Name: Lorna Dane-Summers Codename: Polaris Nicknames: Lor, Lora Age: 23 Place of Residence: New York, Manchester Marital Status: Married-Alex Summers Children: None Occupation: Adventurer/Teacher

Physical Description:

Height: 5'7"
Weight: 115
Eyes: Dark green
Hair: Light green
Distinguishing Features: Tattoo with the initials of: K.B.S. over her heart.<They are the initials of her unborn daughter's name she had lost during a mission that failed>

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Powers

Mutant Powers: Manipulation of Magnetism

Extent (ability): Polaris possesses the ability to manipulate magnetism. Although she has the potential to exercise all of the powers that Magneto has, as yet she has only used powers involving the manipulation of magnetic, electrical, and gravity fields. Moreover, she cannot summon as great an amount of energy as Magneto can. The exact limits on the amount weight that she can magnetically lift at present have not been measured, but they are considerably below those of Magneto. Since she has preferred not to use her powers in combat situations, she has not worked nearly as hard to develop them as Magneto has. As with Magneto, it is unknown whether Polaris's powers are purely psionic or whether they derive from her physically.

Polaris has been observed levitating metallic objects and creating force fields in which she can suspend persons or objects in the air and in which she can protect them from attacks from outside the fields. She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. By concentrating, Polaris can perceive the world around herself solely as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. She can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings, as well.

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History

General History: Lorna Dane's parents are said to have died in a plane crash only weeks after her birth. She was then adopted by the Danes, who are said to be her mother's sister and brother-in-law. The Danes never told Lorna that they were not her true parents for fear that the truth might have a traumatic effect on her. Lorna did not learn the story about the plane crash and the fact that she had been adopted until she was nearly twenty years old.

Lorna Dane had been born with green hair, which at first her foster parents and then she herself always kept dyed brown so that she would not be thought of as being "different." Dane's hair color was the only outward sign of her unusual genetic structure. She had the latent genetic potential for magnetic powers, but certain genetic factors were absent which would have allowed her to exercise those powers. In the normal course of events, Dane would never have been able to use these powers.

In the normal course of events, Dane would never have been able to use these powers. However, the intervention of Samuel "Starr" Saxon, the master roboticist whose brain patterns were later preserved in the Machine smith, altered the normal course of events. Saxon had constructed an android duplicate of Magneto, the mutant with great magnetic powers who was then believed to be dead, and a small army of androids with strange powers called the Demi-Men. Saxon's plans were to use these androids as his means of accumulating vast wealth and power, while deceiving the world into believing them to be examples of evil mutants, who had become objects of widespread fear.

For a time Dane was romantically inclined toward Robert Drake, the Iceman, but eventually she fell in love with Alexander Summers, who is also known as Havok. Neither Dane nor Summers wished to lead lives as adventurers, but they discovered that they had a mutual interest in geophysics. Hence, they both began doing doctoral research in that subject in the Diablo mountain range in California. Since they spent most of their time away from public view, Dane did not bother to dye her hair. Neither Dane (who eventually took the code-name Polaris) nor Summers have ever been full-time X-Men, but they were always willing to help the X-Men in emergency situations, and have done so in the past.

Lorna, Alex, Jean and several other of the X-Men were in the Blackhawk on their way to Europe for the wedding of Moya McTaggert, only to find some unknown mutants attacking a village of poor people. The jet landed and Lorna being pregnant, opted to stay in the jet. Alex having had a broken leg at the time stayed with her.

Soon there was a call for help, Lorna not being able to go since being pregnant in more ways then one affected her powers. Alex decided to go, him being the X-Men he was, he left to to help leaving Lorna, who for some unknown reason begged him not to go, alone. It was while he was gone, she was attacked. Having not enough strength or energy being almost 7 months pregnant, she was badly attacked. By the time Alex did return he found her unconscious and bleeding, only to then lose their baby and she because of what happened, blamed Alex for the loss.

She soon left New York and Alex behind. Lorna found refuge in Florida. A small city, just outside of Miami no bigger then maybe Beaverton, Oregon. She owned a small house, had a garden and went to spending most of her time there. She found she could work through her bad days, of thoughts about the baby , while she dug in the garden, planting flowers of all different kinds.

It was to her surprise that her good friend Jean Grey would call her and ask her to come visit her in Alaska. After some convincing words and missing her good friend. Lorna agreed, of course getting Jean to promise Alex wasn't going to be there, she agreed still and soon made a trip.

Alex stayed in New York only to leave when his brother Scott showed up. Alex and Scott had been fighting for a while and Alex chose not to stay in New York with Scott. He left to the other school in Alaska, to be with the only other person he’s close to, Jean Grey.
 

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