From: krupski@ravel.udel.edu (James John Krupski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Quasar and the New Universe
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:32:58 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <Bz7wCy.LzI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thanatos) writes:
>Well, not quite.  Giving the Starbrand to another granted the recipient 90%
>of the power, and left the donor with a non-transferrable (ie it will never 
>leave you) 10% of the power.  So Kayla has 90% of the StarBrand, and Quaze 
>has only 10%.  Of course, that's 10% of infinite power, which is stil...
>infinite power...
>
>When this was being used in the new universe, my mathematically minded 
>friends decided to try and figure out just how much of infinity was being
>passed on each time.  Since the Starbrand technically rejoined in the 
>final issue of Starbrand, we have to start from scratch.  The guy in the NU
>has 10% of this one, giving Quaze 90%, 90% of which he gave to Kayla, leaving
>him with 9% of the original power.  So Kayla has 81% of ULTIMATE POWER (TM).
>Let's see what she does with it...
    / Thanatos, DeathUrge, Master of Unknown

Eeeh.  I hate to dispute somebody with a nom de keyboard like that.
Anyway, I remember that the Old Man had the ultimate power, at first.  If 
the "10% rule" is correct (it was never verified and may have just been
the Old Man's lie) then it went like this:

        		Originally		After passing on the tattoo
                        ^^^^^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Old Man             ALL			10%
Ken Connell             90%	    		 9%
Ken Connell, Jr.        81%                      8.1%
Jake     		72.9%                    7.29%
Jim the Pilot          ~65.6%                   ~6.56%
The March of Dimes guy  Separate deal, recieved some power from KC, Jr.
Quasar                 ~59%			~5.9% 
Kayla		       ~53%               still ~53%     

The whole thing is extremely iffy.  Supposedly Jake & the March of Dimes 
guy had all their power drained from them when the Old Man and the Connells
had their family reunion.  Wouldn't Junior, at least, NOTICE that ~66% of
the power (which he had given to Jake himself) was MISSING?  And go ask Jake
where it was, and track down the pilot?

I go for the other theory.  Everybody who has the Star Brand has 
INFINITE POWER (tm) and it can only be done away with by willingly passing it 
on to somebody who knows how to receive it (such as KC, Jr.)

Eh.  It's starting to sound like a communicable disease.  I would hope that
Wendell and Kayla are mighty careful from now on about who they hug and
shake hands with!  

On another note in the same thread...
Another of Randy's antibodies has gone renegade and turned evil.
For a doctor, he must have some mean subconscious thoughts...

ObRetconFantasy:  The Old Man came from the Marvel Universe in the first 
place.  Everything he told Ken Connell was a lie.  Ken Connell himself is
only an amnesiac future version of Wendell Vaughn who got stuck there 
somehow.  (Ever notice how he had no family and only a couple of friends?)
(That also accounts for the close physical resemblance.)  The whole New
Universe never had any cosmic energy in it at all, before the Old Man,
or since.  If (OH PLEASE, IF) there's never any more crossovers between
the MU and the NU, then the New Universe can continue the way it was
MEANT to be, the way it SHOULD be, PURE.

Tiny particles of Pitt Juice are floating in the atmosphere.  There are 
monsters living in the lava tunnels beneath Mount Pittsburg... 
That's ENOUGH excitement for one world!  I don't EVER want to see
Charly meet Spider-Man, Blur race Quicksilver, Dave wrestle with Bruce,    
Justice struggle against Magneto, Wayne try to push Xavier, Boyd shake
hands with Rogue, Johnny and Johnny flame on in unison, ad nauseum!
That would RUIN the WHOLE POINT!  What Gruenwald has done is surgically
remove from the NU the only thing that didn't belong.  Any more would be
fixing it too much.

(sigh)  One of the silver linings about the books being cancelled is that
they can't screw them up any more, and I can cherish their memory as they
were.  Sort of like the way the old Earth-2 fans might feel.

Forget it.  This is Marvel we're dealing with.  If the Star Brand becomes
popular, then we'll see EVERY ONE of the crossovers I mentioned above.
And when we do, well then, I'll rant some more...

				-Slippery Jim

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