X-Men: Spotlight on...Starjammers Vol 1 2

Appearing in "Phalkon Quest part 2"

Featured Characters:

• Starjammers
  •  Binary 
  •  Ch'od 
  • Corsair
  • Cr'eee
  •  Hepzibah 
  •  Lilandra Neramani 
  •  Professor X 
  •  Raza Longknife 
  • Sikorsky
  • Waldo

Supporting Characters:

• Excalibur
  •  Captain Britain 
  • Lockheed
  •  Nightcrawler 
  •  Phoenix (Rachel Summers) 
  •  Meggan Puceanu 
  •  Shadowcat 
  • Widget
• Lt'al
• Ship

Adversaries:

•  Deathbird 
• Shi'ar Imperial Guard
  • Astra
  • Black Light (First appearance)
  • Blackthorn
  • Earthquake
  • Electron
  •  Gladiator (Kallark) 
  •  Hobgoblin 
  •  Hussar 
  • Impulse
  • Magique
  • Manta
  • Mentor
  • Nightside
  •  Oracle 
  • Quasar
  • Scintilla
  • Smasher (Vril-Rokk)
  •  Starbolt 
  • Tempest
  •  Titan 
  •  Warstar 
  • White Noise (First appearance)
  • Zenith (First appearance) (Death)
• Shi'ar troops
  • Mimoza
  • Pupugli

Other Characters:

• Phoenix Force
•  X-Factor 
  • Archangel
  • Beast
  • Cyclops
  • Iceman
  • Marvel Girl
• Cult of Death (First appearance)
  • Tarq (Single appearance)^[1]
• space dragons (First appearance)

Locations:

• Marvel Universe
  • Earth
    • Atlantic Ocean
  • Shi'ar Galaxy
    • Shi'ar Empire
      • Chandilar

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor

Vehicles:

• Ship
• Starjammer
• Starskimmer

Synopsis for "Phalkon Quest part 2"

The Starjammers escape the damaged Starjammer in their smaller Starskimmer craft while, on the Shi’ar flagship, Deathbird prepares to execute Lilandra.  Sikorsky takes a shot meant for Lilandra, and Deathbird tosses him into a garbage chute.  To escape, Lilandra jumps in after him.  Using a cloaking device, the Starjammers sneak up on the flagship, and Ch’od, Hepzibah, and Raza deploy in three fighter craft to destroy the rest of the Shi’ar squadron.  In the ship’s garbage dump, Sikorsky tells Lilandra he only betrayed the Starjammers because the Shi’ar reprogrammed him with a computer virus.  Having gained the upper hand, Corsair persuades Deathbird to parley, but Lilandra returns to the bridge to kill her.  Suddenly, a squad from the Shi’ar Imperial Guard materializes behind her.

Binary bursts through the Shi’ar ship, distracting the Shi’ar long enough for Corsair to teleport Lilandra and Sikorsky to the Starskimmer.  Prevented from killing Deathbird, Lilandra is furious, but she defends Sikorsky because he aided her.  Once Binary returns, the team plots to retake the Starjammer.  Aboard the flagship, the Imperial Guard tries to save troops from being sucked out into space until Deathbird orders them to stop and teleports with them to the Starjammer.  She then has new member Zenith use his energy manipulation powers to re-energize the ship. The Starjammers dock the Starskimmer in the Starjammer’s hangar, but the Imperial Guard is waiting for them.  In the ensuing fight, Zenith blasts Binary into space, and she retaliates by incinerating him.  Corsair confronts Deathbird on the bridge and defeats her guard Quasar with help from the unexpectedly alive Cr’eee.  Unfortunately, Deathbird extracts and deletes all data on Phalkon from the ship’s computer and teleports away.

After Binary supercharges the Starjammer’s engines with her powers, Corsair has Waldo turn off its shields until it collides with a Shi’ar asteroid mine.  Realizing the mine was placed to block the direction in which Deathbird escaped, Raza determines she is heading for Earth.  As the ship races to catch her, the Starjammers take some down time.  Binary bemoans not fighting foes at her power level, Cr’eee reunites with his family, Corsair and Hepzibah get intimate in his cabin, Sikorsky repairs Waldo, Lilandra visits Xavier’s corpse in stasis, and Raza reveals to Ch’od that Zenith was his brother.  Lilandra starts to remove Xavier from stasis, but Corsair stops her and consoles her. The Starjammer emerges from hyperspace and, after fighting off fire-breathing space dragons, catches up to Deathbird’s ship as it approaches Earth.  Unfortunately, a Shi’ar armada is already there.  Corsair has Lilandra cloak the Starjammer, and it drifts through until they can follow Deathbird into Earth’s atmosphere.  They find her and her troops unconscious atop their ship in the North Atlantic.  With them in a stasis pod is the Phalkon whom Corsair recognizes as his granddaughter Phoenix.  Then, Phoenix’s teammates in Excalibur arrive to defend her.

Shadowcat reveals that Shi’ar troops abducted Phoenix, and Nightcrawler accuses Lilandra of sending them in revenge for the first Phoenix’s rampage.  Soon, a fight breaks out between Excalibur and the Starjammers. Shadowcat tries to phase into the Starjammer to find Professor X so he can call a truce, but the ship takes off. Corsair fails to stop the battle, Raza duels with Nightcrawler, and Binary unleashes her powers on Captain Britain. Then, the entire Imperial Guard arrives. Meanwhile, X-Factor is in a training session aboard their Ship when it is contacted by the Starjammer.  While the Starjammers and Excalibur fight the Imperial Guard, the Starjammer has Ship join it in orbit above Earth.  Recognizing Ship as a Celestial artifact, the Shi’ar armada flees into deep space in terror.  Below, Deathbird extracts a portion of the Phoenix Force from Rachel, but Lilandra stops her with a punch.  Before Lilandra can kill Deathbird, the Imperial Guard saves her and flees. Rachel wakes up, and Shadowcat asks about Xavier, giving Corsair an idea.

Months later, on the most remote world of the Shi’ar Empire, the Starjammers sneak past a garrison of troops.  Meeting with the planet’s natives, Corsair introduces Professor X as the “Bald Phoenix”, a symbol of power against Shi’ar tyranny.  Resurrected by the portion of the Phoenix Force that Deathbird stole and clad in a Phoenix costume, Xavier leads the Starjammers and the natives in a rebellion against the garrison.  During the fight, Sikorsky redeems himself with the team by saving Lilandra from being shot in the back.  Via a Shi’ar drone hovering above, Deathbird watches the rebellion from the Shi’ar throneworld. One of her officers recommends she use Earth as a source of power, and she agrees, declaring she will conquer it. Unbeknownst to her, the officer is an infiltrator from a cult that worships the evil Thanos.

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