Technet
PURPOSE: Extra-Galactic and Extra-Dimensional Bounty Hunters.
AFFILIATIONS: Unknown
MEMBERS : Bodybag, China Doll, Scatterbrain, Ferro2, Joyboy, Ringtoss, Thug, Waxworks,
Elmo, Ferro, Gatecrasher, Kylun, Nightcrawler, Numbers, Yap.
ENEMIES: Excalibur, Captain Britain
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Extra-Galactic and Extra-Dimensional
FIRST APPEARENCE: Captain Britain #4 (April 1985)
The Technet is a team of bounty hunters, founded and originally led by a villain
called Gatecrasher, from various other dimensional worlds. For a price they will
hunt down and capture fugitive sentient beings, rescue prisoners from captivity,
or track down and retrieve lost objects of value. The Technet range through time,
space, and various dimensions in their operations.
Members
Gatecrasher, the leader of the Technet. She is a tall, massive blue skinned female.
Her powers include telepathy, the limits of which have not been established, skills
in biogenic nucleotronic splicing, and she is endowed with a lot of physical strength
due to her size and build, although in hand-to-hand combat it is apparent she lacks
skill and training.
Yap (whom Gatecrasher often disparagingly calls "Bonebag"), Gatecrasher's constant
companion. He is a small, sentient being who can teleport himself and his companions
across vast distances. Yap can detect the psychic auras of individuals and the electron
patterns created by such things as Captain Britain's battlesuit. By these means Yap
can track down specific individuals. Yap has telepathic powers whose limits are undefined.
Yap has an intense emotional dependency on Gatecrasher and refers to her as "mother,"
usually to Gatecrasher's annoyance.
Bodybag is an enormous reptilian biped, who sprays victims with a green narcotic ooze
before swallowing them, paralyzed and unconscious, into one of his three back-sacs,
where they are kept paralyzed. If the cocoon is broken open, the victim will soon
regain his or her ability to think, access to his or her memory, and control over
his or her voluntary muscles.
China Doll has a humanoid body above the waist and a serpentine one beneath, and
can shrink other beings to trinket-size with her touch.
Elmo is a deceased pink-skinned, non-humanoid alien with immense eyes and tentacles
who can "dampen" the energy level of other beings. He looks a lot like the later
member Waxworks.
Ferro was a four-armed biped with fur who is a master swordsman, and wields swords
with all four of his arms.
Ferro2 was the identical brother of Ferro, and replaced him in the team when the
latter was killed by Mojo's Warwolves.
Joyboy resembles a grotesquely large-headed and fat humanoid baby, floating around
in a levitating, cybernetic egg-cradle. Joyboy can telepathically detect a person's
greatest desire and use psionic powers to fulfill a distorted version of the wish,
such as when Shadowcat was unable to phase back to being solid, and Joyboy helped
her but made her fat. If Joyboy loses consciousness, his transformations of others
are immediately undone.
Numbers is a large, bug-eyed, reptilian biped; an accountant and negotiator for
the team.
Ringtoss can emit rings composed of an unknown form of energy from his/her ring-shaped
head to entrap an opponent. The rings cease to exist when Ringtoss loses consciousness.
Scatterbrain, also known as Fascination, is a yellow-skinned, green-haired female
humanoid alien who is apparently incapable of speech and who feeds on the excess
emotional energy of sentient beings. Scatterbrain can render a victim temporarily
helpless by firing all of the victim's neural synapses at once. Scatterbrain can
fly and can also apparently teleport herself.
Thug is a short, squat green biped with unusual strength for his size.
Waxworks is a strange, non-humanoid alien that resembles Elmo, but has the ability
to "soften" its opponents -- to the point where their bodies stretch and distort
out of control -- with a touch.
Pandora, a large fungus that can quickly cover and consume all organic material in
the vicinity. Pandora stays contained within a small sphere and is used only as a
last resort. She doesn't seem to have any intelligence and is a biological weapon.
Hard-Boiled Henry was created by Gatecrasher as a weapon. He resembles Tweety Bird,
but has a timer on his forehead. When it counts down, Henry self-destructs with the
force of a bomb. He destroyed himself on his first mission, but he reappeared with
the Technet in Fantastic Four.
History
In the Technet's first recorded exploit, they were hired by Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9, the
other dimensional counterpart of Opal Luna Saturnyne on an alternate Earth (Earth 794),
to hunt down and bring back Byron Bra-Dhok, alias Kaptain Briton, the evil, other
dimensional counterpart to Earth 616's Captain Britain. Kaptain Briton fled to Captain
Britain's Earth, fought Captain Britain and switched costumes with him, thereby
deceiving the pursuing Technet, who then mistakenly took Captain Britain prisoner.
The Technet brought Captain Britain to Sat-Yr-9's Earth. There Captain Britain
convinced the Technet that he was not the man they had been hired to capture, and
the Technet joined Captain Britain in battling the angry Sat-Yr-9's troops. Captain
Britain returned to his own Earth, where his sister, Psylocke had killed Kaptain
Briton when he attempted to assault her.
Later, the Technet traveled on business to the Wereworlds, whose natives become
werewolves under a full moon, having been exiled from their home by Sat-Yr-9.
Here Elmo, a member of the Technet, was fatally wounded by werewolves. Subsequently,
Gatecrasher either seriously injured or killed a member of the 'Berserker Pirates'
who attempted to interest her in becoming his lover. The pirate's family forced the
Technet to turn over all their accumulated wealth as reparations. Angered by this
reversal in their fortunes, all of the members of the Technet except for Yap and
Fascination left the team.
Gatecrasher then went to a celebration held by the despot of Kandahar. A person she
believed to be the despot himself hired her to procure a perfect mathematical model
of the universe that was made of rock crystal and that was held and revered by the
Incas of 14th century Peru on Earth 616. Gatecrasher, Yap, and Fascination journeyed
through time to obtain the model, but Gatecrasher and Yap were tricked by the person
they believed to be a native high priest into consuming fruit filled with the eggs of
deadly parasites. Gatecrasher and Yap were thus forced to remain under a cooling
waterfall to prevent the eggs inside them from hatching and consuming their bodies
from within. In actuality, an alien had impersonated both the despot of Kandahar and
the high priest, and hoped to force Fascination into his employ through this convoluted
plot. This alien had already succeeded in hiring the members of the Technet who had just
left the group. His team was the Special Executive, a future version of the Technet.
The team's precognitive told him that Fascination wouldn't join the Special Executive
for another 300 hundred years.
Fascination brought Captain Britain and his companion Meggan to 14th century Peru to
rescue Gatecrasher. Captain Britain gathered together the plants necessary to create
the antidote that would kill the parasite eggs. Gatecrasher and Yap consumed the
antidote, and then they, Fascination, Captain Britain, and Meggan returned to their
own time period.
Gatecrasher recruited new members Numbers and Waxworks into the Technet, and all of
the former members excepting the slain Elmo rejoined. At some point during this period,
Fascination changed her name to Scatterbrain.
Opal Luna Saturnyne hired the Technet to capture Rachel Summers, alias Phoenix, whom
Saturnyne claimed was a threat to the universe. At this time, Rachel was on the run
from Mojo, who had enslaved her to star in his movies. Mojo sent his servants, the
Warwolves, after Rachel. The Warwolves and the Technet fought over Rachel and during
the fight, Ferro was killed. Rachel was saved by Captain Britain, Meggan, and her'
fellow X-Men Nightcrawler and Shadowcat. Together they fought off the Technet, with
Gatecrasher feeling for her life, who then retreated. This battle against the Technet
led directly to the formation of the team Excalibur by Summers and her allies. It was
later revealed that Saturnyne had hired the Technet under orders of Roma, who needed
to form the superhero team to save the multiverse.
The Technet were allowed to stay in Brighton, England, where they would use their
alien technology to provide the city with sunny weather. Meanwhile they would plot
to capture Rachel Summers and regain their honor. During this time, they were hired
by Sat-Yr-9, who had taken the identity of Courtney Ross. The Technet were hired to
free Jamie Braddock. They succeeded in their task, but Jamie was taken by Ross and
the Technet's memories of their mission were wiped. Gatecrasher then constructed
Hardboiled Henry, a living bomb, to ambush Excalibur. The plan succeeded and the
Technet nearly defeated Excalibur, but agents of Saturnyne interfered. The Technet
received a holographic message from Saturnyne, telling them that they were permanently
exiled to Earth 616 and that the bounty on Phoenix was cancelled. Furious the Technet
turned on Gatecrasher, but Gatecrasher and Yap teleported away. The Technet begged
Excalibur for asylum and Nightcrawler told his teammates to accept. The former Technet
repaired the damage done by Hardboiled Henry to Excalibur's home. During these repairs
Numbers met the dragon living in Excalibur's basement and fell in love with her.
The British government came to Excalibur's home for help against an invisible,
murderous creature, but only Nightcrawler was home, nursing a broken leg. Nightcrawler
trained the aliens to become the N-men and they managed to destroy the creature, but
Joyboy disappeared during this mission. Shortly afterwards the Special Executive
appeared on Earth and told the N-men that they had predicted Earth's destruction to
happen within the next few hours. They offered the N-men a job. The N-men agreed and
teleported away, together with Numbers, the dragon and their newly born children.
Excalibur managed to prevent Earth's destruction and found Joyboy with the Crazy Gang.
Here Joyboy had formed a psychic bond with the Crazy Gang's Red Queen, using his powers
to distort her nightmares and form a beautiful land. During this time, Gatecrasher began
to go insane, seeing images of Hardboiled Henry, who accused her of making his death
meaningless.
The Technet later reappeared and Gatecrasher was the leader once more and Joyboy and
Hardboiled Henry had returned as well. Roma had hired the Technet to capture Franklin
Richards to investigate his incredible powers. The Fantastic Four and Roma came to an
understanding and the Technet disappeared.
At some point in the future, the amalgamated group would come to be known as the Special
Executive and travel back to the past where they would again encounter and oppose Captain
Britain and Meggan, earlier in the continuity.
Notes
Though the Special Executive is a future version of the Technet, it appeared first in comics.
Due to time-travel, the Special Executive have interacted with their previous incarnation at
several points.
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