X-O Manowar

Origin

Aric of Dacia was a man in a barbarian society which was at war with the Romans. While he was away from his village one day, Aric was abducted by a malevolent race of spider-like aliens known as the Spider-Aliens, a race which controlled a vast star empire. Aric was to be a food source for the Spider-Aliens and was imprisoned with many other humans who were doomed to the same fate. Aric encountered one man known as "Map-Maker" who showed Aric a way of escape via the Spider-Aliens' most powerful weapon, the X-O Manowar armor, a sentient suit of armor which could decimate legions of its user's enemies. The path to the armor was carved into Aric's hand.

When the Spider Aliens returned to Earth, Aric's prison was disrupted by an attack from a being known as Solar. Aric quickly made his way to the X-O armor and bonded with it, quickly escaping the ship. Upon returning to Earth, Aric learns that thousands of years have passed since his abduction, although it has merely seemed like months to him. This was due to the fact that the Aliens were using a relativistic propulsion drive; while the inhabitants of the ship were moving at incredible speeds, time passed more slowly for them.

Aric quickly discovered that the Spider-Aliens had established a powerful beachhead on Earth through the company known as Orb. Aric destroyed the aliens in charge of the company and, using the suit's inherent technological abilities, hacked the computers to show that one Aric Dacia now was the owner and CEO of Orb.

The suit Aric wears grants him many abilities, including Super-Strength, Flight, energy projection, telekinetic abilities and heightened senses and is controlled via a ring emblazoned with an X inside an O.

Aric's original armor, Shanhara, was destroyed, but was replaced with another, more advanced version using a human sacrifice to create it.  This armor was known as Pol-Bekhara.  The human esence never fully bonded correctly with the X-O and eventually tried to gain control of the armor itself.  Aric was force to expell the lifeforce and this rendered Pol-Bekhara non-sentient.  Despite this change the X-O was still a formidable weapon and vastly superior combat wise to the original.