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CAPTAIN SUPERIOR

Registered Name: Captain Superior Secret Identity:  Tal Kanz (Classified) Origin: Natural  Archetype: Tanker Primary Power Set: Invulnerability Secondary Power Set: Super-Strength Tal Kanz never talked about his planet.  Only the Paragon City government and a few select scientists knew that it was a combination of geothermal and solar energies that powered his alien physique.   As Captain Superior, he kept no secret identity.  He was just "Cap," and he was perfectly happy as Lazon's second-in-command, helping to lead the young couple Energy Blastion and Empathy, Billy Bad Boy, New Adam, First Contact, Commissioner G, Penthouse, and

In 2002, the Rikti came.

They lost eight that week, among them Lazon.  As the new leader, Captain Superior saw the Rikti destroy their base, killing another dozen of their members.  Under his watch, he and the remaining few finally fell to the Rikti assault, holding the front lines with the Vanguard and Statesman's Alpha Team while Hero 1's Omega Team sacrificed themselves for the world.

In 2005 they found him lying comatose beneath the ruins of the fallen skyscraper-turned-hospital they had been defending, his right arm vaporized, black and gold uniform in tatters, the scattered bones of his comrades all around him.  After a year of solar and geo-thermal exposure, he eventually recovered, his arm regenerated, his skills returned, his contacts re-established.  Though whole, he continues to wear the shell of his cybernetic arm in battle as a reminder of the debt he owes the fallen heroes of the SOLUS Collective and of the responsibilty that he has to his new friends in the SOLUS Foundation. 

Read the details of Captain Superiors death and miraculous "resurrection" in Estephan R. Zaffarona's Second Lives "Chapter 5 - Captain Superior"

Not only has Tal Kanz recovered his powers and abilities, and recreated the super group so well known in the nineties, his experiences have taught him a valuable lesson.  Painfully aware of his own 'humanity', and that of those he cares most about, he has finally allowed himself the luxury of intimacy, finding it in the Foundation's newest second-in-command, Azure Noir.  But, just when all seemed right, duty to family and country called Azure home for an experience that would leave her, Captain Superior, and the SOLUS Foundation all with new outlooks on life and heroism.

Read about the consequences that responsiblity brings to Azure and Captain Superior in Estephan R. Zaffarona's Second Lives "Chapter 29 - What Price Freedom?"
 

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