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Richard Rider
NOVA
Name: Richard Rider
Nicknames:Nova
Gender:Male
Age:28
Affiliation: Avengers, Defenders, Guardians of the Galaxy, New Warriors
Personality: Richard is a earnest young man who has ended up being a strange combination of youthful angst and hard won wisdom. Richard is bothered by the fact that he had never graduated high school and feels that his peers look down on him for this and thus avoids them a lot of the time. He has now pretty much decided that he should simply avoid his old friends and build a new life. He lives with his parents at the moment and is very fond of his younger brother. His father is particularly disappointed with his failure to get a good education (his father is a high school principle). His younger brother exceed in school and Richard is pretty convinced that he is clearly second in his parent's eyes.
While Richard lacks confidence in his mundane life, he is the reverse when he is acting as a hero. He takes on leadership roles easily and exudes confidence and decisiveness having lead the entire Nova Corps in significant galactic wars. He shoulders the responsibility well and has a strong sense of justice and balance. He can still speak like a younger man in combat, being sarcastic and fond of what he thinks are witty quips. The more he thinks about it, the more he believes that he prefers the company of other superheroes over that of normal people. Now that the Nova Corps has effectively ceased to exist he feels a bit directionless and he is looking for a cause or an organization her can throw himself into with gusto.
Appearance: Richard is a little over six feet tall and weighs about one hundred and ninety pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is chronically short of money and so tends to dress in jeans, hoodies, T shirts and other inexpensive but clean and well kept clothes.
Family Tree:
Ellen (aunt);
Dr. Ralph Rider (uncle, deceased);
Charles Rider (father);
Gloria Rider (mother);
Robbie Rider (brother);
History:
Richard Rider was a normal teenager, struggling with schools and girls when an alien spaceship carrying a dying Nova Corps Centurian crashed near his home. Having no choice the alien gave his uniform and powers to Rider before he passed away. Richard had no guidance but slowly began to practise and learn about his new powers. He found it very difficult to balance school, social life and heroing with school suffering the most. Eventually he told his parents and brothers about his powers, with mixed responses, with his parents mostly opposed but his younger genius brother fairly supportive.
Richard served humanity well with several teams and other heroes. Eventually he came into contact with the remnants of the Nova Corps and rose within its ranks, serving them well through a number of challenges. Eventually he rose to the rank of Nova Prime and lead the Corps and helped rebuild it when it was almost wiped out. During one rebuilding phase his brother became a Centurian in the Corps and his current whereabouts are unknown. In a final terrible crisis and war to save the universe the Corps was destroyed and Richard died. However, like all Corps members his spirit was downloaded into the Worldmind where the two seemed to have merged, giving the Worldmind the strength to carry on even though the Corp was virtually gone and the Nova Force had little outlet.
Super Powers:
Superhuman Strength: Rider is able to channel the Nova Force for the purpose of increasing his physical strength to vast levels. While the full limit isn't known, he is listed well above the class 100 limit. The Nova Force grants Rider sufficient strength and power to engage and even stalemate the likes of the Silver Surfer in combat. He has even stated that his best shot can destroy everything within 3 miles. He was even capable of going blow for blow with the likes of Annihilus himself in combat and was able to rip him inside out.
Superhuman Speed: By channeling the Nova Force properly, Rider can grant himself the ability to run and move at speeds that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. While the upper limit of his running speed isn't known, he can at least run several hundred miles an hour. He can move at speeds faster than light.
Superhuman Stamina: Due to the Nova Force's augmentation of his musculature, Rider's muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a normal human. While the full limits of his stamina aren't known, he is able to exert himself physically for at least 24 hours before fatigue toxins impair him.
Superhuman Accuracy: With the Xandarian Worldmind's help, Nova can shoot beams of energy with an accuracy of millimeters.
Superhuman Durability: Rider's body is highly resistant to all forms of conventional physical injury. He can withstand high caliber bullets, falls from tremendous heights, exposure to extremes in both temperature and pressure, powerful energy blasts, acidic corrosives, and tremendous impact forces without sustaining injury. While employing the Nova Force, Rider can easily withstand the rigors of deep space indefinitely. He can withstand attacks from powerful beings such as Annihilus relatively unharmed. He was able to withstand without any significant damage, the raw energy and power stored in the reservoir in Galactus' ship which contained power siphoned from the destroyed energy of entire planets. He was even capable of withstanding a massive omni-directional blast from an enraged Galactus at near point blank range which was so powerful it encompassed and destroyed more than 3 Solar Systems.
Superhuman Agility: Rider's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are far beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete.
Superhuman Reflexes: Rider's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are far superior to those of the finest human athlete.
Regenerative Healing Factor: In spite of his great physical resilience, it is possible for him to sustain injury. On the rare occasion that Rider is injured he can purposely channel the Nova Force to rapidly heal damaged bodily tissues.
Flight: Rider can use the Nova Force to propel himself through the air at tremendous speeds. Nova is fully capable of achieving faster than light velocities and can enter and traverse hyperspace, which he often does while traveling through space. However, moving as such speeds while in the atmosphere of a planet would cause devastation to the planet itself, so he travels much slower while within a planetary atmosphere; generally at supersonic speeds.
Energy Generation: Rider can channel the Nova Force and expel the energy in the form of extremely powerful concussive blasts that he often uses in combat situations. A few of the abilities he has shown are, the ability to manipulate the Nova Force to create hyperspace portals in space such as Space Gates, to release extremely powerful gravimetric pulses and beams, either from specific parts of his body or from his whole body surface, and powerful electromagnetic discharges that can nullify gravity. He was able to lobotomize Ego the Living Planet.
Xandarian Worldmind: Aside from housing the Nova Force, Rider is also the host of the Xandarian Worldmind. The Worldmind is a sentient collective created to govern and maintain all forms of Xandarian culture. The Worldmind contains all knowledge collected by the Xandarian people including art, science, history, and philosophy. Rider can access any aspect of this technology by communicating with the Worldmind verbally or mentally. As a result, The Worldmind often contacts Rider unbidden and usually offers advice, instructions, insights, recommendations, and even criticisms. Rider's bond with the Worldmind is highly useful, however, also in the fact that the Worldmind is crucial in helping Rider maintain self control when tapping into the full might of the Nova Force.
A few other capabilities demonstrated by the Worldmind are:
Helps Rider contain the whole Nova Force while keeping his mind and sanity intact.
Downloads profiles of opponents directly into Rider's mind.
Detects nearby energy surges, including those used in teleportation.
Can assume control of Rider's body as he sleeps.
Access other computer systems, including heavily-protected terrestrial computer networks (such as S.H.I.E.L.D. records).
Analyze attackers, including detecting adrenaline surges in their bodies.
Detects approaching super-humans with energy-based powers (like Penance).
Enables Rider to hack into satellite TV broadcasts, and transmit his voice and image to individual TV sets.
Can protect Rider from psionic manipulation using Psi-shields.
(from Marvel wiki)
Weaknesses:
Rider uses the Xandrian Worldmind to help maintain his mood and mental stability. Without it, utilizing the full power of the Nova Force would overcome Rider's mental stability, causing a severe mental breakdown and possibly insanity. Rider was also bonded with so much of the Nova force for so long that the molecular structure of his body cannot survive for more than two days without it or an appropriate substitute, like Quasar's quantum energy.
Alias: JW
Roleplaying Sample:
It felt good to have a body again. Richard Rider exalted as his body hurtled through the air at ridiculous speeds. He could not surpress a massive grin from his face. It seemed like he had only existed in the world of thought forever. No body except a primitive metallic simulation, sharing his existence with the consciousness of the Worldmind. Never alone, always surrounded by the voices of thousands of dead Corpsmen. It was a cold existence, and it was a miracle that an individual identity had survived at all. But it had, and now he was free!
Just the feeling of air moving into and out of his lungs was a rush. The feel of blood coursing through his veins. Smells, sounds, the feel of the wind against his body. It was like a carnival of joy. All of the things he had taken for granted now were unique and precious again. His heart was filled with gratitude. He had a chance, a real chance, to start his life again. He executed several loops and released a peel of laughter. Unadulterated joy. What to do first? A steak? A chocolate milk shake? All treasures waiting to be rediscovered. There were so many people he wanted to see. But where to start? Perhaps Namorita. They had something special, and he had let her down when it counted. But it was never too late for redemption, to make things right with her.
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