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Feb. 19th, 2014 09:50 pmDrake Burroughs was a junior astronomer, working in a stellar research division laboratory belonging to R.J. Brande, and operating under the directorship of Dr. Zaxton Regulus. Though Brande's star-building process had already made billions and pretty much changed life in the galaxy as people knew it, the process was one of continual refinement, always seeking to be better.
One of those experiments to refine the process was in Quantom-field sustained anti-matter reactions, an attempt to create a self-sustaining energy release generator that would further push the boundaries of thermodynamics. Unfortunately, science like this has a bad habit of getting very badly out of hand very quickly. Or just as likely, successes like Brande's have a way of attracting sabotage. In this case, it was a little of both that brought things to an interesting head.
The device would have been unstable in and of itself, and eventually would have self-destructed in on itself rather harmlessly. But because of an act of sabotage by persons working for Orion Starfinger (seeking to destabilize Brande's threat to his operation). As the device reached its explosion point, just about everyone got out as the security seals began to activate... everyone but Drake. The explosion, thankfully contained, only took the life on one young man, seemingly vaporizing him completely.
Investigations eventually did determine the cause was sabotage, but not the who. The lab was decommissioned as the others involved move on to other projects.
Ten years later...
In the exact same spot as Drake had vanished, an energy creature appeared. Seemingly crazed, it went on a rampage until it was contained by the newly formed five member Legion of Super-Heroes (the telepathic Saturn Girl discovering their was a mind inside the creature), with help from a Coluan scientist also in Brande's employ, who was able to design a containment suit for the creature... now revealed to be Drake.
Brande suggested his special academy for Drake, for people who were uniquely gifted or estranged in some way. His parents and brother having died in a tragic speeder accident while he was displaced, and struggling to come to grips with who he was, Drake agreed. There, he struck up a friendship with a fellow outcast named Myke Chypurz, who helped bring the despondent Drake back to his humanity a little bit. Myke would go on to quickly join the Legion of Super-Heroes himself.
Eventually regaining his sense of self and control over his new abilities, Drake would follow his friend into the Legion... and be nearly struck right back into a deep depression when he was killed in action, both for the loss of his good friend, and his own lack of humanity (both his inability to die himself, and his inability to even cry for his friend).
Sometime during this period, Drake would strike up a friendship with the winged woman called Dawnstar, fast tracking her way into the Legion.
One of those experiments to refine the process was in Quantom-field sustained anti-matter reactions, an attempt to create a self-sustaining energy release generator that would further push the boundaries of thermodynamics. Unfortunately, science like this has a bad habit of getting very badly out of hand very quickly. Or just as likely, successes like Brande's have a way of attracting sabotage. In this case, it was a little of both that brought things to an interesting head.
The device would have been unstable in and of itself, and eventually would have self-destructed in on itself rather harmlessly. But because of an act of sabotage by persons working for Orion Starfinger (seeking to destabilize Brande's threat to his operation). As the device reached its explosion point, just about everyone got out as the security seals began to activate... everyone but Drake. The explosion, thankfully contained, only took the life on one young man, seemingly vaporizing him completely.
Investigations eventually did determine the cause was sabotage, but not the who. The lab was decommissioned as the others involved move on to other projects.
Ten years later...
In the exact same spot as Drake had vanished, an energy creature appeared. Seemingly crazed, it went on a rampage until it was contained by the newly formed five member Legion of Super-Heroes (the telepathic Saturn Girl discovering their was a mind inside the creature), with help from a Coluan scientist also in Brande's employ, who was able to design a containment suit for the creature... now revealed to be Drake.
Brande suggested his special academy for Drake, for people who were uniquely gifted or estranged in some way. His parents and brother having died in a tragic speeder accident while he was displaced, and struggling to come to grips with who he was, Drake agreed. There, he struck up a friendship with a fellow outcast named Myke Chypurz, who helped bring the despondent Drake back to his humanity a little bit. Myke would go on to quickly join the Legion of Super-Heroes himself.
Eventually regaining his sense of self and control over his new abilities, Drake would follow his friend into the Legion... and be nearly struck right back into a deep depression when he was killed in action, both for the loss of his good friend, and his own lack of humanity (both his inability to die himself, and his inability to even cry for his friend).
Sometime during this period, Drake would strike up a friendship with the winged woman called Dawnstar, fast tracking her way into the Legion.
