Kang the Conqueror

## Background

**Nathaniel Richards**, a 31st-century scholar and possible descendant of Reed Richards, becomes fascinated with history and discovers the time travel technology created by Victor von Doom. Richards then travels back in time to ancient Egypt aboard a Sphinx-shaped timeship and becomes the Pharaoh Rama-Tut, with plans to claim En Sabah Nur as his heir. Rama-Tut's rule is cut short when he is defeated by the time-displaced Fantastic Four. Richards then tries to return to the 31st century, but overshoots by a thousand years, discovering a war-torn Earth that uses advanced weapons they no longer understand. He finds it simple to conquer the planet, expanding his dominion throughout the timelines, and reinvents himself as **Kang the Conqueror**. But this future world is dying, and so he decides to take over an earlier, more fertile Earth, the 20th century.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Increased Lifespan:** Kang is over 70 years old chronologically, but the people of his era have improved biology to the point that they seem to age much slower than 21st century man. Thus he appears to be a man in his mid-40s.
* **Nigh-Omnipotence:** Kang temporarily gained nigh-omnipotence by absorbing energy from a Celestial, Exitar. However, he only managed to absorb a small portion before being interrupted by Havok and Sunfire (who also absorbed energy from the same Celestial). The energy got dispersed and Kang was defeated. According to Immortus, had Kang succeeded, he would have dominated all life.
* **Superior-level Intellect:** Though it is hard to gauge Kang's intellect given his futuristic origins, his genius is nothing short of super-human by modern standards. He commands technology beyond the most sophisticated designs of Stark Industries and Doctor Doom, and has made breakthroughs in time travel and in robotics. Kang is the only known time traveler (other than his counterpart Immortus) who possess the ability to travel through time without creating divergences. In fact Kang has the combined knowledge and experience of his counterparts from across the Multiverse. Furthermore, while employing the vast resources of his empire, and when using his time-ship to penetrate the trans-dimensional realm of Limbo, from which all future eras are accessible, Kang theoretically has access to technology from any century, and presumably from alien worlds as well. Hence, in combination with the multiple resources available to him, Kang showed to have in his possession rare artifacts such as the last Cosmic Cube, demonstrating expertise to effortlessly manipulate it. It may also include artifacts such as the Forever Crystal, which is capable to erase whole realities from existence.
* **Political Savvy:** Kang is a brilliant military tactician and a peerless general. Using his considerable charisma, Kang was able to raise an army and conquer his first world within mere weeks of building his armor. Kang has conquered everything within 100 light years from Other Earth, totaling "a thousand thousand" worlds, which include the counterpart Badoon and Shi'ar empires of his reality, extending to several other dimensions. Though he considers it a chore, Kang is also a capable statesman. Kang is portrayed as commonly underestimating the amazing power provided by a Cosmic Cube, suggesting that he prefers to conquer worlds via more conventional and less exceptional means.
* **Skilled Combatant:** Kang is a master of both armed and unarmed combat. He has managed to go toe-to-toe with Captain America, and single-handedly held back Immortus' time-tossed army for several minutes during the Destiny War.
* **Indomitable Will:** Through sheer force of will, Kang managed to separate himself from his future counterpart Immortus to make himself a distinct entity. Kang is absolutely fearless, and will stop at nothing to accomplish his own goals.

## Equipment

* **Battle Armor:** Kang's battle armor is produced from a rare synthetic alloy from the 40th century. It is neuro-kinetic, meaning it responds to his subconscious thoughts. Though Kang has no powers, his armor endows him with rough equivalents of super-human abilities.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Gives Kang the ability to lift 5 tons.
	+ **Enhanced Durability:** The armor has a built in force-field that extends from 2 feet away from his body, outward to 20 feet in all directions. It can withstand even a nuclear strike at point blank range.
	+ **Anti-Gravity Device:** Kang has a device in the gauntlets of his armor that allows him to render objects weighing up to 2.2 tons weightless.
	+ **Video Communicator:** Built into the right wrist is a video communicator, which he can use to stay in contact with his bases from any point in the time-stream.
	+ **Time Travel:** Kang's armor can create temporal divergences, giving him the ability to travel through and manipulate time.
	+ **Concussive Bolts:** Kang can fire concussive blasts from the fingertips of his gauntlets; these blasts have the force of several tons of dynamite.
	+ **Weaponry:** By cracking his fingers, Kang can summon any number of weapons which are transported to him through time-stream instantly.
	+ **Electric Shock:** By flexing his muscles, Kang can activate a powerful electric shock.
	+ **Hover Pad:** Kang has often made use of a hover-pad in his battles.
	+ **Survival Kit:** Kang's armor has a self-contained atmosphere, 30 day supply of food, and waste disposal system.
	+ **Body Transference:** Until recently, Kang employed nano-technology in his helmet's circuitry that enabled him to transfer his mind into a new body at the moment of death.
* **Kang's Light of the Centuries Sphere:** A sphere that can transport people through space and time. It can also hold people captured in itself. It travels at faster than light speeds, probably fueled by a virtually inexhaustible energy source, or alternatively by accessing hyperspace.
* **Kang's Time Scanner:**
* **Anti-Matter Defense Screen Generator:**
* **"Vibration-Ray" Projector:**
* **Rlectromagnetic Field Amplifier:**
* **Neutrino-Ray Warhead Missile Launcher (handgun size):**
* **Electrical Paralysis Generator:**
* **Nerve Gas Sprayer:**
* **Molecular Expander:**
* **Various Warriors:**
* **Growing Man Stimuloids:** He used numerous robots, most notably his Growing Man stimuloids, packed with the "Growth Pollen" of the world Kosmos, which causes them to grow in size and strength by absorbing kinetic energy; this Growth Pollen uses the same energy accessed via the size-changing "Pym Particles" discovered by Dr. Hank Pym.
* **Time-Ship:**