History
Arak and his twin brother Arion were employed by the powerful and corrupt merchant Kyras Shakati as aides and bodyguards, and both were aware of his criminal activities, including the slaving operation. Both twins liked to indulge in the decadent pleasures available to them on Shakati's anti-gravity palace that floated two miles in the sky above the planet Cinnibar. They both also liked using blades on women.
After Star-Lord, Kip Hölm and Sandy had been caught while infiltrating Shakati's floating palace, Arak was with Shakati when the merchant used his Telempathy Crystal to tap their memories while trapping them in a virtual reality. Once Star-Lord had freed himself and his allies, Shakati ordered Arak to protect him so Arak then chose to confront Sandy, telling the "Pretty-pretty" that his blade was eager to be fed. Unfortunately for Arak, Sandy was far more skilled at combat and in a matter of seconds she had disarmed him with one hand while snapping his neck with the other. Seconds later, Sandy threw Arak's knife at Shakati, killing the merchant just as he was about to use the blaster hidden in his forefinger to kill Star-Lord.
A few minutes later, Arion made an attempt to avenge his brother by using a hand-held energy weapon to shoot at Sandy and Kip but his shot missed. Advised by Dirac that he could no longer hurt them, Arion accepted Dirac's suggestion that the best way they could serve Arak's memory was by fleeing to warn the prince. Less than fifteen minutes after Arak and Shakati died, their bodies and the entire palace were vaporized in the multi-megaton fusion explosion that resulted when a destruct sequence secretly engaged by Shakati caused the palace's anti-grav generators to overload.[1]Paraphernalia
Weapons
- Knives
Notes
- Since Arak first appeared in a black-and-white story in Marvel Preview #11, there was no way to show that his skin and hair colors were, respectively, anything other than light and dark. As such, his skin color could have been the same as that of Shakati, Star-Lord, Kip and Sandy. It was only when the story was colored for its reprinting in Star-Lord Special Edition #1 that it was established that he and his brother had chalk white skin and red hair. However, their eyes remained blank white, lacking either visible pupils or irises.
- Artist John Byrne included characters who looked like Dirac, Shakati, Arak and Arion in a crowd scene set on the Shi'ar Empire planet known as "Imperial Center" that appeared in X-Men #125. However, none of that foursome were named and those twins had yellow skin and orange hair.