Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Bits o' Legionnaire Business Who's Who in Raz's Legion? *updated BLACK DANCER 9 July 2024*

Does Jan feel any conflict about her being a chance to repopulate Trom? How does he now feel towards his teammates - especially towards Violet, whose interference was directly responsible for the annihilation of Trom? Is there any hope for the Alchemist still, considering that she wasn't brainwashed? What does the UP intend to do with her?

89
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Leeta-87
Homeworld: Cadmu
Height: 5’ 7” (89’s boots are specially constructed to give her the illusion of being 5’ 10”)
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: violet
Hair: black

HISTORY
The woman known as 89 has a history which spreads back through 87 separate lifetimes. She is from the planet Cadmu, where the native inhabitants reproduce via cloning as opposed to sexual means. Cadmians regularly back up their memories to an external drive, and when they die their bodies are cloned and their most recent memory backup is implanted into the cloned body. They are raised in a virtual environment until adulthood, and when they emerge into the real world they are treated as a separate entity to their predecessor though they share the same memories and skills. All Cadmians follow the same naming convention; a single name which identifies their lineage followed by a numeric identifier which indicates the amount of lives they’ve lived. Therefore, Leeta-87 was the 87th woman to have been cloned from the original Leeta.

The 87th incarnation of the Leeta lineage was a heroine celebrated throughout the entire galaxy. In 87 lifetimes she’d learned enough combat, tactical and scientific skills to be a truly intimidating opponent for most enemies even though she possessed no metahuman powers. As far as the general public is concerned Leeta-87 had several thrilling adventures before she died in a tragically absurd accident slipping on a banyo fruit peel, and that’s where her story ends. Tens of thousands of sentients visit her memorial site on Shanghalla annually to pay their respects and post holos of themselves on social media at her resting place.

The truth is something far stranger.

Several years before the Legion of Superheroes had formed, Kimball Zendak brought together six metahumans to form a superhero team called the Intergalactic Law Patrol, starting with his lover Leeta-87. Batman and his younger brother Hawkboy possessed no powers, but were the descendants of the original Batman of Earth and they’d already been operating as vigilantes anyway. Titan Girl was a beloved heroine on Titan, and saw the ILP as her chance to help innocents on a larger scale. Minuteman was a Rimborian hero recruited to the cause (Surreally, his experience with the ILP would influence him to help the Legion of Superheroes in their own activities much later in his real identity of Marla Latham). Red Devil was part of the Neocaste on Cadmu, and specifically designed to be a superhero. When his fellow Cadmian Leeta-87 asked him to be in the ILP he was only too happy to agree. On their first mission, they were called to save Cadmu from Darkeseid’s rampaging servant Brimstone. They teamed up with some time-displaced members of the Legion of Superheroes, and through teamwork Brimstone was defeated though it cost Hawkboy, Batman, Titan Girl and Red Devil their lives. The horrific encounter was enough to make Minuteman give up being a hero altogether, but it sent Leeta-87 down a much darker path.

When she discovered Brimstone’s origins, Leeta-87 obsessively researched everything she could about his master Darkseid. She realised she was going to have to go to some uncomfortable places, so she changed her name to 88 as a symbol that she was no longer the same person she had been and faked the famous death of “Leeta-87”. Her next actions are not entirely known, but she has said that she discovered something called the Anti-Death Equation, and has implied that this discovery had dark and cosmically significant consequences.

At some point, her obsession came to an extremely dangerous head and she was forced to give up her search for knowledge to save countless lives. Realising how close she’d come to destroying the whole universe (and having already destroyed any vestige of her romance with Zendak) she worked with Zendak to wipe out all trace of her prior life which might lead anyone else down the same path, including the very existence of the ILP and the relationship she and Zendak had occurred. Her relationship with Kimball Zendak is purely professional now, and she has renamed herself once again to 89 for similar reasons as she’d done earlier. She sees herself now as a different person than she has been previously, and she has lethal technology implanted to kill herself if necessary so nobody else ever connects her to any of her prior incarnations.

To date, the only people whom it can be confirmed know 89's true story are Ultra Boy, Gas Girl, Kid Computo and Kimball Zendak. Given Makkia Vei's skill at psychological manipulation and her almost superhuman psychological perceptions, it's also probably fair to say that she has some awareness of 89's identity as well if not necessarily her secret history. Aside from these individuals, 89 is known only to be an enigmatic and ruthless woman who seems to be skilled at everything she puts her mind to. She wears a full bodysuit at all times to disguise any distinguishing physical characteristics, uses a voice modulator to disguise her voiceprint, and uses psi-tech so her identity remains a secret to anyone with psionic talent equal to the average Titanian.

POWERS & WEAPONS
89 has no metahuman powers, but she is arguably one of the best hand to hand fighters alive. She has had lifetimes of experience to learn the martial arts of various worlds, and she also has an expert level of skill using countless types of melee and ranged weapons. She has exhibited particular expertise in tactics and espionage, but she also has a genius-level understanding of most sciences. To put it bluntly, she can generally be relied upon to have an encyclopedic knowledge of just about any subject which has been relevant in the past few centuries.

89 carries various weapons and tools as necessary; from previous comments she's made to Ultra Boy, she seems to have made preparations to be able to fight all of the Legion of Superheroes one on one if necessary (she has in fact defeated Ultra Boy and Kid Computo in personal combat, and even an artificial simulation based on Leeta-87 gave Ultra Boy, Elastic Lad and Phantom Girl a good fight). Her bodysuit has the same environmental protections as a transuit, as well as protecting her from sensory attack. Her voice modulator disguises her voice at all times, and her suit is armoured strongly enough to protect her from the kind of blunt or piercing impact sustained in any normal fight with a non-powered person who has access to generally available weapons. She has special lenses and auditory equipment built into her outfit to allow her greater than human visual and auditory senses.

BRITTLE

PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Unknown, used the alias Bo Marcu
Homeworld: Lallor
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 138 lbs
Eyes: black
Hair: bald

HISTORY
Brittle was one of five Lalloran youths kidnapped, mindwiped and experimented upon by a Dominator in an effort to create an army of B.I.O.N. (Biological Integrated Organic Network) units. The Dominator considered most of the subject group's powers to be useless and allowed them to join the Heroes of Lallor as potential sleeper agents to be activated at some point down the track, with the exception of the boy who would come to be known as Duplicate Boy II. He went so far as to give them the names of actual missing Lallorans for added legitimacy, and as far as any of the five were concerned they were simply Lalloran mutants who'd lived in a bunker their whole lives until circumstances led to their escape and their recruitment into the Heroes of Lallor.

With his chalk-white skin covered in interlocking seams, Brittle's mutation was glaringly obvious. On a world like Lallor which had never been particularly kind to outsiders, this gave him a bitter and resentful edge. He did have extreme loyalty to his fellow test subjects however, as his memories told him they'd all grown up in a bunker together with nobody else but themselves to rely on.

When the Dominator activated Duplicate Boy II's B.I.O.N. programming, Duplicate Boy II fought both the Heroes of Lallor and the Legion of Superheroes' Espionage Squad. Rain Girl was Duplicate Boy II's first victim, and as she was Brittle's closest friend in the group he took her death particularly hard. He tried to murder Duplicate Boy II in vengeance, but was hopelessly outmatched and was initially presumed to have been killed as a result of that altercation.

Fortunately for Brittle, the Oversight Watch had been assigned to investigate the new batch of mutants appearing on Lallor. They found him barely alive after his fight with Duplicate Boy, his power having rendered him so tiny that even Dawnstar couldn't find him. The Oversight Watch nurtured Brittle back to health and he agreed to join their team on the basis that they help him find and kill Duplicate Boy in revenge for Rain Girl's murder. When the Oversight Watch finally came across Duplicate Boy however (now calling himself Revenant), Brittle realised that his old teammate had been as much a victim of the Dominators as any of his friends and his hatred became pity. Finding it too painful to be around his old teammates in the Heroes of Lallor, Brittle has elected to stay with the Oversight Watch.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Brittle possesses the unusual ability to separate into smaller versions of himself when struck with physical force. Generally, he apportions his strength and mass equally among his duplicates but he can also choose to share his mass disproportionately (for example, creating a duplicate an inch in height and losing only a miniscule amount of mass from his larger body).

The process of breaking into smaller bodies is fuelled by the kinetic energy which caused it, so his power also functions as an effective defence. While his individual bodies clearly have some level of independence, they're all essentially just extensions of himself. It seemed that Brittle had met his power's limit when Duplicate Boy II crushed him into dust, but as he managed to survive that it's possible that he may have simply been reduced to duplicates so small as to resemble dust particles.

DEV-EM
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Dev-Em
Homeworld: Krypton
Height: 6’
Weight: 175 lbs
Eyes: brown
Hair: brown

HISTORY
Dev-Em’s history up until the time he was enlisted into the Oversight Watch has been previously recorded. Dev-Em was romantically involved with his teammate Power Boy for a while, but this relationship was forced to end when Power Boy left the team and underwent voluntary psychic redaction to forget any explicit details of his time with the Watch.

POWERS & WEAPONS
As a Kryptonian, Dev-Em has super-strength, invulnerability, super-speed, enhanced senses and the ability to fly when not under a red sun. He also possesses the standard Kryptonian vulnerabilities, namely kryptonite and magic.

MAKKIA VEI
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Makkia Vei
Homeworld: Colu
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 125 lbs
Eyes: Green (like all Coluans, Makkia Vei’s sclera are yellow)
Hair: Blonde

HISTORY
Nothing is known of Makkia Vei's personal history prior to her first interaction with the Legion of Superheroes; she first came across the heroes as a member of the Persuader's version of the Fatal Five which also included Gorgon Girl, Atta and Ghost-6. The Persuader's Fatal Five easily defeated the Legion when they first fought, in large part thanks to Makkia Vei's psychological profiling and manipulations. In their next encounter the Persuader's team was easily overpowered by Sensor Girl backed by the two Emerald Eyes of Ekron, and Makkia Vei went to jail along with the rest of the villains.

Takron-Galtos was no obstacle to Makkia Vei as it simply put her in a position to make sure she could reach the right people with her talents; she was soon deemed by UP authorities too useful to be rotting in a prison cell, and she was Chief Zendak and 89's first recruit to the Oversight Watch. Though she is poorly lacking in combat skills compared to her teammates, Makkia Vei makes up for that with her intellect and her mastery of psychology. With the notable exception of Dev-Em who was recruited straight from the ICIC, she has been primarily responsible for convincing the rest of the team to join and give their best efforts to its success.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Makkia Vei has no innate powers, and while she is highly intelligent she hasn't ever given any indication that her intellect exceeds the Coluan average in any dramatic sense. She has an understanding of psychology which is so advanced however that it almost constitutes a power in certain circumstances. Even when facing foes aware of her talents, Makkia Vei can expertly manipulate them into acting exactly the way she wants them to. She can predict another's actions or reactions with a precision that borders on precognition, and she has even been known to utilise her psychological profiling abilities to bypass security measures set by opponents objectively more intelligent than herself such as Tharok or Brainiac 5 by being able to deduce passwords and the like (with enough data on a target, she can even acurately guess seemingly random codes or combinations someone's subconscious has led them to create). She occasionally carries a handgun and 89 has insisted on her learning basic self-defence skills, but physically she's no real threat; her true threat is in her ability to command those around her with frighteningly little effort.

MANDALLA
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Tari Wahlmunn
Homeworld: Takron-Galtos
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 130 lbs
Eyes: white (no visible pupils)
Hair: brown

HISTORY
Mandalla's history up until she was recruited to the Oversight Watch has already been recorded. On the day Mandalla graduated the Legion Academy, Makkia Vei convinced her she'd do more good with the Oversight Watch than she ever would trying fruitlessly to get into the Legion of Superheroes when they already had Saturn Girl and Tellus in their ranks (and had previously rejected Mentalla who objectively had more fine control of her psionic powers than Mandalla herself). At some point Mandalla realised that she'd been manipulated into joining the team (though she'd never admit it), but she's since come to truly believe that this is the best place for her to be able to use her powers to make a difference in the UP.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Mandalla has the ability to create psionic 'thoughtspheres'. These are invisible to the naked eye, but anybody with the appropriate psionic abilities can sense them as a three-dimensional mandala, thus her (deliberately misspelled for aesthetics) codename. Originally her thoughtspheres were quite limited in effect, solely immersing an individual target within a confusing hallucinatory effect. She has since learned to modify this somewhat so that she can now wipe a target's mind of recent memories and/or leave them susceptible to verbal commands.

One particularly unique quality of Mandalla's power is that the larger a thoughtsphere she projects, the more powerful the effect. Tellus for example is a more powerful and more versatile psi than herself, but Mandalla was able to mindwipe him by immersing him within a thoughtsphere large enough to cover an extremely large radius. The only drawback to this effect is that she can't pick and choose her targets; anybody within that radius will be impacted equally, so it's not something she can rely upon as a general combat advantage.

Your Oversight Watch is gold, raz.

- Taking Leeta-87 and building such a complex character

- Makkia Vei (a play on Machiavellian, I love it) is formidable, and having a background in psychology I can appreciate the possibilities. Pairing her with Mandalla is genius, as Mandalla can soften up targets for Makkia

- Ditto with Jed. Did he ever learn that he was going to be offered membership? I myself hesitated to let him use his powers to phase, as it duplicates Tinya too well (I mean, with phasing you either can or can't, though of course skill factors into how well they use it in combat).

- love the upgrades re Ron-Karr, and especially love that it's a result of smarter use of his abilities rather than scientific upgrades!

Poor Jed never did learn he was gonna be offered membership I totally get what you mean about his phasing; it's one thing having sixteen people with super-strength on a team, but you don't really wanna dilute the more exotic powers. It's the main reason I gave my Mwindaji healing abilities to be honest, I wanted to make sure he and Dawny both have stuff beyond tracking to contribute to the team

ABYSS
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Danning Tolagson
Height: 5’ 8”
Homeworld: Earth
Weight: 145 lbs
Eyes: black
Hair: grey

HISTORY
Almost nothing is known of Abyss’s history prior to being employed in the Workforce. He has alluded to having worked for the UP in a more covert capacity than the Science Police, and it’s assumed this is where he came across his unique tool named the void-ring. He’d initially called himself Void when the team formed, but after learning of another Void based in the villain team the Heavensent he changed his name to Abyss.

Abyss is definitely one of the more cruel Workforce members, and legitimately enjoys using his void-ring to terrorise and incapacitate his enemies. In the Workforce’s first official training session against a contingent of the Legion of Superheroes, he’d eagerly anticipated humiliating Shadow Lass but instead found himself easily defeated by her even in his own pocket dimension. Of all the Workforce, he only really spends time with Twine outside of combat situations as she alone shares his cynicism and his mean streak.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Abyss has no metahuman powers, but he wears a mysterious device called a void-ring on the middle finger of his left hand. It can provide him access to a pocket dimension of pure darkness which he calls Voidspace, and he can also take passengers along with him or send and retrieve targets at will while he stays in his home dimension. The ring protects him from the effects of Voidspace (and to a lesser extent it can protect people who travel with him if he wills it so) but unprotected targets find it an enormously taxing experience both physically and emotionally. While it causes no actual physical damage, victims report feeling icy cold in the lightless realm with no awareness of space or time. They are also consumed by fear and dread, and are often catatonic with distress when Abyss brings them back home. Shadow Lass found herself unaffected by her exposure to Voidspace, which presumably relates to her status as the Shadow Champion of Talok VIII and her related powers.

BIOLUMINESCENT LASS
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Jana Sartro
Homeworld: Lupra
Height: 6’ 1”
Weight: 140 lbs
Eyes: pale yellow
Hair: blonde

HISTORY
Dr Jana Sartro was a scientist who wanted to replicate the accident which had given her fellow Lupran Color Kid the power to change the color of any object. Jana believed that the extra-dimensional light which had empowered Color Kid had the potential to do much more, and she believed that she could exploit that potential to become a superhero herself. She did successfully give herself powers, but her powers were at least as limited as Color Kid’s. Realising she’d be highly unlikely to earn membership in the Legion of Superheroes she decided to find some other way to help people while simultaneously earning enough to be able to continue her research; she found that in the Workforce. While she’s far from the most powerful member of the team and her tendency toward pacifism makes her an unusual choice for a superpowered prison warden, her keen intellect, bravery and compassion for those whom some of her teammates might not give a second thought have more than earned her a place on the team.

POWERS & WEAPONS
As her name suggests, Bioluminescent Lass possesses the ability to radiate light. At its most basic level, this is useful for providing illumination in lightless areas but she can easily intensify her output so as to be blinding even through closed eyes. Through experimentation, she has learned to adjust the frequency of her light output; at this stage she can’t noticeably change the color of her glow but she can shift wavelengths enough to make polarised lenses useless or in one memorable incident to combat Color Kid’s own power as he was forced to constantly reinforce his power over hers to keep her from blinding his teammates.

Bioluminescent Lass is constantly working on ways to refine her ability and to use it to its fullest extent. While she can control the intensity of her light output to an amazingly fine degree, she can only project light omnidirectionally. Her teammate Gear has come up with smart contact lenses for the rest of the team to wear which protect them from being blinded when she uses her power in their presence.

Perhaps more useful than her novel power is her scientific expertise. Dr Sartro has a particular mastery of extra-dimensional physics and superhuman physiology, but she’s well-versed in hard and soft sciences generally as well.

GEAR
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: I.Z.O.R.
Homeworld: Linsnar
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: white in their default state, but variable
Hair: black

HISTORY
Gear is a Linsnarian, a techno-organic race famed across the United Planets as living tools. His history prior to joining the Workforce is largely unknown, but he’s easily settled in as their resident tech guy. Gear genuinely enjoys his life in the Workforce and the adventures which ensue, and he sees any obstacle as a fun opportunity to test his capabilities.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Composed entirely of organic circuitry, Gear generally appears quite unremarkable in appearance. He can easily modify parts of his body for different functions however, producing gadgets and tools from his own body mass as necessary. When he uses his power, his epidermis generally forms into segmented plates and reveals densely packed circuitry and electronics just beneath his surface. This can give him the appearance of being a robot with a false human veneer, but he is genuinely as much organic as he is composed of technology. He can compose any type of weapon or tool he has the technical know-how to create, but he can’t separate substantial portions of his body from one another or radically alter his basic shape without suffering injury (Gear created specially polarised contact lenses for his teammates out of his own body, but in terms of mass that was the equivalent of an average person’s nail clippings; he wouldn’t be able to lose much more material than this without wounding himself). Gear can also interface with technology quite easily by creating from himself the right equipment.

As is common with Linsnarians, Gear is far more technologically inclined than the average UP citizen. This is a product of his unique physiology more than advanced intellect or education however, and so he’s much more at home with practical fields like mechanics and electronics than he is with the theory behind them.

ION
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Jeri Jimel
Homeworld: Imsk
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 139 lbs
Eyes: brown (no visible pupils)
Hair: black

HISTORY
Little is known of Ion’s history prior to her membership in the Workforce. She presents herself with military professionalism at all times, probably due to her stint in the Imskian defence forces prior to leaving her homeworld. She is quite stoic, and has appeared unfazed in situations where even her own teammates have faltered. She tends not to stand out among the rest of her team, standing by ready to take orders without really expressing herself one way or the other outside of mission parameters.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Ion possesses the ability to shrink to subatomic size just as all Imskians do. She has military training and is a skilled fighter both in ranged and melee combat, though Shrinking Violet defeated her decisively in hand-to-hand combat.

MAGNO
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Dyrk Magz
Homeworld: Braal
Height: 5’ 5”
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: blue
Hair: blond

HISTORY
Dyrk Magz’s greatest dream was once to join the Legion of Superheroes, but his older brother Omar eventually convinced him that it was a foolish aspiration as the Legion would never take him when they already had Cosmic Boy. Refusing to allow his disappointment to lead to defeatism, Dyrk instead changed his focus to joining the Science Police in Omar’s footsteps and to this end he practiced using his magnokinesis almost obsessively to become the best officer he could. This didn’t go unnoticed by Dyrk’s superiors, and when the call went out for someone to lead a Takron-Galtos based superhero team he was nominated straight out of the training academy.

Though he’s the youngest member of the Workforce, Magno has taken to the role of leader surprisingly well. His power level and skill are comparable to Cosmic Boy already and his optimism, enthusiasm and idealism make up for his lack of practical experience.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Like all Braalians, Magno possesses the power of magnokinesis. He has trained himself to a degree matched by few other Braalians however, and was able to stalemate Cosmic Boy for several minutes when the two paired off against one another in a training exercise.

TRIPLICATE BOY
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Dru Lorgo
Homeworld: Cargg
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 225 lbs
Eyes: amber/violet
Hair: brown

HISTORY
Growing up on Cargg, Dru Lorgo was a natural athlete. He excelled in several fields including tri-jitsu, boxing, gymnastics, and relay track and swimming races among others. His natural charisma and attractiveness meant it wasn’t long before he became equally famous on his homeworld as a model and if he’d wanted to he could easily have had any number of careers in the sports or entertainment spheres of the wider United Planets.

Fame and wealth weren’t enough for Dru though; like his hero Duplicate Damsel he wanted to actively help people. He joined the Science Police’s training program but found its rigidity and regulations too restrictive. When he heard about Leland McCauley’s Workforce program, he saw this as his way to get some practical training as a superhero and hopefully get his foot in the door with a team like the Legion of Superheroes. He took the name Triplicate Boy and a costume heavily influenced by Triplicate Girl’s original outfit, but he has yet to actually meet his heroic inspiration.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Triplicate Boy possesses the same ability to split into three identical bodies as anybody else from the planet Cargg. He is one of his world’s athletic elite however, and has a specific mastery of tri-jitsu matched by few others.

TWINE
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: unknown
Homeworld: unknown
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 125 lbs
Eyes: white (no visible pupils/irises)
Hair: magenta

HISTORY
Nothing has been revealed of Twine’s personal history prior to the formation of the Workforce. She was recruited from Rimbor, though it’s unclear whether she is actually a native Rimborian. She wears a mask covering her lower face at all times and didn’t speak when training with the Legion of Superheroes, but again it’s not clear whether she is physically unable to communicate verbally or if she just chooses not to talk. She takes a sadistic pleasure in her abilities, and aside from her friendship with Abyss (who has been known to speak on her behalf) she doesn’t really interact with any of her teammates outside of work.

POWERS & WEAPONS
Twine can generate prehensile tendrils of bright pink energy from her forearms which painfully drain strength and vitality from any opponent they touch. Her energy whips are powerful enough to have even hurt the Shazam-empowered Blok, though when her physical connection with the whips was severed the psionic feedback knocked her out.