A superhuman operating as the independent hero Spiderbyte, Owen Hayes uses his spider-like abilities and sharp intellect to fight crime and larger threats in Salt Lake City.
Classification: @Striker
Affiliation: None
Superhuman Strength: Spiderbyte possesses superhuman strength with the ability to lift up to 20 tons.
Superhuman Speed: Spiderbyte possesses superhuman speed, making him capable of running and moving at speeds that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spiderbyte is fast enough to catch up to an accelerating car while on foot, but prefers to travel by his webs.
Superhuman Agility: Spiderbyte's superhuman agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spiderbyte is extraordinarily limber, and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's are, despite their physical strength.
Superhuman Reflexes: Spiderbyte's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 40 times greater than those of an ordinary human.
Superhuman Stamina: Spiderbyte's advanced musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. This allows him to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair him.
Superhuman Durability: Spiderbyte's body is physically tougher and more resistant to some types of injury than the body of a normal human. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. He can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several stories or being struck by an opponent with superhuman strength. Events that would severely injure or kill a normal human leave him with little to no discomfort.
Superhuman Equilibrium: Spiderbyte possesses the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seems able to adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object, no matter how small or narrow.
Contaminant Immunity: Due to his accelerated metabolism, Spiderbyte has a higher tolerance for drugs and diseases than normal humans, and he can recover from the effects of larger doses rapidly.
Wall-Crawling: Spiderbyte's exposure to the mutated spider venom induced a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams, resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of interatomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers. This overcomes the outer electron shell's normal behavior of mutual repulsion with other outer electron shells and permits the tremendous potential for electron attraction to prevail. The mentally controlled sub-atomic particle responsible for this has yet to be identified.
Spider-Sense: Spider-Man possesses a precognitive danger, or "spider-sense," which warns him of potential or immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinesthetics, enabling him to evade most any injuries unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes.
Biological Webbing: Spider-Man's main trademark ability is his biological webbing. Thanks to Peter Parker's brilliance at physical science, his scientific knowledge allowed him to create web-shooters that manage and supplement his biological webbing. The twin devices worn on his wrists are able to shoot thin strands of his biological webs at high pressure and speeds.
Indomitable Will: Spiderbyte has a strong force of will, completely free of evil and temptation. For years, he has struggled to balance his life as a student and his super hero duties. He is able to emerge from defeat even stronger.
Gifted Intellect: Owen Hayes possesses a natural talent for science, standing out as a top student in high school and college.
Expert Engineer: With his knowledge and expertise in mechanics, robotics and engineering Owen has been able to use his amazing intellect and resources at Eidolon Research Labs to create many inventions.
Master Acrobat: Thanks to his great strength and phenomenal equilibrium, Hayes is an excellent athlete, excelling in all gymnastic fields and being able to perform every acrobatic stunt ever performed, including others that can never be performed by even an Olympic acrobat.
Master Martial Artist: After his years of crime-fighting, Spiderbyte became an excellent martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant, having utilized his fighting style that directly complements his superhuman spider-powers and abilities. His methods are volatile, enabling him to rival practically all types of combatants.
A superhuman vigilante in Salt Lake City, Ivy Knox, known as Heartbreaker, uses her spatial manipulation powers and soul-bound blade to ruthlessly hunt criminals, driven by past trauma and a fierce, albeit unconventional, sense of justice.
Classification: @Controller
Affiliation: None
Stepping Discs: She has the mutant ability to mentally control "Stepping Discs", which allowed herself and others to teleport across interstellar distances, through time or the multiverse. The discs are part of a dimension known as Limbo. Heartbreaker has succeeded in teleporting herself across small distances, from one continent to another, and even interplanetary and intergalactic distances on occasion.
Time Travelling: Unlike most other teleporters, Heartbreaker can teleport through time as well as space. She has teleported moments, days or centuries into the past or future.
Psionic Shields: She has impenetrable psionic shields, most likely a result of the time she spent in Limbo.
Soulsword: The Soulsword was created by Ivy Knox during the period in which she was trapped in the Limbo dimension. Ivy magically caused her own life force energy to manifest before her. Once this happened she cast her hand into the eldritch energy and drew from it the Soulsword. A simple-looking blade upon its origin, it began to develop intricate designs and forms upon itself the more Heartbreaker used it, becoming more powerful with each use. Although usable as a physical weapon, its main use is to disrupt magical spells and beings, usually permanently.
A human telepath operating as Mindweaver for the GDA, Adrian Price is a charismatic but manipulative idealist who uses his psychic abilities to subtly control events and guide humanity towards his vision of order, operating with quiet patience and a deep belief in his own unique perspective.
Classification: @Telepath
Affiliation: @Global Defense Agency
Telepathy: Price is able to read minds and project his own thoughts into the minds of others within a radius of 250 miles (on Earth). With extreme effort he can greatly extend that radius.
Illusions: Adrian has the ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
Telepathic Cloak: He can mask his presence from being detected by others. His abilities could at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.
Mind Link: He has the ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
Mind Control: Mindweaver possesses the power to control the minds of others upon mere concentration. This power could allow him to completely shut down several people's minds, making it appear as if time has stopped.
Mental Amnesia: Adrian can cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia in another person or a group of people, including his own.
Psychic Wave Manipulation: Adrian's mental talents are such that he can give his psionic power enough physical substance to affect the material world through his telepathy.
Mental Shield: He has the ability to erect a psychic barrier for protection of himself and of other minds, so that he could prevent the free access to the conscious and subconscious mind of anyone.
Astral Projection: Charles can use astral travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, he could use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.
Genius Intellect: A natural genius, Mindweaver is a leading authority on genetics, mutation, and psionics. He possesses considerable expertise in other life sciences. He is highly talented in devising equipment for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers. Adrian is also quite the masterful tactician and strategist, effectively evaluating situations and devising swift responses; he has, on numerous occasions, even fashioned complex long-term operations.
Military Training: Adrian served in the United States Military, secretly employing his abilities to specialize in search and rescue missions.
Expert Fighter: In his travels in the East, he became a proficient hand-to-hand combatant and gained knowledge of pressure points.