gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml257-full COMMANDER GEMET

Real Name: Gemet

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Shi'ar) technology-user

Occupation: Military Commander aboard the Gul Damar Space Station

Group Membership: Shi'ar Empire, crew of the Gul Damar Space Station

Affiliations: Mentally controlled by Friendless;
    formerly Frenzy (Joanna Cargill), Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Lt. H'ral, Magneto (Max Eisenhart), Rogue (Anne Marie);
    worshipped Sharra and K'ythri

Enemies: Friendless, Grad Nan Holt;
    (at least while under control of Friendless) Frenzy, Gambit, Lt. H'ral, Magneto, Sovel Redhand and his crew (Glitter, Horse, Jat-Vor-Thrul), Rogue, Starjammers (Havok/Alex Summers, Korvus Rookshir, Polaris/Lorna Dane, Rachel Summers), unidentified Shi'ar who questioned him

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Last seen aboard the Gul Damar Space Station (see that profile for discussion of its location)gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml255-facecloseup

First Appearance: (Unidentified) X-Men Legacy#254 (October, 2011);
    (identified) X-Men Legacy#255 (November, 2011)

Powers/Abilities: As a Shi'ar, Gemet possesses both mammalian and avian characteristics, with feathers instead of hair.

    Though he didn't particularly demonstrate it, he presumably has superhuman strength (lifting perhaps 1 ton) and endurance.

    He carried and was experienced with firing a hand-blaster weapon that could fire lethal blasts (it may or may not have had less-lethal settings).

    He had access to powerful Shi'ar military weapons (including outlawed weaponry of the Anathema Vault, such as the Null Cascade), various forms of transportation and analytic technology, notably an imager, which was high-tech eyewear that allowed viewing at great distance as well as computer identification of those in the field of view and various other forms of analysis.gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml256-hral-shot

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'3"-6'4"; he was a little taller than both Gambit and Magneto, both of whom are 6'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 200 - 220 lbs.)
Eyes: Gray
Hair: None? (but very hairlike gray eyebrows and beard (the top and sides of his head was covered by his helmet)

History:
 (X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - Gemet was a Shi'ar military commander working aboard the immense Gul Damar Space Station.

(X-Men Legacy#256 (fb)  / X-Men Legacy#257 (fb) - BTS) - The maddened renegade Grad Nan Holt Friendless took control of the Grad Nan Holt on Gul Damar, leading them to war against the Shi'ar.

(X-Men Legacy#257 (fb) - BTS) - The battle apparently damaged Gul Damar's gravitic flux generator.

(X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS) - Answering a distress call on Gul Damar, the Starjammers (Rachel Summers/Grey, Havok, Polaris, Korvus Rookshir) ...

(X-Men Legacy#257 (fb) - BTS) - ...crashed into Gul Damar's hull due to the local gravity going haywire and then...

(X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS) - ...walked into a civil war.

(X-Men Legacy#250 (fb) - BTS) - The Starjammers battled the Grad Nan Holt within Gul Damar.

 (X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS / X-Men Legacy#256 (fb) - BTS) - Friendless psychically incapacitated Rachel and then placed the other Starjammers under his control.

 (X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - Fighting alongside the Grad Nan Holt, the Starjammers did grave damage to the space station (notably to its gravitic flux generator) and slew many Shi'ar.

 (X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - Sovel Redhand led his crew (Glitter, Horse, Jat) to the damaged Gul Damar, seeking to salvage a large amount of technology during the existing upheavals. However, the space station's distorted gravity caused the crew to lose control, presumably crashing the ship.

 (X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - The nearby inner planets were pulled into their sun, a result of the damage to Gul Damar's gravitic flux generator causing the sun's gravity field to spike.

(X-Men Legacy#253 - BTS) - The X-Man Rogue -- having absorbed a teleporter's power from Legion/David Haller -- locked on to Rachel's location and transported herself, Frenzy, Gambit, and Magneto thousands of light years to reach Rachel Grey. Rogue was split from her allies, who arrived on a different part of the Gul Damar space station.

 (X-Men Legacy#254 / X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - The Grad Nan Holt ambushed a Shi'ar transport including Commander Gemet, and they captured a number of Shi'ar (including technician B'ket Imstari), teleporting them away.

gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml254-translate (X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - After Magneto drove off the other Grad Nan Holt, Gemet mentioned to his troops his suspicion that -- based on their similar skin coloration and body plan -- this new group might be from Earth, same as the force wielders allied with the Grad Nan Holt (the Starjammers, although he did not know their names).

(X-Men Legacy#254) - Gemet activated a translator and then thanked Magneto, asking if they were loyal to the Shi'ar Empire. Magneto explained that they from Earth on unrelated business, leading Gemet to note his confirmed suspicion and to reference those allied with the Grad Nan Holt. Magneto asked Gemet to describe these other humans.

(X-Men Legacy#254 (fb) - BTS) - Gemet's description confirmed the Starjammers' presence.

(X-Men Legacy#255) - One of Gemet's troops (possibly H'ral) reported that they had located the Grad Nan Holt's base. Taking the imager, Gemet confirmed this to be the same clan and sept that had attacked his group, and he appreciated that this cargo bay must be their main beachhead in ochre radial; he also noted some anomalous readings, presumably from a race that was not in the imaging database. He then instructed Lt. H'ral to bring up the semi-portables and -- at Magneto's query -- he explained that they were going to "blast those rebel scum into loose atoms." When Gambit grabbed him by the shoulder and asked if he was mad, Gemet advised him that he was a commissioned officer in the armies of the Majestor Shi'ar...and that he would thank him to remove that hand. Gambit argued that they had seen the Grad Nan Holt take Shi'ar prisoners and that such an assault would kill his own people.

    Gemet countered that service to the Empire demanded sacrifice, and Magneto considered that that was so when necessary but that a futile sacrifice only aided the enemy. Gemet asked what was his point, and Magneto suggested that he and his allies could go in first to negotiate on their behalf. Levitating a ship into the air -- leading a shocked Gemet to proclaim "G-gods!" -- Magneto advised him that their great power could be used to avoid pointless bloodshed and that if they failed to secure the release of the prisoners, the option of brute force was still open to them. Clearly intimidated, Gemet agreed that there was merit to this course of action, and he noted that he would confer with his superiors and bring him an answer shortly.

(X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS) - Gemet's superiors apparently approved this action.

(X-Men Legacy#255 - BTS) - By the time Magneto, Frenzy, and Gambit confronted the Grad Nan Holt, the other prisoners beside Imstari had already been executed.

(X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Gemet fell under the mental control of Friendless. 

(X-Men Legacy#255) - Watching via the imager, Gemet noted that Magneto had gotten them talking, although he wondered about what. H'ral asked permission to make an observation and then explained that the walls of the cargo bay were already damaged as they had taken some very heavy hits a while back and that a full salvo would probably breach through what's left of the shielding. Gemet asked him if he meant that this would punch through to vacuum and empty them all into space, and when Lt. H'ral confirmed, Gemet told him, "Duly noted...tell the gunners to stand ready."

    After Friendless forces Imstari to stab himself in the chest, Gemet ordered his troops to fire all guns on maximum aperture, damaging the hull.

(X-Men Legacy#256) - When Lt. H'ral asked if they could cease fire, Gemet told him absolutely not, as they had the filth trapped down there, and "by the holy marriage, I intend to finish the job." H'ral desperately pointed out to his commander that the force shields were already down and that if they kept hitting them, they were going to -- but Gemet cut him off, pulling his blaster, shooting him in the chest, and telling him that he was relieved of command, effective immediately.

    A gunner sergeant asked if they should carry on, and Gemet confirmed this and then told someone to clean up "this mess" (H'ral's body).

(X-Men Legacy#256) - Rachel Summers telekinetically sealed the breach and knocked Friendless out into space, temporarily neutralizing his influence on those within the base.

 (X-Men Legacy#256 - BTS) - Rogue subsequently encountered the dying B'ket Imstari and absorbed his knowledge  of how to repair the gravitic flux generator.

 (X-Men Legacy#256) - Glitter led the rest of her crew to confront the Shi'ar soldiers working the weapons. Not wishing to participate in a firefight in an external freight bay, Gemet (presumably, as he was only seen somewhat distantly) ordered all gunners to stand down, and he noted "I think those aliens are saving our lives."gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml257-announce

 (X-Men Legacy#256 - BTS) - Magneto guided and aided Polaris in repairing the hull.

(X-Men Legacy#256 - BTS) - Meanwhile, Friendless reached an airlock and mentally manipulated the Shi'ar officers to open it, after which he re-established his control over the Grad Nan Holt and Shi'ar leaders.

(X-Men Legacy#257 (fb) - BTS) - Friendless commanded those under his influence to destroy the ships in the dockyard to prevent any from escaping the space station.

(X-Men Legacy#257) - Friendless manipulated Commander Gemet and the Grad Nan Holt janissaries and to unite against the Terrans. Gemet noted that the poets could sing of and the sculptors could set in stone of the day the Shi'ar and the Grad Nan Holt made peace.

    To this end, Gemet (directed by Friendless) showed the Grad Nan Holt to the Anathema Vault, where they stored the weapons banned from use in normal conflicts but still available in times of direst emergency.

    When a panicked Shi'ar soldier questioned their decaying orbit, that they were falling into the sun and had to act now, Friendless spoke through Gemet, telling him that killing the Terrans would save the station and that no loyal Shi'ar would question that. Announcing that these questions meant the soldier was not loyal, Gemet then had a pair of soldiers take that soldier into custody and instructed them to kill him if he spoke again. He told the others that they must not flinch from their duty, no matter where it may take them. gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml257-friendless

(X-Men Legacy#257) - Manipulated by Friendless, Commander Gemet and the Janissaries located their enemies in the dockyard, and Gemet had the Null Cascade, a factory for anti-matter, set up and instructed that no one was to pass spinward of the machine. Gemet noted that the weapon was effective at any range, including interplanetary. He further noted that once it was activated, its owner operation would provide all the power it needed and that the more matter it encountered, the faster it would propagate: By the time they saw it coming, it would be upon them.

    Using his own hand, retina, and voice, Commander Gemet instructed the Null Cascade's controls that he had rank and station enough to command it, and that he did: "Activate!" As its power was unleashed, Gemet asked that Sharra have mercy on them as they would need it.

(X-Men Legacy#257 - BTS) - The allied mutants, Starjammers, and mercenaries trying to save the station soon saw the approaching anti-matter wave.

(X-Men Legacy#258 - BTS) - While Rogue's mind struggled to complete the equations from B'ket Imstari's mind, Rachel joined with her to enslave Friendless' mind and force his genius-level intelligence to solve her equations.

    Using this, they arranged things so that when the Null Cascade was fired into the already-gravity-afflicted sun, it caused the sun to collapse into a wormhole with the far end pointed at Earth.

    The entire Gul Damar station was then transported to Earth orbit.

    Gemet presumably regained his mind and remained on the Gul Damar for the duration. The space station was presumably eventually relocated (as it was supposed to be planet-sized, and it would have screwed up things in Earth's solar system)

Comments: Created by Mike Cary, Steve Kurth, and Jay Leisten.

    Gemet's irrational and traitorous actions were all apparently done while he was under the control of Friendless. Although I did not see Gemet in #258, I don't see any reason to think that he did not survive Gul Damar's transport to Earth's atmosphere, but his subsequent fate, including any judgment of his activities, is unrevealed.

    And, this profile concludes the characters, race, and technology from the two stories with Sovel Redhand's group (not including Friendless, who is being held for an upcoming special event). Onward and upward!

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Gemet should be distinguished from:

Lt. H'ral

gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml256-hral-face     Lt. H'ral was a solider on the Gul Damar Space Station serving under Commander Gemet

(X-Men Legacy#255) - One of Commander Gemet's troops (possibly H'ral) reported that they had located the Grad Nan Holt's base.

     Gemet then instructed Lt. H'ral to bring up the semi-portables and -- at Magneto's query -- prepared to "blast those rebel scum into loose atoms." gemet-shiar-guldamar-xml256-hral-dead

(X-Men Legacy#255) - Magneto intimidated Shi'ar Commander Gemet into allowing himself, Frenzy, and Gambit to negotiate the prisoners' release and then only resorting to force if they failed to secure the prisoners' release.

(X-Men Legacy#255 - BTS) - By the time Magneto, Frenzy, and Gambit confronted the Grad Nan Holt, the other prisoners beside Imstari had already been executed.

(X-Men Legacy#255 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Gemet fell under the mental control of Friendless. 

(X-Men Legacy#255) - Watching via the imager, Gemet noted that Magneto had gotten them talking, although he wondered about what. H'ral asked permission to make an observation and then explained that the walls of the cargo bay were already damaged as they had taken some very heavy hits a while back and that a full salvo would probably breach through what's left of the shielding. Gemet asked him if he meant that this would punch through to vacuum and empty them all into space, and when Lt. H'ral confirmed, Gemet told him, "Duly noted...tell the gunners to stand ready."

    After Friendless forces Imstari to stab himself in the chest, Gemet ordered his troops to fire all guns on maximum aperture, damaging the hull.

(X-Men Legacy#256) - When Lt. H'ral asked if they could cease fire, Gemet told him absolutely not, as they had the filth trapped down there, and "by the holy marriage, I intend to finish the job." H'ral desperately pointed out to his commander that the force shields were already down and that if they kept hitting them, they were going to -- but Gemet cut him off, pulling his blaster, shooting him in the chest, and telling him that he was relieved of command, effective immediately. With a "Hhkkk!" H'ral fell to the ground, apparently deceased and his chest still glowing with energy.

    A gunner sergeant asked if they should carry on, and Gemet confirmed this and told someone to clean up "this mess" (H'ral's body).

--X-Men Legacy#254; (identified) #255

other Shi'ar soldier questioning the Friendless-controlled Gemet

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(X-Men Legacy#257) - When a panicked Shi'ar soldier questioned their decaying orbit, that they were falling into the sun and had to act now, Friendless spoke through Gemet, telling him that killing the Terrans would save the station and that no loyal Shi'ar would question that.

      Announcing that these questions meant the soldier was not loyal, Gemet then had a pair of soldiers take that soldier into custody and instructed them to kill him if he spoke again.

     Gemet then told the others that they must not flinch from their duty, no matter where it may take them.

--X-Men Legacy#257

images: (without ads)
 X-Men Legacy#254, pg. 19, panel 1 (translator activating while speaking to Magneto);
    #255, pg. 4, panel 4 (face close-up);
    #256, pg. 4, panel 1 (H'ral face);
          panel 4 (shooting H'ral);
          panel 5 (ordering clean-up of "this mess");
    #257, pg. 5, panel 1 (announcing glorious day);
       pg. 6, panel 2 (soldier warning of decaying orbit);
          panel 3 (controlled by Friendless);
          panel 4 (soldier taken away);
       pg. 13, panel 3 (full, front, small)

Appearances:
 X-Men Legacy#254 (October, 2011) - Mike Cary (writer), Steve Kurth (penciler), Jay Leisten (inker), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor)
 X-Men Legacy#255 (November, 2011) - Mike Cary (writer), Steve Kurth (penciler), Craig Yeung & Jay Leisten (inker), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor)
 X-Men Legacy#256 (November, 2011) - Mike Cary (writer), Steve Kurth (penciler), Craig Yeung with Jeff Huet and Ed Tadeo (inkers), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor)
 X-Men Legacy#257 (December, 2011) - Mike Cary (writer), Khoi Pham (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor)
 X-Men Legacy#258 (January, 2012) - Mike Cary (writer), Steve Kurth (penciler), Ed Tadeo (inker), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor)

First posted: 10/27/2023
Last updated: 10/27/2023

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