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Take it from me: there's no such thing as being alive too long. There's always something new.
— Jacob Marlowe src

Jacob Marlowe is a billionaire philanthropist who leads the HALO Corporation.

Jacob Marlowe's exact past is unclear. Publicly, he is the billionaire head of the HALO Corporation, who engages in philanthropy. He claims to be at least a hundred years old, but does not make that public.[1] He is connected in some fashion to an alien spaceship which crash-landed on Earth at the dawn of human civilization. After crashing, a faction of the crew decided that the best use of their resources was to uplift human technology so that they could survive extinction-level events.[2]

In the service of that mission, Jacob has assembled a roster of unique people who have no home in the wider world, starting with John Colt and Kenesha. In 1986 he found Adrianna Tereshkova, a Russian Skywatch astronaut who was drastically changed by surviving a failed hyperdrive test flight.[3] In 2007,[4] he provided shelter to Cole Cash, an I.O. gunman who needed to fake his death.[3] And throughout, he used the HALO Corporation to push The Main Project: to introduce new technology and save the future.

Everyone Is Looking Up

After Jacob's efforts to sell private solar panels were deemed harmful to the general good, I.O. sent an assassin to kill him. However, the assassin tripped a secret alarm for "xenobiological" lifeforms, and then demonstrated the ability to dissolve a personal defense device built into Jacob's arm, causing an explosion which threw Jacob from the building.

Jacob was rescued, however, by a woman in a flying suit of armor. Assembling his underlings, he sent them to find and rescue this woman, as the forces they were opposing were sure to come for her, as her technology was evidence of hidden science.[1]

Meeting the woman again, he formally introduced himself to her, and told her about the secret agencies that ruled from the shadows, about his secret past, and about his own alien biology. He asked her to join his work, and she agreed.[3]

Powers

  • Unique Physiology: Jacob Marlowe has inhuman biology, which may grant him abilities, though his capabilities are unknown at this time
    • Longevity: Marlowe first arrived on Earth thousands of years ago. His age does not seem to inhibit his physical abilities in any appreciable way.
    • Enhanced Senses: Marlowe claims he could "smell" the "electrogravatic" system Angie's suit used to fly. He could recognize that she was bleeding and in pain, despite her face and body being completely covered by the suit.

Abilities


Weapons

  • Spur: Jacob Marlowe had a device in his arm called a "spur", which contained enough energy that when it exploded, it blew an adult human male through a wall. It is unknown if it was biological or organic in origin.


Related

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Wild Storm #1
  2. ↑ The Wild Storm #8
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Wild Storm #6
  4. ↑ The Wild Storm #3
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