Profile: Andromeda

Additional Information

Lar Gand (ancestor); Del Gand (ancestor).

• Shift-Z Solar Absorption and Storage that provides Andromeda with mass amounts of energy that supports all of her other powers and abilities. Laurel may direct this stored energy to enhance the following abilities:
  • Invulnerabilities: Andromeda has Class 1000 resistance to Heat, Cold, Disease, Corrosives, Toxins and Radiation. Her body's cells protect her internally as well so even her insides wouldn't be melted by drinking a vial of acid.
  • True Invulnerability: Andromeda's dense Daxamite body provides her with Unearthly protection from physical and Energy attacks.
  • True Flight: Andromeda is able to defy gravity and fly at Unearthly airspeeds in atmosphere whilst at Class 1000 speed in space.
  • Heat Emmision-Eyes: Andromeda can emit her body's stores of solar radiation through her eyes causing Amazing Heat damage with a 10 area range.
  • Hyper Speed: Andromeda is fast. She possesses hyperspeed at Remarkable rank.
  • Andromeda needs an Earth like atmosphere to breath in. Her Endurance enables her to last for extended period holding her breath, but in space she will eventually need a space suit. Her greater constitution provides little need for sleep, however eventually she will tire and require rest.
  • Superhuman Senses: Andromeda possesses heightened senses as below:
    • Enhanced Hearing: Remarkable
    • Microscopic Vision: Amazing
    • Telescopic Vision: Good
    • Penetration Vision-Xrays: Amazing however is ineffective against lead.

• Unlike other Daxamites Laurel gained immunity when Brainiac 5 invented an anti-lead serum that rendered her immune to the effects of lead.
• Red Sun Radiation: The planet Daxam Orbited a red giant, this kind of sun produces a specific frequency of radiation that negates the energy from a yellow sun. Exposure to radiation from a red star causes complete negation of Daxamite powers. They return at a rate of 1CS per round following a round of exposure to yellow sun radiation.

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Like all Daxamites, protracted exposure to lead will ultimately prove fatal. This weaknesses no longer applys to Andromeda, she was cured by Brainiac 5, who invented an anti-lead serum that rendered her immune to the effects of lead.

• Every Legionaire has access to the following personal equipment
  • Flight Ring: Allows True Flight at Excellent rank. Made from Typical strength materials. Able to broadcast an SOS with a 500 light year range. Additionally when travelling in a group the rings act in concert so the group will all travel at the fastest characters speed.
  • Telepathic Ear Plug: Made from Typical strength materials, these permit Typical rank telepathic abilities.
  • Transuits: These suits permit the wearer to utilise their own unique abilities without penalty. Additionally the suits provide Class 1000 Life Support.
• Each Legionaire may also select items from "The Store" for unique occasions. These include:
  • Chronal Howitzer: Is a bomb like device that sends it's target/victims through time with Class 1000 ability.
  • Distorters: Image inducers permit Amazing rank illusions, disguising the appearance of the user
  • Blaster Rifles: Amazing strength energy blast. Range 5 areas.
  • Dominator Blasters: Incredible strength energy blast. Range 4 areas.
  • Hand Held Blasters: Incredible strength energy blast. Range 2 areas.
  • Sklarian Blasters: Incredible strength energy blast. Range 4 areas.
  • Khund Blasters: Incredible strength energy blast. Range 4 areas.

Legion of Superheroes.

While active under a yellow sun, Andromeda possesses powers that are common to all Daxamites. She has super-strength, speed and agility and can fly. She can also fire beams of energy from her eyes similar to that of Superman heat-vision.

Laurel Gand spent most of her life in a White Triangle community, being indoctrinated in the "horrors" of interspecies co-operation before the Triangle's political clout led her to become the Daxamite representative in the Legion. Away from Daxam's red sun, she gained powers similar to Superman's, but the race-wide hypersensitivity of Daxamites to lead that meant even minuscule amounts could prove fatal even to a powered-up Daxamite, forcing her to wear a transuit at all times. This did not trouble her, since it meant she never had to actually touch any non-Daxamites.

Her Triangle-derived beliefs hampered her effectiveness as a Legionnaire, thanks to her reluctance to physically engage with any enemies, but the real problems started after she let several Triangle members go after a mugging, shortly after which they beat and almost killed Triad. Angered more for their defiance of her than for the beating, when she was ordered away to prevent the Composite Man gaining her powers, she flew after them. Immediately, they tore her transuit and directly exposed her to lead, and she barely managed to turn them over to the Science Police before crashing through the walls of Legion HQ.

While Brainiac 5 worked on devising an anti-lead serum, he confronted her about her beliefs, and after discovering the serum Vril Dox II, his direct ancestor, had created for Valor and tailoring it to her genetic structure to allow it to work properly on her (much to her surprise, as she had been taught that all members of the same race were identical), he forced her to confront the fact that he wasn't her inferior before giving her the serum. While this was happening, however, Shrinking Violet discovered a White Triangle necklace in her room and connected it to the group which had assaulted Triad and destroyed Trom, before telling the rest of the team.

Confined to quarters after an unsuccessful attempt by Cosmic Boy to have her removed from the team, she used her super-senses to see Ambassador Roxxas gloating, but he managed to bully her into giving him the anti-lead serum. Taking it himself and giving it to four other Daxamites, they proceeded to cause mass destruction on Earth. When Andromeda herself confronted Roxxas over what he was doing and had made her do, she was almost defeated when Violet began thrashing around in his head, before coming out and telling Andromeda to take him down. As she pummelled him repeatedly, he destroyed the covering of an "atomic furnace", and both were thought to have died in the resulting inferno (causing Brainiac 5 severe depression). Only Cosmic Boy told that she had survived and voluntarily exiled herself to Planet Hell.

Later, she was brought out of this exile by Live Wire after Cosmic Boy had told him where she was as part of a way to build up a "Legion Rescue Squad", and she was awed by Valor, himself being another member. However, she declined to rejoin the Legion after the Squad had served its purpose, preferring to head off into deep space.