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UNOFFICIAL GAME ACCESSORY

PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. By Steve Jolly

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PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S.

Basics learns have certainly drawn attention to project. The D-Level is the The name is an acronym for many of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' secrets. administration level, and contains the Potential Energy Group/ Alternate offices for the small human resources division as well as the training facilities. Sources/ United States. It is an Construction The E-Level contains the central advanced research facility sequestered From outside, the Project appears computer system for the entire Project, in Mountain in upstate New to be a modest, mountain-top which processes and stores all York. It is chartered and funded by the compound consisting of two three-story scientific data as well as performing the Department of Energy to explore new administration buildings, adjoining Project's house-keeping functions. The energy sources based on renewable optical and radio observatories, a circle central computer system is a massive resources. However, exploration of the of geodesic domes, and a small airport. system unrivaled except by the field led to the Project’s frequent Individuals entering P.E.G.A.S.U.S. are ’s own K I-RBE. involvement with the unique power subject to holographic, retinal, The F-Level contains building sources present in super-humans. fingerprint, biomed and engram maintenance stories. For undisclosed Although the existence and scanning (IN rank security). reasons, the facility maintains a 20- location of Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. is The bulk of the Project’s facilities year supply of provisions for its entire publicly known, the American public is lie underground in the 24- story “Silo” staff. unaware of the full extent of the and connecting modules. The Silo is The G-Level houses all life support Project's facilities and activities. The divided into eight levels (A-H), each of apparatus for the facility, including air Project appears to consist of two three- which is further divided into three or conditioning, heating, and plumbing. story buildings, a cluster of geodesic more floors. The H-Level contains the breeder domes, an observatory, a radio reactor which is the major of telescope installation, a hangar, a The A-level is the Solar Power power for the entire Project. landing strip, and an air control tower, Research facility, and is linked with the all perched on the level mountaintop of geodesic solar collection domes on the Branching off the Silo are twelve a small mountain in the Catskills. In surface. subterranean domes. Six serve as actuality, the Project extends 24 stories The B-Level is the vast housing for the Project’s 1,000 full-time into the mountain, and that is where the communications facility, which not only staff. These housing domes have had high security research and all activities throughout the their names change over time to reflect development facilities are located. immense complex, but also connects the desires of the residents. The It should be noted while the the Project with various other research remaining domes serve as specialized existence of the site is publicly installations throughout the world, as research facilities. Over time, the recognized, it is popularly believed to well as the Starcore solar satellite (see research being conducted in these be a minor astronomical research next section). In addition, it houses the domes have evolved as the respective station; the vast underground compo- various electromagnetic research labs. technologies evolve. nents were top-secret. Though these The C-Level houses the offices Individual research domes are remain secret, 's casing and facilities for the security personnel. dedicated to the following fields: of a press conference at the facility Besides patrolling the premises, Project  cosmic energy coupled with the subsequent battle security people were once assigned the there between the and task of escorting human subjects for  alien technology Osborn' and Henry Pym's energy research to and from the  mystic technology

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 advanced robotics & cybernetics study, though some of them were Compound undertook the study of  extra-dimensional research employed during the invasion. superhumans as power sources. Sorel  superhuman studies When not under active study, the most intended to quantify and catalogue the  climate research dangerous of these are kept in heavily of every superhuman in the  geothermal research protected security vaults. Items studied country. While budgetary restraints  magnetic and research them have included the Crown, kept him from fulfilling his project, he  nuclear research the (and Cube shards), managed to complete extensive studies Dr. Abner Croft’s Stabilyzer, various on the following people and beings: Individual sections of the silo and robots including Brotherhood of Evil various compounds are protected both simulacra and the Minions, Nth  Angler by six-inch titanium walls (IN strength) Projectors and dimensional cannons,  - (corpse) and -field generators (RM Narwhal-class sentient hyperspace  Kayla Ballantine & the Starbrand strength). Each compound is missiles, and a .  Biohazard connected to the central core only by Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. has worked  Blacklash the loop and by a direct tunnel, and cooperatively on numerous research  thus each can easily be sealed from projects with many governmental and  Bres private organizations and individuals, the others in emergencies. Trans-  Brotherhood of Evil Mutants including SHIELD, Stark International, portation is handled by high (robots) , and the UN's Starcore elevators nicknamed “zoom tubes” and  Captain Hero space research program, whose a tunnel known as the Loop.  the Cosmic Cube These high speed elevators travel at telemetry is coordinated out of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.  GD speed. 

The Compound  In the course of its investigations,  Willie Evans P.E.G.A.S.U.S. has acquired numerous It is the Human Resources Center,  Fusion examples of alien, extradimensional, or nicknamed “the Compound,” that  Giant-Man () super-scientific weapons or equipment. gained the Project its notoriety. Under These are, in principle, held only for the guidance of Dr. Henri Sorel, the  Incandescent Man  Ion  Jack of Hearts   Moonstone  (Rider)   Poundcakes  Psigns of the Times  Quasar (Vaughn)   Screaming Mimi  Serpent Crown  Silas King  Solarr  of Earth-712 (Arcanna, Dr. Spectrum, , , Power Princess, Shape, Skylark, )   Tony Stark’s Alpha-Particle Generator  Vibro   Wundarr (a.k.a. Aquarian)

This research enabled the government to construct the super- villain prisons known as the and the Raft. The research may also have been made available to Project:

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WIDEAWAKE and other anti- organizations within the government. The research was not always done with the subject’s consent, especially if the subject was a super- villain. This denial of subjects’ rights, as well as several battles involving superhumans, eventually prompted the government to close down the Compound and transfer the research to other facilities.

A second alternate energy research and development facility in Texas, Project AESOP, led by the Osborn-appointed Milton Horak, conducts research into extra- dimensional energies and travel; Ape X (Roy Reyna) was briefly held against his will there. Also known to exist is a P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Institute for the testing young super-powered individuals, but it is unclear if this is associated with Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. or not; Feeva (Katherine Hahn) was once tested there.

History The facility, once an orphanage where headmistress Miranda Minerva (an of the Olympic goddess of wisdom Athena) tested highly intelligent children, predates the Great Depression. Immediately after World II, the institution was used for atomic research; superhuman heroes Whizzer (Robert Frank) and then- pregnant Miss America (Madeline Frank) were employed there as security. A nuclear accident caused the deformation of their soon-to-be- son Robert Frank Jr. and led to their departures, but the facility continued operating through the forthcoming decades. The alien was brought there for study, but after his inert body was stolen by Professor Paxton Pentecost, the compound was reconstructed as a secure government site focused on the study of alternate energy resources. The Department of facility was at that point named Project: Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and the Energy was given control, while a P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Thing () were brought in for SHIELD group headed by the Despite the project’s top-secret security and super-powered criminals (Sam Wilson) was brought in to nature, news of it leaked through like Klaw, Solarr, Nuklo and Wundarr oversee security. Research was circles of power and the Roxxon energy were sent there for study and conducted throughout construction, corporation decided P.E.G.A.S.U.S.’ treatment. Soon after P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' which lasted several years. An work was a threat. They hired physicist official opening, Roxxon employed enormous underground facility was Thomas Lightner to infiltrate the facility, Thundra and the (Letha, built, with individual compounds with an eye to using their dimensional- Poundcakes, Screaming Mimi, dedicated to the study of various transporting Nth Projectors to banish Titania/Davida DeVito) and a robotic energy forms. In addition, confinement P.E.G.A.S.U.S. to another dimension. to destroy P.E.G.A.S.U.S., facilities were created for the study of As the facility opened, super heroes culminating in Dr. Lightner’s super-powered criminal prisoners. The like (Steve Rogers), transformation into the and his

5 defeat at the hands of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' as security director and resigned. After aid in both cases. During this period, superhuman . Shortly an AIM breach of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Captain Hero (seemingly young hero thereafter, P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' Security ended with the Cosmic Cube gaining Bobby Wright, but actually the Super- Director Quasar teamed with the Thing consciousness and departing, a new Skrull/KI’rt) was studied, as was the to uncover Roxxon's involvement and security director (Michael O’Brien, the Fomorian Bres, while the Incandescent shut down their interdimensional Guardsman) was appointed. The Man was created through an electrical program, though they were never able Guardsman served when Lava Men accident. Despite their major to prove anything. invaded after their underground home disruptions, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. gained a Not long thereafter, the Thing left was disrupted by the Project's reputation as a resource for the the Serpent Crown at P.E.G.A.S.U.S. geothermal taps (months later, those Avengers and government-backed and it took control of virtually every staff Lava Men tunnels were used by the heroes - the Avengers would seek the member to use P.E.G.A.S.U.S.’ dimen- Fantastic Four to access the Mole Project's help in tracking the alien sional cannons to summon the Elder Man’s underworld) and during a ; the recovering Vision was God . While the Thing, Dr. Stephen subsequent escape attempt by studied there to ensure his health and Strange, Witch (Wanda Blackout (Marcus Daniels), Moonstone safety; and efforts were made to cure Maximoff) and Spider-Man (Peter (Karla Sofen), Electro ( Dillon) and the Rhino there. However security Parker) stopped Set and freed Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich); the flaws remained present and P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Quasar felt he’d failed Avengers came to his and the Project's government employee Douglas Carmody once used his influence to steal P.E.G.A.S.U.S. technology and become the Bogeyman. When Tony Stark brought his Alpha-Particle Generator to the Project for refining, he witnessed young mutant Willie Evans being tested; despite (Stark)'s attempts to control the situation, Evans' powers went out of control and he destroyed parts of the facility before wiping out the town of Pottersville, five miles away, in a suicidal fit. In light of Evans’ and several earlier disasters (Bres had once killed six guards; Dazzler/Alison Blaire and other subjects had ruined multiple expensive projects), officials decided to stop holding super-criminals at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and moved most of them to the Vault in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. To enhance security, multiple copies of O'Brien’s Guardsman suit were created and used to outfit guards, although O’Brien left the 6

P.E.G.A.S.U.S. due to some complex interactions with the former Nth Man, Thomas Lightner; however, this never came to pass. The Squadron’s constant presence played a part in officials’ decision to again accept criminals for study, though these were now limited solely to extraterrestrial and extradimensional subjects. During the -Shi’ar War, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. served as a detention camp for prisoners of war, resulting in an infiltration by members of the Shi’ar Guard and their battling the Avengers there. At this time, Project Director Wilburn resigned, to be replaced by Andrew Kappelhoff. The facility studied extra-dimensionals like the Angler or the Starbrand sigil, and after an attack by the alien Geometer, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. researchers created a global monitoring system capable of detecting dimensional gates anywhere on the ; this system subsequently alerted officials to a series of gateways opening from Earth-93060 (the ). Not long afterward, the Squadron finally returned to their own universe, leaving P.E.G.A.S.U.S. for good. While energy and alien research continued, one of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' most successful projects was begun by Dr. Henri Sorel and headed by Dr. Jason Rivera: a database of super-humans and their energies, covering both Earth and other known dimensions. Combined with their global monitoring system, this database was used to create an Avengers holomap status board, since apparently destroyed when that team was briefly disassembled and their headquarters demolished. Following a successful break-in by the (David Cannon) and other low-level criminals which freed Biohazard (Fletcher Traynor), the Blue Shield left P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and organization and was replaced by the agent was incinerated when they Darkhawk (Chris Powell) became Blue Shield as security director. fought; Blue Shield was then rehired at Security Director; Project Director Early in Blue Shield’s tenure, the his old position. Kappelhoff also left and was replaced Omnivore, a creature evolved from Near this time, Earth-712’s by Director Gruenwald. Darkhawk led elements of Iron Man (James Squadron Supreme became stranded the defense of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. when Rhodes)’s armor brought back from the on Earth-616 and, on Quasar's advice, attacked during their invasion of Beyonder’s , killed more took up residence in an empty Earth and disabled the Guardsmen than a dozen security staff and P.E.G.A.S.U.S. compound which had armors won by P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' security damaged the facility before it was formerly housed super-criminals. After staff. Nova (Richard Rider) aided in its defeated by Quasar; in the aftermath, the team’s brief capture by the Over- defense and between their efforts, the Shield resigned and voluntarily became Mind, they agreed to serve as security return of Quasar and an army of Minion a test subject. He was replaced by and research assistants at robots created by Dr. Evelyn Necker, Firebolt (Cameron Leonard), who was P.E.G.A.S.U.S. This was partially due the Skrulls were driven off; in the secretly a Roxxon agent. The Blue to Squadron member Arcanna's hope aftermath, Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Shield eventually saw through that her lost infant son Benjamin would served as a base for the newly Firebolt’s deception and the Roxxon eventually be found in the bowels of recreated and their 7

Worldmind, which was hosted in P.E.G.A.S.U.S. computers and in the Minion systems. The Nova Corps remained for a short period helping to restore P.E.G.A.S.U.S., but they soon departed and Darkhawk left as well, for personal reasons. HAMMER, under Norman Osborn’s command, then took over P.E.G.A.S.U.S., firing Dr. Gruenwald, Dr. Necker and the entire P.E.G.A.S.U.S. administration. Under HAMMER, super-powered subjects the crater which holds the Blue Area of STARCORE were tested against their wills; the the Moon. Following the placement of a STARCORE (also known as Absorbing Man ( Creel) was Kree outpost in the moon's Blue Area "Project Starcore") is a UN directorate: examined at P.E.G.A.S.U.S. before (as part of an attack on Earth) and its an ongoing project intended to enhance escaping (with ’s covert aid) and subsequent defeat by the Avengers, the scientific study of space for the absorbing the powers of Cosmic Cube SHIELD's xenobiology division and advancement and protection of Earth shards held there. Creel was soon STARCORE took joint custody of the and its dwellers. One of its early defeated by the combined forces of area and the , projects was Starcore One, a satellite Osborn’s “dark" Avengers and Henry who was confined there. STARCORE intended for closeup study of our ; Pym's Mighty Avengers. However, the and SHIELD were subsequently given Starcore One was built in Earth orbit discovery of the reality-threatening scientific and military control of the Blue and then moved into solar orbit near Fault in Shi’ar space soon forced the Area by the UN; it is unclear if . After years of service, return of Dr. Gruenwald to leadership of STARCORE had access to the Starcore One was destroyed during the facility; P.E.G.A.S.U.S. then worked Supreme Intelligence or if he was Galactic . In the past few years, with Quasar, Nova and Star-Lord strictly a military prisoner. Construction built Starcore (Peter Quill)’s Guardians of the of the actual permanent facility there Command as a satellite control facility in investigating the Fault. began not long before and in , California; much of the Avengers visited the Intelligence; STARCORE communications was scientists in the still-under-construction previously routed through a Project Starcore facility were to a battle between STARCORE telemetry module at While "Project Starcore" is a name Ronan and Iron Man and the Fantastic Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. informally used for the entire Four, a battle which briefly left the More recently, STARCORE built STARCORE directive, Project Starcore station without life support until Iron Project Starcore, a research facility in is also a name more specifically used Man rescued them. the Blue Area of the Moon (security for for a research facility built on the rim of the facility is handled by SHIELD), and Starcore Station, a new solar-orbit station for study of the sun, replacing Starcore One. They also recommissioned a space station abandoned by the , but this station was destroyed by the Neo before it ever became operational. The STARCORE logo (a stylized star) can be seen in the image of Starcore One just below, on the upper right end of the ship. Beyond Corbeau, STARCORE employees not more specifically associated with a base or station elsewhere have included Clancy and Reese, who were piloting a STARCORE Lear jet which barely escaped inadvertent destruction at the hands of Eric the Red.

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Starcore One Starcore One was a United Nations sponsored orbiting laboratory satellite, designed by Dr. Peter Corbeau, who was subsequently appointed Director of the operational station. It was the Earth's first orbiting solar reactor (otherwise known as a hydrogen-helium reactor). It could amplify solar energy immensely and transfer it to Earth via a powerful beam. It has been manned by a multiracial and multinational crew, including both male and female scientists. From Earth, Corbeau and his team monitored the satellite via a laser-beam transviewer. Starcore One had its own space shuttle (launched from Cape Canaveral), known as Starcore Eagle- One, which was used to resupply and restaff the station until the shuttle Earth's system by , though dimensional siphon" tapping the Earth's crashed in Jamaica Bay. Starcore One Starcore was unable to aid the sun, Reed Richards routed "counter- held a well-protected Starcore lifepod Avengers in locating several Avengers phase" energy from an Earth satellite for use in emergencies. who Thanos had kidnapped off-planet. through Starcore One in an effort to Following this, it detected the close the siphon. Though the siphon Starcore Eagle-One emergence of Sentinels from solar orbit closed, it had the side effect of drawing Control: Ty Speed: Sh Z and monitored what were later revealed the merged extra-dimensionals Umbra Body: Rm Protection: Rm to be attempts by the Sentinels to and Jaguur onto the station; not long Maintains life-support for up to 20 create solar flares which would sterilize thereafter they beamed themselves to people for one month. the Earth. Starcore One staff were the Earth. first to detect an invasion by yet The orbital decay was corrected Starcore Lifepod another Thanos-backed fleet, and the station was restaffed with a Control: Pr Speed: Mn monitored an intense solar flare which rotating permanent crew of seven. This Body: Rm Protection: Rm threatened Dr. Corbeau's shuttle, crew would later detect solar Maintains life-support for up to 20 detected universal "flickers" caused by instabilities caused by a Shi'ar people for two months. the 'kraan , and detected the wormhole just before those instabilities comings and goings of the Dark destroyed the station (its staff surviving After construction, Starcore One Phoenix. in the lifepod until being rescued by the was moved to a solar orbit just outside Eventually Starcore One's orbit Avengers). Mercury. Corbeau used Starcore One began deteriorating, and all humans Besides Peter Corbeau, Starcore to drain energy from the sun and cure were removed from the station, leaving One staff included Colonel Mikhail the , though this temporarily it completely automated. Kutuzov (a sensor specialist), destabilized the sun, nearly causing it After it detected "signs of what Alexander Hilary (male American to go nova. It subsequently detected appeared to be some sort of extra- mission commander), Dmitri the arrival of a space fleet brought to

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(cosmonaut), and Talia Kruma (see to determine nothing more about that California headquarters, the trigger Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff), among cage. device for the weapon was in space, on others. While under construction, Starcore a Starcore Station that Stark Station's staff included Dr. Barnes and Enterprises had built with its own and Starcore Command three unidentified others. In solar orbit, STARCORE's money (beginning Following the destruction of Starcore carried Corbeau and at least construction even before receiving Starcore One, Dr. Corbeau arranged six unidentified staffers. STARCORE approval). UN funding for new STARCORE uncovered this plot, and satellites, and the initial contract was Stark's Starcore Station (Jim Rhodes) invaded the Starcore given to Stark Enterprises (with Henry Tony Stark, influenced by Station and violently destroyed it when Peter Gyrich appointed as a UN liaison Immortus, built a chronographic he detonated Dirge's suit of warwear to the project). Anticipating the weapon which would expose all life on within it. Unlike the other STARCORE contract, Stark had a control facility, Earth to chronographic radiation, satellites, this one was armed with a Starcore Command, built in Los destroying it. Though the device was variety of defensive weapons, including Angeles before he even officially got located beneath Force Works' southern very lethal lasers. the contract. From Starcore Station, Corbeau contacted Earth via "UNCom" but it is unclear if this is an abbreviation for Starcore Command (Starcore being a UN project), or is merely a name for the communications network.

Starcore Station Following Starcore One's destruction, Starcore Station (also known as Starcore Research Station) took its place in solar orbit. This is another UN (STARCORE) manned station, built in Earth orbit and intended for solar study. During its construction, Binary, Phoenix, and attempted to resuscitate the power systems of the unfinished core, but a Shi'ar intervention resulted in every system on board shorting out. While on board, Binary and the X-Men (, , , Phoenix, Bishop) warned off Earth fighter pilots who attempted to attack the . The was subsequently repaired and the ship was moved to a solar orbit. Once in its proper place, its sensors detected an incursion by a Shi'ar ship and later an alien "cage" which was placed around our solar system, but as the station was designed for solar study they were able

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Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Organization

Director Marcus Gruenwald

Director, Developments, Patents, Director, Security Director, Research and Marketing Joe Cartelli Anson Harkov Margaret Mayfair

Advanced Robotics/ Government Solar Power Security Team Cybernetics Relations

Private Industry Climate Research Cosmic Energy Relations

Geothermal Research Superhuman Studies Public Relations

Magnetic/ Gravity Research Alien Tech Research

Nuclear Research Extra-Dimensional Research

Traditionally, PROJECT: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. has been led by one overall Project Director (also known as the Administrator), with three departmental directors below them: Development, Patents, and Marketing (long held by Dr. Margaret Mayfair); Research (Dr. Anson Harkov); and Security (this position been held by several individuals); and numerous sub-departmental heads below them in turn.

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Past and present Project attacked by Skrulls. The initial was a very private person, an P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff members assault was repelled by the security enigma even to her friends, which include: chief, Darkhawk. When Nova was due to her feeling guilt over her arrived to help his brother, Robbie, lover Neil's death. Talia was a he met his boss, Dr. Necker. Dr. member of the Avengers Support Necker was able to download for a time as a resident Xandarian Worldmind from Nova scientist, as well as an engineer on and use it to open a quantum flask the Starcore orbital research which contained the incorporeal station. Quasar. After the attack, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. served as a base of operations for the new Nova Corps. During that time, Richard Rider and Dr. Necker began a relationship. When the Xandarian Worldmind took Richard's powers and H.A.M.M.E.R. closed down Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Eve drove Richard to an unused A.I.M. base, Marcus Gruenwald where she attempted to drag up Director, Project any resources to heal his decaying P.E.G.A.S.U.S. body. However, Richard noticed a beekeeper uniform and refused to Talents: Business, Leadership be any lab rat. Eve assured him

that she genuinely wanted to save Background: Director Gruenwald his life and presented to him the Jason Rivera is the head of the Project quantum flask that Quasar was Scientist, Superhuman P.E.G.A.S.U.S. energy research originally contained in, which could Studies Department facility. He was present when the heal him. Instead, Rider passed up Avengers battled the forces of the chance and destroyed the flask. Talents: Biology, Engineering for possession of a mystical Appearing out of nowhere, Wendell hammer at the Project and has also Vaughn arrived with the Quantum Background: Dr. Jason Rivera is assisted Nova. Bands transforming Richard into the a specialist in Bio-engineering, with new Quasar and saving his life. his research in ionic energy. He worked with the Superhuman Studies Department at Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., but later quit and currently works for , Inc.

Evelyn Necker Talia Kruma Head of Robotics Engineer

Talents: Robotics, Espionage Talents: Engineering, Architecture

Background: Doctor Evelyn Background: Talia Kruma was a Myron Wilburn Necker is a spy of A.I.M. who engineer, architect and Director (former) infiltrated Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as designer, and a member of the the head of robotics. Whiz Kids, a group of scientists Talents: Architecture, During the , the working for Bill Foster at Stark Administration Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility was International in Los Angeles. She

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Background: Myron Wilburn was who blew a gaping hole in the one of the architectural consultants Catskills housing the facility. Black for P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and is the Knight soon confronted the general administrative director. Beyonder, ordering Dr. Clark to Wilburn greeted the Thing leave, which he quickly did. when he came to P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as security, and witnessed the Thing and Quasar's tussle when Grimm mistook Quasar for the . He participated in security disruptions following Deathlok's and the Grappler's invasions, considered evacuating P.E.G.A.S.U.S. during the Nth Man's fight, and was present when the Thing and Aquarian left P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. Wilburn was later Anson Harkov knocked unconsciously by the Director, Research exploding Nitro after being legally Talents: Biology, Engineering forced to free him. Wilburn was one of those who Background: Dr. Anson Harkov fell under the Serpent Crown's Dr. Andrew Kappelhoff control; he became high acolyte of leads the various research departments, and reports to the Director, PROJECT the Crowns. After being freed by Dr. P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Strange, the , Spider- overall Director. Man, and the Thing, Wilburn unhappily accepted Quasar's Talents: Administration, Physics resignation. He was present when AIM assaulted P.E.G.A.S.U.S. to Background: Dr. Kappelhoff was steal the Cosmic Cube, and also the Project Administrator when the hired the Guardsman to replace Avengers visited to confront the Quasar. Squadron Supreme there. He has When the government wanted since been replaced by Director reality altering Willie Evans Gruenwald. confined and tested, Wilburn reluctantly agreed, and prevented Iron Man from interfering. However, Evans eventually woke up and escaped; Wilburn was seriously injured when parts of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. collapsed during that escape. Dr. Slevin Clark, Later, Wilburn oversaw Researcher, Cosmic Ray P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' evacuation during Research Unit the Omnivore's attack, and accepted Blue Shield's resignation Talents: Physics as security director thereafter. Not long thereafter, Wilburn approved Background: Upon discovering Quasar's request to house the that the infinitely powerful Beyonder Squadron Supreme at Project: was at large, and P.E.G.A.S.U.S. visited Project: Dr. Margaret Mayfair, Director Several weeks later, Wilburn P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. While there, they of Developments, Patents, was confronted by Quasar, who met with Doctor Clark of the Cosmic and Marketing blamed Wilburn for difficulties Ray Research Unit and explained relating to the examinations of the their situation. As Clark and the two Talents: Business, Administration Angler and Kayla Ballantine. Avengers spoke of how they could Wilburn eventually resigned, to be track the Beyonder's energy Background: Dr. Margaret Mayfair replaced by Andrew Kappelhoff and readings, the Beyonder himself then in turn by a Director is the Project’s head of appeared and commented on the development, patents, and Gruenwald. marvelous devices, asking if he marketing. She is also their liaison could flip some switches. Hercules to private industry. immediately grabbed the Beyonder,

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Henri Sorel, Jeannine O’Connell, Dr. Pons Indenbaum, Director, The Compound Psychotherapist Cosmic Radiation Expert

Talents: Biology Talents: Psychology Talents: Physics

Background: Henri Sorel was a Background: Jeannine O'Connell Background: Dr. Indenbaum is a research physicist with World is a psychotherapist at Project: longtime P.E.G.A.S.U.S. veteran Health and director of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. She has extensive with a background in cosmic Damocles, an international effort to training in child psychology. radiation. He has spent the last five find a cure for radiation poisoning. Jeannine was Wundarr's years in human research. When he was approached by goons therapist, treating him before and Indenbaum conducted a working for Harold Meachum who after his exposure to the Cosmic fruitless study of Kayla Ballantine offered him money in exchange for Cube, and befriending the Thing and the Starbrand. Two days later, full rights to the cure, he refused when he came on board as Indenbaum was conducting a and was severely beaten. He was security. She played poker with passive study of Kismet's cocoon knocked into radioactive isotopes Grimm, Quasar, Bill Foster, and when the stole it. and became an being others. When Quasar was wounded capable of generating nuclear battling Solarr and Klaw she helped blasts, calling himself Radion. care for him; she and Wilburn Looking for help in controlling discussed the futility of evacuating the radiation, he sought the P.E.G.A.S.U.S. while the heroes assistance of the Puppet Master battled the Nth Man; and she was and helped him against in a fight present when Aquarian (the pitting against the Fantastic transformed Wundarr) left Four. P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. She later attended He next appeared in London, a Christmas party at the Baxter destroying an airplane coming in Building with Quasar, reuniting with from the US that carried the Aquarian there. At that party, and as passengers, in Quasar introduced her as his an attempt to blackmail the British fiancée, though apparently the government into giving him nuclear engagement didn't last. materials he needed. Jeannine was present when During a fight with Iron Fist, he Dr. Sorel conducted a test on Blue Todd Meeker, was knocked into an anti-radiation Shield which went awry. She soon transformer he had himself deduced that only Firebolt could Recruiter, Human Resources developed and was drained of his have been responsible, and after Department power. He returned to his human Blue Shield defeated Firebolt, form and went on to work on Jeannine convinced Blue Shield to Talents: None Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. under his reassume his prior duties as civilian identity. security director. Background: Todd Meeker is a recruiter for Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and recruits scientists and other experts for their research.

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threatened to consume the sun, but Four how to access to drill hole to remnants of the Squadron Supreme the Lava Men's village. reunite to battle him. Although they defeat him, several members of the Squadron are killed, with the remainder banished to Earth-616 for a time. During the battle, Lightner exchanged places with the infant child of Squadron member Arcanna and was thereby able to return to his own form; he became the new Supreme and eventually took the name "Mysterium". Dr. Thomas Lightner, Cosmic Energy Researcher (secretly in the pay of Roxxon

Oil’s Nth Command) Robert Rider,

Talents: Physics, Engineering Software Specialist and brother to Richard Rider Background: Dr. Thomas Lightner (Nova) was a scientist who rebuilt his father's Sky Cannon after his father Talents: Computers Raymond disappeared during a mishap with the device. A similar Background: Robert Rider was mishap with the rebuilt device Richard Rider aka Nova's younger caused the energies from Raymond brother. Robert was a genius and to merge with Thomas, giving was able to build his own robot as a Thomas the powers of a black hole. Dr. William Foster (Giant-Man teenager, although it was later Thomas' body could not contain II), Biochemist; (See GHotMU discovered his robot was built due to the manipulations of Doctor Sun. these vast energies for long, and he entry) collapsed and returned to his Richard had always been insecure normal form. about Robbie being smarter than he Lightner was later contacted by was but Robbie always looked up to the Nth Command to infiltrate and his big brother. At some point sabotage Project: Pegasus. Richard confided in his family about Lightner hoped to use the project's his powers. Robbie was usually Nth Projector to regain his previous more supportive of Richard's role as powers. Lightner released Nuklo a hero than their parents. At one and allowed Thundra and the point Robbie was kidnapped by a Grapplers in to cause destruction street called the Poison and distract the facility's Memories who had a grudge staff.[volume & issue needed] against the . The Lightner was supposed to use the gang Kimeko Ashu chopped Nth Projector to send the Project: off one of Robbie's fingers. Nova Pegasus facility into another felt awful about this and later went dimension, but instead used it on to MIT to talk to his brother and ask himself. Lightner was transformed for his forgiveness. Robbie said into the Nth Man, a "living Dr. Eduardo DeVere, there was nothing to forgive and he interdimensional vortex Like a black Thermal Energy Expert would gladly give up more fingers if hole, the Nth Man absorbs all that's what it took for his brother to nearby matter and energy into Talents: Physics, Geology save lives. himself. All of the heroes at the Robert once earned a lot of facility were absorbed into him, and Background: DeVere came to money from selling a software Wundarr the Aquarian was able to P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as thermal energy program he designed. He used the use his field to shut off the Nth expert. DeVere joined money he earned from that to buy Man's powers. P.E.G.A.S.U.S. not long after the the Long Island home the Rider Instead of being destroyed, the Compound was closed and the family used to live in. Robert's Nth Man entered the alternate super-criminals moved to the Vault. parents had previously been living universe of Earth-S. There, he He showed Ben Grimm's Fantastic in Jackson Heights, Queens.

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Later, Robbie worked at Using Project Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as a scientist. He was one of the people P.E.G.A.S.US. in your selected to reconstitute the new Nova Corps and was given Nova Campaign powers. Robert is friends with Darkhawk due to their being co- - Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. seeks workers at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. out one of the heroes, looking to Robbie is presumably still research their powers. The hero adventuring in space. His parents can either submit voluntarily, or have not seen him since before he the Project can provide some… joined the Nova Corps. persuasive techniques to convince the hero. It is a government agency, after all.

Guardsman (Michael O’Brien), - One (or more) of the heroes is a scientist a specialty in one of the Quasar’s replacement; (See research projects at Project GHotMU entry) P.E.G.A.S.U.S. They are sought out for their expertise in something that is causing problems.

- The heroes seek out Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. for help with a problem from any of specialists.

- A villain (or villains) seeks to break in and steal a piece of Darkhawk (Christopher technology or some research Powell), Security Director; topic; or to break out a captured (See GHothMU entry) villain who is currently undergoing “research” at the Project.

Typical Security Guard

F A S E R I P Gd Ty Gd Gd Ty Gd Ty

Quasar (Wendell Vaughn), Health: 36 : 22 Resources: Ty Popularity: 0 Security Director; (See GHotMU entry) Powers: None

Equipment: Blaster Pistol (Range 8 areas, 10 points of Energy damage) or Blaster Rifle (Range 11 areas, 20 points of Energy damage), Body Armor (Ty protection vs. Physical and Energy damage).

Talents: A

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Nth Command

However, before Lightner carried through with the Nth Command's plan to use the Nth Projector to place Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. into another dimension, he decided to use the Projector for his own purposes, to restore the powers he once had as Blacksun. Lightner, now transformed into the Nth Man, was defeated at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. by the combined efforts of the Thing, Quasar, Giant-Man, Thundra, and the Aquarian. It was revealed that Roxxon was the corporation behind the Nth Command, and that this was only one of many Nth Projectors. Lightner's Nth Projector was initially thought destroyed, but later found and confiscated by Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Later, the Nth Command free Hyperion in an effort to have him free Thundra. She used the Nth Projector to return to her home- world, but before returning, informed Thing and Quasar of the Nth Command’s location. When they attacked, they were Mission Statement: "To gain a destroy it from within. Under orders transported to a prehistoric world world energy monopoly by from the Nth Command, Thomas used by the Nth Command to eradicating any effective private or Lightner deactivated security at produce and refine oil. Thing and governmental competition." The Nth Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S., allowing a Quasar were able to return to the Command pursued that purpose Deathlok robot to break in. Lightner Nth Command’s headquarters, and through the creation and use of Nth referred to this as "Operation flooded their facility in crude oil. Projectors. Berserker". Afterwards, a plot by the Nth The Deathlok robot succeeded Command (called “Operation Affiliations: Nth Command was a in building a portion of an Nth Purge”) to simultaneously attack subsidiary of the Brand Projector before being discovered and remove all of New York's Corporation, which is owned by its and subsequently destroyed by superheroes to other, very fatal, parent company – Roxxon Energy Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. security. In dimensions. However, this plot was Corporation. an effort to cover his ongoing defeated by Captain America, aided actions, Lightner freed Nuklo with by Godwulf, a person from Headquarters: Metro Bank on the hopes that Nuklo would keep Deathlok’s alternate future. Broadway (served as a front for the P.E.G.A.S.U.S.'s security busy. Shortly after, the Nth Nth Command). Thundra and the Grapplers Command was assimilated into were recruited by the Nth ’s in History: The Nth Command was Command to smuggle equipment an attempt to have a new Nth created by the Brand Corporation to into Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Projector. eliminate competition for their Though they were subsequently energy market. They employed caught by security, they succeeded Typical Nth Commando operatives known as Nth in their mission, and Lightner now Commandoes, some of whom used had everything he needed to build F A S E R I P portable Nth Projectors to explore an Nth Projector. Lightner referred Ty Ty Gd Gd Ex Gd Ty other dimensions. to this contingency plan as One such mission to eliminate "Operation Expurgate". Health: 32 Karma: 36 competition was undertaken by Dr. Lightner's malicious intent was Resources: Gd Popularity: 0 Thomas Lightner, who infiltrated discovered by Project: Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. in order to P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff, but too late. Powers: None

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Equipment: Nth Projector (see about six feet. Quasar theorized range of an Nth Emanator was, but below), Laser Pistol (Range 8 that Nth Adapters were fitted with it was at least the distance from areas, 10 points of Energy damage) failsafe devices, to prevent to the X-Men's or Laser Rifle (Range 11 areas, 20 accidents resulting from Mansion in Westchester in upstate points of Energy damage), Body transporting unexpected quantities New York. When the Nth Emanator Armor (Gd protection vs. Physical of material. was destroyed, the Nth Projectors and Energy damage). Portable Nth Projectors were all failed to function. approximately three foot long, and The smallest known Nth Talents: Martial Arts A heavy enough that they were Projectors were incorporated into generally transported on a 's cloak, allowing him exceedingly limited teleportation.

Psi-Null Field Generators The psi-null field generator was a device capable of blocking mental powers at a distance. The Nth Commandoes believed it would be capable of blocking 's mental abilities, though its effectiveness remains to be determined.

Nth Projector: handcart, though a person could The Nth Projector was a device carry one with minimal difficulty. capable of trans-porting materials These portable Nth Projectors could into other dimensions. Nth be fitted with homing devices and Projectors came in various sizes remote controlled self-destruct and strengths, depending on how devices, to prevent their theft. much material is to be transported. The Nth Projectors wielded by Nth Adapters were the largest the Nth Commandoes were lighter known Nth Projectors. They served and smaller, but required the as a permanent conduit to transport existence of an Nth Emanator to oil from one dimension to another, operate an immensely large power and had an internal diameter of source. It is unknown what the

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BLUE SHIELD

STATISTICS:

F GD(10) A RM (30) / EX (20) S IN (40) / EX (20) E AM (50) / IN (40) R TY (6) I GD (10) P GD (10)

Health: 130 / 100 Karma: 26 Resources: Excellent (20) Popularity: 25

BACKGROUND Real Name: (Joe) Cartelli Occupation: Security Guard, former assistant to syndicate boss Legal Status: U.S. Citizen Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: Bronx, New York Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Anita Cartelli (mother), Frank Cartelli (father, deceased) Base of Operations: Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., formerly New York City Past Group Affiliations: None Present Group Affiliation: Department of Energy

KNOWN POWERS: The Blue Shield's major weapon is his force-belt (origins unknown), which amplifies his body's natural life force (bio-energy). Originally, Blue Shield was forced to wear the belt to gain superhuman abilities. It is presumed that if he were to use the belt in combination with the powers he's gained after long-term exposure to wearing the belt in the first place, his powers would be doubled. within, but has a warm, spongy feel  Enhancements: While using this The force-belt also acts upon from the outside. force field Blue Shield's stats his bio-energy to generate an change as shown above. oscillating frequency of bio-energy Force Field: Blue Shield is able to  Lightning Speed: GD landspeed that interacts with nearby atomic project a personal force field of AM (4 areas/round) particles in a way to generate a strength around his body. It allows self-supporting force field. This him to have the following power Talents: Martial Arts B, C, field, which radiates 1 inch from stunts: Acrobatics, Tumbling, Law every point on the surface of his  Resistance to Heat and Cold: IN Enforcement body, screens him from objects  Immune to Gases and Toxins: moving at any speed. The force The field is impervious to all Contacts: Dazzler, She-Hulk, field, which tends to grow blue with harmful gases and toxins while Captain America, Quasar, Project: harmless Cherenkov radiation, is allowing Blue Shield to breathe P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Avengers, imper-ceptible to the touch from normally. Squadron Supreme

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HISTORY was to give a message to Joey from Captain America intervened and When Frank Cartelli was his mother and Joey later visited his stopped the fight. Joseph and the murdered, his son Joe vowed to mother in hospital. other prospective Avengers were avenge his father by waging war on Joseph later attempted to join not offered membership. crime. Acquiring a belt (from the Avengers, alongside Joseph later became the head sources as yet unrevealed) that Mechanaut, Speedball and of security for Project generated a force field, Joe . When Captain America, P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and briefly fashioned an identity-concealing who was trying them out for the resigned from the job after he failed costume and went into action as the team, was called away, Hydrobase, to stop an alien threat from the Blue Shield. In his civilian guise, he where the Avengers were then Omnivore, before taking up the role even worked his way into the crime based, was visited by the Soviet again. syndicate, eventually becoming the Super Soldiers, who were After the , Joseph was assistant to the crime boss. He considering defecting to the United considered as a potential recruit for once had to help Alison Blaire (also States. Thinking the Soviets' the Initiative program. Blue Shield known as the Dazzler against the appearance was a test, Joseph and has since been working alongside crime boss Bo Brannigan who was the other auditionees attacked , and has clashed with controlling the Terror Tank. After them, only to quickly lose the upper Spider-Man. the battle, Alison Blaire told him she hand. Before they could be beaten,

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DARKHAWK

STATISTICS:

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

Health: 110 Karma: 36 Resources: Typical (6) Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND Real Name: Christopher Powell Occupation: Security Guard, crimefighter Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: Chris Powell, Bucket-Head, Edge-Man, Powell Place of Birth: Queens, New York Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Grace Powell (mother), Jason and Jonathan (brothers), Michael Powell (father, deceased) Base of Operations: Los Angeles, CA; formerly New York City, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Avengers Compound Past Group Affiliations: formerly , New Warriors, Avengers West Coast (reservist), Secret Defenders (founder), Fraternity of Raptors (host), Project Pegasus Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: has been injured, he must spend Agility FEAT roll using Darkhawk's Alter Ego: Chris Powell has a one round in Chris's form before adjusted Agility for the roll. The mystical amulet that allows him to transforming back to Darkhawk if hook can also inflict Good (10) change between his normal form healing is to occur). Note that this Edged Attack damage in melee and the Darkhawk at will. In his only heals damage to the combat. normal form, Chris has the following Darkhawk, not to Chris Powell. stats: Gliding: Darkhawk can glide at Grappling Hook: The retractable Typical air speed (6 areas/round) F A S E R I P grappling hook in Darkhawk's using the glider wings under the TY GD TY TY TY GD TY costume allows him to climb at arms of his Darkhawk armor. Health: 28 Excellent speed and can grapple Karma: 18 surfaces up to two areas away. Blast/Shield: The amulet in Darkhawk fires the hook from the Darkhawk's chest armor can Healing: Darkhawk can heal up to right forearm of his suit with provide him with a blast 40 points of lost Health by changing Remarkable accuracy. The hook of Remarkable Intensity that has a between his human and Darkhawk and can grab small objects two area range, or a force shield form. He must spend one complete and entangle larger objects, that gives him Remarkable round in his other form before including people, with a successful protection against physical and changing back (e.g., if Darkhawk energy attacks from Darkhawk's

21 front side only. Darkhawk can HISTORY was promptly kidnapped by Bazin. project either a blast or a shield Christopher's Powell's father stole the amulet from during a round, not both. was a New York police officer; his Darkhawk's costume, leaving him mother an assistant district unable to transform back to Chris. Enhanced Vision: Darkhawk has a attorney. He had two brothers who He followed Bazin, only to crash Good range vision power used for he had to babysit a lot, but life land on an island ruled by . targeting with his grapple-claw; this always has a few problems for Darkhawk managed to defeat reduces distances of up to four teens, right? Unfortunately, life for Venom and, later, Tombstone to areas down to one area for Christopher Powell was about to regain his amulet. He would not purposes of targeting. Darkhawk get a lot worse. His mother was have survived the battle for his also has Remarkable level and receiving offers of-and refusing- amulet had it not been for the range lnfravision, allowing him to bribes from a mobster, Philippe selfless sacrifice of Michael Powell. see in nearly total darkness. Bazin, whose case she was Now, Darkhawk has become one of prosecuting. His father was New York's fastest-rising super- Talents: Darkhawk has the Blunt constantly working late. heroes, seen often in alliance with Weapons talent and the Marksman Once, his brothers disappeared Spider-Man as well as the New talent with his grappling hook. from home and his charge to go to Warriors. an amusement park. Chris followed Chris learned that his armor Contacts: Darkhawk has earned them, only to find his father taking was actually an autonomously the friendship of the Amazing bribes from Bazin's men. When the existing android armor, one of five Spider-Man and , and mobsters discovered him, Chris commissioned by an alien mob lord is an ally of the New Warriors. He is began to throw objects at them to named Dargin Bokk, being held in a also close to a mysterious slow their pursuit. When he picked sentient space ship, Osch, in Null vagabond known as "Saint Johnny." up the strange amulet he found Space. When Chris grasped the there, Chris was transformed into amulet, it actually caused his body ADDITIONAL NOTES: Darkhawk. Darkhawk easily to switch places with that of the defeated Bazin's goons, though one Darkhawk body, although his mind died when he ran into a fuse remained in control of the while carrying a live electrical cable 'replacement' body. with which he had intended to Later, Chris and Darkhawk electrocute Darkhawk. actually split into two separate Realizing that he had a chance entities, with the armor being to atone for his father's sins, Chris updated into the "2.0" form, as it began to fight crime as Darkhawk. was informally known. This There appears to be a link between advanced form of armor gave the Darkhawk amulet and the Darkhawk new powers, such as the homeless man, "Saint Johnny," ability to form a force shield ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: though what form the relationship encasing his body, an actual Chris Powell is still trying to come to takes is unknown as of this writing. "Hawk" construct (a gigantic force- grips with the effects Darkhawk is Darkhawk immediately came field shaped like a hawk), and the having on his life. Chris is up against several dangerous foes ability to summon weapons from sometimes confused and angry, as in his battles against crime. These Osch. Darkhawk 2.0 and Chris re- are most teens, and Darkhawk has others wanted to learn the secrets merged, with the prospect of no only complicated things. Yet, Chris of Darkhawk and take possession longer needing to use the amulet in refuses to give up; he has shown of the amulet, including to switch bodies. tenacity and honor in dealing with villainous . Hobgoblin, the his problems. Chris has decided to mobster Bazin, as well as the avoid using lethal force and villains Tombstone and Lodestone unethical solutions to his problems, all tried to get the amulet from him. but he has a temper, particularly He battled such deadly foes such regarding Philippe Bazin. as Portal and the U-Foes, and the mysterious . His battles often saw him stand side-by- side with such heroes as Spider- Man, Captain America, , and the . More recently, one of his brothers was seriously injured when a bomb that Bazin's men placed in his mother's car exploded. His father had vanished, only to reappear at Bazin's trial where he

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GOLIATH

STATISTICS:

F GD (10) A GD (10) S GD (10) E EX (20) R EX (20) I GD (10) P AM (50)

Health: 50 Karma: 80 Resources: GOOD (10) Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND Real Name: William Barrett Foster Occupation: Adventurer, biochemist, inventor, research scientist Legal Status: U.S. Citizen, deceased Identity: Public Other Known Aliases: Bill Foster, Black , Giant-Man, Rockwell Dosworth Place of Birth: Watts, Los Angeles, California Marital Status: Divorced Known Relatives: (ex-wife); unnamed parents; unnamed sister; Tom Foster (alias Black Goliath, nephew) Base of Operations: New York City, formerly Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., formerly New York City Past Group Affiliations: Recurring associate of the Avengers, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., of Los Angeles (unofficial), Circus of Crime, Secret Avengers Present Group Affiliation:

Protection vs. Psychic Attacks: Foster was a reluctant , KNOWN POWERS: Giant-Man has Amazing protection who was motivated by a desire to Growth: Foster's rank was against mental attacks. help people, but lacked confidence Amazing, but his Strength could Talents: Foster has remarkable in his ability as a superhero. Giant- only reach Incredible. Each time he reason with biochemistry. Man is not an active superhero; a used this power, he would have to direct threat against his personal make an Endurance FEAT roll, or Contacts: Foster was an ally of interests (friends, place of work) black out for 1-10 rounds. If he the Thing, the Champions of Los might be the only thing that is likely blacked out, he would have to make Angeles, and Project Pegasus. He to bring him out of retirement. a second Endurance FEAT or lose is a friend of Henry Pym, and has one rank of Endurance permanently fought alongside the West Coast HISTORY due to cellular degeneration. He no Avengers. He is also friends with William Foster spent his longer possesses this limitation. His Black Panther and Storm. childhood in the Watts ghetto. His Endurance has been restored. natural intelligence and the

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES influence of several good people

23 helped him leave the ghetto and thus, Foster returned to Los the High Evolutionary at his attend California Technical Institute. Angeles, his shameful ploy having Antarctic stronghold. Learning the There Foster worked toward a failed. High Evolutionary's plan to mutate degree in biochemistry and met and Although he had fashioned a everyone on earth, he managed to married Claire Temple, a medical costumed identity for himself, release a warning to the West student. Upon graduation, he Foster was uncertain whether he Coast Avengers, who tracked him worked his way up the corporate should use it to fight crime, to the stronghold. But as the ladder at Stark Industries, but his considering the circumstances in avengers were being defeated, drive for success strained their which he fashioned it. With the Foster swallowed a chemical that marriage to the point of divorce. encouragement of Henry Pym, he again transformed him into Giant- When Harry Pym was trapped at a decided to try. On his first outing, Man, and he learned that his minimum of ten feet in height, Tony Black Goliath encountered the cellular disintegration had been Stark recommended that Foster criminal Atom-Smasher, who cured. He then defeated the High assist Pym in finding a cure. For bombarded him with deadly Evolutionary in combat. several months they worked radiation. This bombardment Foster soon gave up the together in Pym's laboratory in New immediately produced painful side identity of Giant-Man, which Hank Jersey, and eventually found a effects, making his size trans- Pym subsequently reclaimed for cure. Foster returned to Stark formations difficult and causing him himself. Industries, where he was promoted to occasionally black out. Before Foster donned the identity of to head of the biochemistry division Black Goliath was able to defeat the Goliath again, along with a new at Stark Industries' Los Angeles Atom-Smasher, his foe was killed specialized outfit and this time plant. Fascinated by Pym's by a mysterious assassin that later without the modifying "Black," first research, Foster synthesized the turned out to be Atom-Smasher's to help the Thing deal with a super- growth compound, hoping to brother, the second Atom-Smasher! villain even as he requested a eliminate side effects. Eventually Ignoring the symptoms of radiation research grant from the Thing. He Foster tested the formula on himself poisoning, he continued his career, then helped Spider-Man track down and found he had successfully battling such menaces as , the Hulk, so that Dr. Robert Bruce duplicated Pym's growth powers. the Stilt-Man, and the , and Banner, the scientist who Taking a leave of absence from aiding the Champions of Los uncontrollably transforms into the his duties at Stark, Foster devised a Angeles and the Thing. Hulk, could, possibly, deal with plan by which he believed he might When it became difficult to Spider-Man's own cellular win back Temple's affections; he ignore his illness, Foster took a degeneration. wrote to her saying that he had leave of absence from Stark During the superhuman Civil worked with Pym and duplicated International to become a War, Foster was a member of Pym's powers, but he deceived her consultant at Project Captain America's anti-registration into believing that he, like Pym, had P.E.G.A.S.U.S., an upstate New Secret Avengers, adopting the alias been trapped at gigantic stature. York energy research installation of Rockwell Dodsworth. He They met at a circus sideshow facility. There to do research on the subsequently appeared briefly where Foster had said that he had corpse of the Atom-Smasher, he amongst the cavalcade of other to work to earn money to continue nearly sacrificed his life to stop the African-American super-heroes his research. Foster had outfitted mad scheme of the Nth Man. attending the wedding of the Black himself in costume and was being Following the attack, a team of top Panther and Storm. billed under the name of Black radiologists were assigned to help Foster was killed by a clone of Goliath. Unfortunately for Foster, in cure his condition, including Reed Thor during a fight between the taking moonlighting employment at Richards and Walter Langkowski. Secret Avengers and Iron Man's the sideshow, he had, without then After their treatments failed, Foster pro-registration forces. Since it realizing it, come under the control returned to Los Angeles to finish his proved not to be possible to reduce of the Circus of Crime. Temple had life's work with Stark Industries, his body to normal size, he was become the girlfriend of , only to be attacked by the new buried as a giant, with Tony Stark and Cage had followed Temple Atom-Smasher. He, the Thing, and (Iron Man) paying for the thirty-eight from New York; the two men fought the Original Spider-Woman burial plots required to over her. In the course of their defeated him. Spider-Woman saved accommodate him. dispute, the Circus of Crime his life with a transfusion of her Bill Foster was last seen in captured Temple, forcing Foster blood, at the expense of losing her 's realm, refusing to accept and Cage to set aside their immunity factor permanently. death's embrace while holding out differences long enough to join However, Foster's cell structure had possible hope for a resurrection. forces against the Circus of Crime deteriorated to a point that he could and its , Maynard never become Giant-Man again. He Tiboldt, from whose control Cage retired, and became a full time also freed Foster. But Temple researcher. chose to stay with Cage rather than Eventually, Foster found reconcile with her ex-husband; himself working as technician for

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GUARDSMAN

STATISTICS:

F RM (30) / GD(10) A RM (30) / GD (10) S AM (50) / TY (6) E MN (75) / GD (10) R GD (10) I GD (10) P TY (6)

Health: 210 / 32 Karma: 26 Resources: Typical (6) Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND Real Name: Michael O’Brien Occupation: Former police sergeant, former security director of Project: Pegasus, former chief of security at the Vault, now Avengers support staff Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record Identity: Unknown to the general public, known to the administration of Project: Pegasus and certain government officials Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: , Illinois Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Kevin (brother, deceased) Base of Operations: New York City; formerly The Vault, Colorado; formerly Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Past Group Affiliations: Head of Project: Pegasus Security, head of The Vault security, NYPD. Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:

All of the Guardsman's Powers points of energy for weapons Protected Senses: Remarkable derive from his armor. systems, raising them to Mn for 1 protection against sound and light.

round. He can absorb incoming Blindness only lasts 1 round max Body Armor: The Guardsman armor attacks on a Yellow FEAT or better on a successful Yellow FEAT. gives Incredible protection from (Un column). physical attacks, Excellent Talents: O' Brien is an ex-police- protection from energy attacks, and Repulsors: Repulsors in the armor's man with the Law Enforcement Monstrous protection from gauntlets can do Incredible damage talent and Martial Arts E. radiation. up to 2 areas away. Contacts: O’Brien was originally a Flight: Boot-jets allow O'Brien to Life Support: The armor contains an sergeant in the NYPO. He was at Remarkable speed (15 areas/ internal air supply good for 30 chief of security at both Project: round) for up to 2 hours. If used as minutes' use. Pegasus and The Vault. He’s now weapons, the boot-jets do Excellent a member of the Avengers’ support damage to any target within 2 Sensors: Incredible rank Radar. staff. areas. Additionally, sensors in his suit can detect other electronic signals (such HISTORY Energy Absorption: The Guards- as radio waves, radar, etc.) with Kevin O'Brien was an engineer man armor can absorb up to 300 Incredible rank. working for the newly-opened

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Lakani island plant of Stark outside to vent his on the Iron Man and kidnapped by the Industries (now Stane International) growing crowd of protestors. Stark . Stark discovered an old who came to the attention of donned his Iron Man armor and set of Iron Man armor that the Anthony Stark. Despite a careless engaged the Guardsman in battle to saboteur had overlooked and went streak that once caused the prevent him from doing more to China to rescue O' Brien. Upon laboratory he was working in to damage. Losing the Guardsman rescuing him, Stark chose to reveal explode, he became a close friend sought refuge in an experimental his true identity to O'Brien before he of Stark and was soon appointed tank. In an attempt to stop him went off to battle the Mandarin. head of Stark's research without hurting him, Iron Man O'Brien flew back to New York department. On several occasions, trained his repulsor rays on the where he took custody of the O'Brien assisted Stark and his vehicle and accidentally hit its fuel Guardsman armor once more. supposed bodyguard Iron Man, who supply. The tank exploded, killing After Iron Man defeated the was really Stark himself, notably Kevin O'Brien. Mandarin, Stark fixed the against the and the Some months later when the malfunction in the Guardsman Espionage Elite, saving Tony details of the incident came to armor's circuitry so it was safe to Stark's life on more than one public light, Kevin O' Brien's brother wear. Michael O'Brien was occasion. Stark then decided to Michael, a sergeant on the New determined to use the armor to reveal to O'Brien that he was York City police force, decided that vindicate both his brother's and his secretly Iron Man, and to build for the official investigation exonerating own senseless actions. When Stark him a second suit of armor for use Iron Man's actions was a cover-up. International (formerly Stark in the event of an emergency. That Reopening the investigation without Industries) was taken over by the emergency came a short time later official sanction, O'Brien confronted criminal , the Guardsman when Iron Man and his current Stark, interrogated several of his joined with a number of Stark's girlfriend Marianne Rogers were employees, and finally hired an other friends and allies to battle taken captive by the superhuman unscrupulous private investigator to Midas's men. He was turned to gold Mikas the Soulfather. get him inside the Long Island by Midas's power, but was later Putting on the armor before it was plant. There O' Brien located the restored to flesh. Having quit the fully tested, O'Brien fell prey to a Guardsman armor and put it on, police force, O'Brien interviewed for malfunction in the cybernetic determined to use it to bring Iron the position of security director at circuitry controlling the armor which Man to . However, the Project: Pegasus, the government apparently stimulated the regions of malfunction in the cybernetic energy research facility, after its where rage and jealousy circuitry also affected his brain and previous director Quasar, quit. With originate. he flew into a rage, seeking to kill a high recommendation by Tony O'Brien found himself seized Iron Man. Iron Man confronted his Stark, O'Brien got the job. with sudden attraction for Stark's attack and finally convinced him Sometime later, while guarding the girlfriend Marianne Rogers, and that the armor was causing him to project, O'Brien's Guardsman armor became extremely jealous of act insanely. Stark took Michael was damaged in a battle with the Stark's power, looks and fortune. At O'Brien into custody rather than subhuman Lava Men. It was later the same time Simon Gilbert, then press criminal charges, hoping to repaired at the project's expense. chairman of the board of Stark convince the man of his innocence O'Brien as the Guardsman has Industries' stockholders, grew in his brother's death. While Stark been living and working full-time in alarmed that Stark was moving out worked on a new set of armor, the the Project since his appointment of munitions production and Japanese mutant attacked and has performed his duties mapped strategies with the board to the plant. Stark was unable to put capably. seize controlling interest in the firm on his new armor since it had not When much of the super-villain from its principal stockholder, Stark yet cooled and unable to find any of containment duties of Project: himself. O'Brien, clad in armor and his spare suits of armor since a Pegasus were transferred over to calling himself the Guardsman, saboteur had stolen them. Hence The Vault, O'Brien transferred as offered to aid the board in their plot he was forced to put on the well and was made chief of security against Stark. As a show of Guardsman armor to fight off there. The security staff wears support, he agreed to quell a Sunfire. O'Brien witnessed Stark's manufactured duplicates of the protest rally outside the plant. The heroic attempts to save lives over a Guardsman armor. Guardsman aimed his repulsor rays video monitor aware that Stark was O'Brien also suited up with at the crowd injuring four protestors. risking a major heart attack by the Bethany Cabe, Eddie March, Happy Sickened by what he did, O'Brien strenuous activity. Escaping Hogan and Force to turned on the renegade board confinement O' Brien decided he when asked by War Machine. members, roughing them up. But was wrong about Stark and Without his armor, O'Brien was seeing Tony Stark with Marianne determined to help him by donning affiliated with Captain America Rogers caused him to once again the now-cool Iron Man armor. Thus (Steven Rogers) and the Avengers become unbalanced and he went clad, he was mistaken for the real as part of the team's support staff.

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OMNIVORE

STATISTICS:

F EX (20) A EX (20) S AM (50) E MN (75) R FB (2) I GD (10) P PR (6)

Health: 165 Karma: 18 Resources: None Popularity: -5

BACKGROUND Real Name: Unrevealed, possibly none Occupation: None Legal Status: Not applicable Identity: Not applicable Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: Unrevealed Marital Status: Not applicable Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: None Past Group Affiliations: None Present Group Affiliation: None

KNOWN POWERS: Bio-metallic body: Omnivore is composed of living metal. This allows him a very versatile set of powers including the following:

Body Armor: Amazing rank protection from most physical and blunt force attacks. Remarkable protection from energy, heat and as well as radiation, electricity and cold. health once per day. This however individual, much like a is limited as after healing, cannot do webbing up a fly for later Body Control: Omnivore is a limited so again or heal itself until it has consumption. metamorph and can alter and consumed. Basically this power is a control its body with the following one shot until it eats again and is Size: As Omnivore consumed, it effects. more of a self-preservation tool. grew rapidly. It seemed to have *Shape shifting: Omnivore can *Body separation: If Omnivore has maxed out at just over 30' in height, alter parts of its body into basics a limb severed, it can still control thus being considered to have shapes such as blades or claws the separated body part. Thus if an permanent growth of Unearthly capable of doing Amazing edged arm was severed, it could still rank. At this height those opposing damage, or extending its limbs into choke someone holding it. Omnivore would have +3 Shifts to the next area. Omnivore's lack of Omnivore can re-attach that body hit. Due to the metallic construction intellect prevents it from performing part, healing half the damage that it of its body, is extremely dense and more intricate or creative uses of suffered by the attack that severed heavy, weighing more than 30 tons, this ability. the limb. The distance that the thus requiring Amazing strength to *Healing: Omnivore can severed body parts can be even lift. restructure the metal in its body to controlled is uncertain, but at least fix damage it has sustained or 2 areas. Acid secretions: Omnivore can regrow lost parts to a limited *Spin Cocoon: Omnivore can spin secrete a unique acid of Amazing degree. Omnivore is capable of a cocoon of Amazing strength metal intensity at a range of up to 2 areas. healing up to half of its current that can be used to hold a captured This acid has the unique

27 characteristic of breaking down Omnivore is a predatory creature After the rest of the Project had matter and energy into a more nothing more. Basic animal intellect evacuated, former security head palatable form that Omnivore can and instinct to survive are all that Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) consume the next round, much like drive this creature. While capable happened upon the scene and how a fly consumes its food. Living and cunning enough to ambush investigated, freeing Blue Shield matter, metal and energy, can all be more high risk prey, Omnivore before being attacked himself. broken down by this acid, that can seems incapable of much more Finding the creature, which be weaken stronger materials and than basic animal survival instincts. dubbed Omnivore, able to dissolve force fields by the rank of the Onmivore will attack others to even his quantum constructs, attack. Force fields composed of consume or protect itself from Quasar cut off its right hand when it force seem to be able to hold off the perceived threats. There is no other grabbed Blue Shield again, and attack, provided that they are strong motive. then pushed Omnivore deep into a enough rank to withstand the attack Tap connected to Earth's and any resistance to corrosives HISTORY magma layer, and sealed the tap will also provide some resistance, When the cosmic Beyonder before it could escape. Quasar left but even higher ranked energy formed Battleworld from remnants its severed hand contained in a force fields will be consumed, it will of a destroyed galaxy as well as quantum field for PEGASUS' just take longer. pieces of multiple during his scientists to study and contain. "" contest of super Weakness: Omnivore seemed to be heroes and villains, Mr. Fantastic momentarily stunned by an used alien technology (actually a electromagnetic pulse emitted by living alien being, unbeknownst to Quasar's quantum bands. So it can all) to fabricate replacement parts be assumed that the metal body of for Iron Man (Jim Rhodes)'s battle- Omnivore is vulnerable to damaged armor. magnetics and would be at -2CS to Upon returning to Earth, resist such attacks and Rhodes found the Battle-world manipulations. enhancements dysfunctional. Assuming this to be due to Talents: None differences between the planets' magnetic fields, and abandoned the Contacts: None known accessories in an upstate New York snow bank, little realizing had he ADDITIONAL NOTES: not done so they would have taken over his armor. Fusing and morphing into an ambulatory organism, it found food and shelter in Project PEGASUS a few miles away, entering via a ventilation shaft. Eating, growing and evolving, upon discovery it consumed an entire security squad of 15 save leader Blue Shield, whose forcefield proved resistant and whom it imprisoned in a metal cocoon. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:

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QUASAR

STATISTICS:

F EX (20) A EX (20) S GD (10) E GD (10) R GD (10) I RM (30) P MN (75)

Health: 60 Karma: 115 Resources: Good (10) Popularity: 20

BACKGROUND Real Name: Wendell Elvis Vaughn Occupation: Adventurer, formerly Protector of the Universe, security chief, S.H.I.E.L.D. special agent, US Army Lieutenant Legal Status: U.S. Citizen Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: Marvel Boy, Marvel Man, Star-Knight Place of Birth: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Anita Cartelli (mother), Frank Cartelli (father, deceased) Base of Operations: Currently Pleasant Hill S.H.I.E.L.D. facility/prison; formerly Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility, Adirondack Mountains, New York State; formerly mobile throughout the universe Past Group Affiliations: Annihilators, Avengers, Star Masters, S.H.I.E.L.D. Super- Agents, security chief of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Defenders for a Day  Teleportation by opening gates  A force field which provides Present Group Affiliation: to the Quantum Zone at CL5000 Monstrous protection against S.H.I.E.L.D. speed. physical and energy attacks  "Solid light" constructs of  Protection from Vacuum - A KNOWN POWERS: Monstrous material strength that specialized force field that Quantum-Bands: Quasar wears a do Monstrous damage if used protects Quasar from the rigors pair of bracelets of an unidentified, as weapons. Quasar can form of outer space. Unearthly strength material. They any simple solid object are capable of converting "quantum (spheres, cones, cubes, mallets, Talents: Trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. energy" for a number of Power cages, etc.) that he can and the U.S. Army, Vaughn has the Stunts, including: visualize Law Enforcement and Espionage  Force blasts of Monstrous  Light bursts of Monstrous skills. He is trained in Martial Arts A strength at a range of 5 areas intensity which can blind an and B, as well as handgun use.  Flight at Shift-Y speed (100 opponent areas/round), Remarkable  Identification of energy patterns Contacts: Vaughn has contacts in speed (xx areas/round) within at Monstrous rank, and tracking S.H.I.E.L.D., the U.S. Army, and an atmosphere. of those energy patterns at those people employed at the Vault CL1000 rank. who were transferred from Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. He has worked with

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Bill Foster and the Thing in the including his father. Insane with decision. Putting away his costume, past. Additionally, he has since grief, he decided to return to Earth he spent the next few weeks at his worked as part of the Avengers. and take vengeance upon the mother's home in Wisconsin sitting banker who, by refusing his loan, in his old bedroom, strumming his ADDITIONAL NOTES: had made him waste valuable time. guitar, lifting weights, and avoiding Caught in suspended animation for life. At her wit's end, his mother ROLE-PLAYING NOTES a number of years, Grayson finally called her ex-husband to Despite his years of training as a eventually made it back to Earth come to try to draw their son out soldier, a S.H.I.E.L.D. super-agent, and went on a , calling from beneath his veil of depression. and a superhero, Quasar is still himself the Crusader. In a battle Dr. Vaughn proposed his son somewhat insecure in his role as a with the Fantastic Four, Grayson undertake a scientific mission to superhero, perhaps because of the disintegrated himself by channeling learn the of the Quantum sheer power that he wields. He solar energy through the wristbands Bands. Attracted to the prospect of takes himself extremely seriously improperly. The energy bracelets spending time alone in the of and does not allow himself any were undamaged. space, Quasar agreed. And, after errors. He is extremely loyal to his The Fantastic Four's Reed weeks of exhaustive preparation, superiors and tends to follow orders Richards confiscated the weapons, the equipment-laden adventurer from them without question. and, having no time to investigate penetrated the envelope of the nature of their power himself, atmosphere surrounding his home HISTORY turned them over to S.H.I.E.L.D. planet for the first time — and Wendell Vaughn is the second There they were given to promptly went to sleep. human being to wear a pair of alien S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Dr. Gilbert Four years and nearly 3 billion energy bracelets now known as the Vaughn, who hypothesized that the kilometers later, he woke up. quantum-bands. The first was alien power may be Discovering the remains of the Robert Grayson, the son of able to utilize energy sources in ' life-dome, Quasar astrophysicist Dr. Horace Grayson. addition to solar. encountered Deathurge who related In the years before World War II, In order to test them, Vaughn the story of the Uranians and his Dr. Grayson made radio contact got permission to use his son role in their deaths to him. with the colony of Eternals who Wendell, an army veteran in the Deathurge then attempted to lived on the planet Uranus in an midst of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent training, convince Wendell that he had endeavor to build a spaceship as a test subject. To Wendell's journeyed all those billions of capable of interplanetary travel. dismay, he discovered that the kilometers hoping that something Believing Uranus to be a better wrist-bands affixed themselves to would end his failed life. He nearly environment than Earth to raise his his wrists as soon as he used them. succumbed to Deathurge's "help", son, Dr. Grayson, a widower, Permanently linked to these but was transported to subspace journeyed there and was met with powerful mechanisms, Wendell where Eon was waiting. open arms by the Uranian Eternals, Vaughn joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s pilot Here Eon explained that who were eager to hear news of the "Super-Agent" program under the Wendell Vaughn of Earth world that had spawned them name Marvel Man. When the possessed all of the necessary millennia before. program was discontinued, he took attributes: intelligence, courage, When young Robert Grayson the code-name Quasar, based on and resourcefulness, and was to was in his mid-teens, he was given the power source his father become the new Protector of the a pair of energy-manipulating wrist- believed that he had attuned the Universe, a position most recently bands, whose origin was then wrist-bands to: quasi-stellar radio- filled by the late . unknown. Robert's adventurous sources. Eon appointed him the Captain's spirit led him back to Earth, where, His excellent military record, successor with his mission to upon his father's suggestion, he S.H.I.E.L.D. credentials, and a safeguard the universe from the used the wrist-bands' solar- recommendation by Captain greatest threat that he had ever conversion capacities as a weapon America got him the position of perceived. Of this threat, only three to battle crime. Grayson called security chief at the government's things were known: 1) the threat himself Marvel Boy and established secret energy research facility, would come from space, 2) it would a solid reputation as one of the Project: Pegasus. After several manifest itself on Earth, and 3) it 1950s' preeminent costumed years, however, he resigned, would try to slay Eon to gain the crimefighters. Learning that his blaming himself for allowing the secret of cosmic awareness. After father was in poor health, Grayson Serpent Crown, an ancient mystical performing the Metamorphic Rite of tried to purchase medical supplies power object, to take over the Passage, Eon transported Quasar to take back to Uranus, but was minds of everyone in the Project, back to normal space, where he unable to get a bank loan. Upon including himself. Despondent, he easily defeated Deathurge. reaching Uranus, he learned that tendered his resignation as head of However, he uttered a brief some unexplained disaster had security to the project's director, prophecy, "When we meet again, ruptured the colony's protective Myron Wilburn, and would not let you will beg me to kill you ... and I dome, killing all of its inhabitants, himself be talked out of the

30 will refuse," as he slowly faded reasoned that their deaths affect anomalous point where he, being away. the universe just as much, if not the personification of Anomaly, Wendell convinced Eon to more, than their passive would reign supreme. accompany him back to Earth to observation. This idea revived all As the universal collapse better protect him against this Watchers as it spread telepathically accelerated, , as the threat. Now aware of the full throughout the universe. avatar of Oblivion, battled Quasar, capabilities of the Bands, he Once back on Earth, Quasar acting as the avatar of , his quantum-jumped back to Earth with encountered Unbeing and Origin, mysterious benefactor. In the Eon, reducing the four-year journey two minor but powerful cosmic ensuing battle, Quasar triumphed to fifteen seconds. Back on Earth, entities. After overcoming Unbeing, due to the fact that he existed as a Quasar set up a security consulting Quasar had his costume design time paradox because of Origin's firm to serve as both an income and changed retroactively throughout retroactive change of his costume. cover for his "cosmic activities". time. Origin's simple act proved vital This caused him to be a more Once Vaughn Security Systems in his struggle against the Cosmic anomalous being than Maelstrom, was established, he began a Assassin. thereby diminishing his power and systematic location and The Presence and Starlight, breaking his concentration enough identification of every extra- newly escaped from the 's to allow the energy of the Quantum terrestrial on Earth. During a nation- Lab World reached Earth, intent on Bands to consume him. Infinity, wide villain uprising, Quasar chased destroying Eon, believed him to be having triumphed demanded new the into the 's an evil menace to the universe due terms from Oblivion. Death and home on the moon. Here the Living to a well-placed lie from the were summoned, and a Laser accidentally passed through assassin. Quasar thwarted their new bargain struck. As a part of this a portal into an alternate dimension. attack and believed that he had new pact, Quasar and Makkari Thinking him lost, Wendell returned vanquished his appointed menace . were returned to life, while Death to Earth to assist the Avengers . . just as the assassin wanted him and Oblivion kept Eon and during the crisis. to believe. Immediately after this, Maelstrom. When healing his body, The arrival of the Squadron he discovered that his father had Quasar created a new version of Supreme triggered the re- died months earlier and been his costume, combining various emergence of the Over-Mind, the animated since then by Eon. elements from his S.H.I.E.L.D. sole survivor of an ancient race of Abdicating his position as Protector issued costume and the version conquerors endowed with the entire of the Universe, he cut off all Eon created for him. psychic power of that race. By now, contact with his former . Immediately upon saving the Wendell had learned how to During this time of emotional universe from his appointed threat, program the Bands to keep his upheaval, the true Cosmic Assassin he served Eon one final time by mind safe from mental takeover, but revealed himself ... Maelstrom. delivering Epoch, Eon's daughter, the Squadron wasn't as lucky. Having assumed the power and from an egg within Eon's vast Over-Mind possessed them, station of the cosmic entity Anomaly remains. Where Eon was his commandeered their ship, and set after being hyper-enlarged in a mentor, Epoch became his god- course for the Stranger's Laboratory battle with the Avengers, he cut off daughter, and he her mentor and World, believing him to be the last Quasar's arms and suspended him protector as she developed her survivor of the race responsible for in his mansion, but the Bands nascent cosmic awareness. his people's destruction. Quasar remained even on his severed Agreeing to help our Watcher followed with Hyperion of the arms, unable to be removed. To retrieve the Living Laser from the Squadron and his friend Makkari, enable him to harness the energy of various alternate realities to which an Eternal. The Stranger was away the Bands, Maelstrom finally killed he had fled months before, Wendell from his Lab World investigating a Wendell and donned the Quantum journeyed to a succession of mystery, the sudden deaths of Bands. alternate realities. In one of these several Watchers throughout the Although his body lay dead in realities, Quasar encountered an galaxy. Unable to confront the Maelstrom's mansion, Quasar immensely powerful Maelstrom who Over-Mind directly, Wendell located suddenly found himself composed blasted him thinking that he was his the Stranger who returned and of pure energy. Not knowing how reality's Quasar. The blast ultimately defeated Over-Mind. he had survived, he tried to protect coincided with a hasty quantum Several Watchers appeared during Eon from Maelstrom. To keep him jump and knocked him out of the the battle, hoping to receive some from gaining the secret of cosmic known multiverse into the greater form of assistance from the awareness, Quasar killed his eight- Omniverse where there were no Stranger, whose judgment they all billion-year-old mentor and Watchers to help him return.[19] valued. An information plague, the suddenly found himself in Dubbed the "", its Oblivion Virus had been causing possession of Eon's cosmic physical laws differed greatly from Watchers all over the universe to awareness. But, the fatal blow those of his home universe. Cut off will themselves out of existence in came too late, Maelstrom also from the Quantum Zone, Quasar an effort to keep from violating their acquired it. He then set out to only had the energy he happened oath of non-interference. Wendell collapse the universe into a single to have stored in his Quantum

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Bands. Meeting some "para- Quasar, could not condone the affair. His daughter, the super-hero normals" from that Earth, he was . , was convinced to join her able to find the Starbrand, that Feeling responsible for all the father's vendetta against Quasar universe's most powerful energy death in the Kree empire, Quasar after her brother Vanguard was source. With its power, he was able decided to leave Earth and attempt killed on Quasar's behalf during the to muster enough energy to return to better protect the universe by mission on the Strangers' to his universe. Unfortunately, he preventing similar tragedies. Laboratory World. With his life and burnt out the Starbrand in the Quitting the Avengers, he left Earth the lives of his family and friends process...or so he believed. with Makkari and Kismet with the being threatened by the Presence, The Kree and Shi'ar, two star- devastated Kree Empire as their Wendell was forced into a situation spanning races were accelerating first destination. where he faked his death on Earth toward war. Both utilized a pair of Embroiled once again in the to bring the Presence's vengeance normally closed stargates in close various battles that have to a conclusion, and self-exiled proximity to our sun, using its surrounded the all-powerful weapon himself into space. energy to power the gates. Using known as the Infinity , While establishing various the stargates this close to the sun Quasar was apparently killed by the listening posts with his Quantum caused widespread increases in Ultimate Nullifier. The fraction of the Bands throughout the universe, activity and threatened to still left to him from his Wendell received an urgent destroy the sun and Earth, unless journey to the New Universe kept message from his mother, using a the stargates were sealed. The him from being destroyed, however. special homing beacon he had Shi'ar, in an attempt to construct a He used the last of its energy to given her. Racing home, he doomsday weapon, stole the once again reclaim his Quantum discovered that the Charter, a Psyche-Magnetron and eventually Bands. peaceful galactic federation had acquired the Nega-Bands, worn by The Stranger, sensing the invited Earth to join. Resting aboard the late Captain Marvel. These anomalous energy of the Starbrand, the Charter's enormous satellite, objects, when combined with the dispatched a group of mercenaries Quasar awoke to find its 3 million Kree Omni-Wave Projector, formed to retrieve Kayla from Earth for inhabitants dead. The a powerful bomb, the Nega-Bomb, study. Wendell had unwittingly suspect, Wendell was forced to capable of killing billions in the Kree given her a fraction of the Starbrand battle the Charter's peace-keeping Empire. upon returning from the "New force while he, with the help of Beta Making use of Quasar's Universe". Attaching a large Ray Bill and the Silver Surfer, quantum jumping ability, two thruster on the moon in an attempt stopped a giant meteor from envoys composed of Avengers left to cause a collision with Earth, the destroying the Earth. Joined by two for the Kree and Shi'ar homeworlds, mercenaries used it as a distraction members of the peacekeeping force hoping to convince their leaders to while Kayla. Quasar and calling themselves the keep their war out of Earth's solar assembled a team to confront the Starmasters, the team discovered system. Staying behind, Quasar menace on the moon, disabled the the real murderers, the war-like Axi- spent much of this time in space thruster and, with help, returned the Tun, and cleared Quasar's name. safeguarding our sun by moon to its correct orbit. Finding Once again answering the call intercepting various Kree and Shi'ar Kayla gone, he and his team of the Avengers, Wendell found ships as they plunged through the tracked the mercenaries to the himself battling alongside almost stargates. Convinced by the Stranger's Lab World. The Stranger the entire membership of the team Avengers, Empress Lilandra of the then assumed the power of the against Morgana Le Fey as she Shi'ar decided not to use the bomb Starbrand, an event which led to used the power of various and attempted a diplomatic the movement of the Earth of the Asgardian magical objects to settlement with the Kree. However, "New Universe" to this universe. remake reality. With the Avengers the Skrulls, ancient enemies of the With the "New Universe" Earth in as her personal army in this new Kree, stole the bomb and orbit around the Stranger's Lab reality, she controlled the planet. successfully detonated it in the World, the Quasar, or Star Knight in Morgana's Kree Empire, killing over 90% of the intervened and forever sealed the reality, was one of a handful of populations of thousands of worlds. anomalous Earth from this Avengers able to hear the Scarlet Upon reaching Hala, the Kree universe, trapping Kayla there. Witch's mystical call for help to homeworld, the Avengers Presented with the option of those with the most Avengers spirit. discovered that the decimation of forfeiting his position as Protector of Finally breaking the spell, the team the Kree Empire had been planned the Universe and joining Kayla, returned home, and Quasar once from the beginning by the Kree Wendell declined. more returned to space. leader, the Supreme Intelligence. Intending to return to Earth, Discovering a ravaged planet Divided on how to deal with him, a Quasar was confronted by enemies and Jack of Hearts near death, group of Avengers led by Iron Man he had made in his adventures. The Wendell requested help from the went to kill him. The other group led egomaniacal Presence hated reserves of the Avengers and was by Captain America, and including Quasar for various past slights joined by Photon, Thor, , dating back to the Cosmic Assassin , and . Together

32 they alerted Eternity to the extra- corruption in the bands that would universe Moondragon had referred dimensional danger and saved all overtake her if she used too much to as a "Cancerverse", reasoning life in the universe. energy. When she attempted to that he would be protected by his While returning to Earth, the fight off the invasion of the energy form. Wendell would Avengers and the entire planet Kree Empire, Wendell appeared maintain contact with his universe once again became embroiled in before her, caught in a spiritual via a Quantum Link. the machinations of the Kree battle against Annihilus. As he While traveling through the Supreme Intelligence. Subtly sealed away the influence of the Fault, Wendell somehow regained convincing various other races that evil warlord, he promised Phyla that his corporeal form as well as a new humans were too dangerous to be she would make a great Quasar. costume. Arriving in the allowed free reign in the galaxy, Six weeks prior to the Skrull Cancerverse, Wendell found Earth was turned into a prison invasion, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. himself in a twisted and dystopian planet. The Avengers, with other technicians probing the Negative version of New York City. Almost Earth heroes, exposed the Kree Zone discovered an exotic form of immediately Wendell was attacked plot and freed the planet. The Earth radiation and contained it within a by a giant monster, which initially was still threatened, however, by "Quantum Flask". When the Project overpowered him before the the quickly growing mass of Ego, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility was intervention of the "Avengers". the Living Planet. After the Silver attacked by a Skrull Task Force, During the course of the battle, Ms. Surfer failed to contain the mass, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. scientists Robbie Marvel and Scarlet Witch grew Wendell, home again after so many Rider, and Evelyn Necker removed suspicious of Wendell, declaring months of wandering the galaxy, the Xandarian Worldmind from him to be from "somewhere else". used the power of the Quantum Nova's head and used it to open the Captain America ordered Thor to Bands to contain Ego within his flask, unleashing Wendell, who had "hammer" the monster, causing it to body, forcing him into exile in space become a being of pure quantum revert back into Bruce Banner. lest the Ego-mass within him energy. Nova, the resurrected Captain America deemed Banner to escape. Quasar, and Darkhawk managed to be too dangerous and unstable to The Avengers, in an effort to repel most of the Skrull have around and ordered Iron Man take a more proactive approach to before Wendell was forced to return to tear his heart out. protecting humanity, contacted to the flask to recharge. Turning their attention to Wendell soon after his leaving the Due to years of use, Wendell's Wendell, the Avengers concluded Earth. He created a small base in soul somehow became linked to the that he wasn't "their" Quasar and the Asteroid Belt to serve as an Quantum Bands. Using this link, he promptly imprisoned him. While early warning post in the event of felt Phyla-Vell's death and rebirth at imprisoned, the Avengers explained another alien incursion. It wasn't a the hands of Maelstrom and the that their world was "filled" by the solitary vigil, though, as other Dragon of the Moon, instantly Many-Angled Ones and that they Avengers took shifts with him, teleporting from Earth to the realm intend on using the Fault to seek letting him catch up with events on of Oblivion, where he reacquired out new universes for them to Earth. On a small break from the bands from Phyla, now reborn conquer; mentioning that their monitor duty, Quasar even helped as the new Avatar of Death. After Quasar had also been sent beyond long-time friend Ben Grimm and the bequeathing a small fraction of the the Fault on a scouting mission. rest of the Fantastic Four in a battle Bands' power to Phyla, he returned Scarlet Witch entered the room, on the Moon. to Earth, where he gave the claiming Wendell was made from Quasar fought against the Quantum Bands to a terminally ill "Quantum-Phasic energy", and that Wave alongside Nova. Richard Rider, convinced that a distinct energy path connects him The two fought their way across the making him the new Quasar would to his universe of origin. She asked galaxy and confronted Annihilus be enough to save his life.[44] the other Avengers to clear out as directly. Annihilus destroyed Richard eventually relinquished she needed some time to Wendell's body, and confiscated the possession of the bands back to concentrate in order to plot the Quantum Bands. Seconds before Wendell. course to Wendell's universe in his death Wendell attempted to During the tail end of the detail. Suddenly the Vision Quantum jump from Annihilus' Kree/-Shi'ar War, Black emerged from Scarlet Witch's body clutches but only his mind managed Bolt detonated a Terrigen Bomb and freed Wendell. Vision explained to escape, which ended up in the that tore a massive hole in space that he had been hiding in his wife's Negative Zone. Rider later avenged and time. This hole, dubbed the body for years in an effort to find a his death by personally ripping Fault, threatened to expand and cure for his world and that the only Annihilus apart after the Quantum consume all of reality. In a joint ones opposing the Many-Angled Bands chose Phlya-Vell as their meeting between the Guardians of Ones were machines like him. new wielder. the Galaxy, Nova, and Director Wendell flew from his prison, past Phyla vowed to carry on Gruenwald of Project Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, and Thor, Wendell's legacy as Quasar. P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Wendell and off into space where he However, she had difficulties in her volunteered to make the first discovered, much to his horror, that new position, as Annihilus had left scouting trip beyond the Fault to a the universe itself was comprised of

33 a single giant, organic mass. In a Templeship, merely one of even his own. When S.H.I.E.L.D. last ditch effort Wendell attempted hundreds amassed along the created the top secret town/prison to warn Director Gruenwald of the border of the Fault, where Nova of Pleasant Hill, Wendell became coming threat of the Many-Angled demanded to know what the one of the several operatives living Ones. Wendell lost contact with his Cancerverse Quasar was looking among countless of reformed super universe shortly thereafter. for back on Earth. Suddenly Nova villains who had had their memories Back on Earth, the Quasar was attacked from behind by Adam and appearances tampered with by from the Cancerverse arrived at the . The Xandarian Worldmind a sentient Cosmic Cube named Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility. informed Nova that Magus's power Kobik so they could be turned into , who had recently greatly exceeded his own and that model citizens. assumed control of the Shi'ar the best course of action was to In a similar manner to the Empire, sent the Imperial Guard run. Wendell tried to intervene, but inmates, albeit voluntarily, Wendell and the on a scouting was effortlessly tossed aside by was transformed into an old man expedition to the Fault. After Magus. Wendell noticed that, in and the curator of the Pleasant Hill escaping the clutches of a dead addition to the UCT Templeships, Museum, the place where the bio-ship, the scouting party Magus had also brought entire Quantum Bands were kept, to encountered Wendell fleeing for his planets to the mouth of the Fault. remain there as a failsafe in case life. Wendell claimed he had been With a single word Magus blew up Kobik needed to be neutralized. running for days and warned that the planets, significantly widening During a super villain uprising whatever was pursuing him was the tear in space and time. From led by , S.H.I.E.L.D. right behind him. In an attempt to out of the Fault came "Quasar" and Agent Avril Kincaid resorted to reach the other side of the Fault, Magus's dark master: Lord Mar- finding the Quantum Bands. As a Oracle used Wendell's Quantum Vell. consequence of the upheaval, powers to carry a message back to Wendell and Nova survived the anybody who had had their true Chandilar via the M'Kraan Crystal. destruction of the planets and went selves modified by Kobik regained Gladiator received the message to assist the Nova Corps in battling their memories and true and arrived in the Fault with the creatures that emerged from the appearance, including Wendell. reinforcement Guardsmen. Wendell Fault. During the fight, Lord Mar- After regaining his memories, he managed to escape from the Fault Vell sent the to kidnap gave Kincaid the Quantum Bands. due to the combined efforts of the recently resurrected Once the conflict was resolved, himself, the Imperial Guard, the due to her nature as a "temporal Wendell began tutoring Avril on Starjammers, and Talon of the anomaly." using the bands, helping her Fraternity of Raptors, who had been Wendell and Nova continued to become the new Quasar. masquerading as Guardsman hold the line at the Fault when Smasher. Silver Surfer, , Aegis, Almost immediately after Tenebrous, and the Celestials reaching Chandilar, Wendell sent a joined the conflict. Wendell was message to Nova, detailing what he present when the weaponized just went through, and warning him corpse of the Cancerverse Galactus of the horrors that lay beyond the broke through the Fault. Realizing Fault. Nova concluded that the the danger this new weapon posed, Quasar that recently arrived at Wendell and Nova met with the Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. wasn't the Allied Council of War to discuss the real Quasar and, along with next course of action. Nova Darkhawk, went to Earth to suggested that the Cancerverse investigate. invasion was only to establish a During his brief time on Earth, foothold in their universe and that the Quasar from the Cancerverse Lord Mar-Vell was planning had constructed a "Horrorscope", a something else. Believing Namorita device used for locating something. and the others that the Revengers Declaring that he had found what had kidnapped were important to he was looking for, "Quasar" left Mar-Vell's plans, Nova proposed Earth to deliver the news to his the formation of a small strike team master in person. Nova went after to mount a rescue mission. For his him, and sent out an 8x8 distress team, Nova selected Wendell, Beta signal warning everybody he could Ray Bill, Gladiator, Silver Surfer, that the Fault was a top priority and . threat to the entire universe. The Wendell eventually started to real Wendell received Nova's lose control over the Quantum message and joined in the pursuit. Bands. He bequeathed them to The duo chased "Quasar" to a S.H.I.E.L.D., to keep them from Universal Church of Truth falling into the wrong hands, and

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PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. By Stephen Jolly

Unofficial Advanced Game Accessory

Located deep in the Adirondack Mountains, PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. is a top-secret research facility for the U.S. Government’s Department of Energy. Some super heroes have made it their home, such as the THING, QUASAR, DARKHAWK, and the SQUADRON SUPREME. Conversely, some super villains have been imprisoned here, such as ELECTRO, BLACKOUT, and KLAW.

Do your heroes dare to find out what goes on inside PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S.?

This game supplement is designed for use with the MARVEL SUPER HEROESTM role-playing game. This package includes a 20- page sourcebook describing PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S., its employees and history, and a few enemies. It also includes a poster-map of PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and a Gamer’s Handbook of the entry for one of its long-time residents.