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FOPA Files - Comet

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From the files of Tobias Shell, Director of KNIGHT.

"Finally, we come to the big guns. The files kept out of the general archives for one reason or another. In the case of the Comet, his file is redacted due to his willful violation of the Keane Accord's provisions forbidding the military service of any and all parahumans. Maxwell Stuartson was, for some reason known only to one General Kenneth Knaughtlon, Ret., permitted to illegally enlist, and made it all the way to the prestigious 75th Ranger Regiment and to the rank of Lieutenant. I've tried to impress upon Senator Cynthia Grail, the chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Parahuman Rights that the Vossler Test used to screen parahumans from military service needs to be refined to better weed out Enigma class supers, but you cannot convince a Conservative Christian from Maryland that magic is real and a test to detect it needs to be developed. 

It should be stated that personally, I do not disapprove of Maxwell Stuartson's service to his country; on the contrary, all reports show that he was an asset to the Corps, engaging in forty-eight (48) individual sorties and securing well over two hundred (200) personal kills. But the Keane Accord is the law, and Stuartson's immunity to the Vossler Test is a security hole that must be plugged. The next Enigma class super to walk into a recruitment center might not be so benevolent.

Now, onto the matter of the Comet himself; to be honest, we had been watching him for some time, ever since his former partner Everett Alamos went insane and nearly wiped Times Square off the map. Our analysts predicted that Stuartson, then only fifteen, would lash out at the city, so KNIGHT prepared for that particular catastrophe, which thankfully never came. In fact, he seemed to disappear completely after the Times Square Massacre, something I suspect was the work of General Knaughton. Perhaps the old man was trying to protect a young child from unfair prosecution, I cannot say.

A small word onto the matter of Stuartson's abilities should be addressed, to explain why KNIGHT was concerned about a potential backlash from a teenager who's only power was to date setting fires when angry - according to KNIGHT's mystic division, MERLIN, Maxwell Stuartson is essentially a living sun, able to manipulate the same forces generated by Earth's own sun. However, true to form, MERLIN's Chief Administrator Moore has complicated matters considerably by expanding on this idea. According to Alan, (MERLIN's CA, for reference), Maxwell Stuartson is actually the avatar of an Atlantean sungod, and as such, is tied into a primal elemental collective called the White. What this means - once Alan has come down from whatever hallucinogenic he took to lead him to his conclusion and he can explain it in words not found in the Necronomicon - is that the Comet is a literal god of energy. Light, heat, radiation, gravity - if it involves energy in any way, he is a literal god. He can generate, nullify, redirect, absorb and bend any form of energy to his every whim. Which sounds incredibly overwhelming in theory, but he still has to pay lip service to natural law. He can't generate heat that exceeds something called the Plancke threshold, which I'm told is the point at which solid matter is a mere pipe dream, for fear of kickstarting the universe's heat death. Likewise, he must make precise calculations in gravitational differentials just to fly, lest he accidentally alter the very mathematics of physics and cause gravity - as a universal force - to negate itself and the universe just drifts away like a Savannah mist. Added to the formula, many of the usual threats the Comet deals with are in some way unaffected by his abilities - the Pachyderm and Precer for instance, being nearly immune to damage and able to adapt to any environment respectively. 

If I may digress into a somewhat more personal tone, I have met with the man on several occasions, and have found him to be the very epitome of the consummate soldier. Perhaps relaxing the Keane Accord could do some good, if it can turn someone from an angry, shell-shocked youth, into the very living embodiment of the Rangers' Creed. 

Damned shame all he ever writes is that speculative romance tripe. I simply cannot penetrate that stuff, no matter how many of his books my agents recommend to me."
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Love it gorgeous x