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Real Name: Wendell Vaughn
Occupation: Former lieutenant, U.S. Army, former special agent of SHIELD, former security chief of Project: Pegasus, now Protector of the Universe
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Although Quasar doesn’t wear a mask, his real name is not known to the general public
Place of Birth: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Gilbert (father), Lisa (mother)
Base of Operations: Mobile (in outer space)
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of SHIELD, former head of security at Project: Pegasus
Known Powers:
None
Equipment:
Quantum-Bands: Quasar wears a pair of bracelets of an unidentified, Unearthly strength material. They are capable of converting “quantum energy” for a number of Power Stunts, including:
- Force blasts of Monstrous strength at a range of 5 areas
- Flight at Shift-Y speed (100 areas/round) within an atmosphere, CL3000 when in the vacuum of space
- “Solid light” constructs of Monstrous material strength that do Monstrous damage if used as weapons. Quasar can form any simple solid object (spheres, cones, cubes, mallets, cages, etc.) that he can visualize
- Light bursts of Monstrous intensity which can blind an opponent
- A force field which provides Monstrous protection against physical and energy attacks
- Protection from Vacuum - A specialized force field that protects Quasar from the rigors of outer space. Although the field will pre vent oxygen from escaping, it will not provide a breathable atmosphere, which must be supplied separately (such as with oxygen tanks). The oxygen within the field is enough to allow Quasar to survive for up to 10 minutes.
Talents:
Trained by SHIELD and the U.S. Army, Vaughn has the Law Enforcement and Espionage skills. He is trained in Martial Arts A and B, as well as handgun use.
Contacts:
Vaughn has contacts in SHIELD, the U.S. Army, and those people employed at the Vault who were transferred from Project: Pegasus. He has worked with Bill Foster and the Thing in the past.
Role-Playing Notes:
Despite his years of training as a soldier, a SHIELD super-agent, and a superhero, Quasar is still somewhat insecure in his role as a superhero, perhaps because of the sheer power that he wields. He takes himself extremely seriously and does not allow himself any errors. He is extremely loyal to his superiors and tends to follow orders from them without question.
History:
Wendell Vaughn is the second human being to wear a pair of alien energy bracelets now known as the quantum-bands. The first was Robert Grayson, the son of astrophysicist Dr. Horace Grayson. In the years before World War II, Dr. Gray- son made radio contact with the colony of Eternals who lived on the planet Uranus in an endeavor to build a spaceship capable of inter planetary travel. Believing Uranus to be a better environment than Earth to raise his son, Dr. Grayson, a widower, journeyed there and was met with open arms by the Uranian Eternals, who were eager to hear news of the world that had spawned them millennia before.
When young Robert Grayson was in his mid-teens, he was given a pair of energy-manipulating wrist-bands, whose origin was then unknown. Robert’s adventurous spirit led him back to Earth, where, upon his father’s suggestion, he used the wrist-bands’ solar-conversion capacities as a weapon to battle crime. Grayson called himself Marvel Boy and established a solid reputation as one of the 1950s’ preeminent costumed crimefighters. Learning that his father was in poor health, Gray- son tried to purchase medical sup plies to take back to Uranus, but was unable to get a bank loan. Upon reaching Uranus, he learned that some unexplained disaster had ruptured the colony’s protective dome, killing all of its inhabitants, including his father. Insane with grief, he decided to return to Earth and take vengeance upon the banker who, by refusing his loan, had made him waste valuable time. Caught in suspended animation for a number of years, Grayson eventually made it back to Earth and went on a ram page, calling himself the Crusader. In a battle with the Fantastic Four, Grayson disintegrated himself by channeling solar energy through the wristbands improperly. The energy bracelets were undamaged.
The Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards confiscated the weapons, and, having no time to investigate the nature of their power himself, turned them over to SHIELD. There they were given to SHIELD scientist Dr. Gilbert Vaughn, who hypothesized that the alien power- transformers may be able to utilize energy sources in addition to solar. In order to test them, Vaughn got per mission to use his son Wendell, an army veteran in the midst of SHIELD agent training, as a test subject. To Wendell’s dismay, he discovered that the wrist-bands affixed them selves to his wrists as soon as he used them. Permanently linked to these powerful mechanisms, Wendell Vaughn joined SHIELD’s pilot “Super-Agent” program under the name Marvel Man. When the pro gram was discontinued, he took the code-name Quasar, based on the power source his father believed that he had attuned the wrist-bands to: quasi-stellar radio-sources.
His excellent military record, SHIELD credentials, and a recommendation by Captain America got him the position of security chief at the government’s secret energy research facility, Project: Pegasus. After several years, however, he resigned, blaming himself for allowing the Serpent Crown, an ancient mystical power object, to take over the minds of everyone in the Project, including himself. Since then, he has not been seen or heard from. It is rumored that he has journeyed to the planet Uranus to investigate his quantum-band’s origin.