"Unfortunately, you're asking the wrong Rider brother. My little brother Robby knows a lot more about it than I do. He's the big shot MIT grad that studies alien tech. Or if I still had Worldmind with me, maybe she'd be able to explain it."
He looked at the fire in his hand.
"All I know is a dying Xandarian Centurion named Rhomann Dey chased a space pirate named Zorr to Earth, and he gave his chunk of the Nova Force to a random Earthling, so the planet'd have a chance against Zorr. I was just this dumb seventeen-year-old nobody and it hit me like a bolt out of the blue. All I got was juuust a little sliver of it but it was enough for me to became a human rocket. All of a sudden I had all these amazing powers that I could use to help people."
But that was a long time ago.
"But a few years back, there was a war. A really terrible war. And Xandar fell."
He closed his hand and snuffed the light out and the glow in his eyes faded.
"I was the only one that survived it. I was the only Centurion left that could take in the Nova Force and the Worldmind so it didn't fall into enemy hands -- and I had to take in all of it. Something that powered thousands of Centurions and starships and planetary habitats."
He gestured to himself.
"The Worldmind changed me so I could hold it all, all the way down to the molecular level. That's why I need the Nova Force to survive now." Because even if he looked human, on a molecular level, he was more vessel than human being. "Sometimes it feels more like I'm a star just wearing a human skin."
When he was using the Nova Force for something big, like a stargate or something hugely explosive, it felt almost like everything inside was just slipping outside of him. Hell, maybe that was why he'd dissipated into energy after the thing with the Cosmic Cube instead of just dying.
"I wish I could tell you how it works but I'm just guy from Long Island." He thought back to Robby and how excited he'd been to have some time to study the Nova Force after he'd become a Nova, too. "If you ever wanna go crazy with a scanner sometime, though, you're welcome to. I'm an open book."
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He looked at the fire in his hand.
"All I know is a dying Xandarian Centurion named Rhomann Dey chased a space pirate named Zorr to Earth, and he gave his chunk of the Nova Force to a random Earthling, so the planet'd have a chance against Zorr. I was just this dumb seventeen-year-old nobody and it hit me like a bolt out of the blue. All I got was juuust a little sliver of it but it was enough for me to became a human rocket. All of a sudden I had all these amazing powers that I could use to help people."
But that was a long time ago.
"But a few years back, there was a war. A really terrible war. And Xandar fell."
He closed his hand and snuffed the light out and the glow in his eyes faded.
"I was the only one that survived it. I was the only Centurion left that could take in the Nova Force and the Worldmind so it didn't fall into enemy hands -- and I had to take in all of it. Something that powered thousands of Centurions and starships and planetary habitats."
He gestured to himself.
"The Worldmind changed me so I could hold it all, all the way down to the molecular level. That's why I need the Nova Force to survive now." Because even if he looked human, on a molecular level, he was more vessel than human being. "Sometimes it feels more like I'm a star just wearing a human skin."
When he was using the Nova Force for something big, like a stargate or something hugely explosive, it felt almost like everything inside was just slipping outside of him. Hell, maybe that was why he'd dissipated into energy after the thing with the Cosmic Cube instead of just dying.
"I wish I could tell you how it works but I'm just guy from Long Island." He thought back to Robby and how excited he'd been to have some time to study the Nova Force after he'd become a Nova, too. "If you ever wanna go crazy with a scanner sometime, though, you're welcome to. I'm an open book."