Komand'r (Earth-7642)

K**omand'r** (also known as **Blackfire**, the English translation of her Tamaranean name), is the firstborn eldest daughter and princess of the King and Queen of Tamaran and the older sister of Starfire and  Wildfire. She is the current Grand Ruler/Empress of Tamaran and serves as Starfire's arch-nemesis.

## History

### Origin

Komand'r was born the eldest child of Tamaran's royal family. The first princess born in over a hundred years, she should have been courted and showered with honors. On the day she was born the Citadel Empire attacked and destroyed the western Tamaranean city of Kysarr, killing three thousand citizens in her name. Though she was in no way at fault for what had happened Komand'r was for all time inextricably linked with that terrible day. Komand'r grew up hated by the Tamaran population, As a result she was denied her birthright to be the next Crown Princess of Tamaran to maintain the respect and prestige of the royal family. Her privileges, honors, and her royal style and dignity were transferred to her younger sister, Princess Koriand'r (who would later become known as Starfire). Inwardly, Komand'r's rage grew and her resentment turned to hatred for her own world, her people, her family, and lastly her younger sister who, in Komand'r's eyes, made the fateful mistake of being born.

Although she was the most talented and more experienced combatant, her parents favored Starfire more because she was kinder. And although she is the eldest child, Wildfire was next in line for the throne after their father. It could also be hinted, however, that her general appearance was another factor: her purple eyes and black hair made her different in comparison to the dominant green eyes and red and brown hair of other Tamaraneans, and thus deemed "impure and unworthy" for the Tamaranean throne, which further surfaced her inner fury and thirst for vengeance on her people.

Years passed. Although the Citadel controlled Tamaran through King Myand’r, the King quietly sent his two daughters to train with the Warlords of Okaara in the traditional art of war. His silent hope was that his children would rebel against their dreaded enemy and free their planet where their father could not. But Komand’r’s anger continued to grow as she learned combat. Things came to a head during a sparring exercise in which Komand'r attempted to kill her sister. As a result, she was expelled. Komand'r swore vengeance and joined the Citadel, quickly rising through their ranks to becoming a traitor against her own people and world. Komand'r later betrayed her planet with detailed information about Tamaran's defenses to the the Citadel.

They conquered Tamaran with ease, and the surrender conditions included the enslavement of Koriand'r. Koriand'r was also never permitted to return to Tamaran, since it would mean the Citadel would devastate the planet for Tamaran's abrogation of the treaty. Komand'r was made her younger sister's ruler and made the most of the bondage with years of horrific servitude and torture. When a furious and humiliated Kori killed one of her rapists, Komand'r decided to execute her as punishment, but before getting the chance, the sisters were attacked and captured by the Psions.

The Psions, largely a species of sadistic reptilian scientists, performed a deadly experiment on both of the sisters to see how much ultraviolet energy their Tamranian bodies could absorb until expiring from the excess. Before the procedure could be completed, Komand'r's Citadel forces attacked the Psion ship to rescue her. While the Psions were distracted, Kori broke free with the newly developed starbolts, which were circular blasts of bright green-colored ultraviolet energy directed from her hands, which were a result of the Psions' experiments. Against her better judgment, she decided to free Komand'r, who was absorbing more and more ultraviolet energy. However, far from grateful, Komand'r struck her sister down with the same, much stronger blast of light purple-colored ultraviolet energy and had her restrained for later execution. Kori escaped and stole a space ship to escape to planet Earth, where she met a group of five superheroes and helped form the New Teen Titans.

### Family Reunions

The would-be successor to the throne went on to work with the same Gordanian slavers who imprisoned and torment her and Starfire as she came of age. Working as a forced labor Templar who twisted and experiment on future members of the Omega Men over the decades she worked with them. Eventually tracking down her younger sibling to earth in an attempt to resell her back into slavery on the Citadel Homeworld. But not before Forcing the recaptured Koriand'r to watch as her Gordanian vessal's defenses took apart her rescuers, the Teen Titans bit by bit in an attempt to save her. While stationed with the citadel, it's torture technicians wasted no expense in putting her sister through unbearable amounts of torture while she dined with Lord Damyn, relishing in their capture of both her wayward sibling and the Tamaranian goddess X'Hal at the hands of Okaaran Warlords within their ranks. Blackfire’s true objective was to secure the throne of the Citadel homeworld, which would give her great power throughout the Vegan Star System. What she didn't count on was it being a cleaver trap set by both the Titans and Omegans in order to infiltrate their base of operations.

When the Teen Titans entered into the citadel throne room, Komand'r threatened to unleash the maddened and murderous godess X'Hal upon them all lest they surrendered. When titan's member Cyborg took Damyn as a hostage, the two factions were caught in a mexican standoff, one which was expediently broken by the treacherous Blackfire who summarily killed Lord Damyn herself in order to commandeer his throne and empire. With this change in events Starfire's friends tried their hand at appealing to Blackfire in the hopes of going free, the latter of who laughed off such negotiations gloating that she soon moved to raze Tamaran to the ground with her newfound armada.

In a fit of rage Starfire Attacked her leading to a brutal fight where she well nearly overwhelmed her demented assailant. But before the fighting could be further escalated however, a Psion employed within the citadel opted instead to mitigate a battle to the death between the two hateful rivals. Within a jungle on their home planet of Tamaran, where they fought both for their lives and rulership of the Citadel empire. Using cruel psychological tactics in order to gain a temporary upper hands, Komand'r quickly found herself outmatched by her younger sister in the contest as it dragged on. Going so far as to break the rules of which in an attempt to murder her fellow combatant that much quicker. She again found her underhandedness backfiring as Starfire took off into a crazed flight pattern, first smashing hard into the side of a mountain and then taking a nosedive into a nearby waterfall stream. Having had enough of the conflagrations, Komand'r attempts to used her starbolt power again only to be boiled alive in the rapids causing the rocks surrounding it to violently explode. Blackfire was then assumed to be deceased afterwards.

### Return

Blackfire had survived nearly drowning in the falls but was left blinded by the incident, Komand'r's life was spared when Dor’ion, a simple hunter saved her. The two fell in love, as Dor’ion trained Komand’r  and helped her compensate for her blindness.  But the training wasn’t enough, and Komand’r  failed to regain her killer instincts. Then, one night, Komand’r believed a group of local hunters were attacking Dor’ion. Her warrior’s instincts returning, Blackfire unleashed a deadly starbolt on her prey – only to learn the “attack” was a ruse engineered by Dor’ion. It was his dying gift to his lady love – for her to regain her warrior’s heart. Now fully recovered, Komand’r  buried her Dor’ion, vowing to put Tamaran’s needs above all else. Eventually moving on to incite a civil war on her home planet of Tamaran in an attempt to usurp her father, Myand'r's throne by inciting rebellion within the populace.

When the Omega Men and Kory's friends, the Teen Titans intervened. Blackfire attempted to have them fight each other to the death, but this was undone when Jericho managed to see through her plans, possessing one of the Omegans in order to see through her veiled trickery. Moving on she decided to launch a full scale invasion against the capitol city, a campaign which lead to the successful domination of Tamaran, took the throne as Tamaran's Grand Ruler, as well as the capture and imprisonment of titans Nightwing and Jericho not to mention her brother Ryand'r. While banishing her hated royal family from the planet on live television, she rigged their vessel to explode in outer orbit, further salting the wounds when she gloated to a grieving Nightwing about their own dismal fates.

Unaware of her quarries escape she would later revel in her newfound sovereignty, only later did she find out her sister and family to be very much alive and well, sending them a message on Okaara to come challenge her authority lest she raze several of her own cities at her leisure. Waiting for the eventual attack while managing errends as head of state, Blackfire ponders why her sister would attempt to ruin her rule when she is a good leader, while the war rages on Komand'r continues to ponder and lament the devastation that has befallen her world. Admitting while she loves the power dominion has granted her she has used it wisely, fairly and all for the sake of her impoverished people. The two sisters clash once again within the war torn city streets, both lashing out at each other for similar reasons due to tamaran's current state. Eventually the former royal family would intervene, reinforcing her sisters rule ending all the fighting and bloodshed. On the councils word Blackfire's parents would be apart of her new advisory while her sister Starfire was to be forever exiled.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Tamaranean Physiology**: Blackfire's Tamaranian physiology constantly absorbs pure ultraviolet energy and converts it into circular blasts of lilac-colored ultraviolet energy called **"blackbolts"** which she projects from her hands and, later, her eyes. Her powers are also further strengthened by her emotions and feelings. She is evidently much stronger and more experienced than Starfire. Her other Tamaranian abilities include:
	+ **Superhuman Strength:**She is capable of easily lifting cars, elephants and other extremely heavy objects with no effort. Her punches are also strong enough to break brick and concrete.
	+ **Superhuman Agility & Reflexes:**She is extremely agile and nimble in battle, and has incredibly fast reflexes.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:**She is extremely durable and can take quite a lot of physical damage and injury.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:**She can endure several hours of extreme cold or heat.
	+ **Enhanced Stamina:**She can be awake for long hours at a time.
	+ **Limited Invulnerability:**She is invulnerable to most physical damage.
	+ **Energy Absorption**: Blackfire can absorb and repossess copious amounts of solar/stellar energy to energize her powers. A new facet she displayed when her abilities were absorbed was leeching off the abilities of her sister to produced lilac nova blasts.
	+ FTL **Flight**: Like Starfire, Blackfire is able to fly faster than light itself under her own power; an ability she lacked in the original DC comics
		- **Interstellar Travel:**Like all Tamaranians, she is capable of surviving within the vast vacuum of space at great speeds.
	+ **Radiation Immunity:**Like all Tamaranians, she is immune to all kinds of radiation.
	+ **Cold and Heat Immunity**
	+ **Prehensile Tongue**
	+ **Linguistic Assimilation:** As a Tamaranean she is also capable of assimilating other languages through physical contact with another person.

### Acquired Abilities

* **Ultraviolet Energy Projection:** Ever since being experimented on by Psions scientists, Blackfire can project incredibly strong and destructively effective bursts of light purple-colored **"blackbolt"** energy from the palms of her hands; even though they light purple, not black. She can also manipulate and control it to achieve a variety of destructive effects:
	+ **Blackbolt Bomb:**Although not shown yet, it is implied that she can emit an extremely large and destructive bomb of pure purple-colored ultraviolet energy, as Starfire can.
	+ **Blackbolt Bursts:**Circular blasts of light purple-colored energy she emits from her hands.
	+ **Blackbolt Waves:**She can project waves of lilac glowing "blackbolt" energy that can destroy a wide area in seconds.
	+ **Blackbolt Shields/Force-Fields:**She is capable of creating powerful purple force-fields capable of withstand Starfire's bright green starbolts
	+ **Blackbolt Beams:**She can fire beams of her lilac-colored "blackbolt" energy from her hands from a distance.
	+ **Blackbolt Rain/Shower:**If angered enough, she could unleash a rain-like shower of blackbolts down, causing massive damage.
	+ **Blackbolt Eye-Beams:**She also fires purple laser beams from her eyes. Her eyes glow purple when using this ability. It is implied that can even control the direction of her lilac-colored optic beams, capable of locking onto and homing in on her enemies. They are much thinner than her sister's are.
	+ **Blackbolt Barrage:**She can emit multiple circular "blackbolts" from her hands that rain down on her opponents and are capable of causing quite a lot of damage in the area.
	+ **Purple Fire Generation:** She was seen covering the sides of her body with a lilac fiery aura, which she then converted into an incredibly strong focused ray of blackbolt energy at her little sister.

### Abilities

* **Tactical Analysis**: Blackfire is a brilliant tactician
* **Leadership**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**