| rdfs:comment | - In the early 21st century, a group of superheroes attacked the alien synthetic intelligence known as Syntel within its secret base of operations, an icy cathedral of technology located beneath the Antarctic ice. History records that the battle saw a significant loss of superhuman life, with the extraterrestrial robot killing every single hero involved in the raid. However, one hero, his name lost to time, was not killed but rather frozen solid by a combination of alien technology and the intense cold of the Antarctic climate. The freezing process nearly killed him but his superhuman durability kept him alive and slowly healing even in cryogenic stasis, his powers growing within the tomb of permafrost he was locked inside as the years passed by.
|
| abstract | - In the early 21st century, a group of superheroes attacked the alien synthetic intelligence known as Syntel within its secret base of operations, an icy cathedral of technology located beneath the Antarctic ice. History records that the battle saw a significant loss of superhuman life, with the extraterrestrial robot killing every single hero involved in the raid. However, one hero, his name lost to time, was not killed but rather frozen solid by a combination of alien technology and the intense cold of the Antarctic climate. The freezing process nearly killed him but his superhuman durability kept him alive and slowly healing even in cryogenic stasis, his powers growing within the tomb of permafrost he was locked inside as the years passed by. Sometime in the future, decades or perhaps centuries after, a research group returned to the scene of the battle to pick over its scoured remains, and to attempt to excavate the deeper levels of the station that had collapsed during the titanic battle. It was in these unexplored levels that they discovered the frozen hero, whom the scientists designated Subject Omega. Upon further inspection of Omega, the scientists were amazed to find that he was actually still alive. Though his heart was beating at an incredibly slow pace, and all higher brain functions appeared to have shut down, Omega was undeniably alive, and so the scientists carved him from the ice and returned him to their laboratory, where they would thaw him out and discover that the freezing process had changed his skin to a pale blue. Testing on Subject Omega after he was defrosted revealed some astonishing things to the scientists. His metatalents had apparently adapted to the sub-zero temperatures, absorbing characteristics of this and altering his molecular structure slightly to grant him new powers of frost and cold manipulation. But the scientists were more interested in the knowledge and memories inside Omega's head, and they were disappointed to discover the near-fatal experience had scrambled his long-term memory. Omega was amnesiac, only able to remember snippets of his life, and as such he was of little value for his original purpose any longer. So Omega was released into civilian life, and took up the identity of Decker Jackson, an insurance agent for Brenner Global Enterprises. Unfortunately, Omega found life as an insurance agent to be unfulfilling, and he decided he wanted to become a superhero again to recapture some of the lingering memory of glory that still remained inside his mind. Omega had a number of cybernetic augmentations installed within his body to complement his own existing superpowers and with the formidable combination of technology and talent, he retook the heroic mantle of Omega, the Last Superhuman, setting out to reclaim his former glory and heroic fame. But in a world where such technology was so freely available, and with the continually growing metahuman popularity, Omega was just another blip on the radar to the teeming mass of humanity that inhabited Earth at the time, an unnoticed relic of the past playing at being a hero instead of really being one. He took to studying up on heroes of the past, when it struck his as to what he needed to do. He would travel back in time and take the identity of an existing superhero who was known to be famous in the future age, and in doing so guarantee his success by way of a closed time loop. His plan to travel back in time was a success, but the effects of the timetravel left him disoriented at a key moment, and so instead of stealing the identity of the heroic Frostbite his jumbled mind combined the name with his own, and he announced to the world that he was Omega Frost. Unfortunately for Omega, his new name stuck and he was unable to claim the title of Frostbite, no matter how many times he tried over the course of his new life.
|
