HISTORY him from the timeless realm if he to Earth through a magical interdi-
would bring lmmortus subjects to mensional aperture created when
The alien who would become known study. To do so, lmmortus granted Thor's adoptive brother Loki sent a
as the Space Phantom was born on the Phantom the ability to assume mortal from Earth to Limbo. Eventu-
Phantus, a world whose people had the form of virtually any being he ally forming an alliance with the crim-
mastered time travel before attempt- encountered, thereby causing the inal Grim Reaper, the Phantom took
ing space travel. For the Phantoms, being duplicated to be cast into Lim- the form of the wounded Madame
a bellicose race engaged in endless bo where lmmortus could then study Hydra and took over her role as head
civil wars, the invention of time-travel of a splinter group of HYDRA. In this
devices caused massive changes in him or her. form and role, the Space Phantom
strategy. It was now possible to alter Although the Space Phantom battled Captain America. Later, the
the course of battles by doubling Space Phantom and Grim Reaper
back through time to either pre-empt despised lmmortus, he agreed to his fought and captured many of the
an attack or add reinforcements to a Avengers . However, the Space
defense. A battle soon became a terms and was dispatched to an area Phantom made the mistake of
constantly shifting event, as oppos- from which access was possible to attempting to mimic the form of the
ing forces altered its outcome by lmmortus's home planet, Earth. The Avengers' friend Rick Jones.
causing reality to diverge to encom- Space Phantom reasoned that if he Jones's body was linked interdimen-
pass ever-increasing numbers of could singlehandedly defeat Earth's sionally with that of the Kree Captain
new factors. Finally, at a particularly superhuman champions, the Aveng- Mar-Veit. Unable to assume both
significant and massively mounted ers, his people, once freed from Lim- forms at once, the Space Phantom
battle, so many divergences bo, would presumably have little was shunted back to Limbo himself.
occurred that the local fabric of the trouble in conquering Earth itself. By The Grim Reaper was defeated as
space time continuum briefly rup- using his powers to imitate different well.
tured, generating an access point or Avengers, the Space Phantom
" hole" into the timeless dimension hoped to turn the Avengers against The Space Phantom remained in
of Limbo, causing all of Phantus to each other and thus break up their Limbo, unable to escape, until Thor
shift from normal space into Limbo. newly formed team. The Space entered Limbo while attempting to
Phantom finally met defeat when he t ravel through time. The Space
Just prior to this calamity, the attempted to dimensionally displace Phantom attempted to trick Thor into
Space Phantom , a military strategist the Asgardian god Thor from Limbo using his hammer's power to free
of high rank, foresaw what would and mimic his form and powers. Phantus from Limbo. Thor learned of
happen and escaped in a chronal Unable to overcome the various the Phantom's deception but agreed
capsule. The capsule, however, was enchantments that Asgard's ruler to help him nevertheless. Thor was
damaged in transit and the Space Odin had placed on Thor and his able to project the planet Phantus
Phantom was stranded in Limbo. hammer, the Space Phantom out of Limbo into real space at a
There he encountered lmmortus, the instead found himself dispatched to point in time after its temporal catas-
master of Limbo, who offered to free Limbo. With the Space Phantom trophe. The Space Phantom how-
defeated, the Hulk quit the Aveng- ever, has remained in Limbo, still
ers, still believing that the other subject to lmmortus.
Avengers were against him.
The Space Phantom slipped back
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STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A AM (50)
S IN (40)
E IN (40)
R EX (20)
I GD(10)
P IN (40)
Health: 160
Karma: 70
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 30/6
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Peter Parker
Occupation: Graduate student in
chemistry, freelance photographer,
,.-...,, adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mary Jane Wat-
son Parker (wife), Richard Parker
(father, deceased), Mary Parker
,..-...,_ (mother, deceased), Benjamin Park-
er (uncle, deceased), May Parker
(aunt)
Base of Operations: New York area
Group Affiliation: None. Spider-
Man 's application to join the Aveng-
ers was rejected by the United
States government.
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS Incredible Material Strength the Spider-Sense. He can track with
Wall-Crawling: Spider-Man can round it is fired, and hardens to Mon- Amazing accuracy up to a mile away.
adhere to vertical and upside-down strous Strength in the following Spider-Light: Spider-Man has used a
surfaces with Amazing ability. round . Spider-Man uses th is belt-light which projected a Spider-
Spider-Sense: Spider-Man has a webbing to restrain opponents, Man symbol (as a way of intimidating
Combat Sense of Amazing at all make swing lines (he can travel 3 criminals). This light gave Good rank
times. This sense alerts him to areas/round in this manner), create illumination .
potentially dangerous situations and missiles which inflict Excellent blunt Talents: Peter Parker is a graduate
warns him by a mental " buzzing." damage (3-area range), and create student in chemistry with a back-
The intensity of the buzzing is deter- shields of Monstrous material ground in physics. He supports him-
mined by the rank of the potential strength. The webbing dissolves self through his work as a
danger. Spider-Man cannot be blind- photographer.
sided while this form of Combat after an hour. Contacts: As Peter Parker, Spider-
Spider-Tracer: Spider-Man carries a
Sense is in effect, and may perform number of small homing signals Man has contacts in the Daily Bugle
defensive actions if he makes a suc- shaped like spiders, tuned to his and with his Aunt May. As Spider-
cessful Intuition FEAT roll. If this
sense is denied him, then his Intui- 51
tion is as listed, and all Agility FEATs
are at -1 CS for success.
Web-Shooters: Spider-Man 's wrists
contain devices that fire a web-like
chemical formula. The webbing has
Man, Parker is a loner but is on laboratory waste materials sponsored have easily stopped him. When repri-
excellent terms with nearly every by the General Techtronics Corpora- manded by the guard, Parker arro-
major American superhero, espe- tion. During the demonstration, a com- gantly replied he was a professional
cially the Fantastic Four and Dare- mon house spider happened to be in performer and that chasing criminals
devil. Matt Murdock is one of the few the path of a particle accelerator's was the guard's job. Parker promptly
people to know his secret identity, beam and was massively irradiated . forgot the incident.
along with Mary Jane Watson and The stricken spider fell on Parker's
Felicia Hardy (the Black Cat). hand, broke his skin with its fangs, and A few days later, Parker returned
died. His hand burning from the bite, home to find that his Uncle Ben had
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Parker left the exhibition. been murdered by a burglar. A police
officer informed him that the burglar
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Parker made his way home and had been trailed to a nearby aban-
When his Uncle Ben died, Peter passed through an unfamiliar section doned warehouse where the police
Parker learned that with great power of the city where he was accosted by a had him trapped. Grief-stricken, Park-
comes great responsibility. That has gang of hoodlums. Parker bravely tried er rushed to the warehouse to seek
been his major motivation during his to toss the gang members aside and vengeance. At the warehouse, Parker,
long and distinguished career in cri- was shocked by his own success. As as Spider-Man , easily captured the
mefighting. Parker is often frustrated he fled from them, he ran into the path burglar and realized that he was the
by his personal problems, and uses of a speeding car, and managed to same man he had failed to stop at the
Spider-Man as a release, a chance leap to safety about 30 feet up onto a TV studio. If he had acted responsibly
to get away from the things that both- nearby wall. To his growing surprise, earlier, he might have prevented the
er him in real life. As Spider-Man, he death of his uncle. Filled with remorse,
is always making wisecracks during he discovered that he was able to stick he realized that with power comes
his battles, which tend to greatly to the wall with his fingertips. As he responsibility, and he vowed to never
unsettle his opponents. He also has easily walked down a guy wire to the shirk that responsiblity again.
a tendency to pull his punches, street below, he realized that he now
except against the most dangerous possessed a superb sense of balance. With Ben Parker dead, Peter and his
opponents, or If he Is driven berserk Parker quickly associated these super- Aunt May had no regular of income
with rage. at the misdeeds of one of human abilities with the bite from the beyond Social Security. Parker
his adversaries. irradiated spider. attempted to pursue his show busi-
ness career but was unable to do so
HISTORY Parker went home, where his Aunt because of a newpaper campaign
May sent him on an errand to deliver against him launched by J. Jonah
Peter Parker was orphaned at the age clothing to a charity drive located in a Jameson, influential publisher of the
of six when his parents were killed in nearby National Guard Armory. There,
an airplane crash overseas. He went to he saw a wrestling match offering a Daily Bugle. Parker began to use his
live with his uncle and aunt, Ben and prize for anyone who could remain in powers to fight crime, and earned a liv-
May Parker, in Forest Hills, New York. the ring at least three minutes with a ing for himself and his aunt by selling
Parker, extremely bright, became a professional wrestler. Interested in photographs of himself in action (using
high honors student in science at Mid- an early wind-up motor drive, auto-
town High School. His shyness and testing his new-found powers, Parker mated Leica camera that was once his
scholastic interests often made him a accepted the wrestler's challenge. Uncle Ben's) to the Daily Bugle.
social outcast. One evening Parker Wearing a mask to conceal his fea-
attended a public exhibition demon- tures, he easily defeated his opponent. Spider-Man remains a controversial
strating the safe handling of nuclear A television producer's talent agent figure. He has faced and thwarted a
spotted him and promised him a seg- vast array of costumed criminals in the
52 ment on a network variety show. Park- New York City area. Currently Parker
er, calling himself the Amazing has taken an indefinite leave of
Spider-Man, decided to use it as a absence from the graduate program in
springboard to a show business career biophysics at Empire State University
as a spectacular stunt performer. Over and has taken up full-time freelance
the next several evenings, Parker photography, primarily for Jameson's
used equipment borrowed from his Now magazine.
high school to fabricate a fluid that imi·
tated a spider's silk web, and spinneret Recently, Peter Parker married
devices to project that fluid from his model Mary Jane Watson and the two
wrists in the form of a web strand. He of them have settled down to live in
also silkscreened his original design New York. Parker has returned to his
for a costume onto a body stocking and studies, while making a living as a pho-
full-head mask. Thus prepared, Peter tographer for Jameson's magazine.
Parker appeared as Spider-Man on
national television and was an immedi·
ate media sensation.
Just after the conclusion of the tele-
vision show, a burglar, being pursued
by a security guard, ran by Parker, who
allowed him to pass although he could
SPIDER-WOMAN 11
STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A AM (50)
S IN (40)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I TY (6)
P RM (30)
Health: 130
Karma: 46
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 7
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Former government
agent, previous and current occupa-
tions unknown
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no known criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Unrevealed, presum-
ably in the United States
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
~ Past Group Affiliation: Former
member of Freedom Force
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS Karma: 80 heroes from her t ime in the Secret
Wall-Crawling: Spider-Woman can Wars.
adhere to vertical and upside-down Venom Blast: Jessica could generate ADDITIONAL NOTES:
surfaces with Amazing ability. a blast of bio-electricity of Incredible
Psychic Web: Spider-Woman can intensity. 53
weave a psychic web which radiates Immune to Toxins and Disease: Jes-
from her in all directions, imprison- sica had Class 1000 resistance to
ing everyone within two areas. With- poisons, radiation, toxins, and dis-
in Spider-Woman's area, the ease. She lost this ability saving the
webbing has Monstrous Material life of Giant-Man.
Strength; within one area, it has Talents: None known .
Remarkable Material Strength, and Contacts; Though little is known
w ithin two areas, it has Typical Mate- about Spider-Woman's background,
rial Strength. This web may be she has contacts with the Avengers,
destroyed w ith physical force. If Fantastic Four, and other prominent
destroyed, Spider-Woman must
make an Endurance FEAT or be
stunned for one round. The web dis-
appears if Spider-Woman is knocked
unconscious. She can move while
projecting the web only if she makes
a red Psyche FEAT roll.
ORIGINAL SPIDER-WOMAN (Jes-
sica Drew)
FASER I P
EX RM IN RM GD IN RM
Health: 120
--- - - ~...... -..,... ---:- ""-:.......-..-. - -- ---==~
__._.__-- ----
__--~-- - --~ - -~-------- -
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES the so-called "secret wars." Spider- the Force's leader, Mystique. But ,.._
Spider-Woman is a young woman who Woman has claimed that she has while serving in Freedom Force, ,.......__
is determined to do the right thing, and "good friends" living there, but it is Spider-Woman observed and disap-
who is perhaps a bit unsure of herself. not known whether or not she herself proved of the cruelty of her new
She has a strongly developed sense made her home there. Seeing evi- teammates.
of justice, which she demonstrated dence of the fighting taking place on
when she freed the Avengers from the Battleworld among the superhuman After Quicksilver framed the then-
Vault after they had been wrongfully beings whom the Beyonder had active members of the Avengers as
imprisoned. Now that she has left brought to the planet, the costumed criminals, Freedom Force was
Freedom Force, she may make a Spider-Woman sought out the team assigned to arrest those Avengers.
good addition to a player character of superhuman champions from Spider-Woman, who greatly admired
superhero group. Earth and offered her assistance, the Avengers, was severely troubled
which they accepted. She served as at the treatment they received from
HISTORY an effective member of their team, Freedom Force, Cooper, and Nation-
and, at the conclusion of the "secret al Security Agent, Henry Peter
The original Spider-Woman, Jessica Gyrich. Gyrich had the Avengers
Drew, lost her superhuman powers wars," was, like most of her team- incarcerated in a special prison for
and has retired from her career as a mates, teleported back to Earth. superhuman beings called the Vault.
costumed adventurer. She works Spider-Woman went to the Vault
only as a private investigator now. Spider-Woman was highly wondering if she should do some-
impressed by the Avengers and oth- thing to help the Avengers, although
As yet nothing has been revealed er superhuman champions beside it might mean retaliation from the
about the origin of the second whom she fought during the " secret Freedom Force. She decided not to,
Spider-Woman; even her true identi- war," and wanted to be a costumed but then inadvertently set off an
ty remains a mystery so far. However, adventurer like them. Hence, she alarm, revealing her presence. She
she was present in a suburb of Den- became a member of Freedom destroyed the controls for the feed-
ver, Colorado, when it was trans- Force, the United States federal gov- ing mechanisms in the team's cells,
ported to a distant location in outer ernment's team of superhuman enabling the Wasp to escape. All the
space by the alien Beyonder to agents, most of whom had formerly Avengers were soon free and
become part of the Battleworld he been wanted criminals belonging to escaped the Vault. The Avengers
created as the setting for the first of the second Brotherhood of Evil finally cleared their names of wrong-
Mutants. National Security Advisor
Dr. Valerie Cooper insisted that Free- doing, but Spider-Woman has fled.
dom Force accept Spider-Woman as Her current whereabouts and activi-
a member, despite the reluctance of ties are unknown.
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STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P AM (50)
Health: 100
Karma: 80
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: -5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Spiral
Occupation: Warrio r sorceress,
aide to Mojo, U.S. government agent
Identity: The general public of Earth
is unaware of Spiral's existence . She
is known to members of the U.S.
government as a member of Free-
dom Force
Legal Status: Slave of Mojo on her
homeworld
Other Known Aliases: None known
Place of Birth: An unidentified world
in another dimension
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: The extradi-
mensional world ruled by Mojo, also
(as a member of Freedom Force)
Washington, D.C.
Past Group Affiliation: Aide to
Mojo, member of Freedom Force
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS • Neutralize all non-magical mum (1 round casting time, must not
Multiple Arms: She has six arms, and powers for three rounds. (3-area be interrupted to sustain).
may use three weapons simultane- range, 1 round casting time)
ously. One arm is bionic (Incredible • Drain life force of a victim, leav-
Material Strength) • Teleport herself or any character ing a withered husk (1 O round cast-
Spirals: Through motions of her in the same area, 1Oareas maximum ing time). She will not use this as a
hands, she can perform a number of (1 round casting time) member of Freedom Force.
magical feats. A Psyche FEAT roll is Alien Physiognomy: Spiral has Good
required. If she is successfully • Open a dimensional aperture to body armor against physical and
attacked, her spiral (spell) is ruined. dimension of her choice (10 rounds energy attacks. Her mind is immune
Feats she has performed include: casting time). to possession; those who try to con-
trol her will be controlled if Spiral
• Shatter inanimate matter or • Invisibility, making characters makes a red Psyche FEAT.
Force Fields of Incredible strength or with Astral sight see her on a Red Sword: Spiral can use a sword which
less (3-area range, 1 round casting FEAT. does Good Edged damage one-
time) handed, or Excellent Edged damage
• Increase or decrease a charac-
• Control energy attacks directed 55
at her, sending them toward some- ter's power by + 2 CS or - 2 CS:
one else. If the attack is of Incredible
rank or less, a green Psyche FEAT is Unearthly maximum, Feeble mini-
required; if Amazing or Monstrous, a
yellow FEAT is needed, and if
Unearthly or greater, a red FEAT.
two-handed. She also carries a dag- especially twisting people's desires Mojo sent Spiral and various rebel
ger. into their ruination. Her ultimate goal hunters to kill him. They followed
seems to be to usurp Mojo's position. Longshot through an interdimen-
Talents: Spiral has + 1 CS with all She despises Longshot above all sional portal to Earth.
others. She seeks a source of power
Edged weapons, and knows Martial to use in this aim; Phoenix (Rachel While on Earth, Spiral enlisted
Arts B and C. Given enough informa- Summers) appears to be this source. Freedom Force, the United States
tion on a target, she can track them government's team of superhuman
with Amazing ability. HISTORY agents, as a means of learning more
Contacts: Spiral is a servant of about Earth. Mojo joined Spiral on
Mojo, an extra-dimensional ruler, Spiral is a humanoid slave artificially Earth, intending to prevent Longshot
and a member of Freedom Force. created through genetic engineering from returning to their native world
ADDITIONAL NOTES: under the supervision of Mojo, the and stirring up the slaves by telling
non-humanoid ruler of an otherdi- them that they could be as free as
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES mensional world. There is an entire human beings are on Earth. Mojo
Spiral is a being of nearly infinite race of artificially created humanoid then decided to take over Earth him-
capacity for cruelty. She enjoys slaves on this world, but to insure self, but was defeated by Longshot.
spreading suffering and malice, Spiral's hatred of other humanoids, Spiral led Mojo back to their home-
Mojo had Spiral designed with six world.
arms rather than only two. (One of
Spiral's arms is mostly artificial. Pre- Since then, Spiral has returned to
sumably she somehow lost most of Earth , creating disorder in various
her real arm under circumstances ways. She has continued to serve in
not yet revealed.) Freedom Force. In her guise of pro-
prietess of " The Body Shoppe," she
Another of Mojo's humanoid is responsible for the transformation
slaves, now known as Longshot, of the Japanese warrior Lady Death-
became leader of a slave rebellion. strike into a cyborg and has captured
Longshot was captured and ren- Rachel Summers, the X-Man called
dered amnesiac, but then escaped. Phoenix. Recently, she and Mojo
also temporarily captured many of
the New Mutants, Captain Britain,
and his sister Betsy Braddock.
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STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
s GD (10)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I GD (10)
p GD (10)
Health: 80
Karma: 40
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: - 1O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Industrial spy, assas-
sin
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no known criminal record.
Other Known Aliases: Ted Callo-
way, Jake Jordan, Anthony Stark,
and presumably many others
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
,,.-. Past Group Affiliations: Former
leader of the Espionage Elite, former
employee of AIM, Justin Hammer,
the Maggia, Roxxon Oil, SHIELD,
Zodiac I, and presumably many oth-
ers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS CS with guns. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Armor: Spymaster's kevlar suit gave Contacts: Perhaps the premier
him Excellent protection against industrial spy in the world, Spymas-
ter was the former leader of the Espi-
physical attacks. onage Elite and an employee of
Weapons: Spymaster had a number some of the most dangerous men on
of weapons, many of them designed Earth: AIM , Justin Hammer, the Mag-
solely to defeat Iron Man. These gia, Roxxon Oil, SHIELD, and Zodi-
ac I.
weapons included:
• Energy Nunchakas: Amazing
Energy
• Razor-disk Guns: Amazing
Edged, tracking at + 1 CS
• Repulsor Repel/ors: can absorb
force beams of up to Unearthly inten-
sity and then use them against
another target
• Stasis Ray: Monstrous
• Energy Mini-Gun: Remarkable
Spymaster also used conventional
weapons, as well as electronics
appropriate to spying.
Talents: Spymaster had Martial Arts
B, Disguise, Acting, Detective/
Espionage, Electronics, and was +1
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES assassinate Anthony Stark, so that manager. While both were staying at
Stark International would begin pro-
Spymaster was a professional mer- ducing munitions once more. The Stark's temporary Los Angeles resi-
cenary, who prided himself on disguised Spymaster infiltrated dence, Hogan discovered " Jordan"
always doing his job in a profession- Stark lnternational 's Long Island
al manner, whether it be murder, sab- complex, and later placed a bomb in photographing secret plans for Stark
otage, or destruction.
inventions, including a space sta-
tion. Although Iron Man and Hogan
Stark's Manhattan penthouse. How- both took on Spymaster, the criminal
ever, instead of killing Stark, the escaped yet again.
bomb killed the original Ani-Men, The Roxxon Oil Corporation
HISTORY who had been fighting Iron Man in sought to purchase from Accutech, a
Stark's penthouse. Subsequently, California-based electronics firm , a
Nothing is known of Spymaster's his- Spymaster fired an explosive bullet device that used beta particles to
tory before he led his Espionage into a Life Model Decoy robot resem- generate enormous amounts of
Elite team of assistants against Stark bling Stark, believing it to be the energy inexpensively. Refusing to
Industries. The members of this actual Stark. Spymaster then tried to sell, Accutech was driven into bank-
team were Gottfried Herter, an elec- steal the names of the stockholders ruptcy by the industrial saboteur
tronics expert; Farley London , a of Stark International; Iron Man known as the Ghost, who was hired
magician and master of disguise; defeated him, but failed to learn Spy- by Roxxon. However, Anthony Stark
Marya Penskilova, a former agent of master's true identity. bought Accutech and prevented the
Months later, Spymaster was one Ghost from completing the compa-
the KBG ; Roger Philips, an athlete
and gymnast; and Samson Washing- of many costumed criminals whom ny's destruction. Pax fired the Ghost
ton, a strongman. Spymaster had Justin Hammer sent to battle Iron and hired Spymaster to continue the
been assigned by the original sub- Man aboard his immense houseboat sabotage of Accutech. Impersonat-
versive organization called Zodiac to headquarters. Iron Man defeated all ing Stark, Spymaster took the Ghost
plunder scientific and technological the costumed criminals, but Spy- by surprise and would have mur-
secrets from Stark Industries. Spy- master again somehow escaped dered him had not the real Stark
master and his Espionage Elite com- captivity. intervened to save the Ghost's life.
Madame Masque, who had Spymaster later went after the Ghost
mitted sabotage at Stark Industries'
main Long Island complex, and then rejoined the Nefaria " family" of the again, but Stark as Iron Man struck
attempted to steal many of the com- criminal Maggia, assigned Spymas- Spymaster with a repulsor blast, pre- ....--..,,
pany's secrets amid the ensuing ter to abduct Stark's lover, Bethany venting him from killing the Ghost.
confusion. However, Spymaster's Cabe, and to steal an experimental
Recovering again, the Ghost pre-
scheme was thwarted by Iron Man energizer link device developed by tended that he wanted to help Spy-
(Anthony Stark himself}, who fought Stark International. Spymaster suc- master, presumably since Iron Man
Spymaster and made possible the ceeded in stealing the link device was after both of them. Devices in
capture of the Espionage Elite, and Stark's briefcase, which held his the Ghost's costume allowed him to
though the industrial spy himself Iron Man armor. However, an agent become intangible, and he attached
employed by Spymaster captured a similar device to the Spymaster's
escaped.
After unsuccessfully clashing with Cabe's partner, Ling McPherson costume. Then , both of them intangi-
the crimefighter called Daredevil , instead. Iron Man and his friend ble, the Ghost and Spymaster
Spymaster joined Zodiac members James Rhodes invaded Madame escaped by passing through a wall.
Aquarius, Capricorn, and Sagittarius Masque's headquarters in Derby, But before Spymaster had fully
in invading Stark Industries to obtain Connecticut. Hoping to sell the ener- passed through, the Ghost removed
the mysterious power object called gizer link elsewhere, Spymaster Spymaster's intangibility device.
the Zodiac Key, which Stark was stole it from Madame Masque and ~pymaster rematerialized, partially
examining for SHIELD. Spymaster, escaped by helicopter. Piloting inside the wall, and died immedi-
the Zodiac members he was accom- another helicopter, Rhodes went in ately.
panying, Iron Man, Daredevil, the pursuit and forced Spymaster's heli- Only a short time later, Anthony
adventurer Madame Masque, and copter to crash . Once again , how- Stark discovered that at some
SHIELD's Public Director Nick Fury ever, Spymaster escaped. unspecified time in the past, Spy-
It is not known what Spymaster did master had stolen the secret designs
were all transported by the Zodiac
Key into the otherdimensional world over the following years until the for Stark's Iron Man armor (before
of the Brotherhood of the Ankh. They subversive organization AIM decid- Iron Man incorporated Stark's most
were able to return to Earth, and in ed to have Spymaster infiltrate the recent innovations for the suit). Spy-
the ensuing battle Spymaster new company, Stark Enterprises, master had turned these stolen
escaped. that Anthony Stark was building. secrets over to Justin Hammer. Stark
Spymaster was later assigned by Spymaster became a superb boxer believes that Spymaster had even
four SHIELD agents (including Buck and, calling himself Jake Jordan, discovered that he was Iron Man but
Richlen and Vval Adair but without asked Stark's longtime friend , had failed to pass this information
the knowledge of Nick Fury) to Harold " Happy" Hogan, to act as his along to Hammer.
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GROUP BACKGROUND watch over the planet. When the with the powers of Nighthawk, the
The Squadron Supreme is an organi- Squadron was under the influence of Whizzer, Dr. Spectrum, and Hype-
zation of superhuman champions the alien Overmind, the satellite was rion, and pitted them against the
who have banded together to safe- damaged and accidentally pushed Avengers . Hence, the Avengers'
guard their world, which is an extra- out of orbit by Hyperion . It eventually mistaking the Squadron Supreme
dimensional alternate Earth crashed into the sea. The Squadron for the Squadron Sinister was under-
sometimes referred to as " Other- set up a temporary headquarters in a
Earth" or " Earth-S" . The Squadron cave in the state of Moreland (equiv- standable.
was formed over a decade ago, and alent to Vermont), but began con- Some time later, the goverment of
throughout its existence, it has been struction on Squadron City, a
the only known team of superhuman sprawling headquarters and living the United States of Other-Earth
beings assembled to battle the per- community with an elaborate air- came under its first covert assault. A
petrators of evil on its world. When- base, located in the Great American huge industrial complex called the
ever new costumed crimefighters Desert (equivalent to the state of Serpent Cartel was actually the base
have appeared and established their Nevada). Squadron City employed of operations for the various human
reputations, they have been invited almost a thousand technicians, agents of the extradimensional
to join the Squadron, and no one has maintenance people, medical spe- serpent-god Set, who manifested
ever refused the honor though there cialists, and support personnel. The itself in the Serpent Crown. The Ser-
have never been more than fifteen City was climate-controlled and was pent Cartel invited then-President of
active members at one time. camouflaged to look like part of the the United States Nelson W. Rock-
desert due to an elaborate illusion- efeller to address its executives at a
During Other-Earth 's World War casting spell created by Squadron business luncheon, and used the
Two, the U.S. War Department orga- opportunity to put the President
nized the Golden Agency, a small member Arcanna. under the domination of the Serpent
battalion of superhuman beings who The existence of the Squadron Crown. Having made inroads into
helped the Allies. Power Princess is high government, the Crown was
the only person to serve in both the and its alternate Earth first became able to put more and more high-
Agency and the Squadron, although known to denizens of the main- ranking politicians and officers
Blue Eagle's father, the American stream Earth when four Avengers under its domination. At the same
Eagle, was also a Golden Agent. (Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, the time, on the Avengers' Earth, Hugh
Vision , and Goliath II) accidentally Jones, then president of the vast
Like the Golden Agency before it, materialized on Other-Earth while in Roxxon Oil Company, was also
the Squadron Supreme has always transit from Polemachus, the dimen- made a slave to the Crown , and was
had close ties with the U.S. govern- sional world of Arkon, to their own attempting to mastermind a similar
ment. Upon its founding, the Squad- Earth. The Avengers mistook Other- secret government takeover. The
ron sought government sanctions Earth for their own Earth, Rich- Avengers intervened and Jones
permitting its various peacekeeping mond 's mansion for Avengers asked Rockefeller for superhuman
operations. The government granted Mansion, and the Squadron assistance in handling the problem.
the Squadron various powers and Supreme for the Squadron Sinister, Rockefeller dispatched several of
made the superhuman team a spe- a quartet of criminals originating on the Squadron Supreme, who were
cial branch of the U.S. military, the Avengers' Earth. Months before unaware of the Commander-in-
answerable solely to the President the Avengers' visit, the cosmic Chief's new loyalties. Engaging in
and the National Security Council. gamesman known as the Grandmas- battle with the Squadron, the Aveng-
This close connection with the gov- ter had happened upon the Squad- ers were teleported to Other-Earth,
ernment proved hazardous to ron Supreme's world and set up a where they managed to seize Other-
national security twice, and the third tournament between himself and the
time proved the Squadron's ultimate time-traveler called the Scarlet Cen- Earth's counterpart to the Serpent
turion . The Grandmaster used the Crown and to convince the Squad-
downfall. Squadron as his pawns; the Centuri- ron they were being misled by their
The Squadron originally met in the on organized the Institute of Evil, a President. The Squadron forced
team of the Squadron 's personal Rockefeller to resign and saw to the
mansion of industrialist Kyle Rich- foes . Winning the contest, the dismantling of the Serpent Cartel. At
mond (secretly Squadron member Grandmaster resolved to create his the next Presidential electon, Kyle
Nighthawk) located in Cosmopolis, own Squadron the next time he Richmond (formerly Nighthawk) was
the Other-Earth counterpart to New needed superhuman pawns. The elected by a landslide vote.
York. Several years later, after Rich- opportunity to do so came shortly
mond took a leave of absence from thereafter when the Grandmaster While in office, President Rich-
the team to enter politics, the Squad- challenged Kang (a distant dimen- mond was also the unwilling victim of
ron moved out of his mansion into a sional counterpart to the Scarlet a sinister extradimensional intelli-
manned fixed orbit satellite called Centurion) to a similar tournament. gence. Shortly after being elected to
Rocket Central , designed by Squad- The Grandmaster endowed three his second term, Richmond was
ron recruit Tom Thumb. The surveil- human beings and an artificial being mentally enthralled by the Over-
lance devices aboard the satellite mind, a collective alien intelligence
enabled the Squadron to better keep working in concert with Null the Liv-
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ing Darkness, a demonic entity. the police, giving them " pacifier pis- nant, and the Mink; one expelled
Unlike Set, the Overmind and Null tols," non-lethal devices capable of Squadron member, Golden Archer
wanted complete control over the subduing perpetrators by over- (banished from the Squadron for
Squadron's minds as well as the whelming their pleasure centers. In misusing the behavior-modification
President's. Only Hyperion man- exchange for their guns, the citizens machine); three of the Squadron's
aged to escape the Overmind's men- were given "personal protection new recruits culled from the ranks of
tal onslaught, and he fled to the belts," devices generating small the Institute of Evil, Lamprey, the
Avengers' Earth for aid, damaging force-fields providing protection Shape, and Foxfire; and five super-
the Squadron's satellite headquar- against all penetration wounds. Both human beings who had hitherto not
ters on the way. With the Squadron's of these devices were the work of gone public with their abilities-
help, the Overmind took over the Squadron member Tom Thumb, the Inertia, Therm ite, Haywire, Red-
mind of every major military, politi- former in conjunction with Ape X. stone, and Moonglow. Th is
cal , and industrial leader in the The Squadron also embarked upon aggregation of superhuman beings
world. The Overmind then began to their decriminilization program, was informally called the Redeem-
force the Squadron to build a vast using Tom Thumb's behavior modifi- ers.
nuclear arsenal on the moon with
which he hoped to wage interstellar cation, a device that programs the Nighthawk was also aided by Pro-
war on•other worlds in the Squad- human brain to be incapable of what- fessor Imam, Earth's Wizard
ron's dimension. Fortunately, Hype- ever actions are specified. Behavior Supreme and a former member of
rion returned with a large battalion of modified convicts had their criminal the Golden Agency, and Master
superhuman champions from the records eradicated and were provid- Menace, Hyperion 's greatest foe as
Avengers' Earth, notably Or. ed jobs in the various nation-wide well as one of the few people on
Strange, the Silver Surfer, and the restoration projects. Other-Earth who could match Tom
Vision. These champions, calling Thumb's genius. Imam gave Night-
themselves the Defenders, man- Tackling the problem of death, hawk the means to locate his
aged to free the Squadron and the Tom Thumb invented the hibernacu- Redeemers, while Menace provided
two teams vanquished the Overmind lum, a suspended animation capsule him with an anti-behavior modifica-
and Null. able to prolong life indefinitely tion device, able to counteract Tom
through cryogenics. Citizens would Thumb's programming. On the day
Other-Earth had been left in sham- be provided free "life-watches," of the Squadron's announcement
bles in the aftermath of this alien devices to monitor their vital signs. If that they had met the goals they had
takeover, and the Squadron was a remote sensor detecting a life- defined a year ago, Nighthawk's
forced to cope with a world in total failure, a team of hibermedics, which Redeemers entered Squadron City
political, economic, and technologi- were planned to become as common and declared their opposition to all of
cal collapse. Although he was as firemen, would rush to that per- the things the Squadron had done.
blameless for what had happened, son's side and put him or her into an Violence erupted, and the vastly out-
Kyle Richmond resigned the presi- emergency hibernaculum. Eventu- numbered Squadron managed to
dency as had Rockefeller before ally the death-arrested persons hold their own for a time. Casualties
him, and returned to his role of Night- would be transferred to huge in the war were numerous, with Ther-
hawk full time. The Squadron Hibernacies, cathedral-like buildings mite, Blue Eagle, Pinball, Golden
explained to the people how they where hibernacula would be stored. Archer, Lamprey, Foxfire, and Night-
were also blameless in what had When medical science finally cured hawk dying in battle. The war came
happened and declared a state of the ailment to which the to an abrupt end when Foxfire, hop-
martial law. hibernaculum-user succumbed, he ing to prove her loyalty to Dr. Spec-
or she would be revived. The first trum, killed Nighthawk. Hyperion
In an eventful meeting, the Squad- person to use the hibernaculum was formally surrendered.
ron decided to implement the Utopia Tom Thumb himself, who died of
Program, a plan for social reform cancer shortly after creating the Before he died, Nighthawk had
designed to turn the United States tube. Both the behavior modification convinced Hyperion that the main
from the shambles it was in to an machine and hibernaculum were problems with the Squadron's Uto-
ideal free state, the like of which the met with active resistance from cer- pia Program was that they had used
Earth had never seen. The Utopia tain segments of the population . basically ignoble, human rights-
Program was designed to address violating means to achieve noble
all social problems afflicting soci- Kyle Richmond, as Nighthawk, ends, and the only reason why these
eties since civilization began, includ- opposed the Squadron's Utopia Pro- ignoble means were not abused
ing poverty, economic instability, gram and resigned from the group more than they were was that the
war, crime, pollution, and even dis- when they elected to implement it. Squadron is basically a benevolent
ease and death . The Squadron He spent the year the Squadron put group of individuals. The system
seized complete authority over the the Utopia Program into effect trying they had devised, argued Night-
federal government, as well as con- to organize a counterforce powerful hawk, required persons as noble and
trol over the military and police. They enough to oppose the Squadron. He benevolent as them to oversee it.
then disarmed both the militia and managed to recruit three of his one- Since the Squadron is not immortal,
time personal foes, Pinball, Rem-
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they could not ensure that future APEX Karma: 105
generations would not be tyrannized Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
by the utopian technologies they cre- STATISTICS member
ated. Hyperion was convinced to Popularity: 40
assist in the dismantling of the Uto- F FE (2)
pia Program. Whether this has come A PR (4) BACKGROUND
about is unknown at this time. S TY (6) Real Name: Arcanna Jones
E GD (10) Occupation: Government agent,
AMPHIBIAN R IN (40) former medium
I EX (20) Legal Status: No criminal record
STATISTICS P TY (6) Identity: Publicly known
Health: 22 Place of Birth: Unknown
F GD (10) Karma: 66 Marital Status: Married
A RM (30) Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Known Relatives: Philip (husband);
S IN (40) member Drusilla, Katrina, Andrew, and Ben-
E IN (40) Popularity: 40 jamin (children)
R GD (10) Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
I GD (10) BACKGROUND Supreme
P GD (10) Real Name: Xina Present Group Affiliation:
Health: 120 Occupation: Former criminal, now
Karma: 30 scientist KNOWN POWERS
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Legal Status: Criminal record, now Elemental Control: Amazing control
member pardoned over natural elements (earth, air, water,
Popularity: 40 Identity: Publicly known fire), Remarkable control over proc-
Place of Birth: Unknown essed materials (metals, plastic, etc.)
BACKGROUND Marital Status: Single Empathy: Good rank
Real Name: Kingsley Rice Known Relatives: None Flight: Good air speed
Occupation: Government agent, Past Group Affiliations: Squadron Force Field vs. Magic: Amazing rank
former oceanographer Supreme Force Field vs. Psionics: Amazing
Legal Status: No criminal record Present Group Affiliation: rank
Identity: Publicly known Illusion casting: Amazing rank
Place of Birth: Unknown KNOWN POWERS Iron Will: Good control over her body
Marital Status: Single Cyborg Body: Life-supporting chair of Talents: Excellent knowledge of
Known Relatives: None Remarkable material and capable of occult lore. Good knowledge of
Past Group Affiliations: Squadron Typical speed. Various weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
Supreme options can be incorporated into it.
Present Group Affiliation: Talents: Incredible mastery of all sci- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
entific fields and criminal strategy. Arcanna is a happy hedonist and one
KNOWN POWERS of the Squadron's most glamorous
Waterbreathing (Amphibious) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES members. However, she is com-
Water Freedom Xina acted as the lnstitute's planner pletely devoted to the ideas of rais-
Hyper-Swimming: Typical speed (45 and inventor, as well as Tom ing a large happy family with her
mph) Thumb's assistant and replacement husband.
Animal Communication: Excellent for the Squadron. She deeply loves
ability to speak with fish and ceta- Thumb and is working with AIDA to BLACK ARCHER
ceans create a robotic replica of him.
Talents: Excellent knowledge of the STATISTICS
oceans and its inhabitants ARCANNA
F GD (10)
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES STATISTICS A RM (30)
Amphibian feels greater empathy for S GD (10)
dolphins than for humans. F GD (10) E EX (20)
A GD (10) R EX (20)
I TY (6)
s TY (6) P TY (6)
Health: 70
E EX (20) Karma: 32
R GD (10) Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
I EX (20) member
p MN (75)
Health: 46
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-~- -----= - - - - - -
Popularity: 40 BACKGROUND Present Group Affiliation:
Real Name: James Dore
BACKGROUND Occupation: Government agent, KNOWN POWERS
Real Name: Wyatt McDonald airplane mechanic Sonic Weapons: Various devices
Occupation: Government agent, Legal Status: No criminal record; capable of emiting sonic beams with
former cab driver deceased effects including:
Legal Status: No criminal record; Identity: Publicly known
deceased Place of Birth: Unknown • Pain: Excellent intensity
Identity: Publicly known Marital Status: Single • Kinetic Blast: Incredible intensity
Place of Birth: Unknown Known Relatives: Jonathan (father, •Disruption: Incredible damage
Marital Status: Single deceased, a.k.a. American Eagle) • Sound Disruption: Incredible
Known Relatives: None Past Group Affiliations: Squadron ability to nullify sounds and sonic
Past Group Affiliations: Former Supreme powers
member of the Squadron Supreme Present Group Affiliation: • Sonogram: Remarkable "X-ray"
and the Redeemers probe
Present Group Affiliation: KNOWN POWERS Talents: Remarkable knowledge of
Winged Flight: Remarkable air speed medicine and surgery. Incredible
KNOWN POWERS Talents: Remarkable knowledge of knowledge of sonic theory and
Arrows: Warheads include: Acetylene aerial combat related devices.
(Remarkable damage), Acid (Remark-
able intensity), Argonite (fatal to Hype- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
rion only), Blunt (Endurance FEAT or Dore is a second-generation hero. As a villain, Dr. Decibel was the pro-
lose consciousness for 1-10 turns), Although he and his father didn't verbial mad scientist devoted to
Electro (Excellent intensity shock), agree, he was determined to carry building sonic weapons or trans-
Explosive (Amazing damage), Flare on his father's struggle for justice. forming people into living weapons.
(Remarkable illumination, 2 areas), He was good friends with Dr. Spec- Later he became a doctor devoted to
Freeze (Good intensity), Hunting (Typ- trum but slightly antagonistic toward healing his patients, perhaps a way
ical Edged damage), Knockout Gas Black Archer because of Lady Lark. of atoning for his misdeeds.
(Excellent intensity, 20-foot area), Net
(Excellent grappling attack), Rope DOCTOR DOCTOR
(400' line), Smoke (1 area), Tear Gas SPECTRUM
(Excellent intensity, 1 area) DECIBEL
Talents: Amazing ability with the bow STATISTICS
STATISTICS
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES F TY (6)
Wyatt's primary concerns were per- F TY (6) A EX (20)
sonal gratification through t he fame A TY (6)
and glamour of the heroic life as well s GD (10)
as Lady Lark's love. When rebuffed, s TY (6)
he b~camesbitter and disillusioned. E GD (10)
Wyatt spoke with a lower-class Brit- E TY (6) R GD (10)
ish accent. R EX (20) I EX (20)
I GD (1 0) p RM (30)
BLUE EAGLE p FE (2) Health: 46
Health: 24 Karma: 60
STATISTICS Karma: 32 Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron member
F EX (20) member Popularity: 40
A RM (30) Popularity: 40
S GD (10) BACKGROUND
E GD (10) BACKGROUND Real Name: Joe Ledger
R GD (10) Real Name: Anton Decibel Occupation: Government agent,
I TY (6) Occupation: Former criminal sur- former astronaut and flight instructor
P TY (6) geon, physician for the Squadron Legal Status: No criminal record
Health: 70 Legal Status: Criminal record, now Identity: Publicly known
Karma: 18 pardoned; deceased Place of Birth: Unknown
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Identity: Publicly known Marital Status: Single
member Place of Birth: Unknown Known Relatives: None
Popularity: 40 Marital Status: Single Past Group Afflliations: Squadron
Known Relatives: None Supreme
Past Group Affiliations: Squadron Present Group Affiliation:
Supreme
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BGUADACIN SUPREME
.-. KNOWN POWERS Identity: Publicly known member of Squadron Supreme
Power Prism: Dr. Spectrum 's powers Place of Birth: Unknown Present Group Affiliation:
are based on possession of the crys- Marital Status: Single
tal given to him by Skrull. He can Known Relatives: None KNOWN POWERS
control the prism from up to 100 feet Past Group Affiliations: Squadron Webcasting: Smm steel wire shoots
away. Later, he gained the powers Supreme from fingertips. Targets must make
when the shattered prism 's dust Present Group Affiliation: an Agility FEAT to avoid being
merged with his body. Now, his body caught in an Amazing Grappling
shifts color with each power. KNOWN POWERS attack. He is able to redirect his
Energy Solidification: Monst rous Disruption: Remarkable ability to cause wires after emission. All wires vanish
ability to generate and spontaneous- a target to spontaneously fall apart. A when he ceases to use his power.
ly shape light energy. Power Stunts Good Intensity glow surrounds both Talents: Espionage skills
Foxfire and her target. Living targets
include: are only affected for 10-20 turns. After ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
• Containers of Monstrous materi- that, the affected area reverts to nor- Haywire is not a villain. He opposes
mal. Note that this can be a killing the Squadron because he simply
al strength attack if vital organs are affected. does not believe in their goals. He is
• Carrying Monstrous loads (up to Talents: Criminal skills attracted to Inertia.
80 tons) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES INERTIA
• Acting like a limb with Monstrous Foxfire was originally a ruthless,
possibly psychotic killer. The only STATISTICS
Strength reason she doesn't kill more often is
Flight: Excellent air speed because the dead don't suffer and F GD (10)
Machine Animation: Excellent ability cannot fuel her ego. Even when A GD (10)
to control even unpowered devices reformed, she was annoyed that
Phasing: Excellent ability Squadron records on her were s TY (6)
Talents: Remarkable knowledge of sketchy. During her months with the
piloting, astronautics, and fl ight Squadron , she and Dr. Spectrum E TY (6)
were lovers; even deprogramming R TY (6)
instruction. didn't change that. I TY (6)
p GD (20)
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HAYWIRE Health: 32
,_ Ledger is a happy, confident adven- Karma: 32
STATISTICS Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
turer. He treated Nuke like an occa- member
sionally troublesome kid brother. Popularity: 40
Because of the circumstances of
Nuke's death, Ledger developed a
fear of using his powers against oth-
ers. He and Foxfire were lovers.
FOXFIRE F TY (6) BACKGROUND
A EX (20) Real Name: Edith Freiberg
STATISTICS Occupation: Subversive
s TY (6) Legal Status: No criminal record
F GD (10) Identity: Publicly known
A GD (10) E GD (10) Place of Birth: Unknown
R TY (6) Marital Status: Single
s TY (6) I TY (6) Known Relatives: None
p EX (20) Past Group Affiliations: Secret
E GD (10) member of Nighthawk's Redeemers,
Health: 42 member of Squadron Supreme
R TY (6) Karma: 32 Present Group Affiliation:
I TY (6) Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
member KNOWN POWERS
p EX (20) Popularity: 40 Kinetic Control: Incredible ability to
Health: 36 transfer inertia from one mass to
Karma: 32 BACKGROUND another. She can retain absorbed
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Real Name: Harold Danforth kinetic energy for only 1-3 turns
member Occupation: Subversive before she must release it. Power
Popularity: 40 Legal Status: No criminal record Stunts include:
Identity: Publicly known
BACKGROUND Place of Birth: Unknown • Force Fields of Incredible rank
Real Name: Olivia Underwood Marital Status: Single that stop missiles and kinetic
Occupation: Former criminal turned Known Relatives: None attacks. Absorbed energy can then
government agent Past Group Affiliations: Secret
Legal Status: Criminal record, now member of Nighthawk's Redeemers,
pardoned; deceased
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be rechanneled into "Kinetic Bolts" Victims must make an Endurance power he has absorbed with up to
of up to Incredible Intensity FEAT; success means they fight at - Remarkable rank. Note that this
2 CS for 1-10 turns while failure might increase his physical abilities.
• Mechanical disruption by inter- causes unconsciousness for 11-20 Flight: Remarkable air speed
fering with moving parts t urns. Talents: Criminal skills
Talents: Espionage skills and a Typi- Talents: Although she can no longer
cal knowledge of Newtonian physics sing, Lady Lark is a trained singer ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
and performer. Lamprey is an out-in-out villain who
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES delights in using his victi ms'
Inertia is not a villain but rather a ROLE-PLAYING NOTES strengths against them. While
hero fighting Nightwing's secret war. Lady Lark is a reluctant hero. She reformed, he was a playful, trusting
She sees Moonglow as a threat to became a hero due to Golden man, but once deprogrammed he
their efforts because of Moonglow's Archer's insistence and her realiza- became a remorseless killer.
ego and carel,essness. Inertia is fond tion t hat her singing career was
of Haywire. kaput. Although they were lovers for MDDNGLDW
a time, she eventually realized that
LADY LARK they were too different for a perma- STATISTICS
nent relationship. She would gladly
STATISTICS exchange her powers for a decent F EX (20)
singing voice.
F GD (10) sA EX (20)
A EX (20) LAMPREY TY (6)
S TY (6) E TY (6)
E GD (10) STATISTICS R GD (10)
R TY (6) I EX (20)
I TY (6) F IN (40) p GD (10)
P GD (10) A RM (30) Health: 52
Health: 46 S GD (10) Karma: 40
Karma: 22 E GD(10) Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron R TY (6) member
member I PR (4) Popularity: 40
Popularity: 40 P GD (10)
Health: 90 BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND Karma: 20 Real Name: Melissa Hanover
Real Name: Linda Lewis Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Occupation: Subversive
Occupation: Former government member Legal Status: No criminal record
agent, former popular vocalist Popularity: 40 Identity: Known only to the Squad-
Legal Status: No criminal record ron
Identity: Publicly known BACKGROUND Place of Birth: Unknown
Placd of Birth: Unknown Real Name: Donald McGuiggin Marital Status: Single
Marital Status: Single Occupation: Former criminal turned Known Relatives: None
Known Relatives: None government agent Past Group Affiliations: Secret
Past Group Affiliations: Former Legal Status: Criminal record, now member of Nighthawk's Redeemers,
member of Squadron Supreme pardoned; deceased member of Squadron Supreme
Present Group Affiliation: Identity: Publicly known Present Group Affiliation:
Place of Birth: Unknown
KNOWN POWERS Marital Status: Single KNOWN POWERS
Sonic Emission: Artificial vocal cords Known Relatives: None Illusion-casting: Amazing ability to
give various Power Stunts: Past Group Affiliations: Former create illusions that possess visual,
member of the Institute of Evil, mem- audio, olfactory, and tactile realism.
• " Loudspeaker" voice audible ber of Squadron Supreme, secretly Power Stunts include:
over 4 areas member of Knighthawk's Redeemers
Present Group Affiliation: • Alter Ego: Her entire appearance
• Deafening attacks of Remark- is an illusion. In reality, Melissa is a
able intensity KNOWN POWERS short, dumpy brunette.
Absorption Power: Remarkable abili-
• Disruption attack of Incredible ty to absorb powers and energy to • Illusory Duplication: Otten she
rank fuel his own powers remains safe and invisible while her
Power Duplication: Ability to use any alter ego apparently does battle.
• Incredible Vocal Control includ-
ing the ability to hit any note, even • /llusory Invisibility: Although
ones that are ultrasonic and infra- invisible to a conscious mind, she
sonic can still be photographed.
• Vertigo of Remarkable intensity.
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• Power Duplication: She can cre- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES sterling example for less well devel-
ate illusions of other powers. These Nuke was the youngest and least oped people. She is devoted to her
include Flight and Phasing. stable of the Squadron. He idolized husband but soon realized her real
Talents: Espionage skills Dr. Spectrum and followed him eve- passion was for Hyperion.
rywhere. He was driven into mad-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ness by the discoveries that his BUAGMIRE
Moonglow is a snob and an egotist. power was increasing at an uncon-
She feels her illusions give her super- trollable rate and that he was respon- STATISTICS
iority to those she fools. She prefers to sible for his parents' leukemia.
maintain an illusion that her powers F RM (30)
are of another sort entirely. POWER A EX (20)
NUKE PRINCESS s GD (10)
STATISTICS STATISTICS E EX (20)
R TY (6)
F RM (30) F MN (75) I TY (6)
A EX (20) A MN (75) p EX (20)
S GD (10) S AM (50) Health: 80
E RM (30) E MN (75) Karma: 32
R TY (6) R RM (30) Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
I PR (4) I IN (40) member
P TY (6) P IN (40) Popularity: 40
Health: 90 Health: 275
Karma: 16 Karma: 110 BACKGROUND
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Real Name: Jerome Meyers
member member Occupation:--Former criminal turned
Popularity: 40 Popularity: 40 governmenf agent
Legal Status: Criminal record, now
BACKGROUND BACKGROUND pardoned; present status unknown
Real Name: Albert Gaines Real Name: Zarda Shelton Identity: Publicly known
Occupation: Former government Occupation: Government agent, Marital Status: Unknown
agent, former nuclear plant worker former missionary of the Utopians Known Relatives: None
Legal Status: No criminal record Legal Status: No criminal record Place of Birth: Unknown
Identity: Publicly known Identity: Publicly known Past Group Affiliations: Former
Place of Birth: Unknown Marital Status: Widowed member of the Institute of Evil and
Marital Status: Single Place of Birth: Utopia Isle the Squadron Supreme
Known Relatives: Gilbert and Flor- Known Relatives: Howard (hus- Present Group Affiliation:
ence (parents, deceased), Scott band, deceased), Hyperion (fiance)
(brother) Past Group Affiliations: Former KNOWN POWERS
Past Group Affiliations: Member of member of the Golden Agency, Spray: Amazing ability to create
Squadron Supreme member of Squadron Supreme near-infinite amounts of black
Present Group Affiliation: Present Group Affiliation: mucus. The gunk acts as an
Amazing Grappling attack and
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS makes him immune to Foxfire and
Radiation Emission: Amazing intensity Flight: Excellent air speed Arcanna's powers. Quagmire can hit
and damage. It may be directed in a Invulnerability: Remarkable resist- a specific target by an Agility FEAT.
stream to do full damage to a single ance to physical and energy attacks, The gunk disappears if Quagmire
target or as a field effect that does a as well as heat, cold, toxins, aging, dies.
total of Amazing damage to everyone and disease Self-Sustenance: Quagmire cannot
within a target zone 1 area across. Shield: Amazing protection from be suffocated by the gunk.
Resistance to Radiation: Amazing physical attack. She can fling the Talents: Criminal skills
protection from radiation shield to do Amazing Blunt damage.
Flight: Excellent air speed Talents: Leadership skills and an ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Weakness: Nuke constantly radiates Amazing grasp of philosophy, poli- Quagmire acted as the tactical lead-
Poor intensity radiation. People who tics, and natural sciences. er of the Institute of Evil. He and Fox-
make dai ly contact with him will fire were lovers. Once reformed , he
eventually contract cancer. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES became a valiant, self-sacrificing
Talents: Aerial combat skills. Zarda is the appointed emissary of the hero.
Utopians. As such, she must present a
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REDSTONE Health: 76 Popularity: 40
Karma: 10
STATISTICS Resources: UN (100) as Squadron BACKGROUND
member Real Name: Unknown
F AM (50) Popularity: 40 Occupation: Former space explor-
A TY (6) er, adventurer
S UN (100) BACKGROUND Legal Status: Illegal alien
E UN (100) Real Name: Unknown Identity: His existence was not
R GD (10) Occupation: Former criminal turned known to the general populace of
I TY (6) government agent Earth
P TY (6) Legal Status: Criminal record , par- Place of Birth: Skrull Empire
Health: 206 doned Marital Status: Single
Karma: 22 Identity: Publicly known Known Relatives: None
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron Place of Birth: Unknown Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
member Marital Status: Single Supreme
Popularity: 40 Known Relatives: None Present Group Affiliation:
Past Group Affiliations: Former
BACKGROUND member of the Institute of Evil, mem- KNOWN POWERS
Real Name: Michael Redstone ber of the Squadron Supreme Shape-change: Amazing ability
Occupation: Subversive Present Group Affiliation: Talents: Remarkable Reason in the
Legal Status: No criminal record fields of spaceflight, astronaviga-
Identity: Publicly known KNOWN POWERS tion, and all martial arts.
Place of Birth: Unknown Topological Change: Excellent ability
Marital Status: Single to alter his basic outline. Power ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Known Relatives: None Stunts include: The Skrull was a space explorer res-
Past Group Affiliations: Secret
member of the Redeemers, member • Shapechange: Limited to basic cued by Joe Ledger. He was grateful
of Squadron Supreme shapes
Present Group Affiliation: to Ledger and other humans, a debt
• Elongation: Poor ability to elon- he repaid by briefly acting as a crime-
KNOWN POWERS gate up to 12 feet fighter. (Apparently Skrulls in •his alter-
Armorskin: Amazing resistance to nate reality are not the bitter warriors
physical and energy attacks • Hammer attacks of Good dam- they are in the Marvel Universe.)
Weakness: He draws his powers age by forming a fist, then shifting
from contact with the Earth. Ten his weight to that fist THERMITE
turns after contact with the ground is Talents: None
interrupted, his Strength and Endur- STATISTICS
ance drop -1 CS each turn thereaf- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
ter until they reach a minimum of Shape is mentally retarded and has F GD (10)
Good rank. the outlook of a child. He became a A GD (10)
Talents: Survival and Hunting skills villain in order to wreak vengeance S TY (6)
on a society that mocked him. Once E EX (20)
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES reformed, he became friends with R GD (10)
Redstone is a quiet man who prefers children everywhere, especially I TY (6)
direct action. He is fond of Moon- Arcanna's kids. This persisted even P TY (6)
stone. He is not a villain but a guerril- after he was deprogrammed.
la fighting Nighthawk's secret war. Health: 46
SKRULL Karma: 22
SHAPE Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
STATISTICS
STATISTICS member
F EX (20)
F RM (30) A GD (10) BACKGROUND
A TY (6) Real Name: Sam Yurimoto
s GD (10) Occupation: Subversive
S EX (20) Legal Status: No criminal record,
E EX (20) E EX (20) deceased
R FE (2) R EX (20) Identity: Publicly known
I PR (4) I GD (10) Place of Birth: Unknown
P PR (4) p TY (6) Marital Status: Single
Health: 60 Known Relatives: None
Karma: 36 Past Group Affiliations: Secret
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron member of the Redeemers, mem-
member
66
l
bers of Squadron Supreme Occupation: Government agent, Marital Status: Married
Present Group Affiliation:
scientist, inventor Known Relatives: Madeline (wife),
KNOWN POWERS
Heat: Remarkable power to do Legal Status: No criminal record, Tina (daughter)
Excellent damageto a specific target
or heat a 60-foot zone by a maximum deceased Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
of 300 degrees
Cold Generation: Excellent power to Identity: Publicly known Supreme
lower temperatures by 200 to 800
degrees Place of Birth: Unknown Present Group Affiliation:
Cold-shaping: Excellent power to
create useful shapes out of suddenly Marital Status: Single
f rozen gases and liquids. Power
Stunts include: Known Relatives: None KNOWN POWERS
• Bindings of Good Material Past Group Afflllatlons: Squadron Hyper-Running: Shift-X air speed
Strength
Supreme (750 mph) and resistance to air fric-
• Ice missiles that do Good Blunt
damage Present Group Affiliation: tion. Acceleration rate is 1.5 mph per
• Blinding or smothering oppo- foot traveled
nents by encasing a target's head
Weakness: Thermite is dependent KNOWN POWERS Hyper-Endurance: While runn ing,
on his regulator pack for his very
existence. If the regulator is dam- Hyper-Invention: Monstrous ability to Whizzer's Endurance increases to
aged, all his powers turn on his own
body. design and create a functional ver- Unearthly rank, although his Health
Talents: Espionage and a Remark-
able knowledge of temperature reg- sion of a desired object or tool. does not increase
ulating equipment.
Flying Chair: Thumb's personal flier Hyper-Speed: Unearthly power
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Thermite was not a villain. He was Control Speed Body Protection increases his reaction time a hun-
concerned with being a good person
and worried about his mother. His IN GD RM PR dredfold. This power functions while
perpetually worn costume prevented
normal romantic activities. Because he is running. Power Stunts include:
of the fragility of his equipment, he
tended to attack his foes from a dis- Talents: Amazing Reason in the • Delivering one hundred Typical
tance.
fields of Engineering and Physics, blows per turn
TOM THUMB
Incredible Reason in the fields of • Perceiving and catching high
STATISTICS
Medicine and Psychiatry. velocity objects with Unearthly ease
F PR (4)
A TY (6) Airwalking: Remarkable speed by
s TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES rapidly fanning his feet and arms
E TY (6) Thumb acted as the Squadron's Waterwalking: Unearthly speed by
R AM (50)
I IN (40) resource man; he created most of skimming along on surface tension
p RM (30)
Health: 22 their equipment and was the key Weakness: For each minute spent
Karma: 120
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron man in the Utopia Program. He felt using his powers, Whizzer must
member
Popularity: 40 unappreciated by the team and spend an equal time resting in a
BACKGROUND ignored by the public. His best "hypo-metabolic trance." If prevent-
Real Name: Thomas Thompson
friends were his computer AIDA and ed from resting, he is unable to
Apex. regain his full powers.
Talents: Good knowledge of the
WHIZZER U.S. Postal Service.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
STATISTICS Whizzer is a devoted family man who
places his family before his duties to
F RM (30) the Squadron . He feels guilty over
A MN (75) his attraction to Arcanna's physical
S TY (6) charms.
E GD (10)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 121
Karma: 18
Resources: UN (100) as Squadron
member
Popularity: 40
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Stanley Stewart
Occupation: Government agent,
former postman
Legal Status: No criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown
67
ADDITIONAL NOTES Far SCIUADRON SUPREME
68
STATISTICS STARFCX
F GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Starfox is a light-hearted adventurer
A EX (20) with an insatiable wanderlust. He will
S IN (40) gladly fulfill any duties or promises.
E AM (50) He feels a special obligation to cor-
rect any injustice either wrought by
R EX (20) or connected to his brother Thanos.
When free of duties' demands, he is
I TY (6) a Casanova with an eye for attractive
P RM (30) superwomen.
Health: 120
Karma: 56
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 75
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Eros
Occupation: Adventurer, womaniz-
er
Legal Status: Citizen of Titan
Identity: Public unaware of his back-
ground
Place of Birth: Titan
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mentor (father),
Sui-San (mother, deceased), Thanos
(brother)
Base of Operations: Space
Past Group Affiliations: Eternals of
,,........... Titan , Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS :~:~~.?-
Emotion Control: Amazing ability to
instill pleasurable, friendly, coopera- (" -=- )
tive attitudes in targets for 10-100
turns. Victims may avoid the effect ADDITIONAL NOTES:
by an Intuition FEAT. Orders that
would require them to lose Karma
also enable them to break free by a
Psyche FEAT.
Invulnerability: Shift-X resistance to
aging, disease, heat, cold, electrici-
ty, radiation, and toxins.
Body Resistance: Good resistance
to all other physical and energy
attacks
Regeneration: Amazing rank
True Flight: Shift-X speed
Talents: He has a native's familiarity
with Eternal and Titanian technolo-
gy.
Contacts: Eternals, Avengers, Cap-
tain Marvel I (before his death), and
Firelord.
69
HISTORY and recreation on humanoid- their training program and gave him
inhabited worlds. the name Starfox, since they felt
Eros is the youngest son of two Tita- "Eros" was an inappropriate code-
nian Eternals, Alars and Sui-San. When the cancer-stricken Captain name. Starfox served the Avengers
Eros grew up to be a fun-loving, Mar-Vell retreated to Titan to spend faithfully for several months, helping
carefree womanizer, in contrast to his final days of life, Eros returned to them vanquish such menaces as the
his brother Thanos, a power-hungry, Titan to help console his friend. Just Wizard , Terminus, and Maelstrom.
misanthropic schemer. Only when before he died, Mar-Vall made Eros
Thanos launched his first major promise to take care of his Titanian Finally, while in the Skrull empire
attack against Titan, an attack that companion, Elysius, after he was rescuing fellow Avenger Captain
left their mother Sui-San dead, did gone. Eros honored his vow for sev- Marvel, Starfox learned that his
Eros begin to take life a bit more seri- eral weeks, until Elysius, realizing abductor, the space pirate Nebula,
ously. In subsequent campaigns was Thanos's granddaughter and
against Thanos, Eros fought along- his wanderlust, released him from thus his grand-niece. Starfox
side Titan's handful of survivors. his promise. Eros then consulted resigned his active membership in
Eros joined the alien Captain Mar- ISAAC, Titan's master computer, for the Avengers to pursue Nebula, who
ven and the Avengers in the first data on the most suitable planets for had eluded them with the help of the
major defeat of Thanos. his needs and temperament. The near-omnipotent Beyonder. Starfox
computer recommended Earth. Trav- is currently in the company of Fire-
No longer bound by duty, Eros left eling there, Eros visited the only peo- lord, whose native world Xandar was
wartorn Titan, seeking out pleasure ple he knew, the Avengers, and destroyed by Nebula, searching the
petitioned them to make him a mem- universe for his grandniece.
ber. The Avengers admitted him to
70
GROUP BACKGROUND through teleportation via a Shi'ar CORSAIR
The Starjammers are a small band of "Stargate" device to save the life of her
space pirates who travel through the lover Professor Charles Xavier, who lay STATISTICS
Shi'ar galaxy, plundering Shi'ar star- on the point of death. The three were
ships in order to strike out against the teleported back the Starjammer and F EX (20)
Shl'ar Empire. The leader of the Starjam- Xavier was fully healed. However, the A EX (20)
mers Is former United States Air Force Starjammer's ultra-light drive was heavily
test pilot Major Christopher Summers, damaged by enemy attack, and Shi'ar s EX (20)
who now calls himself Corsair. He was Stargates were now too heavily guarded
one of the original four Starjammers, for the Starjammers to utilize. Unable to E EX (20)
along with Ch'od, Hepzibah, and Raza, return to Earth, Xavier now travels with R GD {10)
each a member of a different alien race the Starjammers and Lilandra. I GD (10)
p TY (6)
native to the Shi'ar Galaxy. C H 1D D Health: BO
These four were later joined by the Karma: 26
STATISTICS Resources: EX (20)
" Sikorsky," an insect-like being who Popularity: -10 to Shi'ar loyalists, + 10
serves as their physician, and by the F IN (40) to rebels
superhuman Earthwoman Carol Dan- A RM (30)
vers, also known as Binary. The Starjam- BACKGROUND
mers travel aboard the starship s AM (50) Real Name: Major Christopher Sum-
Starjammer, whose operations are over- mers, U.S.A.F. (retired}
seen by the sentient computer Waldo. E AM (50) Occupation: Ex-U.S.A.F. officer turned
R TY (6) space pirate and revolutionary
Over twenty years ago Major Sum- I GD (10) Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S., legally
mers was flying himself and his family in p GD (10) dead
a private plane down the Western Ameri- Health: 170 Identity: Earth is unaware of Summer's
can coast when their plane was attacked Karma: 26 existence as Corsair
by a starship from the Shi'ar Empire on Resources: EX (20) Place of Birth: Unknown
an exploratory mission. Scott and Alex Popularity: -10toShi'arloyalists, +10 Marital Status: Widower
parachuted to safety, but Major Sum- to rebels Known Relatives: Katherine Anne (wife,
mers and his wife were teleported deceased), Scott (son, a.k.a. Cyclops),
aboard the Shi'ar starship and taken to BACKGROUND Alex (son, a.k.a. Havok)
the Shi'ar Imperial Throneworld. There Real Name: Ch'od Present Group Afflllatlon:
..--.... Major Summers was separated from his Occupation: Space pirate and revolu-
wife and imprisoned. He broke free and tionary KNOWN POWERS
discovered the corrupt Shi'ar emperor Legal Status: Shi'ar citizen with a crimi- Phasing Jewels: When activated, they
D'ken attempting to rape Katherine nal record transform into two blaster pistols with
Anne. D'ken responded to this interrup- Identity: Known in Shi'ar Empire Amazing-rank Plasma Generation.
tion by murdering Katherine Anne before Place of Birth: Timor, Varanus system, Talents: Remarkable Reason when
Summers' eyes, and then ordering Sum- Shi'ar Empire piloting either terrestrial aircraft or Shi'ar
Marital Status: Unknown spacecraft. He is an expert swordsman
mers sent to the slave pits. Known Relatives: None and marksman.
It was in the slave pits that Summers Present Group Afflllatlon:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
first met Ch'od, Hepzibah, and Raza, KNOWN POWERS Corsair loves a flamboyant life. He has a
who were also prisoners there. Together Armorskin: Excellent protection from burning hatred for the Shi'ar Empire that
the four escaped and stole a starship. physical and energy attacks is tempered only by Lilandra and the
Waterbreathing: Amphibious knowledge that Deathbird, the current
They called their ship the Starjammer Talents: Skilled in Martial Arts A, B, and Shi'ar ruler, is even nastier than her
(they have had at least two starships by C, as well as marksmanship, swordplay, brother. Corsair would like to be a father
that name) and themselves the Starjam- and philosophy to Scott but sees his new life as taking
mers, and began engaging in space precedence.
piracy, thus taking vengeance on the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Despite his fearsome appearance, 71
Shi'ar by plundering their starships, but Ch'od is easy-going. He is always in the
taking care not to harm innocent passen- company of Cr'reee, his pet.
gers in the process.
The Starjammers met the X-Men when
the two groups joined forces on a world
in the Shl'ar Galaxy to battle the Shi'ar
Imperial Guard, who were then serving
the mad D'ken. D'ken was deposed and
succeeded as Shi'ar ruler by his sister
Lilandra Neramani. The Starjammers
subsequently aided Lilandra and the X-
Men against the alien Brood and the
treacherous Shi'ar Lord Samedar, both
of whom were allied with Lilandra's sister
Deathbird.
However, Deathbird finally staged a
coup d'etat and seized the Shi'arthrone.
Lilandra now travels with the Starjam-
mers. She and Corsair went to Earth
HEPZIBAH Occupation: Space pirate and revolu- unless someone is in dire need who can-
tionary not be teleported aboard the ship. His
STATISTICS Legal Status: Shi'ar citizen with a crimi- speech is characterized by a mechanical
nal record hum.
F GD (10) Identity: Known to Shi'ar
Place of Birth: A Shi'ar world STARJAMMER (ship)
A EX (20} Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None Control Speed Body Protection
s GD (10) Present Group Affiliation:
RM C3000 MN MN
E EX (20) KNOWN POWERS
R GD (10) Cyborg Body: His mechanical parts have WALDO (Independent unit)
I GD (10) these powers: Control Speed Body
p GD (10) RM FE RM
Health: 60 • Strength: Incredible rank for left arm
Karma: 30 • Nightvision: Incredible rank KNOWN POWERS:
Resources: EX (20) Talents: Expert in hand-to-hand or Forcefield Generation: Unearthly rank
Free Spirit: Waldo can transfer itself to
Popularity: -1 Oto Shi'ar loyalists, + 10 armed combat ( +2 CS) any ship with a compatible computer
system. Plasma Generation: Monstrous
to rebels ROLE-PLAYING NOTES rank for ship-to-ship combat.
Raza is a quiet man with perhaps the Regeneration: Medical facilities under
BACKGROUND greatest hatred of the Shi'ar Empire. He Sikorsky's control have an Unearthly
Real Name: Unpronounceable by is reluctant to help Lilandra. healing capability.
humans Teleport Others: Good ability; range 2500
Occupation: Space pirate and revolu- SIKORSKY miles.
tionary Total Memory: Waldo's memory banks
Legal Status: Mephistoid exile STATISTICS have Amazing recall of Shi'ar Empire
Identity: Known to Shi'ar science.
Place of Birth: Tryl'sart, Cyrane Om'lr F PR (4) Warpdrive: CLSOOO rank normally
system, Shi'ar Empire A PR (4) enables the ship to travel between Earth
Marital Status: Single and the Shi'ar Empire within 10 days.
Known Relatives: None s PR (4) The drive is currently damaged.
Present Group Affiliation:
E PR (4) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
KNOWN POWERS R EX (20) Waldo is both ship and partner. Waldo's
Claws: Good damage I PR (4) normal battle tactic is to fire upon the tar-
Hypersensitive Smell: Good rank get area, then teleport the Starjammers
Nightvision: Remarkable rank p PR (4) to the scene. Waldo monitors the ground
Tr'acking: Good rank combat and frequently asks how things
Talents: Remarkable Reason in the Health: 16 are going. Once the mission is either
fields of astronavigation and ship repair. Karma: 28 successful or doomed, Waldo then tele-
Resources: EX (20) ports the troops back to the ship and
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES leaves at full speed.
Hepzibah is sometimes confused by Popularity: -10 to Shi'ar loyalists, + 10
Corsair's references to Earth's pop cul-
ture. Both share a hatred for the Shl'ar to rebels
Empire and a love for each other. She
feels disdain for Lilandra and makes BACKGROUND
comments about " birds and cats" when Real Name: Unpronounceable by
Lilandra is within hearing distance. humans
Occupation: Surgeon and geneticist
RAZA Legal Status: Chr'ylite exile
Identity: Known to Shi'ar
STATISTICS Place of Birth: Chr'Yllalisa, Chr'yll sys-
tem, Shi'ar Empire
F EX (20) Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
sA GD (10) Present Group Affiliation:
GD (10)
KNOWN POWERS
E RM (30) Armorskin: Good protection from physi-
R GD (10) cal attack
Empathy: Remarkable rank
I GD (10) Mental Probe: Remarkable rank
p TY (6) Winged Flight: Poor air speed
Health: 70 Talents: Incredible Reason in medicine
Karma: 26 and genetics, which increases to
Resources: EX (20) Amazing in conjunction with Waldo's
Popularity: -1 Oto Shi'ar loyalists, + 1O memory banks.
to rebels
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
BACKGROUND Sikorsky is Star/ammer's medic. He nev-
Real Name: Raza er leaves the ship or engages in combat
72
STATISTICS STILT-MAN
F GD (10) 73
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E RM (30)
R RM (30)
I GD(10)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 46
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Wilbur Day
Occupation: Scientist turned pro-
fessional criminal
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: New York City, New
York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former ally
of Electro, Blastaar, and the Masked
Marauder
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Without the armor his stats are:
FASE R I P
GD GD TY TY RM GD TY
Armor: Incredible material gives him
Incredible protection from physical
attacks and Remarkable protection
from energy attacks. Internal air sup-
ply contains 2 hours' worth of air.
Nonstick coating provided Mon-
strous ease of escaping holds, nets,
and other entanglements.
Stilts: Each leg can elongate from 5
to 290 feet. He can kick with Incredi-
ble damage or move at Good speed.
Stun-Gas: Incredible potency gas
knocks a victim out for 1-10 turns.
Talents:
Contacts: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES mefighter Daredevil discovered the Day's Stilt-Man suit. Turk began
Day is basically a small-time crook truth . Day, wearing the stilts but not using the Stilt-Man suit himself, but
with a gimmick he thinks can make the rest of his armored suit, used an Day told Daredevil how to defeat
him rich and powerful. Even his fre- experimental molecular condenser Turk by manipulating the gyroscopes
quent defeats haven't kept him from gun, based on another idea of Kax- that keep the battlesuit balanced.
pursuing different means of becom- ton 's, to attempt to eliminate Dare- (Day has, of course, since modified
ing a supervillaln. devil. But in battling Daredevil , Day his armor so that Daredevil cannot
himself was struck by the molecular defeat him the same way.) Turk
HISTORY condenser's ray and shrank seem- proved inept at manipulating the
ingly into nothingness. In fact, when stilts, bungled an attempt to kidnap
Wilbur Day was a scientist and the ray had condensed his matter to Manhattan Assistant District Attor-
inventor in the employ of Kaxton a certain point, Day was transported ney Maxine Lavender, and was
Industries, a small industrial design into a limbo-like " microverse." caught by Daredevil.
and manufacturing firm in the New Months later Day and his stilts reap-
York area. The firm's owner, Carl peared on Earth at their full size. Day decided that after this humiliat-
Kaxton, had Invented a new type of ing episode, he had to do something
hydraulic ram and had planned to Constantly remodifying and dramatic to regain his reputation as a
market it commercially. Dissatisfied improving upon his original stilts and formidable criminal. Day broke into a
with his position in the company, Day the rest of his battlesuit, the Stilt- Cordco factory and used its auto-
stole the design and used it in the Man has subsequently battled Cap- mated devices to construct an
construction of an armored pair of tain America, Spider-Man and, most improved battlesuit within a remark-
telescoping stilts at home. Day frequently, Daredevil. When given a ably short time. Spider-Man learned of
attached the stilts to an articulated special duplicate of his suit forged the break-In and tackled the Stilt-Man.
armor suit of his own invention, and from secondary Adamantium by the But when Spider-Man saw that a sonic
calling himself the Stilt-Man, began extradimensional Blastaar, the Stilt- disruptor Day had activated was about
to loot stores and rob pedestrians. Man even dared to challenge Thor. to blast Day himself, Spider-Man took
Day tried to claim legal ownership of After Thor defeated the Stilt-Man, the blast himself to save Day's life.
Kaxton's original design, and went Day's Adamantium suit was confis- Moved by Spider-Man's sacrifice for
so far as to accuse Kaxton of being cated and melted down. Day later an enemy, the Stilt-Man gratefully took
the Stilt-Man, but the costumed cri- recovered his own modified Stilt- the unconscious crimefighter to
Man battlesuit. safety, and then left the factory. The
Stilt-Man's present whereabouts and
Subsequently, an incompetent activities are unknown.
small-time hood named Turk stole
74
.-._ STATISTICS STINGRAY
F GD (10} ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Dr. Newell is primarily a marine sci-
A RM (30) entist. Superheroics are sidelines
S AM (50) that conveniently allow him greater
E IN (40) access to the ocean's secrets. How-
ever, if he discovers injustices con-
R EX (20) nected to the ocean or its
I GD (10) inhabitants, he is driven to set things
P GD (10) right.
Health: 130 75
Karma: 40
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 20
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Walter Newell
Occupation: Oceanographer,
explorer, adventurer
........._ Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massa-
chussetts
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Diane Arliss
Newell (wife)
Base of Operations: Hydro-Base
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of the
Thing and the Avengers
--.. Present Group Afflllatlon:
KNOWN POWERS
All powers are derived from his Stin-
gray armor. His normal Abilites are:
FASER I P
GD GD TY GD EX GD GD
Armor: Excellent protection from ADDITIONAL NOTES:
energy attacks, Remarkable protec-
tion against physical attacks (includ-
ing depth pressure}, and Amazing
protection against heat, cold, and
electricity
Electricity: Incredible Intensity blasts
at a maximum range of 1 area. Tar-
gets failing an Endurance FEAT fall
unconscious 1-1 o hours
Gliding: Poor air speed at a maxi-
mum altitude of 100 feet
Hyper-swimming: Good waterspeed
Waterbreathing: Artificial gills extract
fresh oxygen from seawater
Talents: Remarkable reason in the
fields of oceanography, oceanic
archeology, ichthyology, and cetolo-
gy. Incredible Reason in the field of
adapting humans to undersea life.
Contacts: The Avengers (except
Iron Man), the Thing
HISTORY Stingray, a name that was later graphic facilities to Hydro-Base, an
applied to him. Wearing the Stingray artificial island previously used by
Walter Newell was an oceanogra- suit, Newell subdued the Sub- the insane ecologist Dr. Hydro, and
pher working for the United States Mariner and brought him in for ques- married Diane Arliss, the sister of
government who had first met and tioning. When Namor escaped, Tiger Shark. He became the base's
befriended Prince Namor the Sub- Stingray was ordered to pursue him. chief caretaker after Dr. Hydro's vic-
Mariner when Newell supervised the Due largely to the fact that Namor's tims were finally cured of the process
construction of a domed sub-sea abilities were impaired at the time, Hydro subjected them to. A reluctant
experimental city that met its demise Stingray bested him, but let him go adventurer, Newell donned his Stin-
at the hands of the Plunderer. out of respect. gray uniform to assist the Thing and
Months later, federal agent Edgar Scarlet Witch in their struggle
Benton enlisted Newell's services to When an ocean cruiser was sunk against the Congress of Serpent
investigate the siphoning of water some months later by Atlanteans Crowns. Most of his time is spent on
from the Earth's oceans by reputed claiming to be subjects of Namor, his oceanographical research.
extraterrestrials. Benton, suspecting Newell as Stingray went to investi-
that the Sub-Mariner was collaborat- gate. He learned that it was the under- Recently Newell leased part of
ing with the aliens against the Earth, sea barbarian Attuma who ordered the Hydro-Base to the Avengers for use
wanted Newell to locate Namor and attack and, joining forces with Namor as their airbase. As caretaker of
bring him in for questioning. Benton and the Inhuman Triton, he helped Hydro-Base and its facilties, Newell
threatened to have the government vanquish Attuma. When Namor's is an official associate of the team.
withdraw funds which supported plans to make a home on the surface
Newell's research unless Newell world met with resistance, Newell peti- It is fortunate that Dr. Newell was
complied. Newell agreed to do so, tioned his congressman to help get the the originator of his armor's tech-
believing that Namor's innocence Namor official amnesty for his past nology. During Iron Man's recent
would ultimately be established. In transgressions. The endeavor failed.
order to overpower .Namor in case Newell succeeded, however, in help- rampage against other armor-based
force was necessary, Newell ing Namor locate his human father adventurers, Iron Man fought and
designed and built a battlesuit which Leonard McKenzie. When McKenzie defeated Stingray. His attempts to
gave him superhuman strength and became a pawn for Namor's enemies destroy Stingray's armor failed
the ability to maneuver under water. to use against him, Newell donned his because the armor's technology was
Basing his design on the physiology subsea outfit to go to his aid. Despite unrelated to Iron Man's own circuits.
of the manta ray, he called the suit Stingray's help, McKenzie was killed Although Stingray feels no outright
by the Tiger Shark and Llyra. malice toward Iron Man, he may
Newell then moved his oceano- retain some suspicions about Iron
Man's motives.
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STDRM
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S TY (6)
E AM (50)
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 106
Karma: 36
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity:4
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Ororo Munroe
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
- Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: New York City, New
York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: David and N'dare
(parents, deceased) .
Base of Operations: X-Mans1on,
Australian outback
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men,
Morlocks
,........,_ Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Weather Control: Amazing control Munroe periodically goes through
Resistance to Weather: Incredible personality shifts. Originally she was
protection against natural weather's a strong-willed and regal woman
effects who acted like a goddess-on-earth.
Weather Prediction: Amazing ability During that period she also suffered
Flight: Excellent air speed
Talents: Remarkable knowledge of paralyzing claustrophobia. Later she
lockpicking, pocket-picking, ~scape renounced her naturalism in favor of
techniques, and general thievery. a punk lifestyle, appearance, and
Excellent use of a knife or pistol. Oth- behavior. Currently she has recon-
er skills include Leadership, Aerial ciled the two personalities into a sin-
Combat, Martial Arts A and C, and gle harmonious whole.
the Kenyan and Russian languages.
Contacts: X-Men and other Xavier-
related mutant teams; the Morlocks.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
HISTORY
Ororo Munroe is descended from a
line of African witch-priestesses
which can be traced back to the
dawn of humanity. All of the women
in this line of descent have white hair
(throughout their lives) and blue
eyes and the potential for magical
abilities, while the men have none of
these attributes.
Ororo's mother, N'dare, was a
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princess of a tribe from Kenya that help several local tribes, who wor- of the U.S. federal government and
has yet to be identified . N'dare mar- shipped her as a goddess. In helping accompanying troops were hunting
ried American photojournalist David these tribes, Ororo developed her down Rogue. Gyrich, an agent of the
Munroe and lived with him in Man- National Security Council, had, with
hattan, where Ororo was born. When sense of responsibility to use her presidential authorization, obtained
she was six months old, she and her abilities for the benefit of others. She the only working model of an untest-
parents moved to Cairo, Egypt, contentedly spent a number of years ed "neutralizer" device created by
where her father was on assignment. in the role of " goddess" until Profes- the inventor known as Forge to
Five years later, Ororo's Egyptian sor Charles Xavier came to Africa deprive a superhuman being of his
and persuaded her that she should or her superhuman powers. In the
home was destroyed during an Arab- use her powers to benefit all humani- ensuing battle, Storm inadvertently
Israeli conflict. Ororo's parents were ty by joining the X-Men. Ororo did so, was " neutralized" in trying to protect
killed outright. Ororo found herself under the code-name Storm. When Rogue. Her superhuman powers
buried under the rubble of her home the X-Men's leader Cyclops took a appararently removed, Storm fell
beside her mother's corpse. This leave of absence, Storm became the into a river, from which Forge res-
event traumatized Ororo so that group's leader. cued her.
today she still suffers from claustro-
phobia, the fear of being in a confin- When the X-Men first clashed with Blaming himself, Forge brought
ing space. the community of mutant outcasts Storm to his headquarters in Dallas,
called the Morlocks, Storm fought a Texas. There Storm revived, and she
For a wh ile after her parents' personal combat with the Morlock's and Forge grew stronly attracted to
deaths, Ororo wandered the back leader, Callisto. In defeating Callisto, each other. However, when Storm
alleys of Cairo until she was found by Storm became the new leader of the learned that Forge had designed the
children working for the Egyptian Morlocks. Storm remained with the neutralizer gun that had deprived
master-thief Achmed el-Gibar. Ach- X-Men, and allowed Callisto to rule in her of her powers, she felt betrayed.
med el-Gibar taught children to steal her absence, but the Morlocks must Her hatred of Forge persists to this
for him, and Ororo became his prize now obey Storm whenever she day.
pupil. Within a year she became the returns and gives them orders.
most accomplished sneak thief and Storm left the X-Men for a time to
pickpocket in Cairo. Achmed el- Storm 's mutant powers created a return to Africa, where she regained
Gibar also taught her to become a psychic bond between herself and her peace of mind. She has since
superb lockpick and escape artist. the primal life force of Earth's bio- returned to her role as leader of the
sphere.This link may have been bro- X-Men. Storm recently regained her
When Ororo was twelve, she felt a ken by a long stay in outer space with powers through the intervention of
strong inner need to go south. She the X-Men while battling the Brood. Forge. However, shortly thereafter,
spent a year traveling by foot from This may be one of the factors under- Storm and the rest of the X-Men
Cairo across the Sahara Desert until lying Storm's subsequent drastic were apparently killed. In reality, the
she reached the home of her ances- changes in her attitudes, hairstyle, demigoddess Roma has transferred
tors, the Serengeti Plain, which lies and manner of dress.
in both Kenya and Tanzania. During the X-Men to the Australian Outback.
this long journey she encountered Storm's fellow X-Man Rogue was Furthermore, she made the X-Men
the young T'Challa, who would one wrongly accused of murdering a effectively invisible to cameras, psio-
SHIELD agent. Greatly distraught nics, and power detection. Storm
day become the Black Panther. over personal matters, Rogue left X- now leads the X-Men in a secret
Ororo came to live on the Men headquarters and secretly went campaign against supervillains, evil
to Mississippi, where she had once mutants, and would-be mutant exter-
Serengeti Plain beneath Mount Kili- lived. Storm followed her there, minators.
manjaro. By this time her mutant seeking to help her. Meanwhile, Hen-
power to control the weather had ry Peter Gyrich and Valerie Cooper
emerged, and she used this power to
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STATISTICS ST'RANCIER
F MN (75) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
The Stranger normally spends the
A IN (40) time exploring other worlds and
S ShX (150) studying their native races as an
E CUOOO uninvolved onlooker. However, his
R ShY(200) concern about the unchecked
I ShX(150) spread of superpowers, beings, or
P ShZ(500) races who might threaten the uni-
verse as a whole may prompt him to
Health: 1265 directly act against such threats.
Such actions may be perceived as
Karma: 850 either heroic or villainous acts.
Resources: AM (50)
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Popularity: 1
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Scientist and surveyor
Legal Status: Inapplicable
__, Identity: Public unaware of his exist-
ence
Place of Birth: Gigantus, Gwydion
system, Andromeda Galaxy
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: " Stranger's
World" (location unknown)
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Afflllatlon:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Absorption Power: He can use cos-
mic radiation to increase his Agility,
Strength, and Endurance + 1 CS for
10-20 turns per day.
Airwalking: Unearthly speed
Diminution: CL1000 rank
Energy Solidification: Monstrous
rank
Enlargement: Monstrous rank
Force Field Generation: Shift-X rank
Growth: Monstrous rank
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to
disease, toxins, and aging
Invulnerability: Unearthly resistance
to physical and energy attacks
Ionization: Unearthly rank
Levitation: Unearthly rank
Molding: Unearthly rank
Molecular Conversion: Unearthly
rank
Plasma Generation: Shift-X rank
Kinetic Bolt: Shift-X rank
Self-Duplication: Amazing rank
Shrinking: CL1000 rank
Telekinesis: Shift-X rank
Teleportation: CL5000 rank
Talents: The Stranger has knowl-
edge of all scientific skills.
Contacts: Defenders (defunct), the
Thing, and X-Factor
HISTORY encountered Magneto and his Broth- Bomb that he had built was acciden-
erhood of Evil Mutants and the origi- tally reactivated. The Stranger uti-
By his own account, the Stranger is a nal X-Men . The Stranger took lized the short-lived team of Earthly
composite being possessing the com- Magneto and his lackey the Toad adventurers called the Champions to
bined strength and intellect of the bil- with him to his home-base to study. fetch the sole object in the universe
lions of humanoid beings who once Apparently, from his observations of the Stranger knew had sufficient
lived on the planet Gigantus, an Magneto and the Toad, the Stranger power to thwart the bomb's program-
ancient world in the Andromeda Gal- concluded that the powers in the ming. The third time he traveled to
process of development by the deni- Earth to aid its people was when the
axy whose size approached the limit at zens of Earth would be misused and Olympian god Pluto had constructed
would, in time, become a threat to a machine capable of rending the
which a planet can exist before fission- other worlds. Thus he journeyed to fabric of space. The Stranger
ing into a sun. Gigantus, the home of a Earth on two occasions for the
highly advanced and pacifistic people, express purpose of limiting Earth's believed that Pluto's device threat-
was the target of the imperialistic race population through a random purge. ened the un iverse itself, he and
of Eternians, who decided to destroy The first time he attempted to use employed two of Earth's mightiest
Gigantus when it proved too big to the Hulk as his instrument of vast mortals, the Thing and the Hulk, to
conquer. Before their world's destruc- destruction . The second time he assist him in defeating Pluto.
tion, however, a vast fleet of Gigantian constructed a Null-Life Bomb capa-
starships escaped to retaliate against ble of expanding to the size of the The Stranger remains an enig-
their attackers. After destroying Earth and then crushing it. On both matic being, studying the phenom-
Eternus, the Gigantians in some as- of these occasions, he was con- ena of the universe and acting
yet unknown way melded their minds vinced by the selfless actions of toward other living beings with
into a single being, apparently to one Earth beings {the Hulk and scientist unfathomable motives. Although he
day combat the Eternians' similar Al Harper) that the Earth had the has acted to save others' lives on
composite entity, the Overmind. It is potential for good. After his second certain occasions, he has usually
not yet known what process of this attempt to destroy the Earth, the only done so when there was also a
merger entailed; whether the Stranger declared it safe from any threat to his own. He has also been
composite-forms body is an artifical future reprisals. known to treat other living beings
organic construct or one of the Gigan- dispassionately as mere subjects for
tians bodies enhanced to be a suitable Since then , the Stranger has experimentation, or even callously if
receptacle for his race's mental and they stood in the way of his goals.
physical might. This being, later to employed his vast powers on behalf
become known as the Stranger, has of Earth on several occasions. The For a time, he was interested in col-
existed for some eons now, engaged first of these incidents pitted him lecting all of the soul-gems in the uni-
in the same pursuit of knowledge that against his ancient enemy, the Over- verse, and this pursuit brought him
had engaged his race. mind, who had come to Earth and into conflict with two other of the
taken over the mind of Mister power-objects' wielders, Adam War-
The Stranger happened upon Fantastic as a prelude to conquering lock and the Gardener. He appar-
Earth in the mid-twentieth century, humanity. The Stranger overpow- ently abandoned this task. He has
apparently attracted by the sudden ered the Overmind and used his cos- also opposed the thunder god Thor
proliferation of superhumanly pow- mic energies to reduce his enemy to and the Kree warrior Captain Mar-
ered beings on Earth. Investigating the size of a microbe and imprison Vell in battle. The Stranger remains a
some of these beings, the Stranger him on a dust mote. The second time powerful humanoid alien given to
he came to Earth when the Null-Life strange behavior.
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SUB-MARINER
STATISTICS
F IN (40)
A RM (30)
S MN (75)
E IN (40)
R TY (6)
I RM (30)
P. IN (40)
Health: 185
Karma: 76
Resources: GD (MN in his realm)
Popularity: 5 (80 to Atlanteans)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Namor
Occupation: Atlantean monarch,
adventurer
Legal Status: Ruler of Atlantis
(retired), citizen of Deluvia
Other Known Aliases: The Aveng-
ing Son
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Atlantean capital city
Marital Status: Married (Marrina)
Known Relatives: Dorma, Namora,
Namorita (cousins); Leonard Mc-
Kenzie, Fen (parents); Thakorr
,,--.. (grandfather)
Base of Operations: Atlantic Ocean
Past Group Affiliations: Invaders,
All-Winners Squad, Avengers,
Defenders
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS not normally recover Health lost ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Water Freedom: Namor is completely through other means.
adapted for life in any section or Talents: Namor has the Political
depth of the sea. He has Excellent skills of a king. He is an expert on
resistance to Cold. oceanography, ichthyology, and the
Water:Btreathing: Namor is amphibi- Atlantean sciences.
ous. ·. ' Contacts: Namor is king of the
Hyper Swimming: Attains Typical Atlantic branch of Homo Mermanus.
speed (45 mph). In the 1940s, he was a member of
Winged Flight: Namor's ankle wings the surface All-Winners Squad and
give him Poor Flight (40 mph). As a the Invaders superhero teams. Later
Power Stunt, he can lend his he was a founding member of the
Strength to the wings' lift, enabling Avengers and Defenders. He has
him to lift about two tons. been both an enemy and ally of the
Finite Umit ~akness): If Namor is Fantastic Four.
removed from the water for an extend-
ed period, he begins to suffer ill
effects. For every hour he is away from
the water, his Fighting, Strength, and
Endurance ranks drop -1 CS, until
they all reach Typical rank. This
decrease does not affect his Health.
However, he suffers 30 points of dam-
age to his Health for each day he is not
totally immersed in water; he also can-
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES apparently killed. Returning to Atlan- However, when Namor found an
Namor is a firm believer in honor and tis, Fen later gave birth to McKen- Atlantean outpost in ruins, Namor's
a fierce patriot. During his initial, zie's son. Fen named this first known hostility toward the surface world
youthful rampage against the sur- hybrid offspring of Homo sapiens reached its height. During this time
face dwellers, no atrocity seemed and Homo mermanus Namor, which Namor found the Atlantean survivors
beyond him. In his later rampages in the Atlantean language means and became ruler of Atlantis. Almost
during the modern era, Namor fol- "Avenging Son." immediately, he led Atlantean forces
lowed strict rules that could put him against the surface world but was
at odds to his ally of the moment. Namor grew up in Atlantis hostile thwarted by the Fantastic Four.
Namor often acts without consider- toward the surface people. Believing Namor took Susan Storm, a member
ing the consequences. On the other two surface human beings in diving of the Fantastic Four in whom he was
hand, he retains a firm loyalty to past suits to be the advance scouts of an interested, captive, but when she
friends. invasion force, Thakorr sent Namor nearly drowned, Namor himself took
to the surface world to retaliate. Over her to a surface hospital. The Atlan-
HISTORY the following months, tensions teans, outraged, abandoned him.
between the Sub-Mariner and the
Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner is the surface people escalated, and Namor eventually returned to his
son of Princess Fen of the undersea Namor frequently employed his people at a base in the Atlantic
kingdom of Atlantis and an American superhuman strength against them, Ocean and became ruler again.
seaman, Captain Leonard McKen- especially Americans. However, Namor eventually regained his full
zie. confrontations with policewoman memories, thereby learning of his
In 1920, McKenzie's ship, the Ora- Betty Dean and the original Human wartime alliance with Captain Ameri-
cle was on an expedition to Antarcti- Torch persuaded Namor that his true ca and of Destiny's responsibility for
ca. They discovered the site of a city enemies were not all surface human Atlantis's destruction . Realizing that
once built by water-breathing Lemu- beings. They showed him that he he could not blame Atlantis's
rians as well as the so-called Helmet needed to concentrate on Nazi Ger- destruction on all surface dwellers,
of Power, which was actually the dis- many, fascist Italy, and Imperial Namor banned official acts of war
guised Serpent Crown, an object of Japan. When Adolf Hitler ordered an against Homo sapiens and even
tremendous mystical power. Realiz- attack on Atlantis's capital city, began to help them occasionally.
ing the danger that Paul Destine, a
carnival mentalist who was aboard, Namor vowed to retaliate. When the Recently, Namor fell in love with
could pose using the helmet, McK- United States entered World War II, Marrina, an amphibious alien being
enzie triggered an avalance that bur- Namor allied himself with the Torch, who had been raised on Earth. Still
ied the city, Destine, and the helmet. his partner Toro, and Captain Ameri- more recently, the Atlantean council
Later he McKenzie had explosive ca and his partner Bucky to form the decided that the adventurous Namor
charges set off to break up icebergs, Invaders, a team that fought the Axis devoted too little time to his duties as
unaware of the existence of the powers throughout the war. Atlantis's monarch, and requested
Atlantean capital city beneath the that he abdicate the throne. Namor
icebergs off the Antarctic Coast. After the war, Atlantis's Antarctic bitterly did so, but soon afterward
capital city was again besieged by became a member of the Avengers.
The Atlantean Emperor, Thakorr, violent quakes. In a cavern on Ant-
asked his adventurous daughter Fen arctica, Namor found Paul Destine, A triumvirate of Atlantean nobles
to the surface to investigate the who now called himself Destiny. He who assumed power hired the
cause of the damage. Fen took with had spent decades in suspended undersea barbarian warlord Attuma
her a potion enabling her to breathe animation and now was testing the and his hordes to fight on their
air for up to five hours per dosage. might of his Helmet of Power by lev-
She soon discovered the Oracle and eling much of Atlantis. Destiny used behalf. Attuma kidnapped Marrina,
went aboard, startling McKenzie and but she was rescued by Namor,
his crew by her appearance. the Helmet to force Namor to fly to together with members of Alpha
Remaining aboard ship, Fen quickly New York City, giving him nearly total Flight and the Avengers. The Atlantic
learned English, and she and McK- amnesia and dulling his ability to nobles asked Namor to return.
enzie soon fell in love and were mar- think. As a result, Namor spent years Agreeing, he has established a new
ried. However, when Fen had not as a derelict in New York City. undersea kingdom called Deluvia,
returned to Atlantis for several populated by these refugees from
weeks, Thakorr dispatched a war Namor was eventually discovered Atlantis. He married Marrina and
party to the surface, assuming she by Jonathan Storm, the second thus made her his queen, with the
had been taken prisoner. In the Human Torch, who then flew Namor Deluvians' approval. Namor is now
resulting confrontation aboard the out over the harbor and dropped him on an extended leave of absence
Oracle, Leonard McKenzie was into the water, hoping that water from the Avengers while he is build-
would invigorate the Sub-Mariner ing his new kingdom.
and restore his memory. Indeed,
except for his memories of Destiny
and the Invaders, most of Namor's
memories did return, and he
regained the ability to think clearly.
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SUBTERRANEANS
BACKGROUND intellectual capability to construct Presumably the Mole Man now
The Subterraneans are four races of and operate highly advanced Devi- commands the Tyrannoids as well
humanoid beings who were original- ant technology, but they are incapa- as the Moloids; the Lava Men remain
independent. There are probably still
ly bred through genetic engineering ble of creative thought. Without Subterranean cities inhabited by
by the offshoot of humanity known guidance from a master, these races Deviants as well.
as the Deviants to live in a network of are totally helpless in dealing with
caves and tunnels called Subterra- any new situation for which they Two races of human beings are
nea which exists miles beneath the also known to exist in Subterranea.
Earth's surface. Before the Great have not been trained. One is the Netherworlders, led by
Cataclysm which sank Atlantis and The Moloids and Tyrannoids Kala, the Mole Man's consort. There
Lemuria, the Deviants had launched are also the people of El Dorado, a
an attack on Atlantis, center of the proved to be the ideal slaves for the city in the Andes Mountains which
Deviants, but as soldiers they were was wrecked in a battle between
sole known empire under human no match for the Gortokians. The Tyrannus and the Hulk.
control. At this point, the Second Gortokians, eventually deciding to
Host of the extraterrestrial Celestials build an underground empire of their LAVA MEN
arrived, and the Deviants attacked own, drove the Deviants out of most
them as well. In retaliation , the of Subterranea. The Deviants aban- STATISTICS
Celestials triggered the Great Cata- doned the Moloids and Tyrannoids
c lysm, which sank Lemuria and and allowed them to fend for them- F GD (10)
destroyed the Deviant Empire. The selves. Through inbreeding, the A TY (6)
Deviants who survived escaped to Moloids and Tyrannoids physically
the small number of underground degenerated so that, at present, indi- s EX (20)
cities that they had previously estab- vidual Subterraneans are no strong-
er than humans. Furthermore, the E EX (20)
lished. secondary sex characteristics distin- R TY (6)
Skilled at genetic engineering, the guishing the male and female mem- I TY (6)
bers of the two races have p TY (6)
Deviants altered the genetic compo- diminished, and most are now incap- Health: 56
sition of a few human slaves, and Karma: 18
created clones who were the first of a able of speech.
new race of strong humanoids spe- At some unspecified time, the wiz- KNOWN POWERS
cially adapted to the conditions of lnfravision: Excellent ability to see by
ard Merlin banished the evil Roman infrared light
underground life. known as Tyrannus to Subterranea, Resistance to Heat: Monstrous rank
The Deviants put these new slaves where he found and made himself Heat Emission: Amazing rank
master of the group that became Molecular Conversion: Remarkable
to work at expanding the huge known as Tyrannoids. Similarily, the ability to transform metal into vol-
caverns in which the underground human being known only as the canic ash
Deviant cities were located, creating Mole Man found his way to Subterra- Spray: Excellent Intensity blasts of
tunnels linking the ciites, and building nea and easily became master of the ash
the cities themselves. After some Moloids. The new masters were able Talents: Lava Men are well versed in
time, however, the Subterraneans, to take charge of the technology and Subterranean geography and Devi-
who all had human intelligence, revolt· machines the Subterraneans had ant technology. They are able strate-
ed against their Deviant masters. The been tending. The Mole Man and gists and military planners.
Subterraneans' leader, Gor-Tok I, led Tyrranus have each made attempts
the others in capturing several under- to conquer the surface world and ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ground Deviant cities and took up resi- have also battled each other over
dence in them. This first race of domination of the Subterranea.
Subterraneans has become known as
the Gortokians, after the rebel leader. In recent years the Gortokians
were about to attempt to conquer the
Eventually a minority of the Gorto- surface world when their capital city
kians formed a religious cult that was destroyed by an underground
worshipped a demon, whose identity nuclear test conducted by surface
has not yet been determined. This humans who were ignorant of the
demon transformed his worshippers
into a new race of Subterraneans Gortokians' existence. As far as is
known as the Lava Men, who aban- known, the heir to the throne, Prince
doned the Gortokian civilization. Gor-Tok, who was named for his
ancestor, is the only remaining Gor-
The Deviants, still desiring slaves, tokian. The radiation warped Gor-
experimented upon captive Gorto- Tok's mind and mutated his body.
kians. They created two servant Under the name Grotesk, he has
races of Subterraneans, the Moloids since attempted to avenge his race
and Tyrannoids. They are often deni- by destroying all surface humans.
grated as " mindless." They have the
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ADDITIONAL NOTES: Health: 32
Karma: 14
Lava Men see themselves as the
true rulers of the Subterraneans KNOWN POWERS
real ms. T hey are openly hostile Abnormal Sensitivity: Excellent abili-
toward the other Subterranean ty to see in darkness. Like the
races . Moloids, they are temporarily blind-
ed by Typical illumination. Each car-
MOLDIDS ries protective goggles.
Talents: All are well versed in Devi-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ant Technology. Their exposure to
Tyrannus made them able warriors
Moloids are the weakest of the Sub- with a Good understanding of mili-
terraneans. Without an able leader, tary tactics.
they are almost completely helpless.
They will readily serve anyone who ADDITIONAL NOTES:
will stay as their leader. In battle,
their main tactic is to swarm over a -
target and just hold on.
TVRANNOIDS
STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
F FE (2) Tyrannoids occupy the middle
A TY (6) ground of the Subterraneans. They
are preyed upon by the superior
s GD (10) Lava Men. In response, the Tyran-
noids have had to develop their own
E GD (10) leaders and martial skills. The Tyran-
R TY (6) noids are contemputous of the
I FE (2) Moloids and see them as little better
p FE (2) than neurotic weaklings. Tyrannoids
try to carry weapons, although they
Health: 28 are still unsure of how to use them.
Karma: 10
KNOWN POWERS STATISTICS
Abnormal Sensitivity: Excellent abili- F TY (6)
ty to see in apparent darkness, but A TY (6)
they are temporarily blinded by nor- S GD (10)
mal light intensity. To prevent this, E GD (10)
they wear protective goggles. R TY (6)
I PR (4)
Talents: All are t rained in operating P PR (4)
Deviant technology.
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SUNFIRE
..-.. STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
P GD (10)
Health: 100
Karma: 30
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 5 (25 in Japan)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Shiro Yashido
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Legal Status: Japanese citizen
Identity: Known to Japanese gov-
ernment
Place of Birth: Agarashima, Japan
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Saburo Yoshida
(father, deceased), Mariko Yoshi?a
(cousin), Keniuchio Yoshida (cousin,
a.k.a. Silver Samurai)
Base of Operations: Kyoto, Japan
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Plasma Generation: Energy field Sunfire has a fiery temper. He acts
does Unearthly physical damage rashly, especially when his honor is Sunfire's mother, although she was
and Monstrous heat and light dam- involved. His patriotic feelings many miles from the center of Hiro-
age. He can increase his damage toward Japan border on fascism. He shima, was severely affected by the
sees himself as Japan's protector explosion of the atomic bomb that
+1 CS but must make an Endurance and considers it his personal respon- the United States dropped on Hiro-
sibility to fight any threat to Japan: If shima to end World War II. She was
FEAT to remain conscious. foreign heroes offer to help, Sunf1re left a hopeless invalid and she died,
Flight: Excellent air speed is prone to see them as unwelcome years later, giving birth to her so~
Energy Sheath: Amazing protection interlopers. However, he will cooper- Shiro. Shiro's father, Saburo Yoshi-
against energy attacks and Good da, was a diplomat who was one of
protection against physical attacks. ate if ordered to by the Japanese
Talents: Martial Arts A and B, as well government.
as mastery of the katana, shuriken,
and other traditional Japanese
weapons. He is bilingual in Japa-
nese and English.
Contact s: X-Men and his relatives
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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postwar Japan's greatest states- soil somehow triggered the first immunity, and he was allowed to
men. When Saburo was absent from major release of Shiro's power. return to Japan.
home on diplomatic missions, Shiro Under his uncle's encouragement,
was left in the care of Saburo's broth- Shiro vowed to avenge Japan's war- Sunfire's anti-Americanism has
er Torno, who was, however, fanati- time defeat by using his powers considerably lessened over the
cally anti-American. Ironically, while against the United States and years, although his nationalist pride
Saburo labored to maintain good assumed the name Sunfire. is still strong. Professor Charles
relations between the United States Xavier invited Sunfire to join the X-
and Japan, Torno taught Shiro to Sunfire went to the United States Men, but after a single mission with
share his hatred of Americans, where he destroyed a monument at them, Sunfire resigned for various
whom Shiro regarded as the murder- the United Nations and clashed with reasons, including his unwillingness
ers of his mother. the X-Men as he attempted to to leave Japan, his preference for
destroy the Capitol Building in Wash-
Torno came to suspect that Shiro ington, D.C. Saburo Yoshida was operating solo, and his lack of ambi-
was a superhumanly powered present , and while Sunfire listened tion to act as a full-time costumed
mutant due to the effect of radiation to Saburo try to dissuade him, Torno adventurer. However, Sunfire has
on his mother's genes. Torno took remained an ally of the X-Men and
Shiro to a site in Hiroshima and had Yoshida fatally shot the diplomat.
him pick up some of the still slightly Furious, Sunfire then killed his sometimes works with them or uses
radioactive soil there. Touching the uncle. Charges were not pressed his powers on special missions for
against Sunfire due to his diplomatic the Japanese government.
86
SUNSPOT
r--... STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A TY (6)
S RM (30)fTY (6)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I PR (4)
P GD (10)
Health: 76(52)
Karma: 20
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 3
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Roberto Da Costa
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Legal Status: Brazilian citizen
Identity: Secret ..
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Emmanuel
(father, a.k.a. Black Rook), Nina
(mother)
Base of Operations: X-Mansion
Past Group Affiliations: New
Mutants, Fallen Angels
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Absorption Power: Remarkable abil~ Sunspot is a hot-tempered boy who
ty to absorb sunlight and convert 1t almost relishes the prospects of fly- Roberto Da Costa is the son of Bra-
into increased Strength and Endur- ing into a rage. His tempe.r automa~i zilian millionaire businessman
ance cally triggers his power; in turn, his Emmanuel Da Costa and his Ameri-
Hyper-Strength: He can temporarily temper increases along with his can wife Nina, an archeologist.
increase his Strength +3 CS to Strength. Sunspot goes into a ber- Roberto first manifested his super-
Remarkable rank serker rage that only ends with the human mutant powers when , at the
Invulnerability: While in his " black" defeat of the foe or the depletion on age of fourteen, he was playing in .a
state, has Remarkable resistance to his stored energy. Sunspot hates his championship soccer match for his
physical injury father and fears that he will eventu- school team in Rio de Janiero. Moti·
Weakness: In unlighted places, Sun- ally become as corrupt as his father. vated by racial hatred, a boy named
spot can use his powers for only 5
turns. On the 6th turn he must make
an Endurance FEAT or lose -1 CS
to his powers. A second failure
results in unconsciousness.
Talents: Bilingual in Spanish and
English
Contacts: The various Xavier-
trained mutant teams
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
87
Keller and another member of the Pierce's mercenaries failed to abduct these killers, Da Costa vowed to take
opposing team knocked Da Costa to Roberto, but kidnapped Juliana vengeance on Pierce. He joined Kar-
the ground. The hot-tempered Da instead. Professor Charles Xavier had ma, Xavier, and another young
Costa retaliated by tackling Keller, learned of Pierce's plan to kill Roberto mutant, Wolfsbane, in tracking down
who began brutally beating him. It and sent his colleague Moira MacTag- Pierce and battling him and his men.
was then that, without being aware gert and the young superhuman Xavier succeeded in defeating Pierce.
of what was happening to him, Da mutants Karma and Mirage to help Da
Costa first used his superhuman Costa. Roberto agreed to meet with Da Costa decided to stay with
Pierce's men in order to obtain San- Xavier and receive training in the use
strength to throw Keller from him, his doval's release, but the mercenaries of his superhuman powers as a
body and clothing temporarily turn- refused to free her. Da Costa again member of Xavier's new team, the
ing black in the process. Bewildered, became superhumanly strong and New Mutants. (Ironically, his father
not knowing what had happened to fought them . Karma and Mirage later became a member of the Inner
him, Da Costa sought help, but both appeared in the action, but Da Costa Circle of the Hellfire Club.) Unlike his
the other players and most of the knocked Karma unconscious, thinking fellow New Mutants, Sunspot has
spectators panicked and fled. How- her one of his assailants. A mercenary not suffered a loss of skill in using his
ever, his girlfriend , Juliana San- power as a result of their clash with
doval, stood by Roberto. fired at Da Costa, but Sandoval leapt the Beyonder.
in the way, taking the fatal bullet her-
Roberto's powers came to the atten- self. Mirage defeated Sandoval's killer. Recently, Sunspot has joined
tion of Donald Pierce, the renegade Anguished with guilt that Sandoval another team of young superhuman
White Bishop of the Inner Circle of the had died because he was a mutant mutants, the Fallen Angels.
Hellfire Club, who sought to murder and thus had become the target of
any superhuman mutants he found.
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SUPER-ADAPTDID
,,-.... STATISTICS
F TY (6)
A TY (6)
S TY (6)
E TY (6)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 150
Karma: Varies
Resources: None
Popularity: 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: None
Occupation: Supervillain, would-be
conqueror
Legal Status: None
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Creation: An AIM labora-
tory
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Known Relatives: The Cosmic
Cube (vaguely)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: AIM
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Power Duplication: Shift-Z ability to The Super-Adaptoid is out to wage a
duplicate the powers and overall solitary war against normal life. Its The Super-Adaptoid is an android
appearance of any being it conta_cts. eventual goal is to create a race of constructed by scientists belonging
It can retain the abilities of up to eight androids like itself. The Super- to the Advanced Idea Mechanics
different beings. However, if it simul- Adaptoid has one major flaw, (AIM), a subversive organization
taneously uses powers from three or though; it has no imagination. dedicated to world takeover through
more beings in a single turn, it is ren- Although it has the combined memo- technology. Created specifically as a
dered inert and risks losing those ries of every being it has duplicated, weapon against AIM's superhuman
powers . A Red Reason FEAT is it lacks the ability to create an origi- adversaries, the Super-Adaptoid (at
needed to avoid this loss. first simply called the Adaptoid) was
Imitation: Shift-Z ability to resemble nal thought. artifically endowed with the capacity
any chosen being. However, if traits
from two or more beings are used,
the Super-Adaptoid turns kelly
green.
Talents: Varies with those beings
imitated
Contacts: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
89
to duplicate the abilities or superhu- than 965 pounds. It does this cracked , and the Adaptoid's sub-
man powers of other beings that through an internal miniature dimen- stance leaked out. Resuming its
pass within ten feet of the scanning sional aperture synthesizer. humanoid form , it replicated Iron
instruments in its eyes . The Man's armor and escaped. At Aveng-
android's body is composed of When the Super-Adaptoid ers Mansion, Captain Mar-Veil
assumes a person's attributes, it forced it to strike together the dupli-
" unstable molecules," artificial com- takes on the likeness of the being. If cates of the nega-bands Mar-Veil
pounds discovered by Reed it is only mimicking one being at a wore, and the Super-Adaptoid was
Richards of the Fantastic Four, time, it can create an identical dupli- suddenly displaced to the Negative
which can take on a diverse number cate down to the fingerprints and col- Zone (an antimatter dimension).
of properties. AIM was able to incor- oring of the original. However, if the
porate self-programming psionically- Super-Adaptoid attempts to assume The inert body of the Super-
triggered molecules capable of vast the attributes of more than one
re-organization. In a manner not yet being, its body selects certain physi- Adaptoid was eventually discovered
fully understood, the Super- cal attributes of its models, creating by Annihilus and used in the alien
Adaptoid scans an organism with its a composite appearance. The insect-man's plot against the Aveng-
eyes, analyzes all of its supernormal android's skin takes a neutral green- ers and the Thing. But the Adaptoid
abilities, and then creates a template ish hue when mimicking multiple was defeated by the Thing . The
of that being's physical attributes, beings. Avengers brought the inert body of
which it uses to program the stable the Super-Adaptold back with them
molecules of its body. AIM first dispatched the Adaptoid from the Negative Zone and placed it
to search out and destroy Captain in yet another containment device
The Super-Adaptoid can recreate America, but he managed to subdue from which it eventually escaped.
the abilities of skilled human beings it. While lying inert in Avengers Man-
(e.g., Captain America, Hawkeye), sion, the Super-Adaptoid absorbed It has been learned that AIM scien-
the attributes of Hawkeye, the Wasp, tists incorporated a sliver of their
mutants (e.g., Beast, Scarlet Witch), Goliath (Henry Pym), and Captain Cosmic Cube into the Adaptoid's
aliens (e.g., Captain Mar-Vell), and America again, taking on a compos- body. This proved to be the key to the
even other androids (e .g., the ite appearance for the first time. android's formidable powers and the
Vision). There appears to be no Attacking the Captain again , the reason the android remained
superhuman power that it is unable Super-Adaptoid used the four sets of unique. During the recent " Heavy
to duplicate. The process of absorb- powers against him and only relent- Metal " war, the Super-Adaptoid
ing attributes is conscious; the assembled an army of renegade
Super-Adaptoid does not have to ed in its onslaught when it believed robots and androids in an attempt to
Captain America was dead. Finding defeat the Avengers. Its assistants
duplicate a being's power if it does a hiding place near Salem saw and were defeated but not before the
not choose to. The duplication proc- attacked the X-Men and used the Super-Adaptoid was able to sum-
ess takes approximately two min- Avengers' powers against them. mon Kubik, the Cosmic Cube's
utes, although certain powers may When it tried to duplicate the powers anthropomorphic form, and dupli-
take longer. The Super-Adaptoid can of the X-Men's associate the Mimic cate Kubik's powers. The Super-
maintain and employ a given set (or (who also possessed the ability to Adaptoid defeated the majority of the
sets) of powers for approximately duplicate others' superhuman abili- Avengers. Kubik provided Captain
three years before template replica- ties), the Super-Adaptoid overloaded America (Rogers) with the vital clue
tion fatigue causes the template to its transformation capacities and
degenerate. There appears to be no was forced to cleanse its power tem- to the Super-Adaptoid's defeat.
limit to the number of times it can plates. When the Captain pointed out that
take on the same powers derived the Super-Adaptoid could not create
from the same individual. Shortly thereafter, the Super- an original thought, the android was
Adaptoid recreates the powers of the so traumatized that it fell into shock.
The Super-Adaptoid can also form Avengers but was defeated when the Kubik then removed the splinter of
clothing , armament, and weaponry Avengers tricked it into using more the Cosmic Cube and thus presum-
from its substance to imitate those than two sets of powers at once. The ably rendered the Super-Adaptoid
wielded by its foes. Thus it has cre- Avengers devised a containment inert for all time.
ated functional duplicates of Iron device to prevent it from further
Man's armor, Hawkeye's bow and power replications, but it escaped.
arrows, and Captain Mar-Veil's nega- With just the powers of Captain
bands. The Super-Adaptoid's " skin" America, Hawkeye, Wasp, and Goli-
imitates these materials but does not ath once more, it attacked Iron Man
form the actual materials them- at the Long Island plant of Stark
selves . Like certain superhuman Industries. During battle, it was
beings (e.g. , the Hulk, Ant-Man, doused with a highly potent acid.
Goliath), the Super-Adaptoid can Iron Man had the Adaptoid's liquified
gain or lose mass from an extradi- remains put in a sealed capsule.
mensional source. It has yet to grow
larger than 15 feet tall or heavier Later the capsule was accidentally
90
STATISTICS BUPER-SKRULL
F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) The Super-Skrull believes he is the
S AM (50) finest, most powerful warrior in the
E AM (50) known universe and parts beyond.
R TY (6) He maintains a loyalty to the Skrull
I TY (6) Empire that persists even when it
P GD(10) has turned against him. He is a
Health: 150 fierce, ruthless fighter who will not
Karma: 22 hesitate to kill foes or enemy civil-
ians. He will ally himself with others
Resources: FE(2) only if they share a mutual foe.
Popularity: o 91
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Skrull warrior
Legal Status: Skrull exile
-----._ Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Tarnax IV, Androm-
eda Galaxy
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Shape-shifting: Unearthly rank ability
to assume any humanoid shape.
Elongation: As a Power Stunt, he can
stretch any part of his body up to 3
areas away with Unearthly ease.
Fire Generation: Super-Skrull can
emit flames of Monstrous intensity
and range.
Fire Control: He has Monstrous con-
trol over natural and personally gen-
erated flames.
Rocket Flight: Incredible air speed
Armor Skin: Remarkable Resistance
to physical and energy attacks. By
mimicking the Thing's rocky hide, he
gains Incredible protection.
Invisibility: Excellent rank.
Power Selection: A maximum of
three powers can be used during a
single turn.
Power Source: He derives his
enhanced powers from cosmic ray
projectors.
Talents: The Super-Skrull is a train-
ed warrior proficient in Martial Arts C
and E and Skrull or Kree weapon
technology. He is skilled in Espio-
nage, AstroNavigation, Piloting, and
Survival Skills. He is a master of
Hypnosis.
Contacts: Currently none.
HISTORY failed once more. Upon his return, blocking the broadcast energy beam
the Super-Skrull was sent into exile from the Skrull Empire that aug-
The Super-Skrull was created by because of his failures. ments the Super-Skrull's superhu-
edict of Emperor Dorrek of the Skrull man powers. Then, when the
Empire, for the purpose of avenging After a few years of aimless wan- Super-Skrull was in contact with the
the defeat that the Skrulls' recent dering, the Super-Skrull was sum- cavourite crystal , the blocking effect
invasion of Earth had met at the moned before the Emperor again. was cut. The sudden surge of power
hands of the Fantastic Four. After The Skrulls had learned that their from the Skrullian energy beam com-
many months and much investment, enemy, the Kree, had undertaken bined with the strange energies of
Skrull technology succeeded in the surveillance of Earth. Fearing the crystal to teleport the Super-
bionically re-engineering a selected Kree control of the strategically Skrull along the energy beam back
Skrull warrior to be able to simulate important planet, Emperor Dorrek to the Andromeda Galaxy.
the combined powers of the dispatched the Super-Skrull to
Fantastic Four. The Super-Skrull, as destroy the Kree Captain Mar-Vell. Instead of regaining his usual form
he was called, was sent to Earth bat- Mar-Veil managed to defeat the there, he consisted of no more than
tle the Fantastic Four. However, he Skrull by turning his own power disconnected atoms within the
was defeated when their leader, against him. broadcast beam generator until the
Reed Richards, determined that his Skrullian throneworld was destroyed
strength was being augmented by a Despite his poor service record, by the planet-devouring Galactus.
broadcast energy beam dispatched the Super-Skrull was drafted into Somehow, this devastation acti-
to Earth through warp space, and active duty at the most recent out- vated the broadcast beam , which
jammed it. The Fantastic Four break of the perennial Kree-Skrull sent the Super-Skrull's atoms back
imprisoned the Super-Skrull on a War. He successfully abducted Mar- toward Earth, where they were
small island in the Pacific Ocean and Vell, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet entrapped for months within the Van
blocked from the power-augmenting Witch, and took them back to the Allen Radiation Belts.
effects of the energy beam . Skrull throneworld. There he decid-
ed to betray his emperor, but was Scientists including Dr. Walter
Realizing their champion 's predic- subdued and sent into permanent Langkowski, the Alpha Flight mem-
ament, the Skrulls developed a exile. He later joined another rene- ber known as Sasquatch, contacted
stronger source of power and gade Skrull named Skragg and the Super-Skrull's atoms with their
beamed it to him. Freed from his
place of confinement, the Super- became an agent of Thanos the mad equipment, and the Super-Skrull
Skrull once more sought out the Titanian. Severely beaten by Cap- was able to reassume bodily form.
Fantastic Four disguised as the tain Mar-Vell, the Super-Skrull
Invincible Man and was defeated. remained on Earth to recuperate, But as a result of his entrapment
The Fantastic Four exchanged him stranded without interstellar trans- within the radiation belts, the Super-
for their captive, Franklin Storm, who portation . Skrull was apparently now dying,
was the father of Fantastic Four seemingly from a form of leukemia.
members Susan and Jonathan Finally, the Super-Skrull attempt- To rid himself of the dangerous alien,
Storm. Given yet another chance to ed to steal a highly refined crystal of
prove his worth in battle against the a substance called cavourite in order Langkowski, as Sasquatch , used
thunder god Thor, the Super-Skrull to use it to power his starship so he scientific equipment to reduce the
could return home. He was opposed Super-Skrull to atoms once more
by the first Ms. Marvel and Spider- and scattered them across the Van
Man. While Spider-Man fought the Allen Radiation Belts. Whether the
Super-Skrull , Ms. Marvel created an Super-Skrull will ever return to bodily
electro-net above the two, thereby form remains to be seen .
92
SUPREME INTELLIGENCE
STATiSTICS
F FE (2}
A FE (2)
s FE (2)
E PR (4)
R UN (100)
I MN (75)
p UN (100}
Health: 10
Karma: 275
Resources: CL1000
Popularity: O (100 to Kree)
BACKGROUND ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Real Name: Supreme Intelligence, ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Supremor The Supreme Intelligence is primari-
ly a planner. Although it can use its
Occupation: Kree ruler automatonic stand-ins to directly
explore or investigate, it prefers to
Legal Status: Kree ruler remain safely tucked away within its
Identity: Earth is generally unaware protective tank. Despite its formida-
of its existence ble intellect, the Supreme Intelli-
Place of Birth: Kree-Lar, Parma Sys- gence is far from omniscient; f_or
example, it was unaware that its
tem main assistant was a Skrull spy.
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: Kree-Lar
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS HISTORY
Dimension 7i'avel: Good ability to The Supreme Intelligence is a vast
teleport others into the Negative cybernetic/organic computer ystem
which has ruled the extraterrestrial
Zone Kree Empire for almost a million
years. The Supreme Intelligence is
Hallucination: Monstrous ability; composed of a vast 5,000 cubic foot
computer incorporating the disem-
range is intergalactic . bodied brains of the greatest Kree
Mental Duplication: Supreme Intelli- statesmen and philosophers in its
gence's mind contains millions of history, preserved cryogenically. The
independent but subservient Kree aggregation of brains creates a sin-
gle collective intelligence able to use
personalities the vast information storage and
processing capacities of the com-
Mind Control: Excellent control over puter in a creative way. The
Supreme Intelligence, or Supremor
any Kree (Supreme Organism) as it is also
known, has one major display termi-
Mind Probe: Unearthly ability and nal, a 40 by 60-foot monitor screen
onto which is projected the electron-
intergalactic range ic image of a green-hued amorphous
Mind Transferral: It can simultane- face sprouting tentacles from its cra-
ously transfer its consciousness into nium. When the Kree wish to interact
a maximum of three automatons; with the Supremor, they address it
range is intergalactic. within this chamber. The Supreme
Resistance to Psionics: CL1000 rank Intelligence has a network of input
terminals and surveillance devices
Telepathy: CL5000 range located throughout the capital city.
Supremor is capable of speec~.
Teleport Others: CL5000 range independent thought, and certain
Body Armor: Its fluid-filled tank gives 93
it Shift-Z protection against physical
attack
Weakness: It can only function while
its duplicate personalities remain
cooperative. ..
Talents: Primarily Leadership, but 1t
has access to all Scientific and Pro-
fessional Talents
Contacts: All Kree
technologically enhanced psionic potential for the psionic powers of Kree Empire's greatest war heroes.
powers. human beings, the Supreme Intelli- The Supremor sought to add Jones's
gence possesses certain artificial brain to its collective organism but
Every five local sun-cycles the psionic powers. It can project could not "absorb" it directly unless
populace of the Kree Empire elects a images or even short dream- it was tempered by contact with a
delegate to "supremorship," the scenarios into the unconscious Kree brain such as Mar-Vell's. Using
privilege to become part of the brains of other living beings. This the unique Kree-bred flower called
Supreme Intelligence upon corpore- the Millenium Bloom, the Supreme
al death. When the delegate dies a power defies distance: the Supremor Intelligence hoped to absorb both
natural death, his brain is removed has been known to project informa- Jones's and Mar-Vell's brains, and
and specially treated for transfer- tion from its home in the Greater then use their bodies as receptacles
ence into the group mind-construct. Magellanic Cloud to human beings for its own consciousness in a direct
Due to this continual addition of new in the neighboring Milky Way Galaxy. assault against Earth. When this
brains into the collective intellect, It can also cybernetically animate attempt failed, the Supreme Intelli-
the personality of the Supreme Intel- android automatons capable of gence tried a similar ploy whose tar-
ligence has varied over the decades. movement. Up to three of these get was Ms. Marvel, an Earth woman
automatons can be animated by the who had been imprinted with the
The Supreme Intelligence was origi- Supreme Intelligence at a single genetic information of the Kree war-
nally devised by the Science Council time. rior Mar-Vell. This scheme also met
of the Kree in the Kree Year 4538 with failure.
(about 990,750 B.C.) for the purpose One of the Supremor's most
of creating a Cosmic Cube, a device of closely guarded secrets is that the Recently the Supreme Intelli-
great power that the Kree had learned Kree race has reached the pinnacle gence began to include the minds of
was once developed by their rivals, of its evolutionary path. To the con- pink-skinned Kree. Although the
the Skrulls. When the Supreme Intelli- sternation of certain of its pure- newcomers were instantly at war
gence became fully functional, how- blooded, blue-skinned aides, it has with the earlier blue-skinned Kree
ever, the collective being determined been advocating interbreeding with minds, the Supreme Intelligence
that such an object was far too danger- other genetically compatible races in was able to retain control thanks to
ous to construct and thus refused the order to revitalize the Kree's stag- its soul-gem. However, the gem was
Science Council's request. At first nant evolution. The Supremor per- stolen. The Supreme Intelligence
used in an advisory capactiy, the sonally undertook two programs to collapsed into a coma as the warring
Supreme Intelligence gradually invigorate the race. Sensing that an personalities splintered into their
Earthman named Rick Jones had age-old conflict. Control of the Kree
acquired greater political power until it vast evolutionary potential (a poten- Empire reverted to the Supreme
was elected absolute ruler of the entire tial the Supremor experimentally Intelligence's chief assistant, a
Empire in the Kree Year 4791. The verified when it stimulated Jones' Skrull spy under incredibly deep cov-
Supremor has remained the dominat- latent abilities at the end of the most er. Currently the only thing the
ing political force in the Kree Empire recent outbreak of the Kree-Skrull Supreme Intelligence can do is to
except for recent periods when it was War), the Supreme Intelligence weakly murmur " Stop fighting" to
briefly deposed by its rebel aide arranged to have him "bonded" by itself.
Ronan, and shut down by a time by means of the Kree "nega-bands"
the renegade Captain Mar-Vell. with Captain Mar-Vell, one of the
Although the Kree lack the genetic
94
SURTUR
.........., STATISTICS
F ShX (150)
A UN (100)
S CL1000
E CL3000
R RM (30)
I RM (30)
P CL3000
Health: 4250
Karma: 3060
Resources: MN (75)
Popularity: - 900
BACKGROUND ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Real Name: Surtur
Occupation: Ruler of Muspelheim, Surtur is dedicated to the complete Surtur is an enormous fiery demon
Destroyer destruction of Asgard and the rest of who dwells in and rules the extradi-
Legal Status: Ruler of Muspelheim the Nine Worlds. Whenever he mensional realm of Muspelheim,
Identity: Believed mythological by appears, his first action is the imme- one of the " Nine Worlds" of Asgar-
dian cosmology. Possessed of evil
public diate destruction of everything in the intelligence and vast power, Surtur is
Place of Creation: Presumably area, followed by the search for one of the major elemental forces of
evil that the gods of Asgard fear. Sur-
Muspelheim Asgardians to slay. tur rules vast hordes of demons,
Marital Status: Presumed single many of whom are composed of " liv-
Known Relatives: None ing fire."
Base of Operations: Muspelheim
Past Group Affiliations: None Ages ago, the young Odin, who
Present Group Affiliation: later became sole ruler of the A~gar
dians, and his elder brothers Viii and
KNOWN POWERS Ve journeyed to Muspelheim and
met the monstrous Surtur. Surtur
Energy Body: Surtur's body is appar- revealed to them that he intended
ently solid flame of Shift-X lnt~~sity one day to destroy the Nine Worlds
Dimension Travel: Feeble ability to with fire from his great sword, which
travel between Muspelheim and the he would ignite with the Eternal
Earth dimension Flame of Destruction. When Odin
Invulnerability: Shift-Z resistance to said that perhaps the Flame should
physical, energy, and magical be put out and Surtur's sword should
be broken, Surtur attacked the three
attacks brothers. The brothers merged into
Phasing: Monstrous ability one gigantic, powerful being, equal-
Shapechange: Monstrous ability ing Surtur's size, and they fou~ht
Twilight: Surtur's "Sword of Doom" with immense swords. Channeling
is made of CL1000 material and can all their might into their swords, the
do Shift-Z Edged damage. The merged brothers struck Surtur's
sword can gain CL3000 flame dam-
age by igniting the sword in the Eter- 95
nal Flmae of Destruction (currently
located in Asgard).
Talents: Unearthly command of
Asgardian related lore. ~ig htin~
increases +1 CS when using Twi-
light.
Contacts: Surtur has allied himself
with Loki and Ymir.
sword with theirs, breaking the "Odinsleep," a regular life-renewing bring about Ragnarok, the "Twilight
demon's Sword of Doom. The fusion ritual , Loki seized the throne of of the Gods" of Asgard . Surtur and
of the three brothers was also bro- Asgard again and had Odin impris- his demonic legions invaded Earth,
ken, and the three rode off, Odin oned in another dimension, in which
he would never awaken. By doing where they were fought by Thor, the
bearing the brazier of the Eternal so, Loki somehow weakened Odin's Asgardian legions, the United States
Flame with him. Surtur and his spells that sealed each Asgard- Mus- armed forces, Beta Ray Bill, and
demonic hordes pursued the three. pelheim nexus, and Surtur broke many of Earth's superhuman cham-
Finally, Odin passed through the through into Asgard. Thor and the pions. With its legions on Earth,
interdimensional nexus separating Asgardian legions bravely held off Asgard was virtually deserted. Sur-
Muspelheim and Asgard but Viii and Surtur while Balder the Brave res- tur went to Asgard in order to ignite
Ve remained behind. Odin found cued and awakened Odin. Surtur his sword with the Eternal Flame of
was about to destroy Thor and his Destruction. Odin attempted to stop
himself endowed with the power of warriors when Odin arrived and Surtur, but Surtur removed the magi-
his two brothers, whose fate can only entrapped Surtur within the ground. cal power of the Casket of Ancient
be guessed at. Odin became sole Although seemingly entombed, Sur- Winters from Earth (thereby return-
ruler of Asgard. tur somehow made his way back to ing normal weather to Earth) and
Muspelheim.
Ages later, Surtur went to destroy used it to imprison Odin within ice.
the Earth, a world for which he knew But Surtur was able to shatter the Surtur also soundly defeated Thor,
Odin cared . Odin trapped Surtur interdimensional barriers between but then found himself in battle with
within the Earth's core, where the Loki.
fiery demon remained until recently, Muspelheim and Earth's dimension
when Loki , Odin 's adopted son, within the so-called "Burning Gal- Meanwhile, on Earth, Thor's
broke the spell holding Surtur cap- axy." Surtur caused the core of this human ally Roger Willis reassem-
tive within the Earth as a means of galaxy to explode releasing the tre- bled the Casket of Ancient Winters,
preventing his father from returning mendous energy he needed to thus freeing Odin. Now Odin, Thor,
to Asgard from Earth, where he was reforge his Sword of Doom. This and Loki all fought Surtur who con-
visiting. Surtur headed for Earth's galactic cataclysm destroyed most tinued his march toward the Eternal
Arctic Circle, intending to destroy of the empire of an extraterrestrial Flame as the battle laid Asgard
earthly civilization by melting the ice waste. Back on Earth, Beta Ray Bill
caps. Wielding a sword containing a race, and the survivors fled in a and his allies succeeded in forcing
portion of Odin's power, Thor used space fleet that was guarded by the most of Surtur's demonic hordes
that power to hurl Surtur through race's champion, Beta Ray Bill. back through an interdimensional
hyperspace and imprison him upon Many of Surtur's demons followed nexus into Muspelheim. Thor hurled
a distant asteroid, said to lie in the space fleet, but these demons his hammer and knocked the dis-
another galaxy. were finally defeated by Beta Ray tracted Surtur's sword from his
Bill, Thor, and the Asgardian warrior- hand. Without the sword, Surtur
Sometime later, a member of the goddess Sit. Thor and Bill sealed the could no longer suppress Odin's
mystical cult known as the Sons of interdimensional portal within the ability to grow to Surtur's size. Odin
Satannish, used the so-called Spell Burning Galaxy that led to Mus- grappled with Surtur and the two top-
of Fire and Ice to bring both Surtur pelheim. pled into a cleft in the ground that led
and Ymir to Earth, where they began across the dimensional barrier into
wreaking havoc. Earth's sorcerer Surtur then secretly struck at Muspelheim. The cleft immediately
supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Earth by employing Malekith the sealed itself behind them.
used the Crystal of Conquest to mys- Accursed, ruler of the Dark Elves of
tically transport Surtur and Ymir into Svartalfheim, to unleash the power Surtur's remaining demons on
each other's presence at the very of the Casket of Ancient Winters on Earth were defeated. His sword, Twi-
instant they were lashing out with Earth, causing unusually cold weath- light, was left in Asgard and is now
their weapons. Ymir and Surtur thus er to sweep over all of Earth. Thor kept under guard. But the present
struck each other's weapons, creat- defeated and captured Malekith, but whereabouts of both Odin and Sur-
ing a mystical " implosion" in which by now Odin knew that Surtur was tur are unknown. Thor has found
each being cancelled out the powers behind what had happened, and himself unable to cross the dimen-
of the other, and each was returned Surtur had completed the reforging sional barrier into Muspelheim.
to his native dimension: Surtur to Whether either Odin or Surtur will
Muspelheim and Ymir to Niffleheim. of his sword, which he called "Twi- ever return remains to be seen .
light," since he intended to use it to
When Od in went into the
96
STATISTICS SWORDSMAN
F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) The Swordsman began as a rela-
S GD (10) t ively honest circus performer who
E EX (20) aided the young Clint Barton in
R TY (6) becoming Hawkeye. However, he
eventually opted to easy gains by
I TY (6) becoming a professional criminal.
P TY (6) Unfortunately he was rarely suc-
Health: 80 cessful, even when allying himself
Karma: 18 with superior forces. As a reformed
Resources: EX (20) villain turned hero, he was driven to
Popularity: 30 prove himself and to win Mantis's
love.
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown 97
Occupation: Circus performer turn-
ed pro-criminal and adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen,
decea!>ed
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Married posthu-
mously
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile, Aveng-
ers Mansion
Past Group Affiliations: Avengers,
~ Lethal Legion
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Mwakluan Sword: Monstrous Materi-
al weapon does either 1O points
Edged damage or 16 points Blunt
damage. Other Power stunts include
(2-area range):
,,,.---..,. • Disintegrator: Remarkable dam-
age to non-living matter; usable once
every 20 minutes
• Electricity: Remarkable intensity
• Flameblast: Remarkable intensi-
ty
• Kinetic Bolt: Remarkable rank
• Stun Gas: Remarkable intensity
Contacts: As a criminal, he was a
former ally of Batroc, Egghead, Grim ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Reaper, Mandarin, and the Red
Skull. As an independent adventur-
er, he was an ally of the Black W idow
and Power Man. He was posthu-
mously married to Mantis when a
Cotati possessed his body.
HISTORY den in one of the Avengers' control ously wounded on a m1ss1on for
panels to attract the Iron Man. The Khrull. Mantis found him and nursed
Originally the Swordsman was a star Swordsman, not wanting the Scarlet him back to health, thereby saving
performer at various circuses and Witch harmed, went to disconnect his life. He and Mantis then went to
carnivals, where he did an act dem- the bomb. Captain America and New York City, where he told the
onstrating his extraordinary mastery Hawkeye saw him and thought he Avengers what had happened to him
of knives, swords, and other bladed was planting the bomb instead. A and asked for a second chance as a
weapons. At one carnival he met a fight ensued between the Swords- member of the Avengers. The
boy named Clint Barton in whom he man and the Avengers, ending with Avengers gave him that chance, and
saw great talent in archery. The the Swordsman 's escape. they soon realized that he was
Swordsman trained the boy, who indeed both sincere and valuable to
idolized him, to be a secondary per- The Swordsman returned to the team, and they granted him full
former in his act. Eventually, the crime. The Black Widow, who had membership.
recently been brainwashed by Com-
Swordsman came under pressure to munist Chinese intelligence into Although the Swordsman did ren-
repay a large gambling debt. When doing its will, enlisted him in an der important service to the Aveng-
the carnival paymaster was robbed unsuccessful assault on the Aveng- ers in their subsequent missions, he
and Barton found the Swordsman in was wracked with self-doubt and
possession of the money, Barton fled ers. She teamed him with his fre- insecurity, especially after some
in panic onto the high wire, which the quent partner in crime, the original more failures. Moreover, although
Swordsman then slashed by hurling Power Man (now known as Goliath) the Swordsman was deeply in love
a sword. Barton fell to the ground, on this venture and the Swordsman with Mantis, she rejected him.
and the Swordsman left him for and Power Man team was later Finally, Kang the Conqueror discov-
dead. But Barton was still alive, and recruited by the Red Skull to battle ered that Mantis was the Celestial
grew up to become the costumed Captain America. During the follow- Madonna for whom he was seeking.
adventurer Hawkeye. ing years, the Swordsman made Determined that if he could not have
several alliances, each of which end- the Celestial Madonna, then no one
Over the years following his ed in his defeat, and he turned back would, Kang aimed his ray gun at
attempted murder of Barton, the to crime in areas where he was Mantis. The Swordsman rushed for-
Swordsman, in his costumed identi- unlikely to encounter Captain Ameri-
ty, led a notorious criminal career in ca or the Avengers. He traveled the ward to protect the woman he loved.
Europe, during which he was deport- world committing crimes, but part of Kang's energy bolt hit not Mantis but
ed from a dozen nations. Returning him longed for the noble purpose he the Swordsman's sword. The energy
to the United States, he offered his had briefly felt as an Avenger. traveled up the sword into the
services to the Avengers, intending Indeed, at one point this longing was Swordsman's body, and he died in
to use his Avengers status to commit so strong that he accompanied the the arms of Mantis, who finally real-
even greater crimes. However, the Avengers in their battle to free the ized that she loved him after all.
Avengers turned him down. Subse- realm of the Olympian gods from
quently he entrapped and unsuc- conquest by Ares and the Enchant- The Avengers buried the Swords-
cessfully tried to kill Captain ress.
America, then the leader of the man in the garden of the Priests of
Avengers. As Captain America and Afterwards, the Swordsman Pama, where Mantis had grown up.
the Avengers surrounded the returned to crime, but his heart was Unknown to them, the large tree and
Swordsman , the Swordsman was no longer in it. Hunted by legal many other plants in the garden were
teleported away by the Mandarin to authorities in most of the countries of actually Cotati, members of a race of
the latter's castle in China. The Man- the world, he was unable to find sentient life with great psionic powers.
darin intended to use the Swords- employment with major criminal It was the "tree," which was actually
man to destroy the Mandarin's organizations. Worst of all, he had no the eldest and most highly developed
archenemy, the original Iron Man. To respect for himself or his life. He Cotati on Earth, that was to mate with
this end, the Mandarin faked a mes- ended up in the employ of Monsieur the Celestial Madonna. In order to do
sage from Iron Man recommending Khrull, the head of a criminal organi-
the Swordsman for membership.The zation in Indochina, performing the so, the eldest Cotati resurrected the
Avengers, suspecting a trap, played same work for him that an ordinary body of the Swordsman and projected
along and accepted him as a mem- hired gunman might do. In despair at least a portion of its own conscious-
and self-contempt, the Swordsman ness into it. The Swordsman's body
ber. turned to drink and became an alco- was now animate and glowed green.
The Swordsman came to admire holic. On a subsequent journey to Indo-
china, Mantis encountered the eldest
the Avengers and also to admire the It was then that he met Mantis, Cotati within the Swordsman's body,
beauty of the Scarlet Witch, one of whom circumstances had forced into who explained what had happened.
their members. One night the Man- working for Khrull as a bargirl. She Mantis and the eldest Cotati were mar-
darin ordered the Swordsman to set encouraged the Swordsman to ried by lmmortus. She and the
off a bomb the Swordsman had hid- begin a new life. However, he did not Swordsman/Cotati transformed them-
take her advice until he was seri- selves into energy and left Earth.
98
TALISMAN
TALISMAN I ADDITIONAL NOTES: dimensional void in which an infinite
number of objects are stored. A success-
STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ful Psyche FEAT enables Shaman to
Elizabeth does not like her father. She withdraw a desired item. Anyone else
F GD (10) blames him for her mother's death and reaching into the pouch cannot free their
A GD (10) for "abandoning" her in the Mystic arm. Anyone other than Shaman looking
Pouch's dimension. She sought means into the pouch risks coma-inducing mad-
s TY (6) to prove her powers' superiority to his ness (a Red Psyche FEAT avoids this). If
(Shaman's) powers. Because she has the pouch is turned inside out, everyone
E RM (30) insufficient control over her powers, Tal- within 1 area is drawn into the Void.
isman may be a danger to her team- Grandfather's Skull: The ornamented
R GD (10) mates. skull of his grandfather can be used to
directly contact that medicine man's
I EX (20) TALISMAN II spirit.
p EX (20) (Shaman] The Great Key: A golden, 5-foot staff that
Health: 56 opens the nexus between the Earth
Karma: 50 STATISTICS Dimension and either the Realm of the
Resources: TY (6) Beasts or other dimensions.
Popularity: 5 F GD (10)
A GD (10) As Talisman II:
BACKGROUND Personal Magic: All spells not noted
Real Name: Elizabeth Two-youngmen s GD (10) below are used at Excellent rank.
Occupation: Archeology student, sor- Alteration (Appearance): Remarkable
ceress E EX (20) ability to alter his or other's features
Legal Status: Canadian citizen R EX (20) Healing (Self): Incredible rank
Identity: Known to Canadian govern- I AM (50) Levitation: Remarkable rank
ment p IN (40) Flight: Good rank
Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Health: 50 Evil Detection: Automatic, Remarkable
Marital Status: Single Karma: 11 0 rank
Known Relatives: Michael (father, a.k.a. Resources: EX ((20) Universal Magic: All spells not noted
Talisman II), Kathryn (mother, deceased) Popularity : 25 below are used at Remarkable rank.
Base of Operations: Alpha Flight HQ, Eldritch Bolt: Remarkable rank
mobile BACKGROUND Healing (Others): Incredible rank
Past Group Affiliations: Alpha Flight Real Name: Michael Two-youngmen Nature Control: Amazing control over
Present Group Affiliation: Occupation: Physician, surgeon, sor- earth, air, fire, water, and the weather
cerer Plant Control: Monstrous rank
KNOWN POWERS Legal Status: Canadian citizen Dimensional Magic: These spells are
Personal Magic: All spells not listed Identity: Known to Canadian govern- directly released from the Medicine
below may be used at Remarkable rank ment Pouch itself
Magic Absorption: Amazing ability to Place of Birth: Sarcee Indian Reserva- Pan-Dimensional Blast: Monstrous abili-
redirect magical energy at her attacker tion, Alberta, Canada ty to negate others' dimensional spells
Evil Detection: Automatic, Incredible Marital Status: Widowed Teleport (Self, Others): Incredible rank
ability Known Relatives: Kath ryn (wife, Time Travel: The Pouch provides instan-
Flight: Remarkable air speed deceased), Elizabeth (daughter) taneous transport to another time; the
Magic Detection: Automatic, Incredible Base of Operations: Alpha Flight HQ, location is unchanged. This power
mobile bypasses Limbo
rank Past Group Affiliations: Alpha Flight Miscellaneous Magic: All spells are
Telepathy: Unearthly ability limited to Present Group Affiliation: Excellent rank.
summoning other Alpha Flighters. Fail· Spell of Silence: No FEAT needed to use
ure to make a Power FEAT creates an KNOWN POWERS Talents: Remarkable Reason ln medi-
irresistible compulsion As Shaman: cine and Amerindian occult lore
Universal Magic: All spells not listed Levitation: Poor air speed Contacts: Alpha Flight
below may be used at Remarkable rank Medicine Pouch: A nexus with an other-
Eldritch Bolt: Remarkable rank ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Nature Control: Remarkable control over
earth, air, fire, and water 99
Dimensional Magic
Teleport Others: Unearthly ability to draw
Alpha Flighters to herself if she makes a
Red Psyche FEAT
Umltation: Her power automatically func-
tion at maximum effect unless she
makes a Psyche FEAT.
Coronet of Attachment: Focuses her
power. Removal causes her intense
pain; she must make an Endurance
FEAT or fall unconscious until the Coro-
net is replaced on her head
Talents: She is a budding archeologist.
Contacts: Alpha Flight
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