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Origins[]

Monark was a Starstalker series nanotool created by the Technos Group to collect bounties for some unknown party. In order for him to function properly he was given a false set of memories and a robotic falcon, Ulysses, to "support" him.[2]

In his false memories he was working as a "rigger", with his nervous system wired into the ship he was piloting. Monark was attacked by hostiles and, running from them, was forced to traverse the core of a nova, the star's energies buffeting the ship and frying his nervous system, senses, and memory. Rescued by a passing ship, the doctors gave him up for dead, but the "technos" developed a robotic falcon, named Ulysses, which, telepathically linked to him, acting as an artificial nervous system. Becoming a "vigilante" (seemingly a bounty hunter), he pursued wanted men across the galaxy.

Bounty Hunting Career[]

His first known activity came on the planet Stormking, a perpetually icy world. There, he intended to hunt down and capture Kurt Hammer. After befriending local sheriff Bob Hightower and visiting vice president of Triplanet Metals Inc. Emanuel Shaw, he met Robin Goodfriend. While visiting her at her home, Shaw and Hightower were killed by Hammer who escaped with his girlfriend, Brigid Siebold in front of the town of New Canaan's populace. When the populace informed Starstalker of where Hammer had gone, Starstalker tracked the man down, utilizing Ulysses to enable him to hit a seemingly-hidden Hammer. Firing at Ulysses, Hammer inadvertently triggered an avalanche, burying Starstalker. Thinking him dead, Hammer then began trying to kill Ulysses, not noticing Starstalker digging himself out until it was too late. While Starstalker intended to keep Hammer alive to carry his girlfriend back to town, Hammer died on the long trek back to town. Informing the citizens of this, Starstalker asked them to make sure his claim for the kill was registered and tell Goodfriend he was leaving. Starstalker then made his way out of town, not wanting to deal with the townspeople (who had cheered the death of Shaw, yet were shocked when Hightower was killed) any longer.[3]

616[]

Monark came after the bounty on the Black Hole Sons pirate leader known as The Mind. However it happen that The Mind had been captured by the Nova Corps member Zan Philo, who was stuck in Monark's reality following a stargate accident. When the Fault opened, Philo and his ship used it to return to Earth-616, unknowingly bringing Monark with him. Monark confronted Philo, Nova, and Nova's new recruits. Monark easily defeated them and demanded that the Mind be handed over to him because the criminal had being captured in a zone outside the control of the Corps. Before the issue could be resolved a group of Mindless Ones, called the "Black Hole Sons", attacked Zan Philo while Ego attacked them too.[4] During a struggle with the Mind, Monark was shot at point blank range and was severely hurt, discovering that he was nothing but a nanotech program who was being manipulated to do someone's will. With this information Monark helped the Nova Corps fight the Mindless Ones and later stated he would stay in the 616 Universe as he now was free from his controller.[2]

Monark later entered a partnership and relationship with fellow space-time refugee Paradox. They were hired by VEGS (the Venture Executives for Galactic Security) to retrieve a Technarchy-derived technonecrotic virus that had also come through the Fault. They stole a ship from General Kosrouschah and tracked the virus to Earth.[5] They found that the virus had infected a woman named Driver Reese and was attacking Wolverine.[6] They saved Wolverine from the virus and he helped them contain and neutralise it, the three of them then returned to their ship so Monark could replenish his nanites and continue tracking the source of the virus.[7] They explained their mission to Wolverine and he realised that the virus was probably being used by a foe he'd recently fought, Winsor. Before they could track Winsor they were attacked by General Kosrouschah and his forces. They defeated the attackers but Wolverine was infected with Scatter eggs.[5] Monark used his nanites to disassemble the parasites but lost cohesion from the strain until Ulysses could reboot him. Ulysses, Paradox, and Wolverine were then attacked by Winsor while en-route to his base and neutralised by his infections.[8] Ulysses was able to restore Monark for long enough to free Wolverine from Winsor's control before succumbing to his infection again.[9] Monark and the other infected individuals were later cured by Winsor's son Flip.[10]

Monark later fell on hard times. In desperation, he took a job from Atratus to abduct Alex Summers. Monark knew he couldn't take on Summers himself, so he sold Ulysses to get enough money to hire Death's Head, with the intention of using the reward money to buy Ulysses back.[11] However Monark was unaware that Alex had a brother and Death's Head captured Scott Summers instead.[12] Monark sought out Nova for help but found Sam Alexander instead, who told him that Richard Rider was dead.[11] Monark convinced Sam to talk to Atratus for him, only for a fight to break out between Atratus's security forces, the X-Men (tracking Cyclops), and S.W.O.R.D. and Iron Man (pursuing the ship the X-Men stole). Monark and Sam pursued Atratus, only to find that he'd died from falling off a ladder. Monark despaired that he now had no money, nowhere to go, and didn't know what to do.[13]

Sam later sought out Monark again to take him to the location of the Fault where Richard Rider disappeared. Monark left when Sam also disappeared inside the Fault, but Sam successfully made contact with the Xandarian Worldmind.[14]

Monark (now reunited with Ulysses) was later employed by the Collector to retrieve the Ultimate Nullifier from Deadpool when the latter visited Knowhere with it. Monark realised the Ultimate Nullifier was a fake and was blown apart by one of Deadpool's grenades, but he was reassembled by the Collector.[15]

Monark was among the many reinforcements summoned by Richard Rider to defend the Negative Zone from a Cancerverse invasion.[16]

Monark was hired by Ambassador Ca'ran to capture the Cosmic Ghost Rider, neither of them realising that the Cosmic Ghost Rider had been split into multiple aspects of himself following an encounter with a black hole. Monark captured one aspect of the Rider, but the other aspects teamed up to rescue him and recombine into a singular being.[17]

Attributes

Power Grid[19]
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Powers

  • : Monark's body is composed of nanotechnology.[1]
    • Cloaking: Monark can generate nanoclouds for cloaking from mechanical, electronic and organic visual receptors, making difficult for others to pinpoint his location and strike him.[1][4]
    • Appearance Alteration: Monark can adopt other appearances.[1][4]
    • Hacking: He can send nanotechnology to incapacitate local or distant systems.[1][4]
    • Paralysis: He can also affect living minds and cause confusion, hesitation and even partial or total motor paralysis.[1][4]
    • Self Sustenance: His composition makes him immune to organic system distruption and makes him able to survive in space.[1][4]
    • Regenerative Healing Factor: He can reconstruct from wounds fatal to organic beings.[1]

Abilities

  • Skilled Combatant: Monark is a skilled brawler.[1][4]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

  • Ulysses: Utilizes a robotic falcon, which acts as an external nervous system and extra sensory organs, allowing him to see, hear, and detect thermal readings through Ulysses.[1]

Weapons

  • Vortex Pistol: Gun able to cause blindness, vertigo and nausea.[1][4]
  • Microbots Sword: A sword formed by a nanoassembly of supra-sharp microbots able to slash through virtually anything.[1][4]

See Also

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