(As Polaris)
Magnetism: Amazing control over a range of 10 areas
Energy Control: Incredible control over electricity and gravity. She can inflict Incredible damage to a target at a range of 5 areas.
Flight: Excellent air speed.
Force Field: Amazing rank field covering 1 area. Each additional area decreases the protection -1cs.

The only outward sign of Lorna’s mutant genetic structure was her green hair, which was dyed brown. Her mutant powers might never have been activated, except for the intervention of “Starr” Saxon, the master roboticist. He had constructed a duplicate Magneto and a large army of androids with strange powers, called the Demi-Men. Saxon decided that he needed some real mutants to lead the android army while he stayed behind the scenes, giving directions to the fake Magneto.

The first recruit was the mutant called Mesmero. Then, using a psycho-generator, which has some features in common with Charles Xavier’s Cerebro, Mesmero summoned mutants in North America with latent powers. Lorna Dane found herself compelled to travel to San Francisco, where Mesmero and his androids captured her. After being brought to their desert headquarters, Lorna was subjected to the genetic stimulator that enabled her to use her previously latent powers. Mesmero also used his hypnotic powers to make Lorna believe in the bogus Magneto’s cause and think that she was Magneto’s daughter.

Shortly afterward, however, Mesmero dropped his control over Lorna, believing that she would obey her “father” no matter what happened. Unfortunately for Mesmero, the X-Man named Iceman revealed to Lorna that Magneto wasn’t her father and that she had been duped into helping him. She joined the X-Men and aided them in defeating Saxon, Mesmero, the fake Magneto, and the Demi-Man army.

For a while afterward, Lorna was romantically inclined towards Bobby Drake, the Iceman, but eventually she fell in love with Alex Summers, the mutant known as Havok. With the advent of the new X-Men, the couple tried to leave the life of fighting crime and would-be world conquerors behind them. Neither Dane nor Summers wanted to live the life of adventurers; they soon discovered that they had a mutual interest in geophysics. They spent some time wandering the Diablo mountain range in California. But this life was not to be for either mutant.

Lorna received a new costume, of Shi’ar design, when her mind was taken over by the Shi’ar intelligence agent, Davan Shakari. Davan served D’ken, the now-deposed emperor of the Shi’ar galaxy. Charles Xavier finally freed Lorna from Shakari’s control.

Years later, Lorna, as Polaris, was taken over by the evil entity known as Malice. Under the creature’s control, Polaris joined the group known as the Marauders, which was lead by Mister Sinister. During this time in Mr. Sinister’s service, Malice became completely bonded with Polaris, suppressing Lorna’s personality.

She, along with the Marauders, fought the combined X-Men and X-Factor teams during the Inferno in New York City. She was the last Marauder standing, other than Mister Sinister; she escaped after the battle was over.

Lorna Dane was captured by minions of her supposed sister, Zaladane, and brought to the Savage Land. There, Zaladane transferred the powers of Polaris from Lorna to herself. In the transferral, all evidence of the creature Malice, was seemingly wiped away. The X-Men came to rescue her, and it was during the rescue that some of Lorna’s new powers manifested themselves.

She was able to pull her chains out of the stone wall and she grew about a foot taller. The group of mutants successfully escaped Zaladane’s clutches, but the X-Men were teleported out of the Savage Land by Gateway, leaving Lorna and Ka-Zar there to fend for themselves.

Lorna finally left the Savage Land and got on a boat headed in the general direction of Muir Island. During this trip, two other powers manifested themselves. First, invulnerability was discovered when bullets bounced off her. Then the ability to affect other people’s emotions surfaced. The whole crew of the ship lost control of themselves, destroying each other and the ship, so that Lorna called Muir Island and asked for help. Banshee arrived and saved her from the sinking ship.

Back on the island, Moira McTaggert put Lorna through a series of tests, but she couldn’t figure out where these new powers were coming from.

Muir Island was attacked by the mutant hunting group known as the Reavers, which prompted Moira to form a new group of X-Men consisting of Banshee, Legion, Forge, Amanda Sefton, Sunder, and Lorna Dane, using her new powers. This group of X-Men, aided by the timely arrival of the Freedom Force, managed to fight back against the Reavers and forced them to retreat after the deaths of Destiny and Stonewall.

Recently, Muir Island was taken over by the Shadow King. Lorna was his prisoner, and he used her as a key to controlling all the inhabitants of the island and enhancing their natural aggressiveness. X-Factor and the X-Men defeated the Shadow King by freeing Lorna from his power.

Soon after the King’s defeat, Lorna’s magnetic powers returned and she accepted Val Cooper’s offer to join the government sponsored X-Factor.