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Real Name: Omar Barrenos Occupation: Environmentalist Legal Status: Brazilian citizen Identity: Public Place of Birth: Brazil Marital Status: Unknown Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: Geneva, Switzerland Past Group Affiliations: Project: Earth (Force of Nature's employer) Known Powers: None Equipment: Omar carries an automatic pistol (Good damage, 8 shots), which he does not hesitate to use. Talents: Guns, Leadership. Contacts: Barrenos has criminal contacts sufficient to enable him to hire a team of super-villains, as well as contacts within world environmental organizations. Role-Playing Notes: Omar Barrenos is an example of a man driven to villainy through fanatical dedication to a worthy cause. He is committed to the goal of saving the planet’s environment at any cost. So far, Omar has been primarily focused on the threat posed to the Amazon rain forest by developers, but his organization is also involved in other environmental issues. He has convinced himself that murder, treachery, and deceit are justified if they will further his ecological agenda. Omar is an articulate, educated man, a careful schemer who is calm and rational rather than a raving lunatic. He is also an internationalist, having nothing but contempt for the governments of the world. As he puts it, “I am of the world, and we fight for the entire planet.” Although he will use a gun if he is at tacked or he feels murder is necessary for the cause, Omar Barrenos would rather enlist the support of superbeings than fight them. History: Omar was the founder of the powerful international environmental activist group known as Project: Earth. He gathered together a diverse group of like-minded talented individuals to form the group’s administrative council: Muan Ho, a Hong Kong venture capitalist and the money behind the operation; Sasha Yamir, an Israeli political scientist; Michael Shauneghann, a military strategist; and Madeline Naylor Baldwin (mother of the hero Speedball), a famous American actress. With their help, he assembled Force of Nature to act as Project: Earth’s personal super-team. In a recent operation against developers in the Amazon rainforest, Omar had Project: Earth’s inner circle fake their own kidnapping by pro-development forces in order to discredit the Amazon developers and drum up sympathy for their cause. But the New Warriors arrived to investigate the disappearance of Madeline and were captured by Force of Nature. Omar tried to persuade the New Warriors to join forces with him, but they remained unswayed by his rhetoric. When he failed to convince them, Force of Nature began at tacking the developers anyway, and the New Warriors quickly defeated them. To salvage the situation, Omar decided to kill Madeline Baldwin himself, hoping to make it look like one of the developer’s guards had done it. His plan was to create a martyr for “mother earth.” Speedball saved Madeline’s life, but Omar and the remaining chief administrators of Project: Earth were able to escape into the jungle during the confusion. Unbroken by defeat, Omar returned to Switzerland to plan Project: Earth’s next operation. |