Profile: Red Guardian

Additional Information

Sergei Krylov (father); Marya Krylova (mother, deceased); Laynia Petrovna (twin sister).

• Force Reflection: Amazing ability to reflect an attack back at -1CS intensity. This can include Physical and Energy attacks.

Weapon Specialist (Shield or Sickle and hammer) The Red Guardian has Incredible Fighting with any of his weapons or Amazing agility to throw them, he gets a +1 to all iniaitive rolls when using them.

Military-Soviet Army: Red Guardian was trained by the Soviet army and is familiar with their rules, regulations and protocols with Excellent Reason, he can use heavy weapons and small arms with Remarkable agility should he desire to.

Leadership: Red Guardian is a natural leader and should a group elect him to that roll, they will get an additional +50 karma to their Karma Pool.

Acrobatics/Tumbling: Red Guardian has Remarkable Fighting, Agility and Strength for Evading, Dodging and Escaping rolls. He can fall up to 40 feet without damage on an Endurance Feat roll.

Martial Arts A and B: Red Guardian can stun and slam his foes regardless of their respective strengths and endurances and has Remarkable fighting when in unarmed combat.

Bi-Lingual: Russian and English: Red Guardian can speak both languages fluently.

Red Guardian (Vanguard) is extremely patriotic, and can be bull-headed at times. He is usually the first to start a fight, but his comrades can usually prevail upon him to calm down and reconsider.

• Shield: The Red Guardian uses a shield made of Remarkable strength material. The shield provides the Red Guardian with his power rank force reflection power of Incredible. He can still be effected by Stuns and Slams. He can throw the shield up to 4 areas away, with Amazing Agility, and cause Good blunt damage. The Red Guardian can bounce the shield off several objects, and have it return the following round. He can also perform other trick shots while using the shield. The trick shots require a red result on an Agility FEAT roll. he can use his shield as a focus for his force reflection, if he does his power is Monstrous rank.

As Vanguard, he used the following equipment:

• • Hammer: Incredible blunt damage. Can be thrown up to 3 areas away and then return to his hand. Requires agility FEAT is required to catch.
  • Sickle: Remarkable edged damage. and can be thrown like the hammer.

 If both are used together as a focus for his Force Reflection than this power is at Monstrous rank.

Captain America, Soviet Super-Soldiers, Winter Guard, Exiles / Siberforce.

Born in Minsk, the son of Russian nuclear physicist Sergei Krylov (later, the Presence), Nikolai Krylenko and his twin sister Laynia Petrovna (Darkstar) were taken from birth by the then-Soviet government to be trained as soldiers after their mutant natures manifested. Joining the KGB-sponsored Soviet Super-Soldiers, Vanguard and the team came into conflict with many American heroes, especially Iron Man. Later, the government wanted the threat of the Presence eliminated and sent his own children, unaware of their true relationship, to murder him. They learned that he was their father and turned against the Soviet regime. Vanguard, Darkstar, and Ursa Major became agents on their own, fighting for the good of the people. At one point, finally fed up with the Communist system, the three heroes defected to the United States, only to be captured and returned to the Soviet states by the government-sponsored People's Protectorate. There, they were rescued by Blind Faith and his band of mutant exiles in order to form an underground team that would fight for the people under a government that hates and fears them, and, ultimately, became members of the Winter Guard.

Later, Vanguard and Darkstar were asked by Quasar for help in defeating the threat of the alien Starblasters, who coveted the power of the mysterious Star Brand, hosted in the body of Quasar's girlfriend. Vanguard was killed in battle. A grieving Darkstar blamed Quasar for her brother's death, and fled back to Russia. Later encountering her father again, Darkstar shared her feelings with him, and the Presence forced Quasar to flee Earth or risk his vengeance. The Presence visited the memorial to his son and sought to revive him. He shifted his atoms to microscopically enter the body of his son and discovered a trace of his mutant energy remained, keeping him faintly alive. The Presence nearly exhausted his own power, but managed to resurrect his son.

A staunch Communist despite the fall of the Soviet Union, Vanguard once aided Communist sympathizer General Tskarov in his efforts to undermine the American economy and replace it with communism, starting with its businesses on the East Coast. He also agreed to aid Tskarov in order that Tskarov would help him find his then-missing sister. When Ursa Major discovered Tskarov was actually hiding Darkstar from them, Vanguard joined with his friends and Daredevil and the Black Widow to defeat Tskarov. Under circumstances yet to be revealed, Vanguard agreed to membership in the Russian Federation’s newest super team, the Winter Guard. One of the first adventures of the Winter Guard was stopping (with Iron man's help) the Mandarin's giant war machine in the shape of a Chinese dragon.

The Presence, in the meantime, had been cast adrift in the subatomic reality he had entered through his son upon resurrecting him. There, he discovered new aspects of his power and atomic particles, and, when he had sufficiently regenerated, resumed his normal size and returned to the Forbidden Zone. There, he embarked on a plan to unite all of the former Soviet Union by transforming its people into a race of zombie-like radioactive beings living under a communal mind. He managed to convert several Siberian scientists, Vanguard and the rest of the Winter Guard, and the Avengers, who investigated the disturbance. The Presence's companion, Starlight, ultimately offered a surrender and used her own power to revive those who had been transformed and remand herself and the Presence to Russian custody. When he and the Winter Guard tried to capture the Intelligencia, the group used the Zero Cannon on them, sending the team to space, but they still survived.