Irma Adreen

Imra Ardeen aka Saturn Girl is one of the most talented telepaths among a race of powerful mentalists, and founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

## Character Origins

Imra Ardeen is a member of President Luthor's innovative initiative for extraterrestrial beings to earn citizenship, specifically Imra is a member of the paramilitary team known as the Advena Legion. Codenamed Saturn Girl as a reference to her homeworld being the largest moon of Saturn, Titan. I guess some marketing people thought "Titan Girl" would incur some hostility from the West Coast teens in their tower. Imra's people are actually, according to J'onn and Diana, a fairly young civilization and a product created by an ancient and unlikely alliance of Martian and Amazon civilizations. The Amazons discovered a Martian spy among them in ancient times and Hippolyta chose to spare the outsider from punishment, citing that the foreigner was not human and therefore couldn't be found guilty of the offense which he was charged with (being a "man"). Though, by the time this spy was vindicated, the other Amazons had already destroyed much of his equipment and so he had to make contact with Mars for extraction. While the Martian delegation came to retrieve their scout, Hippolyta and her daughters met with the Martian envoys and a strange deal was made. The Amazons had a large prison which had reached capacity as its prisoners did not age on Themyscira. Death was deemed too cruel for their offense but exile posed a security risk to all of the residents of the Paradise Islands. So the Martians agreed to take many of these prisoners to show gratitude to Hippolyta for sparing their spy. The prisoners were thereafter relocated to a Martial penal colony on Titan where the Martians had already deposited many of their own who had been quarantined to a labor camp due to having been infected with a disease that caused them to take a static shape, with red skin and usually caused the loss of their psionic abilities.

The Martians did not anticipate that the same plague which caused the quarantined prisoners to turn red also altered their DNA to allow breeding with humans, causing a new species to develop on the moon of Titan. Interestingly, the male Titans gained impressive strength and longevity while retaining a Martian appearance, but the females looked human aside from red eyes and had the natural psionic potential of unaffected Martians. Imra Ardeen is one such example, a human-looking alien with Martian psionic ability.

Imra herself came to Earth after being abducted by Brainiac as part of his archiving of species, shortly before his arrival on Earth. Imra was in an experimentation cell when Brainiac's ship was scuttled. Due to the ship breaking apart in Earth's atmosphere, she and two other captives were able to escape their cells and get to a shuttle, but were intercepted by USAF fighters which escorted them to a military base for debriefing. After over a year spent in a detainment camp, Imra was one of the first candidates both to qualify and volunteer for the Advena Legion, quickly rising to become one of its poster children. Imra now serves as one of the Legion's more active field commanders. I have also been able to confirm she is now in a relationship with another member of the team.

## Powers, Abilities and Weaknesses

### Powers

* **Telepathy**: Saturn Girl is a capable telepath and is considered a prodigy, even among a race of telepathic people. She has an incredible working knowledge of the average humanoid brain and the specific functions of each part. Saturn Girls telepathy is comparable in power level to that of the 20th century's Martian Manhunter, whom in turn is renowned as one of the most powerful telepaths on Earth.
	+ **Telepathic Communication**: Saturn Girl can read peoples' minds in detail, either by consciously willing it or by mentally picking up their stray thoughts. Via her telepathy, she can also send messages into the minds of others, sounding like her own voice inside their heads, or place knowledge of certain things into people's minds. Using a combination of these methods, she can interpret unknown alien languages. She can send or receive telepathic messages to or from the Phantom Zone.
	+ **Telepathic Cloak**: She can mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other telepaths and psychic entities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful psychics may notice and "see" through this ability.
	+ **Telepathic Illusions**
	+ **Mind Control**
	+ **Psionic Blast**
	+ **Mental Senses**

### Abilities

* **Leadership**: On more than one occasion Imra has lead the Legion of Super-Heroes as both their leader and a field operative.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)**: Imra has been a part of the Legion of Super-Heroes for quite some time, as such she has had basic combat training as part of the package.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Legion Flight Ring**
* Saturn Girl carried a laser handgun in her early adventures.

## Notes and Trivia

### Notes

* In the comics, she is also known as Saturn Woman.
* Saturn on her shirt is a nod to her comics costume.
* The Martian spy might be a nod to Jemm

### Trivia

* Saturn Girl is the first female comic character to ever lead a super-hero team.
* Imra lost her virginity with Cosmic Boy
* Imra's aunt is also named Imra.