Captain Mercer

Captain Mercer (b. Galam Mercerion Arankor) is a humanoid warrior, soldier, mercenary and, more often than not, in the comic universe, the Captain of a ragtag band of heroes called "The World Alliance".

Captain Mercer is 1,184 years old when first introduced. His extended life is due to a (then)biologically advanced super "virus" introduced to him during his 52nd year of life. Captured by enemy forces, he was sentenced to 18,000 years in a super prison; the lengthy terms were available due to the aforementioned virus which would prolong a prisoners life and enable him/her to serve ridiculously long sentences. At some point in his 84th year, over three decades in the prison, he managed to escape(the tale of which has become the stuff of legends). He evaded capture until the eventual dissolution of the faction responsible for his initial incarceration. Unbeknownst to him, much of the memory of his life pre-imprisonment had been erased. Most notably would be the fact that he was the original founder of the Lavistar Federation.

Galam of the Lava Star Dream Brigade was a hero amongst his kind. He had led armies to victory against multiple aggressors to become the dominant power in the Ubiqua System. With the formation of the new Lavastar(altered to Lavistar down the road) Alliance of Worlds in the Ubiqua System on SD-3183, it was not long before cracks began to show. Galam was usurped by Zennoch militiamen(early predecessors to the Altameran) and judged by a kangaroo court to be unfit to maintain the balance of Lavastar. He was taken far outside of Ubiqua where he would begin his aforementioned prison sentence(the decision not to merely execute him was actually the result of a simple clerical error).

Eight years after his escape, he donned the name Captain Mercer(as all he could remember of his name was Mercerion, as it was tattooed on the back of his hand), and began the formation of what would become known as the "World Alliance"(mirroring his past accumulation of alliances in the formation of Lavastar, something else he had no memory of).

"Galam and Geist", an alternate history, gritty detective crime series, features Mercer had he never been usurped, or his memory erased. His life, however, is still prolonged by a retrovirus, to match the Geist, who maintains his power cell has a lifespan of roughly half a million years.