S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat #4968: Lorna Dane/Polaris

Lorna Sally Dane (a.k.a. Polaris)

THREAT LEVEL: OMEGA
Registration Status: Un-Registered
Monitor and Containment Procedures: Monitoring Procedures: Surveillance Systems: Continuous monitoring of known locations (e.g., X-Men headquarters, known allies' residences) using drones equipped with electromagnetic sensors to detect any unusual activity or power fluctuations.
Psychological Evaluations: Regular psychological assessments to evaluate mental stability, emotional well-being, and potential influences from external forces. Collaborate with telepaths (e.g., Jean Grey) for deeper insights if necessary.
Communication Intercepts: Monitor communications with allies, especially related to her father (Magneto) and other significant figures. Alert teams to potential manipulations or coercion.
Power Readings: Install power-monitoring devices in areas where Polaris is likely to operate. These should record fluctuations in magnetic fields and metal movements, providing early warnings of her activity.
Field Intelligence: Deploy field agents to maintain a presence around Polaris when in proximity to known threats or during significant events involving mutant activity.
Containment Procedures: Secure Holding Facility: Establish a containment facility equipped with specialized cells designed to suppress magnetic abilities. Incorporate Faraday cages and electromagnetic dampeners to limit her powers.
Emergency Response Team: Maintain a specialized response team trained in non-lethal containment methods for mutant powers. Equip them with technology specifically designed to counteract magnetic abilities (e.g., repulsor tech).
Power Inhibition Devices: Utilize devices capable of generating strong electromagnetic fields to temporarily neutralize her powers during containment or transport.
Physical Restraints: Employ durable, non-metallic restraints for physical containment to prevent her from manipulating any metallic objects.
Isolation Protocols: If emotional instability is detected, isolate Polaris from potential emotional triggers, particularly family members or allies, until stability is restored.
Transport Precautions: When transporting Polaris, utilize vehicles with reinforced, non-metallic structures and equipped with electromagnetic dampening systems.
Weaknesses: Mental Instability: Polaris has experienced episodes of mental instability, particularly influenced by her emotional state or external manipulations. This can lead to unpredictable behavior, making her a potential liability in high-stress situations.
Magnetic Field Interference: As a magnetokinetic, Polaris's powers can be disrupted by strong electromagnetic fields or technology designed to neutralize her abilities. Devices that emit opposing magnetic forces can inhibit her control over metal and reduce her combat effectiveness.
Emotional Vulnerability: Her powers are closely tied to her emotions. Extreme emotional distress (anger, sadness) can lead to a loss of control over her abilities, potentially causing unintended harm to allies or civilians.
Dependency on Metal: While she can manipulate metal effectively, her power is less effective in environments devoid of metallic elements. In settings where there are limited metal resources, she may find her abilities severely hampered.
Physical Confrontation: Despite her enhanced strength and flight capabilities, she is still vulnerable to physical attacks, especially from skilled hand-to-hand combatants. Close-range combat can be a weakness if she is unable to maintain distance.
Relationship Ties: Polaris’s strong connections to her allies and family can be exploited. Threats to her loved ones (like Magneto or her siblings) can distract or destabilize her during critical moments.
Health Issues: Polaris has faced health complications in the past, particularly those related to her powers and their effects on her body. Prolonged use of her abilities can lead to physical strain and fatigue.
Countermeasures: Tech Disruption: Utilize electromagnetic dampeners or devices that can interfere with her powers during confrontations.
Psychological Operations: Exploit her emotional vulnerabilities through psychological tactics to destabilize her focus.
Close-Quarters Tactics: Engage her in close combat to minimize her ability to utilize her powers effectively.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Lorna Dane is a mutant, born of an affair between her mother Suzanna and mutant terrorist S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat #10163: Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto - Deceased. Her mother's husband, Arnold, later learned of this affair and confronted his wife while he was flying her and Lorna on his plane. An argument erupted, upsetting the infant Lorna whose desperation to make her parents stop fighting triggered an early manifestation of her immense magnetic abilities, which caused her to emit a magnetic pulse that destroyed the plane and killed her parents, as well as giving her hair its iconic green color. Lorna survived the crash and sought out a place to control her new found abilities. When Lorna was nearly 20 years old, she met Iceman after being identified as a mutant by Cerebro. Lorna returned home with S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat #163: The X-Men  and, eventually, joined the team. In the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, the X-Men were tutored by Professor Charles Xavier and trained in the use of their powers in the Danger Room. Lorna did, however, fall in love with her teammate Havok, the brother of Avengers Initiate #11: Scott Summers/Cyclops . They both served for a time as active X-Men and helped Professor X repel an invasion by the alien Z'nox, but during a battle between the X-Men and the Brotherhood, she was swayed to her father's side due to seeing firsthand the mistreatment that humans have enacted onto mutants. After joining the Brotherhood, Lorna moved up the ranks quickly becoming third in charge behind Mystique and Magneto himself. Polaris has spear-headed several attacks on MRD facilities and has recently taken up leadership of the Brotherhood after her father's reforming and Mystique's disappearance.  -

Relationships

S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat #464: Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver

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Current Status

Active

Other Ethnicities/Cultures

• Jewish

Age

29

Date of Birth

August 3rd

Spouses

Siblings

Avengers Initiate #6: Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch (Half-Sister)

Sex

Female

Eyes

Green

Hair

Green

Height

5′7″ (1.7 m)

Weight

115 lbs (52.16 kg)

Other Affiliations

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Threat #163: The X-Men

Character Prototype

• Magnetism Manipulation: She has the ability to manipulate magnetism. Although she has the potential to exercise all of the powers that Magneto has, as yet she has only used powers involving the manipulation of magnetic, electrical, and gravitational fields. Moreover, she has yet summoned as great an amount of energy as Magneto has. The exact limits on the amount weight that she can magnetically lift at present have not been measured. Since she has, in the past, preferred not to use her powers in combat situations, and has decades less experience with them, she is not up to par with Magneto's level of experience. As with Magneto, it is unknown whether Polaris's powers are purely psionic or whether they derive from her physically. The main feat made possible by magnetism is Polaris' ability to lift and manipulate metal. She has shown such fine-tuned skills as to nearly liquefy, mend, and reconstruct metallic objects, and has some level of influence on the ferrous metals that reside in everything. She once mended and reconstructed silverware and metallic plates into a metallic suit identical to Magneto's costume.
• Magnetic Force Field: Polaris can protect herself from physical harm, can stretch her fields to protect a large group, and can suspend persons or objects in the air.
• Magnetic Flight: Polaris can suspend herself in flight by riding the Earth's magnetic field.
• Electromagnetic Sight: By concentrating, Polaris can perceive the world around herself solely as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. She can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings, or their absence around robotic duplicates.
• Magnetic Pulse: Polaris can focus her magnetic energy into powerful concussive blasts. She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. She has been shown destroying Shi'ar warships with single magnetic pulses.
• Elemental Manipulation: Since elements like metal and electricity are affected by electromagnetic fields, Polaris' control over these fields grants her the ability to manipulate those elements. This includes the power to move, shape, and control metal objects, generate and control electricity, and even create magnetic forces.
• Energy Absorption: Polaris has been shown absorbing some forms of energy through her magnetic force fields to temporarily boost her own strengths. Early in her career with the X-Men, she absorbed Storm's lightning blast, Cyclops' eye beam, and Havok's energy beam at the same time, giving her enough strength to propel an entire island from the earth and into space.
• Geomagnetic Link: Polaris is tied very closely to Earth's EM Field. As is it effected, so is she. She knows instinctively all that happens to it, and with this link, is granted an odd sort of immortality. Earth lends her strength by its simple existence. She draws on this strength all unconsciously.
• Organic Iron Manipulation: Polaris has such control over her powers that she is able to manipulate the natural iron within the blood of living organisms. She was capable of reversing the flow of an entire crowd's blood in order to render them unconscious.
• Metal/Matter Manipulation: Polaris has a great ability to be able to levitate objects metallic and nonmetallic, with her electromagnetic field she can levitate objects and destroy them in the air, or through a small manipulation of gravity, can also cause non-metallic objects to levitate in the air and manipulate it through electromagnetic energy. She has the ability to indirectly manipulate non-metallic objects via metal ores they may contain. She can perceive and manipulate matter at the sub-atomic level.
• Metal Morphing: Polaris has the power to physically bond metallic substances to other elements at an atomic level. This newly developed technique allows her to blend alloys to earthen, watery, gaseous and even organic substances.
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation: Polaris has the ability to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum and some energies like electricity, electromagnetic and magnetic (the limits of these are unknown). This is totally different from Storm, who can handle (almost) all the energies of the spectrum, but Polaris has great potential for it. Her power is such that she is compared to her father Magneto. Polaris has a connection to the electromagnetic field, allowing her to handle various types of energies such as electric, gamma, x-rays, ultraviolet, visible light, lasers, and more.