STAR THIEF III
Real Name: Ditmil Pirvat
First Appearance: The New Warriors
(Vol. 1) #5, November 1990
Powers: Originally a baseline human with no superhuman powers, Ditmil Pirvat is
a native of New Delhi, India who was driving with his family when he was
exposed to the unexpected discharge of energies from an experimental ozone
satellite analyzer in orbit over India. His family was killed in the incident,
and Ditmil Pirvat himself was reduced to a charred husk of a man,
transubstantiating between a state of irradiated cosmic energy and his decayed
human form. A team of scientists, dispatched after the blast, preserved his
life inside a containment suit which harnessed his rampant energy. Blaming his
tragedy on space exploration, Ditmil became the anti-space vigilante calling
himself “Star Thief”, attacking several space launches.
Now little more than a cosmic energy being held in
humanoid shape, Pirvat has no sustenance needs and survives continuously
without food, water, oxygen, or sleep, making him at home in the vacuum of
space. He is apparently a self-perpetuating energy, and his containment suit
must vent off excess cosmic force as plumes from his head or hands. Within the
suit he stands between 8-9 feet tall, possesses superhuman strength and can
withstand tremendous levels of physical force and temperature extremes. Star-Thief is only truly
vulnerable to attacks that penetrate his armor (causing his energies to break
loose and him to lose his physical form) or disrupt his energy state's
stability, like microwave assaults. He has navigational wings affixed to the
back of his suit, enabling him to fly at supersonic speeds. Pirvat can expel
his cosmic energies as tremendous heat and explosive power, releasing it either
as blasts from his hands or a roaring discharge that radiates out from his
body. This discharge is sufficiently powerful to cause massive destruction in
structures simply by him flying past them in close quarters. When effectively
concentrated, Star-Thief's
energies can utterly incinerate many tons of matter in a single release.
