Karen Starr (Divine) - Maelstrom Earth Mu*

Public: Divine is a mysterious villainess who has been involved in a variety of thefts and assaults on various secure facilities, often stealing advanced technology and scientific advances then vanishing into the night.

Secret: Divine is a clone of Superwoman from a sample taken years ago, and has grown up in the care of Project Cadmus. Cadmus has trained her as one of their most secret operatives as a weapon to be used against the world's heroes if they should even prove a threat, and have tasked her to gather weapons that could be used against various heroes should they ever go bad.

When Superwoman (then Supergirl) first burst on the scene 12 years go, and demonstrated her incredible abilities and power, most good people of the world cheered her on, seeing her as a heroine.

But not everyone felt the same way…some looked at what Supergirl could do, and questioned: what could stop her from doing as she wished? She had an ethical and moral center, it was obvious; but good people can go bad, especially when they have the power to ignore the law. And a heroine like Supergirl was beholden to no government or official entity at the time. There was no way to control her; or, if necessary, to easily destroy her.

Enter the secretive covert research branch of the DEO known as Project Cadmus. Agents of Cadmus were able to be present when Supergirl was medically treated after a battle where she had sustained enough injuries to have bled, as well as a few tissue samples left over after her treatement. From these, Cadmus scientists, after numerous attempts, were able to successfully clone their Kryptonian subject, along with providing a few tweaks to her genetic makeup, primarily aimed at removing her vulnerability to certain types of kryptonite as well as certain physical…adjustments, to differentiate her from her progenitor. The experimental designator for this successful clone was KAR-3N-*, but she was given a codename: Divine, though she was unofficially referred to as Karen.

Over the next 12 years, Cadmus scientists carefully accelerated her maturation, while using a combination of induced brainwave learning and virtual reality traning simulations to teach her what she would need to know to be a loyal agent of Cadmus. All of this was to be sure they had firm control over what they saw as their new Kryptonian weapon, before she would be released into the real world. Unbeknowst to Divine, Cadmus also implanted an electrical charge at the base of her neck, intended to render her unconscious in the event she ever seemed to be turning against her handlers.

When Divine reached physical maturity, she was finally decanted from her tank, and after a period of intense physical training to improve her body's musculature and stamina, was allowed to go out into the light of a yellow sun for the first time, soaking up the power that brought her to her full Kryptonian heritage and power. With her power, Cadmus plans to use her to secure devices or alien technology they feel can even the field with metahuman heroes and heroines (or villains and villainesses)…or perhaps even to replace her progenitor in the hearts and minds of the people of Earth, as a global heroine that they control.

Only one unexpected side effect of the cloning process promised to prevent this…the unconscious psionic connect with Superwoman that Divine found herself to have in her dreams. Fearing that her handlers would lock her back in a lab if she reported the unusual contact, Divine has instead attempted to carry out her missions in an attempt to make her handlers proud…though she has sometimes found herself questioning the brutality required of her.

Super Strength
As a Kryptonian, Karen's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with her alien physiology to incredibly increase the efficiency and density of her musculature. Her strength is more an act of conscious will on her environment, using this energy to affect her surroundings than actual physical strength. This enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond mere application of force, such as moving a mountain top as one piece without said rock crumbling under its own mass, or holding up a falling building without it breaking in half. The upper limits of her strength allow her to bend or break all but the most durable of materials. Her strength is measured in billions of tons she can lift, to the point where she could conceivably move a planet out of its orbit if fully charged with yellow sun radiation (on the order for 5 sextillian tons of weight), or even to shatter a moon, according to virtual reality testing while at Cadmus.

Super Senses
All of Karen's physical senses are superhuman in sensitivity and perception. Visually, she can see at both telescopic distances or microscopic distances, depending how she focuses, as well as perceiving most of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond light, such as radio transmissions, cell transmissions, radar, infrared or ultraviolet light, or even the bio-electric field that surrounds all living creatures. This allows her to see fairly well even in darkness, and to be able to avoid detection by radar and satellite imagery. This ability to perceive additional energy wavelengths gives her her X-ray vision, which allows her to see through most solid objects not blocked by a layer of lead or ultra-dense materials (though she does not actually emit X-rays to do it). She can literally visually peel back 'layers' of an object to examine its inner workings or to spot hidden images. In terms of her hearing, Karen can perceive any sound at any pitch or volume, though she has learned to mentally block out the background noise around her in order to function. She can use this ability to focus on specific sounds, like particular voices, heartbeats, or even her name. In addition, Karen's sense of smell is comparative to a bloodhound, allowing her to track by scent, or to pick out particular scents such as explosives in a bomb or particular perfumes.

Flight
Karen is able to use the solar energy stored in her body to manipulate gravitons and alter gravity around himself, either to hover at any angle or to fly at speeds capable of getting anywhere in the world in minutes. Because she is manipulating gravitons to fly, she has incredible control of her flight, allowing her to make impossibly tight turns or instant stops effortlessly. In space, where friction is not an issue, she can go even faster, exceeding the speed of light and allowing her to realistically travel across interstellar distances, such as traveling from the Sun to the Earth in seconds. However, she must inhale deeply and holds her breath while in space to sustain herself.

Solar Energy Absorption
Karen's Kryptonian physiology and powers come from her ability to absorb and store the solar radiation of a yellow star, such as Earth's Sun, or from more intense solar radiation, such as that from blue stars. She is in essence a living solar battery that metabolizes the energy she takes in into a series of alien organs that have no human analogue, as well as throughout her body's cells. By storing the energy this way, she can continue to draw on her energy serves for a time in the absence of yellow sun radiation, causing her powers to fade over time rather than immediately causing all her powers to fail. Using her powers at high levels drains her reserves at a much quicker pace than normal use. Red sun radiation, however, disrupts this storage, weakening her much more quickly than normal, to where she becomes the equivalent of a normal human woman of her age and physical fitness.

Regeneration
When injured, Karen is capable of healing her injuries at an accelerated rate with sufficient yellow sun radiation to power her body. Minor injuries heal in seconds, with heavier injuries such as bruises, deep cuts, or sprains vanish in minutes. Serious injuries, such as broken bones, damaged organs, or concussions, can take hours to heal. Unlike a human, Karen's body does not scar when healing. However, Karen must be exposed to sunlight while healing, or the speed will slow to normal human levels. Because her cells are constantly regenerating in this fashion, it effectively halts damage to cells caused by age, greatly extending her lifespan if not making her functionally immortal.

Super Stamina
Thank to being powered by the solar energy asorbed into her cells, Karen can sustain strenuous physical activity for an indefinite amount of time, as long as she's able to replenish her energy through exposure to sunlight. However, she still needs to eat, drink, and sleep due to both physiological and psychological need. This includes being able to hold her breath for days at a time, as her body can convert solar energy direct into energy for her cells rather than needing oxygen for her cells.

Super Speed
As a Kryptonian, Karen's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with her alien physiology to incredibly increase the efficiency and flexibility of her musculature. This allows her to put on bursts of speed that allow her to move, react, run and fly faster than the human eye can perceive. At her top speeds when fully charged, she's able to exceed the speed of light, allowing her to realistically fly between the Sun and the Earth in seconds, or even to travel between solar systems if needed.

Heat Vision
Karen can emit intense beams of solar energy from her eyes, capable of melting through most materials. She can vary the intensity and area of her heat vision. She has been intensely trained in the use of this ability, and can accurate target even multiple small, fast objects with quick, intense bursts of heat, enough that she can use them defensively against incoming projectiles or offensively against multiple targets. This power draws on the stored solar energy in her body, meaning she prefers using short bursts to extended use to avoid draining her reserves too far.

Invulnerability
Karen's Kryptonian physiology renders her almost completely immune to all harm, whether it be from extreme energy forces, toxins, poisons, or diseases. This is due to the yellow sun radiation contained in her body infusing her cells with superhuman molecular density, enhancing the strong bonds between her body's cells so they cannot be separated. This invulnerability is further enhanced by her body's bio-electric field, allowing her to shield others with her body, taking hits that would otherwise wash past him to strike those he protects. However, if the solar energy in her body is drained in a prolonged fight without being replenished (as it is automatically when she's in sunlight), she will gradually begin taking more and more damage. Truly powerful opponents comparative to her own strength can also strike her with enough force to overcome her invulnerability. Kryptonite also greatly weakens her invulnerabiltiy, to where her skin can be pierced or her bones broken, in addition to the kryptonite poisoning weakening her body overall. Since it violates physical laws, magic can also bypass her invulnerability somewhat, though she still is much more durable than the average person.

Super Breath
Karen is able to inhale or exhale huge amounts of air or vapor at hurricane force, allowing her to accomplish feats like extinguishing fires over a large area or to move or send heavy objects flying. This ability also allows her to hold her breath for extended amounts of time, even weeks if needed, such as when traveling interstellar distances. Since she's immune to most poisonous vapors or gasses, she can use this ability to safely inhale the dangerous vapors to exhale them someplace safe, protecting people in the area. She can also make use of the principle of the Joule-Thompson effect, where highly compressed air released through a valve (or pursed lips in this case) radically drops in temperature, allowing her to freeze targets to subzero levels, or to form ice out of water vapor trapped in the air to encase a target.

Mental Speed
Karen's mind is capable of working at the speed of a supercomputer, which both allows her to process information quickly as well as to react effectively when using her super speed. Part of her genius is her ability to rapidly process multiple ideas for a problem in seconds to arrive at an answer. This ability is also why she effectively seems to learn so quickly, as she can explore her thoughts on new ideas rapidly to work out the correct answers and memorize them.

Alien Physiology
While Karen looks human, her physiology is Kryptonian, and genetically tweaked for perfection as well. In addition to her native ability to absorb solar energy to empower her abilities, her body contains additional non-human organs, and does not necessarily react to environmental factors like biological agents or toxins as a human would, if she isn't outright immune to them to begin with. A sufficiently invasive scan of her will show her to be alien in origin.

Martial Arts
While Karen looks human, her physiology is Kryptonian, and genetically tweaked for perfection as well. In addition to her native ability to absorb solar energy to empower her abilities, her body contains additional non-human organs, and does not necessarily react to environmental factors like biological agents or toxins as a human would, if she isn't outright immune to them to begin with. A sufficiently invasive scan of her will show her to be alien in origin.

STEM
Karen is a genius when it comes to fields dealing with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Her natural aptitude for these fields has been further expanded through training by Project Cadmus, with a particular focus on technology and computer programming, in which she has the equivalent of an advanced doctorate. While she is mostly limited to Terran knowledge of these fields, she has a scattered of information about various alien and advanced technology seized by Cadmus for the organization's own use. However, even without advanced training, Karen has an intuitive understanding of technical fields, and can often puzzle out the function and use of unfamiliar equipment, even alien equipment, at least in general function, operation, and repair. She has a strong understanding of physical engineering and architecture to know exactly where to hit to bring down a structure or to reinforce it. She is perfectly capable of inventing entirely new technology, given a suitable lab and workshop. In terms of mathematics, Karen is capable of working through high-order calcuations and formulas in her head with a speed that matches most supercomputers, to the point where she would be one of the greatest mathematical minds on the planet if she was part of a mathematical field as a professor. Karen's weakness in these fields is primarily due to the focus forced on her by Cadmus; rather than a wide, diverse knowledge of many fields, her education focused on those fields that Cadmus felt would be most useful to a covert agent and retrieval expert, not a focus on general scientific knowledge.

Multilingualism
Karen's perfect memory allows her to quickly learn, speak, and understand any language she comes in contact with. Thanks to her Cadmus training, she can speak most of the major languages of Earth, though she considers English to be her 'first' language.

Tactics
As part of her Cadmus training, Karen has an excellent grasp of military tactics and situational awareness on a battlefield. Studying a target site or an opponent, she can often come up with an effective tactic to achieve her goals, whatever they might be. She's familiar with United States military culture and structure, and (though she rarely uses them) is skilled in the use of a variety of firearms and equipment.

Blunt
Karen has little patience for people who waste her time or try to dazzle her with excuses or fancy verbiage. She prefers to get to the point of a conversation, and rarely pulls punches in telling people what she thinks. This can make her come off as rude or inconsiderate, rather than just direct.

CADMUS Failsafe
Unknown to Divine, Cadmus has implanted a electric mine at the back of her neck, with a charge sufficient to knock her unconscious by overloading her body's nervous system. This is designed to quickly take her down should she show signs of going rogue, so she can be returned to a Cadmus lab for additional psychological adjustment and brainwashing.

Clone
Karen is a clone created from Superwoman's DNA years ago and grown through an accelerated process by Project Cadmus, with her Kryptonian DNA having been tweaked in various ways as clone designated KAR-3N*. The knowledge that she was created, rather than born has caused Karen to often question who she really is, and if she's as 'real' as Superwoman. The unfairness of it sometimes frustrates her, and often feeds her worse personality traits, especially her temper.

Cranky
Karen is more likely to punch someone in the nose or verbally snap at them than she is to try and talk to someone or seek a more diplomatic solution. She tends to get annoyed very easily, and getting annoyed usually translates into acting directly against the person annoying her.

Endowed
Karen is a well-endowed young woman, and tends to draw attention as a result. This is often embarrassing or outright annoying to her, especially when people start treating her differently based on her appearance. While she will often claim that it's the onlooker's problem if they're going to think dirty thoughts over her being a healthy female, the truth is it can get to her when people abuse the privilege, and her temper sometimes can cause her to lash out if she feels it's being done excessively. Or, in some cases, when people start treating her as a dumb blonde because of her looks, or talk down to her as a result.

Green Kryptonite
While Karen, unlike most Kryptonians, has been genetically tweaked to be unaffected by other types of kryptonite (red, gold, blue, etc.), she is vulnerable to the radiation of green kryptonite like any other Kryptonians. Even a small sample can weaken her; a larger one can render her effectively immobilized, too weak to move and unable to use her abilities. Being physically touched by kryptonite, or worse, having it penetrate her skin, can poison her blood, with possible lethal results. Just long term exposure to kryptonite could kill her, as the radiation seeps into her Kryptonian physiology and damages her cells, which are unable to heal unless the green kryptonite is removed from the area. Even short term exposure is enough to disrupt her racial abilities, reducing her to the equivalent of a human woman of her age and athleticism for a time until her body can recover.

Kryptonian
While generally her alien physiology is a benefit, it can cause as many problems. For one, Karen has to work to hide her abilities at times, given her superhuman invulnerability, strength, and speed. If she grows sick, Terran medicine cannot easily help her; scalpels can't pierce her skin, and most medicines won't have the same effect on her it would on a human, as examples.

Lead
Karen's X-ray vision is unable to penetrate lead, lead-lined walls, or extremely dense materials, as well as sufficiently powerful energy fields of certain types.

Magical Vulnerability
Karen's formidable invulnerability is mostly bypassed by magical energies, due to their ability to twist reality. She can be affected and even hurt by magical spells and effects where equivalent conventional attacks would not harm her.

Project CADMUS
Karen was created in a cloning lab by the shadow anti-metahuman organization known as Project Cadmus, created to find ways to bring down superpowered beings, hero or villain alike, to protect Earth and its governments. She was educated and brainwashed to be a loyal covert agent for the organization, and to believe she was doing good, even heroic work, despite the ruthlessness of her missions. Cadmus has a strong interest in keeping her in their control, which they do by restricting her access to the world outside Cadmus, and even attempting to erase or modify her memories via psionics.

Psionic Vulnerability
Karen is as vulnerable to psionic attempts to read her mind or dominate it as any human. While she is strong-willed, which offers some protection, a sufficient powerful mentalist can bypass her mental defenses, rendering her unconscious or even disrupting her mental processes to confuse or mislead her.

Red Sun Radiation
Karen is empowered by Earth's yellow sun, due to the intensity of its solar radiation, which normally energizes her and gives her her superhuman abilities. Under a red sun, such as Krypton itself possessed, this energy is greatly diminished and can actually affect her stored solar energy, greatly weakening her to where she is no stronger than a human woman of her age who exercises regularly. This can be used as a weapon to weaken her by flooding an area with red sunlight, or even used to imprison her if a cell is rigged to emit red sun radiation. It can take some time for her to recover from the effects, without a more powerful source of solar energy, such as Earth's Sun, to recharge her.

Secret Identity
Only members of Cadmus trusted with high security clearances know who and what Divine is. To the majority of the world, she's a mysterious apparently villain who shares some of Superwoman's abilities, who works with shadowy government agencies such as the DEO against a variety of targets.

Unrestrained
Karen tends to be a bruiser, taking the direct route over more subtle plans. She isn't as careful about holding back with her powers, and she tends to do a fair amount of collateral damage to structures and equipment. The only place she makes an attempt to restrain herself is when it comes to innocent civilian lives, which she will go out of her way to avoid harming and even go off mission to protect in extreme circumstances.

Project Cadmus
Divine was created by Project Cadmus to be a controllable Kryptonian who would be condition and brainwashed into following the authority, as a possible replacement for Superwoman. Originally only a clone (KAR-3N*) with a codename, Divine, they have found it increasingly difficult to keep Divine isolated from the world given her natural curiosity and quick mind.

Superwoman
Divine was created from Superwoman's genetic material, and is now aware she is a clone of Kara, whom she considers her nemesis, someone to prove herself superior to in training and purpose, though she's only clashed briefly with her as of yet. Due to an unknown genetic quirk, Karen shares dreams with Kara at night sometimes.

Superboy
Superboy is another clone created by Project CADMUS, though Divine has only recently become aware of him when Superwoman broke him out of a Cadmus research facility. She feels conflicted about his existence, feeling like it might be best if he was just dumped on a farm somewhere to live a normal life if he's not going to be part of Cadmus.

Logs

Title	OOC Date	Rating	Who's Involved	Summary
Rubies and Vaults	November 30th, 2017	PG-13 for Language and Violence	Divine, Sev, Jean Grey, Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy, Wanda Maximoff	A group of high-tech bank robbers called the Cowl Kids try to rob Hometown Bank in Queens, with a surprise mercenary villain as their backup, but are foiled by a group of heroes - Exo-Girl, Jean Grey, the Scarlet Witch, Spider Man, and Spider Woman.
A Bloody Night Part 1	December 15, 2017	PG-13 for Blood and Language	Divine, Sophie	Divine is sent by CADMUS to support a DEO operation gone bad, and encounters the only survivor, Sophie.
A Bloody Night Part 2	December 15, 2017	PG-13 for Blood and Language	Divine, Linda Danvers, Sophie	Superwoman, alerted by possible of evidence, deploys to Florida to intercept, but instead meets a badly wounded DEO trooper named Snakebite.
The Grace in Divine Meetings	December 20, 2017	PG-13 for Language	Grace Choi, Divine	Divine runs into Grace Choi on her way home, and the two end up chatting while Grace walks home.
Enter the Superboy	Decemter 24, 2017	PG for Violence and Some Strong Language	Divine, Superwoman, Superboy	Superwoman, continuing her investigation into the people she believes to have created her 'sister', Divine, penetrates a Cadmus research facility, where she discovers a second clone, this one a young man. Both are confronted, at least, by Divine directly, pitting sister against brother and sister both.
A Question of Freedom	December 25, 2017 (early morning)	PG-13 Strong Languages	Divine, Snakebite	Sophie (Snakebite) meets up for a promised drink with Divine, and discusses the different between having a duty and following orders…and being an agent and being an asset.
Sister Texts 1	2017-12-27	PG	Superwoman, Divine	Following About Your Sister, Kara uses the number she was given, and reaches out to Divine.
Forbidden Burritos	December 29, 2017	PG-13 for Mild Language	Divine America Chavez	Divine slips off base to meet with American Chavez after being invited out for the best burritos in town…and finds herself questioning her worldview, and what she wants, in more ways than one.
Libera Me a Malo	January 6, 2018	PG	Karen Starr (Divine), America Chavez (Ms. America)	Divine works up the courage to tell America the truth…but unfriendly ears are listening.
Texts from the Lost	January 7, 2018	PG	Divine, Linda Danvers (Superwoman)	Karen and Kara continue their texting conversations as Kara tries to convince Karen to open up to her.

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