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Real Name: Lila Cheney
Occupation: Thief, rock music performer
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Lila’s mutant status is not commonly known to the general public
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: A Dyson Sphere located in a distant galaxy
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of the New Mutants
Known Powers:
Teleportation: Lila has the ability to teleport vast distances. She can only teleport interstellar distances (no less than one planet to another). She must teleport to areas that she has been to before. When she teleports she takes everyone in the same area that she is in. Lila usually uses her Dyson Sphere as a “relay point” when teleporting from one spot to another on a single planet.
Equipment:
Dyson Sphere: Lila’s home, located in deep space at least several light years from Earth, is a Dyson sphere, a star totally enclosed by a construct of unknown origin that is 200 million miles in diameter. The inner side of the sphere, facing the star, is cov ered by a huge, ancient and appar ently abandoned cityworld, which Lila uses as home base. There are a number of hi-tech devices in the sphere, which she has discovered how to operate through trial and error. In fact, Lila has explored less than .001 % of the total surface area of the sphere.
Talents:
Lila has the Performer talent in the fields of singing and instrumental music. She is also a thief of Remarkable talents, although her thefts are usually on such a grand scale that she usually has no use for such mundane skills as lockpicking.
Contacts:
Lila has a number of contacts in the music industry, and employs musicians whom she trusts enough to tell of her mutant status. She was romantically involved with Sam Guthrie (Cannonball) of the New Mutants, and this group can often be counted on to come to her aid.
Role-Playing Notes:
Lila has three primary traits—She is a thrill seeker, always on the lookout for some new experience, she is extremely overconfident, thinking she can handle almost any situation or that things will turn out okay in the long run, and she has a strong sense of self-preservation. She will usually flee rather than fight the numerous alien races that pursue her because of her past crimes. She is also strongly attracted to Sam Guthrie, and would do almost anything for him.
History:
Little is known of Lila’s history. She is presumably a mutant born on Earth, but she claims that she was sold into interstellar slavery at a young age. This seems unlikely, but there is no other way to account for the fact that she is known to so many other alien races, or her discovery of a Dyson Sphere.
Lila somehow escaped captivity (presumably upon the manifestation of her mutant powers) and returned to Earth. She later traveled to a number of the locations she had been at as a slave and made quite a reputation for herself as an intergalactic thief. It was during this time that she discovered a Dyson Sphere in deep space and made it her home base.
Despite the fact that Lila believed that Earth as a whole had sold her into slavery, she still had an interest in that planet. She traveled there often and set herself up as a rock star. She first came to the attention of the New Mutants when they became involved in her attempts to sell the Earth to an alien race. During this ad venture she and Sam (Cannonball) Guthrie became interested in each other.
Lila continued to remain on good terms with the New Mutants. Eventually an alien entrepreneur known as Spyder, who had originally arranged for her sale as a slave, drove her old owners into bankruptcy and took steps to recover her for his own profit.
The New Mutants, aided by Spyder’s former servant Gossamyr, followed to Spyder’s home planet. Here, through a series of circumstances, male members of Gossamyr’s race (who are huge, berserk monsters) were released. To prevent them from destroying both Spyder and the New Mutants, Lila apparently sacrificed her life to teleport herself and the monsters into the sun of that system.
However, it has been established that Lila can only teleport to a site that she has already been to physically, and it is obvious she could never have teleported into that star (or any other) in the past. It has been conjectured that she is still alive and that much of what happened is not as it seemed. The true facts in this case have yet to be revealed.