Difference between revisions of "Astromancer"

• Breathe in Space - Astromancer can breathe in outer space thanks to his body being augmented. He is able to withstand exposure to space. What kind of hero would be named Astromancer and not be able to breathe in space?

• Elemental Powers - Astromancer posses fire like energy projection.

• Pure Energy - The energy known as cosmic fire that runs trough Astromancer's veins is a pure energy source.

• Energy Ball - Astromancer can channel energy constructions, often in the form of spheres to blast his foes.

• Energy generated flight - Astromancer can fly by channeling his powers, giving him energy generated flight.

• Superhuman Strength - Astromancer possess enhanced strength and stamina

Titan.

A planet in the Deneb star system of the Milky Way galaxy, It was once a planet of magnificent beauty until it was torn asunder by the eternal wars of it's people, the Titans. Transformed from a lush and prosperous world into a dead and hostile waste. But as the world around the inhabitants of Titan began to reflect their hateful ways, Some Titans began to turn the efforts away from warfare and towards the ways of science and logic reasoning as an effort to preserve their race. In the end they succeeded.

Then Nara Tor started an secret romantic relationship with the princess of Escalion, the beautiful Sephin. But this affair where forbidden by Titan laws as Nara Tor where not of royal heritage and viewed not suitable to court a princess. When Seith learned of this, he punished Nara Tor by sentencing him to fate far cruller then death, banishment from the great city. To spend his final days out there wandering the wastes among the savages, ruthless electrical storms and breath an air poisoned by volcanic ash. Nara Tor ventured out into the wasteland where he wandered for months, living as a nomad as he sought work at the Free-trader camps and often escorted caravans. The settlements he visited where inhabited by the 'savage races' he had been warned about outside the walls when he grew up. He often found himself in unprovoked fights and earned little respect from the aliens he met.

One fateful day the caravan he escorted was heavily attacked. Wounded, Nara Tor tried to crawl away from the wreckage that once carried their cargo, as his fellow hired caravan-guards lied spread dead across the field. But he did not get far as he was captured by a ruthless interstellar bounty hunter by the name of Chronos. With use of his elemental gun and technological equipment, Chronos had killed the armed guards single handily and claimed any value from their cargo as his own. Interested in the Titan as he did not appear like the others Chronos had encountered in the Titan wastes, he took Nara Tor with him aboard his ship, where a cruel fate would await him.

Long ago, in a pre-Big Bang universe, there existed an race known only by myth and legends as the Elders. They lived on a cybernetic world called Zaron and they worshiped 'the one power'. A massive power core that fed their home world with energy, fueled by an priceless alien element known as Aranor. Toxic to living organisms, it had mutated most of what remained of the Elders original bodies that had not been replaced with cybernetic parts. Then the Big Bang happened and the cybernetic planed of Zaron was torn to pieces, it's remains spread to all edges of the universe.

The planet Fargath. A planet residing in the darkest edges of space. Here, the Fargaths, a race that resembles grey skinned elves ruled the planet. From the lower houses came an asteroid miner by the name of Antares.

One fateful day an asteroid of what once was Zaron was on a collision course with Fargath. Antares was given the mission to mine and place explosive charges on the asteroid to divert it into a stable orbit around the planet. While digging into the asteroid, Antares discovered that it was the fossilized remains of planet Zaron. While searching trough the ruined remains of what once was the cybernetic home world of the Elders, Antares found a storage of Aranor. As his team mined into the asteroid, it became unstable and started to colpase on it self. Reamins struck Antares protective suit and shattered his helmet. Toxic Aranor gas filled his lungs.

What felt like dying for him was maybe not that from the truth. His body brutally mutated and the Fargathian once known as Antares died there within the asteroid as the Fargathian known as Xanatos was born. Named after the Fargathian god of darkness. Antares now as Xanatos gathered several asteroid miners beneath him to start an revolutionary uprising on his homeplanet of Fargath, to seize power. For it was one thing that Xanatos now desired, it was power and knowledge over all.

He succeeded in his quest to seize power and thus he ventured out into space with a fleet of ships made from salvaged alien tech and with several Fargathians serving as his army. His lust for power made he seek out myths and legends across the stars. Then he found 'the power'. On the barren planet of Batu he discovered Aranorian mines and by such, he began to resarch it's possibilites.

After several experiments with the alien element, all of which ended with deadly results, one of Xanatos main scientist where able to create a usable energy source from it, an chaos-Fusion energy which they dubbed Elemental Fire.

Chronos the manhunter sold Nara Tor to Xanatos, a power hungry warlord and ruler of a dystopian empire who venture trough space, searching for the source of ultimate power. Feared on several worlds as a god and warlord for his acts where he plunderers worlds and captured species of different alien origins for whom he would often experiment on, to unlock their genetic secrets.

Brought onto Xanatos' research ship, Nara Tor was bombarded with waves of Elemental fire. And due to the amounts of energy Nara Tor was exposed to, a new energy that would later be known to Nara Tor himself, Xanatos and other beings of the universe as cosmic fire, a much sought after energy source for it's unpredictable results, was born within his cellular structure. As he kept being showered by the rays of the experimental energy, his body slowly began to adapt to handle the raging energy of cosmic fire emanating from within and trough this, he started to learn how to channel this energy as an energetically projection. But as his body acclimated to handle this new-found source of power, it became augmented. He became now stronger, more agile and with an heightened level of endurance compared to that of a normal Titan.

Then came the day Nara Tor became strong enough to break out of the test-chamber where he had for weeks suffered in those painful experiments. With an powerful energy blast, he destroyed the chamber, fought off several guards and scientists while making his way trough the ship. By using an escape pod, he fled to harsh environmental planet where he found a frontier town and soon after learning to use his new founded powers and befriending a group of misfit aliens, became a bounty hunter. For the next year, Nara Tor ventured across the stars, mastering his powers and fighting creatures of every size and form.

But then came the day he visited Farka V, a massive underground city build into an asteroid. Here he encountered Chronos the manhunter. Thirsting for vengeance, Nara Tor attacked Chronos and a massive fight broke out, resulting in Chronos loosing his right eye and Nara Tor on a crash course towards earth in a ship he had modified out from the escape pod that he used to escape Xanatos' research vessel. Nara Tor crashed on earth in the Canadian wilderness where he was discovered by the Hunter family. The Hunters, a family of four on a road trip trough Canada believed they had seen a meteor crashing on earth. Stumbling onto the highway, out from the dust left by the meteor, the Hunter's almost crashed their van into Nara Tor. Believing Nara Torto be just a normal by-passer wounded by the meteor crash, they took him with them on their way to the hospital. But they did being to question his unusual attire and the weird things he spoke of, falling in and out of consciousness as he spoke a language very similar to that of English. The Hunter family consisted of insurance salesman and father, Bob, his wife Catherine, their oldest child and daughter, Ashley and their youngest son, Kyle.

Intrigued at first by the strange man they had found, they began to fear for their own safety and whatever to do with Nara Tor. They questioned if he where a madman for the things he spoke of. Would it be wiser to leave him here by the road or take him to the authorities. As they where questioning these decisions, they where attacked by a gang of mysterious marauders from the Canadian wilderness. They where part of a military terrorist group known as VIPER. Nara Tor left a radioactive trail they had been following, believing it to be a bionic weapon related to the meteor, Something they would desire greatly. They attacked the Hunters and Nara Tor gained consciousness. Still wounded, he where able to fight them of, one by one. Amazed and grateful for saving them and knowing Sans to be of another world, they took him in to their home in Millennium City. Pulling some odd favors, Nara Tor became Jack Hunter, hailing from Canada, not outer space. Nara Tor emerged as a new superhero in the city of the future under the name of Astromancer.

Jack started to work as simple janitor in the Millennium City research facility. A Cambridge Biochem sponsored laboratory, run by Dr. Silverback, a gorilla who gained super intelligence trough experiments by the mad scientist Dr. Phillipe Moreau. Here he could make a living to support himself, using his alias of Jack Hunter. This was something he saw as fair as he had been living in the hunter families basement for over a year at this point.

One day while cleaning the higher up offices, he overheard Dr. Silverback and one of his colleagues arguing over an equation on theorized use of plasma charged particle acceleration to power a fusion based energy source that could amplify and intensify the human body far beyond normal human limits, in other words, a energy source that can transform normal humans into genetic superhumans. As they turned their backs in the heated argument, Nara Tor walked over to the chalkboard and begun to solve the equation. Amazed by this, Dr. Silverback made Nara Tor a scientist on probation in his laboratory. With a new salary, Nara Tor could afford a penthouse suite in the middle of Millennium City which would come to act as his base of operations.

The rest of the Astromancer legacy is still being written today as he keeps fighting for justice around the world, meeting new friends and allies, and opposing new adversaries.

Astromancer try not to hold grudges and is acceptance of most people. He fights what would seem like an constant struggle within himself that is brought on by the thought of what he is doing is the right thing or not. He tries his to be a hero to his new adopted home world, but many times as he have gone up against powerful foes, there have been disastrous consequences, all of which takes a heavy toll on his heart and mind. Astromancer view the world trough the eyes of a visitor. From a world which consisting of a ruthless wasteland where the only civilized place was his home city of Escalion, where the practition of science where held in a high regard, little of human culture made sense to him at the time when he came to earth. But, trough the influence of the Hunter family, internet and MTV, Nara Tor have started to 'get' human behavior and therefore have started to adopt much of these traits for himself.

Once a man of etiquette as he held the title of royal adviser due to his position as the head of the council of science, he was already beginning to come out of his 'shell' during his last days on Titan. When he fell in love with princess of Escalion, the beautiful Sephin, he experienced the nature of love and rebellion, as their romance was forbidden. When the king discovered this affair, he punished Nara Tor by banning him from the great city.

Wandering the waste, he experienced the feelings of loss, anger and hopelessness. As he sought work at free trade camps in the wastes, he was bullied by the alien merchants and mercenaries. Powerless he found himself as life behind the great walls had been dedicated to practice of logic reasoning to dispute arguments and debates, where here it had been switched with who ever was the strongest won the argument.

He encountered Chronos the manhunter who captured Nara Tor and brought him off-planet to a research ship owned by a dark and cruel scientist that was the ruler of a small dystopian empire, Xanatos. He did cruel and pain filled experiments on Nara Tor, like he did so many others before. Here, tortured by being bombarded with painful of manipulated energy, Nara Tor lost all fate in life and was prepared to die. But as the will to stay alive withered with each day, he began to feel a change coming. Each day he discovered his body was slowly mutating. In his cell when alone, he began to mediate, to focus on these new powers he where gaining. Fueled by thought of anger, betrayal and vengeance, Sans began to hope for a day where we would become strong enough to escape. And so he did. On the last day, the waves of energy painfully ripped trough his body, setting ablaze every cell and atom. Fueled by anger which where channeled trough the pain he felt, he blew up the test chamber and fought his way trough the ship to he came to a escape pod and fled the ship. Sans where a changed man. He viewed life and worlds among the stars with a new perspective. Forever changed by the calamity he had experienced.

• Astromancer loves sweets. On Titan sugar where rare and only for the rich and mighty. So for him to come to earth and discover that candy is available for everyone has really been a game changer
• Astromancer's favorite soda is Dr.Pepper
• Astromancer loves old movies from 30's and 40's
• Astromancer became fond with the musical styling of something called 'heavy metal'
• Astromancer gets drunk...easily
• Astromancer loves jokes. His home world of Titan where such a serious place.
• Astromancer loves the sound of the ocean. Water was scares on Titan so he envy humans for having so much of it on earth

Due to the amounts of Chaos-Fusion energy known as Elemental fire Nara Tor was exposed to, a new nuclear like energy source was born within his cellular structure. As he kept being showered by the rays of the experimental energy, his body slowly began to adapt to handle the raging energy of cosmic fire emanating from within and trough this, he started to learn how to channel this energy as an energetically projection. But as his body acclimated to handle this new-found source of power, it became augmented. He is now stronger, more agile and with an heightened level of endurance compared to that of a normal human beging or in his case, compared to that of a Titan.

It's effect seems to slightly differ from person to person, but most of the cases it alters the body to handle these powers, making the subject stronger, faster and more dexterous. Also the abilities of elemental like energy projection, energy constructions and energy generated flight. Thought Astromancer has not reached such a level yet, other abilities that can be unlocked is an teleport like ability known as phasewalking, healing abilities that can be apparently be used on others as well one self and phaselocking, which traps a subject in a sphere of energy, disabling them as inside the sphere time and space moves differently.

Typical associations with the powers is the altered appearance brought on when channeling it. Glowing blue veins (or markings) appears in random patterns over the body. Eyes glow orange and the subjects hair turns into fire. It's also not unusual to see a growth in muscular structure.

List of powers

• Enhanced strength, agility and endurance: To be able to handle the powers he now wields, Astromancer now posses a augmented body which is also stronger, more dexterous and a more powerful constitution compared to that of a normal human being.

• Energy projection: Astromancer is able to generate destructive and concussive blasts of fusion energy from his hands

• Energy generated flight: Astromancer is able to surround his being with energy and then fly with it. Be it on earth or in outer space. He is able to withstand exposure to space

• Alien metabolism: Astromancer being from another world, he is gifted with enhanced regeneration compared to that of a normal human being

• Genius IQ: Raised in a civilization that worships science and brought up to be the head of science of said civilization, Astromancer posses a high level of intellect. This also helps adds to his knowledge of certain alien technology or how new form of technology might work.

Allies

• Cold Eagle: A man who discovered an highly advanced robotic suit that grants him the ability to fly, to withstand the blast of missiles and enhances his strength tenfolds. To harness and manipulate the elemental powers of frost. A patriotic man who seeks justice where ever injustice rules with an iron fist. Astromancer and The Bold Cold Eagle has teamed up many, many times to take down few of the members in Cold Eagles Rogues Gallery.

• Lillebella: A mystical hero who wields the magical powers of healing. She and Astro have teamed up several times to fight the gangs of Millennium City

The Hunter Family

• Bob Hunter: Father of the Hunter household. A forty-two year old insurance salesman from Millennium City. He has a strong work ethic and very high moral values. He belives people should be honest, ethical and, like himself, upfront and sincere. He took his family on a vacation across Canada in a recreational vehicle when Astromancer crashed into the Canadian wilderness close to them. Believing him to be regular hitchhiker, wounded by a what they thought be a crashing meteor, they tried to bring him to a hospital when they where attacked by soldiers of VIPER. Astromancer saved them and in return, Bob took Astro into their home. He thought him about the outside world and became a new mentor for him.

• Catherine Hunter: Mother of the Hunter household. A real estate agent working in Millennium City. Independent and resourceful. She takes great pleasure in helping others in need. She is also extremely level-headed and reasonable. When others in the family would act out of emotion, Catherine was able to view a situation objectively. Over the years, she started viewing Astro as another child of hers and Bob.

• Ashley Hunter: Ashley was only nineteen when she met Astro. Over the years the relationship would build more and more.

Organisations

• UNTIL: The United Nations Tribunal on International Law, the UN's anti-supervillain "police force". Since the 1960's, UNTIL has served the world as the UN's global police force, dealing with superhuman crime and related matters of global, regional or national security. UNTIL keeps tabs on big threats to the world, like Dr. Destroyer, VIPER, Takofanes and possible alien or extra-dimensional invasions. They also develop weaponry and tactics to combat global threats. Their agents, humans and superhumans alike, are highly trained and dedicated to the cause of global peace and security.

First Encountered: Lemurian Antiquities
Quote: "Kneel!!"
Nemesis Theme: Sorcery
Nemesis Personality: Mastermind
Nemesis Minion: Beastmen
Nemesis Minion Powers: Martial Arts
Threat Level:

Leader, warrior, sorcerer and an strategist. Azad is the an ancient ruler of what is now an forgotten dynasty. A dynasty he ruled with an iron fist. Knowledgeable and skilled in the ways of alchemy and the dark arts, Azad merged animals with men to create his magical army of slaves and soldiers, the vicious beastmen. Gifted in the ways of the sword, it was truly Azad's diamond skin that protected him from his enemies and have preserved his body for all this time. A group of archaeologists dug him out of the ruins he had been buried under for so many centuries on what people now call Monster Island. Freed from his grave he now travels the world with his army of beast men, causing havoc and despair. In search for magical items that will aid him in conquering the world. The sorcerer came to Millennium City in hope of raiding the museum of its expedition! Unfortunately for him, Astromancer thwarted his plans. Angered by this, Azad travels the desert, Canadian wilderness and Monster Island in search of ancient ruins from what was once a mighty empire in hope of recovering artifacts that he once possessed and used to rule the lands with.

Astromancer's thoughts: Azad is an gifted sorcerer determined to cover the world in darkness and if it comes to it, rule the world from it's burning remains. His only weakness and reason for never getting so far except from the constant interface of Astromancer is Azads need for magical artifacts.

First Encountered: Prison Break
Quote: "I've got a surprise up my sleeve"
Nemesis Theme: Gadgeteering
Nemesis Personality: Maniac
Nemesis Minion: Thugs
Nemesis Minion Powers: Military Weapons
Threat Level:

A gentleman, a scholar and a rogue. Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jack of Cards is a gentleman thief who lusts for the finer things in life and does it with style. A trained swordsman and possessing the devil's charm, he is a perfect scoundrel. He commits crime and fights Champions using card theme gadgets. 'All tricks up his sleeve' as he would say. Him and Astromancer have fought each other several times. He does not lust for world domination or to kill champions, but instead it's money, fine food and women.

Astromancer's thoughts: Jack is a skilled swordsman who's not afraid to go for blood when pushed into a corner. His crimes mostly involves banks, casinos, Mansions, heist during fancy dinner parties for the city's finest and valuable art displayed in museums.