DEADLY HANDS OF MYSTERY

EXPLORING THE COSMIC UNIVERSE PART3

THE STARJAMMERS

When Scott and Alex Summers were children,

their parents had taken them on a trip to Alaska to visit their grandparents.

On their journey home, their plane was attacked by a Shi’ar aircraft.

With their plane burning and out of control, Katherine Summers gave her sons the only parachute on board.

She placed Alex in Scott’s arms and shoved them out of the plane. However, before the plane was about to explode,

Christopher and his wife were beamed aboard the Shi’ar aircraft. The alien ship was on a zoological scouting mission and

brought the human specimen to Emporer D’Ken. D’Ken was attracted to Katherine and decided to keep her as his mistress

while he sent Christopher to the slave pits. At some stage Christopher managed to escape from the pits and stormed

into the palace where he tried to kill D’Ken. Unfortunately he was captured and, as punishment,

his wife was killed by D’Ken before Christopher’s eyes. With his will broken, Christopher was then sent back to the slave pits

. While there, Christopher met an alien catlike female running from the guards. When she was captured by the guards and beaten,

Christopher intervened but was beaten himself. As the guards carried their captive away,

Christopher watched, feeling ashamed of his inability to rescue her. Shortly afterwards he was approached by two more aliens who introduced themselves as Ch’od and Raza.

They told Christopher that they were searching for their friend but Christopher was too afraid of them to answer. As they walked away Christopher realized that he had to help them and approached the guards quarters

where the female alien was being tortured. After stabbing one of the guards, Ch’od and Raza appeared and helped Christopher

defeat the rest of the guards. Christopher released the female alien from her shackles,

who Christopher called Hepzibah as her real name was unpronounceable to anybody not from her race.

Hepzibah bit Christopher and licked his blood, explaining that she had established a lifebond of blood and the four of them were now friends for life.

They had to escape from the prison world but none of them knew how to fly a ship.

Christopher told them that he knew how to fly considering he was a former air force pilot.

After stealing a spaceship and escaping from the prison colony, Christopher adopted the name Corsair,

after his old military nickname.

Over the years the four friends, accompanied by Cr+eee, a small rodent-like alien that Ch’od is only able to understand,

established themselves as intergalactic pirates called the Starjammers

THE SUPER SKRULL

After the Fantastic Four stopped the Skrulls' attempted invasion of Earth, Skrull Emperor Dorrek invested vast resources into creating a superbeing of his own. K'lrt, a decorated soldier and warrior of the Skrull empire, was chosen to undergo a process that endowed him with all the powers of the Fantastic Four,

STARFOX [EROS]

Eros is the youngest son of two Titanian Eternals, A'Lars and Sui-San. Eros grew up to be a fun-loving, carefree womanizer in contrast to his brother Thanos, a power-hungry, misanthropic schemer. Only when Thanos launched his first major attack against Titan, an attack that left their mother Sui-San dead, did Eros begin to take life a bit more seriously. In subsequent campaigns against Thanos, Eros fought alongside Titan's handful of survivors. Eros joined the alien Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers in the first major defeat of Thanos.

No longer bound by duty, Eros left war-torn Titan, seeking out pleasure and recreation on humanoid inhabited worlds.