Hero Name: Jean Grey (duplicate in mind and body) Given Name: Phoenix (mutant-deity) Fighting: Remarkable (30) Agility: Incredible (40) Strength: Remarkable (30) Endurance: Unearthly (100) Reason: Good (10) Intuition: Excellent (20) Psyche: Class 1000 (1000) Health: 200 Karma: 1030 Resources: Typical (6) Popularity: Feeble (2) Age: early 30s Gender: Female Height: 5'6" Weight: 115 Skin Color: White Hair Color: Red Eye Color: Green POWERS: Gateway (teleportation) (Beyond) Phoenix Force-Flame damage, 1-1000 areas (Unearthly) Kinetic Bolt: maximum range 100 miles. (Unearthly) P9: Regeneration* (10 per round) (Unearthly) M30: Telekinesis and telepathy (Unearthly) MC12: Weather control (Unearthly) Note: The powers below have a practical limit of Unearthly rank. If Phoenix exceeds that rank, she risks transformation to Dark Phoenix. (no rank specified) Absorption Power: CL1000 rank; no other action can be done that turn. (Class 1000) Elemental Conversion: CL1000 rank (Class 1000) Flight: Unearthly airspeed (600 mph); CL1 000 space speed (1,000,000 mph) (Unearthly) Force Field: CL1000 protection from physical and energy attacks. (Class 1000) TALENTS: astro navigation CONTACTS: Hero Group: X-Men, X-Factor
DESCRIPTION: Phoenix is susceptible to psionic and magical attacks. In such cases, her Psyche is reduced to Excellent. A second weakness is the weakness of “Jean Grey’s” control; killing or exceeding a limit of Unearthly rank on any power may trigger the transformation to Dark Phoenix (Yellow Psyche FEAT).HISTORY: Two different beings calling themselves Phoenix and possessing extraordinary psionic powers are known to have appeared in this universe. The first (this one) was a cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force which duplicated itself and assumed the form and consciousness of Jean Grey, who is also known as Marvel Girl, one of the original members of the X-Men. The second Phoenix is a human being, Rachel Summers, who is said to be the daughter of the Jean Grey of an alternate Earth. The Phoenix Force is a manifestation of a primal force of the universe which derives from the psyches of all living beings in the universe, and which therefore has limitless power. The Phoenix Force embodies emotion rather than intellect, specifically, the passion to create or destroy. Jean Grey and other members of the X-Men were kidnapped by Sentinel robots commanded by Steven Lang, a scientist who was out to destroy super human mutants. After defeating Lang, the X-Men had to escape back to Earth aboard a space shuttle through the path of an unusually intense solar flare. The shuttle’s pilot had to sit in an area where he or she would be exposed to the lethal radiation. Grey volunteered to be the pilot, using her telepathic abilities to absorb the knowledge of how to fly the shuttle from the mind of her ally, Dr. Peter Corbeau, and using her telekinetic powers to shield herself from the radiation. But while she guided the craft back to Earth, the solar radiation finally proved to be too great for Grey to hold back any longer with her powers. The radiation began killing her painfully. The sentient Phoenix Force sensed Grey’s desperate desire to save the lives of the X-Men, especially Scott Summers, alias Cyclops, the man she loved, and to save her own life. The Phoenix Force appeared to Grey in a form resembling her own; it also took on a human-like consciousness by reading Grey’s mind and replicating her consciousness. The Phoenix Force offered to save the lives of the dying Grey and her friends in exchange for an unstated price. Afraid of death, but determined to save Summers and the other X-Men, she accepted the entity’s offer, and grasped the entity’s arm. The Phoenix Force then took on full human form, an exact duplicate of Grey’s. The Phoenix Force transferred a portion of Grey’s “soul” or consciousness to itself. Hence, from that point onward, Grey existed as both the human Marvel Girl and as Phoenix. Grey’s original human form fell into a coma-like state. The shuttle crashed in Jamaica Bay near New York City, but the energy being insured that all of the X-Men and Corbeau survived. The entity itself emerged from the shuttle calling itself Phoenix, and the X-Men believed it to be the real Jean Grey, who they believed had died and returned to life with vast new powers. Meanwhile, Grey’s original human self remained in a coma-like state within a strange pod-like object while the Phoenix Force’s power gradually healed her. She remained safe within the pod for years until she was finally found by the Avengers and revived. Shortly after the shuttle crash, Phoenix and the X-Men traveled to a planet in the Shi’ar Galaxy where the crazed Emperor D’kan was about to use the M’krann Crystal to obliterate the cosmos. The Crystal is a tesseract (hyper-dimensional construct) within which this universe’s scientific laws do not apply. Within the Crystal, imprisoned by a magnetic stasis field and reduced to the size of a pinprick, lies a so-called Neutron Galaxy; which is composed of neutron stars, whose super-compressed matter generates so much gravitational force that not even light can escape its surface. If the Crystal were cracked open, the entire universe would collapse upon itself due to the Neutron Galaxy’s tremendous gravitational forces, and the universe would be sucked into a black hole. D’Kan had triggered this destructive process, but Phoenix entered the Crystal and, drawing upon her full powers through love of the X-Men and Grey’s innate courage, repaired the distintegrating statis field, thus saving the cosmos. Phoenix served as a member of the X-Men. But since Grey had never been trained to cope with such immense power as the Phoenix Force possessed, Phoenix, in human form, proved to have difficulty in dealing with her power. At first Grey’s strong moral sense kept the Phoenix Force under control. Then Phoenix fell victim to the psionic manipulation of Mastermind, who was attempting to prove his worthiness to become a member of the secret Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club by mesmerizing Phoenix, whom he believed to be the real Grey, into becoming the new Black Queen. Using a device created by the White Queen, Mastermind projected dream-like fantasies into Phoenix’s mind from afar which slowly brought closer to the surface of her now-human mind the dark desires which Grey, like most people, suppressed deeply. Finally, upon confronting Phoenix in the Hellfire Club mansion itself, Mastermind forced those desires fully to the surface, submerging Grey’s true personality within Phoenix’s mind; and Phoenix took on the costume and personality of the decadent Black Queen. Phoenix shortly thereafter freed her will from Mastermind’s control, but because the Phoenix Force is linked to passion, she could not fully free herself from the sinister side of her personality. She helped free the X-Men, whom the Inner Circle had taken captive, and psionically induced temporary insanity in Mastermind. But as she and the X Men escaped, she realized that the dark side of her personality, the Phoenix Force’s innate urge to destroy, was taking hold of her. Suddenly the Phoenix Force’s primal urges overwhelmed Phoenix, submerging Grey’s true personality even more fully than before, and Phoenix became the satanic Dark Phoenix. Hungering for more energy to overcome the limitations of physical form, Dark Phoenix transported herself to the star D’bari in the Shi’ar Galaxy and absorbed energy from it. As a result, the star became a super-nova, annihilating the sentient non-humanoid populace of one of its planets. Dark Phoenix next destroyed a Shi’ar starship which had attacked her in retaliation for the non-humanoids’ deaths. She returned to Earth and battled the X-Men. Cyclops tried to reason with her, appealing to the love Grey had for him, and thereby induced Grey’s true personality to begin to rise again. Unfortunately, the X-Men’s mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, caused her to revert fully to Dark Phoenix again by attacking her. But Cyclops had laid the ground work for Phoenix’s cure, and so, when Xavier used his full psionic power on Dark Phoenix to exorcise her insanity; the nearly buried duplicate of Grey’s true personality was able to assert itself just enough to allow him to succeed. Grey regained control. Phoenix and the X-Men were immediately teleported aboard a Shi’ar starship commanded by the empress Lilandra, who judged it necessary to obliterate Phoenix’s powers entirely lest she become Dark Phoenix again. Lilandra, like the X-Men, still believed that Phoenix was the real Jean Grey. Believing that they could find a way to prevent Phoenix’s reversion to Dark Phoenix, and that she should not be punished for her actions as the insane Dark Phoenix, the X-Men decided to fight against Lilandra’s judgment in a trial by combat against members of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. During the fury of the battle, in which she participated, Phoenix again reverted to Dark Phoenix. Grey’s true personality was able to reassert itself, but Grey realized that she had no hope of maintaining that control. Moreover, once she turned insane, she might ultimately destroy the cosmos, probably by breaking open the M’krann Crystal. Therefore, before the eyes of the horrified Cyclops, Phoenix acted as the real Grey would do: she telekinetically triggered an energy cannon she had found in the Blue Area of the Earth’s moon, where the trial by combat had taken place, causing it to fire and totally distintegrate her. Thus, although the real Jean Grey still lay in her coma-like state hidden from the real world, she had won her greatest victory. But the suicide did not mean that the Phoenix Force itself ceased to exist. It simply meant that the entity’s existence in human form was over. The Phoenix Force is indestructible. Role-Playing Notes: Phoenix has a schizoid personality; she is torn between her real back ground and her perceived back ground (“Jean Grey”). Although the Jean Grey personality dominates in the early stages, it is a tenuous control. If she kills accidentally or has her Psyche reduced to 0 by psionic attack, this may trigger her sudden transformation to Dark Phoenix, along with a disastrous increase in Ability ranks. Failure to make a Yellow Psyche FEAT triggers the conversion within 1-10 turns. During this phase, Dark Phoenix becomes a Judge-run NPC. 10 to 100 turns later, the player may attempt a Red Psyche FEAT to regain control and return her to a Phoenix under his and “Jean Grey’s” control.
