The Cosmoteers are a team of "space heroes" dedicated to destroying Dominator X.
History
The Cosmoteers are clones who were created by Dominator X as living weapons to be sold to the highest bidder. They broke free of his control and traveled across the universe, ostensibly to free their fellow clones but in fact trying to gain the power they need to destroy him. Although they modelled themselves on the superheroes of Earth, their methods were far more ruthless; they kill their enemies without a second thought and don't bother trying to protect innocent bystanders from being caught in the crossfire.[1]
Superboy helped the Cosmoteers free their fellow clones from all of Dominator X's labs. Unbeknownst to him, the rings that the Cosmoteer leader Travv gave to every clone they "saved" was in fact a mind control device.[2] When Dominator X sent his super-clone Infinity after them, Travv activated the mind control rings and called all the clones to attack Infinity and kill him. Connor was horrified by this and confronted the Cosmoteers, but they blasted him with red solar radiation to drain his powers, then knocked him unconscious and left him to die on a barren planet. The Cosmoteers took their brainwashed army to attack Dominator X at his base on Challuum.[3]
Pira and Rotur-Za were horrified by Travv's casual slaughter of civilians while hunting for Dominator X and realised he had gone mad with power. Superboy recovered and followed them to Challuum, where he attacked Travv and ripped the control device out of his forehead. With the clones freed of Travv's control, Pria and Rotur-Za took them to safety while Conner fought Travv. They found Dominator X at the spaceport and trapped him in a cage, then called the Green Lantern Corps to turn both him and themselves in for their crimes. Travv set off a bomb in his cybernetic arm, seemingly killing himself, but in fact this allowed his cybernetic spinal cord to leave his current, powerless body and take control of one cloned from Superboy's DNA.[4]
Travv easily overpowered Pira and Rotur-Za, leaving Superboy to face him alone. Now seemingly insane, Travv attempted to kill Superboy with a full-power energy blast that could have levelled the city they were fighting in, killing millions of people. Conner was able to contain and reflect the blast back at Travv with his tactile telekinesis, leaving him comatose and with full-body severe burns. The Green Lanterns arrived shortly afterwards and arrested all three of the Cosmoteers.[5]
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Mind Control Rings (Formerly)
Transportation:
- The Ripper (Formerly)
See Also
- 6 Appearances of Cosmoteers (Prime Earth)
- 1 Images that include Cosmoteers (Prime Earth)
- Team Gallery: Cosmoteers (Prime Earth)