Astromancer
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Titan.
A planet in the Deneb star system of the Milky Way galaxy, It was once a planet of magnificent beauty until it was torn asunder by the eternal wars of it's people, the Titans. Transformed from a lush and prosperous world into a dead and hostile waste. But as the world around the inhabitants of Titan began to reflect their hateful ways, Some Titans began to turn the efforts away from warfare and towards the ways of science and logic reasoning as an effort to preserve their race. In the end they succeeded.
Thousands of years later, The Astromancer was born on Titan under the name of Nara Tor. Raised in the city of Escalion, a magnificent metropolis of incredible technology resting in middle of the Titan wastes where he would come one day to serve as the head of the council of science. A title which allowed him to sit on the royal council as an advisor to his king, Ser Seith VIII.
Then Nara Tor started an secret romantic relationship with the princess of Escalion, the beautiful Sephin. But this affair where forbidden by Titan laws as Nara Tor where not of royal heritage and viewed not suitable to court a princess. When Seith learned of this, he punished Nara Tor by sentencing him to fate far cruller then death, banishment from the great city. To spend his final days out there wandering the wastes among the savages, ruthless electrical storms and breath an air poisoned by volcanic ash.
Nara Tor ventured out into the wasteland where he wandered for months, living as a nomad as he sought work at the Free-trader camps and often escorted caravans. The settlements he visited where inhabited by the 'savage races' he had been warned about outside the walls when he grew up. He often found himself in unprovoked fights and earned little respect from the aliens he met.
One fateful day the caravan he escorted was heavily attacked. Wounded, Nara Tor tried to crawl away from the wreckage that once carried their cargo, as his fellow hired caravan-guards lied spread dead across the field. But he did not get far as he was captured by a ruthless interstellar bounty hunter by the name of Chronos. With use of his elemental gun and technological equipment, Chronos had killed the armed guards single handily and claimed any value from their cargo as his own. Interested in the Titan as he did not appear like the others Chronos had encountered in the Titan wastes, he took Nara Tor with him aboard his ship, where a cruel fate would await him.
Chronos the manhunter sold Nara Tor to Xanatos, a power hungry warlord from the darkest depths of space. Once named Antares Al'harten, an asteroid miner from the planet Fargath, he had become obsessed with ideas of immortality and becoming the most powerful being in the universe the day he discovered a mystical green stone in an asteroid made of the cybernetic parts of a planet that existed once in a pre big-bang universe. The stone had mutated him and Antares became Xanatos, a vicious ruler of a dystopian empire who venture trough space, searching for the source of ultimate power. Feared on several worlds as a god and warlord for his acts where he plunderers worlds and captured species of different alien origins for whom he would often experiment on, to unlock their genetic secrets.
Brought onto Xanatos' research ship, Nara Tor was bombarded with waves of chaos-Fusion energy known as Elemental fire. And due to the amounts of energy Nara Tor was exposed to, a new energy that would later be known to Nara Tor himself, Xanatos and other beings of the universe as cosmic fire, a much sought after energy source for it's unpredictable results, was born within his cellular structure. As he kept being showered by the rays of the experimental energy, his body slowly began to adapt to handle the raging energy of cosmic fire emanating from within and trough this, he started to learn how to channel this energy as an energetically projection. But as his body acclimated to handle this new-found source of power, it became augmented. He became now stronger, more agile and with an heightened level of endurance compared to that of a normal Titan.
Then came the day Nara Tor became strong enough to break out of the test-chamber where he had for weeks suffered in those painful experiments. With an powerful energy blast, he destroyed the chamber, fought off several guards and scientists while making his way trough the ship. By using an escape pod, he fled to harsh environmental planet where he found a frontier town and soon after learning to use his new founded powers and befriending a group of misfit aliens, became a bounty hunter. For the next year, Nara Tor ventured across the stars, mastering his powers and fighting creatures of every size and form.
But then came the day he visited Farka V, a massive underground city build into an asteroid. Here he encountered Chronos the manhunter. Thirsting for vengeance, Nara Tor attacked Chronos and a massive fight broke out, resulting in Chronos loosing his right eye and Nara Tor on a crash course towards earth in a ship he had modified out from the escape pod that he used to escape Xanatos' research vessel. Nara Tor crashed on earth in the Canadian wilderness where he was discovered by the Hunter family. The Hunters, a family of four on a road trip trough Canada believed they had seen a meteor crashing on earth. Stumbling onto the highway, out from the dust left by the meteor, the Hunter's almost crashed their van into Nara Tor. Believing Nara Torto be just a normal by-passer wounded by the meteor crash, they took him with them on their way to the hospital. But they did being to question his unusual attire and the weird things he spoke of, falling in and out of consciousness as he spoke a language very similar to that of English. The Hunter family consisted of insurance salesman and father, Bob, his wife Catherine, their oldest child and daughter, Ashley and their youngest son, Kyle.
Intrigued at first by the strange man they had found, they began to fear for their own safety and whatever to do with Nara Tor. They questioned if he where a madman for the things he spoke of. Would it be wiser to leave him here by the road or take him to the authorities. As they where questioning these decisions, they where attacked by a gang of mysterious marauders from the Canadian wilderness. They where part of a military terrorist group known as VIPER. Nara Tor left a radioactive trail they had been following, believing it to be a bionic weapon related to the meteor, Something they would desire greatly. They attacked the Hunters and Nara Tor gained consciousness. Still wounded, he where able to fight them of, one by one. Amazed and grateful for saving them and knowing Sans to be of another world, they took him in to their home in Millennium City. Pulling some odd favors, Nara Tor became Jack Hunter, hailing from Canada, not outer space. Nara Tor emerged as a new superhero in the city of the future under the name of Astromancer.
Jack started to work as simple janitor in the Millennium City research facility. A Cambridge Biochem sponsored laboratory, run by Dr. Silverback, a gorilla who gained super intelligence trough experiments by the mad scientist Dr. Phillipe Moreau. Here he could make a living to support himself, using his alias of Jack Hunter. This was something he saw as fair as he had been living in the hunter families basement for over a year at this point.
One day while cleaning the higher up offices, he overheard Dr. Silverback and one of his colleagues arguing over an equation on theorized use of plasma charged particle acceleration to power a fusion based energy source that could amplify and intensify the human body far beyond normal human limits, in other words, a energy source that can transform normal humans into genetic superhumans. As they turned their backs in the heated argument, Nara Tor walked over to the chalkboard and begun to solve the equation. Amazed by this, Dr. Silverback made Nara Tor a scientist on probation in his laboratory. With a new salary, Nara Tor could afford a penthouse suite in the middle of Millennium City which would come to act as his base of operations.
The rest of the Astromancer legacy is still being written today as he keeps fighting for justice around the world, meeting new friends and allies, and opposing new adversaries.
Astromancer try not to hold grudges and is acceptance of most people. He fights what would seem like an constant struggle within himself that is brought on by the thought of what he is doing is the right thing or not. He tries his to be a hero to his new adopted home world, but many times as he have gone up against powerful foes, there have been disastrous consequences, all of which takes a heavy toll on his heart and mind.
- Astromancer loves sweets. On Titan sugar where rare and only for the rich and mighty. So for him to come to earth and discover that candy is available for everyone has really been a game changer
- Astromancer's favorite soda is Dr.Pepper
- Astromancer loves old movies from 30's and 40's
- Astromancer became fond with the musical styling of something called 'heavy metal'
- Astromancer gets drunk...easily
- Astromancer loves jokes. His home world of Titan where such a serious place.
- Astromancer loves the sound of the ocean. Water was scares on Titan so he envy humans for having so much of it on earth
Nara Tor stands at solid 6'1". Fair skin and blue eyes with brown hair. Has a muscular frame. When using his powers, he channels the energies of cosmic fires trough his body, altering his eyes and turning his hair into fire. His costume consists of a black and red jumpsuit with padded armoring around the chest, an ballistic suit made of alien materials. It is able to withstand great amounts of cold and heat. The suit is also able to withstand the energy known as 'Comsmic flame' which he uses to fight and fly with. Unlike normal clothes or gloves that would just be burned of his hands and arms, the suit can take it.
Astromancer has seen his share of different appearances over the years. From what was once part of continuity and lore about the 'new gods' of Titan, the Spartan plum, to his Horned cowl, Astromancer's strength as a character in the superhero medium have been a iconic look followed by a deep mythos telling us of his home world of Titan. From the golden age, when he wore a feather plum on his cowl and Titans where nothing but a race of yellow skinned space gladiators to the Silver age, where science fiction mixed with mythology and magic turned the Titans into a race of demi gods and in modern days where the Titans are depicted as a race of once violent barbarians now transformed into a science worshiping race struggling to survive the harsh climate of their post-apocalyptic world. But one thing has always remained the same. The tale of a man banished from his world, crashing on earth and adopting is his new home, swearing to protect it with all his might.
As the medium of comic books has advanced in their way of storytelling, adapting to a more in-depth and cinematic narrative due to the growth of human perception and understanding of fictional stories, so has the tales of Astromancer changed to reflect this transition in the comic book industry. As each new era has brought on a more dramatic narrative about a superhero character who's mythos heavily reflect the time period of each revamp. The silver age one is a prime example for it's heavy use and exploration of the sci-fi genre which was now at the height of it's time and it's influence on comic book would eventually become unavoidable.
Cosmic Flame or Cosmic Fire as it also is referred to as is an energy source that gives it's users access to incredible powers. It's origins beings with a alien warlord who dwells in inhuman rescarh on live specimens to unlock new source of powers, Xanatos. After being changed by the green orb he dug out of an asteroid, the alien once known as Antares Al'harten, gathered several asteroid miners behind him to start an attack on his homeplanet of Fargath, he soon ventured out into space with a fleet of ships made from salvaged alien tech. His search for power made he seek out myths and legends, Scientific theories and answered to unasked question of what would happened if an certain specie was exposed to certain materials. For years this would go on until Xanatos himself had rid himself of his body and replaced it with an robotic suit. It was then on the planet of Batu he would come over an priceless alien element known as Aranor. The planet of Batu had become barren after the toxic gass emitting from the Aranorian mines, killing all alien life on the planet.
After several experiments with the alien element, all of which ended with deadly results, one of Xanatos main scientist where able to create a usable energy source from it, chaos energy, and from this, an chaos-Fusion energy which they dubbed Elemental Fire. Few species even survived the exposes to it. Then came the day an interstellar headhunter by the name of Chronos came aboard Xanatos research vessel. With him he had brought an Titan, an native of the planet titan. This was Nara Tor, who had been captured in the Titan wastelands after having been cast out from the city of Escalion, an amazing metropolis in the middle of the wastes.
Nara Tor was then exposed to the waves of the elemental fire and instead of dying as the other subjects, he began to change. Blue glowing veins appeared over his body as his eyes begun to glow bright orange and his hair turned into fire. Cosmic Fire had been born within his cellular structure and it had augmented his body far beyond what any Titan had been in history of their race.
It's effect seems to slightly differ from person to person, but most of the cases it alters the body to handle these powers, making the subject stronger, faster and more dexterous. Also the abilities of elemental like energy projection, energy constructions and energy generated flight. Thought Astromancer has not reached such a level yet, other abilities that be unlocked is an teleport like ability known as phasewalking, healing abilities that can be apparently be used on others as well one self and phaselocking, which traps a subject in a sphere of energy, disabling them as inside the sphere time and space moves differently.
Due to the amounts of Chaos-Fusion energy known as Elemental fire Nara Tor was exposed to, a new energy source later dubbed Cosmic Fire was born within his cellular structure. As he kept being showered by the rays of the experimental energy, his body slowly began to adapt to handle the raging energy of cosmic fire emanating from within and trough this, he started to learn how to channel this energy as an energetically projection. But as his body acclimated to handle this new-found source of power, it became augmented. He is now stronger, more agile and with an heightened level of endurance compared to that of a normal human beging.
- Enhanced strength, agility and endurance To be able to handle the powers he now wields, Astromancer now posses a augmented body which is also stronger, more dexterous and a more powerful constitution compared to that of a normal human being.
- Energy projection Astromancer is able to generate destructive and concussive blasts of fusion energy from his hands
- Energy generated flight Astromancer is able to surround his being with energy and then fly with it. Be it on earth or in outer space. He is able to withstand exposure to space
- Alien metabolism Astromancer being from another world, he is gifted with enhanced regeneration compared to that of a normal human being
- Genius IQ Raised in a civilization that worships science and brought up to be the head of science of said civilization, Astromancer posses a high level of intellect. This also helps adds to his knowledge of certain alien technology or how new form of technology might work.
Allies
- Cold Eagle: A man who discovered an highly advanced robotic suit that grants him the ability to fly, to withstand the blast of missiles and enhances his strength tenfolds. To harness and manipulate the elemental powers of frost. A patriotic man who seeks justice where ever injustice rules with an iron fist. Astromancer and The Bold Cold Eagle has teamed up many, many times to take down few of the members in Cold Eagles Rogues Gallery.
- Lillebella: A mystical hero who wields the magical powers of healing. She and Astro have teamed up several times to fight the gangs of Millennium City
The Hunter Family
- Bob Hunter: Father of the Hunter household. A forty-two year old insurance salesman from Millennium City. He has a strong work ethic and very high moral values. He belives people should be honest, ethical and, like himself, upfront and sincere. He took his family on a vacation across Canada in a recreational vehicle when Astromancer crashed into the Canadian wilderness close to them. Believing him to be regular hitchhiker, wounded by a what they thought be a crashing meteor, they tried to bring him to a hospital when they where attacked by soldiers of VIPER. Astromancer saved them and in return, Bob took Astro into their home. He thought him about the outside world and became a new mentor for him.
- Catherine Hunter: Mother of the Hunter household. A real estate agent working in Millennium City. Independent and resourceful. She takes great pleasure in helping others in need. She is also extremely level-headed and reasonable. When others in the family would act out of emotion, Catherine was able to view a situation objectively. Over the years, she started viewing Astro as another child of hers and Bob.
- Ashley Hunter: Ashley was only nineteen when she met Astro. Over the years the relationship would build more and more.
Organisations
- UNTIL: The United Nations Tribunal on International Law, the UN's anti-supervillain "police force". Since the 1960's, UNTIL has served the world as the UN's global police force, dealing with superhuman crime and related matters of global, regional or national security. UNTIL keeps tabs on big threats to the world, like Dr. Destroyer, VIPER, Takofanes and possible alien or extra-dimensional invasions. They also develop weaponry and tactics to combat global threats. Their agents, humans and superhumans alike, are highly trained and dedicated to the cause of global peace and security.
First Encountered: Lemurian Antiquities
Quote: "Kneel!!"
Nemesis Theme: Sorcery
Nemesis Personality: Mastermind
Nemesis Minion: Beastmen
Nemesis Minion Powers: Martial Arts
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Leader, warrior, sorcerer and an strategist. Azad is the an ancient ruler of what is now an forgotten dynasty. A dynasty he ruled with an iron fist. Knowledgeable and skilled in the ways of alchemy and the dark arts, Azad merged animals with men to create his magical army of slaves and soldiers, the vicious beastmen. Gifted in the ways of the sword, it was truly Azad's diamond skin that protected him from his enemies and have preserved his body for all this time. A group of archaeologists dug him out of the ruins he had been buried under for so many centuries on what people now call Monster Island. Freed from his grave he now travels the world with his army of beast men, causing havoc and despair. In search for magical items that will aid him in conquering the world. The sorcerer came to Millennium City in hope of raiding the museum of its expedition! Unfortunately for him, Astromancer thwarted his plans. Angered by this, Azad travels the desert, Canadian wilderness and Monster Island in search of ancient ruins from what was once a mighty empire in hope of recovering artifacts that he once possessed and used to rule the lands with.
Astromancer's Thought: Azad is an gifted sorcerer determined to cover the world in darkness and if it comes to it, rule the world from it's burning remains. His only weakness and reason for never getting so far except from the constant interface of Astromancer is Azads need for magical artifacts.
First Encountered: Origin
Quote: "The stars belong to me!"
Nemesis Theme: Power Armor
Nemesis Personality: Mastermind
Nemesis Minion: Aliens
Nemesis Minion Powers: Military Weapons
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Now, nothing more then a brain floating in chemicals inside of a highly powered robotic body, Xanatos is a smart and dangerously powerful adversary. Once named Antares Al'harten, an asteroid miner from the planet Fargath, he had become obsessed with ideas of immortality and becoming the most powerful being in the universe the day he discovered a mystical green stone in an asteroid made of the cybernetic parts of a planet that existed once in a pre big-bang universe. The stone had mutated him and Antares became Xanatos, a vicious ruler of a dystopian empire who venture trough space, searching for the source of ultimate power. Feared on several worlds as a god and warlord for his acts where he plunderers worlds and captured species of different alien origins for whom he would often experiment on, to unlock their genetic secrets. It's true these experiments on himself and others that transformed him into the cybernetic conquer he is today.
Astromancer's Thought: Xanatos is big, strong and devious. He is also greedy and his lust for power has often blinded him. He will not stop until he got what he wants, So that's when it's up to me to try and stop him.
First Encountered: Origin
Quote: "Resistance is futile"
Nemesis Theme: Gadgeteering
Nemesis Personality: Savage
Nemesis Minion: Robots
Nemesis Minion Powers: Power Armor
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Equipped with an elemental gun, a jet pack and several other tricks on his sleeve. This is one 'bad motha' you don't want to mess with. On the edge of space lived the Artions. A race who had reached true serenity. A race of peace and amazing advances in technology. Then came the day they where invaded. To fight back, they turned their science towards warfare and brutally bio engineered their race into warriors. Millennia's later, trough evolution, The Artions are now a nomadic race of warriors who wanders between harsh environment planets. Chronos is a prime example of this warrior breed. Now working as a Manhunter, a interstellar bounty hunter and head hunter. He was the one who captured Astromancer on his home planet of Titan and delivered him to the research vessel of Xanatos the Conquer, an alien who has hired Chronos several times. Chronos and Astromancer has crossed paths many times, never at will, always by chance, and always ending in brutal battles.
Astromancer's Thought: Chronos is an highly trained fighter with years of experience behind him. But take away his toys and what do you have left? His netrual anlignment also makes him less dangerous as it would be rare for him to do something that is not part of his contract.
First Encountered: Prison Break
Quote: "I've got a surprise up my sleeve"
Nemesis Theme: Gadgeteering
Nemesis Personality: Maniac
Nemesis Minion: Thugs
Nemesis Minion Powers: Military Weapons
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A gentleman and a scholar, also, he is a complete maniac. Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jack of Cards is a gentleman thief who lusts for the finer things in life and does it with style. A trained swordsman and perfect scoundrel, he commits crime and fights of crime fighters using card theme gadgets. All tricks up his sleeve as he would say himself. Him and Astromancer have fought each other several times. He does not lust for world domination or to kill champions, but instead it's money, fine food and women.
Astromancer's Thought: Jack is a skilled swordsman who's not afraid to go for blood when pushed into a corner. His crimes mostly involves banks, casinos, Mansions, heist during fancy dinner parties for the city's finest and valuable art displayed in museums.
Titan has a considerably higher gravity and thinner atmosphere than Earth. Its climate is generally harsh, with most of the surface consisting of large deserts or mountain ranges, along with scattered small seas, active volcanoes, ancient ruins, and lava fields. Desert areas are prone to large amounts of heat, light and electrical sand fire storms.
Human in appearance and speaking a language similar to English, the Titans are an alien race from the Deneb star system of the Milky Way galaxy. In ancient times they where a race of violent polytheistics. But as their world began to perish from a lush utopian planet into a lifeless waste, they slowly started to follow the path of science, realizing that if they did continue their course of war and bickering, their species would be extinct within a few generations. Thousands of years later they would rule the planet from a single megacity, Escalion. Serving beneath the king is the council of science. Twelve of the smartest men in Escalion and above them, the Astromancer, the head of this council. A title held in great remark as it allows a man not born of royal heritage to serve in the royal court as adviser to the King along his generals. For even though the Titans had left their violent ways behind them, there are still dangers outside the city walls. Even though the Titans are a race who now holds the practation of Science in high regard, they also share a love for art, be it music, drama, writing, dance, or visual art. They are also a race who holds traditions in high regard, thus the highest form of punishment a Titan can receive is the banishment from the great city, where they must wander out into the waste where they will spend the remaining of their days.
Appearance
- Flaming Hair - You gotta have flare.
- Superhero Jaw - Astromancer or Nara Tor as his real alien name is, posses a strong typical superhero jawline.
- Long lifespan - He can certainly be killed, but if the Titan age at all, it must be incredibly slowly.
Character
- Alien Among Us - Astromancer is in reality Nara Tor of the planet Titan. On Earth he is Jack Hunter, a scientist who transforms into the Astromancer when danger is about.
- Dark And Troubled Past - Between the time when he was Nara Tor of Titan and to he was Astromancer, defender of earth is the tale of how he got his powers. A story filled with betrayal and tragedy.
- Science Hero - Astromancer once served as the head of a council of scientist on a planet filled with a highly technology advanced race who all follow the path of science.
Powers
- Breathe in Space - Astromancer can breathe in outer space thanks to his body being augmented. He is able to withstand exposure to space. What kind of hero would be named Astromancer and not be able to breathe in space?
- Elemental Powers - Astromancer posses fire like energy projection.
- Pure Energy - The energy known as cosmic fire that runs trough Astromancer's veins is a pure energy source.
- Energy Ball - Astromancer can channel energy constructions, often in the form of spheres to blast his foes.
- Energy generated flight - Astromancer can fly by channeling his powers, giving him energy generated flight.
- Superhuman Strength - Astromancer possess enhanced strength and stamina
In the summer of 2005 I returned to my nerdier roots and re-discovered my love for comic books. My love for the superhero genre grew bigger and bigger. It even reached the level where I started to play city of heroes for several years on my character of Owl Man. So it did not take much for to gather an interest for the new super hero MMO in town, Champions Online. Having played it since beta, It became much about the same problems that I had with city of heroes, the ability to create the hero I wanted. Costume pieces where lacking, powers not quite there. My first days in CO beta where primarily used to try and re-create my Owl Man character, something which I failed to accomplish with the tools I where given. So I had to walk away from it for a while and re-think what I wanted. Owl Man came to trough playing around in the City of Heroes character creation for the umpth time. Failed to create whatever character I wanted back in the day, piece by piece a new hero was created before me and the rest wrote itself. It became a fun character and it would it's while before I would able to banish all thoughts and character concepts from my mind before the character of Astroamncer would one afternoon accidentally be created.
Piece by piece this new character was created. On this wiki, the golden age costume you have seen the picture of was actually his first costume. After a certain level in the creation process, I deiced to camp him up a little and while this was happening, the ideas and concept of the character being some for of space gladiator loosely based on Jack Kirby's 'The New Gods' came to. So I finished the look of the character with that concept.
Months later, while fooling around with his costume in the creator, what become his silver age costume was born and with it, A planned lore behind the character. He would be someone. As I always had the interest of joining some roleplaying supergroup and then roleplay with my character. A concept many has followed trough in a game with such an customizable character creation as Champions. The chance to superman or batman of our own superhero universe. But as the story behind the character became more and more refined, a retcon became unavoidable. It meant new powers, or better said, more defined powers. A new costume followed behind soon after. With a new and more refined background story, this wiki was created to tell the tale of the Astromancer.
Now, the character's biography and personality from a roleplaying perspective is heavily based on several heroes and characters from the comic book world. The Silver surfer, Thor, Firestorm, Jor-el and Green Lantern. The planet of Titan is inspired by the planet vulcan from Star Trek. The city of Escalion based of Asgard in the 2011 live action Thor Movie. And their civilization, the concept around the Astromancer and the council of science is based of the planet Krypton.
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Astromancer winning a costume contest
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Azad in Prison
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Chronos in Prison