Astronema

Astronema is the primary antagonist in *Power Rangers in Space*.

She is known throughout the universe as the **Princess of Evil**, **Dark Princess of Space**, and the **Princess of Darkness**.

She is the figurehead of the United Alliance of Evil, second only to Dark Specter.

When she disguised herself as Ashley, Astronema temporary became the second **Yellow Space Ranger**.

## Personality

Astronema's persona had varied throughout the entire series.

In the beginning, she was very vain and narcissistic (much like Rita Repulsa and Divatox before her) in her own character and towards others, her minions and enemies alike, with somewhat of a childish persona.

When she was tasked by Dark Specter to defeat the Rangers, her very demeanor became more serious and stern due to perhaps constant failure to destroy the Rangers and added pressure by Dark Specter himself, who threatened to destroy Astronema along with the Dark Fortress should her failures reach it's peak, namely if the Rangers should rescue Zordon from Dark Specter himself.

Though maybe due to the echoes of her past of her long-forgotten childhood as Karone, Astronema has displayed emotions of caring and compassion, when she briefly fell in love with Zhane, after the latter had rescued her from one of her own rebellious monsters.

These same emotions also allowed her to instinctively attack one of her own Quantron warriors, which attacked a mother with her two children while defended by Andros.

This may be as a result of guilt towards her own actions, and due to her secret longing for her brother whom she suspected that may be alive.

After discovering that Andros is her long lost brother, Astronema didn't believe him at first.

However, Astronema went to her home planet for answers about her past as she realized that Andros was telling her the truth.

Also, after discovering her past, Astronema went through an identity crisis as she became conflicted between good and evil.

Despite Dark Specter's plan to test her loyalty and orders to destroy her brother, Astronema's curiosity about her past got her to go to Andros for answers about herself as Karone and their family.

However, seeing Andros and the rest of the Rangers in trouble because of her part in Dark Specter's plan, Astronema embraced her real self as Karone and rescued them.

After Karone was captured and reprogrammed by the sadistic alien Darkonda, Dark Specter, and even Ecliptor, who was also reprogrammed by Darkonda, the emotions that made her good were overwritten by a seemingly impenetrable computer programming that allowed her to know only evil.

In this manner, she became much darker and more evil than her first incarnation as Astronema.

Her demeanor was altered significantly, displaying no emotions of compassion, caring, and guilt, and even her feelings of anger and frustration were almost limited, and even lost her vanity, as she no longer wore makeup nor changed her hairstyle.

She was, however, more power-hungry as not only was she capable of destroying the Rangers, but even with full knowledge that Andros was her brother, Astronema would still destroy him at any given moment.

She was even capable of destroying Dark Specter, paving the way for Universal conquest, something she would perhaps never consider doing on her somewhat own will, and had nearly succeeded with the use of the Psycho Rangers who used and severely drained Dark Specter of his energies in the process of defeating the Rangers.

Her tactics against the Rangers were more brutal yet effective when she unleashed the Psycho Rangers against the Power Rangers as well as strategically taking out the Rangers Zords, namely the Delta Megazord by an empowered Ecliptor and the Mega Voyager, which was destroyed by her most powerful monster Tankenstein.

Although she could not overall resist her programming, Zordon attempted to convince Astronema that she was Karone and that she was not truly evil.

For a brief moment, this caused a glitch in her programming, however, it was not enough to bring Karone back to her true self at that moment, and Astronema would declare herself as the Queen of all Evil.

## Powers

* **Teleportation:** Astronema can teleport like all other villains by slamming her arm into her chest to disappear in swirls of purple energy.
* **Energy Rope Generation:** Astronema can fire yellow energy rope from her hand to tie up and harm those that she wishes to interrogate. She did this to a patron of the Onyx Tavern in the episode "The Rangers' Mega Voyage" when trying to find out about Darkonda's data cards.
* **Finger Blasts:** Astronema can fire purple energy blasts from her fingers strong enough to take down all five Space Rangers with one hit.
* **Monster Summoning:** Astronema can summon monsters to her side from the United Alliance of Evil's pool of monsters, such as the Lionizer and Spikey.
* **Hypnosis:** Astronema can hypnotize others using her magical abilities.
* **Disguise:** Astronema can use her magic to transform herself into a normal blonde woman, (which was her true self as Karone), in order to blend in without being noticed, as she did to meet up with Zhane.

## Skills & Abilities

* **Strength:** Astronema can easily overpower all five Rangers like there was nothing.
* **Skilled Fighter:** Astronema is a capable fighter who easily managed to overpower Andros with her bare hands.
* **Weapon Mistress:** Being raised and trained by Ecliptor, who is a formidable fighter in his own right, Astronema is independent and capable of defending herself. She has shown that she has the skill and ability to fight the Rangers herself and put up a good fight.

## Weapons

* **Wrath Staff:** Astronema's personal weapon of choice is a massive purple colored staff that she is almost never seen without.
	+ **Energy Bolts:** Astronema can fire purple energy bolts from the tip of her Wrath Staff.
	+ **Petrification:** In the flashback of the episode "Facing the Past", Astronema fired neon purple lightning from her staff that turned a warrior to stone.
* **Wrath-a-Rang:** Astronema had a metal boomerang with tips similar to the one on her staff, which she could throw to slice through her enemies.