Username:
Light of Oa
Character Name:
Colonel Calvin 'Cal' Nicolas
Aliases:
Green Lantern, Emerald Guardian
Species:
Homo sapiens sapiens
Age:
24 years-old
Height:
6 feet and 1 inch
Weight:
200lbs
Appearance:
Cal has medium-length, black hair generally kept slightly messy with long sideburns. His bright eyes are a very light green in color - but the irises of his eyes glow a completely different green - the sharp glowing green of the Green Lantern's light. He has a natural lightly tanned skin tone and a well built body due to consistent working out. One thing that he almost always wears on his right hand, on the middle finger, is the Green Lantern power ring.
Clothing:
Causal
Calvin prefers to keep his casual wear simple. A basic green t-shirt or long-sleeve shirt usually suffices along with blue or black jeans, or perhaps dark brown or tan slacks. He wears some simple brown work boots plus a black leather belt.
Green Lantern Uniform
The Green Lantern Corps, of course, has its own official uniform that most species where while on official duty for the Guardians. It is a full, body-fitting bodysuit with a green torso that ends at waist level, though black cuts into the chest area by the armpits a bit. The shoulder area of the costume is also green. The part of the suit that covers the arms and legs are black. The gloves are white and the boots are green. On the right side of his chest is a large logo of the Green Lantern Corps. There is also a green mask that covers the eyes, nose, and a small part of the face.
History:
Being worked on again >:3
Weapon &Abilities:
Green Lantern Power Ring
Simple in appearance, the power rings of the Green Lantern Corps look like such plain and casual little things. However, under this facade lies one of the single most powerful weapons in the known universe. The rings are staggeringly advanced technological artifacts capable of generating a variety of effects and energy constructs. Created by the immortal Guardians of the Universe, the power rings have been in service for the last few billion years.
The power behind the ring is the Central Battery on the planet of Oa. This battery stores "energy" that is actually the collective willpower of the inhabitants of the universe. Accessing and manipulating this willpower gave the Guardians an ultimate tool to pursue their goals and allowed them to forge the ultimate weapon and tool for their Green Lantern Corps.
The power ring's strength is sustained by the wearer's strength of will. Those who become Green Lanterns must have incredible willpower to use the ring. This has to be a certain type of willpower - a pure willpower is the only type that can be used to truly empower the ring. A will marred by cynisim, for example, would barely be able to power any sort of attack. Because the power of the ring is through thought and will, anything that serves to disrupt them will have an adverse effect on the ring bearer. This is probably the biggest limitation of a Green Lantern. Such effects like mind control, hallucinogens, psychic attacks, "neural chaff" and other phenomena that disrupt thought processes will all indirectly impair a power ring's effectiveness. More abstractly, so can a weakening of resolve and will which has proven to be the most effective at disabling a Green Lantern's use of the ring.
Each power ring has a certain amount of charge and after a set period of use, the ring's power begins to wane. Typically, the rings reserve a small portion of their power for a passive force field that protects the wielder from mortal harm. In dire emergency, that energy reserve can be tapped, at the expense of said protection, until it too is exhausted. The power rings are restored to full power by a Green Lantern's personal Power Battery, which looks like an old fashioned lantern made of dark green metal. To recharge their ring, the Green Lantern must point the ring towards the Power Battery, generally standing right in front of it. This process is not instantaneous and many members of the Corps say an oath while charging the ring to measure the time to recharge the ring and to remind themselves of their purpose.
The absolute limit of the power ring is unknown. It has been shown to do anything within the user's imagination so long as they have the willpower to back it up. The greater the willpower, the more effective the ring. No hard upper limit to the power ring's capabilities has yet been demonstrated. Among the more basic functions, the ring allows the wearer to fly through atmosphere and space. It also creates a protective life-supporting force field around the wearer - which makes the wielder look like they are constantly outlined by a green field of energy. This field is what allows them to operate in space or underwater and provides an extra layer of protection from physical attacks that might otherwise cripple or kill an unprotected person.
The power ring's most distinctive function is the generation of green solid-light 'constructs' - the size, complexity and strength of which are limited only by the ring-bearer's willpower. Thus Green Lanterns are often seen creating cages, transportation platforms, restraints, weapons, creatures, walls, battering rams, vehicles, tools, boxing gloves, etc., etc. The style of construct varies with the character and mindset of the Green Lantern wielding the ring. In the true DC universe, Hal Jordan tends to create solid, workmanlike constructs; John Stewart's constructs are almost like three-dimensional blueprints, with carefully-designed internal workings, as he is an architect by trade; Kyle Rayner, a comic book artist, uses the ring as an imaginative outlet, envisioning cartoonish and often highly detailed constructs. Guy Gardner's ring is constantly sparking, even at rest, and his creations are simple, and often blurred by the excess energy his willpower causes.
The ring has other abilities, as well, such as: The ability to form clothing, including a preprogramed official uniform within it. The power rings can be used as communicators between Power Ring wearers and Guardians. Typically a green "hologram" of the Green Lantern you are communicating with appears from within the ring. Every power ring has its own artificial intelligence directly linked to the Central Battery database. The wearer typically interfaces with the AI by addressing the ring verbally, all though it is presumed that the wearer can also silently communicate with the ring through their willpower. The ring can either respond aloud or communicate silently to the wearer. The ring provides the wearer with important information pertaining to a given situation and may also suggest a useful course of action. The AI can also perform valuable scans of the wearer's surroundings. The ring apparently passively scans an area of approximately 100 meters around the wearer at all times and warns the wearer of any potential threats. A Green Lantern can actively command the ring's AI to run a scan of a person, place or thing and to provide information on what it has learned. The AI is capable of translating nearly any alien language into the language of the ring's wearer. The power ring also allows the wearer to pass through certain solid objects, such as walls.
Allies:
Green Lantern Corps
Founded by the Guardians of the Universe some 3 billion years ago on the planet Oa, the Green Lantern Corps is a intergalactic peacekeeping and police force. The Guardians divide the universe into 3,600 "sectors" that a Green Lantern is assigned to patrol. Depending on the size of a sector, a number of Green Lanterns can be chosen for each sector - though usually no more than one or two are chosen. Currently the Corps has approximately 5,000 members. Each Green Lantern is expected to uphold certain principles of his/her/its duty, such as obeying the Guardians to the letter, protecting life and liberty of their assigned sector, uploading the honor of the Corp, treating the Guardians and other Lanterns with respect and dignity, and so on.
Sodol Yat
A young 19-year-old who lived on the world of Daxam which was recently crushed by the being known as Mongrul - the tyrannical ruler of Warworld. He served as a militiaman that fought against the world's new ruler. Yat is incredibly strong-willed, well known for his bravery, courage, and great deeds while fighting for his people. He, however, had little love of his bigoted xenophobic race and served only to survive and free the world - so that one day he may leave it and travel the stars like he always wanted. However, he had the unfortunate pleasure of coming face-to-face with Mongrul. Never backing down, he fought the alien and would have died - if not the for the intervention of the Guardians of the Universe. It was then that he was given the power of Ion - the entity that essentially comprises consolidated willpower - and declared as the Torchbearer, as per the prophecy in the Book of Oa. Defeating Mongrul and imprisoning him on Oa, Sodol Yat now serves as something of demi-god amongst the Green Lantern Corps. But for all his powers and status, he feels lost and confused in it all.
Kilowog
Formerly a gifted genetic scientist from the planet Bolovax Vik, located in Space Sector 674, Kilowog is now one of the greatest and most powerful Green Lantern's alive. A towering alien with a brutish and porcine appearance, he is renowned throughout the Green Lantern Corps as the primary trainer of the Corps' newest recruits.
Alan Scott
The original Green Lantern of Earth has nothing to do with the Green Lantern Corps at all. Starting his career in the 1940s, Alan Scott was once a young railroad engineer who happened across a green metal lantern with a green mystical flame - a flame that fallen to Earth thousands of years ago to bring upon three acts: An act of life, an act of death, and an act of power. Having fulfilled the first two, it had fashioned itself into the metal lantern that kept the power of the green flame within. Following a railroad bridge collapse, Alan had happened across it and the flame instructed Scott how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers. From then on, Alan Scott became the superhero Green Lantern, the Keeper of the Green Flame. In 1951, he and the original Flash, amongst other of the 'Golden Age Superheroes', started the Justice Society of America. He would continue to be active in the society, though it would be disbanded and recreated several times. He has been kept young through various means. In a fight with a being known as Ian Kurkell, he and other members of the JSA defeated him - and the residue magic energies of him slowed the aging of those JSA members and many who have frequent contact with them, such as direct family. The unique nature of his personal power ring, being based upon magic and not science like the Green Lantern Corps's power rings, also keeps him young. Alan Scott has decided to take the young Calvin under his wing, show him the ropes of being a hero.
Enemies:
Sinestro
Millions of years ago, this Guardian decreed that he and his fellow Guardians - and their mechanical soldiers the Manhunters - had been unsuccessful, that the universe was still in incredible disorder and chaos. Their experiment had failed and it was they who should solve the universe's problems, even by force. The other Guardians, not tolerating dissension in their ranks, banished the upstart Guardian from Oa and who soon took the name Sinestro.
Thus he waged a war, using his charismatic nature and genius-level intellect to sway an allegiance against the Guardians, but in the end - he lost. The Guardians thus captured and exiled him to the Antimatter Universe where he would spend the rest of his immortality. For millions of years, he was trapped helplessly on the planet Qward. Not even the incredible powers of an immortal Guardian could not singlehandedly cross the barrier between universes. However, events happened that would shape the fallen Guardian.
Living on the moon of Qward was the being known as the Anti-Monitor. This Anti-Monitor had long since turned his attentions to the other being known as the Monitor, who was of our universe. For a million years, they struggled to destroy one another. However, they were equals in power, two sides of the same coin. Their final strikes came at each other, which sent both into comatose states. Sensing something amazing about to happen, the former Guardian had found the Anti-Monitor and been near him when the final blow had been struck. The energy that was released from the Anti-Monitor's sudden silencing rocked Sinestro, rending the great being asunder with the sheer power of energy. For many years, the residual excess energy and powers of the Anti-Monitor lingered, intermingling with the lingering power and soul of the fallen Guardian. As these powers coalesced, Sinestro was formed anew.
Sinestro, his body reshaped and mind expanded, believed he saw within the Guardians what could be used to keep the universe and its inhabitants in order - fear. While drifting in the Anti-Matter Universe as sheer energy, he had been able to see the past, present, and future of all the universes. Thus, he knew of the Guardians, their Prophecy, and their new Green Lantern Corps.
Using his expanded mental facilities, he contacted the Parallax - the living embodiment of fear. Enticing the entity with a universe to forever cause fear in, Sinestro used the beings of Qward to forge his own Central Power Battery, energizing it not with the universe's willpower - but with its fear.
He would form his own Corps to battle the Guardians and their Green Lanterns...
Manhunters
The Green Lantern Corps was not the first attempt by the Guardians to create a police force. That honor goes to the android race known as Manhunters. For thousands of years, the red-and-blue androids served the Guardians well. However, the Manhunters became obsessed with the act of 'hunting' criminals. Their code, "No Man Escapes The Manhunters", became more important to them than seeing justice done. Eventually, the robots conspired to rebel against their masters, but the Guardians defeated and destroyed most of them. Those that survived hid away on Biot, their homeworld in Sector 3601, an uncharted area of space incapable of sustaining organic life where they rebuilt their forces and spread their beliefs to others in a cult-like manner. The over-riding goal of the Manhunters has been to take revenge on the Guardians as well as their replacements the Green Lantern Corps.
Cyrus 'Solomon Grundy' Gold
Fifty years ago there was once a man known as Cyrus Gold. He was a wealthy merchant known for being slightly shady and always trying to come out with the most profit. He was murdered in the swamps of Louisiana after attempting to swindle a powerful voodoo and arcane sorcerer, which had greatly offended the magician. The sorcerer placed a powerful curse upon Gold's soul - that he would rise from the dead and forever walk the Earth as an undead beast, completely indestructible. Now after fifty years - Gold's corpse has finally reanimated as a huge shambling figure, his body turned ashen grey and green from the swamp matter he is now partly made of and from decomposition. His teeth are exposed due to rotted away lips and his lifeless eyes have sunken back into their sockets. Having only the most ambiguous memory of his past life, the creature's appeared in a fishing camp in the swamps. Frightening the people there, he is asked who he is and where he came from. One of the few things the creature can remember is being 'born on a Monday'. This prompts one of the people there to refer to him as Solomon Grundy, the nursery rhyme character also born on a Monday. The creature decides to refer to himself as such since he cannot remember his name. Strong, vicious, and almost entirely mindless, Grundy turns to a life of crime and destruction. As a supernatural being - he has incredible stamania and strength, even among the most powerful beings of this planet. Equally, he cannot be killed since technically he's already dead and because of the curse. Grundy's entire body can be destroyed to the microscopic level and it will reform with time.
Unit 97
A team of superpowered ki-based warriors, Unit 97 is another supersecret military project to develop 'people of mass destruction'. As such, USMEWT and Unit 97 are rivals in producing the best weapons for the United States military. They wish to end Unit 97, not only to prove they have the better product, but also to completely take over the lab and their research, thus gaining their funding to further their onw research and eliminate competition.
In the darkest night,
Shines the green light of the Green Lantern.
Light of Oa
Character Name:
Colonel Calvin 'Cal' Nicolas
Aliases:
Green Lantern, Emerald Guardian
Species:
Homo sapiens sapiens
Age:
24 years-old
Height:
6 feet and 1 inch
Weight:
200lbs
Appearance:
Cal has medium-length, black hair generally kept slightly messy with long sideburns. His bright eyes are a very light green in color - but the irises of his eyes glow a completely different green - the sharp glowing green of the Green Lantern's light. He has a natural lightly tanned skin tone and a well built body due to consistent working out. One thing that he almost always wears on his right hand, on the middle finger, is the Green Lantern power ring.
Clothing:
Causal
Calvin prefers to keep his casual wear simple. A basic green t-shirt or long-sleeve shirt usually suffices along with blue or black jeans, or perhaps dark brown or tan slacks. He wears some simple brown work boots plus a black leather belt.
Green Lantern Uniform
The Green Lantern Corps, of course, has its own official uniform that most species where while on official duty for the Guardians. It is a full, body-fitting bodysuit with a green torso that ends at waist level, though black cuts into the chest area by the armpits a bit. The shoulder area of the costume is also green. The part of the suit that covers the arms and legs are black. The gloves are white and the boots are green. On the right side of his chest is a large logo of the Green Lantern Corps. There is also a green mask that covers the eyes, nose, and a small part of the face.
History:
Being worked on again >:3
Weapon &Abilities:
Green Lantern Power Ring
Simple in appearance, the power rings of the Green Lantern Corps look like such plain and casual little things. However, under this facade lies one of the single most powerful weapons in the known universe. The rings are staggeringly advanced technological artifacts capable of generating a variety of effects and energy constructs. Created by the immortal Guardians of the Universe, the power rings have been in service for the last few billion years.
The power behind the ring is the Central Battery on the planet of Oa. This battery stores "energy" that is actually the collective willpower of the inhabitants of the universe. Accessing and manipulating this willpower gave the Guardians an ultimate tool to pursue their goals and allowed them to forge the ultimate weapon and tool for their Green Lantern Corps.
The power ring's strength is sustained by the wearer's strength of will. Those who become Green Lanterns must have incredible willpower to use the ring. This has to be a certain type of willpower - a pure willpower is the only type that can be used to truly empower the ring. A will marred by cynisim, for example, would barely be able to power any sort of attack. Because the power of the ring is through thought and will, anything that serves to disrupt them will have an adverse effect on the ring bearer. This is probably the biggest limitation of a Green Lantern. Such effects like mind control, hallucinogens, psychic attacks, "neural chaff" and other phenomena that disrupt thought processes will all indirectly impair a power ring's effectiveness. More abstractly, so can a weakening of resolve and will which has proven to be the most effective at disabling a Green Lantern's use of the ring.
Each power ring has a certain amount of charge and after a set period of use, the ring's power begins to wane. Typically, the rings reserve a small portion of their power for a passive force field that protects the wielder from mortal harm. In dire emergency, that energy reserve can be tapped, at the expense of said protection, until it too is exhausted. The power rings are restored to full power by a Green Lantern's personal Power Battery, which looks like an old fashioned lantern made of dark green metal. To recharge their ring, the Green Lantern must point the ring towards the Power Battery, generally standing right in front of it. This process is not instantaneous and many members of the Corps say an oath while charging the ring to measure the time to recharge the ring and to remind themselves of their purpose.
The absolute limit of the power ring is unknown. It has been shown to do anything within the user's imagination so long as they have the willpower to back it up. The greater the willpower, the more effective the ring. No hard upper limit to the power ring's capabilities has yet been demonstrated. Among the more basic functions, the ring allows the wearer to fly through atmosphere and space. It also creates a protective life-supporting force field around the wearer - which makes the wielder look like they are constantly outlined by a green field of energy. This field is what allows them to operate in space or underwater and provides an extra layer of protection from physical attacks that might otherwise cripple or kill an unprotected person.
The power ring's most distinctive function is the generation of green solid-light 'constructs' - the size, complexity and strength of which are limited only by the ring-bearer's willpower. Thus Green Lanterns are often seen creating cages, transportation platforms, restraints, weapons, creatures, walls, battering rams, vehicles, tools, boxing gloves, etc., etc. The style of construct varies with the character and mindset of the Green Lantern wielding the ring. In the true DC universe, Hal Jordan tends to create solid, workmanlike constructs; John Stewart's constructs are almost like three-dimensional blueprints, with carefully-designed internal workings, as he is an architect by trade; Kyle Rayner, a comic book artist, uses the ring as an imaginative outlet, envisioning cartoonish and often highly detailed constructs. Guy Gardner's ring is constantly sparking, even at rest, and his creations are simple, and often blurred by the excess energy his willpower causes.
The ring has other abilities, as well, such as: The ability to form clothing, including a preprogramed official uniform within it. The power rings can be used as communicators between Power Ring wearers and Guardians. Typically a green "hologram" of the Green Lantern you are communicating with appears from within the ring. Every power ring has its own artificial intelligence directly linked to the Central Battery database. The wearer typically interfaces with the AI by addressing the ring verbally, all though it is presumed that the wearer can also silently communicate with the ring through their willpower. The ring can either respond aloud or communicate silently to the wearer. The ring provides the wearer with important information pertaining to a given situation and may also suggest a useful course of action. The AI can also perform valuable scans of the wearer's surroundings. The ring apparently passively scans an area of approximately 100 meters around the wearer at all times and warns the wearer of any potential threats. A Green Lantern can actively command the ring's AI to run a scan of a person, place or thing and to provide information on what it has learned. The AI is capable of translating nearly any alien language into the language of the ring's wearer. The power ring also allows the wearer to pass through certain solid objects, such as walls.
Allies:
Green Lantern Corps
Founded by the Guardians of the Universe some 3 billion years ago on the planet Oa, the Green Lantern Corps is a intergalactic peacekeeping and police force. The Guardians divide the universe into 3,600 "sectors" that a Green Lantern is assigned to patrol. Depending on the size of a sector, a number of Green Lanterns can be chosen for each sector - though usually no more than one or two are chosen. Currently the Corps has approximately 5,000 members. Each Green Lantern is expected to uphold certain principles of his/her/its duty, such as obeying the Guardians to the letter, protecting life and liberty of their assigned sector, uploading the honor of the Corp, treating the Guardians and other Lanterns with respect and dignity, and so on.
Sodol Yat
A young 19-year-old who lived on the world of Daxam which was recently crushed by the being known as Mongrul - the tyrannical ruler of Warworld. He served as a militiaman that fought against the world's new ruler. Yat is incredibly strong-willed, well known for his bravery, courage, and great deeds while fighting for his people. He, however, had little love of his bigoted xenophobic race and served only to survive and free the world - so that one day he may leave it and travel the stars like he always wanted. However, he had the unfortunate pleasure of coming face-to-face with Mongrul. Never backing down, he fought the alien and would have died - if not the for the intervention of the Guardians of the Universe. It was then that he was given the power of Ion - the entity that essentially comprises consolidated willpower - and declared as the Torchbearer, as per the prophecy in the Book of Oa. Defeating Mongrul and imprisoning him on Oa, Sodol Yat now serves as something of demi-god amongst the Green Lantern Corps. But for all his powers and status, he feels lost and confused in it all.
Kilowog
Formerly a gifted genetic scientist from the planet Bolovax Vik, located in Space Sector 674, Kilowog is now one of the greatest and most powerful Green Lantern's alive. A towering alien with a brutish and porcine appearance, he is renowned throughout the Green Lantern Corps as the primary trainer of the Corps' newest recruits.
Alan Scott
The original Green Lantern of Earth has nothing to do with the Green Lantern Corps at all. Starting his career in the 1940s, Alan Scott was once a young railroad engineer who happened across a green metal lantern with a green mystical flame - a flame that fallen to Earth thousands of years ago to bring upon three acts: An act of life, an act of death, and an act of power. Having fulfilled the first two, it had fashioned itself into the metal lantern that kept the power of the green flame within. Following a railroad bridge collapse, Alan had happened across it and the flame instructed Scott how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers. From then on, Alan Scott became the superhero Green Lantern, the Keeper of the Green Flame. In 1951, he and the original Flash, amongst other of the 'Golden Age Superheroes', started the Justice Society of America. He would continue to be active in the society, though it would be disbanded and recreated several times. He has been kept young through various means. In a fight with a being known as Ian Kurkell, he and other members of the JSA defeated him - and the residue magic energies of him slowed the aging of those JSA members and many who have frequent contact with them, such as direct family. The unique nature of his personal power ring, being based upon magic and not science like the Green Lantern Corps's power rings, also keeps him young. Alan Scott has decided to take the young Calvin under his wing, show him the ropes of being a hero.
Enemies:
Sinestro
Millions of years ago, this Guardian decreed that he and his fellow Guardians - and their mechanical soldiers the Manhunters - had been unsuccessful, that the universe was still in incredible disorder and chaos. Their experiment had failed and it was they who should solve the universe's problems, even by force. The other Guardians, not tolerating dissension in their ranks, banished the upstart Guardian from Oa and who soon took the name Sinestro.
Thus he waged a war, using his charismatic nature and genius-level intellect to sway an allegiance against the Guardians, but in the end - he lost. The Guardians thus captured and exiled him to the Antimatter Universe where he would spend the rest of his immortality. For millions of years, he was trapped helplessly on the planet Qward. Not even the incredible powers of an immortal Guardian could not singlehandedly cross the barrier between universes. However, events happened that would shape the fallen Guardian.
Living on the moon of Qward was the being known as the Anti-Monitor. This Anti-Monitor had long since turned his attentions to the other being known as the Monitor, who was of our universe. For a million years, they struggled to destroy one another. However, they were equals in power, two sides of the same coin. Their final strikes came at each other, which sent both into comatose states. Sensing something amazing about to happen, the former Guardian had found the Anti-Monitor and been near him when the final blow had been struck. The energy that was released from the Anti-Monitor's sudden silencing rocked Sinestro, rending the great being asunder with the sheer power of energy. For many years, the residual excess energy and powers of the Anti-Monitor lingered, intermingling with the lingering power and soul of the fallen Guardian. As these powers coalesced, Sinestro was formed anew.
Sinestro, his body reshaped and mind expanded, believed he saw within the Guardians what could be used to keep the universe and its inhabitants in order - fear. While drifting in the Anti-Matter Universe as sheer energy, he had been able to see the past, present, and future of all the universes. Thus, he knew of the Guardians, their Prophecy, and their new Green Lantern Corps.
Using his expanded mental facilities, he contacted the Parallax - the living embodiment of fear. Enticing the entity with a universe to forever cause fear in, Sinestro used the beings of Qward to forge his own Central Power Battery, energizing it not with the universe's willpower - but with its fear.
He would form his own Corps to battle the Guardians and their Green Lanterns...
Manhunters
The Green Lantern Corps was not the first attempt by the Guardians to create a police force. That honor goes to the android race known as Manhunters. For thousands of years, the red-and-blue androids served the Guardians well. However, the Manhunters became obsessed with the act of 'hunting' criminals. Their code, "No Man Escapes The Manhunters", became more important to them than seeing justice done. Eventually, the robots conspired to rebel against their masters, but the Guardians defeated and destroyed most of them. Those that survived hid away on Biot, their homeworld in Sector 3601, an uncharted area of space incapable of sustaining organic life where they rebuilt their forces and spread their beliefs to others in a cult-like manner. The over-riding goal of the Manhunters has been to take revenge on the Guardians as well as their replacements the Green Lantern Corps.
Cyrus 'Solomon Grundy' Gold
Fifty years ago there was once a man known as Cyrus Gold. He was a wealthy merchant known for being slightly shady and always trying to come out with the most profit. He was murdered in the swamps of Louisiana after attempting to swindle a powerful voodoo and arcane sorcerer, which had greatly offended the magician. The sorcerer placed a powerful curse upon Gold's soul - that he would rise from the dead and forever walk the Earth as an undead beast, completely indestructible. Now after fifty years - Gold's corpse has finally reanimated as a huge shambling figure, his body turned ashen grey and green from the swamp matter he is now partly made of and from decomposition. His teeth are exposed due to rotted away lips and his lifeless eyes have sunken back into their sockets. Having only the most ambiguous memory of his past life, the creature's appeared in a fishing camp in the swamps. Frightening the people there, he is asked who he is and where he came from. One of the few things the creature can remember is being 'born on a Monday'. This prompts one of the people there to refer to him as Solomon Grundy, the nursery rhyme character also born on a Monday. The creature decides to refer to himself as such since he cannot remember his name. Strong, vicious, and almost entirely mindless, Grundy turns to a life of crime and destruction. As a supernatural being - he has incredible stamania and strength, even among the most powerful beings of this planet. Equally, he cannot be killed since technically he's already dead and because of the curse. Grundy's entire body can be destroyed to the microscopic level and it will reform with time.
Unit 97
A team of superpowered ki-based warriors, Unit 97 is another supersecret military project to develop 'people of mass destruction'. As such, USMEWT and Unit 97 are rivals in producing the best weapons for the United States military. They wish to end Unit 97, not only to prove they have the better product, but also to completely take over the lab and their research, thus gaining their funding to further their onw research and eliminate competition.
In the darkest night,
Shines the green light of the Green Lantern.
