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Real Name: Spyder Occupation: Intergalactic entrepreneur Legal Status: None Identity: Spyder's existence is not known to the general populace of Earth. Place of Birth: Unrevealed Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: An unidentified planet in a distant system. Past Group Affiliations: None Known Powers: None. Equipment: Flight Platform: When in a possible combat situation Spyder often rides a floating platform. This platform only has Feeble Air Speed, but has a deflection sphere which provides anyone on it with Amazing protection against all forms of attack. Spaceship: Spyder travels through space in a spacecraft with Good Control, Remarkable Speed (Shift Y when travelling through hyperspace), Monstrous Body, and Incredible Protection. It is protected by Monstrous shields against all forms of detection and can carry up to 500 tons of cargo. It has a number of smaller cargo and assault shuttles. Underlings: Guards: Spyder employs a number of mercenaries with the following statistics:
Talents: Spyder is skilled in the fields of Business/Finance as they apply to intergalactic races. He is unfamiliar with the business practices of Earth and would probably consider them childlike. Contacts: Spyder is not particularly trusted by anyone in the galaxy, although they will deal with him when necessary because he can provide them with what they want. Role-Playing Notes: Spyder comes from a race of alien beings who are incapable of feeling emotion. He has a collection of bottled "emotions" which he uses whenever he thinks it is necessary to feel an emotion. Spyder views all situations in how they represent a profit or loss for him. If an operation is "going into the red" he will abandon it. All of his plans are aimed at making a maximum amount of profit at a minimum cost. History: Spyder's history is not known. It is believed that he was responsible for the capture of Lila Cheney from Earth and that he sold her into slavery. This was part of some overall scheme, as he later foreclosed to Lila's buyers, and he drove them into bankruptcy. Having gained this profit, he attempted to double it by recovering Lila from Earth and using her as cheap intergalactic transportation. Spyder's guards captured Lila from a rock concert on Earth by using a power dampening device. Spyder returned to his home planet, but used the alien Gossamyr to lure the New Mutants to come after him. He took them captive, but they escaped with Gossamyr's help. During the ensuing fight three males of Gossamyr's race were released from hibernation and they threatened to destroy Spyder's planet entirely. Lila Cheney was forced to apparently sacrifice her life to teleport them as well as herself into the nearby star. The New Mutants were prepared to take on Spyder, but Illyana's powers were fading and she was forced to teleport them back to Earth before she lost her powers entirely. When last seen, Spyder and his organization were primarily intact. It is unknown whether he will attempt to recover his profit by capturing the New Mutants or other superhuman beings on the Earth in the future. |