Ursa (person)

**Lieutenant Ursa** was a Kryptonian military officer, loyal to General Zod. Banished to the Phantom Zone with him, they escaped to fight Superman and his allies on multiple occasions.

## Ursa

### Affiliation

Phantom Zone Criminals, Kryptonian Defense Council (formerly)

### Occupation

Criminal, Kryptonian Defense officer (formerly)

## History

### Military Life

Ursa was a proud young commander, leading the elite Black Zero unit. When the Kryptonian Science Council discovered that two of their most revered scientists, Jor-El and Non, had determined that in a short matter of time, Krypton would suffer geothermic upheavel that would destroy the entire planet, they branded the two as heretics sent General Zod and his militants to Jor-El's laboratory to arrest him and Non. Ursa was in charge of placing the two scientists under arrest and handing them over to the council. The Science Council administered a stern warning to them and set them free. Before long, Zod and Ursa discovered that Jor-El and Non had been right all along. Krypton had little time left. Non ignored the Council's warning and preached to the populace of Krypton, revealing everything he knew of the pending disaster.

### Criminal Patriotism

Zod and Ursa defected from the military and joined Non's cause. Soon after, Non was captured and lobotomized under orders of the Science Council. This incident drove Zod over the edge, and Ursa and he began an insurrection that made them the most wanted criminals on the planet. They were eventually captured and brought to justice.

### Punishment

Jor-El argued on their behalf and swayed the Science Council from sentencing them to death. Instead, Jor-El elected for a more peaceful means of punishment - exile in the Phantom Zone. Ursa, Non and Zod remained in the Phantom Zone for many years. During this time, Zod and she mated and produced a son, Lor-Zod. Their child eventually escaped from the Phantom Zone and arrived on the planet Earth. He came under the care of the last surviving Kryptonian, the Son of Jor-El, Superman. Shortly after this event, Ursa and the others broke free of their confinement and journeyed to Earth to reclaim the Kryptonian child. They attacked the city of Metropolis, and Ursa raided the offices of the Daily Planet, where she found Lor-Zod in the care of Lois Lane. Cornering her in a stairwell, Ursa incapacitated Lois with a simple flick from her index finger.

Superman fought against the Kryptonians and Ursa and her confederates were returned to the Phantom Zone.

When the city-state of Kandor was returned to its normal size, Kandorian leader Alura In-Ze had it relocated to its own private planetoid directly opposite the Earth in its orbit. Alura pardoned General Zod and all of his followers and Ursa was reinstated in the Kryptonian military guild.

One of Ursa's assignments was to seed the Earth with Kryptonian sleeper agents. Her son, Lor-Zod, and Kandorian security chief Thara Ak-Var began hunting down and exposing these agents.

### Treason For Evolution

Encountering Vlad Dracula, he lured her in with a promise of immortality. She was bitten by Dracula's daughter, Lilith. After becoming the second Kryptonian to be converted into a nosferatu, she found additional powers granted to her from her new state. She eventually swore loyalty to her new King and eventually stopped caring for her own child.

### 2099

By this time, Ursa had been serving with delight under the flag of her king.

## Attributes

### Powers

**Kryptonian Nosferatu Physiology**: Ursa has certan attributes that set her apart from the human nosferatu.

* Ursa has razor-sharp, black nails that taper to a point.
* She is able to alter their skeletal structure and manipulate her bones.
	+ The ability to control their osteoblasts (cells responsible for producing bones).
	+ The ability to control their osteoclasts (cells responsible for breaking down bones).
	+ The ability to regulate their bones' calcium density.
	+ Ursa can manipulate her bones after or even as they're being formed, causing them to break through the skin. Most often these bones only protrude from the body, enough for her to grab and remove them or, alternatively, remain jutting out for whatever offensive or defensive purpose she intends. If Ursa chooses, the bones can be forcefully ejected from her body.
* She is able to access 100% of her body's physical strength that was the same as it was during her life under a "red" sun.
* Ursa retains her Kryptonian physiology.

**Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Ursa possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian. These include:

* **Solar Energy Absorption**: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Ursa's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Her biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and her bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
* **Heat Vision**: Ursa can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. She can vary the heat and area affected.
* **Super-Hearing**: Ursa's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, she can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
* **Enhanced Vision**: Ursa's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. This umbrella ability includes the following:
	+ **Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision**: Ursa can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by living thing.
	+ **Telescopic Vision**: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
	+ **X-Ray Vision**: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Ursas can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. She can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
	+ **Microscopic Vision**: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
	+ **Infrared Vision**: Ursa can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
* **Flight**: Ursa is able to manipulate graviton particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction.
* **Invulnerability**: Due to the interaction of her dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Ursa is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, her extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
	+ **Enhanced Immunity**
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Ursa is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on her body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Ursa's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of her musculature. Her strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Ursa is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to her perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid-flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. This also confers:
	+ **Superhuman Agility**
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**
* **Super-Breath**: Ursa is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from her lungs. She can chill the air as it leaves her lungs to freeze targets. She can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into her lungs.
* **Longevity**: Ursa can live longer than regular humans, remaining at her prime as long as she was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.

### Abilities

* Unarmed combat expert.
* Armed combat expert.

### Weaknesses

* **Kryptonian Nosferatu Physiology:** Being a nosferatu created from a Kryptonian, she possesses different weaknesses than the one created from *Homo sapiens*.
	+ **Destruction by Red Sun**: A vampyr's greatest weakness is "red" sunlight, due to their altered metabolism, Kryptonian nosferatu are unable to withstand direct "red" sunlight. Sunlight somehow causes the ichor to congeal within the vampire's veins and the skin to rapidly decay. Direct exposure to sunlight caused the vampire to dehydrate completely and turn to powder, or even explode in certain cases. Artificial sunlight can also hurt vampires, although not as effectively; when Monica Rambeau attacked Dracula with ultraviolet light, he was hurt but not destroyed.
* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Ursa possesses the same potential weaknesses as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Vulnerability to Kryptonite**
	+ **Vulnerability to Magic**