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Beacon:
Don Branch was last seen on Earth, coupled with the mind of the alien Komar-Ran, working in unison as the hero Beacon. But then he left. In the heart of the universe he burned brightly as the renewed Flame Eternal, forming himself into a world of pure purple light and casting his power into the universe to imbue others with the Flame Eternal and the powers of a Beacon. He returned for a span as a being of living flame but that was short-lived as the power that fuelled him dwindled in separation from the Flame Eternal and Don once more took to the stars. That was then. Now, he has returned once more. As a man. Don Branch arrived on the Earth in the hour of need. There he found other Beacon-powered heroes fighting alongside the Immortals and the other champions of Cedar against a returned Plutos. Don Branch turned the tide. But this time, he did not carry the mind of Komar-Ran. As it transpired, Komar-Ran had been growing in strength. At long last, he had enough might to generate a body that could sustain itself. And so, Don Branch was free to fly to the aid of his friends. But Don was unable to stay on the Earth. There is an entire cosmos in need and the Earth has enough heroes. As Komar-Ran continues to recruit Beacons, its leaves whole galaxies without defenders. And so, Don recruited a specialist unit of travelling heroes who would aid him in his wanderings across the stars. He credited the crack-team that is Beacon-Force.

Aster:
Carlotta Di Costa was the first other human to possess the power of a Beacon. When Don Branch left Earth, she did her best to fill his shoes. But it was a tough job. It hardened her. She took a tougher approach to criminality. She also began to realise that small, everyday crimes would be meaningless unless you stopped the bigger threats. She began to seek out threats and stop them before they grew. This often pitted her against law enforcement and military powers. She didn’t care. She was fighting the good fight. But the truth is, she was losing hope. Losing joy. And all because Branch left them to fend for themselves. He had been a mentor. Then he was gone. His return was a double-edged sword. Her personal hero was back. But with him came the feelings of abandonment. Slowly, she is learning to hope again. In the meantime, she is a powerful weapon and the heavy of the team.

Flameheart:
Alex Longwood had a complicated relationship with the Beacon Flame powers. Firstly, he was the grandson of a man who wielded an unknown artefact imbued with energy but not directly tied to the Flame Eternals itself. And secondly, he’d quit. After his grandfather’s consciousness became one with his old pendant, Alex had kept it safe, communing with his grandfather from time to time. Then one day, many years later, Alex noticed a flicker of purple light at the end of his own fingers. It seemed, just like Rex, the flame had latched onto him through years of use. And it had grown. Now, he wields his own innate light-based powers. He truly is Flameheart reborn.

Blaze:
Aleysha Hussain was a bit of a nobody. 12 years old. Few friends. Trying to be a good Muslim girl. Middling grades. A drunk single father who told stories of how he was nearly a superhero to anyone who would listen. She wasn’t sad exactly. But she wasn’t happy. Except when she was building. Aleysha loved to create. Most saw it as crap. She knew the truth. She was far too ahead of her time, building contraptions that worked only occasionally purely because she didn’t have the funds to build the ideas in her head. It wasn’t helped by the fact that most of her time was taken up working in the family’s scrapyard or cleaning up after her dad when he’d had another night of one-too-many drinks. Then things changed. See, on the other side of Cedar a man who was away had his house robbed. The thieves took many things. But then they were in a car accident fleeing from the police pursuing them. Most of the stolen goods were located. One was not. It was swept up by the road cleaner until it finally found its way to a scrapyard. The Hussain’s scrapyard. Aleysha was hunting for junk she could use on her next project when she found it. And when she touched it, she heard a voice. The voice of some old man asking if there was anybody there. She dropped it immediately, but she could still hear the voice. It seemed to be coming from her own head now. It implored her to pick the item back up. She did. And, holding the pendant, a figure of purple light burst forth. An old man made of glowing energy. He said his name was Rex and it was very nice to meet her. That was when aliens came. Pirate aliens. It seems they were searching for that very particular energy source. Rex told her to flee and hide. He returned to the pendant but still spoke to her in her head, keeping her safe. The craft that hovered over the scrapyard swept its light wide. And the aliens came forth. They had tracked Flame Eternal energies and had now located it. What they found was not Aleysha but her drunk father. Rex recognised him at once. He had worked as a janitor at the museum were Alex his grandson worked. He knew this because Alex had spoken highly of a genius janitor who knew about every item in the museum except one. Neither of them understood how the pendant had worked. Alex had told his grandfather stories of evenings spent sharing drinks and discussing theories. But over the years, the janitor had gotten too fond of drink and lost his job. This was all years before Alex had wielded the pendant for the first time. Both men, Alex and the janitor, had dreamed of unlcoking the secrets of the pendant. It seemed Alex had. Perhaps then, if not for his alcoholism, Aleysha’s father really could’ve been a hero, if only he’d activated the pendant first. When the aliens emerged, they found only a drunk man screaming that he should have been a hero. That he was the real Flameheart. The aliens exchanged a look…and took him. Aleysha wanted to leap forward but Rex told her not to. She wasn’t ready for this fight. But he promised to help her be. The aliens then began their attempted conquest, believing the Earth was now without a protector. The heroes of the Earth banded together to fight them back while Aleysha got to work. She did what she did best. Using junk from the scrapyard she build a device that would allow her to hone the energy of the pendant, but not as Rex had done. This would not be a flame going forth undirected. She would not use Rex that way. No, she would channel its raw energies in useful ways, leaving Rex free to act as her counsel. Rex Longwood spoke to and guided her, as Komar-Ran had done for Don Branch. In the battle, she made her debut and caught the attention of Beacon, Aster and Flameheart. When the aliens fled, Beacon-Forces/ first mission was to go to the stars and bring her dad back home.

Description

Beacon:
Don Branch was last seen on Earth, coupled with the mind of the alien Komar-Ran, working in unison as the hero Beacon. But then he left. In the heart of the universe he burned brightly as the renewed Flame Eternal, forming himself into a world of pure purple light and casting his power into the universe to imbue others with the Flame Eternal and the powers of a Beacon. He returned for a span as a being of living flame but that was short-lived as the power that fuelled him dwindled in separation from the Flame Eternal and Don once more took to the stars. That was then. Now, he has returned once more. As a man. Don Branch arrived on the Earth in the hour of need. There he found other Beacon-powered heroes fighting alongside the Immortals and the other champions of Cedar against a returned Plutos. Don Branch turned the tide. But this time, he did not carry the mind of Komar-Ran. As it transpired, Komar-Ran had been growing in strength. At long last, he had enough might to generate a body that could sustain itself. And so, Don Branch was free to fly to the aid of his friends. But Don was unable to stay on the Earth. There is an entire cosmos in need and the Earth has enough heroes. As Komar-Ran continues to recruit Beacons, its leaves whole galaxies without defenders. And so, Don recruited a specialist unit of travelling heroes who would aid him in his wanderings across the stars. He credited the crack-team that is Beacon-Force.

Aster:
Carlotta Di Costa was the first other human to possess the power of a Beacon. When Don Branch left Earth, she did her best to fill his shoes. But it was a tough job. It hardened her. She took a tougher approach to criminality. She also began to realise that small, everyday crimes would be meaningless unless you stopped the bigger threats. She began to seek out threats and stop them before they grew. This often pitted her against law enforcement and military powers. She didn’t care. She was fighting the good fight. But the truth is, she was losing hope. Losing joy. And all because Branch left them to fend for themselves. He had been a mentor. Then he was gone. His return was a double-edged sword. Her personal hero was back. But with him came the feelings of abandonment. Slowly, she is learning to hope again. In the meantime, she is a powerful weapon and the heavy of the team.

Flameheart:
Alex Longwood had a complicated relationship with the Beacon Flame powers. Firstly, he was the grandson of a man who wielded an unknown artefact imbued with energy but not directly tied to the Flame Eternals itself. And secondly, he’d quit. After his grandfather’s consciousness became one with his old pendant, Alex had kept it safe, communing with his grandfather from time to time. Then one day, many years later, Alex noticed a flicker of purple light at the end of his own fingers. It seemed, just like Rex, the flame had latched onto him through years of use. And it had grown. Now, he wields his own innate light-based powers. He truly is Flameheart reborn.

Blaze:
Aleysha Hussain was a bit of a nobody. 12 years old. Few friends. Trying to be a good Muslim girl. Middling grades. A drunk single father who told stories of how he was nearly a superhero to anyone who would listen. She wasn’t sad exactly. But she wasn’t happy. Except when she was building. Aleysha loved to create. Most saw it as crap. She knew the truth. She was far too ahead of her time, building contraptions that worked only occasionally purely because she didn’t have the funds to build the ideas in her head. It wasn’t helped by the fact that most of her time was taken up working in the family’s scrapyard or cleaning up after her dad when he’d had another night of one-too-many drinks. Then things changed. See, on the other side of Cedar a man who was away had his house robbed. The thieves took many things. But then they were in a car accident fleeing from the police pursuing them. Most of the stolen goods were located. One was not. It was swept up by the road cleaner until it finally found its way to a scrapyard. The Hussain’s scrapyard. Aleysha was hunting for junk she could use on her next project when she found it. And when she touched it, she heard a voice. The voice of some old man asking if there was anybody there. She dropped it immediately, but she could still hear the voice. It seemed to be coming from her own head now. It implored her to pick the item back up. She did. And, holding the pendant, a figure of purple light burst forth. An old man made of glowing energy. He said his name was Rex and it was very nice to meet her. That was when aliens came. Pirate aliens. It seems they were searching for that very particular energy source. Rex told her to flee and hide. He returned to the pendant but still spoke to her in her head, keeping her safe. The craft that hovered over the scrapyard swept its light wide. And the aliens came forth. They had tracked Flame Eternal energies and had now located it. What they found was not Aleysha but her drunk father. Rex recognised him at once. He had worked as a janitor at the museum were Alex his grandson worked. He knew this because Alex had spoken highly of a genius janitor who knew about every item in the museum except one. Neither of them understood how the pendant had worked. Alex had told his grandfather stories of evenings spent sharing drinks and discussing theories. But over the years, the janitor had gotten too fond of drink and lost his job. This was all years before Alex had wielded the pendant for the first time. Both men, Alex and the janitor, had dreamed of unlcoking the secrets of the pendant. It seemed Alex had. Perhaps then, if not for his alcoholism, Aleysha’s father really could’ve been a hero, if only he’d activated the pendant first. When the aliens emerged, they found only a drunk man screaming that he should have been a hero. That he was the real Flameheart. The aliens exchanged a look…and took him. Aleysha wanted to leap forward but Rex told her not to. She wasn’t ready for this fight. But he promised to help her be. The aliens then began their attempted conquest, believing the Earth was now without a protector. The heroes of the Earth banded together to fight them back while Aleysha got to work. She did what she did best. Using junk from the scrapyard she build a device that would allow her to hone the energy of the pendant, but not as Rex had done. This would not be a flame going forth undirected. She would not use Rex that way. No, she would channel its raw energies in useful ways, leaving Rex free to act as her counsel. Rex Longwood spoke to and guided her, as Komar-Ran had done for Don Branch. In the battle, she made her debut and caught the attention of Beacon, Aster and Flameheart. When the aliens fled, Beacon-Forces/ first mission was to go to the stars and bring her dad back home.