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Real Name: Arkady
Occupation: Former super-agent, now super-villain
Legal Status: Russian citizen, legally dead
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Somewhere in Russia
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: KGB, the Hand, the Upstarts
Known Powers:
Death Factor: Omega Red can generate a “death field” of Amazing Intensity around him which is channeled through his tentacles. Almost the reverse of Wolverine’s Healing Factor, this field saps the life force of living creatures. Omega Red can suck that life force out of every one in the same area as himself, and can use this energy to regain lost Health up to his maximum. To affect a target, Omega Red must first succeed at a Power FEAT against the Intensity of the victim’s Psyche. Each successful FEAT allows Omega Red to drain up to 50 points from each victim until he regains his normal maximum Health. If the target’s Health drops to 0 as a result, the victim dies and his body disintegrates.
Lethal Pheromones: Omega Red can release a cloud of pheromones that causes people to feel ill and collapse. Anyone in the same Area as Omega Red will be affected, and potential victims must succeed at an Excellent Intensity Endurance FEAT or be rendered unconscious for 1d10 turns. Characters with sealed life support systems or who do not breathe are unaffected.
Body Armor: Omega Red has a specially-designed suit that serves as Good rank Body Armor.
Tentacles: Omega Red’s suit is equipped with Carbonadium tentacles of Monstrous material strength. These give him +2cs when attempting Grappling attacks, and adds +1cs to Strength when determining Grappling damage.
Weaknesses:
Omega Red must continually feed on life force to survive. He loses 10 Health points per hour, which can only be restored by draining new Health from living victims. If his Health should drop to 0, he enters a death-like coma and cannot be revived without the voluntary self-sacrifice of a number of beings whose combined Health points total at least six times Omega Red’s total original Health.
Talents:
Omega Red is bilingual in English and Russian.
Contacts:
Omega Red was resurrected by Matsuo Tsurayaba of the Hand to serve as an ally of Fenris in their quest for the Carbonadium Synthesizer.
Role-Playing Notes:
Omega Red is obsessed with battling and defeating Wolverine, whom he believes was responsible for his death. His death and rebirth have left him utterly ruthless, with an implacable hatred for his old enemy. A true psychopath, Omega Red cares nothing for human life. He has a hair-trigger temper and will attack anyone, friend or foe, who even dares to speak against him. So far, the only person besides Wolverine who has had presence enough to face Omega Red down and live is Matsuo Tsurayaba, the coldly unflappable ninja who resur rected him.
History:
The man who became Omega Red was once known as Arkady, a Russian agent. Like Wolverine, Arkady became involved in a secret government project to develop a mutant super-soldier: Arkady was Russia’s precursor to the Canadian “Weapon X” program. But Arkady’s power was the opposite of Logan’s: where Wolverine’s Healing Factor enabled him to regenerate his own injuries, Arkady possessed the power to radiate death, an ability that required him to constantly drain life to keep himself alive.
While the Omega Red project was underway, a team of CIA agents consisting of David North, Logan (who would become Wolverine), and Creed (who would later become Sabertooth) raided the project base, aided by a defector named Janice. Omega Red tried to stop them, and failed, and the CIA team made off with a device called the Carbonadium Synthesizer that was being used to control Arkady’s death-factor. Without the C-Synthesizer, Arkady could not survive, and went into a death-like coma.
Logan believed that Arkady was permanently dead, but Arkady’s body was recovered by agents of the Hand, the same mysterious order of mystic assassins responsible for the rebirth of Psylocke. In a mystic ceremony, twenty of the Hand’s best assassins voluntarily sacrificed their life-force so that Arkady would be reborn.
Arkady’s first act was typical of him: reawakening from death, he struck out blindly, slaying five more Hand technicians with his death-factor. But he soon brought his powers under control. Taking the name Omega Red, he struck an alliance with Matsuo Tsurayaba, the Hand’s leader: he would work with the Hand, if they would lead him to Wolverine and the C-Synthesizer.
Allied with a faction among the Upstarts which included the deadly duo Fenris, Matsuo sent its operatives with Omega Red to ambush Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, the Beast, and Jubilee as they left the mansion. With the aid of the Hand and the advantage of surprise, Omega Red was able to quickly defeat the heroes. Although the other X-Men escaped, Wolverine remained a captive.
Omega Red needed the Carbonadium Synthesizer in order to survive without draining life force. Believing Wolverine might have hidden it, the villains took Wolverine to a base in Berlin, and proceeded to use induced memory inversion techniques to regress Wolverine’s memories back to his original encounters with Arkady, thirty years ago. But before the memory inversion could be completed, Wolverine escaped with the aid of his former CIA colleague, David North. Omega Red attempted to stop him, but the injured Wolverine preferred to run rather than fight, leaving Omega Red frustrated in his search for vengeance.