KEEYAH

Real Name: Keeyah

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Kree)

Occupation: Pilot

Group Membership: None; formerly Starjammers (Ch'od, Corsair/Christopher Summers, Hepzibah, Raza/Raza Longknife)

Affiliations: Av-Rom, Ethan Edwards, Helek, Hulkling (Teddy Altman), M'Lanz, Talos, Tarna, Wiccan (Billy Kaplan)

Enemies: Knull, Shi'ar, Symbiotes, Uncreated

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
   formerly Standing Still

First Appearance: Starjammers I#1 (October, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Keeyah is a talented Kree pilot with advanced knowledge of interstellar spacecraft and the tech aboard. Keeyah was also briefly possessed by a symbiote and controlled by Knull.

Height: Unrevealed (5'10"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (160 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Brown

History:
(Starjammers I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Keeyah lived among various aliens in the group of planets called the Clench, on the planet Standing Still, where they helped victims of the Shi'ar find restitution and begin new lives. When the Starjammers came to live among them, Keeyah became their new pilot, appointed by the Clench leader, Helek. He regularly won in drinking games against Corsair.

(Starjammers I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Keeyah and the Starjammers liberated fifty Kree refugees, bringing them aboard the Starjammer as the Shi'ar pursued them.

(Starjammers I#1) - When the Shi'ar closed in on the Starjammers in the ship Vengeful Wing, Keeyah piloted the Starjammer to safety, then he fired on the ship when it pursued them. Stranded, the Starjammers plotted a path to a Shi'ar stargate, and soon returned to Planetfall, the place the Starjammers called home.

(Starjammers I#2) - Keeyah bantered with Corsair, suggesting that Keeyah had two bladders and that is why Keeyah could win more drinking games. The next day, Keeyah piloted the Starjammers to the planet Daimon, going into hyperspace to get there. On the journey, Keeyah sipped coffee to nurse his hangover, and he listened to Raza speak of his dead people. At Daimon, they discovered Shi'ar craft surrounding an Uncreated vessel, and they rushed to safety, blowing up one Shi'ar ship, but the Starjammer took on damage, stranding them in space.

(Starjammers I#3) - As the Starjammer initiated self-repair, Keeyah and Ch'od reviewed their rudimentary technology and used tech to create holograms over their ship that would keep them safe longer. Keeyah helped gather tech and debris from outside the ship and sorted it through it while Ch'od discussed his origins. Among the tech, they discovered the propaganda of the Uncreated. Keeyah realized their force fields were soon back online, but their jump drive was still disabled. The Shi'ar attacked, and the Starjammers used tricks to activate their drive, propelling the Starjammer away. Back on Standing Still, they reviewed the threat of the Uncreated.

(Starjammers I#4 (fb) - BTS) - The Starjammers planned a mission against the Uncreated, and Corsair suspected that Hepzibah would try to betray the team in order to destroy some of the Shi'ar, so he had Keeyah reroute her weapons station so she couldn't fire if she tried.

(Starjammers I#4) - During the mission against the Uncreated, Hepzibah tried to turn on the team, discovering that her weapons were no longer working. Keeyah apologized for the deception. Keeyah helped the team use mirrorcaster tech to fool the Uncreated into seeing their god in space, deescalating a potentially deadly fight as the Uncreated all committed suicide.

(Web of Venom: Empyre's End#1 (fb) - BTS) - Now Emperor of the Kree/Skrull alliance, Hulkling sent a group of Kree and Skrull soldiers to investigate why several planets had stopped communicating with the empire. Keeyah joined Av-Rom, Talos, M'Lanz, Tarna, and Ethan Edwards to investigate.

(Web of Venom: Empyre's End#1) - While investigating a ship, the group was overcome by the symbiotes of Knull. Keeyah was seemingly killed along with the others.

(King in Black: Wiccan and Hulkling#1) - Knull sent the symbiote-infected Av-Rom, Keeyah, Tarna, and Ethan Edwards to attack Hulkling and Wiccan on Little Chandilar, but Hulkling held them off with his magic sword while Wiccan used magic to cure them. Keeyah stood by his new emperor's side with the others.

Comments: Created by Warren Ellis, Carlos Pacheco, and Cam Smith.

The symbiote in this image is from the group of infected Kree and Skrulls, but it is not necessarily Keeyah. The different symbiote characters were not individually identified.

This profile was completed 03/17/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Chadman.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Keeyah has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Starjammers I#3, p4, pan1 (main)
Starjammers I#1, p4, pan1 (face)
King in Black: Hulkling and Wiccan#1, p25, pan1 (symbiote form)
King in Black: Hulkling and Wiccan#1, p26, pan1 (recovering from symbiote)

Appearances:
Starjammers I#1 (October, 1995) - Warren Ellis (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciler), Cam Smith (inker), Suzanne Gaffney (editor))
Starjammers I#2 (November, 1995) - Warren Ellis (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciler), Cam Smith, Dan PAnosian, MArk Pennington, Mike Miller (inkers), Suzanne Gaffney (editor)
Starjammers I#3 (December, 1995) - Warren Ellis (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciler), Cam Smith, Mike Christian, Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Suzanne Gaffney (editor)
Starjammers I#4 (January, 1996) - Warren Ellis (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciler), Cam Smith, Bob Wiacek (inkers), Suzanne Gaffney (editor)
Web of Venom: Empyre's End#1 (January, 2021) - Clay McLeod Chapman (writer), Guiu Villanova (artist), Devin Lewis (editor)
King in Black: Wiccan and Hulkling#1 (May, 2021) - Tini Howard (writer), Luciano Vecchio (artist), Wil Moss (editor)

First Posted: 09/25/2021
Last updated: 09/24/2021

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