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  PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  UNOFFICIAL GAME ACCESSORY 
  Potential Energy Group/ Alternate Sources/ United States 
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  UNOFFICIAL GAME ACCESSORY 
   
  PROJECT 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  By Steve Jolly 
   
   
   
   
  Contained within this file is all the information you need 
  regarding one of the United States’ most closely-held 
  secrets.  PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. – a high-tech 
  research facility and on-again, off-again prison for 
  supervillains!    Learn what deadly secrets exist at 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. within the pages of this 
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  Credits: 
   
  Design: Steve Jolly 
  Illustrations: Jeff Grubb and the Marvel Bullpen 
  Adventure Fold-up Figures:  George Henson 
  Table of Contents 
   
  Basics ....................................................................2 
  Construction .........................................................2 
  The Compound .....................................................4 
  History ...................................................................5 
  Project STARCORE ..............................................8 
  PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Organization ............ 11 
  Campaign Uses ................................................... 16 
  Nth Command ..................................................... 17 
  Blue Shield (GHotMU Entry) .............................. 19 
  Darkhawk (GHotMU Entry) ................................. 21 
  Giant-Man (GHotMU Entry) ................................ 23 
  Guardsman (GHotMU Entry) .............................. 25 
  Omnivore (GHotMU Entry) ................................. 27 
  Quasar (GHotMU Entry) ..................................... 29 
  MARVELTM Adventure Fold-Up Figures ............ 35 
  Poster Map of PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. ........... 37 
   
   
   
   
   
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  PROJECT P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
   
  Basics 
  The name is an acronym for 
  Potential Energy Group/ Alternate 
  Sources/ United States. It is an 
  advanced research facility sequestered 
  in Athena Mountain in upstate New 
  York. It is chartered and funded by the 
  Department of Energy to explore new 
  energy sources based on renewable 
  resources. However, exploration of the 
  field led to the Project’s frequent 
  involvement with the unique power 
  sources present in super-humans. 
  Although 
  the 
  existence 
  and 
  location of Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. is 
  publicly known, the American public is 
  unaware of the full extent of the 
  Project's facilities and activities. The 
  Project appears to consist of two three-
  story buildings, a cluster of geodesic 
  domes, 
  an 
  observatory, 
  a 
  radio 
  telescope installation, a hangar, a 
  landing strip, and an air control tower, 
  all perched on the level mountaintop of 
  a small mountain in the Catskills. In 
  actuality, the Project extends 24 stories 
  into the mountain, and that is where the 
  high 
  security 
  research 
  and 
  development facilities are located. 
  It should be noted while the 
  existence 
  of 
  the 
  site 
  is 
  publicly 
  recognized, it is popularly believed to 
  be a minor astronomical research 
  station; the vast underground compo-
  nents were top-secret. Though these 
  remain secret, Norman Osborn's casing 
  of a press conference at the facility 
  coupled with the subsequent battle 
  there between the Absorbing Man and 
  Osborn' and Henry Pym's Avengers 
  learns have certainly drawn attention to 
  many of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' secrets. 
   
  Construction 
  From outside, the Project appears 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  modest, 
  mountain-top 
  compound consisting of two three-story 
  administration 
  buildings, 
  adjoining 
  optical and radio observatories, a circle 
  of geodesic domes, and a small airport. 
  Individuals entering P.E.G.A.S.U.S. are 
  subject 
  to 
  holographic, 
  retinal, 
  fingerprint, 
  biomed 
  and 
  engram 
  scanning (IN rank security). 
  The bulk of the Project’s facilities 
  lie underground in the 24- story “Silo” 
  and connecting modules. The Silo is 
  divided into eight levels (A-H), each of 
  which is further divided into three or 
  more floors.   
   
  The A-level is the Solar Power 
  Research facility, and is linked with the 
  geodesic solar collection domes on the 
  surface.  
  The 
  B-Level 
  is 
  the 
  vast 
  communications facility, which not only 
  monitors all activities throughout the 
  immense complex, but also connects 
  the Project with various other research 
  installations throughout the world, as 
  well as the Starcore solar satellite (see 
  next section).  In addition, it houses the 
  various electromagnetic research labs. 
  The C-Level houses the offices 
  and facilities for the security personnel. 
  Besides patrolling the premises, Project 
  security people were once assigned the 
  task of escorting human subjects for 
  energy research to and from the 
  project. 
   
  The 
  D-Level 
  is 
  the 
  administration level, and contains the 
  offices for the small human resources 
  division as well as the training facilities. 
  The E-Level contains the central 
  computer system for the entire Project, 
  which 
  processes 
  and 
  stores 
  all 
  scientific data as well as performing the 
  Project's house-keeping functions.  The 
  central computer system is a massive 
  system 
  unrivaled 
  except 
  by 
  the 
  Fantastic Four’s own K I-RBE. 
  The 
  F-Level 
  contains 
  building 
  maintenance stories.  For undisclosed 
  reasons, the facility maintains a 20-
  year supply of provisions for its entire 
  staff.  
  The G-Level houses all life support 
  apparatus for the facility, including air 
  conditioning, heating, and plumbing.  
  The H-Level contains the breeder 
  reactor which is the major source of 
  power for the entire Project. 
   
  Branching off the Silo are twelve 
  subterranean domes. Six serve as 
  housing for the Project’s 1,000 full-time 
  staff. These housing domes have had 
  their names change over time to reflect 
  the desires of the residents.  The 
  remaining domes serve as specialized 
  research facilities.  Over time, the 
  research being conducted in these 
  domes have evolved as the respective 
  technologies evolve.  
  Individual research domes are 
  dedicated to the following fields:  
   
  cosmic energy  
   
  alien technology 
   
  mystic technology 
  
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  advanced robotics & cybernetics 
   
  extra-dimensional research 
   
  superhuman studies 
   
  climate research 
   
  geothermal research 
   
  magnetic and gravity research 
   
  nuclear research 
   
  Individual sections of the silo and 
  various compounds are protected both 
  by six-inch titanium walls (IN strength) 
  and 
  force-field 
  generators 
  (RM 
  strength). 
  Each 
  compound 
  is 
  connected to the central core only by 
  the loop and by a direct tunnel, and 
  thus each can easily be sealed from 
  the others in emergencies. Trans-
  portation is handled by high speed 
  elevators nicknamed “zoom tubes” and 
  a spiral tunnel known as the Loop.  
  These high speed elevators travel at 
  GD speed. 
   
  In the course of its investigations, 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. has acquired numerous 
  examples of alien, extradimensional, or 
  super-scientific weapons or equipment. 
  These are, in principle, held only for 
  study, though some of them were 
  employed during the Skrull invasion. 
  When not under active study, the most 
  dangerous of these are kept in heavily 
  protected security vaults. Items studied 
  them have included the Serpent Crown, 
  the Cosmic Cube (and Cube shards), 
  Dr. Abner Croft’s Stabilyzer, various 
  robots including Brotherhood of Evil 
  simulacra 
  and 
  the 
  Minions, 
  Nth 
  Projectors and dimensional cannons, 
  Narwhal-class 
  sentient 
  hyperspace 
  missiles, and a Negative Zone portal. 
  Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. has worked 
  cooperatively on numerous research 
  projects with many governmental and 
  private organizations and individuals, 
  including SHIELD, Stark International, 
  Reed Richards, and the UN's Starcore 
  space 
  research 
  program, 
  whose 
  telemetry 
  is 
  coordinated 
  out 
  of 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.  
   
  The Compound 
  It is the Human Resources Center, 
  nicknamed 
  “the 
  Compound,” 
  that 
  gained the Project its notoriety. Under 
  the guidance of Dr. Henri Sorel, the 
  Compound undertook the study of 
  superhumans as power sources. Sorel 
  intended to quantify and catalogue the 
  powers of every superhuman in the 
  country. While budgetary restraints 
  kept him from fulfilling his project, he 
  managed to complete extensive studies 
  on the following people and beings: 
   
   
  Angler 
   
  Atom-Smasher (corpse)  
   
  Kayla Ballantine & the Starbrand 
   
  Biohazard 
   
  Blacklash 
   
  Blackout  
   
  Bres 
   
  Brotherhood 
  of 
  Evil 
  Mutants 
  (robots) 
   
  Captain Hero 
   
  the Cosmic Cube  
   
  Dazzler  
   
  Electro  
   
  Equinox  
   
  Willie Evans 
   
  Fusion  
   
  Giant-Man (Bill Foster)  
   
  Incandescent Man 
   
  Ion 
   
  Jack of Hearts 
   
  Kismet 
   
  Klaw  
   
  Letha  
   
  Moonstone  
   
  Nitro  
   
  Nova (Rider) 
   
  Nuklo  
   
  Poundcakes  
   
  Psigns of the Times 
   
  Quasar (Vaughn) 
   
  Rhino  
   
  Screaming Mimi  
   
  Serpent Crown 
   
  Silas King  
   
  Solarr  
   
  Squadron Supreme of Earth-712 
  (Arcanna, Dr. Spectrum, Haywire, 
  Hyperion, 
  Power 
  Princess, 
  Shape, Skylark, Whizzer) 
   
  Thundra  
   
  Titania  
   
  Toad 
   
  Tony 
  Stark’s 
  Alpha-Particle 
  Generator 
   
  Vibro 
   
  Vision  
   
  Wundarr (a.k.a. Aquarian) 
   
  This 
  research 
  enabled 
  the 
  government to construct the super-
  villain prisons known as the Vault and 
  the Raft. The research may also have 
  been 
  made 
  available 
  to 
  Project: 
  
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  WIDEAWAKE and other anti-mutant 
  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 alias of the Olympic goddess of 
  wisdom 
  Athena) 
  tested 
  highly 
  intelligent children, predates the Great 
  Depression. Immediately after World 
  War 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-
  born son Robert Frank Jr. and led to 
  their 
  departures, 
  but 
  the 
  facility 
  continued 
  operating 
  through 
  the 
  forthcoming decades. 
  The alien Blastaar 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 
  Energy was given control, while a 
  SHIELD group headed by the Falcon 
  (Sam Wilson) was brought in to 
  oversee 
  security. 
  Research 
  was 
  conducted 
  throughout 
  construction, 
  which 
  lasted 
  several 
  years. 
  An 
  enormous underground facility was 
  built, 
  with 
  individual 
  compounds 
  dedicated to the study of various 
  energy forms. In addition, confinement 
  facilities were created for the study of 
  super-powered criminal prisoners.  The 
  facility was at that point named Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.  
  Despite the project’s top-secret 
  nature, news of it leaked through 
  circles of power and the Roxxon energy 
  corporation decided P.E.G.A.S.U.S.’ 
  work was a threat. They hired physicist 
  Thomas Lightner to infiltrate the facility, 
  with an eye to using their dimensional- 
  transporting Nth Projectors to banish 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. to another dimension. 
  As the facility opened, super heroes 
  like Captain America (Steve Rogers), 
  Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and the 
  Thing (Ben Grimm) were brought in for 
  security and super-powered criminals 
  like Klaw, Solarr, Nuklo and Wundarr 
  were 
  sent 
  there 
  for 
  study 
  and 
  treatment. Soon after P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' 
  official opening, Roxxon 
  employed 
  Thundra and the Grapplers (Letha, 
  Poundcakes, 
  Screaming 
  Mimi, 
  Titania/Davida DeVito) and a robotic 
  Deathlok to destroy P.E.G.A.S.U.S., 
  culminating 
  in 
  Dr. 
  Lightner’s 
  transformation into the Nth Man and his 
  
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  defeat at the hands of P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' 
  superhuman 
  defenders. 
  Shortly 
  thereafter, 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' 
  Security 
  Director Quasar teamed with the Thing 
  to uncover Roxxon's involvement and 
  shut 
  down 
  their 
  interdimensional 
  program, though they were never able 
  to prove anything. 
  Not long thereafter, the Thing left 
  the Serpent Crown at P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  and it took control of virtually every staff 
  member to use P.E.G.A.S.U.S.’ dimen-
  sional cannons to summon the Elder 
  God Set. While the Thing, Dr. Stephen 
  Strange, 
  Scarlet 
  Witch 
  (Wanda 
  Maximoff) 
  and 
  Spider-Man 
  (Peter 
  Parker) 
  stopped 
  Set 
  and 
  freed 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Quasar felt he’d failed 
  as security director and resigned. After 
  an AIM breach of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  ended with the Cosmic Cube gaining 
  consciousness and departing, a new 
  security director (Michael O’Brien, the 
  Guardsman) 
  was 
  appointed. 
  The 
  Guardsman served when Lava Men 
  invaded after their underground home 
  was 
  disrupted 
  by 
  the 
  Project's 
  geothermal taps (months later, those 
  Lava Men tunnels were used by the 
  Fantastic Four to access the Mole 
  Man’s 
  underworld) 
  and 
  during 
  a 
  subsequent 
  escape 
  attempt 
  by 
  Blackout (Marcus Daniels), Moonstone 
  (Karla Sofen), Electro (Max Dillon) and 
  Rhino 
  (Aleksei 
  Sytsevich); 
  the 
  Avengers came to his and the Project's 
  aid in both cases. During this period, 
  Captain Hero (seemingly young hero 
  Bobby Wright, but actually the Super-
  Skrull/KI’rt) was studied, as was the 
  Fomorian Bres, while the Incandescent 
  Man was created through an electrical 
  accident. 
  Despite 
  their 
  major 
  disruptions, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. gained a 
  reputation as a resource for the 
  Avengers 
  and 
  government-backed 
  heroes - the Avengers would seek the 
  Project's help in tracking the alien 
  Beyonder; the recovering Vision was 
  studied there to ensure his health and 
  safety; and efforts were made to cure 
  the Rhino there. However security 
  flaws 
  remained 
  present 
  and 
  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 Iron Man (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’ 
  death 
  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 
  
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  organization and was replaced by the 
  Blue Shield as security director. 
  Early in Blue Shield’s tenure, the 
  Omnivore, a creature evolved from 
  elements 
  of 
  Iron 
  Man 
  (James 
  Rhodes)’s armor brought back from the 
  Beyonder’s Battleworld, killed more 
  than a 
  dozen security staff and 
  damaged the facility before it was 
  defeated by Quasar; in the aftermath, 
  Shield resigned and voluntarily became 
  a test subject. He was replaced by 
  Firebolt (Cameron Leonard), who was 
  secretly a Roxxon agent. The Blue 
  Shield 
  eventually 
  saw 
  through 
  Firebolt’s deception and the Roxxon 
  agent was incinerated when they 
  fought; Blue Shield was then rehired at 
  his old position.  
  Near 
  this 
  time, 
  Earth-712’s 
  Squadron Supreme became stranded 
  on Earth-616 and, on Quasar's advice, 
  took 
  up 
  residence 
  in 
  an 
  empty 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. compound which had 
  formerly housed super-criminals. After 
  the team’s brief capture by the Over-
  Mind, they agreed to serve as security 
  and 
  research 
  assistants 
  at 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. This was partially due 
  to Squadron member Arcanna's hope 
  that her lost infant son Benjamin would 
  eventually be found in the bowels of 
  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 
  Kree-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 
  Imperial 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 
  planet; 
  this 
  system 
  subsequently 
  alerted officials to a series of gateways 
  opening 
  from 
  Earth-93060 
  (the 
  Ultraverse).  
  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 Whirlwind (David Cannon) and 
  other low-level criminals which freed 
  Biohazard (Fletcher Traynor), the Blue 
  Shield 
  left 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  and 
  Darkhawk 
  (Chris 
  Powell) 
  became 
  Security 
  Director; 
  Project 
  Director 
  Kappelhoff also left and was replaced 
  by Director Gruenwald. Darkhawk led 
  the defense of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. when 
  Skrulls attacked during their invasion of 
  Earth and disabled the Guardsmen 
  armors won by P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' security 
  staff. Nova (Richard Rider) aided in its 
  defense and between their efforts, the 
  return of Quasar and an army of Minion 
  robots created by Dr. Evelyn Necker, 
  the Skrulls were driven off; in the 
  aftermath, 
  Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  served as a base for the newly 
  recreated 
  Nova 
  Corps 
  and 
  their 
  
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  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 
  were tested against their wills; the 
  Absorbing Man (Crusher Creel) was 
  examined at P.E.G.A.S.U.S. before 
  escaping (with Loki’s covert aid) and 
  absorbing the powers of Cosmic Cube 
  shards held there. Creel was soon 
  defeated by the combined forces of 
  Osborn’s “dark" Avengers and Henry 
  Pym's Mighty Avengers. However, the 
  discovery of the reality-threatening 
  Fault in Shi’ar space soon forced the 
  return of Dr. Gruenwald to leadership of 
  the facility; P.E.G.A.S.U.S. then worked 
  with Quasar, Nova and Star-Lord 
  (Peter Quill)’s Guardians of the Galaxy 
  in investigating the Fault. 
   
  Project Starcore 
  While "Project Starcore" is a name 
  informally 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  entire 
  STARCORE directive, Project Starcore 
  is also a name more specifically used 
  for a research facility built on the rim of 
  the crater which holds the Blue Area of 
  the Moon. Following the placement of a 
  Kree outpost in the moon's Blue Area 
  (as part of an attack on Earth) and its 
  subsequent defeat by the Avengers, 
  SHIELD's xenobiology division and 
  STARCORE took joint custody of the 
  area and the Supreme Intelligence, 
  who was confined there. STARCORE 
  and SHIELD were subsequently given 
  scientific and military control of the Blue 
  Area by the UN; it is unclear if 
  STARCORE 
  had 
  access 
  to 
  the 
  Supreme Intelligence or if he was 
  strictly a military prisoner. Construction 
  of the actual permanent facility there 
  began not long before Rick Jones and 
  the Avengers visited the Intelligence; 
  scientists in the still-under-construction 
  facility were witness to a battle between 
  Ronan and Iron Man and the Fantastic 
  Four, a battle which briefly left the 
  station without life support until Iron 
  Man rescued them. 
   
  STARCORE 
  STARCORE 
  (also 
  known 
  as 
  "Project Starcore") is a UN directorate: 
  an ongoing project intended to enhance 
  the scientific study of space for the 
  advancement and protection of Earth 
  and its dwellers. One of its early 
  projects was Starcore One, a satellite 
  intended for closeup study of our star; 
  Starcore One was built in Earth orbit 
  and then moved into solar orbit near 
  Mercury. 
  After 
  years 
  of 
  service, 
  Starcore One was destroyed during 
  Galactic Storm. In the past few years, 
  Stark 
  Industries 
  built 
  Starcore 
  Command as a satellite control facility 
  in Los Angeles, California; much of 
  STARCORE 
  communications 
  was 
  previously 
  routed 
  through 
  a 
  STARCORE 
  telemetry 
  module 
  at 
  Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S..  
  More recently, STARCORE built 
  Project Starcore, a research facility in 
  the Blue Area of the Moon (security for 
  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 High Evolutionary, 
  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 
  crashed in Jamaica Bay. Starcore One 
  held a well-protected Starcore lifepod 
  for use in emergencies. 
   
  Starcore Eagle-One 
  Control: Ty 
  Speed: Sh Z 
  Body: Rm 
  Protection: Rm 
  Maintains life-support for up to 20 
  people for one month. 
   
  Starcore Lifepod 
  Control: Pr 
  Speed: Mn 
  Body: Rm 
  Protection: Rm 
  Maintains life-support for up to 20 
  people for two months. 
   
  After construction, Starcore One 
  was moved to a solar orbit just outside 
  Mercury. Corbeau used Starcore One 
  to drain energy from the sun and cure 
  the 
  Hulk, 
  though 
  this 
  temporarily 
  destabilized the sun, nearly causing it 
  to go nova. It subsequently detected 
  the arrival of a space fleet brought to 
  Earth's system by Thanos, though 
  Starcore 
  was 
  unable 
  to 
  aid 
  the 
  Avengers in locating several Avengers 
  who Thanos had kidnapped off-planet. 
  Following this, it detected the 
  emergence of Sentinels from solar orbit 
  and monitored what were later revealed 
  to be attempts by the Sentinels to 
  create solar flares which would sterilize 
  the Earth. Starcore One staff were the 
  first to detect an invasion by yet 
  another 
  Thanos-backed 
  fleet, 
  monitored an intense solar flare which 
  threatened 
  Dr. 
  Corbeau's 
  shuttle, 
  detected universal "flickers" caused by 
  the M'kraan Crystal, and detected the 
  comings and goings of the Dark 
  Phoenix. 
  Eventually Starcore One's orbit 
  began deteriorating, and all humans 
  were removed from the station, leaving 
  it completely automated. 
  After it detected "signs of what 
  appeared to be some sort of extra-
  dimensional siphon" tapping the Earth's 
  sun, Reed Richards routed "counter-
  phase" energy from an Earth satellite 
  through Starcore One in an effort to 
  close the siphon. Though the siphon 
  closed, it had the side effect of drawing 
  the merged extra-dimensionals Umbra 
  and Jaguur onto the station; not long 
  thereafter they beamed themselves to 
  Earth. 
  The orbital decay was corrected 
  and the station was restaffed with a 
  rotating permanent crew of seven. This 
  crew 
  would 
  later 
  detect 
  solar 
  instabilities 
  caused 
  by 
  a 
  Shi'ar 
  wormhole just before those instabilities 
  destroyed the station (its staff surviving 
  in the lifepod until being rescued by the 
  Avengers). 
  Besides Peter Corbeau, Starcore 
  One staff included Colonel Mikhail 
  Kutuzov (a Russian sensor specialist), 
  Alexander 
  Hilary 
  (male 
  American 
  mission 
  commander), 
  Dmitri 
  
  10 
   
  (cosmonaut), and Talia Kruma (see 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff), among 
  others. 
   
  Starcore Command 
  Following 
  the 
  destruction 
  of 
  Starcore One, Dr. Corbeau arranged 
  UN 
  funding 
  for 
  new 
  STARCORE 
  satellites, and the initial contract was 
  given to Stark Enterprises (with Henry 
  Peter Gyrich appointed as a UN liaison 
  to 
  the 
  project). 
  Anticipating 
  the 
  contract, Stark had a control facility, 
  Starcore 
  Command, 
  built 
  in 
  Los 
  Angeles before he even officially got 
  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 Bishop 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 
  (Rogue, 
  Cyclops, 
  Beast, 
  Phoenix, 
  Bishop) 
  warned off Earth fighter pilots who 
  attempted to attack the Silver Surfer. 
  The 
  damage 
  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 
  to determine nothing more about that 
  cage.  
  While under construction, Starcore 
  Station's staff included Dr. Barnes and 
  three unidentified others. In solar orbit, 
  Starcore carried Corbeau and at least 
  six unidentified staffers. 
   
  Stark's Starcore Station 
  Tony 
  Stark, 
  influenced 
  by 
  Immortus, 
  built 
  a 
  chronographic 
  weapon which would expose all life on 
  Earth 
  to 
  chronographic 
  radiation, 
  destroying it. Though the device was 
  located beneath Force Works' southern 
  California headquarters, the trigger 
  device for the weapon was in space, on 
  a 
  Starcore 
  Station 
  that 
  Stark 
  Enterprises had built with its own and 
  STARCORE's 
  money 
  (beginning 
  construction even before receiving 
  STARCORE approval). Force Works 
  uncovered this plot, and War Machine 
  (Jim Rhodes) invaded the Starcore 
  Station and violently destroyed it when 
  he detonated Dirge's suit of warwear 
  within it. Unlike the other STARCORE 
  satellites, this one was armed with a 
  variety of defensive weapons, including 
  very lethal lasers. 
   
   
   
   
  
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   Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Organization 
  Director 
  Marcus Gruenwald 
  Director, Research 
  Anson Harkov 
  Solar Power 
  Cosmic Energy 
  Superhuman Studies 
  Alien Tech Research 
  Extra-Dimensional 
  Research 
  Advanced Robotics/ 
  Cybernetics 
  Climate Research 
  Geothermal  
  Research 
  Magnetic/ Gravity 
  Research 
  Nuclear Research 
  Director,  Developments, Patents, 
  and Marketing 
  Margaret Mayfair 
  Government  
  Relations 
  Private Industry 
  Relations 
  Public Relations 
  Director, Security 
  Joe Cartelli 
  Security Team  
  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 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff members 
  include: 
   
   
   
  Marcus Gruenwald  
  Director, Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
   
  Talents: Business, Leadership 
   
  Background:  Director Gruenwald 
  is 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  energy 
  research 
  facility. He was present when the 
  Avengers battled the forces of Sin 
  for 
  possession 
  of 
  a 
  mystical 
  hammer at the Project and has also 
  assisted Nova. 
   
   
   
  Evelyn Necker  
  Head of Robotics 
   
  Talents: Robotics, Espionage 
   
  Background: 
   
  Doctor 
  Evelyn 
  Necker is a spy of A.I.M. who 
  infiltrated Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as 
  the head of robotics. 
  During the Secret Invasion, the 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility was 
  attacked by Skrulls. The initial 
  assault was repelled by the security 
  chief, 
  Darkhawk. 
  When 
  Nova 
  arrived to help his brother, Robbie, 
  he met his boss, Dr. Necker. Dr. 
  Necker was able to download the 
  Xandarian Worldmind from Nova 
  and use it to open a quantum flask 
  which contained the incorporeal 
  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, 
  where she attempted to drag up 
  any resources to heal his decaying 
  body. However, Richard noticed a 
  beekeeper uniform and refused to 
  be any lab rat. Eve assured him 
  that she genuinely wanted to save 
  his life and presented to him the 
  quantum flask that Quasar was 
  originally contained in, which could 
  heal him. Instead, Rider passed up 
  the chance and destroyed the flask. 
  Appearing out of nowhere, Wendell 
  Vaughn arrived with the Quantum 
  Bands transforming Richard into the 
  new Quasar and saving his life. 
   
   
   
  Talia Kruma  
  Engineer 
   
  Talents: Engineering, Architecture 
   
  Background:  Talia Kruma was a 
  brilliant engineer, architect and 
  designer, and a member of the 
  Whiz Kids, a group of scientists 
  working for Bill Foster at Stark 
  International in Los Angeles. She 
  was a very private person, an 
  enigma even to her friends, which 
  was due to her feeling guilt over her 
  lover Neil's death.  Talia was a 
  member of the Avengers Support 
  Crew for a time as a resident 
  scientist, as well as an engineer on 
  the 
  Starcore 
  orbital 
  research 
  station. 
   
   
   
  Jason Rivera  
  Scientist, Superhuman 
  Studies Department 
   
  Talents: Biology, Engineering 
   
  Background:  Dr. Jason Rivera is 
  a specialist in Bio-engineering, with 
  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 
  Damage 
  Control, Inc. 
   
   
   
  Myron Wilburn 
  Director (former)  
   
  Talents: Architecture, 
  Administration 
   
  
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  Background:  Myron Wilburn was 
  one of the architectural consultants 
  for P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and is the 
  general administrative director. 
  Wilburn 
  greeted 
  the 
  Thing 
  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 
  Crusader. 
  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 
  knocked 
  unconsciously 
  by 
  the 
  exploding Nitro after being legally 
  forced to free him. 
  Wilburn was one of those who 
  fell under the Serpent Crown's 
  control; he became high acolyte of 
  the Crowns. After being freed by Dr. 
  Strange, the Scarlet Witch, Spider-
  Man, 
  and 
  the 
  Thing, 
  Wilburn 
  unhappily 
  accepted 
  Quasar's 
  resignation. He was present when 
  AIM assaulted P.E.G.A.S.U.S. to 
  steal the Cosmic Cube, and also 
  hired the Guardsman to replace 
  Quasar. 
  When the government wanted 
  reality 
  altering 
  Willie 
  Evans 
  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. 
  Later, 
  Wilburn 
  oversaw 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.' evacuation during 
  the 
  Omnivore's 
  attack, 
  and 
  accepted Blue Shield's resignation 
  as security director thereafter. Not 
  long thereafter, Wilburn approved 
  Quasar's request to house the 
  Squadron 
  Supreme 
  at 
  Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.  
  Several weeks later, Wilburn 
  was confronted by Quasar, who 
  blamed 
  Wilburn 
  for 
  difficulties 
  relating to the examinations of the 
  Angler 
  and 
  Kayla 
  Ballantine. 
  Wilburn eventually resigned, to be 
  replaced by Andrew Kappelhoff and 
  then 
  in 
  turn 
  by 
  a 
  Director 
  Gruenwald. 
   
   
   
  Anson Harkov 
  Director, Research 
   
  Talents: Biology, Engineering 
   
  Background:  Dr. Anson Harkov 
  leads 
  the 
  various 
  research 
  departments, and reports to the 
  overall Director.   
   
   
   
  Dr. Slevin Clark, 
  Researcher, Cosmic Ray 
  Research Unit 
   
  Talents: Physics 
   
  Background:  Upon discovering 
  that the infinitely powerful Beyonder 
  was at large, Black Knight and 
  Hercules 
  visited 
  Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. While there, they 
  met with Doctor Clark of the Cosmic 
  Ray Research Unit and explained 
  their situation. As Clark and the two 
  Avengers spoke of how they could 
  track 
  the 
  Beyonder's 
  energy 
  readings, the Beyonder himself 
  appeared and commented on the 
  marvelous devices, asking if he 
  could flip some switches. Hercules 
  immediately grabbed the Beyonder, 
  who blew a gaping hole in the 
  Catskills housing the facility. Black 
  Knight 
  soon 
  confronted 
  the 
  Beyonder, ordering Dr. Clark to 
  leave, which he quickly did. 
   
   
   
  Dr. Andrew Kappelhoff 
  Director, PROJECT 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
   
  Talents: Administration, Physics 
   
  Background:  Dr. Kappelhoff was 
  the Project Administrator when the 
  Avengers visited to confront the 
  Squadron Supreme there. He has 
  since been replaced by Director 
  Gruenwald. 
   
   
   
  Dr. Margaret Mayfair, Director 
  of Developments, Patents, 
  and Marketing 
   
  Talents: Business, Administration 
   
  Background:  Dr. Margaret Mayfair 
  is 
  the 
  Project’s 
  head 
  of 
  development, 
  patents, 
  and 
  marketing.  She is also their liaison 
  to private industry. 
  
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  Henri Sorel,  
  Director, The Compound  
   
  Talents:  Biology 
   
  Background:  Henri Sorel was a 
  research 
  physicist 
  with 
  World 
  Health and director of Project 
  Damocles, an international effort to 
  find a cure for radiation poisoning. 
  When he was approached by goons 
  working for Harold Meachum who 
  offered him money in exchange for 
  full rights to the cure, he refused 
  and was severely beaten. He was 
  knocked into radioactive isotopes 
  and became an inhuman being 
  capable 
  of 
  generating 
  nuclear 
  blasts, calling himself Radion. 
  Looking for help in controlling 
  the 
  radiation, 
  he 
  sought 
  the 
  assistance of the Puppet Master 
  and helped him against in a fight 
  pitting Thor against the Fantastic 
  Four. 
  He next appeared in London, 
  destroying an airplane coming in 
  from the US that carried Iron Fist 
  and Misty Knight as passengers, in 
  an attempt to blackmail the British 
  government into giving him nuclear 
  materials he needed. 
  During a fight with Iron Fist, he 
  was knocked into an anti-radiation 
  transformer 
  he 
  had 
  himself 
  developed and was drained of his 
  power. He returned to his human 
  form and went on to work on 
  Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. under his 
  civilian identity.  
   
   
   
  Jeannine O’Connell, 
  Psychotherapist 
   
  Talents:  Psychology 
   
  Background:  Jeannine O'Connell 
  is a psychotherapist at Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. She has extensive 
  training in child psychology. 
  Jeannine 
  was 
  Wundarr's 
  therapist, treating him before and 
  after his exposure to the Cosmic 
  Cube, and befriending the Thing 
  when he came on board as 
  security. She played poker with 
  Grimm, Quasar, Bill Foster, and 
  others. When Quasar was wounded 
  battling Solarr and Klaw she helped 
  care for him; she and Wilburn 
  discussed the futility of evacuating 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. while the heroes 
  battled the Nth Man; and she was 
  present 
  when 
  Aquarian 
  (the 
  transformed 
  Wundarr) 
  left 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. She later attended 
  a Christmas party at the Baxter 
  Building with Quasar, reuniting with 
  the Aquarian there. At that party, 
  Quasar introduced her as his 
  fiancée, 
  though 
  apparently 
  the 
  engagement didn't last.  
  Jeannine was present when 
  Dr. Sorel conducted a test on Blue 
  Shield which went awry. She soon 
  deduced that only Firebolt could 
  have been responsible, and after 
  Blue 
  Shield 
  defeated 
  Firebolt, 
  Jeannine convinced Blue Shield to 
  reassume 
  his 
  prior 
  duties 
  as 
  security director. 
   
   
   
   
  Dr. Pons Indenbaum,  
  Cosmic Radiation Expert 
   
  Talents: Physics 
   
  Background:  Dr. Indenbaum is a 
  longtime P.E.G.A.S.U.S. veteran 
  with 
  a 
  background 
  in 
  cosmic 
  radiation. He has spent the last five 
  years in human research. 
  Indenbaum 
  conducted 
  a 
  fruitless study of Kayla Ballantine 
  and the Starbrand. Two days later, 
  Indenbaum 
  was 
  conducting 
  a 
  passive study of Kismet's cocoon 
  when the Enclave stole it. 
   
   
   
   
  Todd Meeker, 
  Recruiter, Human Resources 
  Department 
   
  Talents: None 
   
  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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  Dr. Thomas Lightner,  
  Cosmic Energy Researcher 
  (secretly in the pay of Roxxon 
  Oil’s Nth Command) 
   
  Talents: Physics, Engineering 
   
  Background:  Dr. Thomas Lightner 
  was a scientist who rebuilt his 
  father's Sky Cannon after his father 
  Raymond disappeared during a 
  mishap with the device. A similar 
  mishap with the rebuilt device 
  caused the energies from Raymond 
  to merge with Thomas, giving 
  Thomas the powers of a black hole. 
  Thomas' body could not contain 
  these vast energies for long, and he 
  collapsed and returned to his 
  normal form. 
  Lightner was later contacted by 
  the Nth Command to infiltrate and 
  sabotage 
  Project: 
  Pegasus. 
  Lightner hoped to use the project's 
  Nth Projector to regain his previous 
  powers. Lightner released Nuklo 
  and allowed Thundra and the 
  Grapplers in to cause destruction 
  and 
  distract 
  the 
  facility's 
  staff.[volume 
  & 
  issue 
  needed] 
  Lightner was supposed to use the 
  Nth Projector to send the Project: 
  Pegasus 
  facility 
  into 
  another 
  dimension, but instead used it on 
  himself. Lightner was transformed 
  into 
  the 
  Nth 
  Man, 
  a 
  "living 
  interdimensional vortex Like a black 
  hole, the Nth Man absorbs all 
  nearby matter and energy into 
  himself. All of the heroes at the 
  facility were absorbed into him, and 
  Wundarr the Aquarian was able to 
  use his null field to shut off the Nth 
  Man's powers. 
  Instead of being destroyed, the 
  Nth Man entered the alternate 
  universe of Earth-S. There, he 
  threatened to consume the sun, but 
  remnants of the Squadron Supreme 
  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 Wizard Supreme and 
  eventually 
  took 
  the 
  name 
  "Mysterium". 
   
   
   
  Dr. William Foster (Giant-Man 
  II), Biochemist; (See GHotMU 
  entry) 
   
   
   
  Dr. Eduardo DeVere,  
  Thermal Energy Expert 
   
  Talents:  Physics, Geology 
   
  Background:  DeVere came to 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as thermal energy 
  expert. 
   
  DeVere 
  joined 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. not long after the 
  Compound was closed and the 
  super-criminals moved to the Vault. 
  He showed Ben Grimm's Fantastic 
  Four how to access to drill hole to 
  the Lava Men's village. 
   
   
   
  Robert Rider,  
  Software Specialist and 
  brother to Richard Rider 
  (Nova) 
   
  Talents:  Computers 
   
  Background:  Robert Rider was 
  Richard Rider aka Nova's younger 
  brother. Robert was a genius and 
  was able to build his own robot as a 
  teenager, although it was later 
  discovered his robot was built due 
  to the manipulations of Doctor Sun. 
  Richard had always been insecure 
  about Robbie being smarter than he 
  was but Robbie always looked up to 
  his big brother. At some point 
  Richard confided in his family about 
  his powers. Robbie was usually 
  more supportive of Richard's role as 
  a hero than their parents. At one 
  point Robbie was kidnapped by a 
  street gang called the Poison 
  Memories 
  who 
  had 
  a 
  grudge 
  against the New Warriors. The 
  gang leader Kimeko Ashu chopped 
  off one of Robbie's fingers. Nova 
  felt awful about this and later went 
  to MIT to talk to his brother and ask 
  for his forgiveness. Robbie said 
  there was nothing to forgive and he 
  would gladly give up more fingers if 
  that's what it took for his brother to 
  save lives. 
  Robert once earned a lot of 
  money from selling a software 
  program he designed. He used the 
  money he earned from that to buy 
  the Long Island home the Rider 
  family used to live in. Robert's 
  parents had previously been living 
  in Jackson Heights, Queens. 
   
  
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  Later, 
  Robbie 
  worked 
  at 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  as 
  a 
  scientist. He was one of the people 
  selected to reconstitute the new 
  Nova Corps and was given Nova 
  powers. Robert is friends with 
  Darkhawk due to their being co-
  workers at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. 
  Robbie 
  is 
  presumably 
  still 
  adventuring in space. His parents 
  have not seen him since before he 
  joined the Nova Corps. 
   
   
   
  Darkhawk (Christopher 
  Powell), Security Director; 
  (See GHothMU entry) 
   
   
   
  Quasar (Wendell Vaughn),  
  Security Director; (See 
  GHotMU entry) 
   
   
   
  Guardsman (Michael O’Brien), 
  Quasar’s replacement; (See 
  GHotMU entry) 
   
   
   
   
  Typical Security Guard 
   
  F  
  A  S  E  R  I  
  P 
  Gd  Ty  Gd  Gd  Ty  Gd  Ty 
   
  Health: 36  
  Karma: 22 
  Resources: Ty  
  Popularity: 0 
   
  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: Martial Arts A 
  Using Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.US. in your 
  Campaign 
   
  - 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. seeks 
  out one of the heroes, looking to 
  research their powers.  The hero 
  can either submit voluntarily, or 
  the Project can provide some… 
  persuasive 
  techniques 
  to 
  convince the hero.  It is a 
  government agency, after all. 
   
  - 
  One (or more) of the heroes is a 
  scientist a specialty in one of the 
  research projects at Project 
  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 
  technology or some research 
  topic; or to break out a captured 
  villain 
  who 
  is 
  currently 
  undergoing “research” at the 
  Project. 
  
  17 
   
  Nth Command 
   
  Mission Statement:  "To gain a 
  world 
  energy 
  monopoly 
  by 
  eradicating any effective private or 
  governmental competition." The Nth 
  Command pursued that purpose 
  through the creation and use of Nth 
  Projectors. 
   
  Affiliations:  Nth Command was a 
  subsidiary 
  of 
  the 
  Brand 
  Corporation, which is owned by its 
  parent company – Roxxon Energy 
  Corporation. 
   
  Headquarters:  Metro Bank on 
  Broadway (served as a front for the 
  Nth Command). 
   
  History:  The Nth Command was 
  created by the Brand Corporation to 
  eliminate 
  competition 
  for 
  their 
  energy market.  They employed 
  operatives 
  known 
  as 
  Nth 
  Commandoes, some of whom used 
  portable Nth Projectors to explore 
  other dimensions. 
  One such mission to eliminate 
  competition was undertaken by Dr. 
  Thomas Lightner, who infiltrated 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. in order to 
  destroy it from within.  Under orders 
  from the Nth Command, Thomas 
  Lightner deactivated security at 
  Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S., allowing a 
  Deathlok robot to break in. Lightner 
  referred 
  to this 
  as 
  "Operation 
  Berserker". 
  The Deathlok robot succeeded 
  in building a portion of an Nth 
  Projector before being discovered 
  and subsequently destroyed by 
  Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. security. In 
  an effort to cover his ongoing 
  actions, Lightner freed Nuklo with 
  the hopes that Nuklo would keep 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S.'s security busy.  
  Thundra and the Grapplers 
  were 
  recruited 
  by 
  the 
  Nth 
  Command to smuggle equipment 
  into 
  Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  Though they were subsequently 
  caught by security, they succeeded 
  in their mission, and Lightner now 
  had everything he needed to build 
  an Nth Projector. Lightner referred 
  to 
  this 
  contingency 
  plan 
  as 
  "Operation Expurgate". 
  Lightner's malicious intent was 
  discovered 
  by 
  Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. staff, but too late. 
  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 
  transported to a prehistoric world 
  used by the Nth Command to 
  produce and refine oil.  Thing and 
  Quasar were able to return to the 
  Nth Command’s headquarters, and 
  flooded their facility in crude oil. 
  Afterwards, a plot by the Nth 
  Command 
  (called 
  “Operation 
  Purge”) to simultaneously attack 
  and remove all of New York's 
  superheroes to other, very fatal, 
  dimensions.  However, this plot was 
  defeated by Captain America, aided 
  by 
  Godwulf, 
  a 
  person 
  from 
  Deathlok’s alternate future. 
  Shortly 
  after, 
  the 
  Nth 
  Command was assimilated into 
  Professor Power’s Secret Empire in 
  an attempt to have a new Nth 
  Projector. 
   
  Typical Nth Commando 
   
  F  
  A  S  E  R  I  
  P 
  Ty  Ty  Gd  Gd  Ex  Gd  Ty 
   
  Health: 32  
  Karma: 36 
  Resources: Gd  
  Popularity: 0 
   
  Powers:  None 
  
  18 
   
  Equipment:  Nth Projector (see 
  below), Laser Pistol (Range 8 
  areas, 10 points of Energy damage) 
  or Laser Rifle (Range 11 areas, 20 
  points of Energy damage), Body 
  Armor (Gd protection vs. Physical 
  and Energy damage). 
   
  Talents: Martial Arts A 
   
  Nth Projector:   
  The Nth Projector was a device 
  capable of trans-porting materials 
  into 
  other 
  dimensions. 
  Nth 
  Projectors came in various sizes 
  and strengths, depending on how 
  much material is to be transported.  
  Nth Adapters were the largest 
  known Nth Projectors. They served 
  as a permanent conduit to transport 
  oil from one dimension to another, 
  and had an internal diameter of 
  about six feet. Quasar theorized 
  that Nth Adapters were fitted with 
  failsafe 
  devices, 
  to 
  prevent 
  accidents 
  resulting 
  from 
  transporting unexpected quantities 
  of material.  
  Portable Nth Projectors were 
  approximately three foot long, and 
  heavy enough that they were 
  generally 
  transported 
  on 
  a 
  handcart, though a person could 
  carry one with minimal difficulty. 
  These portable Nth Projectors could 
  be fitted with homing devices and 
  remote 
  controlled 
  self-destruct 
  devices, to prevent their theft. 
  The Nth Projectors wielded by 
  the Nth Commandoes were lighter 
  and 
  smaller, 
  but 
  required 
  the 
  existence of an Nth Emanator to 
  operate an immensely large power 
  source. It is unknown what the 
  range of an Nth Emanator was, but 
  it was at least the distance from 
  New York City to the X-Men's 
  Mansion in Westchester in upstate 
  New York. When the Nth Emanator 
  was destroyed, the Nth Projectors 
  all failed to function. 
  The 
  smallest 
  known 
  Nth 
  Projectors were incorporated into 
  Sidewinder'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 Professor X's 
  mental 
  abilities, 
  though 
  its 
  effectiveness 
  remains 
  to 
  be 
  determined. 
   
   
   
  
  19 
   
  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: Joseph (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. 
  The force-belt also acts upon 
  his bio-energy to generate an 
  oscillating frequency of bio-energy 
  that interacts with nearby atomic 
  particles in a way to generate a 
  self-supporting force field. This 
  field, which radiates 1 inch from 
  every point on the surface of his 
  body, screens him from objects 
  moving at any speed. The force 
  field, which tends to grow blue with 
  harmless Cherenkov radiation, is 
  imper-ceptible to the touch from 
  within, but has a warm, spongy feel 
  from the outside.  
   
  Force Field: Blue Shield is able to 
  project a personal force field of AM 
  strength around his body. It allows 
  him to have the following power 
  stunts: 
   Resistance to Heat and Cold: IN 
   Immune to Gases and Toxins: 
  The field is impervious to all 
  harmful gases and toxins while 
  allowing Blue Shield to breathe 
  normally. 
   Enhancements: While using this 
  force field Blue Shield's stats 
  change as shown above. 
   Lightning Speed: GD landspeed 
  (4 areas/round) 
   
  Talents: 
   
  Martial 
  Arts 
  B, 
  C, 
  Acrobatics, 
  Tumbling, 
  Law 
  Enforcement 
   
  Contacts: 
   
  Dazzler, 
  She-Hulk, 
  Captain America, Quasar, Project: 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S., 
  Avengers, 
  Squadron Supreme 
   
  
  20 
   
  HISTORY 
  When 
  Frank 
  Cartelli 
  was 
  murdered, his son Joe vowed to 
  avenge his father by waging war on 
  crime. 
  Acquiring 
  a 
  belt 
  (from 
  sources as yet unrevealed) that 
  generated 
  a 
  force 
  field, 
  Joe 
  fashioned 
  an 
  identity-concealing 
  costume and went into action as the 
  Blue Shield. In his civilian guise, he 
  even worked his way into the crime 
  syndicate, eventually becoming the 
  assistant to the crime boss. He 
  once had to help Alison Blaire (also 
  known as the Dazzler against the 
  crime boss Bo Brannigan who was 
  controlling the Terror Tank. After 
  the battle, Alison Blaire told him she 
  was to give a message to Joey from 
  his mother and Joey later visited his 
  mother in hospital. 
  Joseph later attempted to join 
  the 
  Avengers, 
  alongside 
  Mechanaut, 
  Speedball 
  and 
  Gladiatrix. When Captain America, 
  who was trying them out for the 
  team, was called away, Hydrobase, 
  where the Avengers were then 
  based, was visited by the Soviet 
  Super 
  Soldiers, 
  who 
  were 
  considering defecting to the United 
  States. 
  Thinking 
  the 
  Soviets' 
  appearance was a test, Joseph and 
  the 
  other 
  auditionees 
  attacked 
  them, only to quickly lose the upper 
  hand. Before they could be beaten, 
  Captain America intervened and 
  stopped the fight. Joseph and the 
  other prospective Avengers were 
  not offered membership. 
  Joseph later became the head 
  of 
  security 
  for 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S., 
  and 
  briefly 
  resigned from the job after he failed 
  to stop an alien threat from the 
  Omnivore, before taking up the role 
  again. 
  After the Civil War, Joseph was 
  considered as a potential recruit for 
  the Initiative program.  Blue Shield 
  has since been working alongside 
  Jackpot, and has clashed with 
  Spider-Man.
   
   
   
   
  
  21 
   
  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 
  Loners, New Warriors, Avengers 
  West 
  Coast 
  (reservist), 
  Secret 
  Defenders (founder), Fraternity of 
  Raptors (host), Project Pegasus 
  Present Group Affiliation:  
   
  KNOWN POWERS: 
  Alter Ego: Chris Powell has a 
  mystical amulet that allows him to 
  change between his normal form 
  and the Darkhawk at will. In his 
  normal form, Chris has the following 
  stats: 
   
  F  
  A  S  E  R  I  
  P 
  TY  GD  TY  TY  TY  GD  TY 
  Health: 28 
  Karma: 18 
   
  Healing: Darkhawk can heal up to 
  40 points of lost Health by changing 
  between his human and Darkhawk 
  form. He must spend one complete 
  round in his other form before 
  changing back (e.g., if Darkhawk 
  has been injured, he must spend 
  one round in Chris's form before 
  transforming back to Darkhawk if 
  healing is to occur). Note that this 
  only 
  heals 
  damage 
  to 
  the 
  Darkhawk, not to Chris Powell. 
   
  Grappling Hook: The retractable 
  grappling 
  hook 
  in 
  Darkhawk's 
  costume allows him to climb at 
  Excellent speed and can grapple 
  surfaces up to two areas away. 
  Darkhawk fires the hook from the 
  right forearm of his suit with 
  Remarkable accuracy. The hook 
  and cable can grab small objects 
  and 
  entangle 
  larger 
  objects, 
  including people, with a successful 
  Agility FEAT roll using Darkhawk's 
  adjusted Agility for the roll. The 
  hook can also inflict Good (10) 
  Edged Attack damage in melee 
  combat. 
   
  Gliding: Darkhawk can glide at 
  Typical air speed (6 areas/round) 
  using the glider wings under the 
  arms of his Darkhawk armor. 
   
  Blast/Shield: 
  The 
  amulet 
  in 
  Darkhawk's 
  chest 
  armor 
  can 
  provide him with a Darkforce blast 
  of Remarkable Intensity that has a 
  two area range, or a force shield 
  that 
  gives 
  him 
  Remarkable 
  protection against physical and 
  energy attacks from Darkhawk's 
  
  22 
   
  front side only. Darkhawk can 
  project either a blast or a shield 
  during a round, not both. 
   
  Enhanced Vision: Darkhawk has a 
  Good range vision power used for 
  targeting with his grapple-claw; this 
  reduces distances of up to four 
  areas 
  down 
  to 
  one 
  area 
  for 
  purposes of targeting. Darkhawk 
  also has Remarkable level and 
  range lnfravision, allowing him to 
  see in nearly total darkness. 
   
  Talents:  Darkhawk has the Blunt 
  Weapons talent and the Marksman 
  talent with his grappling hook. 
   
  Contacts:  Darkhawk has earned 
  the friendship of the Amazing 
  Spider-Man and Moon Knight, and 
  is an ally of the New Warriors. He is 
  also 
  close 
  to 
  a 
  mysterious 
  vagabond known as "Saint Johnny." 
   
  ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: 
  Chris Powell is still trying to come to 
  grips with the effects Darkhawk is 
  having 
  on 
  his 
  life. 
  Chris 
  is 
  sometimes confused and angry, as 
  are most teens, and Darkhawk has 
  only complicated things. Yet, Chris 
  refuses to give up; he has shown 
  tenacity and honor in dealing with 
  his problems. Chris has decided to 
  avoid 
  using 
  lethal 
  force 
  and 
  unethical solutions to his problems, 
  but he has a temper, particularly 
  regarding Philippe Bazin. 
   
  HISTORY 
  Christopher's Powell's father 
  was a New York police officer; his 
  mother 
  an 
  assistant 
  district 
  attorney. He had two brothers who 
  he had to babysit a lot, but life 
  always has a few problems for 
  teens, right? Unfortunately, life for 
  Christopher Powell was about to 
  get a lot worse. His mother was 
  receiving offers of-and refusing-
  bribes from a mobster, Philippe 
  Bazin, 
  whose 
  case 
  she 
  was 
  prosecuting. 
  His 
  father 
  was 
  constantly working late. 
  Once, his brothers disappeared 
  from home and his charge to go to 
  an amusement park. Chris followed 
  them, only to find his father taking 
  bribes from Bazin's men. When the 
  mobsters discovered him, Chris 
  began to throw objects at them to 
  slow their pursuit. When he picked 
  up the strange amulet he found 
  there, Chris was transformed into 
  Darkhawk. 
  Darkhawk 
  easily 
  defeated Bazin's goons, though one 
  died when he ran into a fuse box 
  while carrying a live electrical cable 
  with which he had intended to 
  electrocute Darkhawk. 
  Realizing that he had a chance 
  to atone for his father's sins, Chris 
  began to fight crime as Darkhawk. 
  There appears to be a link between 
  the Darkhawk amulet and the 
  homeless man, "Saint Johnny," 
  though what form the relationship 
  takes is unknown as of this writing. 
  Darkhawk immediately came 
  up against several dangerous foes 
  in his battles against crime. These 
  others wanted to learn the secrets 
  of Darkhawk and take possession 
  of 
  the 
  amulet, 
  including 
  the 
  villainous Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin, the 
  mobster Bazin, as well as the 
  villains Tombstone and Lodestone 
  all tried to get the amulet from him. 
  He battled such deadly foes such 
  as Portal and the U-Foes, and the 
  mysterious 
  Savage 
  Steel. 
  His 
  battles often saw him stand side-by-
  side with such heroes as Spider-
  Man, Captain America, Daredevil, 
  and the Punisher. 
  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 
  was promptly kidnapped by Bazin. 
  Tombstone stole the amulet from 
  Darkhawk's costume, leaving him 
  unable to transform back to Chris. 
  He followed Bazin, only to crash 
  land on an island ruled by Venom. 
  Darkhawk 
  managed 
  to 
  defeat 
  Venom and, later, Tombstone to 
  regain his amulet. He would not 
  have survived the battle for his 
  amulet had it not been for the 
  selfless sacrifice of Michael Powell. 
  Now, Darkhawk has become one of 
  New York's fastest-rising super-
  heroes, seen often in alliance with 
  Spider-Man as well as the New 
  Warriors. 
  Chris learned that his armor 
  was 
  actually 
  an 
  autonomously 
  existing android armor, one of five 
  commissioned by an alien mob lord 
  named Dargin Bokk, being held in a 
  sentient space ship, Osch, in Null 
  Space. When Chris grasped the 
  amulet, it actually caused his body 
  to switch places with that of the 
  Darkhawk body, although his mind 
  remained 
  in 
  control 
  of 
  the 
  'replacement' body. 
  Later, Chris and Darkhawk 
  actually split into two separate 
  entities, 
  with 
  the 
  armor 
  being 
  updated into the "2.0" form, as it 
  was 
  informally 
  known. 
  This 
  advanced form of armor gave 
  Darkhawk new powers, such as the 
  ability to form a force shield 
  encasing 
  his 
  body, 
  an 
  actual 
  "Hawk" construct (a gigantic force-
  field shaped like a hawk), and the 
  ability to summon weapons from 
  Osch. Darkhawk 2.0 and Chris re-
  merged, with the prospect of no 
  longer needing to use the amulet in 
  order to switch bodies. 
  
  23 
   
  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 Goliath, Giant-Man, Rockwell 
  Dosworth 
  Place of Birth: Watts, Los Angeles, 
  California 
  Marital Status: Divorced 
  Known Relatives: Claire Temple 
  (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., Champions of Los 
  Angeles 
  (unofficial), 
  Circus 
  of 
  Crime, Secret Avengers 
  Present Group Affiliation:  
   
  KNOWN POWERS: 
  Growth: 
  Foster's 
  rank 
  was 
  Amazing, but his Strength could 
  only reach Incredible. Each time he 
  used this power, he would have to 
  make an Endurance FEAT roll, or 
  black out for 1-10 rounds. If he 
  blacked out, he would have to make 
  a second Endurance FEAT or lose 
  one rank of Endurance permanently 
  due to cellular degeneration. He no 
  longer possesses this limitation. His 
  Endurance has been restored. 
   
  Protection vs. Psychic Attacks: 
  Giant-Man has Amazing protection 
  against mental attacks. 
  Talents:  Foster has remarkable 
  reason with biochemistry. 
   
  Contacts:  Foster was an ally of 
  the Thing, the Champions of Los 
  Angeles, and Project Pegasus. He 
  is a friend of Henry Pym, and has 
  fought alongside the West Coast 
  Avengers. He is also friends with 
  Black Panther and Storm. 
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES 
  Foster was a reluctant superhero, 
  who was motivated by a desire to 
  help people, but lacked confidence 
  in his ability as a superhero. Giant-
  Man is not an active superhero; a 
  direct threat against his personal 
  interests (friends, place of work) 
  might be the only thing that is likely 
  to bring him out of retirement. 
   
  HISTORY 
  William 
  Foster 
  spent 
  his 
  childhood in the Watts ghetto. His 
  natural 
  intelligence 
  and 
  the 
  influence of several good people 
  
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  helped him leave the ghetto and 
  attend California Technical Institute. 
  There Foster worked toward a 
  degree in biochemistry and met and 
  married Claire Temple, a medical 
  student. 
  Upon 
  graduation, 
  he 
  worked his way up the corporate 
  ladder at Stark Industries, but his 
  drive for success strained their 
  marriage to the point of divorce. 
  When Harry Pym was trapped at a 
  minimum of ten feet in height, Tony 
  Stark recommended that Foster 
  assist Pym in finding a cure. For 
  several 
  months 
  they 
  worked 
  together in Pym's laboratory in New 
  Jersey, and eventually found a 
  cure. Foster returned to Stark 
  Industries, where he was promoted 
  to head of the biochemistry division 
  at Stark Industries' Los Angeles 
  plant. 
  Fascinated 
  by 
  Pym's 
  research, Foster synthesized the 
  growth 
  compound, 
  hoping 
  to 
  eliminate side effects. Eventually 
  Foster tested the formula on himself 
  and found he had successfully 
  duplicated Pym's growth powers. 
  Taking a leave of absence from 
  his duties at Stark, Foster devised a 
  plan by which he believed he might 
  win back Temple's affections; he 
  wrote to her saying that he had 
  worked with Pym and duplicated 
  Pym's powers, but he deceived her 
  into believing that he, like Pym, had 
  been trapped at gigantic stature. 
  They met at a circus sideshow 
  where Foster had said that he had 
  to work to earn money to continue 
  his research. Foster had outfitted 
  himself in costume and was being 
  billed under the name of Black 
  Goliath. Unfortunately for Foster, in 
  taking moonlighting employment at 
  the sideshow, he had, without then 
  realizing it, come under the control 
  of the Circus of Crime. Temple had 
  become the girlfriend of Luke Cage, 
  and Cage had followed Temple 
  from New York; the two men fought 
  over her. In the course of their 
  dispute, 
  the 
  Circus 
  of 
  Crime 
  captured Temple, forcing Foster 
  and 
  Cage 
  to 
  set 
  aside 
  their 
  differences long enough to join 
  forces against the Circus of Crime 
  and 
  its 
  Ringmaster, 
  Maynard 
  Tiboldt, from whose control Cage 
  also freed Foster. But Temple 
  chose to stay with Cage rather than 
  reconcile 
  with 
  her 
  ex-husband; 
  thus, 
  Foster 
  returned 
  to 
  Los 
  Angeles, his shameful ploy having 
  failed. 
  Although he had fashioned a 
  costumed 
  identity 
  for 
  himself, 
  Foster was uncertain whether he 
  should 
  use 
  it 
  to 
  fight 
  crime, 
  considering the circumstances in 
  which he fashioned it. With the 
  encouragement of Henry Pym, he 
  decided to try. On his first outing, 
  Black 
  Goliath 
  encountered 
  the 
  criminal 
  Atom-Smasher, 
  who 
  bombarded 
  him 
  with 
  deadly 
  radiation. 
  This 
  bombardment 
  immediately produced painful side 
  effects, making his size trans-
  formations difficult and causing him 
  to occasionally black out. Before 
  Black Goliath was able to defeat the 
  Atom-Smasher, his foe was killed 
  by a mysterious assassin that later 
  turned out to be Atom-Smasher's 
  brother, the second Atom-Smasher! 
  Ignoring the symptoms of radiation 
  poisoning, he continued his career, 
  battling such menaces as Vulcan, 
  the Stilt-Man, and the Hijacker, and 
  aiding 
  the 
  Champions 
  of 
  Los 
  Angeles and the Thing. 
  When it became difficult to 
  ignore his illness, Foster took a 
  leave 
  of 
  absence 
  from 
  Stark 
  International 
  to 
  become 
  a 
  consultant 
  at 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S., an upstate New 
  York energy research installation 
  facility. There to do research on the 
  corpse of the Atom-Smasher, he 
  nearly sacrificed his life to stop the 
  mad scheme of the Nth Man. 
  Following the attack, a team of top 
  radiologists were assigned to help 
  cure his condition, including Reed 
  Richards and Walter Langkowski. 
  After their treatments failed, Foster 
  returned to Los Angeles to finish his 
  life's work with Stark Industries, 
  only to be attacked by the new 
  Atom-Smasher. He, the Thing, and 
  the 
  Original 
  Spider-Woman 
  defeated him. Spider-Woman saved 
  his life with a transfusion of her 
  blood, at the expense of losing her 
  immunity 
  factor 
  permanently. 
  However, Foster's cell structure had 
  deteriorated to a point that he could 
  never become Giant-Man again. He 
  retired, and became a full time 
  researcher. 
  Eventually, 
  Foster 
  found 
  himself working as technician for 
  the 
  High 
  Evolutionary 
  at 
  his 
  Antarctic stronghold. Learning the 
  High Evolutionary's plan to mutate 
  everyone on earth, he managed to 
  release a warning to the West 
  Coast Avengers, who tracked him 
  to the stronghold. But as the 
  avengers were being defeated, 
  Foster swallowed a chemical that 
  again transformed him into Giant-
  Man, and he learned that his 
  cellular disintegration had been 
  cured. He then defeated the High 
  Evolutionary in combat. 
  Foster soon 
  gave 
  up 
  the 
  identity of Giant-Man, which Hank 
  Pym subsequently reclaimed for 
  himself.  
  Foster donned the identity of 
  Goliath again, along with a new 
  specialized outfit and this time 
  without the modifying "Black," first 
  to help the Thing deal with a super-
  villain even as he requested a 
  research grant from the Thing. He 
  then helped Spider-Man track down 
  the Hulk, so that Dr. Robert Bruce 
  Banner, 
  the 
  scientist 
  who 
  uncontrollably transforms into the 
  Hulk, could, possibly, deal with 
  Spider-Man's 
  own 
  cellular 
  degeneration. 
  During the superhuman Civil 
  War, Foster was a member of 
  Captain America's anti-registration 
  Secret Avengers, adopting the alias 
  of 
  Rockwell 
  Dodsworth. 
  He 
  subsequently 
  appeared 
  briefly 
  amongst the cavalcade of other 
  African-American 
  super-heroes 
  attending the wedding of the Black 
  Panther and Storm. 
  Foster was killed by a clone of 
  Thor during a fight between the 
  Secret Avengers and Iron Man's 
  pro-registration 
  forces. 
  Since 
  it 
  proved not to be possible to reduce 
  his body to normal size, he was 
  buried as a giant, with Tony Stark 
  (Iron Man) paying for the thirty-eight 
  burial 
  plots 
  required 
  to 
  accommodate him.  
  Bill Foster was last seen in 
  Pluto's realm, refusing to accept 
  death's embrace while holding out 
  possible hope for a resurrection. 
   
   
  
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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: Chicago, 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 
  derive from his armor.  
   
  Body Armor: The Guardsman armor 
  gives Incredible protection from 
  physical 
  attacks, 
  Excellent 
  protection from energy attacks, and 
  Monstrous 
  protection 
  from 
  radiation. 
   
  Flight: Boot-jets allow O'Brien to fly 
  at Remarkable speed (15 areas/ 
  round) for up to 2 hours. If used as 
  weapons, the boot-jets do Excellent 
  damage to any target within 2 
  areas. 
   
  Energy Absorption:  The Guards-
  man armor can absorb up to 300 
  points of energy for weapons 
  systems, raising them to Mn for 1 
  round.  He can absorb incoming 
  attacks on a Yellow FEAT or better 
  (Un column). 
   
  Repulsors: Repulsors in the armor's 
  gauntlets can do Incredible damage 
  up to 2 areas away. 
   
  Life Support: The armor contains an 
  internal air supply good for 30 
  minutes' use. 
   
  Sensors:  Incredible rank Radar.  
  Additionally, sensors in his suit can 
  detect other electronic signals (such 
  as radio waves, radar, etc.) with 
  Incredible rank. 
   
  Protected Senses:  Remarkable 
  protection against sound and light.  
  Blindness only lasts 1 round max 
  on a successful Yellow FEAT. 
   
  Talents:  O' Brien is an ex-police-
  man with the Law Enforcement 
  talent and Martial Arts E. 
   
  Contacts:  O’Brien was originally a 
  sergeant in the NYPO. He was 
  chief of security at both Project: 
  Pegasus and The Vault.  He’s now 
  a member of the Avengers’ support 
  staff. 
   
  HISTORY 
  Kevin O'Brien was an engineer 
  working 
  for 
  the 
  newly-opened 
  
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  Lakani 
  island 
  plant 
  of 
  Stark 
  Industries (now Stane International) 
  who came to the attention of 
  Anthony Stark. Despite a careless 
  streak 
  that 
  once 
  caused 
  the 
  laboratory he was working in to 
  explode, he became a close friend 
  of Stark and was soon appointed 
  head 
  of 
  Stark's 
  research 
  department. On several occasions, 
  O'Brien assisted Stark and his 
  supposed bodyguard Iron Man, who 
  was really Stark himself, notably 
  against the Spymaster and the 
  Espionage 
  Elite, 
  saving 
  Tony 
  Stark's life on more than one 
  occasion. Stark then decided to 
  reveal to O'Brien that he was 
  secretly Iron Man, and to build for 
  him a second suit of armor for use 
  in the event of an emergency. That 
  emergency came a short time later 
  when Iron Man and his current 
  girlfriend Marianne Rogers were 
  taken captive by the superhuman 
  madman 
  Mikas 
  the 
  Soulfather. 
  Putting on the armor before it was 
  fully tested, O'Brien fell prey to a 
  malfunction 
  in 
  the 
  cybernetic 
  circuitry controlling the armor which 
  apparently stimulated the regions of 
  the brain where rage and jealousy 
  originate. 
  O'Brien found himself seized 
  with sudden attraction for Stark's 
  girlfriend Marianne Rogers, and 
  became 
  extremely 
  jealous 
  of 
  Stark's power, looks and fortune. At 
  the same time Simon Gilbert, then 
  chairman of the board of Stark 
  Industries' 
  stockholders, 
  grew 
  alarmed that Stark was moving out 
  of 
  munitions 
  production 
  and 
  mapped strategies with the board to 
  seize controlling interest in the firm 
  from its principal stockholder, Stark 
  himself. O'Brien, clad in armor and 
  calling himself the Guardsman, 
  offered to aid the board in their plot 
  against Stark. As a show of 
  support, he agreed to quell a 
  protest rally outside the plant. The 
  Guardsman aimed his repulsor rays 
  at the crowd injuring four protestors. 
  Sickened by what he did, O'Brien 
  turned on the renegade board 
  members, roughing them up. But 
  seeing Tony Stark with Marianne 
  Rogers caused him to once again 
  become unbalanced and he went 
  outside to vent his rage on the 
  growing crowd of protestors. Stark 
  donned his Iron Man armor and 
  engaged the Guardsman in battle to 
  prevent 
  him 
  from 
  doing 
  more 
  damage. Losing the Guardsman 
  sought refuge in an experimental 
  tank. In an attempt to stop him 
  without hurting him, Iron Man 
  trained his repulsor rays on the 
  vehicle and accidentally hit its fuel 
  supply. The tank exploded, killing 
  Kevin O'Brien. 
  Some months later when the 
  details of the incident came to 
  public light, Kevin O' Brien's brother 
  Michael, a sergeant on the New 
  York City police force, decided that 
  the official investigation exonerating 
  Iron Man's actions was a cover-up. 
  Reopening the investigation without 
  official sanction, O'Brien confronted 
  Stark, interrogated several of his 
  employees, and finally hired an 
  unscrupulous private investigator to 
  get him inside the Long Island 
  plant. There O' Brien located the 
  Guardsman armor and put it on, 
  determined to use it to bring Iron 
  Man 
  to 
  justice. 
  However, 
  the 
  malfunction 
  in 
  the 
  cybernetic 
  circuitry also affected his brain and 
  he flew into a rage, seeking to kill 
  Iron Man. Iron Man confronted his 
  attack and finally convinced him 
  that the armor was causing him to 
  act insanely. Stark took Michael 
  O'Brien into custody rather than 
  press criminal charges, hoping to 
  convince the man of his innocence 
  in his brother's death. While Stark 
  worked on a new set of armor, the 
  Japanese mutant Sunfire attacked 
  the plant. Stark was unable to put 
  on his new armor since it had not 
  yet cooled and unable to find any of 
  his spare suits of armor since a 
  saboteur had stolen them. Hence 
  he was forced to put on the 
  Guardsman 
  armor 
  to 
  fight 
  off 
  Sunfire. O'Brien witnessed Stark's 
  heroic attempts to save lives over a 
  video monitor aware that Stark was 
  risking a major heart attack by the 
  strenuous 
  activity. 
  Escaping 
  confinement O' Brien decided he 
  was 
  wrong 
  about 
  Stark 
  and 
  determined to help him by donning 
  the now-cool Iron Man armor. Thus 
  clad, he was mistaken for  the real 
  Iron Man and kidnapped by the 
  Mandarin. Stark discovered an old 
  set of Iron Man armor that the 
  saboteur had overlooked and went 
  to China to rescue O' Brien. Upon 
  rescuing him, Stark chose to reveal 
  his true identity to O'Brien before he 
  went off to battle the Mandarin. 
  O'Brien flew back to New York 
  where he took custody of the 
  Guardsman armor once more.  
  After Iron Man defeated the 
  Mandarin, 
  Stark 
  fixed 
  the 
  malfunction 
  in 
  the 
  Guardsman 
  armor's circuitry so it was safe to 
  wear. 
  Michael 
  O'Brien 
  was 
  determined to use the armor to 
  vindicate both his brother's and his 
  own senseless actions. When Stark 
  International 
  (formerly 
  Stark 
  Industries) was taken over by the 
  criminal Midas, the Guardsman 
  joined with a number of Stark's 
  other friends and allies to battle 
  Midas's men. He was turned to gold 
  by Midas's power, but was later 
  restored to flesh. Having quit the 
  police force, O'Brien interviewed for 
  the position of security director at 
  Project: Pegasus, the government 
  energy research facility, after its 
  previous director Quasar, quit. With 
  a high recommendation by Tony 
  Stark, 
  O'Brien 
  got 
  the 
  job.  
  Sometime later, while guarding the 
  project, O'Brien's Guardsman armor 
  was damaged in a battle with the 
  subhuman Lava Men. It was later 
  repaired at the project's expense. 
  O'Brien as the Guardsman has 
  been living and working full-time in 
  the Project since his appointment 
  and has performed his duties 
  capably. 
  When much of the super-villain 
  containment 
  duties 
  of 
  Project: 
  Pegasus were transferred over to 
  The Vault, O'Brien transferred as 
  well and was made chief of security 
  there. The security staff wears 
  manufactured duplicates of the 
  Guardsman armor.  
  O'Brien also suited up with 
  Bethany Cabe, Eddie March, Happy 
  Hogan and Force to face Ultimo 
  when asked by War Machine. 
  Without his armor, O'Brien was 
  affiliated 
  with 
  Captain 
  America 
  (Steven Rogers) and the Avengers 
  as part of the team's support staff.
   
   
  
  27 
   
  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 
  fire as well as radiation, electricity 
  and cold.  
   
  Body Control: Omnivore is a limited 
  metamorph and can alter and 
  control its body with the following 
  effects.  
    *Shape shifting: Omnivore can 
  alter parts of its body into basics 
  shapes such as blades or claws 
  capable of doing Amazing edged 
  damage, or extending its limbs into 
  the next area. Omnivore's lack of 
  intellect prevents it from performing 
  more intricate or creative uses of 
  this ability. 
    *Healing: 
  Omnivore 
  can 
  restructure the metal in its body to 
  fix damage it has sustained or 
  regrow lost parts to a limited 
  degree. Omnivore is capable of 
  healing up to half of its current 
  health once per day. This however 
  is limited as after healing, cannot do 
  so again or heal itself until it has 
  consumed. Basically this power is a 
  one shot until it eats again and is 
  more of a self-preservation tool. 
    *Body separation: If Omnivore has 
  a limb severed, it can still control 
  the separated body part. Thus if an 
  arm was severed, it could still 
  choke 
  someone 
  holding 
  it. 
  Omnivore can re-attach that body 
  part, healing half the damage that it 
  suffered by the attack that severed 
  the limb. The distance that the 
  severed 
  body 
  parts 
  can 
  be 
  controlled is uncertain, but at least 
  2 areas.  
    *Spin Cocoon: Omnivore can spin 
  a cocoon of Amazing strength metal 
  that can be used to hold a captured 
  individual, much 
  like 
  a spider 
  webbing 
  up 
  a 
  fly 
  for 
  later 
  consumption.  
   
  Size: As Omnivore consumed, it 
  grew rapidly. It seemed to have 
  maxed out at just over 30' in height, 
  thus being considered to have 
  permanent growth of Unearthly 
  rank. At this height those opposing 
  Omnivore would have +3 Shifts to 
  hit. Due to the metallic construction 
  of its body, is extremely dense and 
  heavy, weighing more than 30 tons, 
  thus requiring Amazing strength to 
  even lift. 
   
  Acid 
  secretions: 
  Omnivore 
  can 
  secrete a unique acid of Amazing 
  intensity at a range of up to 2 areas. 
  This 
  acid 
  has 
  the 
  unique 
  
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  characteristic of breaking down 
  matter and energy into a more 
  palatable form that Omnivore can 
  consume the next round, much like 
  how a fly consumes its food. Living 
  matter, metal and energy, can all be 
  broken down by this acid, that can 
  weaken stronger materials and 
  force fields by the rank of the 
  attack.  Force fields composed of 
  force seem to be able to hold off the 
  attack, provided that they are strong 
  enough rank to withstand the attack 
  and any resistance to corrosives 
  will also provide some resistance, 
  but even higher ranked energy 
  force fields will be consumed, it will 
  just take longer.  
   
  Weakness: Omnivore seemed to be 
  momentarily 
  stunned 
  by 
  an 
  electromagnetic pulse emitted by 
  Quasar's quantum bands. So it can 
  be assumed that the metal body of 
  Omnivore 
  is 
  vulnerable 
  to 
  magnetics and would be at -2CS to 
  resist 
  such 
  attacks 
  and 
  manipulations. 
   
  Talents:  None 
   
  Contacts:  None known 
   
  ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: 
  Omnivore is a predatory creature 
  nothing more. Basic animal intellect 
  and instinct to survive are all that 
  drive this creature. While capable 
  and cunning enough to ambush 
  more high risk prey, Omnivore 
  seems incapable of much more 
  than basic animal survival instincts. 
  Onmivore will attack others to 
  consume or protect itself from 
  perceived threats. There is no other 
  motive. 
   
  HISTORY 
  When the cosmic Beyonder 
  formed Battleworld from remnants 
  of a destroyed galaxy as well as 
  pieces of multiple planets during his 
  "Secret Wars" contest of super 
  heroes and villains, Mr. Fantastic  
  used alien technology (actually a 
  living alien being, unbeknownst to 
  all) to fabricate replacement parts 
  for Iron Man (Jim Rhodes)'s battle-
  damaged armor.  
  Upon 
  returning 
  to 
  Earth, 
  Rhodes 
  found 
  the 
  Battle-world 
  enhancements 
  dysfunctional. 
  Assuming 
  this 
  to 
  be 
  due 
  to 
  differences between the planets' 
  magnetic fields, and abandoned the 
  accessories in an upstate New York 
  snow bank, little realizing had he 
  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.  
  After the rest of the Project had 
  evacuated, former security head 
  Quasar 
  (Wendell 
  Vaughn) 
  happened upon the scene and 
  investigated, freeing Blue Shield 
  before 
  being 
  attacked 
  himself. 
  Finding the creature, which be 
  dubbed Omnivore, able to dissolve 
  even 
  his 
  quantum 
  constructs, 
  Quasar cut off its right hand when it 
  grabbed Blue Shield again, and 
  then pushed Omnivore deep into a 
  Magma Tap connected to Earth's 
  magma layer, and sealed the tap 
  before it could escape. Quasar left 
  its severed hand contained in a 
  quantum 
  field 
  for 
  PEGASUS' 
  scientists to study and contain. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
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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 
  Present 
  Group 
  Affiliation: 
  S.H.I.E.L.D. 
   
  KNOWN POWERS: 
  Quantum-Bands: Quasar wears a 
  pair of bracelets of an unidentified, 
  Unearthly strength material. They 
  are capable of converting "quantum 
  energy" for a number of Power 
  Stunts, including: 
   Force 
  blasts 
  of 
  Monstrous 
  strength at a range of 5 areas 
   Flight at Shift-Y speed (100 
  areas/round), 
  Remarkable 
  speed (xx areas/round) within 
  an atmosphere. 
   Teleportation by opening gates 
  to the Quantum Zone at CL5000 
  speed. 
   "Solid 
  light" 
  constructs 
  of 
  Monstrous material strength that 
  do Monstrous damage if used 
  as weapons. Quasar can form 
  any 
  simple 
  solid 
  object 
  (spheres, cones, cubes, mallets, 
  cages, 
  etc.) 
  that 
  he 
  can 
  visualize 
   Light 
  bursts 
  of 
  Monstrous 
  intensity which can blind an 
  opponent 
   Identification of energy patterns 
  at Monstrous rank, and tracking 
  of those energy patterns at 
  CL1000 rank. 
   A force field which provides 
  Monstrous 
  protection 
  against 
  physical and energy attacks 
   Protection from Vacuum - A 
  specialized 
  force 
  field 
  that 
  protects Quasar from the rigors 
  of outer space.  
   
  Talents:  Trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  and the U.S. Army, Vaughn has the 
  Law Enforcement and Espionage 
  skills. He is trained in Martial Arts A 
  and B, as well as handgun use. 
   
  Contacts:  Vaughn has contacts in 
  S.H.I.E.L.D., the U.S. Army, and 
  those people employed at the Vault 
  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 
  past.  Additionally, he has since 
  worked as part of the Avengers. 
   
  ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES 
  Despite his years of training as a 
  soldier, a S.H.I.E.L.D. super-agent, 
  and a superhero, Quasar is still 
  somewhat insecure in his role as a 
  superhero, perhaps because of the 
  sheer power that he wields. He 
  takes himself extremely seriously 
  and does not allow himself any 
  errors. He is extremely loyal to his 
  superiors and tends to follow orders 
  from them without question. 
   
  HISTORY 
  Wendell Vaughn is the second 
  human being to wear a pair of alien 
  energy bracelets now known as the 
  quantum-bands. 
  The 
  first 
  was 
  Robert 
  Grayson, 
  the 
  son 
  of 
  astrophysicist Dr. Horace Grayson. 
  In the years before World War II, 
  Dr. Grayson made radio contact 
  with the colony of Eternals who 
  lived on the planet Uranus in an 
  endeavor to build a spaceship 
  capable of interplanetary travel. 
  Believing Uranus to be a better 
  environment than Earth to raise his 
  son, Dr. Grayson, a widower, 
  journeyed there and was met with 
  open arms by the Uranian Eternals, 
  who were eager to hear news of the 
  world that had spawned them 
  millennia before. 
  When young Robert Grayson 
  was in his mid-teens, he was given 
  a pair of energy-manipulating wrist-
  bands, whose origin was then 
  unknown. 
  Robert's 
  adventurous 
  spirit led him back to Earth, where, 
  upon his father's suggestion, he 
  used 
  the 
  wrist-bands' 
  solar-
  conversion capacities as a weapon 
  to battle crime. Grayson called 
  himself Marvel Boy and established 
  a solid reputation as one of the 
  1950s' 
  preeminent 
  costumed 
  crimefighters. Learning that his 
  father was in poor health, Grayson 
  tried to purchase medical supplies 
  to take back to Uranus, but was 
  unable to get a bank loan. Upon 
  reaching Uranus, he learned that 
  some unexplained disaster had 
  ruptured the colony's protective 
  dome, killing all of its inhabitants, 
  including his father. Insane with 
  grief, he decided to return to Earth 
  and take vengeance upon the 
  banker who, by refusing his loan, 
  had made him waste valuable time. 
  Caught in suspended animation for 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  years, 
  Grayson 
  eventually made it back to Earth 
  and went on a rampage, calling 
  himself the Crusader. In a battle 
  with the Fantastic Four, Grayson 
  disintegrated himself by channeling 
  solar energy through the wristbands 
  improperly. The energy bracelets 
  were undamaged. 
  The Fantastic Four's Reed 
  Richards confiscated the weapons, 
  and, having no time to investigate 
  the nature of their power himself, 
  turned them over to S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  There 
  they 
  were 
  given 
  to 
  S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Dr. Gilbert 
  Vaughn, who hypothesized that the 
  alien power transformers may be 
  able to utilize energy sources in 
  addition to solar. 
  In order to test them, Vaughn 
  got permission to use his son 
  Wendell, an army veteran in the 
  midst of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent training, 
  as a test subject. To Wendell's 
  dismay, he discovered that the 
  wrist-bands affixed themselves to 
  his wrists as soon as he used them. 
  Permanently 
  linked 
  to 
  these 
  powerful 
  mechanisms, 
  Wendell 
  Vaughn joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s pilot 
  "Super-Agent" program under the 
  name Marvel Man. When the 
  program was discontinued, he took 
  the code-name Quasar, based on 
  the 
  power 
  source 
  his 
  father 
  believed that he had attuned the 
  wrist-bands to: quasi-stellar radio-
  sources. 
  His excellent military record, 
  S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  credentials, 
  and 
  a 
  recommendation 
  by 
  Captain 
  America got him the position of 
  security chief at the government's 
  secret 
  energy 
  research 
  facility, 
  Project: Pegasus. After several 
  years, 
  however, 
  he 
  resigned, 
  blaming himself for allowing the 
  Serpent Crown, an ancient mystical 
  power object, to take over the 
  minds of everyone in the Project, 
  including himself. Despondent, he 
  tendered his resignation as head of 
  security to the project's director, 
  Myron Wilburn, and would not let 
  himself 
  be 
  talked 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  decision. Putting away his costume, 
  he spent the next few weeks at his 
  mother's home in Wisconsin sitting 
  in his old bedroom, strumming his 
  guitar, lifting weights, and avoiding 
  life. At her wit's end, his mother 
  finally called her ex-husband to 
  come to try to draw their son out 
  from beneath his veil of depression. 
  Dr. Vaughn proposed his son 
  undertake a scientific mission to 
  learn the origin of the Quantum 
  Bands. Attracted to the prospect of 
  spending time alone in the void of 
  space, Quasar agreed. And, after 
  weeks of exhaustive preparation, 
  the 
  equipment-laden 
  adventurer 
  penetrated 
  the 
  envelope 
  of 
  atmosphere surrounding his home 
  planet for the first time — and 
  promptly went to sleep. 
  Four years and nearly 3 billion 
  kilometers 
  later, 
  he 
  woke 
  up. 
  Discovering the remains of the 
  Uranian Eternals' life-dome, Quasar 
  encountered Deathurge who related 
  the story of the Uranians and his 
  role 
  in 
  their 
  deaths 
  to 
  him. 
  Deathurge 
  then 
  attempted 
  to 
  convince Wendell that he had 
  journeyed all those billions of 
  kilometers hoping that something 
  would end his failed life. He nearly 
  succumbed to Deathurge's "help", 
  but was transported to subspace 
  where Eon was waiting. 
  Here 
  Eon 
  explained 
  that 
  Wendell 
  Vaughn 
  of 
  Earth 
  possessed all of the necessary 
  attributes: 
  intelligence, 
  courage, 
  and resourcefulness, and was to 
  become the new Protector of the 
  Universe, a position most recently 
  filled by the late Captain Marvel. 
  Eon appointed him the Captain's 
  successor with his mission to 
  safeguard the universe from the 
  greatest threat that he had ever 
  perceived. Of this threat, only three 
  things were known: 1) the threat 
  would come from space, 2) it would 
  manifest itself on Earth, and 3) it 
  would try to slay Eon to gain the 
  secret of cosmic awareness. After 
  performing the Metamorphic Rite of 
  Passage, Eon transported Quasar 
  back to normal space, where he 
  easily 
  defeated 
  Deathurge. 
  However, 
  he 
  uttered 
  a 
  brief 
  prophecy, "When we meet again, 
  you will beg me to kill you ... and I 
  
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  will refuse," as he slowly faded 
  away. 
  Wendell 
  convinced 
  Eon 
  to 
  accompany him back to Earth to 
  better protect him against this 
  threat. Now aware of the full 
  capabilities 
  of 
  the 
  Bands, 
  he 
  quantum-jumped back to Earth with 
  Eon, reducing the four-year journey 
  to fifteen seconds. Back on Earth, 
  Quasar set up a security consulting 
  firm to serve as both an income and 
  cover for his "cosmic activities". 
  Once Vaughn Security Systems 
  was 
  established, 
  he 
  began 
  a 
  systematic 
  location 
  and 
  identification 
  of 
  every 
  extra-
  terrestrial on Earth. During a nation-
  wide villain uprising, Quasar chased 
  the Living Laser into the Watcher's 
  home on the moon. Here the Living 
  Laser accidentally passed through 
  a portal into an alternate dimension. 
  Thinking him lost, Wendell returned 
  to Earth to assist the Avengers 
  during the crisis. 
  The arrival of the Squadron 
  Supreme 
  triggered 
  the 
  re-
  emergence of the Over-Mind, the 
  sole survivor of an ancient race of 
  conquerors endowed with the entire 
  psychic power of that race. By now, 
  Wendell 
  had 
  learned 
  how 
  to 
  program the Bands to keep his 
  mind safe from mental takeover, but 
  the Squadron wasn't as lucky. 
  Over-Mind 
  possessed 
  them, 
  commandeered their ship, and set 
  course for the Stranger's Laboratory 
  World, believing him to be the last 
  survivor of the race responsible for 
  his people's destruction. Quasar 
  followed 
  with 
  Hyperion 
  of 
  the 
  Squadron and his friend Makkari, 
  an Eternal. The Stranger was away 
  from his Lab World investigating a 
  mystery, the sudden deaths of 
  several Watchers throughout the 
  galaxy. Unable to confront the 
  Over-Mind directly, Wendell located 
  the Stranger who returned and 
  ultimately 
  defeated 
  Over-Mind. 
  Several Watchers appeared during 
  the battle, hoping to receive some 
  form 
  of 
  assistance 
  from 
  the 
  Stranger, whose judgment they all 
  valued. An information plague, the 
  Oblivion Virus had been causing 
  Watchers all over the universe to 
  will themselves out of existence in 
  an effort to keep from violating their 
  oath of non-interference. Wendell 
  reasoned that their deaths affect 
  the universe just as much, if not 
  more, 
  than 
  their 
  passive 
  observation. This idea revived all 
  Watchers as it spread telepathically 
  throughout the universe. 
  Once back on Earth, Quasar 
  encountered Unbeing and Origin, 
  two minor but powerful cosmic 
  entities. After overcoming Unbeing, 
  Quasar had his costume design 
  changed retroactively throughout 
  time. Origin's simple act proved vital 
  in his struggle against the Cosmic 
  Assassin.  
  The Presence and Starlight, 
  newly escaped from the Stranger's 
  Lab World reached Earth, intent on 
  destroying Eon, believed him to be 
  an evil menace to the universe due 
  to a well-placed lie from the 
  assassin. Quasar thwarted their 
  attack and believed that he had 
  vanquished his appointed menace . 
  . . just as the assassin wanted him 
  to believe. Immediately after this, 
  he discovered that his father had 
  died months earlier and been 
  animated 
  since 
  then 
  by 
  Eon. 
  Abdicating his position as Protector 
  of the Universe, he cut off all 
  contact with his former mentor. 
  During this time of emotional 
  upheaval, the true Cosmic Assassin 
  revealed himself ... Maelstrom. 
  Having assumed the power and 
  station of the cosmic entity Anomaly 
  after being hyper-enlarged in a 
  battle with the Avengers, he cut off 
  Quasar's arms and suspended him 
  in his mansion, but the Bands 
  remained even on his severed 
  arms, unable to be removed. To 
  enable him to harness the energy of 
  the Bands, Maelstrom finally killed 
  Wendell and donned the Quantum 
  Bands. 
  Although his body lay dead in 
  Maelstrom's 
  mansion, 
  Quasar 
  suddenly found himself composed 
  of pure energy. Not knowing how 
  he had survived, he tried to protect 
  Eon from Maelstrom. To keep him 
  from gaining the secret of cosmic 
  awareness, Quasar killed his eight-
  billion-year-old 
  mentor 
  and 
  suddenly 
  found 
  himself 
  in 
  possession 
  of 
  Eon's 
  cosmic 
  awareness. But, the fatal blow 
  came too late, Maelstrom also 
  acquired it. He then set out to 
  collapse the universe into a single 
  anomalous point where he, being 
  the personification of Anomaly, 
  would reign supreme. 
  As 
  the 
  universal 
  collapse 
  accelerated, Maelstrom, as the 
  avatar of Oblivion, battled Quasar, 
  acting as the avatar of Infinity, his 
  mysterious 
  benefactor. 
  In 
  the 
  ensuing battle, Quasar triumphed 
  due to the fact that he existed as a 
  time paradox because of Origin's 
  retroactive change of his costume. 
  This caused him to be a more 
  anomalous being than Maelstrom, 
  thereby diminishing his power and 
  breaking his concentration enough 
  to allow the energy of the Quantum 
  Bands to consume him. Infinity, 
  having triumphed demanded new 
  terms from Oblivion. Death and 
  Eternity were summoned, and a 
  new bargain struck. As a part of this 
  new pact, Quasar and Makkari 
  were returned to life, while Death 
  and 
  Oblivion 
  kept 
  Eon 
  and 
  Maelstrom. When healing his body, 
  Quasar created a new version of 
  his costume, combining various 
  elements 
  from 
  his 
  S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  issued costume and the version 
  Eon created for him. 
  Immediately upon saving the 
  universe from his appointed threat, 
  he served Eon one final time by 
  delivering Epoch, Eon's daughter, 
  from an egg within Eon's vast 
  remains. Where 
  Eon 
  was 
  his 
  mentor, Epoch became his god-
  daughter, and he her mentor and 
  protector as she developed her 
  nascent cosmic awareness. 
  Agreeing to help our Watcher 
  retrieve the Living Laser from the 
  various alternate realities to which 
  he had fled months before, Wendell 
  journeyed 
  to 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  alternate realities. In one of these 
  realities, Quasar encountered an 
  immensely powerful Maelstrom who 
  blasted him thinking that he was his 
  reality's 
  Quasar. 
  The 
  blast 
  coincided with a hasty quantum 
  jump and knocked him out of the 
  known multiverse into the greater 
  Omniverse where there were no 
  Watchers to help him return.[19] 
  Dubbed the "New Universe", its 
  physical laws differed greatly from 
  those of his home universe. Cut off 
  from the Quantum Zone, Quasar 
  only had the energy he happened 
  to have stored in his Quantum 
  
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  Bands. 
  Meeting 
  some 
  "para-
  normals" from that Earth, he was 
  able to find the Starbrand, that 
  universe's most powerful energy 
  source. With its power, he was able 
  to muster enough energy to return 
  to his universe. Unfortunately, he 
  burnt out the Starbrand in the 
  process...or so he believed. 
  The Kree and Shi'ar, two star-
  spanning races were accelerating 
  toward war. Both utilized a pair of 
  normally closed stargates in close 
  proximity to our sun, using its 
  energy to power the gates. Using 
  the stargates this close to the sun 
  caused widespread increases in 
  sunspot activity and threatened to 
  destroy the sun and Earth, unless 
  the stargates were sealed. The 
  Shi'ar, in an attempt to construct a 
  doomsday 
  weapon, 
  stole 
  the 
  Psyche-Magnetron and eventually 
  acquired the Nega-Bands, worn by 
  the late Captain Marvel. These 
  objects, when combined with the 
  Kree Omni-Wave Projector, formed 
  a powerful bomb, the Nega-Bomb, 
  capable of killing billions in the Kree 
  Empire. 
  Making 
  use 
  of 
  Quasar's 
  quantum 
  jumping 
  ability, 
  two 
  envoys composed of Avengers left 
  for the Kree and Shi'ar homeworlds, 
  hoping to convince their leaders to 
  keep their war out of Earth's solar 
  system. Staying behind, Quasar 
  spent much of this time in space 
  safeguarding 
  our 
  sun 
  by 
  intercepting various Kree and Shi'ar 
  ships as they plunged through the 
  stargates. 
  Convinced 
  by 
  the 
  Avengers, Empress Lilandra of the 
  Shi'ar decided not to use the bomb 
  and 
  attempted 
  a 
  diplomatic 
  settlement with the Kree. However, 
  the Skrulls, ancient enemies of the 
  Kree, 
  stole 
  the 
  bomb 
  and 
  successfully detonated it in the 
  Kree Empire, killing over 90% of the 
  populations of thousands of worlds. 
  Upon reaching Hala, the Kree 
  homeworld, 
  the 
  Avengers 
  discovered that the decimation of 
  the Kree Empire had been planned 
  from the beginning by the Kree 
  leader, the Supreme Intelligence. 
  Divided on how to deal with him, a 
  group of Avengers led by Iron Man 
  went to kill him. The other group led 
  by Captain America, and including 
  Quasar, could not condone the 
  murder. 
  Feeling responsible for all the 
  death in the Kree empire, Quasar 
  decided to leave Earth and attempt 
  to better protect the universe by 
  preventing 
  similar 
  tragedies. 
  Quitting the Avengers, he left Earth 
  with Makkari and Kismet with the 
  devastated Kree Empire as their 
  first destination. 
  Embroiled once again in the 
  various 
  battles 
  that 
  have 
  surrounded the all-powerful weapon 
  known as the Infinity Gauntlet, 
  Quasar was apparently killed by the 
  Ultimate Nullifier. The fraction of the 
  Star Brand still left to him from his 
  journey to the New Universe kept 
  him from being destroyed, however. 
  He used the last of its energy to 
  once again reclaim his Quantum 
  Bands. 
  The 
  Stranger, 
  sensing 
  the 
  anomalous energy of the Starbrand, 
  dispatched a group of mercenaries 
  to retrieve Kayla from Earth for 
  study. 
  Wendell 
  had 
  unwittingly 
  given her a fraction of the Starbrand 
  upon returning from the "New 
  Universe". 
  Attaching 
  a 
  large 
  thruster on the moon in an attempt 
  to cause a collision with Earth, the 
  mercenaries used it as a distraction 
  while kidnapping Kayla. Quasar 
  assembled a team to confront the 
  menace on the moon, disabled the 
  thruster and, with help, returned the 
  moon to its correct orbit. Finding 
  Kayla gone, he and his team 
  tracked the mercenaries to the 
  Stranger's Lab World. The Stranger 
  then assumed the power of the 
  Starbrand, an event which led to 
  the movement of the Earth of the 
  "New Universe" to this universe. 
  With the "New Universe" Earth in 
  orbit around the Stranger's Lab 
  World, 
  the 
  Living 
  Tribunal 
  intervened and forever sealed the 
  anomalous 
  Earth 
  from 
  this 
  universe, 
  trapping 
  Kayla 
  there. 
  Presented 
  with 
  the 
  option 
  of 
  forfeiting his position as Protector of 
  the Universe and joining Kayla, 
  Wendell declined.  
  Intending to return to Earth, 
  Quasar was confronted by enemies 
  he had made in his adventures. The 
  egomaniacal 
  Presence 
  hated 
  Quasar for various past slights 
  dating back to the Cosmic Assassin 
  affair. His daughter, the super-hero 
  Darkstar, was convinced to join her 
  father's vendetta against Quasar 
  after her brother Vanguard was 
  killed on Quasar's behalf during the 
  mission 
  on 
  the 
  Strangers' 
  Laboratory World. With his life and 
  the lives of his family and friends 
  being threatened by the Presence, 
  Wendell was forced into a situation 
  where he faked his death on Earth 
  to bring the Presence's vengeance 
  to a conclusion, and self-exiled 
  himself into space. 
  While 
  establishing 
  various 
  listening posts with his Quantum 
  Bands throughout the universe, 
  Wendell 
  received 
  an 
  urgent 
  message from his mother, using a 
  special homing beacon he had 
  given 
  her. 
  Racing 
  home, 
  he 
  discovered that the Charter, a 
  peaceful galactic federation had 
  invited Earth to join. Resting aboard 
  the Charter's enormous satellite, 
  Quasar awoke to find its 3 million 
  inhabitants 
  dead. 
  The 
  prime 
  suspect, Wendell was forced to 
  battle the Charter's peace-keeping 
  force while he, with the help of Beta 
  Ray Bill and the Silver Surfer, 
  stopped 
  a 
  giant 
  meteor 
  from 
  destroying the Earth. Joined by two 
  members of the peacekeeping force 
  and 
  calling 
  themselves 
  the 
  Starmasters, the team discovered 
  the real murderers, the war-like Axi-
  Tun, and cleared Quasar's name.  
  Once again answering the call 
  of the Avengers, Wendell found 
  himself battling alongside almost 
  the entire membership of the team 
  against Morgana Le Fey as she 
  used 
  the 
  power 
  of 
  various 
  Asgardian 
  magical 
  objects 
  to 
  remake reality. With the Avengers 
  as her personal army in this new 
  reality, she controlled the planet. 
  Quasar, or Star Knight in Morgana's 
  reality, was one of a handful of 
  Avengers able to hear the Scarlet 
  Witch's mystical call for help to 
  those with the most Avengers spirit. 
  Finally breaking the spell, the team 
  returned home, and Quasar once 
  more returned to space. 
  Discovering a ravaged planet 
  and Jack of Hearts near death, 
  Wendell requested help from the 
  reserves of the Avengers and was 
  joined by Photon, Thor, Tigra, 
  Starfox, and Moondragon. Together 
  
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  they alerted Eternity to the extra-
  dimensional danger and saved all 
  life in the universe. 
  While returning to Earth, the 
  Avengers and the entire planet 
  once again became embroiled in 
  the 
  machinations 
  of 
  the 
  Kree 
  Supreme 
  Intelligence. 
  Subtly 
  convincing various other races that 
  humans were too dangerous to be 
  allowed free reign in the galaxy, 
  Earth was turned into a prison 
  planet. The Avengers, with other 
  Earth heroes, exposed the Kree 
  plot and freed the planet. The Earth 
  was still threatened, however, by 
  the quickly growing mass of Ego, 
  the Living Planet. After the Silver 
  Surfer failed to contain the mass, 
  Wendell, home again after so many 
  months of wandering the galaxy, 
  used the power of the Quantum 
  Bands to contain Ego within his 
  body, forcing him into exile in space 
  lest 
  the 
  Ego-mass 
  within 
  him 
  escape. 
  The Avengers, in an effort to 
  take a more proactive approach to 
  protecting 
  humanity, 
  contacted 
  Wendell soon after his leaving the 
  Earth. He created a small base in 
  the Asteroid Belt to serve as an 
  early warning post in the event of 
  another alien incursion. It wasn't a 
  solitary vigil, though, as other 
  Avengers took shifts with him, 
  letting him catch up with events on 
  Earth. On a small break from 
  monitor duty, Quasar even helped 
  long-time friend Ben Grimm and the 
  rest of the Fantastic Four in a battle 
  on the Moon. 
  Quasar 
  fought 
  against 
  the 
  Annihilation Wave alongside Nova. 
  The two fought their way across the 
  galaxy and confronted Annihilus 
  directly. 
  Annihilus 
  destroyed 
  Wendell's body, and confiscated the 
  Quantum Bands. Seconds before 
  his death Wendell attempted to 
  Quantum 
  jump 
  from 
  Annihilus' 
  clutches but only his mind managed 
  to escape, which ended up in the 
  Negative Zone. Rider later avenged 
  his death by personally ripping 
  Annihilus apart after the Quantum 
  Bands chose Phlya-Vell as their 
  new wielder. 
  Phyla 
  vowed 
  to 
  carry 
  on 
  Wendell's 
  legacy 
  as 
  Quasar. 
  However, she had difficulties in her 
  new position, as Annihilus had left 
  corruption in the bands that would 
  overtake her if she used too much 
  energy. When she attempted to 
  fight off the Phalanx invasion of the 
  Kree Empire, Wendell appeared 
  before her, caught in a spiritual 
  battle against Annihilus. As he 
  sealed away the influence of the 
  evil warlord, he promised Phyla that 
  she would make a great Quasar. 
  Six weeks prior to the Skrull 
  invasion, 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  technicians probing the Negative 
  Zone discovered an exotic form of 
  radiation and contained it within a 
  "Quantum Flask". When the Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. 
  Facility 
  was 
  attacked by a Skrull Task Force, 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S. scientists Robbie 
  Rider, and Evelyn Necker removed 
  the 
  Xandarian Worldmind 
  from 
  Nova's head and used it to open the 
  flask, unleashing Wendell, who had 
  become a being of pure quantum 
  energy. 
  Nova, 
  the 
  resurrected 
  Quasar, and Darkhawk managed to 
  repel most of the Skrull invaders 
  before Wendell was forced to return 
  to the flask to recharge. 
  Due to years of use, Wendell's 
  soul somehow became linked to the 
  Quantum Bands. Using this link, he 
  felt Phyla-Vell's death and rebirth at 
  the hands of Maelstrom and the 
  Dragon of the Moon, instantly 
  teleporting from Earth to the realm 
  of Oblivion, where he reacquired 
  the bands from Phyla, now reborn 
  as the new Avatar of Death. After 
  bequeathing a small fraction of the 
  Bands' power to Phyla, he returned 
  to Earth, where he gave the 
  Quantum Bands to a terminally ill 
  Richard 
  Rider, 
  convinced 
  that 
  making him the new Quasar would 
  be enough to save his life.[44] 
  Richard 
  eventually 
  relinquished 
  possession of the bands back to 
  Wendell. 
  During the tail end of the 
  Kree/Inhumans-Shi'ar War, Black 
  Bolt detonated a Terrigen Bomb 
  that tore a massive hole in space 
  and time. This hole, dubbed the 
  Fault, threatened to expand and 
  consume all of reality. In a joint 
  meeting between the Guardians of 
  the Galaxy, Nova, and Director 
  Gruenwald 
  of 
  Project 
  P.E.G.A.S.U.S., 
  Wendell 
  volunteered 
  to 
  make 
  the 
  first 
  scouting trip beyond the Fault to a 
  universe Moondragon had referred 
  to as a "Cancerverse", reasoning 
  that he would be protected by his 
  energy 
  form. 
  Wendell 
  would 
  maintain contact with his universe 
  via a Quantum Link. 
  While traveling through the 
  Fault, Wendell somehow regained 
  his corporeal form as well as a new 
  costume. 
  Arriving 
  in 
  the 
  Cancerverse, 
  Wendell 
  found 
  himself in a twisted and dystopian 
  version of New York City. Almost 
  immediately Wendell was attacked 
  by a giant monster, which initially 
  overpowered 
  him 
  before 
  the 
  intervention 
  of 
  the 
  "Avengers". 
  During the course of the battle, Ms. 
  Marvel and Scarlet Witch grew 
  suspicious of Wendell, declaring 
  him to be from "somewhere else". 
  Captain America ordered Thor to 
  "hammer" the monster, causing it to 
  revert back into Bruce Banner. 
  Captain America deemed Banner to 
  be too dangerous and unstable to 
  have around and ordered Iron Man 
  to tear his heart out. 
  Turning 
  their 
  attention 
  to 
  Wendell, the Avengers concluded 
  that he wasn't "their" Quasar and 
  promptly imprisoned him. While 
  imprisoned, the Avengers explained 
  that their world was "filled" by the 
  Many-Angled Ones and that they 
  intend on using the Fault to seek 
  out new universes for them to 
  conquer; 
  mentioning 
  that 
  their 
  Quasar had also been sent beyond 
  the Fault on a scouting mission. 
  Scarlet Witch entered the room, 
  claiming Wendell was made from 
  "Quantum-Phasic energy", and that 
  a distinct energy path connects him 
  to his universe of origin. She asked 
  the other Avengers to clear out as 
  she 
  needed 
  some 
  time 
  to 
  concentrate in order to plot the 
  course to Wendell's universe in 
  detail. 
  Suddenly 
  the 
  Vision 
  emerged from Scarlet Witch's body 
  and freed Wendell. Vision explained 
  that he had been hiding in his wife's 
  body for years in an effort to find a 
  cure for his world and that the only 
  ones opposing the Many-Angled 
  Ones were machines like him. 
  Wendell flew from his prison, past 
  Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, and Thor, 
  and off into space where he 
  discovered, much to his horror, that 
  the universe itself was comprised of 
  
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  a single giant, organic mass. In a 
  last ditch effort Wendell attempted 
  to warn Director Gruenwald of the 
  coming threat of the Many-Angled 
  Ones. Wendell lost contact with his 
  universe shortly thereafter. 
  Back on Earth, the Quasar 
  from the Cancerverse arrived at the 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility. 
  Gladiator, who had recently 
  assumed control of the Shi'ar 
  Empire, sent the Imperial Guard 
  and the Starjammers on a scouting 
  expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Fault. 
  After 
  escaping the clutches of a dead 
  bio-ship, 
  the 
  scouting 
  party 
  encountered Wendell fleeing for his 
  life. Wendell claimed he had been 
  running for days and warned that 
  whatever was pursuing him was 
  right behind him. In an attempt to 
  reach the other side of the Fault, 
  Oracle used Wendell's Quantum 
  powers to carry a message back to 
  Chandilar via the M'Kraan Crystal. 
  Gladiator received the message 
  and arrived in the Fault with 
  reinforcement Guardsmen. Wendell 
  managed to escape from the Fault 
  due to the combined efforts of 
  himself, the Imperial Guard, the 
  Starjammers, and Talon of the 
  Fraternity of Raptors, who had been 
  masquerading 
  as 
  Guardsman 
  Smasher. 
  Almost 
  immediately 
  after 
  reaching Chandilar, Wendell sent a 
  message to Nova, detailing what he 
  just went through, and warning him 
  of the horrors that lay beyond the 
  Fault. Nova concluded that the 
  Quasar that recently arrived at 
  Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. wasn't the 
  real 
  Quasar 
  and, 
  along 
  with 
  Darkhawk, 
  went 
  to 
  Earth 
  to 
  investigate. 
  During his brief time on Earth, 
  the Quasar from the Cancerverse 
  had constructed a "Horrorscope", a 
  device used for locating something. 
  Declaring that he had found what 
  he was looking for, "Quasar" left 
  Earth to deliver the news to his 
  master in person. Nova went after 
  him, and sent out an 8x8 distress 
  signal warning everybody he could 
  that the Fault was a top priority 
  threat to the entire universe. The 
  real 
  Wendell 
  received 
  Nova's 
  message and joined in the pursuit. 
  The duo chased "Quasar" to a 
  Universal 
  Church 
  of 
  Truth 
  Templeship, 
  merely 
  one 
  of 
  hundreds 
  amassed 
  along 
  the 
  border of the Fault, where Nova 
  demanded 
  to 
  know 
  what 
  the 
  Cancerverse Quasar was looking 
  for back on Earth. Suddenly Nova 
  was attacked from behind by Adam 
  Magus. The Xandarian Worldmind 
  informed Nova that Magus's power 
  greatly exceeded his own and that 
  the best course of action was to 
  run. Wendell tried to intervene, but 
  was effortlessly tossed aside by 
  Magus. Wendell noticed that, in 
  addition to the UCT Templeships, 
  Magus had also brought entire 
  planets to the mouth of the Fault. 
  With a single word Magus blew up 
  the planets, significantly widening 
  the tear in space and time. From 
  out of the Fault came "Quasar" and 
  Magus's dark master: Lord Mar-
  Vell. 
  Wendell and Nova survived the 
  destruction of the planets and went 
  to assist the Nova Corps in battling 
  the creatures that emerged from the 
  Fault. During the fight, Lord Mar-
  Vell sent the Revengers to kidnap 
  the recently resurrected Namorita 
  due to her nature as a "temporal 
  anomaly." 
  Wendell and Nova continued to 
  hold the line at the Fault when 
  Silver 
  Surfer, 
  Galactus, 
  Aegis, 
  Tenebrous, 
  and 
  the 
  Celestials 
  joined the conflict. Wendell was 
  present 
  when 
  the 
  weaponized 
  corpse of the Cancerverse Galactus 
  broke through the Fault. Realizing 
  the danger this new weapon posed, 
  Wendell and Nova met with the 
  Allied Council of War to discuss the 
  next 
  course 
  of 
  action. 
  Nova 
  suggested that the Cancerverse 
  invasion was only to establish a 
  foothold in their universe and that 
  Lord 
  Mar-Vell 
  was 
  planning 
  something else. Believing Namorita 
  and the others that the Revengers 
  had kidnapped were important to 
  Mar-Vell's plans, Nova proposed 
  the formation of a small strike team 
  to mount a rescue mission. For his 
  team, Nova selected Wendell, Beta 
  Ray Bill, Gladiator, Silver Surfer, 
  and Ronan the Accuser. 
  Wendell eventually started to 
  lose control over the Quantum 
  Bands. He bequeathed them to 
  S.H.I.E.L.D., to keep them from 
  falling into the wrong hands, and 
  even his own. When S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  created the top secret town/prison 
  of Pleasant Hill, Wendell became 
  one of the several operatives living 
  among countless of reformed super 
  villains who had had their memories 
  and appearances tampered with by 
  a sentient Cosmic Cube named 
  Kobik so they could be turned into 
  model citizens. 
  In a similar manner to the 
  inmates, albeit voluntarily, Wendell 
  was transformed into an old man 
  and the curator of the Pleasant Hill 
  Museum, the place where the 
  Quantum Bands were kept, to 
  remain there as a failsafe in case 
  Kobik needed to be neutralized. 
  During a super villain uprising 
  led by Baron Zemo, S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  Agent Avril Kincaid resorted to 
  finding the Quantum Bands. As a 
  consequence 
  of 
  the 
  upheaval, 
  anybody who had had their true 
  selves modified by Kobik regained 
  their 
  memories 
  and 
  true 
  appearance, 
  including 
  Wendell. 
  After regaining his memories, he 
  gave Kincaid the Quantum Bands. 
  Once the conflict was resolved, 
  Wendell began tutoring Avril on 
  using 
  the 
  bands, 
  helping 
  her 
  become the new Quasar. 
   
   
  
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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 Marvel Universe entry for one of its long-time residents. 
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Marvel Superheroes/TSR/Basic Core/MHAC11 - Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.pdf