The Champions Of Xandar
The Champions of Xandar were a team of superhumanoids who banded together to protect the trouble-plagued planet of Xandar. Xandar, a planet in the Tranta system in the Andromeda
Galaxy, is inhabited by a humanoid race almost indistinguishable from Caucasian human beings from Earth. In recent times, their world was the target of three massive alien invasions. The first invasion was comprised of a blue-skinned humanoid race called Luphoms, led by Warlord Zorr. The Luphom's world had been destroyed by the planet-devouring Galactus, and the handful of survivors sought a new world to settle.

The battle against the essentially peaceful Xandarians was a cataclysmic one, and Xandar was exploded into fragments by powerful Luphomoid weaponry. Through the unseen aid of one of the Watchers, small colonies of Xandar's population survived on the four largest fragments of the world's surface. 
With their advanced technology, the Xandarians connected the four planetoids by huge miles-long bridges and rebuilt their civilization on the ruins of their old world. Believing Xandar totally destroyed, Rhomann Dey, leader of Xandar's militia, the Nova Corps, pursued the Luphomoid warship across intergalactic space to Earth's solar system. There he was wounded in battle with Zorr and used his technology to transfer his superhuman powers to Earthman Richard Rider. Rider helped the dying alien destroy Zorr, the last of the Luphomians, and began a short career as the costumed crimefighter Nova.
Not long after Xandar's reconstruction, the shape-changing Skrulls attacked, hoping to bring Xandar into their galactic empire. Having maintained an active militia since their first invasion, the Xandarians defended themselves. When the Skrulls proved to be too resourceful for the Nova Corps and their elite
squad of Syfon warriors, Adora, suzerain of Xandar, teleported to Earth and brought the Fantastic Four to aid in their cause. In the meantime, the Xandarian starship piloted to Earth by Rhomann Dey, was returning to Xandar, carrying aboard it Dey' successor Richard Rider, a Syfon Warrior who had been dubbed Powerhouse who had been stranded on Earth while searching for Dey, a millennia-old Earth wizard named the Sphinx who sought to use Xandar's computer's for himself, an aging costumed crime fighter called the Comet, his son Crimebuster, a superhuman criminal named Diamondhead, and a brain preserved in a robotic body, Doctor Sun.
 
Arriving on Xandar, the Sphinx extracted the information he needed from Xandar's computers and with the Fantastic Four in pursuit, returned to Earth. The Sphinx's other crewmates, with the exception of Doctor Sun, enlisted in the war against the Skrulls, to take up where the Fantastic Four left off. They soon became known as the Champions of Xandar. In the course of the months-long war, the Champions were joined by the chief administrator of the Xandarian computer, Thoran Rul, who was transformed into the collective intelligence of the computers as its agents, by the head of the new Nova Corps Tanak Valt, and by the Galadorian spaceknight Rom. Eventually, the Champions and the Nova Corps repelled the Skrull invasion, but not before Diamondhead defected to the side of the Skrulls and the young Crimebuster was killed in battle. Following the war, Richard Rider chose to forfeit the Nova-powers that Rhomann Dey had given him in order to return to Earth. The remaining Champions chose to remain together as Xandar's supreme fighting force to protect the beleaguered world from all future threats.

The third and final invasion of Xandar was led by the would-be conqueror Nebula. All of the remaining Champions were killed in opposing Nebula's attack, which apparently wiped out the entire population of Xandar.

First Appearance: FANTASTIC FOUR #208.
 
 
 
 

TEAM MEMBERS:
Comet (Harris Moore, adventurer, Deceased)
In the late 1950's, New York citizen Harris Moore was irradiated by a mysterious gaseous entity resembling a tiny comet, which granted him superhuman powers. Adopting the identity of the Comet, Moore fought crime until retiring to raise his family. Later, he was recruited by the Nova Corps leader to help the planet Xandar in their war against the Skrulls, and he became one of the Champions of Xandar. After his son, Frank "Crimebuster" Moore died in battle, he choose to remain on Xandar. He died in battling the forces of the world-conquering Nebula.

As the Comet, Moore could project electrical energy and fly. His body had some degree of resistence to injury, such as against the harmful effects of rapid flight.


Crimebuster (Frank Moore, crimefighter/adventurer, Deceased)

New York citizen Frank Moore believed his father, the super hero known as Comet, to have been killed by an assassin. He decided to follow his father's footsteps and to gain vengence on the criminal underworld, adopting the identity of Crimebuster. Later, he was reunited with his father when he was recruited by the Nova Corps leader to help the planet Xandar in their war against the Skrulls. Together, they became part of the Champions of Xandar. Frank Moore died in battling the forces of the Skrull invasion.

Frank Moore possessed no superhuman powers, but was a highly proficient athlete and marksman.

Diamondhead (Earth Criminal, Status: Traitor/ Defected to Teh Skrulls)


Nova (Richard Rider, Earth Champion)


Nova Prime (Tanak Valt, centurion, Xandarian alien, Deceased)
Tanak Valt was one of the founders of the Nova Corps and was its high commander for several years. He married Adora, queen of Xandar. Both died when the world-conquering Nebula wiped out Xandar's population.

Valt possessed great superhuman strength, endurance, resistance to injury, and the ability to fly at rocket speeds.


Powerhouse (Rieg Davan, warrior, Xandarian alien, Deceased)
Rieg Davan underwent special training in the Syfon Warrior division of the Nova Corps on the planet Xandar, becoming one of the division's most adept operatives. Forced to land his damaged starship on Earth, he became amnesiac for a time. After regaining his memory with the help of the leader of the Nova Corps, he returned to Xandar to aid in their war against the Skrulls, becoming a part of the Champions of Xandar. Powerhouse died fighting the forces of the world-conquering Nebula.

Davan possessed superhuman strength, which he could magnify fiftyfold by siphoning energy from any powersouce, including other living beings.


Protector (Thoral Rul, keeper of the computers, Xandarian alien, Deceased)
An administrator, Thoral Rul effected a mind meld with the living, disembodied brains preserved within the Xandarian computer network, thus gaining the combined knowledge of the brains and psychic abilities. Adopting the identity of the Protector, he joined the Champions of Xandar in their war against the invading Skrull aliens. Later, Rul died fighting the forces of the world-conquering Nebula.

Rul possessed massive psychic abilities, including telepathy, hypnotism, enhanced communication abilities, and certain mental illusion-casting abilities. The full range and extent of his psionics is unknown.

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