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Real Name: Jack Monroe
Occupation: Professional adventurer
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Naugatuck, Connecticut
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former partner of Captain America IV, current partner of Captain America I, Demolition Man, and Falcon
Known Powers:
Stun Discs: Nomad wears two detachable six-inch-diameter, steel alloy discs on his chest. He can throw these discs as weapons with a 1-area range; these discs stun opponents for 1-10 rounds if they do not make an Endurance FEAT roll. If Endurance is less than Remarkable, a red FEAT is required. If Endurance is Remarkable, a yellow FEAT is required, and if greater than Remarkable, green is required.
Other Nomads:
The first Nomad was Steve Rogers, the original Captain America. The second Nomad was a stuntman (now deceased) hired by the Red Skull to trap Captain America. He had the following stats:
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Talents:
Nomad has been taught by Captain America and has all martial arts. He is a Weapon Specialist with his discs.
Contacts:
Nomad is a close friend of the Captain (Captain America I), and a member of his current group of allied heroes, which also includes Demolition Man and the Falcon.
Role-Playing Notes:
Northstar is driven by his strong passions. He is a flamboyant hedonist in his personal life. However, he is so protective of his twin sister, Jeanne-Marie, that he has become a total prude where she is concerned. He develops a dislike of his sister’s lovers, even if they are Northstar’s teammates. He is a stoic in his personal troubles. Since his transformation into a Faerie, Northstar may have become wiser, more tranquil.
History:
Jack Monroe was the third man to adopt the identity of Nomad. The first Nomad was Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, who became disillusioned with the American government for a brief time and assumed a costumed identity which did not have patriotic symbolism. When Rogers rededicated himself to American ideals, he abandoned the Nomad identity. It was assumed years later by California-based stuntman Edward Ferbel in a scheme masterminded by the Red Skull. Ferbel was killed in the course of the Skull’s machinations. Finally, a modified version of the Nomad costume was given to Jack Monroe by SHIELD when he was sent on a mission to infiltrate the headquarters of the terrorist called the Viper. It was thought that the Nomad suit would unnerve the Viper since the original Nomad had defeated her once before.
Prior to donning the Nomad suit, Jack Monroe had been a lifelong admirer of Captain America and his deceased partner Bucky. As a youth, he was enrolled in the Lee School for Boys in Connecticut where he met a man who shared his hero worship, history instructor “Steve Rogers.” Rogers was not the original Captain America, who had disappeared during the final days of World War II, but a man so obsessed with his legend that after rediscovering the original Super-Soldier formula in the note book of a Nazi spy, he offered to exchange the formula for the opportunity to become the new Captain America. Administration officials approved his plan, hoping to have a symbol of liberty to fight in the Korean War. Soon after undergoing plastic surgery to make him resemble the original Steve Rogers, the would-be successor was told that the project had been terminated with the end of the Korean War.
Rogers, as he was now known legally, accepted a post at the Lee School, and met Monroe, who had gone by the nickname Bucky. Sharing a mutual obsession, the two became friends, and Monroe acquired Captain America and Bucky costumes for them. Rogers refused to play Captain America, however, until a new bulletin announced the return of the Red Skull (though he was not genuine). Injecting themselves with the Super-Soldier formula Rogers had kept, the new Captain America and Bucky went after the bogus Red Skull and then other foes of America. Running out of enemies to fight, the two began preying upon those they suspected of being Communists. When the government learned of their indiscretions, FBI agents went to subdue them, and they were placed in suspended animation.
It was believed that without the “vita-ray” treatment that the original Captain America had, the Super-Soldier formula had detrimental effects on their sanity. They were released decades later by a government employee who was disgruntled by official policies toward the Cornmunists. The second Captain America and Bucky believed that the original Captain America was a fake, and fought him and the Falcon until the two were defeated and sent back into suspended animation. The criminal psychologist Dr. Faustus gained custody of the two, and they became test subjects for his mind-controlling gas. As a test of loyalty, the ersatz Captain America was ordered to shoot his friend Bucky. He did so, unaware that the gun was not loaded. After Faustus’s defeat, Monroe was placed in SHIELD custody, where he was given special treatments to restore his sanity.
Released, Monroe sought out the original Captain America (the Captain America he had known was killed in Faustus’s scheme) and, after posing as Bucky for one night, was given the Nomad identity. After helping his idol thwart the Viper’s scheme, Monroe decided to retain the identity of Nomad. He served as Captain America’s partner and apprentice for several months. Then, after apprehending a costumed foe by himself, he decided to leave the Captain’s tutelage and find his own style of crimefighting. His current activities and whereabouts are unknown.