Laynia Petrovna (Earth-616)

## Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna

**Siblings:**

* Nikolai Krylenko (brother)
* Sasha Roerich ("sister" via DNA transfer)

**Darkstar** (*Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna*) is a mutant who was part of a Soviet super team recruited to bring the Black Widow back to the USSR. Instead, Darkstar switched sides and joined the Black Widow's then-current team, the Champions of Los Angeles, remaining with the team until it disbanded.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Darkforce Manipulation:** Darkstar has the ability to tap into and manipulate and intense black form of extradimensional energy called the Darkforce. This energy, which appears to be related to the extradimensional black gas-like substance manipulated by Shroud and Cloak, possesses mass and form (whereas Cloak and Shroud's does not). It may be that this is the same substance and that Darkstar simply knows how to manipulate it to greater effect than the other two. Her power seems analogous to that of Blackout.

* **Energy Constructs:** Darkstar can project the Darkforce into simple mentally-controlled forms, such as pincers, rings, columns, spheres, and so on. She can form objects with a maximum density of 175 pounds per cubic inch and are resistant to concussive forces of up to 320 pounds per square inch. She can form objects with a maximum volume of approximatley 750 cubic feet, which is sufficient to encompass ten human beings comfortably. These objects are solid and well-defined while she consciously wills them to be. If she is rendered unconscious, they dissipate. Darkstar can also project a beam of solid force that is capable of impacting an object with sufficient power to rupture three-inch solid carbon steel or tip over an average, loaded railroad boxcar.
* **Teleportation:** Darkstar can also employ the Darkforce to teleport herself and up to three others. She does this in a manner similar to that of Cloak by entering into the Darkforce dimension, traversing a distance, and re-emerging in Earth's space. She has so far been able to travel a maximum distance of about 0.85 miles in this way. Because journeys through the Darkforce dimension are so disorienting (crossing through the inter-dimensional portal disorients her sense of direction and the light of the Earth dimension blinds her for several seconds up on re-emergence), teleportation is a risky proposition. It also takes her several seconds to create a portal to the Darkforce dimension, preventing Darkstar from teleporting out of the way of such high velocity dangers, such as bullets.
* **Flight:** Darkstar can utilize the attractive force of the Darkforce dimension to fly. By generating an invisible and intangible portal into the dimension in the contour of her body, she can balance its attractive force upon her against that of Earth's gravity without passing through the portal. In order to increase its counter-balance with gravity and wind resistance, she has to angle the portal more steeply as she accelerates so that the attractive force does not leave her center of gravity behind as it draws her along. She can fly at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour, the maximum velocity at which she is still able to breathe. She cannot support the weight of anyone other than herself while in flight.

### Abilities

* **Multilingualism:** Darkstar is fluent in both her native Russian and English.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Darkstar was trained in combat by the KGB.