Name: Hermes BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND Occupation: Herald of Zeus Real Name: Poseidon
Real Name: Hera Present Group Affiliation: Occupation: God of the Seas, patron
Occupation: Queen of Olympus god of Atlantis
Present Group Affiliation: KNOWN POWERS Present Group Affiliation:
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging,
KNOWN POWERS disease, and toxins. He cannot die even KNOWN POWERS
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging, if reduced to 0 Health and Endurance. Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging,
disease, and toxins. She cannot die even Invulnerability: Monstrous resistance to disease, and toxins. He cannot die even
if reduced to OHealth and Endurance. physical and energy attacks. if reduced to O Health and Endurance.
Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to Winged Sandals: They provide him with Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to
_ physical and energy attacks. Shift-Z speed (240 mph landspeed, 3750 physical and energy attacks. Monstrous
Talents: Monstrous knowledge of Olym- mph air speed, 300,000 mph in space) resistance to any water-based or ocean-
pian lore and the current activities of and the Dimension Travel of Monstrous manipulating attack.
Olympians. ease. Water Breathing: Amphibious ability to
Contacts: None Talents: Unearthly Reason in Medicine breathe air or water (mostly to enable
and Pharmacology. him to converse with worshippers) .
Contacts: Olympian gods Water Freedom: Perfect adaptation to
any part of the sea.
Talents: Unearthly knowledge of the
oceans and everything that involves
them, whether the subject is fish , fishing,
ships, or subaquatic culture.
Contacts: Atlantean race and most fish-
ermen .

135

ADDITIONAL NOTES: ADDITIONAL NOTES: ADDITIONAL NOTES:

·.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Neptune is the sole Olympian god with a Although Venus is no longer formally
flourishing body of worshippers. He acts worshipped, she recognizes her incalcu- Vesta is a semi-retired goddess. She
as patron god of the Atlanteans and of lable effect on the modern world. She is feels her time of greatest contribution is
fishermen who, at the least, otter him a hedonist who prefers to be fawned
begrudging acknowledgement. Like his over, but she will also take an interest in over. However, she still maintains an
brother Pluto, Neptune has staked out a assisting forelorn lovers find happiness. interest in Earthly domestic lifestyles.
major realm where he prefers to spend
VESTA
his time.

VENUS STATISTICS
F TY (6)
STATISTICS A EX (20)
F TY (6) S AM (50)
A IN (40) E IN (40)

S AM (50) R EX (20)
E IN (40)
I EX (20)
R TY (6) P RM (30)
I AM (50) Health: 116
P AM (50) Karma: 70
Health: 136 Resources: UN (100)
Karma: 106 Popularity: 20
Resources: UN (100)
Popularity: 100 BACKGROUND
Real Name: Hestia
BACKGROUND Occupation: Goddess of the Home
Re al Name: Aphrodite Present Group Affiliation:
Occupation : Goddess of Love and
Beauty, adventurer, professor of the KNOWN POWERS
humanities Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging,
Present Group Affiliation: . disease, and toxins. She cannot die even
if reduced to O Health and Endurance.
KNOWN POWERS Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to aging, physical and energy attacks.
disease, and toxins. She cannot die even Talents: Unearthly Reason in the fields
if reduced to 0 Health and Endurance. of food, cloth, animal husbandry, and
Invulnerability: Incredible resistance to psychology.
physical and energy attacks. Contacts: Olympian gods
Equipment:
The Cestus: This enchanted girdle gives
Venus the following powers:

• Emotion Control: Unearthly rank
• Molding: Monstrous rank
Talents: Venus has Unearthly knowl-
edge of every mortal work about love,
whether it is literary, artistic, cultural, or
chemical.
Contacts: Mars, her past lover.

136

-~TATISTICS OMEGA

r RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Because Omega took a code of
A GD (10) silence, he rarely speaks. He is a
noble, valiant fighter who seeks out
s IN (40) evil and confronts it directly.
Because of his silence, though, his
E GD (10) actions may be misunderstood. Jack
Starling, ·omega's "interpreter," acts
R TY (6) like a normal adolescent brought up
I GD (10) in depressed surroundings. He pos-
p GD (10) sesses -2 CS versions of Omega's
powers.
Health: 90
Karma: 26 137
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Model X3Z
Occupation : Manual laborer
Legal Status: Citizen of planet
,....-..S. renesk
ientity: Secret
t'lace of Creation: Protaris, Regrab
system
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operat ions: Planet
Srenesk; New York City area; Las
Vegas, Nevada
Past Group Affiliations: None

_present Group Affiliation:

t<NOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Power Source (Biosphere): Unearth-
ly ability

Kinetic Bolts: Amazing rank

Mind Link: Amazing link between
Omega's conscious mind and Star-
ling's unconscious

Telekinesis: Typical rank

,......Wea knesses: Because Omega
!raws his power from Biospheres,
ne is powerless in areas devoid of
life. In desert areas his Endurance
decreases to TypiGal. If Omega or
Starli ng exceed his listed power
ranks, he risks starting a planet-
destroying chain reaction. Failure to
make a Green FEAT starts a series of

Unearthly Intensity Plasma Blasts
and Mind Blasts that spread outward
and continue one per turn until
stopped or everything on the planet
is dead. By means of a Red Intensity
FEAT, either Omega or Starling can
turn his power inward, disintegrating
only himselves and stopping the
chain reaction.
_ Talents: None
~ontacts : James-Michael Starling

HISTORY humanoid emotions, which he would tively firing biospheric-energy blasts.-
be better able to handle once Model from his hands. Starling, astoundec
The being called Omega on Earth X3Z's high moral code was transmit- recognized X3Z from dreams he had..
was created by the civilization of the ted to him. As a member of the war- had. X3Z departed.
planet Protaris, which was inhabited rior elite, Model X3Z had taken a vow
by sentient beings of organic metal of silence, so that he rarely, if ever, X3Z won public acclaim for his bat-
(somewhat comparable to the organ- spoke. tles in New York City against various
ic metal form of Colossus). Unable to
adapt themselves to severe climac- The Sreneskians had recently dis- sinucpluedrhinugmtahnelyHuplkowaenrdfuEl lemcetrnoa. cTehs~
tic changes occurring on their plan- covered what they believed to be the
et, the Protar knew they were ultimate energy source: a means to New York Daily Bugle dubbed X3Z
doomed to extinction. However, they tap the psionic energy of their "Omega" after the symbol on his
decided to create, th rough bio- world's biosphere (all of the living costume. Omega and Starling again
engineering, a new race of sentient beings of that world.) To honor Model met when Omega attempted to res-
beings who would be able to live X3Z, the elders of Srenesk decided cue Starling and Grant from a psy-
comfortably under the new condi- to make him the first of their citizens chotic killer named Kurt Klemmer.
tions and perpetuate Protarian cul- to be endowed with the ability to Again, Starling was the one to defeat
ture. The Protar intended that this draw upon this biospheric energy. the menace with energy beams from
new race should be humanoid, The Protar were horrified when they his hands.
unlike themselves, but needed to learned this, knowing that the bios-
construct several intermediate pheric energy was too great for Eventually, Starling and a school-
models before they could succeed in Model X3Z to control, and that he mate named Dian Wilkins went on ,-.
perfecting one that was truly human- would transmit it along with his their own to his home. Omega wen'.
oid. knowledge to Starling, who would to Las Vegas with his sometime -
also be unable to control it. Thus, all employer, a New York pawnbroker
So the Protar constructed a num- of the Protar's plans would be nicknamed " Gramps" Hart. Omega
ber of prototypes of living, sentient ruined . and Gramps won a small fortune, but
beings, each more truly humanoid they were robbed by Ruby Thursday
than the previous one, and each in A number of Protar immediately of the Headmen. Omega pursued
set out for the planet Srenesk to pre- Ruby, who had used her powers to
the form of a different being whom vent its natives from giving Model make herself resemble a normal
the Protar knew to exist on another X3Z this power, but they were too woman , but Las Vegas policemen,,.._
planet. Each prototype was placed late. Believing the Protar to be believing Omega to be attacking ar,
on the planet popu lated by the invaders bent on conquest, Model innocent person , shot him dead.
beings it was modeled after, begin- X3Z tried to use his new power
ning with the least humanoid of the against them. But he could not con- Hart and Starling's roommates
prototypes, and was designed to became involved with the Defenders
transmit whatever information it trol the power once he unleashed it in their attempt to locate Starling.
gained about the civilization in which in such large quantities, and the During that time, Moondragon, one
it was placed, back to the next proto- of the Defenders, established a tele-
type in the series. After a long period power destroyed all of the inhabit- pathic link with a dying Protar and
of testing, the Protar had only the ants of Srenesk and their civilization. learned the true origins of Omega
last two prototypes-the most The Protar realized that X3Z had and Starling. Starling, whom the,...-...,
already transmitted the ability to tap Defenders had located, refused to'
humanoid-left to observe in action. biospheric power to Starl ing, to accept the truth and blasted the
One of them, Model X3Z, had whom he was psionically linked. One heroes. However, Dian stepped in
already been placed years before on Protar therefore stated that both X3Z the way. To save Dian 's life, Starling
the planet Srenesk, whose culture, and Starling had to be destroyed. t~rned his power inward, burning
the Protar believed, was uniquely Upon hearing this, X3Z broke free, himself to ashes but harming no one
suited to teaching him concepts of and, commandeering a small star- else. Moondragon buried the
morality and nobility. ship, went to Earth to find and pro- remains of Omega and Starling
tect Starling. somewhere in outer space.
Another prototype, the final one,
entirely organic in nature, had been On Earth, Starling and his sup-
created in the form of an Earth boy posed " parents" were in a car acci-
and placed on Earth some years dent. As the androids lay injured,
before. There he was being raised by Starling learned that they were really
two Protar androids in human form , mechanical constructs. Starling was
whom the boy, called James-Michael taken to New York City's Barrow Clin-
Starling on Earth, believed to be his ic. One night one of the Protar broke
parents. The Protar believed that on into Starling's room at the clinic to
Earth Starling would learn about destroy him. Model X3Z arrived
immediately and began battling the

Protar, but it was Starling himself
who defeated the Protar by instinc-

138

OMEGA FLIGHT

4ROUP BACKGROUND she also recruited Roger Bochs, who STATISTICS
lnega Flight is a criminal organiza- bore no grudge against Alpha Flight F FE (2)
or Hudson; Bochs joined Omega A FE (2)
tion formed by Jerome "Jerry" Jax- Flight in order to subvert Jaxon's
on in order to destroy Alpha Flight, group from within. S OR (4)
the Canadian team of adventurers, E TY (6)
and in particular its founder and Omega Flight brought about their
leader, James MacDonald Hudson, first confrontation with Alpha Flight R GD (10)
also known as the Guardian. Omega by kidnapping Hudson 's wife Heath· I GD (10)
Flight consists principally of former er. Jaxon took command of Roger P EX (20)
members of Beta and Gamma Flight, Bochs' robot, Box, through artificial Health: 14
the two teams that were in training to psionic means, and used it to battle Karma: 40
become members of Alpha Flight Guardian. Guardian caused Box to Resources: IN (40)
when Alpha Flight was connected explode, creating a feedback that hit Popularity: 0
with the Canadian government. Jaxon, but Guardian died when his
battle-suit exploded. BACKGROUND
Jerome Jaxon was once in charge Real Name: Jerome " Jerry" Jaxon
of research and development at a Courtney rebuilt herself into a Occupation: Research executive
Canadian division of the Am-Can male humanoid form and devised a Legal Status: Canadian citizen with
Petroleum Company. An engineer, duplicate of Guardian's battle-suit. no criminal record
..--James McDonald Hudson, worked Wearing false hair and skin that dis- Identity: Publicly known
guised her as James Hudson, Place of Birth: Red Deer, Alberta,
hder Jaxon to develop a special Courtney then convinced Heather Canada
superpowered suit. When Hudson Hudson and the rest of Alpha Flight, Marital Status: Estranged from wife
disapproved of Jaxon's plans for the which Heather now led, that she was Known Relatives: Wife and two chil·
suit, the helmet and blueprints dis- James Hudson, giving a convoluted dren; names not revealed
appearred. Am-Can held Jaxon story to explain how Hudson had Base of Operations: Roxxon Oil,
responsible and fired him. Moreover, managed to survive. New York City
Am-Can blacklisted Jaxon so that he Past Group Affiliations: Omega
was unable to find a new job. Jaxon's The rest of Omega Flight, except Flight, Roxxon Oil
wife left him, and by the end of the for Smart Alec and the apparently Present Group Affiliation:
- \{ear he was destitute. Jaxon deceased Jaxon, then took over the
West Edmonton mall , an enormous KNOWN POWERS
.tempted to hang himself but suc- shopping center, as a trap for Alpha None. Because of brain damage,
Flight. Courtney (as Guardian) and Jaxon is unable to walk.
ceeded only in inflicting brain dam- Omega Flight defeated and cap- EQUIPMENT:
age which, while leaving his intellect tured several Alpha Flight members. Box Robot: During his first and last
intact, left him permanently unable But Courtney unintentionally battle with Alpha Flight, Jaxon
to walk. released dangerous mystical forces. employed Roger Bochs' original Box
The Omega Flight members fled, robot. By wearing a special helmet,
When the Guardian made his first only to be confronted by Alpha Flight Jaxon could project his mind into the
public appearance, Jaxon noticed ally Madison Jeffries, who overcame "Psiborg ." It had the following statis-
that his battle-suit resembled Hud- them all . t ics:
son's experimental suit. After satisfy-
..-t'lg himself that Hudson and It remains to be seen whether FASE
Omega Flight will ever strike again. RM RM MN MN
.uardian were one and the same, The Box Robot had Incredible pro-
Jaxon approached August D'Ange- \r;;; tection against physical and energy
lo, chairman of the American con- attacks, and could leap up to 4 sto-
glomerate Roxxon Oil and told him JERRVJAXCN ries high and 2 areas away. It also
had mechanisms within it that could
what he knew about Guardian. Inter- short circuit mechanically generated
ested in procuring Guardian's battle- force fields with Monstrous ability.
suit by any means possible, Talents: Jaxon has the Business/
D'Angelo appointed Jaxon as an Finance Talent.
executive vice president of Roxxon Contacts: Roxxon Oil and several
and financed his project to create connections in the Canadian govern-
Omega Flight. ment.

Jaxon soon met Roxxon employee
Delphine Courtney, actually Robot
MX39147, designed to have the
highest level of intelligence its crea-
tors could give it, as well as an open-
ended deductive capability that its
~reators likened to intuition. She

acame Jaxon's assistant. Acting on
his behalf, she recruited former
Gamma Flight members. However,

139

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Health: 80 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ,..--..
Karma: 120
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Resources: RM (30) Programmed for complete loyalty t
Jaxon's goal was to avenge his Popularity: O
imagined losses at the hands of Jerry Jaxon, Courtney helped in his
James McDonald Hudson. Every- BACKGROUND
thing he did was aimed at totally Real Name: MX39147 schemes to destroy Hudson and
hu miliating and ultimately killing Occupation: Servitor
Hudson and the group that Hudson Legal Status: Property of Roxxon Alpha Flight, and continued to do so
had formed. Oil
Identity: Not generally known to be after Jaxon's "death." She was total-
DELPHINE COURTNEY a robot
Place of Creation : The Brand Cor- ly ruthless in her objectives.
~ poration, New York City
Marital Status: Inapplicable DIAMOND LIL
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: Formerly New TIAS
York City, later mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Second in EX (20)
command of Omega Flight GD (10)
Present Group Affiliation: EX (20)
UN (100)
KNOWN POWERS PR (4)
Body Armor: Delphine's robotic body TY (6)
gives her Excellent protection P TY (6)
against physical and energy attacks. Health: 150
Shape-Shifting: Delphine had a lim- Karma: 16
ited ability to restructure her own Resources: PR (4)
body. She can mimic others with Popularity: - 5
Incredible ability, but it takes her 1-
1O weeks for her to adopt any given BACKGROUND
identity. Real Name: Lillian Crawley
Guardian Armor: While disguised as Occupation: Professional criminal,
Hudson, Delphine wore a suit that former waitress
duplicated most of Guardian's abili- Legal Status: Canadian citizen with
ties. This gave her an Amazing a criminal record in Canada and the
Strength Force Field, Shift-X air U.S.
speed, and Incredible Force blasts Identity: Publicly known
with a range of 10 areas. Place of Birth: Yellowknife, North-
Talents: Courtney was programmed west Territories, Canada
with the Psychiatry Talent and could Marital Status: Divorced
learn any language necessary to her Known Relatives: None
missions in 1-10 days. Base of Operations: Mobile
Contacts: As a robotic creation of Past Group Affiliations: Omega.-_
Roxxon Oil, Delphine could count on Flight, former member of Gamm;
their help for her missions. Flight
Present Group Affiliation:
ADDITIONAL NOTES:

STAT ICS
EX (20)
F EX (20)
EX (20)
A EX (20)
RM (30)
S AM (50)
E IN (40)

R
I

P

140

DMEBA FLIGHT

NOWN POWERS STATISTICS future man was from the original's
Diamond Skin: Diamond Li l has F TY (6) timeline. In this case, there is a 1 in
Unearthly body armor against physi- A TY (6) 1Ochance per week that the original
cal and energy attacks. She can still S TY (6) will vanish, never to return. If the
be stunned or slammed by attacks of E GD (10) original witnesses the death of one
Excellent Strength or better. Her R GD (10) of his future men, he must make a
sense of touch is greatly reduced to I GD (10) Yellow Psyche FEAT roll or have a
the point where she will not notice an P TY(6) nervous breakdown, rendering him
attack of Typical Strength or less. Health: 28 incapable of any action for 1-1 O
Her nails can rend things of Unearth- Karma: 26 weeks, caused by the shock.
ly material strength or less, and her Resources: PR (4) Talents: Flashback is a trained actor,
hair can be used to do Excellent Popularity: - 4 having the Performer Skill.
Edged Damage as a garrote or whip. Contacts: Flashback was a member
Contacts: Lil was a member of BACKGROUND of both Gamma and Beta Flights.
Omega Flight and was romantically Real Name: Gardner Monroe
involved with Madison Jeffries at one Occupation: Professional criminal, ADDITIONAL NOTES:
time. former actor
Legal Status: Canadian citizen with ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
1DDITIONAL NOTES: a criminal record in Canada and the Like other members of Omega
U.S. Flight, Flashback tends to be over-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Identity: Publicly known confident. His usual strategy is to
Lil's near-indestructibility has given Place of Birth: Manitoba Province, pick one opponent and "gang up"
her a feeling of overconfidence to the Canada on him or her. He is not very clever at
point where she will take on almost Marital Status: Single picking opponents that he can beat.
anything. Her divorce and freak sta- Known Relatives: None
tus have made her bitter, but she is Base of Operations: Mobile SMART ALEC
not truly evil. Past Group Affiliations: Omega
Flight, former member of Beta and
FLASHBACK Gamma Flight
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Temporal Fugue: Flashback can
psionically summon his own future
selves, creating numerous dupli-
cates of himself taken from different
future timelines. Each " future man"
is dressed like the original but in a
reversed color scheme. These
selves do not talk but can fight,
move, and act according to the origi-
nal's wishes. They can appear up to
2 areas away in any direction in
Flashback's line of sight. They are
maintained in the present by the
original's willpower, and if he is ren-
dered unconscious, they vanish.

The original Flashback can sum-
mon one "future man " at a time, or
up to six simultaneously with a Yel-
low FEAT roll. There seems to be no
limit to the number of future men he
can have present at any one time. If
there are more than 1Opresent, all of
them fight at -1 CS because Mon-
roe cannot effectively control this
many at once.

If a "future man" is killed, there is
a 1 in 5 chance (01-20) that this

141

STATISTICS his Agility or Fighting attributes STATISTICS --
F TY (6) when Dodging and Evading. F IN (40)
A GD (10) A RM (30)
S PR (4) • As long as Thorne knows who S GD (10)
E GD (10) he will be fighting, he will automati- E RM (30)
R IN (40) cally have access to one Excellent R TY (6)
I EX (20) rank attack or defense device intend- I EX (20)
P GD (10) ed for a specific opponent. He usu- P TY (6)
Health: 30 ally carries the device in his belt Health:110
Karma: 70 pouch. Karma: 32
Resources: TY(6) Encephalo-Helmet: Thorne designed Resources: PR(4)
Popularity: O a special helmet (of Remarkable Popularity: - 5
material strength) for himself that
BACKGROUND bolsters his Reason to Amazing and BACKGROUND
Real Name: Alexander "Alex" his Intuition to Incredible. In addition,
Thorne it provides him with Amazing rank Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Professional criminal microscopic and telescopic vision,
Legal Status: Naturalized Canadian and the ability to see along the entire Occupation: Inapplicable
citizen with a criminal record in the electromagnetic spectrum, including
U.S. x-rays and gamma rays. It also acts Legal Status: Canadian citizen with
Identity: Publicly known as Excellent protection against
Place of Birth: London, England blinding attacks. a criminal record in the U.S. and
Marital Status: Single Talents: Thorne is a Grandmaster in
Known Relatives: None Chess. His Reason is considered Canada ,,,---
Base of Operations: Winnipeg, only Good when dealing with the
Manitoba, Canada invention and repair of technology or Identity: Unrevealed l
Past Group Affiliations: Omega in any field of science.
Flight, former member of Gamma Contacts:Thorne was a former Place of Birth: Somewhere in Canada
Flight, grandmaster of Canadian member of Gamma Flight.
Chess Federation Marital Status: Unknown
Present Group Affiliation: ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Known Relatives: None
KNOWN POWERS
Computer Intellect: Thorne's natural Base of Operations: Mobile
powers allow him superior reasoning
and intuitive abilities. He can deduce Past Group Affiliations: Omega
facts and make logical projections
beyond the scope of most normal Flight, former member of Gamma
individuals. He has the following
Power Stunts: Fl ight

• Unreasonable Intuitive leaps, Present Group Affiliation:
similar to the powers of Cypher and
Forge. This can be applied to the KNOWN POWERS r---
deduction of secret identities, vul-
nerabilities, previously undisplayed Teeth and Claws: Wild Child uses hk
Power Stunts and tactics. He does
so simply by making a Reason FEAT sharpened teeth and claws as natural
roll. The Judge should determine the
color result necessary. Determining weaponry, capable of doing Good
that Triton needs a constant water
supply would be a Green FEAT roll, Edged Damage. He can rend materials
deducing that Peter Parker is Spi-
derMan would be a Red FEAT. of less than Excellent material strength.

• Any group under his tactical Accelerated Healing: Wild Child has
leadership gains a one-rank
increase in Intuition for determining Excellent Regenerative powers.
Initiative.
Heightened Senses: Wild Child has
• Because of his ability to com-
pute an opponent's movements, Poor lnfravision and Remarkable
Thorne uses his Reason instead of
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Tracking Ability. ;~--.._

Thorne is abrasive and snobbish, Talents: Wild Child is skilled in su1

looking down on everyone whom he viving in the wild, and he can find

thinks is not as smart as himself. He food, water, and shelter with Incredi-

is never at a loss for a "smart-aleck" ble skill. His mind is so feral that he

remark. R~ has the equivalent of the Resist

v~ ! Domination talent.

Contacts: Former member of

Gamma Flight, remains with the sur-

viving members of Omega Flight.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Wild Child was apparently found in
the wilderness by scientists, and
brought up as "human." He was
given an education, but this has not
served to dampen his animal
instincts one iota. Despite his formal,
somewhat stilted way of speaking~.
he is prone to extreme violence an
willing to lash out at anyone whom
he thinks is being insulting.

142

-STATISTICS DVERMIND

F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) In his initial personality, Overmind is
a living doomsday weapon out to
S IN (40) conquer the universe on behalf of his
E AM (50) dead planet. In his current personali-
R GD (10) ty, he is a benevolent protector and
demigod. He will assist groups in
I RM (30) need, quietly departing when his
P ShY (200) presence is no longer needed. To
Health: 140 avoid making others dependent on
Karma: 240 him, he also removes their memories
Resources: GD (10) of him.

Popularity: -1 O 143

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Grom
Occupation: Ex-gladiator, ex-
conqueror

--.....L. egal Status: None
dentity: Existence unknown to the

-general public
Place of Birth: Eternus (a former
planet of the Andromeda Galaxy)
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of the
Defenders
_..present Group Affiliation:

·KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Immortality: Shift-Z resistance to
aging and disease
Invulnerability: Amazing rank
Hallucinations: Remarkable ability to
cast illusions directly into a target's
mind
Kinetic Bolt: Amazing Intensity;
--Jange 15 feet
,'?egeneration: Amazing rank
Strength Boost: Psionic augmenta-
tion temporarily increases his

Strength +2 CS

Telekinesis: Incredible rank; range is
50 feet
Mental Gestalt: Overmind initially
possessed the grouped minds of mil-

lions of Eternians. Later they were
replaced by the personalities of six
telepaths, each of whom could take
control of the body with the consent

of the others.
Talents: In either form , Overmind
has a remarkable understanding of
psionic powers and their effects on
people.
- ~ontacts: None

tion and attacked Eternus in retalia- him to a mote of dust. ,,-.....
tion. Unprepared for so devastating
an attack, the Eternians fell. Govern- Several years later, a demon.
ment leaders realized that their race
HISTORY faced total extinction. Desperately, creature called Null the Living Dark-
Eternian scientists prepared to
Grom was born on the ancient planet transform Grom, the race's most out- ness located the Overmind and
Eternus, a member of a highly standing physical specimen, into the
advanced, belligerent race of receptacle of the collective con- decided to use him as a pawn in his
humanoid aliens who are now sciousness and mental might of
extinct. Eons ago, the Eternians Eternus. As the surviving population scheme of conquest. However, when
learned to control aging and elimi- of Eternus marched into huge syn-
nate natural death. To prevent over- thesizing chambers scattered he restored the Eternian to his origi-
population, the Eternian govern- across the planet, their organic
ments sanctioned interstellar war- nal power and stature, Null acciden-
fare and conquest, which regularly brains were converted to pure men-
claimed the lives of multitudes. tal energy and projected into Grom. tally transported the Overmind to an
When enemies could not be found to
wage war against, the government When the process was complete, alternate Earth instead of the one
held gladiatorial spectacles called and only the scientists who conduct-
The Games. Grom was a naturally ed the process were left alive, the upon which he had met his defeat.
skilled gladiator who earned in com- capsule containing Grom was
bat the title " Champion of Champi- launched into space to incubate until This Earth was the home of the
ons." Soon after Grom's coronation, the being learned to control the
the Eternians discovered Gigantus, powers of his group mind. Eons Squadron Supreme. The Overmind
a huge planet on which dwelled an passed. Then Grom emerged as the
equally advanced but peaceful civili- Overmind, a warrior who possessed took over the mind of President Kyle
zation. Immediately they launched the collective psionic power of one
an attack upon the world. Because billion brains and who carried in his Richmond and, through him and oth-
Gigantus was several hundred times memory the subliminal command to
larger than Eternus (about the size of er selected agents, Overmind con-
Jupiter), the war became very costly subdue the universe.
and difficult for the Eternians to sus- The Overmind attacked the first quered the Earth. Squadron
tain. Finally it was decided to simply
obliterate the planet. inhabited planet he came upon, the member Hyperion sent for reinforce-
Earth , but was defeated by the
The Eternians showered Gigantus Fantastic Four with the aid of the enig- ments in the persons of the
with immensely powerful nuclear matic alien being called the Stranger.
warheads and detonated them, The Stranger claimed to be the Defenders. A being composed of th
destroying the planet. A huge arma- embodiment of the collective psionic
da of Gigantians, however, who had pc,wer of all the surviving Gigantians. psychic union of six of the alternate
learned the ways of war after eons of The Stranger's psionic abilities proved
peace, escaped the world 's destruc- to be more powerful than those of the Earth's most powerful telepaths neu-
Overmind, and he shrunk the Over-
mind to microscopic stature and exiled tralized Null and the Overmind. At

the battle's end, the Overmind's

Eternian consciousness was appar-

ently driven out of its body, and the

six telepaths, lacking physical

bodies, took refuge inside him.

Now possessing a benevolent-.

mind and a small fraction of his torn\

er mental might, the Overmind

returned with the Defenders to their

world. He assisted the Defenders in

several exploits, residing in the inter-

im at Doctor Strange's mansion. He

then mysteriously disappeared from

their ranks, using his mental powers

to blank out their memories of his

presence among them. His current-.._

whereabouts and activities ar\

unknown .

144

STATISTICS OWL

F GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Leland Owlsley is a ruthless finan-
cier and busi nessman who found a
s EX (20) perfect outlet for his greed an d
viciousness by becoming the Owl.
E RM (30) He prefers to plan the crimes carried
R EX (20) out by his minions. He acts only
I EX (20) when a superhero or rival criminal
p GD (10) threatens his gang's success. His
Health: 90 paralysis has led to an obsession to
Karma: 50 cure or compensate for it. He will risk
Resources: EX (20) his safety in pursuit of possible
cures.
Popularity: - 5
145
BACKGROUND

Real Name: Leland Owlsley
Occupation: Financier turned pro-
fessional criminal
--- Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
nal record

Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown

Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: The Aerie,
New Jersey Palisades
Past Group Affiliations: Owl Gang
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Gliding: Excellent air speed (150
mph); he drops 15 feet for each 1O
areas he travels
Equipment:

Glider capes: Specially designed
capes give him Incredible Agility on
flight

Claws: Remarkable Material claws
...,do Excellent Edged damage

Leg Supports: Electrically powered
braces enable him to walk (1 area
per turn)

Owl flier: A distinctive flying vehicle
used to transport the Owl and his
gang can carry up to 4000 pounds:
Control Speed Body Protection

GD RM EX GD

Weakness: The Owl's legs are para-
lyzed

Talents: Remarkable Reason in
financial affairs

Contacts: Former ally of Mr. Kline

HISTORY escaped before the police could take device, however, and the Owl plunged --.
him into custody. The Owl then left into the icy waters of the Hudson Riv·
Leland Owlsley, nicknamed the Owl, San Francisco for Chicago where he er. His Owl Gang rescued him and
was once a ruthless financier whose acquired technology able to elec- after resuscitating him, succeeded in
criminal connections were exposed tronically drain human brains of all forcing Prof. Kerwin to examine him.
during a special Internal Revenue their knowledge. He hoped to use Kerwin devised for him a "neurologi-
Service audit that uncovered docu- the device to increase his own store cal pacemaker" to cope with the
ments linking him with numerous of knowledge, but when he was chemical effects of his flight serum.
fraudulent business enterprises. As opposed by the Chicago crimefigh- Daredevil and Spider-Man came to
soon as his underworld activities ter the Cat, he was forced to flee. Kerwin's rescue and defeated the Owl
came to light, the Owl discarded his The Owl returned to San Francisco by triggering an acute anxiety attack
pretense of respectability and began with the plans for the device, and his pacemaker could not cope with.
to make plans to become a major after having it reconstructed, cap-
crimelord in New York. He began tured Daredevil and tried to use it on When the Owl regained his mental
recruiting henchmen to serve as his him. Daredevil was saved by the faculties, he had a flying support
Owl Gang and, under circumstances Black Widow once again, and again module built to compensate for his
defeated the Owl in battle. now-paralyzed legs. His plan to
as yet unrevealed, he acquired a launch a huge crime wave was
serum that in some manner enabled The Owl was stricken by a debilitat- thwarted in the planning stages by
him to glide and fly for short dis- ing ailment that paralyzed his legs. It Spider-Man and the Black Widow. ,.......
tances. However, he was soon was apparently a side effect of the The Owl had the criminal invento"
brought to justice by Daredevil. After serum he had been taking over the known as the Tinkerer repair the
serving a brief prison term, the Owl years to give him the power to fly. The exoskeleton leg braces so he could
was paroled and immediately kid- Owl moved back to the New York area, walk. Embarking upon his most
napped the judge who had sen- established a new headquarters in the ambitious scheme to date an
tenced him. Daredevil managed to New Jersey Palisades overlooking attempt to replace the Kingpin as
free the judge from his clutches, but Manhattan, and then freed the bestial New York's top gang leader, the Owl
the Owl escaped. Seeking to avoid Man-Bull from prison to serve as his contacted Doctor Octopus and pro-
henchman. The Owl assigned the posed that the two join forces
both Daredevil and the authorities, Man-Bull the task of kidnapping the
the Owl lay low for a time, quietly renowned neurologist Prof. Brent --against the Kingpin. Octopus was
moving his base of operations to San Kerwin so that Kerwin could cure the
Owl's neurological problem. Daredevil not .interested, however, and the two,
Francisco. intervened, however, and kept Kerwin
There he was contacted by the out of the Man-Bull's clutches. Des- joined in battle. When the fight was
interrupted by Spider-Man, the two
mysterious Mister Kline, who perate, the Owl traveled upstate to see criminals fled. Doctor Octopus
assigned him the task of capturing another specialist, Dr. Howard attacked the Owl in his New Jersey
Daredevil. The Russian agent- Petrovic. Coerced to help him, the headquarters a short time later, and
turned-crimefighter named Black doctor devised an exoskeleton for the physically beat the Owl in personal
Widow aided Daredevil in escaping Owl's legs and attached some sort of combat, destroying the Owl's hand-
the Owl, thus beginning their part- "flying device" to his spine. Battling talons and his leg braces. The Owl
nership. Daredevil physically over- Daredevil in mid-air, the Owl learned fell from a height of twenty feet and,,.--._
powered the Owl, but the criminal that the doctor had sabotaged the was further injured. He is currently,
recuperating from his injuries in a

prison hospital.

146

~..., STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S RM (30)
E RM (30)

R GD (10)

I EX (20)

P TY (6)
Health: 100
Karma: 36
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Mercenary, privat e
investigator
..-, Legal Status: U.S. citizen?
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation :

KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
- Equipment: Paladin is a heroic, virtuous , but
mostly mercenary individual. He Virtually nothing is known about the
Body Armor: Excellent protection likes fighting crime, especially when background of the mercenary who
from physical attacks, Good protec- he can make a profit along the way. calls himself Paladin. It is not known
tion against fire. He is loyal to his current client and why he decided to become a paid
Helmet: As above, as well as: will maintain former clients' privacy. adventurer, or where he got the spe-
He is a very private individual who cial weaponry he uses. In his first
• Excellent eye protection from shares his secrets with no one. recorded exploit, he encountered
blinding Daredevil while both were on the trail
• Good night vision of the Purple Man. While Daredevil
• One hour air supply had become personally involved
Stun Gun: The gun fires a paralysis
--..,,ray of Incredible Intensity at a range
bf 7 areas. It can only be used by Pal-
adin .

Talents: He is + 2 CS with his stun

gun. He is skilled in Detection , Espi-
onage, Languages, and Martial Arts
B and C.
Contacts: Former clients and allies
including Daredevil and the Aveng-
ers, especially the Wasp.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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through certain victims of the Purple Paladin was then hired by a wom- been robbing their casinos. While on,.--...
Man, Paladin had been hired by one an named Marsha Roberts who this case, he met the vacationinb
of the Purple Man's former minions. wanted protection from her former Janet Van Dyne, whose identity as
Paladin and Daredevil crossed paths boyfriend who had been transformed the Wasp ls publicly known, and they
twice as they worked separately on into a radioactive madman calling began seeing each other romantical-
the case, until on their third encoun- himself Phantasm. Paladin was next ly. In their most recent encounter,
ter they joined forces. The Purple observed at the Caribbean island Paladin assisted the Wasp in appre-
Man eluded them both, however, resort of Utopia Cay, where he had hending foes of the Avengers,
when he fell into the water around been hired by a consortium of casino despite the fact he was not being
Ryker's Island Prison and presum- owners who wished for him to appre- paid for it.
hend Baron Brimstone who had
ably drowned.

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-. S,. TATISTICS: GHOST RIDER IV attacks save those of mystic origins.
As the Ghost Rider needs to breathe,
F GD (10) STATISTICS: gas attacks can affect him, and he
A EX (20) can remain intangible only for as
F TY (6) long as he can hold his breath. When
s TY (6) A EX (20) in this state, the Ghost Rider can
walk on air at Typical speed.
E GD (10) s EX (20) Invisibility: The Ghost Rider can fade
R TY (6) from view with Incredible ease. Also
I GD (10) E IN (40) becoming undetectable in both the
p EX (20) R GD (10) infared and ultraviolet ranges. As an
Health: 46 I EX (20) established power stunt, he may turn
Karma: 36 p RM (30) only certain portions of his body
Resources: TY (6) Health: 86 invisible.
Popularity: 20 (0 in 1988) Karma: 60 Banshee: The Ghost Rider's horse
Resources: TY (6) appears upon command. She has
BACKGROUND Popularity: 5 similar powers of intangibility and
Real Name: Carter and Lincoln invisibility. Banshee never tires and
Slade BACKGROUND can move three areas per round.
Occupation: Schoolmaster, U.S. Real Name: Hamilton Slade Mystic Weapons: The Ghost Rider
,,.__ Marshall Occupation: Archaeologist may fire an unlimited number of
Legal Status: Citizen of 1880's Legal Status: Citizen of the United phantom bullets form his spectral
America, with no criminal record. States with no criminal record. 'six-shooter' which can pass through
Identity: Secret Identity: Secret intervening objects to hit their target,
Place of Birth: Unrevealed Place of Birth: Reno, Nevada but do no physical damage. A struck
Marital Status: Single Marital Status: Single target must make an Endurance
Known Relatives: The first and sec- Known Relatives: Lincoln and Cart- FEAT against Incredible intensity
ond Ghost Riders were brothers er Slade (great-great-grandfather stunning or be knocked out for 1-10
Base of Operations: The Old West and great-great-granduncle) turns. The bullets have a range of
Past Group Affiliations: None Base of Operations: American three areas.
- Present Group Affiliation: Southwest
Past Group Affiliations: The Rang- The Ghost Rider's lariat is also of
KNOWN POWERS ers mystic origin. He can throw it one
None Present Group Affiliation: area away. It is considered a Grap-
pling attack at Amazing strength and
TALENTS: Both of the Slade broth- KNOWN POWERS can pass through material objects
ers were expert marksmen, and had Alter Ego: When not possessed by like his bullets. It is made of an
Remarkable Agility with all guns. the spirit of the Ghost Rider, Hamil- Amazing material.
They were also experienced with ton Slade has the following statistics:
horses, so both themselves and their TALENTS: The Ghost Rider has
FASER I P both the Gun and Horsemanship tal-
----. mounts gaining a + 1 CS when per- TY GD EX GD GD EX TY ents.

forming Agility FEATs. In addition, His Health is 46, and his Karma CONTACTS: The Ghost Rider was a
Lincoln Slade was a U.S. Marshall begins at 36. Hamilton has no super- member of the Rangers and could,
and had the Law Enforcement talent. natural powers, but does have Excel- perhaps, call on the other members
lent Reason when dealing with for aid.
CONTACTS: Carter and Lincoln archaeological matters.
Slade were good and honorable men Detection of Evil: When in the pres- ADDITIONAL NOTES
who did what they could to keep law ence of 'evil,' Hamilton Slade is pos-
in the West. Lincoln also used the sessed by the spirit of the Ghost
Ghost Rider identity as a means for Rider. This power has a range of sev-
vengeance against the type of out- eral miles, but functions at only
laws that killed his brother. Excellent rank, requiring a yellow
FEAT roll (with possible modifiers
depending on the severity of the evil)
to activate. Once the Ghost Rider
has sensed the evil, it will assume
control of Slade for about six hours.
Phasing: The Ghost Rider may
become intangible. When in this
state, he has Class 1000 protection
against all physical and energy

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