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Guardian, Green Knight (x2), Spider, Nomad, Savage, Nimbus, Nimue, Beacon, Skydancer

Guardian:
After many years of battling evil and writing wrongs, Peter Baden has become a stalwart champion of the costumed crimefighter fraternity. He continues to head the Protectors in ever upgraded armour. His newest look has seen the media go from nicknaming him 'The Golden Gladiator' to 'The Scarlet Sentinel'.

Green Knight:
Hank Berkilak struggled with the curse of the Ever-Blade; its pull to judge the wicked growing ever stronger as he continued attempting to curtail its bloodlust with less lethal forms of justice. Every now and again however, its call grew so strong that he fought his teammates. None the less, he was and is a valued Protector, normally a dashing swashbuckler and practical joker, if not a little self-assured and a splash arrogant at times. It isn't for no reason that, despite the draw of his dark weapon, Guardian made him second in command in the field.

The Spider:
John Dekker couldn’t stop being the Spider. Nor did he want to. Even when Robbie West departed the home of his mentor, took the new moniker of ‘Stinger’ and reformed the Crusaders, Dekker carried on. He even took in a new ward and together the Spider and Arachnakid continued their war on crime. The Spider still fills a space in the Protectors, though more and more often his focus remains upon the darkened, midnight alleyways of Cedar City. The shadows conceal much, but soon all wrongdoers fall into the web of The Spider.

Nomad:
Odysseus was a general in a future that should never have come. Millenia away from the 20th century, a war wages between two peoples: those who dwell on the desolate wastelands of Earth, and those who reside in peace upon the Moon. The Tomorrowists and the Futurites. Odysseus was a general in the Tomorrowist army, born into the ruins of a used-up planet, he strived to better his people. When he passed through the Great Machine as a young man, he was imbued with the ability to master any device he laid his hands on. As such, he became a great general, the only person capable of controlling the Storm-Rod; a technological relic that none before him could activate, capable of controlling the winds and the rains, even thunder and lightning itself. He did not love war but he hated evil and hated seeing death. When he learnt of the plans of the Futurite Volkaan, he saw wickedness and madness. Odysseus had watched countless friends and loved ones die in the war and would not see their struggles and sacrifice be erased; he would not allow time to be rewritten and thus let people of Earth repeat the mistakes they had learnt. He followed Volkaan through his time portal during the villain’s second incursion upon the past. Partnering with the Protectors, Volkaan was defeated and vanquished. But Odysseus was trapped. Now stranded in a foreign time, he would have to wait and wander for eons to be reunited with the wife and son waiting for him at home. With his understanding of future technology and the innate ability to turn his hand to any tool, he found work at the technological thinktank and experimental research company, Ithaca Labs under the guise of his alter ego Otis Seuss. He continues to fight alongside his Protector allies with his Storm-Rod and Solar Chariot, as the mighty thunderer, Nomad.

Savage:
Fred King never appreciated his parents’ wealth. He never appreciated his parents, truth be told. Not until they were taken from him. Born into the high life, the Kings were three of Australia's top ten most wealthy individuals. While Marie and Kyle King used their resources to help fund inner city programmes and to get to the roots of urban decline and youth criminality, Fred used it to party and get girls. One night he was drinking and gambling when he ran afoul of, unbeknownst to him, the son of Sydney’s top organised crime boss. After a very brief fight, the drunken King hospitalised his opponent before running home, thinking money would protect him from the consequences. What actually happened was that the boy’s father turned his eyes toward the Kings. On top of the beating done to his boy, he noticed the damage on business that Fred's parents’ philanthropy was having. It was decided: he would get rid of the entire family. During a summer yacht trip, the family were attacked by hired marauders. Marie and Kyle were gunned down and the yacht was shipwrecked; Fred only surviving by pure chance. Without resources or his parents to fall back on, many miles from home, on the other side of the country, there were the wilds of the outback to survive and to cross if he ever wanted to make it home. Relying on the kindness of strangers, he began to walk. It was in the outback that he met an aboriginal family who took him in, taught him to hunt with traditional weapons, to track, to know the earth, and to be one with the land. But his name had left a trail and he was pursued. When his assailants found his newly adopted family, they gunned them down while Fred was out gathering wood. Upon returning he flew into a rage and killed the men. Realising there would never be peace, realising the strength of organised crime, and finally understanding why his parents were so resolute in wanting to eradicate it, he returned to Sydney and toppled the criminal empire of the man whose son he'd wronged. The crime boss imprisoned, King travelled the world hoping to find peace. He found it eventually in a monastery in the Himalayas. There he was taught that burying the base, animalistic urges of Man brought focus and control. King agreed...to an extent. When the temple itself was attacked, he let go. He became the savage the monks jokingly referred to him as. Flying into a feral rage, he utilised his mastery of weapons and ability as a tracker, to pick off their foes, one by one. The monks were thankful for his intercession, but his actions showed his true nature and he realised he could not stay. He went back to Sydney once more, this time to use the martial arts learnt from the monks in his quest for justice. It was in the city of his birth he met the American vigilante, Pete Harlem, on a globetrotting mission to root out an organised crime network that had its claws in Harlem. It turns out the man who'd had King's family killed was part of that network and, ironically, it seemed its head was back in America. King returned with Harlem and his partner Blackbird, to help bring down an evil empire of crime that had done so much harm to so many. In the end, the three didn't remain in Harlem but instead found new connections in the superhero community. While Harlem and Blackbird remained battling crime on an inner-city level, King branched out. Now he fights as part of the Protectors.

Nimbus:
The US government was worried about the continued activity of the A.R.G.Onauts. This was escalated after one particular expedition saw them bring through a horde of single-celled warriors from another dimension (the very dimension they first passed through and acquired their powers). The beings, of the same origin as the brute known as Amoeba, trashed downtown Cedar and killed the team's leader, Tsunami. The team succeeded in driving them back, but the loss struck them hard. It was in this period of grief that the government struck out, determined to curtail the team. They sent out four identical robots, each with powers mimicking those of an A.R.G.Onaut. They were dubbed Torrent, Terra, Nimbus and Pyre. The machines, growing ever more self-aware, broke free from their overseers’ control. While three used this chance to continue their mission without kill switches and without boundaries, determined to use lethal force to eradicate the A.R.G.Onauts, one saw the A.R.G.Onauts for the heroes they were. This robot, armed with the same micro-turbines as the villain Spin Doctor, could create localised cyclones and fly by rotating his legs to form a twister. He turned on his 'siblings' and helped the mourning heroes stop the mechanical trio. He alone remained functional. Having lost his own family members, the A.R.G.Onauts offered him membership, but he decided he wanted to find his own way, become his own man, whatever that may be. He could feel after all, and, perhaps, he could love. He wanted to know if it was possible to will oneself to be truly human. To this end he joined the Protectors.

Nimue:
The Lady in the Lake they called her. It was known that she was ancient and compromised of the mystic waters in which Excalibur itself had once dwelt. However, nothing further is known of her past, not even to herself. For a time, the water-woman had fought alongside the British super-team, Rule Britannia, but the team had disbanded, and she sought a new means by which to protect Men once more. And so, it was she became a Protector.

Beacon:
Beacon continued to battle foes with the Protectors, defending Earth and far flung planets alike, gaining ever more control and mastery over his portion of the Flame Eternal. Over time, he has seen his powers fluctuate as well as his connection to the alien consciousness that inhabits his body. Switching back to Don Branch from Komar-Ran began to take more concentration. Eventually it became apparent that both men were battling for the same body. There was no hostility per say, Komar-Ran held no grudge, he simply wished more time in the sun. As such, civilian life became complicated. To this end, the pair agreed to take some time off-world and to find balance. During his cosmic travels, Beacon came upon a world under threat from the beings known as The Immortals, in service to their ominous and as yet unseen masters, the Triumvirate. After much conflict and pleading, he made them see the error of their destructive ways. Realising he had found peace with himself in giving peace to others, he returned home to Earth, accompanied by Skydancer, one of the Immortals. The two fell in love and together joined Beacon's old team, the Protectors.

Skydancer:
When the beings that created the Universe, the Triumvirate, saw it fit to extinguish the first solar system, they agreed to preserve the lifeforms therein by consolidating them into five beings. They were known as the Immortals: endless beings made from what remained of the first living creatures in existence. The Paramore, later referred to as Skydancer, is made up of souls. She is billions of hearts made one; countless emotions in a single entity. As such, she is the greatest empath that has ever lived; capable of reading and projecting the tiniest or the most intense of feelings. She stood back from her fellow Immortals' judgements upon the worlds they encountered, herself residing almost entirely on her family's travelling world known as Utopia. She was loved by all, though often feared for her mercurial and unpredictable nature. It was when she met the hero Beacon, during one of his interstellar travels, that everything changed. After landing on an alien world, he heard that their prophets were predicting the end. Apparently, the portents pointed to the arrival of Utopia, a universal sign of destruction. When her brother, Skyborn, came to the alien planet he ended up in an altercation with Beacon who followed him back to Utopia. After battling with the family, Beacon showed them that all life was worth of preserving, no matter how lost of flawed. The being known as Skyfather, in his wisdom, disagreed, though did concede to allow Utopia to depart that particular solar system. However, Beacon succeeded at least in part, in swaying the minds of Skyborn and Skydancer. While the former fled into the stars, Skydancer travelled with Beacon back to see his home-world of Earth. On their travels, the two fell in love and later, back on Earth, both joined the superhero team The Protectors.

Description
Guardian, Green Knight (x2), Spider, Nomad, Savage, Nimbus, Nimue, Beacon, Skydancer

Guardian:
After many years of battling evil and writing wrongs, Peter Baden has become a stalwart champion of the costumed crimefighter fraternity. He continues to head the Protectors in ever upgraded armour. His newest look has seen the media go from nicknaming him 'The Golden Gladiator' to 'The Scarlet Sentinel'.

Green Knight:
Hank Berkilak struggled with the curse of the Ever-Blade; its pull to judge the wicked growing ever stronger as he continued attempting to curtail its bloodlust with less lethal forms of justice. Every now and again however, its call grew so strong that he fought his teammates. None the less, he was and is a valued Protector, normally a dashing swashbuckler and practical joker, if not a little self-assured and a splash arrogant at times. It isn't for no reason that, despite the draw of his dark weapon, Guardian made him second in command in the field.

The Spider:
John Dekker couldn’t stop being the Spider. Nor did he want to. Even when Robbie West departed the home of his mentor, took the new moniker of ‘Stinger’ and reformed the Crusaders, Dekker carried on. He even took in a new ward and together the Spider and Arachnakid continued their war on crime. The Spider still fills a space in the Protectors, though more and more often his focus remains upon the darkened, midnight alleyways of Cedar City. The shadows conceal much, but soon all wrongdoers fall into the web of The Spider.

Nomad:
Odysseus was a general in a future that should never have come. Millenia away from the 20th century, a war wages between two peoples: those who dwell on the desolate wastelands of Earth, and those who reside in peace upon the Moon. The Tomorrowists and the Futurites. Odysseus was a general in the Tomorrowist army, born into the ruins of a used-up planet, he strived to better his people. When he passed through the Great Machine as a young man, he was imbued with the ability to master any device he laid his hands on. As such, he became a great general, the only person capable of controlling the Storm-Rod; a technological relic that none before him could activate, capable of controlling the winds and the rains, even thunder and lightning itself. He did not love war but he hated evil and hated seeing death. When he learnt of the plans of the Futurite Volkaan, he saw wickedness and madness. Odysseus had watched countless friends and loved ones die in the war and would not see their struggles and sacrifice be erased; he would not allow time to be rewritten and thus let people of Earth repeat the mistakes they had learnt. He followed Volkaan through his time portal during the villain’s second incursion upon the past. Partnering with the Protectors, Volkaan was defeated and vanquished. But Odysseus was trapped. Now stranded in a foreign time, he would have to wait and wander for eons to be reunited with the wife and son waiting for him at home. With his understanding of future technology and the innate ability to turn his hand to any tool, he found work at the technological thinktank and experimental research company, Ithaca Labs under the guise of his alter ego Otis Seuss. He continues to fight alongside his Protector allies with his Storm-Rod and Solar Chariot, as the mighty thunderer, Nomad.

Savage:
Fred King never appreciated his parents’ wealth. He never appreciated his parents, truth be told. Not until they were taken from him. Born into the high life, the Kings were three of Australia's top ten most wealthy individuals. While Marie and Kyle King used their resources to help fund inner city programmes and to get to the roots of urban decline and youth criminality, Fred used it to party and get girls. One night he was drinking and gambling when he ran afoul of, unbeknownst to him, the son of Sydney’s top organised crime boss. After a very brief fight, the drunken King hospitalised his opponent before running home, thinking money would protect him from the consequences. What actually happened was that the boy’s father turned his eyes toward the Kings. On top of the beating done to his boy, he noticed the damage on business that Fred's parents’ philanthropy was having. It was decided: he would get rid of the entire family. During a summer yacht trip, the family were attacked by hired marauders. Marie and Kyle were gunned down and the yacht was shipwrecked; Fred only surviving by pure chance. Without resources or his parents to fall back on, many miles from home, on the other side of the country, there were the wilds of the outback to survive and to cross if he ever wanted to make it home. Relying on the kindness of strangers, he began to walk. It was in the outback that he met an aboriginal family who took him in, taught him to hunt with traditional weapons, to track, to know the earth, and to be one with the land. But his name had left a trail and he was pursued. When his assailants found his newly adopted family, they gunned them down while Fred was out gathering wood. Upon returning he flew into a rage and killed the men. Realising there would never be peace, realising the strength of organised crime, and finally understanding why his parents were so resolute in wanting to eradicate it, he returned to Sydney and toppled the criminal empire of the man whose son he'd wronged. The crime boss imprisoned, King travelled the world hoping to find peace. He found it eventually in a monastery in the Himalayas. There he was taught that burying the base, animalistic urges of Man brought focus and control. King agreed...to an extent. When the temple itself was attacked, he let go. He became the savage the monks jokingly referred to him as. Flying into a feral rage, he utilised his mastery of weapons and ability as a tracker, to pick off their foes, one by one. The monks were thankful for his intercession, but his actions showed his true nature and he realised he could not stay. He went back to Sydney once more, this time to use the martial arts learnt from the monks in his quest for justice. It was in the city of his birth he met the American vigilante, Pete Harlem, on a globetrotting mission to root out an organised crime network that had its claws in Harlem. It turns out the man who'd had King's family killed was part of that network and, ironically, it seemed its head was back in America. King returned with Harlem and his partner Blackbird, to help bring down an evil empire of crime that had done so much harm to so many. In the end, the three didn't remain in Harlem but instead found new connections in the superhero community. While Harlem and Blackbird remained battling crime on an inner-city level, King branched out. Now he fights as part of the Protectors.

Nimbus:
The US government was worried about the continued activity of the A.R.G.Onauts. This was escalated after one particular expedition saw them bring through a horde of single-celled warriors from another dimension (the very dimension they first passed through and acquired their powers). The beings, of the same origin as the brute known as Amoeba, trashed downtown Cedar and killed the team's leader, Tsunami. The team succeeded in driving them back, but the loss struck them hard. It was in this period of grief that the government struck out, determined to curtail the team. They sent out four identical robots, each with powers mimicking those of an A.R.G.Onaut. They were dubbed Torrent, Terra, Nimbus and Pyre. The machines, growing ever more self-aware, broke free from their overseers’ control. While three used this chance to continue their mission without kill switches and without boundaries, determined to use lethal force to eradicate the A.R.G.Onauts, one saw the A.R.G.Onauts for the heroes they were. This robot, armed with the same micro-turbines as the villain Spin Doctor, could create localised cyclones and fly by rotating his legs to form a twister. He turned on his 'siblings' and helped the mourning heroes stop the mechanical trio. He alone remained functional. Having lost his own family members, the A.R.G.Onauts offered him membership, but he decided he wanted to find his own way, become his own man, whatever that may be. He could feel after all, and, perhaps, he could love. He wanted to know if it was possible to will oneself to be truly human. To this end he joined the Protectors.

Nimue:
The Lady in the Lake they called her. It was known that she was ancient and compromised of the mystic waters in which Excalibur itself had once dwelt. However, nothing further is known of her past, not even to herself. For a time, the water-woman had fought alongside the British super-team, Rule Britannia, but the team had disbanded, and she sought a new means by which to protect Men once more. And so, it was she became a Protector.

Beacon:
Beacon continued to battle foes with the Protectors, defending Earth and far flung planets alike, gaining ever more control and mastery over his portion of the Flame Eternal. Over time, he has seen his powers fluctuate as well as his connection to the alien consciousness that inhabits his body. Switching back to Don Branch from Komar-Ran began to take more concentration. Eventually it became apparent that both men were battling for the same body. There was no hostility per say, Komar-Ran held no grudge, he simply wished more time in the sun. As such, civilian life became complicated. To this end, the pair agreed to take some time off-world and to find balance. During his cosmic travels, Beacon came upon a world under threat from the beings known as The Immortals, in service to their ominous and as yet unseen masters, the Triumvirate. After much conflict and pleading, he made them see the error of their destructive ways. Realising he had found peace with himself in giving peace to others, he returned home to Earth, accompanied by Skydancer, one of the Immortals. The two fell in love and together joined Beacon's old team, the Protectors.

Skydancer:
When the beings that created the Universe, the Triumvirate, saw it fit to extinguish the first solar system, they agreed to preserve the lifeforms therein by consolidating them into five beings. They were known as the Immortals: endless beings made from what remained of the first living creatures in existence. The Paramore, later referred to as Skydancer, is made up of souls. She is billions of hearts made one; countless emotions in a single entity. As such, she is the greatest empath that has ever lived; capable of reading and projecting the tiniest or the most intense of feelings. She stood back from her fellow Immortals' judgements upon the worlds they encountered, herself residing almost entirely on her family's travelling world known as Utopia. She was loved by all, though often feared for her mercurial and unpredictable nature. It was when she met the hero Beacon, during one of his interstellar travels, that everything changed. After landing on an alien world, he heard that their prophets were predicting the end. Apparently, the portents pointed to the arrival of Utopia, a universal sign of destruction. When her brother, Skyborn, came to the alien planet he ended up in an altercation with Beacon who followed him back to Utopia. After battling with the family, Beacon showed them that all life was worth of preserving, no matter how lost of flawed. The being known as Skyfather, in his wisdom, disagreed, though did concede to allow Utopia to depart that particular solar system. However, Beacon succeeded at least in part, in swaying the minds of Skyborn and Skydancer. While the former fled into the stars, Skydancer travelled with Beacon back to see his home-world of Earth. On their travels, the two fell in love and later, back on Earth, both joined the superhero team The Protectors.