Vulcan

Origin

Vulcan, Gabriel Summers

When the parents of Scott and Alex Summers were kidnapped by the alien race, Shi'ar, it appears that Katherine Summers was pregnant. The unborn child was seemingly killed along with Katherine by D'Ken, the Magestore of the Shi'ar.

The child was placed in an incubation accelerator and aged to adolescence in order to become a slave. Gabriel was sent to Earth to be the slave for a Shi'ar agent named Davan Shakari (who would later use the guise of Erik The Red).

Gabriel managed to escape and was found by geneticist, Moira MacTaggert. When the original X-Men were captured by the living island Krakoa, Professor X formed a new team of mutants. These new X-Men traveled to the island. Cyclops was freed while the rest of the new team seemingly died.

When Cyclops made his way back to Xavier, he was so distraught with the death of his newly discovered brother that Xavier felt it would be best if Scott had no recollection of what had happened.

For years it was believed that the island Krakoa let Cyclops go in order to bring more mutants to feed on. What truly happened was Gabriel and fellow teammate, Darwin, managed to survive in a suspended animation.

Upon awakening, Gabriel set into motion a plan to lure Xavier out of hiding. Cyclops and Marvel Girl were kidnapped and Banshee was killed. It was later revealed what had happened.

Vulcan left Earth, seeking to destroy the Shi'ar Empire and Cyclops demanded that Xavier leave the Xavier Institute. Xavier along with some X-Men went after Vulcan.

Vulcan made it to the main Shi'ar planet and ran amok before he was stopped by some if the imperial guard.

He lost his eye and the Shi'ar replaced it with a fake.

Vulcan Together With Deathbird

Around this time D'ken had awakened from his insane and catatonic state and one of his followers freed Vulcan. He freed Deathbird in return and the two fell in love and with D'Ken's blessing they where ready to marry each other.

Vulcan still wanted to kill Xavier so when he was captured and given to the royal family Vulcan wanted him killed right after the wedding as a show of the new ruling family.

Despite the fact that he came to kill the Shi'ar he seem to get along very well with D'Ken and all the other members of the race. He also wanted Darwin to be his best man since he too was captured and was the closet thing that Vulcan had to a friend.

On the day for the wedding after Vulcan and Deathbird said the their I do's the X-men and the Starjammers crashed the wedding and tried to free Xavier and Darwin as well as shut Vulcan down for good.

In the heat of the battle Vulcan got his revenge on Xavier and seemingly killed him then he burned off D'Ken's face and shocked the whole Shi'ar Empire by taking D'Ken crown off his Dead body and proclaiming himself as the new Shi'ar ruler.

Emperor Vulcan

Vulcan revenge was cut short and Darwin saved Xavier from his fate. Both of them were taken to the Starjammers ship to be treated for their wounds.

Vulcan fought his brother Havok but Alex was no match for him and he beat Havok savagely until Polaris stopped him with her magnetic powers and she attacked him with all she had even messing with his bloodstream until he spit out blood. She would have killed him if Deathbird hadn't stopped her.

Vulcan was left weak and almost dying for the magnetic assault.

His father Corsair attacked him, telling him to stop and listen to his father but Vulcan said that he wasn't his father. He was just a man that was to weak to save his mother. With that said he unleashed a powerful blast that killed Corsair on contact.

This sent the fight raging out of control as the Starjammers and X-Men were in rage over his death. Marvel Girl was the next to fight Vulcan and they clashed until Vulcan was to weak to fight so Deathbird took him away to recover from the fight. As his first time in his reign as emperor, the Shi'ar are not happy that an outsider is their ruler, and this upsets Vulcan, but Deathbird said that the people will come to accept him. With the ensuing battle of the Imperial Guard and the Starjammers, Vulcan's ship was destroyed by another alien fleet calling themselves the Scy'ar Tal. Realizing that they are more powerful, Vulcan called for a temporary trues with his brother. When the brothers manage to stop the Scy'ar Tal. Vulcan seemingly betrayed Havok and threw him to the sun and ordered to destroy the Scy'ar Tal and the Starjammers. When Havok came back,absorbing the energy of the sun, he fought Vulcan. Before he could finish him off, the Imperial Guard held the Starjammers crew hostage and threatens to kill them if Havok will not yield. Vulcan sets out to bring back the Shi'ar empire after the arrest of the Starjammers.

Powers

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Vulcan appears to be a near Omega level mutant. He can manipulate energy and absorb the energy and powers of others, including those of his former teammates. His psionic powers even allow him to control the powers of others and he was able to prevent Cyclops and Marvel Girl from using their mutant abilities.

According to late information from creator Ed Brubaker, Vulcan has a "hidden potential" which allows him to fully generate and have control over the 7 elements (fire, earth, electricity, wind, water, darkness, and light). Due to ability it can be argued that Vulcan is a match for other god-like heroes or villains such as Silver surfer or Onslaught.

His powers where pushed to new levels when he came into contact with the suppressed mutant powers from M-day. Pushing his powers even farther along making him very powerful.

Vulcan has similar powers to that of his brothers, as they are each able to absorb certain kinds of extraterrestrial energies and rechannel that energy from their bodies. His brothers Cyclops and Havok are known to be immune to each others powers,they are apparently not immune to Vulcan's (he manages to hurt Cyclops with no apparent trouble). This may be due to Vulcan's extremely high power level or his ability to control energies.