nopictureavailable EBON

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (speculated to be an Eclipsian by Recorder#127, who also suspected her to be augmented; see comments)
    Grekan Yaer called her a Shi'ar, but this may have just referred to her being a force for the Shi'ar Empire

Occupation: Warrior; Imperial Guardsman

Group Membership: Imperial Guard (specifically Arach, Crusher, Dragoon, Warstar 34), Shi'ar Empire, 

Affiliations: Shi'ar Metal Wing Cadre, Grekan Yaer;
     at least temporarily Groot, Recorder 127, Roamer, Rocket (Raccoon);
    she apparently revered and likely worshipped Sharra and Kythri

Enemies: Badoon race (notably Commander Droook), Groot, Odus Hanxchamp, Rocket Raccoon, Sharnor the Accuser, Una-Ren, Universal Church of Truth (Black Knights, Cardinals (notably Navorth), Crusaders, Zania Orbal);
    at least formerly Gamora, Recorder 127, Roamer;
    formerly Grekan Yaer

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly the Conscience of Sharra, a Shi'ar Strikebird Class warcruiser;
    formerly Adjufara City, planet Adjufar

First Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy (2017)

Powers/Abilities: A tall, young, athletic and lithe woman, Ebon is smart, intelligent and ambitious

    Her primary super-power is dark matter manipulation/projection, including forming shields and projecting blasts which typically imparted significant kinetic force/impact, capable of denting the Plandanium armor of a Galadorian Spaceknight or shearing off the armored casing of a Xandarian cruiser. Her shields could absorb many forms of energy and could also be used to physically batter others via flying into them at great speed.

    She shuddered as she summoned her dark matter, although she could form multiple shields in short order.

    Even at a young age and as a new recruit into the Imperial Guard, Ebon was an experienced combatant, both hand-to-hand and in the use of her powers. She also used her flight implant to boost the force of her efforts.
    She was able to physically engage and hold her own against Gamora, who is reputedly "the most dangerous woman in the galaxy."

    She is covered from head to foot in a jet-black form-fitting bodysuit with delicate silver tracery of inlaid circuits on both her skin and her suit. She wore at her throat a silver broche in the form of the inverted triangular icon of the Imperial Guard

    She possessed standard issue Imperial Guard flight implant, enabling her to fly at unspecified speeds. Ebon was considered the fastest of her teammates, all of whom were more experienced than she was.

    Her optical implants could be keyed to feed directly into her data device so that she could scan a large crowd, and the device would flag a sought after individual with an almost one hundred percentile certainty.

    She carried a tablet able to scan and provide data about local situations as well as accessing extensive databases.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'8" - 5'10")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 145 lbs. )
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed
Skin: Slate gray

History:
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 30: "Which Contains a Certain Amount of Disagreeable Violence" (fb) - BTS) - The highly knowledgeable considered that Ebon appeared to be an augmented Eclipsian. 

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 25: "Meanwhile (Three hours later on Adjufar)" (fb) - BTS) - A relatively new recruit and junior guardsman in the Imperial Guard, Ebon regularly monitored the Shi'ar watch lists.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 25 (fb) - BTS) - Ebon was part of an Imperial Guard squad -- led by Crusher and including Dragoon and Warstar 34 -- assigned to the freeport of Adjufara City, the capital of the nonaligned world Adjufar. Their mission was to locate and close down any individual or operative buying, selling or moving Blisser, a new narco-form that washed the user with a sense of well-being but was addictive and often lethal; when mixed with other psychoactive ingredients, it could trigger murderous rages.

    As she surveyed the city, she was was followed from some distance by four Shi'ar soldiers of the Metal Wing Cadre. While Ebon believed that they should have gone in undercover, Crusher insisted that they go in thusly in a show of strength and authority.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 25) - Appreciating that it was not her place to complain nor her right to request more glamorous duties, on her sixth fruitless day, Ebon nonetheless silently wrinkled her nose with displeasure at what she perceived to be a cruddy assignment to Adjufar City. In a ten-second period in the souk (marketplace), Ebon identified forty-two different species, many of whom would have been at war with each other in another setting but were using its sleazy neutrality to get their business done, no questions asked; however, a simmering undercurrent of tension persisted.

    As she traversed the souk, noting its many sights, sounds and odors, she appreciated the sidelong glances of those pretending not to notice her. As they were not part of the reason she was stationed there, Ebon turned a blind eye to the endless criminal dealings -- cheating, swindling, racketeering, illegal trade in weapons and prohibited substances, and even cutpurses -- she saw around her. She considered that -- while Crusher had begun to suggest that either Adjufar was not a supply center of Blisser or that his team was doing a bad job -- her wearing of the Imperial Guard's symbol and her being followed by Metal Wing Cadre soldiers hindered her chances of discovering anything.

    After Crusher contacted her for a report of her lack of findings, he summoned her back to the Juva Parade to regroup.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 25 / Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 27: "Retail Therapy") - As Ebon turned to beckon the troopers, however, she briefly spotted a pair -- Rocket Raccoon and Groot -- who struck her as familiar from the Shi'ar watch list. She punched their descriptions into her tablet.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 25) - After she met up with her teammates, Ebon resisted the urge to respond to Crusher's notation that their failure of results was not going to look good in his report. When Crusher noted an amused look on her face and demanded an explanation, her tablet beeped with results on her search, and she instead reported that she had found something, "Not what we were looking for, but something we probably shouldn't ignore."

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 27: "Retail Therapy" - BTS) - As Rocket and Groot visited Pip's Palace, Pip informed them of an alert that the Shi'ar had identified them and were on the way. Wishing them luck, he instructed them to get out of his store.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 28: "Souk and Destroy") - Sharing the details of Rocket and Groot's recent infractions on Xarth Three and Xandar and of their associate with a Rigellian Recorder unit that contained data of perceived value to the Shi'ar Empire, Ebon advised the reluctant Crusher that they needed to investigate the situation. Support from the more experienced Dragoon convinced Crusher, and he asked and accepted Ebon's recommendation for airborne sweep surveillance. Crusher sent Ebon and Dragoon out for surveillance, with himself and Warstar at the ready to lead the Metal Wings.

    After she and Dragoon split up, Ebon used her optical implants, which she had keyed to feed directly into her data device, to scan the crowd.

    As Rocket and Groot headed back to their ship, Groot spotted Ebon above and pulled Rocket under an awning.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy chapter 28 - BTS) - Returning to their ship, Rocket and Groot learned that Gamora and the Recorder had gone out for a drink, and so they went out to retrieve them.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 30: "Which Contains a Certain Amount of Disagreeable Violence" (fb) - BTS) - Detecting the energies of Roamer, renegade Galadorian Spaceknight Roamer who had been transported there by his Interpolation Inserter with the goal of recovering Recorder#127 for his then-employers, Timely, Incorporated on Alpha Centauri, Ebon traveled to Pandubundy's Bar & Tech on Kefu Square.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 30) - Arriving at Pandubundy's, in which Roamer was about to battle the Zen-Whoberian and Guardian of the Galaxy Gamora to forcibly take Recorder 127,  Ebon ordered both Roamer and Gamora to drop their weapons or she would drop them instead. She also contacted Crusher and requested immediate back-up. When Roamer told her that the matter was none of her affair and ordered her (and Gamora) to get out of his way, Ebon replied that he had "said the magic words" as she shuddered and projected a globular beam of dark matter from her right hand. The blast smashed Roamer back into a wall, but he returned fire with his Spartoi blaster. Shuddering again, Ebon formed a thin disk-shield of dark matter over her crossed-arms, which soaked up the blasts.

    As Ebon dove forward and levitated into the air, Gamora leapt into her path and struck with both of her blades, but Ebon blocked each with a small dark matter shield. Repeatedly striking with her blades to keep Ebon's arms occupied forming new shields, Gamora used an upward scissor kick to smash Ebon back to the ground. Ebon rolled and came back up, trembling as she fired a dark, globular beam, but Gamora dodged and then forward-rolled and clamped Ebon's neck between her thighs. Strangled, Ebon dropped to the ground, but as Gamora tried to stab her, she was able to form a disk of dark matter to drive the tip aside. Arching up and boosting herself with her flight implant, Ebon drove Gamora off of her.

    Both women returned to their feet, and Gamora's swift strikes were parried by Ebon's dark matter disks. After multiple such strikes, Ebon kicked Gamora's shoulder back, but Gamora fiercely struck back, eventually getting past Ebon's defenses and kicking her in the ribs. Gasping, Ebon rolled to avoid the subsequent sword blow, but Gamora then delivered a punch to the side of her face, knocking her back through a nearby table and stairs and leaving her dazed.

    As Gamora stepped forward and raised her sword, the Recorder urged her not to kill Ebon and earn a Shi'ar death warrant and then warned her of Roamer's impending assault. Although Gamora deflected the first three blasts, a fourth cut a massive hole through her abdomen, dropping her. As Roamer prepared to to decapitate the Recorder to take only his head for ease of transport, Ebon struck Roamer in the face with a dark matter blast and urged the Recorder to flee, assuring him that her support staff was moving in and would look after him.

    His helmet dented from Ebon's blast, the returning Roamer fired his fusion beamer, the blasts from most of which Ebon absorbed with dark matter disks. She further formed disks to cover the Recorder's flight, after which Roamer blasted her out of the back of Pandubundy's into a market stall, leaving Ebon unconscious. The recently-arrived Imperial Guard -- Crusher and Warstar-34, alongside 16 battletroopers of the Metal Wing cadre -- then engaged Roamer.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Thirty-One: Dead or Alive) - In the ensuing chaos, Groot injured Crusher and then picked up the healing Gamora, and they, Rocket, and the Recorder fled back to the Xandarian cruiser. As the craft initially refused to depart, insisting that they wait for the Nova Grekan Yaer, the recovered Ebon flew up over the docks and fired a beam of dark matter at the cruiser's central processing module, attempting to disable it. The beam sheared through the armored outer casing, burned through eight memory blocks, and fused the craft's internal registry. She then demanded that those within the ship come out with their hands up.

    Detecting the jeopardy, the ship suddenly launched to protect its crew, sending Ebon spinning away in the backwash. The ship hit hyperspatial jump before the Imperial Guard could regroup.

    The group aboard the cruiser headed to Alpha Centauri and Timely Inc. headquarters.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Thirty-Six: Meanwhile (3,995 floors higher up) (fb) - BTS) - Sub-Praetor Arach was appointed replace the injured Crusher, and she led Dragoon, Ebon and Warstar 34 aboard the Conscience of Sharra, a Shi'ar Strikebird Class warcruiser that traveled to Alpha Centauri and Timely Inc. headquarters in pursuit of the fugitives who had escaped them on Adjufar.

    Three minutes before the main story, someone from the Conscience of Sharra hailed Timely's main communications division, notified them of their approach and noted that they were operating under the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Thereafter, they dropped their cloaking field.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 36 - BTS) - Timely Inc. head of corporate security Xorb Xorbux deactivated the holo-images on the window to show Senior Vice Executive President (Special Projects) Odus Hanxchamp that there was a Shi'ar war cruiser adjacent to the building.

    Xorbux informed Hanxchamp that the Imperial Guard wanted to take a meeting with him. Hanxchamp initially insisted that they contact the Alpha Centauri embassy and go through the appropriate channels, but Xorbux explained that, under the Intergalactic Non-Aggression Pact, they were permitted to intervene directly. Xorbux further noted his concern that the Shi'ar were investigating Project 616 -- in which Hanxchamp's division was trying to accumulate all knowledge of the universe with the aid of various Recorders to be able to alter reality -- and suggested they handle things discretely. Hanxchamp summoned his Senior Special Projects executive board and instructed Xorbux to tell the Shi'ar that he wold take their meeting in 30 minutes.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 36) - Transporting into the room alongside Arach, Dragoon and Warstar 34, Ebon surprised Hanxchamp by saying, "Tell you what? How about now instead?" She then introduced herself and her associates, noting that Arach had taken command after the previous commander, Crusher, was injured in the line of duty on Adjufar, and that nine Metal Wing warriors died as well. Hanxchamp expressed his sympathies and then offered them food and drink in an effort to diffuse the tension. After Dragoon informed him that they did not drink on duty, he poured himself some Spartoi liquor and then asked how he could help them.

    Ebon explained that they had tracked several dangerous fugitives from Adjufar to Alpha Centauri; although they had lost their trace two minutes after they entered airspace, predictive tracking had reported that they were coming to this building. With Arach's approval, Ebon noted that the fugitives were in the company of a Rigellian Recorder unit, which they believed to be of consequence. She asked why the fugitives would have brought the Recorder there.

    Initially shocked to learn the Recorder might be in his building as they had long been trying to recover it, Hanxchamp replied that he had no idea why a Recorder unit would be important to anyone except the Rigellians, but he assured the Imperial Guard that his security forces would run a full search of the building and find a Recorder if it was there. Warstar noted that they would prefer to do the searching themselves, but Hanxchamp insisted that this was Alpha Centauri jurisdiction and Timely Inc. property: They would get a resolution stat, and he encouraged them to sit down and relax while he had hospitality get some sandwiches and juice.

    Arach agreed to let Timely security handle things initially, after which the Senior Special Projects executive board -- Pama Harnon (secretly the Kree spy Una Ren), Allandra Meramati (secretly the Universal Church of Truth's Zania Orbal), Sledly Rarnak and Blint Wivvers -- then arrived. Hanxchamp noted the Shi'ar concerns and told his board to welcome their guests while he had Xorbux lead the investigation.

    Away from the Imperial Guardsmen, Hanxchamp instructed Xorbux to find the Recorder and get it to the Datacore, at which point they would have no further worries.

    Arach then had forty Shi'ar Metal Wing warriors transmat in, and she advised Hanxchamp, "Just to be sure we're on the same page."

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Thirty-Eight: Meanwhile (8,087 floors higher up)) - An immense Nova Corps heavy cruiser arrived outside of Timely Inc., and the hypervelocity boom shook the windows, causing Ebon to exclaim "Sharra and Kythri!" After four Nova warriors shattered the window in the process of entering, Ebon and the other Imperial Guardsmen assumed battle stances, at which point the Nova Centurion/leader Grekan Yaer introduced himself and his allies, and when Hanxchamp insisted there not be violence, Ebon and her associates powered down along with the Nova Corpsmen, and the Shi'ar warriors lowered their weapons.

    After Yaer announced that they were also pursuing the fugitives associated with the Recorder #127, he ultimately agreed to let the Shi'ar take the Recorder, and the Xandarians would take the fugitives Gamora, Groot, and Rocket.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Thirty-Nine: Project 616 - BTS) - Seeing the near infinite data within, the Recorder realized he was needed to complete it. After confirming the extent of Project 616, the Recorder asked Rocket to destroy him, but Rocket refused to murder his friend.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Thirty-Nine - BTS / Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty: Danger in the Workplace) - Teleporting into the boardroom from the nearby Pride of Pama, Sharnor the Accuser insisted that the Recorder was hers (and the Kree's), after which Timely, Inc. member Pama Harnon (actually named Una-Ren) revealed she had confirmed the Recorder's presence to Sharnor.

    The Badoon then arrived, and Commander Droook demanded the delivery of the Recorder or they would obliterate the entire landmass on which the building stood.

    Consulting her tablet device, Ebon noted that scans confirmed that a War Brotherhood battle-fleet had just appeared in low orbit: Ten megadestroyers, batteries locked on this location and their ships.

    And then forty immense Templeships of the Universal Church of Truth (UCT) arrived and teleported in hosts of Crusaders, led by Cardinals, to assault the facility and everyone in it.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-One: Truth or Dare) - Realizing that completing Project 616 would allow its controller to eliminate all of the gathered threats, Gruntgrill instructed Roamer to connect the Recorder to the Datacore. The Recorder sought to convince Roamer to be the hero he was meant to be.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Two: This is What the -Tik!- Flark is Going on Up There - BTS) - Crusaders of the UCT transmatted to the surface and charged into Timely Inc. Corporate HQ, with the Faith Cardinals at the forefront, led by Cardinal Navorth, who deployed the Black Knights.

    As the various forces battled in the upper floors, Sharnor sent Una-Ren to find the Recorder, and Nova Centurion Grekan Yaer pursued her. Ebon battled marauding Crusaders and Black Knights alongside Dragoon until Arach sent Ebon, as the fastest, to pursue Yaer. Ducking a Black Knight's swinging dagger and then punching the Knight in the face, Ebon followed the order when Dragoon insisted she go. Knocking another Black Knight out of her way with a burst of dark matter, she zoomed into a corridor and then formed a dark matter shield to absorb the blasts of a Badoon fire-team that fired their rifles at her, after which she used the shield to send them tumbling as she flew through them.

    Yaer reached the elevator banks just after the door had closed on the car carrying Una-Ren and Odus Hanxchamp, and they had headed down to the Datacore. Tearing open the outer doors and preparing to dive into the shaft in pursuit, Yaer bounced off a disk of dark matter created by Ebon and landed back onto the carpet outside. When she noted that he seemed to be in a hurry and raised her arm to unleash another blast, Yaer cursed the Shi'ar as he got up, and he told Ebon that Hanxchamp and Una-Ren were in the car, the destination of which he guided her to figure out.

    When they were attacked by Badoon War Brotherhood Devastation cadre warriors, they turned together and blasted the Badoon off their feet. Ebon proposed cooperation, Yaer agreed, and the two shook hands and introduced themselves. Ebon told him, "Let's go guard the galaxy," after which he and Ebon jumped side-by-side into the elevator shaft.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Three: One with Anything) - As the UCT forces arrived, Roamer battled Navorth while the Recorder was lowered into the Datacare. Groot tried to pull the cage back up until he was stabbed in the chest by the UCT's Allandra Meramati, whom Rocket then shot. Nonetheless, Groot fell forward, into the Datacore. 

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Four: Watched) - As Ebon and Yaer arrived and futilely tried to contain the situation, the Recorder realized that his form could not handle this level of knowledge and power, and Uatu the Watcher appeared and advised him to depose the power to someone who could.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Five: Great Power, Great Responsibility) - The Recorder deposed the power to Groot and then advised him to fix this mess, after which Groot transported away all of those who had invaded the Timely, Inc. building, including Ebon, Yaer and their associates. Groot then restored the damaged building, restored all those slain in the recent conflict, and then not only dispersed the Datacore but made it so that no one could ever re-create it again (if anyone ever thought of trying to recreate the datamap in pursuit of power, they would instantly forget how to do it).

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Six: Tails to Astonish) - The Recorder summoned the arc fleets of Rigel to collect and repair him, to download his data and reformat him, and to recover his dormant brethren in the Core below, and he bade farewell to Gamora, Groot, Roamer, and Rocket.

Comments: Created by Dan Abnett.
    In the Acknowledgments section, Dan thanked Stuart Moore, Jeff Youngquist, Axel Alonso, Dan Buckley, Sarah Brunstad, and James Gunn for their support in this project.
    He also noted "fist-bumps to <the Appendix's own> Ronald Byrd for continuity-fu."

    In the final portion of the last chapter, Tails to Astonish, the Recorder flashed forward, having recorded and now detailing what happened to most of the participants of the Project 616 adventure in the many years since its conclusion; all of these events occurred in the alternate Reality-17721; many of them may have also occurred in Reality-616, but that would have to be decided on a case by case basis.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Forty-Six (flashforward) - Ebon achieved the high rank of Sub-Praetor toward the end of her career. This promotion was due in part to her strong collaborative work with the Xandarian Grekan Yaer. Affirmative exercises were established between the Guard and the Nova Corps, thanks to the friendship between Ebon and Yaer. Because of them, the Shi'ar Empire and the Xandarians moved forward in a new intent of mutual cooperation.

What is Dark Matter? Short answer: We don't know yet.

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Or, according to Wikipedia:

In astronomy, dark matter is an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light or other electromagnetic radiation. Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects that cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be observed. Such effects occur in the context of formation and evolution of galaxies, gravitational lensing, the observable universe's current structure, mass position in galactic collisions, the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters, and cosmic microwave background anisotropies. Dark matter is thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures. After the Big Bang, dark matter clumped into blobs along narrow filaments with superclusters of galaxies forming a cosmic web at scales on which entire galaxies appear like tiny particles.

    Is this novel in-continuity? See the discussion here.

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CLARIFICATIONS:
Ebon should be distinguished from:

Eclipsian race

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 30: "Which Contains a Certain Amount of Disagreeable Violence" (fb) - BTS) - The highly knowledgeable considered that Ebon appeared to be an augmented Eclipsian.

--Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy prose novel

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Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy prose novel (2017) - by Dan Abnett (see comments)

First posted: 07/06/2025
Last updated: 07/06/2024

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