RECORDERof Rigellian Colony World#827
RECORDER
of Rigellian Colony World#827
Real Name: Recorder (designation unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Rigellian) android (Recorder)
Occupation: Recorder of data
Group Membership: Recorders of Rigel/Rigellian Intergalactic Survey
Affiliations: Rigellian colonists of Rigellian Colony World#827, Sundragon;
Enemies: The Dance (on some level)
Known Relatives: He
likely considers other Recorders as his siblings, while the Rigellians
are the creators of the Recorders (and could be considered as parental
figures)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Rigellian Colony World#827, unidentified star system, somewhere in a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy
First Appearance: Cosmic Powers Unlimited#2/3 (August, 1995)
Powers/Abilities: (Per Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#9) - Recorders are a humanoid-shaped android constructed from some extraterrestrial
ferrous alloy and designed for information-gathering and analysis.
Recorders' information-gathering instrumentation is located in their head
components, and is analogous to eye and ear placement on humanoid beings. The
eyes of the Recorder takes in data across the whole electromagnetic spectrum (radio
to gamma rays), not simply the visual portion of the spectrum. Their auditory
units are vastly superhuman; they can register sounds from .3 to 150 deciBel (see
comments). Recorders also possesses pico-processors, the olfactory register
of which covers almost 90 mega-cubits of data space.
The sampling rate for average events is every .01 seconds; for relatively more
interesting events it is .001 seconds.
Recorders'
computer fluid resolution data/pico-processing system fills the entire chest
cavity and has massive data storage capacity ( see comments) of
information storage capacity Recorder units are equipped with vocoders
permitting them to communicate verbally, and are able to understand and speak
over 11,000 languages spoken throughout the Milky Way galaxy (covering at least
96,000 cultures) and others explored by the Rigellians.
History:
(Cosmic Powers Unlimited#2/3 (fb) - BTS) -
Under unrevealed circumstances, an unidentified Rigellian or Rigellians
colonized a planet that became known only as Rigellian Colony
World#827.
(Cosmic Powers Unlimited#2/3) -
Rigellian Colony World#827, which included an unidentified Recorder
unit, was assaulted -- and the energies of their central computer
network drained -- by the enigmatic extraterrestrial race known as the
Dance. Some of the Rigellians considered the Dance to have gone mad.
As the apparent emperor of this world urged the others to run
for their lives, their Recorder unit considered that the Dance will
have drained the entire world of power in 0.23 planetary rotations. In
an effort to save that world, the Recorder transmitted "a
stellar call for help on all frequencies." The Recorder further
considered that outside intervention was their only hope and that only
a being of cosmic power could help them now.
Receiving the distress call, Sundragon traveled
to Rigellian Colony World#827. When Sundragon's communication proved unfruitful and
was met with assault by the Dance, the
Recorder noted this his memory stored observed events from hundreds of
Recorders throughout the cosmos. At Sundragon's request, the Recorder
allowed her to interface his mnemonic circuits and access information
about the Dance. After learning all she could, Sundragon blasted the
Dance ship, striking the precise area controlling their power flow.
Further resolving that the only way to stop the Dance was to cut off the source of their power, Sundragon apologized to the Rigellians and then drained the power of every energy output device on the Colony World#827. Pained by the process, the Recorder noted that it would survive. With nothing left to gain from the colony world and facing the threat of Sundragon if they remained, the Dance departed.
The Rigellians thanked Sundragon for saving them for the Dance,
although their apparent emperor noted that in the process she had
destroyed their world-wide computer and the source of all of their
power. Sundragon assured the Rigellians that she would do everything in
her power to help them rebuild after she had gone after the Dance in an
effort to stop them from causing any more grief to anyone ever again.
The Recorder accompanied Sundragon.
(Cosmic Powers Unlimited#2/3 - BTS) - The
Dance subsequently attempted to protect an unidentified alien world
from a comet. Appreciating that the Dance ship -- having failed to gain
the power they needed from Rigellian Colony World#827 -- would
fail to save the world and perish in the process, Sundragon destroyed
the comet and saved both the planet and the Dance ship. After the Dance departed, Sundragon and the Recorder visited the
world, which proved to be barren, bereft of surface liquid or an
atmosphere habitable for most.
Comments: Created by Mariano Nicieza and Pasqual Ferry.
The units and descriptions for superhuman hearing ranges noted in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe for beings such as Daredevil, the Recorders, etc. has been called into question. This is not an area of medicine in which I was trained, and so I honestly have no idea how to resolve it.
When the original handbooks came out, they were reported as being able to store 40 terabytes of data, which was an insane amount of data capacity back in 1982. I don't know what it is now, but I am certain it is orders of magnitude greater than 40 terabytes.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Recorder of Rigellian Colony World#827 should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Cosmic Powers Unlimited#2/3: Sundragon (August, 1995) - Mariano
Nicieza (writer), Pasqual Ferry (penciler/inker), Joe Andreani
(assistant editor), Mark Gruenwald (editor)
First posted: 03/31/2024
Last updated: 03/31/2024
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