"Cameron Scott"

Captain Atom

Cameron Scott

## Biography

There are scarce records of Cameron Scott’s childhood. The few records we find reveal he grew up in Washington DC before joining the air force right before the Vietnam War, where he rose to the rank of captain, before an injury led to an honorable discharge. After the end of the war, he worked on a private battalion with General Wade Eiling doing black-ops missions near the African village of Zambezi. After the 11/2 disaster, his battalion lost contact with their US handlers and were believed dead. However, years later, Scott returned, coated in a silver energy skin and able to control and manipulate quantum energy fields, and became the government-sponsored superhero Captain Atom. That is history as his ARGUS file says. Here’s how “Cameron” tells it in his own words.

### Nathaniel Adam

Cameron Scott was born as Nathaniel Adam to Allen and Angie Adam. He grew up in Blue Valley, Colorado. He joined the Air Force after graduating high school due to an extreme desire to explore the globe. He was on a mission with fellow soldier Wade Eiling when they were shot down over the Vietnam Jungle. After crawling from the wreckage, a Zambezi traveler cared for the two men and nursed them to health.

In exchange for his services, the traveler demanded US intelligence. Adam refused, but Eiling gave it up. When an arms depot was destroyed as a result, the two men were let go. They began the trek back to base, where Adam passed out and had to be carried the last few miles. Adam woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed, discovering that Eiling threw him under the bus to their commanding officer.

Facing serious prison time, Adam was offered a deal, to partake in “Project Monarch” for the US Government, and have anything to do with his time in the jungle expunged from his record. A desperate Adam took the deal.

### Project Monarch

No documents exist of Project Monarch, but Adam describes how he and three other disgraced soldiers were tasked with entering the hull of an alien ship in a desert base to fight the alien occupant. They succeeded, discovering the alien’s skin was an energy known as Dilustel. At the base, genetic experiments tested the Dilustel on the four soldiers. Adam disappeared in a ball of light.

Over two decades later, right after Veidt’s devices detonated on November 2nd, 1987, a glowing man of silver energy materialized in the wreckage of San Fernando. Nathaniel Adam, chromium energy coating his skin, was able to manipulate energy, and he decreased the device’s intensity, saving hundreds of lives.

### Captain Atom

Adam was taken into DEO custody, and assigned a handler, Wade Eiling. Adam had no recollection of the past twenty years. We now suspect that Dilustel's reaction transported him to a Quantum Field that Veidt’s device breached. Adam asked what happened to the three other participants, but Eiling didn’t answer.

The government gave him the new identity of Cameron Scott and worked on teaching him to reign in his powers and control them. They soon discovered he could control any type of quantum energy or energy field around him. Eiling recruited him for his own personal missions as a part of the black-ops group Living Assault Weapons. Many of these missions lead them back into the Zambezian jungles. Adam had no choice but to follow along.

Eiling brokered a deal with Abu Kwesi, selling Adam as a human battery to make high-powered energy weapons, which Kwesi used to stage coups against the Zamebzians. When that failed, he used Adam himself as a weapon. When a deal between Eiling and Kwesi went back, Adam was freed and he finally escaped.

Upon returning to the States, Adam was forced to agree not to throw Eiling under the bus. He was assigned to stay on board the Justice League as a government plant, using his powers for good under the codename of Captain Atom, while also reporting on the metahuman’s movements.

Since then, “Cameron Scott” has partnered with the Question to conduct their own investigation of Project Monarch, tracking down the names of the other participants, Clifford Zmeck, Timothy Zanetti, and Arthur Thompson.

Zmeck had a brief stint as an American super-soldier, Major Force, but that the Dilustel amplified his psychopathic tendencies, which led to him being incarcerated in a high-security cell at Belle Reve. Timothy Zanetti had settled into working with the DEO to do further research into quantum energy, but was recruited by Harrison Wells to work at the Central City STAR Labs. Arthur Thompson, however, remained shrouded in mystery. But, Sage believes Thompson to be the supervillain Monarch.

Since returning to the world, Scott has had a number of romances, including with Justice League member Maxima, and with international terrorist Plastique, whom he went while acting as a handler on the Suicide Squad.