Lady Lunar

Selene

As a member of the Farside Royal Family, Selene had every advantage. She was beautiful, intelligent, and privileged. What she lacked were the mental powers that were her birthright and the basis of the royal family’s ability to rule. She was “mind blind,” a virtual cripple by the standards of her relations. Although she was treated well enough, it was with a pity and compassion that she grew to hate. She was denied her rightful throne, her inheritance, and made into an object of ridicule. The sole advantage of her state was it made Selene practically immune to the psychic abilities of others, allowing her to conceal her growing madness and hatred for her family.
Selene gathered allies among the populace of Farside City and embarked on a daring plan. She seized control of the Moonstone, the alien power source for the entire lunar city. As she hoped, the Moonstone catalyzed latent powers within her and boosted them beyond those of her relations. Selene and her followers staged a coup and seized control of the palace. Many of the royal family died in the conflict, while the others were executed not long thereafter. The only survivor was Mentac, the youngest son of the king and queen, who was sent to safety on Earth. With the rest of her family eliminated, Selene took on the title Lady Lunar and became the supreme ruler of Farside City.
She ruled for many years, plumbing the power of the Moonstone and suppressing all opposition, turning the Crater Ape workers into her personal “police force.” When she began making plans for the conquest of Earth, her initial forays failed due to the intervention of The Atom Family, which included her nephew Mentac. Eventually, Mentac and the Atom Family came to Farside City and helped lead a rebellion that overthrew Lady Lunar. She fled, but returned several times to challenge her upstart nephew and his newfound family.
Lady Lunar remains a threat to Farside City, the Earth, and her sole surviving relations, the Atom siblings. Selene has never allowed blood to come between her and what she considers her rightful due, and her grandnieces and -nephews are no exception. They can eventually swear loyalty to her as the true ruler of Luna—and, eventually, the whole of the solar system—or suffer the fate of all traitors who oppose her.
In her cold madness, Lady Lunar has allied herself with The Grue, Star-Khan, and anyone else she believes can assist her in regaining her rightful throne, although she is cautious and knows full well that such allies cannot be trusted.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Originally, Lady Lunar possessed no powers of her own, but use of the Moonstone catalyzed the latent psionic potential of her royal Selunite bloodline, awakening considerable mental powers.
She is a powerful telekinetic, able to move tons of mass with thought alone, protect herself with a silvery telekinetic force field, and lash out with silvery-white bolts of telekinetic force. Lady Lunar can lift her own body, allowing her to levitate and float from place to place, often levitating her throne as well to float about the dais in the throne room of the Silver Citadel.
Her telepathic powers are even greater, able to establish psychic communication with subjects on Earth while on the Moon and vice versa. She can read thoughts and memories and even tap into a subject’s senses to perceive what they do. She can strike the minds of others with powerful mental blasts to stun or incapacitate them, and exert control over another’s mind, although such an effort tires her without the assistance of the Moonstone.
Lady Lunar can teleport vast distances, enough to go from the Earth to the Moon and back, although it strains her physically and mentally, so she only does so in times of great need, particularly to escape death or capture.
When she possessed the Moonstone, Lady Lunar had many other powers, including mental control over light, the ability to transmute matter virtually at will, and a vast expansion of her own psionic powers; among other things, she transformed Jack Wolfe into the lupine Wolfjack using the stone’s power. Having spent years learning to use it, Lady Lunar is perhaps the most adept wielder of the Moonstone, although the stone seems to demonstrate a greater affinity—or even “preference”—for Chase Atom, a source of both curiosity and aggravation for Lady Lunar.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Lady Lunar is imperious and arrogant, carrying herself like the deposed queen she believes herself to be. She is royalty, not to be challenged, spoken to, and certainly not touched by “mere rabble.” She is willing to teach others to respect their betters, including her wayward relations. She considers herself a good monarch. After all, did she not bring order and stability to Farside City for many years? She could do the same for Earth, and other worlds, but only at the cost of free will, or free thought even. It seems a small price to pay in her mind.
Although she is normally cool, collected, and regal, Lady Lunar has a temper, particularly when she’s defied or challenged. She can fly into a rage and lash out at whatever is in her way. She prefers to break her enemies rather than destroy them, and regrets eliminating the rest of the royal family, only because it denied her the pleasure of slowly breaking their wills and bringing them over to her side. Lady Lunar is practiced in interrogation and psychic techniques of brainwashing. She considers others her playthings, pawns to be disposed of as she sees fit.