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Appearing in "Quantum Theory Made Easy"

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  • Dakkamite spacecraft (Only in flashback)

Synopsis for "Quantum Theory Made Easy"

Two months after having been appointed Protector of the Universe by Eon, Wendell Vaughn spends eight hours setting up the Vaughn Security Systems office with new receptionist Kayla Ballantine. Once they've finished for the day and Kayla has left, Wendell changes into his Quasar costume and visits Eon in the pocket dimension that is accessible through a door in his executive office. Quasar suggests that he could be more proactive in securing Earth against the unknown threat from space that is supposed to be arriving soon if he systematically checked on all of the aliens that are already on the planet. Eon agrees and shows him a mento-projection with many points of light that indicate areas where he has detected extraterrestrial presences. Quasar then heads off to California to search for two alien presences that Eon had detected there.

After arriving in California, Quasar searches for a while but fails to find the first target, unaware of the fact that the alien, Quantum, is taking care to not be found. When Quasar give up looking for the first alien and moves on to the second one, he soon finds the Aquarian and the two recognize each other from when they were both at Project: Pegasus. Knowing that Aquarian is a pacifist, Quasar doubts that he could be the threat, but stays to talk for a while just to be sure. Soon after the Aquarian introduces Quasar to his followers, they are attacked by Quantum, who suspects that they might be some of his missing comrades, the Elect. After a brief battle, Quasar fakes unconsciousness to give himself time to think of a plan. While he's doing that, the Aquarian addresses Quantum in his own language, revealing that he is a Dakkamite, but he is unable to confirm that he is one of the Elect because he underwent great trauma on arriving on Earth, so he asks Quantum to tell him of the Elect. Quantum reveals that, after Dakkamite scientists observed that Dakkamites exposed to the energy from Earth's Sun could be endowed with superhuman powers, the ruling elite had had their scientists use a platoon of soldiers as test-subjects. Quantum had been one of those soldiers but, when he had awakened from his incubator capsule with his new powers, he found that his comrades were all gone. Searching for the rest of his platoon, he had allied himself with Graviton who had promised to help him but, once it became apparent that the Earthman could not help him, Quantum had allowed himself to be repelled from Graviton's floating fortress. With this information, the Aquarian reveals that he is not one of the Elect, causing Quantum to realize that he must be the first Dakkamite to be transformed, the son of a traitor, and attacks him. Seeing this, Quasar intervenes, using his Quantum-Bands to alter the probability field around Quantum, interfering with his powers in such a way as to make him intangible. The Aquarian uses his null-field to neutralize the effect, making Quantum solid again, and invites him to join his group, but Quantum refuses and flies off, preferring to be trapped in his intangible state rather than work with a pacifist.

Notes

  • The joggers Quasar talks with are clearly patterned after Friction and Glitter of D.P.7, another Gruenwald and Ryan series.
  • An explanation of electromagnetic spectrum is in the letters section.
  • After realizing who the Aquarian was, Quantum called him the son of "Zeneg the Renegade" who was a lunatic and a traitor to the Fatherworld. This was inaccurate because Wundarr's father was named Hektu in his only two appearances, and Zeneg was one of the two Dakkamite assassins sent to kill Wundarr in Marvel Two-In-One #2. The fact that the profile on the Dakkamites in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update #4 did not incorporate Zeneg into Hektu's name indicates that mistake by Quantum is regarded as just that, a mistake, and nothing that requires a retcon to explain it away.

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