Laynia Petrovna (Earth-3988)

Darkstar

Beginning:

Darkstar, also known as Laynia Petrovna, was born in Belarus, Russia and is the daughter of a Russian nuclear physicist Sergei Krylov and his wife, who were accidentally irradiated during an experiment. When his mother died during childbirth, she was said to father Laynia that she and her twin brother also died. The mutant children were then taken into custody of the state and when their superhuman abilities demonstrated for the first time in adolescence, were delivered to Professor Piotr Phobos, head of a school run by the government for the training of Russian mutants. After being given the code name Darkstar because of his mutant ability to manipulate the extradimensional dark energy known as the Dark Force, Petrovna studied at the academy next to his brother Nikolai, codenamed Vanguard, and trained to become a government agent.

To America and the League with the Champions

After Phobos plan to drain the powers of mutants, in order to give yourself artificial mental abilities have been discovered by Winter Guardian (Tania Belinsky), Darkstar was sent to the United States next to his lover the Crimson Dynamo (Yuri Petrovich), the Titanium Man and the Gryphon, with the task of capturing the deserters Black Widow, the Commissioner and the father of Yuri Ivan. Suffering opposition from the widow of fellow super-group The Champions, ultimately, Black Star found that the Crimson Dynamo was lying to she about her alleged affair. Later, she defected to the United States with the help of friend of Black Widow, Nick Fury, joining the Champions. Next to them, Darkstar faced a number of enemies like the alien Warlord Kaa, the Wasp Hunter, The Stranger, The Corruptor, Swarm, M.O.D.O.K., Magneto, Sentinel and Vanisher. The partner of Laynia team Iceman that at this time there away if the X-Men she fell in love with, but the relationship was largely unilateral part. When the champions were dissolved, Darkstar said a bitterly disappointed Drake that she really likes him, but only as a friend and that she had no romantic interest in him. After Champions dissolve, Laynia returned to Russia.

Back in Russia

Later, Darkstar resumed partnership with Vanguard and a new Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin) to investigate a strange object on the moon. There they found the Iron Man and Jack of Hearts, which resulted ultimately in a partnership with them in opposition to an attempted invasion of Earth by aliens Rigellians. Later, the trio was deceived by the former Russian military General Nikolai Kutzov into believing that the USA was about to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia by bringing them into conflict with Spider-Man and the Hulk. Later, they found the Silver Surfer during his search around the world for the Hulk, before being sent to investigate the mysterious Forbidden Zone, where they met with Phobos, unaware that he was deceiving them. Phobos convinced the trio to join him in Belinski opposition and its ally, the Presence. Upon learning of the mistake before Phobos, and find that the Presence was his father, Darkstar and Vanguard is they turned against Phobos and defeated him with the help of the Hulk. Darkstar has become the next pawn in a contest of champions between the Grand Master and Death himself. Selected as a member of Grand Master Champions, Darkstar teamed with the American crime fighter Daredevil and the Australian shaman mystic Talisman against opponents champions Death Sunfire, the Invisible Woman and Iron Fist. Later, after assist twice the Galadorian Spaceknight Rom and Starshine space against aliens Dire Wraiths, Darkstar and its partners Vanguard, Ursa Major Gremlin and Crimson Dynamo worked with to bring the Magneto to justice for his crimes against Russia. The lack of communication objected to the Avengers, which also sought to bring to trial Magneto and the X-Men, who were sheltering Magneto at the time.

Russian diplomat

Darkstar then embarked on a diplomatic trip to the USA where she and Black Widow were targeted by Tania Belinski, now known as Starlight, as potential partners for a presence which had become mentally unstable. Belinsky was quickly persuaded to abandon this crazy scheme. Later, Darkstar, Vanguard and Ursa Major became disillusioned with the policies of their government, and they tried to defect to the United States. In an effort to regain its "lost property", the Russian government dispatched another team of agents, the Protectorate Soviet deserters to return home. Disguised as the Avengers, the Protectorate Soviet attacked and nearly killed Darkstar and its allies. Minds in coma Darkstar, Vanguard and Ursa Major then subconsciously merged entity in the "Great Bear" a giant bear formed by the sum of powers of the three most the Dark Force and tried to kill the Protectorate Soviet. After Captain America convinced them to cancel their attack, the trio regained consciousness and remained in the United States to recover from his injuries, while the USA government tried to get political asylum for them. These diplomatic efforts ultimately failed, and the trio was deported back to Russia. After being sent to a research center, Darkstar and his companions were rescued by mutant Blind Faith and his team of exiles, who was joined in opposition to Firefox cyborg assassin. In a subsequent mission with Exiles, Darkstar and Blind Faith found the immensely powerful psionic Soul Skinner who had taken over the small Russian town of Neftelensk. With the help of X-Men, the Soul Skinner was defeated. Later, after the exiles became the Siberforce, the Darkstar team witnessed an attack on Earth moon by intergalactic Starblasters, seeking the mysterious energy source known as the Starbrand. Investigating, Darkstar and his brother joined the cosmic Avenger Quasar and other space heroes as opposed to Starblasters. During the battle, Vanguard was killed by Threkker, which in turn was killed by a vengeful Darkstar. Returning to Earth, Darkstar was convinced by the presence of seeking revenge against Quasar, and together they attacked and apparently destroyed; however, Quasar was only pretending and using their quantum energy powers to fake his own death.

Maximum security and X-Men

Soon after, Darkstar was captured by former KGB General Tskarov, which sought to use his power in his plot to undermine the business along the east coast of the United States. Darkstar was rescued by other pawns of Tskarov, Ursa Major and Vanguard risen, and the trio teamed with Daredevil and Black Widow to stop the Tskarov plan. Later, Darkstar was one of several Russian heroes recruited for the Winter Guard team sponsored by the government, which soon found themselves defending their country against an invasion by the army of would-be conqueror Chinese the Mandarin. After joining the Earth's heroes in opposing alien Kree efforts to transform Earth into a prison planet, Darkstar and the Winter Guard have become unwitting pawns in an attempt to convert the Presence citizens of Russia in a new form, nuclear of life. The Opposition of the Avengers, led converts to finally be restored by Starlight in exchange for Thor to save the life of the Presence. Later, Darkstar sought assistance of X-Men in capturing the Russian mutant scientist renegade Black Death.

X-Corporation and Death

After the establishment of X-Corporation, a search and rescue unit global mutant Darkstar joined the European contingent of the organization based in Paris, France. In the first mission team the threat of Consciousness Bacterial Weapon XII, Darkstar fell under the creature's domain and as a result, became an extension of his own creature. She was shot and was apparently killed by the mutant mercenary Fantomex, later revealed to be the Weapon XIII, and was later buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Necrosha

Laynia is one of the many mutants resurrected by Eli Bard using the techno-organic virus to serve Selene, helping their cause as she joins a series of mutants that attack stronghold of Utopia X-Men.

Darkstar Returns

When Reena Stancioff was killed and turned into a Dire Wraith. The original Darkstar used this opportunity and the connection he had with his medallion to resurrect itself in Reena's body. Now risen Laynia already returned to Winter Guard alongside his brother Vanguard, fighting opponents as Hyperion and the Squadron Supreme.Shortly after his resurrection Darkstar would have his mind transferred from Dire Wraith's body where his consciousness dwelt to a new mutant human body cloned from living cell samples stored at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning genetically engineered by the Beast of the X-Men being that telepath mutant Psylocke assisted in the transfer of her human mind from Dire Wraith's body to the new cloned mutant body. She has retained her mutant powers to their maximum level and once again integrates Winter Guard as a valiant member.

Powers and Abilities

The Darkstar mutant power allows you to have a divided consciousness between the physical body and a representation of the Dark Force the same, both symbiotically as psychically linked. This gives you control of the Dark Force, one extradimensional energy comprising an entire dimensional pocket, and giving it thus a number of superhuman abilities. Although able to use the Dark Force for various purposes, Darkstar usually causes it to behave as energy or matter. Most of the time, he was able to create constructs in the form of solid objects, thought control that had the density of steel; such objects include scissors, giant hands, rings, shields, forks, columns and spheres, or concussive force blasts. However, any buildings dissipate up Darkstar is unconscious. Darkstar is also able to teleport up and up to three individuals, opening a portal to the dimension of the Dark Force and traveling through it. The maximum distance Darkstar can travel in this way has not yet been revealed, however, transporter, often leaves the disoriented and light sensitive, making the transporter is a risk of dangerous situations. Darkstar is also able to levitate and fly at subsonic speeds creating a virtually invisible portal to the dimension of the Dark Force over the body contours without going through it.

Darkstar is also a skilled combatant hand-to-hand, having received training from the KGB and the Black Widow. She is also fluent in English and Russian.

The Darkstar costume was designed by the Soviet government and made of a synthetic elastic fabric with insulation against the cold.