Alias

Major Victory

Vance Astro
Nick Name
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Civilian ID
Vance Astrovik
Occupation

Adventurer

Astronaut
Legal Status
Citizen of the United States of Earth-691
Nation or Planet of Origin
Saugerties, New York
Group Affiliation
Guardians of the Galaxy
Base of Operations
Earth-691

Note: Earth-691 exist in an alternate future of the 31st Century.
Height
6' 1"
Weight
220 lbs.
Eye Color
Hazel
Hair Color
Hair
Skin Tone
Caucasian
Known Powers
Mutation resulting in psychokinesis and an ability to project beams of mental force.

Note: Vance Astro is confined to his life-support suite and can only remove it for brief periods of time before cellular damage occurs.
Accessories

Captain America's Shield: Near indestructible circular shield composed of a vibranium alloy coating a steel core.  Used both offensively and defensively.
Common Enemies
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Regularly Appearing

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

Marvel Super-Heroes
First Appearance

Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (Jan. 1969)
Creator

Arnold Drake & Gene Colan
Origin
Late in the 20th Century of an alternate reality, astronaut Vance Astro was to be the first human to travel on an interstellar mission.  Traveling in the Odysseus I, a sub-light-speed spaceship, Astro had to be kept in a state of suspended animation to make the journey to a planet in the Alpha Centauri system - which would take 1000 years.

To protect Astro from aging his skin was coated in a copper-adamantium alloy body-suit and his blood transfused with a preservative.  Over the ensuing millennium Astro developed latent psychokinetic abilities.

Arriving at Centauri IV, Astro discovered that humans had developed light-speed technology and arrived about 200 years before him.  Undeterred, Astro resolved to complete his mission and while making a geographic survey he met a primitive hunter named Yondu Udonta.  When the Brotherhood of Badoon attacked the human colony of Centauri IV, Astro and Yondu attempted an escape, but were captured by the alien marauders.

When the Badoon set their sights upon Earth the two heroes were transported to Earth's solar system.  Escaping their captors, Astro and Yondu recruited heroes who lived on other once-uninhabited planets within Earth's solar system forming the Guardians of the Galaxy.