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Kryptonian
(DC Comics)
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Velorian
(Sharon Best, Aurora Universe)
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Names � Given and Public --------
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Kara Zor-El
(aka Supergirl)
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Kara
Zor'El (aka SuperFemme)
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Purpose on Earth --------
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| Sent
to Earth to avoid being killed during Krypton's
destruction (Kal-El) or during Argo City's demise
(Kara Zor-El).
Since
arriving, they have become crime fighters and rescue
workers during disasters. The people of Earth have
become very dependent on them, both for their powers
and their inspirational leadership.
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The
original purpose of the Velorian race was to be the
'vessels of new gods', procreators who could
continue the race of the gods who had created them.
However,
the Ancient Ones, or Galen, largely disappeared and the Velorians
subsequently defined a new purpose for themselves.
They became Protectors, bound by a Prime Directive
to only interfere in the affairs of their adopted
planets when it was faced with deadly peril from
another alien race. At all other times, they were to
blend invisibly into the indigenous population.
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General Characteristics --------
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| Powers
are seemingly magical - essentially without
limits or ties to any known physical principles. |
All
'powers' are the result of genetic enhancement and
they are bound by physical laws (a few of which are
as of yet unknown to Terran scientists, mostly the
way physical laws are inter-related across
dimensional boundaries). |
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Racial/Ethnic Background --------
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| Seemingly
a parallel evolution of humanoids with exactly the
same appearance and personalities as Terrans. They
look, act and think identical to us. A mathematical
wonder.
Her
race is simply named Kryptonian.
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Human
from Earth. A group of Scandavadian children were
abducted in 1000AD and underwent a variety of
scientific enhancements to their DNA to become
Velorians. The empty sites of their human DNA have
been filled with alien or synthesized genes to
change many of their characteristics. Yet they
remain physically indistinguishable from Terrans
except for being on the extreme end of physical
attractiveness.
The Ancient Ones who
created the Velorian raced called them Homo
Sapiens Supremis.
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Names � Civilian --------
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| Linda
Lee , Linda Danvers |
Lisa
Matthews (growing up), Lisa Banks (married name). |
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Strength --------
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| Essentially
unlimited. There are very few instances in the
comics where Supergirl was physically challenged at
anything that involved muscular contraction. Whether
it was punching out a bad guy or shoving a small
planetoid out of orbit, she had great muscles.
She can probably deadlift 100,000,000 tons. |
Kara
has approximately four-thousand times the physical
strength of a physically-fit Terran male. She can
deadlift about 800 to 1000 tons..
On
the other hand, a Velorian becomes several times
stronger for very brief periods when she is aroused. This is believed
to be a protective mechanism based on the fact that
Velorians were initially created to mate with the
Ancient Ones and bear their offspring. It is assumed
by this writer that mating with a god was an
extremely athletic event!
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Appearance --------
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| Height:
5'8" Weight: 128 pounds
Slender and fit but not athletic in appearance
(exceptions do occur in the comics)
Long
blond hair and sky blue eyes, extremely attractive
to men when appearing as Supergirl.
Mousy
brown hair and generally dumpy clothes when Linda -
not usually considered attractive.
Figure:
Variable... my guess would be 34-22-36 in general,
but many exceptions abound, from waif-like to
voluptuous.
Wears
a variety of costumes based on the primary red and
blue colors of Superman's outfit, usually with a big
yellow 'S' on her chest, a tiny skirt or hotpants
and a blue top. She invariably wears red boots or
shoes of some sort. The 'S' stands for Supergirl.
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Height:
5'10" (a few stories show her a bit
taller or shorter), Weight: 125 to 130 pounds
Slender
and athletic build, looks like she works out a lot,
but not overtly muscular. She's got a great figure and looks like
she knows her way around weights in the gym.
Long
blond hair and brilliantly blue eyes, permanently
tanned and perfect skin, extremely attractive,
stunning really. No change in appearance in her
civilian identities. She 'hides in plain sight', so
to speak, her only disguise is that of changing out
of her working clothes.
Figure:
36-22-36 most of the time, although the amount of
Orgone energy she is carrying can change her figure
quite dramatically.
Her
working clothes usually consist of a red skirt and
blue top, her legs and feet bare, with either a yellow
'S' (for
Supremis) or a 'Sf' for SuperFemme.
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Invulnerability --------
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| Essentially
absolute except for Kryptonite, which has
many forms. Green = fatal, Red = weird
changes in body/mind, Gold = loss of powers
forever, etc. Highly susceptible to
mental or Psionic attacks. |
Can
be overcome temporarily by ballistic weapons
and high temperatures, yet her skin is
essentially impossible to puncture, immune
to all chemicals and forms of radiation,
except for some sensitivity to x-rays. The
energy matrix that binds her cells together
responds non-linearly to force. This allows
her body to feel soft and very humanlike
while also being able to blunt the cruelest
weapons known to man.
A
closed band of gold around her neck, or to a
lesser extent any other part of her body, will
interfere with internal energy flows and
reduce her strength to several times that of
a Terran, all the while making her act and feel as if she's
had a bit too much to drink.
Highly
susceptible to mental or Psionic attacks.
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Source of Energy / Powers --------
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| Light
gravity and solar radiation from yellow
suns. Inexhaustible and indefatigable when
near a yellow sun.
The
power is stored in their bodies and
disappears in seconds if they are removed
from the influence of a yellow sun.
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Velorians
are a genetically-engineered race whose
initial DNA came from the Scandavadian
tribes of Earth at approximately 1000AD. An
ancient space-faring race filled the roughly
80% of unused gene sites in the Velorian's
DNA with genes from other races they had
found during their travels or genes they
synthesized to give them unique
abilities. This accounts for their
so-called 'powers'.
Their
robust physique requires tremendous amounts
of energy which can be absorbed from nearly
any source and is stored in their bodies.
Energy depletion results in weakness and
then unconsciousness and near permanent
amnesia, even after regaining their
energy.
Energy
is stored in a female Velorian's breasts
(which are no longer mammary glands) and is
connected by superconducting nerve fibers to
every part of her body. This characteristics
results in significant changes in a Velorian
femme's figure depending on how much energy
she is holding. Since hugely expandable
energy reservoirs would be hard to bury
inside a person's body, this adaptation to
use external energy storage was a clever
piece of engineering on the part of the
Ancient Ones.
As
a result, Velorian males have very limited
energy storage abilities and are forced to
remain on their home planet. In Velorian
culture, the females are the adventurers and
warriors, solely based on their ability to
store vast amounts of energy in their
bodies.
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Flight --------
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| An
act of will - seemingly magical and
unlimited in power. |
Velorians
have a flight organ just beneath their
breast-bone that generates a anti-gravity
field and a 'thrust' that pushes against the
dimensional boundaries that surround us all.
This requires a great deal of energy, most
of which is produced by the excess power
from isometric muscular contraction.
They
can levitate about half the weight which
they can lift through pure muscular
contraction, about 400 tons in Kara's case.
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Vision --------
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| X-ray
vision that can look through anything except
lead. Telescopic vision that can recognize
people's faces on planets in distant
galaxies - seemingly magic. |
A
Velorian's eyes contain the usual rods and
cones in their retinas, but they also have
receptors that can detect the spin and
resonance of Tachyon particles. Tachyons are
so small that they race through the Earth
and through any solid object (many of them
are penetrating your body as you read this
sentence), yet the passage of a Tachyon near
an atom results in it taking on a particular
spin and resonance that is a function of
time and the mass of the object. A
Velorian's unique retina can decode that
spin to 'see' where the Tachyon has been by
decoding the time element of the spin and
the resonance that denoted the type of atoms
it passed near. This gives them the ability
essentially 'look back' along the Tachyon's
passage, thus imparting a primitive ability
to look through things.
Optically,
a Velorian's eyesight is several times
greater than a hawk or eagle. They could
read the fine print of a newspaper from a
distance of several hundred yards.
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Energy Projection --------
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| Heat
vision - able to project red beams that melt
just about anything, including vaporizing
diamonds in fractions of a second. |
Able
to transform Orgone energy into a variable
energy heat wave. The energy travels through
superconducting nerves and down the optic nerve to flash
outward through the lenses of their eyes
(the lens and cornea are unusually clear
which has the side-effect of making their
eyes seem to sparkle like a young child's
eyes).
Kara
can vary the frequency of emitted energy
from deep infra-red to ultraviolet depending
on the object she wants to heat. It does,
however, rapidly deplete her of stored energy.
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Hearing --------
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| Able
to hear a pin drop thousands of miles away.
Able to separate the millions of heartbeats
in a city to isolate one single unique beat
and then to home in on it -- seemingly
magic. |
A
Velorian's hearing is slightly better than
that of a dog. |
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Telekinetics --------
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| Kryptonians
- none. Matrix (a synthesized
Kryptonian look-alike) - able to move just
about anything. |
None |
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Intelligence / Reflexes --------
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| Sometimes
super-smart, able to do calculations faster
than the biggest computer, but usually
pretty much human normal. Able to speed her
mind up to super-speed when necessary.
She
can watch a light beam moving toward her and
leap aside at the last moment.
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IQ
on the high-end of Terran norm, perhaps 140,
but not remarkable otherwise. Her reflexes
are normally on the upper end of Terran, but
she can speed her reflexes up dramatically for
brief periods, fast enough to watch a bullet floating toward her and
reach out and pluck it out of mid-air at the
last moment.
However,
such a speedup of her reflexes for more than a
minute or two can leave her unconscious until
the dopamine receptors of her neurons recharge
themselves.
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Secret Identities --------
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| Linda
wears a brown wig and dresses funky and acts
timid. It works great since nobody expects
much of girls who look like that and hardly
anyone has ever suspected that she's
anything but a girl from an orphanage in
Kansas.
She
is single and usually doesn't have a steady
boyfriend.
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As
Lisa Matthews she is outgoing and
smart and sexy. A jock, she played sports in
High School and is a cheerleader, the kind
of girl every guy wanted to date but few
ever did.
As
Lisa Banks, she is the Chief Information
Officer of a huge corporation and is married
to the conductor of a major symphony
orchestra - an ordinary Terran man who is
twice her age. She loves him dearly, mostly
because he takes her 'uniqueness' in stride
and treats her like a normal woman.
She
has a daughter named Xara, the father a
mysterious man named Lucas with more than Velorian powers.
He has recently been revealed to be part
Galen.
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Personality --------
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| Friendly,
outgoing and often aggressive as Supergirl.
She falls in love easily but can't quite
keep a relationship going, mostly because
she fears that men will be intimidated by
her if they know she's a Kryptonian or that
her enemies will strike back at her through
them.
As
Linda, she's a very nice girl, the kind of
girl you make friends with but probably
don't date - a bit of a wallflower. Probably
the nicest and most considerate girl you
could ever meet, one who is insatiably
interested in what makes people tick. She is
most impressed by the bravery of ordinary
humans who risk their lives for their fellow
man.
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Extremely
engaging and outgoing. Her biggest fear is
that she'll start to think of herself as
some kind of 'goddess' and lose touch with
ordinary people. She is attuned to and
driven by emotions and is very sensitive to
the feelings of those around her. She tries
to fit in while also dazzling her closest
friends with disclosure of her Velorian
powers.
She
finds that the most attractive
characteristic of any man or woman is the
degree to which they are willing to
sacrifice themselves to help others. She has
an affinity for cops and for anyone else who
routinely risks their own life for others.
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Errata --------
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| Her
appearance and personality are wildly
variable over the forty years she's been in
the comics. |
Kara
Zor'El sometimes shows up as Kara Zorel in
some stories. All Velorian are
contracted with apostrophes. |
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More Pictures --------
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| See
Kryptonian Gallery |
See KaraZ
Gallery , Other Velorian
Gallery and Xara's
Gallery
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