Baron Karza (Icons Writeup)

Baron Karza
aka Hraal Karza

Prowess 5
Coordination 5
Strength 7
Intellect 7
Awareness 5
Willpower 6

Stamina 13

Powers
*Battle Armor: The Baron wears modular battle armor that provides him with several potent abilities. Among the powers it grants him are – Energy Blasts 7, Damage Resistance 6, Interface 6, Life Support 10, Gadgets 5. Without the armor, Karza’s Strength is reduced to 5 and his stamina drops to 11.
*The Body Banks: The Baron has invented a procedure that allows the harvesting of body parts for the citizens of Homeworld, granting them virtual immortality by changing out damaged or missing body parts. His Dog Soldiers make frequent use of the Banks to repair damaged parts and the Baron himself gains Immortality 2 due to his access to the Body Banks.
*Centauroid Transformation: The Baron can use the Body Banks to merge with his steed, becoming a powerful centaur. In this form, he has the following abilities – Prowess 5, Coordination 4, Strength 6, Stamina 12; Energy Blasts 8, Force Field 8.

Specialties
Leadership, Military (Expert +2), Science – Biophysics; Genetics (Master +3), Weapons – Battle Armor (Expert +2)

Qualities
*Undying evil
*Craves ultimate power
*Arcturus Rann, my former pupil…

Background

1000 years ago, Baron Karza was the head scientist of the royal academy of Homeworld in the Microverse. He was one of the first instructors of Prince Arcturus Rann, and helped him prepare for his 1000 year mission to explore The Microverse. In the intervening years while Rann was away on his mission, Karza killed Rann’s parents King Dallan and Queen Sepsis, and used his super advanced technology to completely subjugate Homeworld and a good portion of the Microverse. Karza’s creation of the Body Banks allowed him to harvest limbs and organs, recycling corpses and living beings alike to extend the lifespan of anyone who was willing to pay. He created a military force of Dog Soldiers to enforce his will and to help maintain order within his empire. Over the years Karza has proven himself a master strategist, and a source of pure unadulterated evil that has a nasty habit of turning up again just after it seems everything is recovered from his last resurrection.

Marionette (Icons Writeup)

Marionette
aka Mari

Prowess 5
Coordination 5
Strength 3
Intellect 3
Awareness 4
Willpower 4

Stamina 7

Powers
*Laser Pistol – Blast 4
*Sword – Strike 4
*Glider-Pack – Flight 2
*Immortality (Slowed Aging Only) – 1

Specialties
Athletics, Leadership, Martial Artist, Pilot, Weapons – Guns, Weapons – Edged Weapons (Expert +2)

Qualities
*Princess and Rebel
*Well-versed in royal protocol and interplanetary xeno-diplomacy
*They came from inner space!

Background

Princess Mari of Homeworld, along with her brother, Prince Argon, were the only survivors of the slaughtered figurehead royal family just before Rann’s return. They had the hapless job of initiating a rebellion against Baron Karza. Argon, who became Force Commander after his alteration in Karza’s Body Banks, eventually died after being the temporary host for a resurrected Karza. Marionette called the Micronauts family and Commander Rann her love. She served as nominal leader of the Micronauts during a brief, trying period when a demoralized Commander Rann removed himself from active duty following a major defeat. Strong-willed and independent while still warm and generous, she showed no mercy to those who willingly served Karza’s evil. But she would risk her life to persuade any who serve Karza because they saw no other hope that there was an alternative. Her hand of friendship brought one of Karza’s former creatures, Huntarr, into the fold.

Bug (Icons Writeup)

Bug
Real Name Unknown

Prowess 4
Coordination 6
Strength 3
Intellect 4
Awareness 4
Willpower 3

Stamina 6

Powers
*Wall-Crawling 5
*Danger Sense 5
*Leaping 2
*Rocket Lance – Material 4, Blast 4, Flight 1 (Bug can ‘fly’ by holding onto the Lance and projecting a continuous plasma burst out of the back end)
*Glider-Pack – Flight 2

Specialties
Athletics (Expert +2), Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Weapons – Guns, Weapon – Rocket Lance (Expert +2)

Qualities
*Whoopee! We’re a –tik– team again! There ain’t –tik– no way Karza can –tik– stop us now!
*Guardian of the Galaxy
*They came from inner space!
*Water?! –tik– Yuck!

Background

Bug is an Insectivorid master thief and adventurer from the planet Kaliklak in the Microverse (a.k.a. Inner Space), a “sub-atomic” realm actually accessed via the energies of shrinking. Known as a humorous, lighthearted flirt, he is also a charismatic leader and adept warrior. Bug was raised on Kaliklak during the tyranny of the near-immortal evil Baron, and he trained under a master thief. He eventually rose to lead a gang of rebels, running raids against Baron Karza’s forces, before joining forces with the Micronauts. He formed a close friendship with Acroyear despite their vastly different personalities and was romantically involved with Marionette for a time. Bug later escaped the Microverse and served as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy before returning to the Micronauts (also known as the Microns in current Marvel continuity).

Note: Bug’s speech is interspersed with a “tik” sound due to an Insectivorid’s chitinous membrane in the throat. Bug also has an aversion to water.

Commander Rann (Icons Writeup)

Arcturus Rann
aka Space-Glider aka Captain Universe

Prowess 5
Coordination 5
Strength 5
Intellect 5
Awareness 4
Willpower 5

Stamina 10

Powers
*Telepathy 2
*Pressure Suit – Resistance (hostile environments) 4
*Glider-Pack – Flight 2
*Laser Pistol – Blast 4

Enigma Force – Rann is the vessel for the Enigma Force, a cosmic power from the microverse which creates Captain Universe. When empowered by the Enigma Force, Rann has the following abilities: Cosmic Power 9 (Extras: Blast, Flight, Force Field, Telepathy, Cosmic Awareness)

Specialties
Aerial Combat (Expert +2), Athletics, Leadership (Expert +2), Martial Arts, Military (Expert +2), Pilot, Science (Physics), Stealth, Weapons – Guns (Expert +2)

Qualities
*Human vessel for the Enigma Force
*Time-lost hero
*They came from inner space!

Background

Commander Arcturus Rann is a Micronaut who went aboard the HMS Endeavor on a 1,000-year journey throughout the Microverse in search of alien life. When he returned, he found that the alien life he had discovered had also been discovered with warp technology while he was gone and had already come to and populated Homeworld. Upon his return, he was captured by Baron Karza and thrown in the Body Banks. There, he befriended Acroyear and Bug, and with the aid of the Time Traveler, escaped along with his companion Biotron, Princess Mari and Microtron. His parents are Homeworld’s deities Dallan and Sepsis.

“One of the first of the space-gliding Micronauts–adventurer/explorers dispatched in suspended animation 1,000 years ago to the farthest reaches of the Microverse–Rann has returned to a Homeworld vastly changed from that which he knew! Yet he has spent ten centuries telepathically probing the unknown and never much cared for the predictable, anyway!”

–Micronauts, Vol. 1, No. 1

Acroyear (Icons Writeup)

Prince (later King) Acroyear

Prowess 6
Coordination 3
Strength 7
Intellect 3
Awareness 4
Willpower 4

Stamina 11

Powers
*Heavy Combat Armor – Damage Resistance 5
*Glider-Pack – Flight 2
*Energy Sword – Strike 4, Blast 3

Specialties
Leadership, Martial Arts, Military, Weapons – Energy Sword (Expert +2), Weapons – Guns

Qualities
*Born under the flight of a comet
*Outcast
*They came from inner space!

Background

Acroyear was crown prince of the ebony-skinned race whose name he bore. A comet blazed over the skies of Spartak when Acroyear was born, indicating his significance as a future king to his people.

For a time, Acroyear’s people served Karza under the mind control of Shaitan, Acroyear’s traitorous, albino brother. Acroyear was imprisoned by Karza to fight in the Body Pits, but was freed by Arcturus Rann and his allies, joining the Micronauts.

To help defeat Baron Karza, Acroyear sacrificed the Worldmind of his home planet Spartak, thus rendering it incapable of supporting life. For this, he was branded a traitor and cast out by his people while his bonded mate Cilicia ruled as regent.

Acroyear vowed to redeem himself and continued traveling with the Micronauts, most of whom are also outcasts. He eventually sacrificed his life essence to engineer the rebirth of homeworld, along with the other Micronauts.

Although several of his fellow Micronauts resurfaced after their apparent sacrifice, Acroyear’s survival remains a matter of debate.