Eminence

Bogatyr the Great was the U.S.S.R.’s most celebrated, puis­sant champion. He was the nation’s answer to America’s Centurion during the Cold War. His vast powers made up, in part, for the West’s technological superiority. Bogatyr’s communist handlers desperately wanted more like him. Unfortunately, despite (or perhaps because of) his cos­mic-powered physiology, Bogatyr struggled to produce children. Undeterred, the Kremlin fertilized “compatible” females with genetic material to spawn offspring of a sort. The sad results included miscarriages, monstrosities, and a few low-end, but unstable superhumans. Then Zvezda was born.
Tests run on Zvezda showed high superhuman poten­tial, but no matter what means were tried, her abilities remained latent. She never developed even low-end paranormal traits. Yet Zvezda was exceptionally ath­letic, intelligent, and strong-willed. Growing up, she was determined to be a worthy heir of Bogatyr, even taking his surname Blagorodnyy in place of the State-assigned Grazhdanin (“citizen”). But Zvezda also harbored an infe­riority complex which intensified when Bogatyr’s legiti­mate daughter was born and displayed super-powers in infancy.
In adulthood, Zvezda served as an operative for the Ad­vanced Special Directorate, a clandestine unit tasked with investigating and exploiting extraordinary phenomena. She excelled, quickly rising through the ranks and making a name for herself.
Shortly before the U.S.S.R.’s dissolution, Zvezda was given command over a space mission to acquire a powerful alien object that the government had thought lost two decades earlier when they sent Bogatyr to recover it, but his efforts were thwarted by The Freedom League. Now redis­covered by Directorate scientists, the Soviets scrambled to retrieve it. Although the ship launched successfully, it imploded in transit to the artifact with all the crew lost ... or so it was thought.
Unbeknownst to all, the ar­tifact had been aware of the approaching earthlings and reached out, sensing Zvezda’s potential, and inadvertently obliterated the spacecraft. For twenty years, she and the object bonded, becom­ing one being. The relic was a Hierarchy probe, created by ancient rivals of the legendary Preservers. Where the Preservers engaged in experimentation and creation, the Hierarchy imposed order and discipline. At their peak, Hierarchy super-beings scourged lawlessness from the galaxy, backed up by genetically-enhanced legions. Over the millennia since their peak, the race had fallen and was no more, but their creations survived and Zvezda would be one of their many legacies.
Eminence’s first act after returning to Earth was rescu­ing Smolensk from Zmey Gorynch, a gigantic mutated serpent. After the battle, she introduced herself as “Voz­vyshennyy” (Eminence) and was lauded as a hero. Her popularity increased further after she annihilated a ter­rorist cell, but sentiment turned against her when she began punishing minor scofflaws harshly, permanently maimed paranormal criminals, and destroyed a factory because of the pollution it produced. These acts led to a showdown with Bogatyr II, a match ending in a stalemate. Eminence broke off the battle, but she still seeks to establish a new civilization based on the strict rules of the Hierarchy, no matter the cost.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Eminence is highly impervious, can fly unaided through space, and wields stellar energies which she uses to generate blasts of electromagnetic energy, increase her strength, and to produce other effects. Hierarchy tech­nology further augments her physical and mental abili­ties, and she retains the skills gained during her years as a black ops agent.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Eminence is fanatically committed to her goals, though she appears calm and reasonable at first. She allows nothing to get in the way of bringing peace and order to the Earth. She has a massive ego, but is secretly terrified of being rendered ordinary and powerless.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Eminence actively seeks out super-beings who share her world-vision (and are willing to accept her leadership). She will not ally with those she deems merely lawless, but is willing to work with villains who wish to subjugate the world “for the greater good.”
Eminence’s “younger sister” Bogatyr II is her greatest ad­versary. Her Hierarchy instincts goad Eminence to oppose any Preserver-spawn, such as Lady Lunar (when possess­ing the Moonstone) and Mastermind. She has also clashed with other regional heroes and plans to wipe every stormer from the face of the planet as soon as she can.