BARODI race
BARODI race
Classification: Semi-humanoid extraterrestrial race
Location/Base of Operations: City of Kuth, by the ocean on an unidentified "traders' planet"
Known Members: None identified
Affiliations: Possibly Lucas Bishop
Enemies: Chnitt race
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men#358 (August, 1998)
Powers/Abilities: The Barodi did not demonstrate any special abilities in their limited appearances.
Traits: The Barodi are smugglers, and they guard a warp gate, the portal off of the traders' planet on which they dwelled; they can be bought, if the price is right.
Type: Apparently bilaterally symmetric semi-humanoid bipeds
Eyes: Apparently Two (on head; none were shown with their eyes
open)
Fingers: Unrevealed (at least two clawed fingers and an opposing
thumb)
Toes: Unrevealed (none are even shown below the torso)
Skin color: Gray and/or green (the former may have been just in shadow)
Average height: Unrevealed (they are roughly human-sized, but none are
shown in relation to any known characters)
History:
(Uncanny X-Men#358 (fb) - BTS) - The Barodi are apparently a group of smugglers
dwelling on a world known only as "a traders' planet," in the city of Kuth and
guarding the warp gate present there. Kuth lies across the "flats," a dangerous
stretch of terrain teaming with predators and ravaged by storms. The flats are
almost unnavigable by low-flying craft. The Chnitt, whose
mothership occupied an
orbital position around the planet and prevented any space exodus, did not
interfere with the gate because they would have to break their blockade by
traveling their with their mothership.
Whether the Barodi are a natives of the
traders' planet (or a tribe of the natives), or whether they originate from
another world is unrevealed. If the latter, it is unrevealed whether the
population on the traders' planet is the entire population, or whether some
specific fragment of it.
The origins of the warp gate are unrevealed.
(Uncanny X-Men#358 - BTS) - Seeking the means off of the
traders' planet and to destroy the Chnitt,
Karel (an alien who had
crash-landed on the traders' planet after being shot down by the Chnitt), led
his allies, Lucas Bishop and Deathbird, to Kuth in hopes of accessing the warp
portal. After braving the perils of the flats, the trio arrived in Kuth.
(Uncanny X-Men#358) - Karel pointed out the Barodi controlling
the gate, noting that while they could be bought, neither he nor his allies had
any money with which to pay them. As he asked for other options, the Chnitt
mothership appeared (the Chnitt having been warned by Karel's seeming ally, Tu),
breaking their orbital blockade to stop Karel. The Chnitt assaulted Kuth,
slaughtering the Barodi and apparently seeking to destroy the warp gate and/or
slay Karel. Thousands of Barodi apparently perished in the Chnitt assault (one
can apparently be seen lamenting over a fallen friend or relative on the right),
but Bishop scaled one of the buildings and hurled one of Karel's nullifier
charges into the mothership, destroying it, while Karel and Deathbird headed for
the portal. Karel made it through the portal just before it collapsed, reduced
to rubble, though Deathbird stayed behind and waited for Bishop.
The pair planned to depart the traders' planet and continue
their journey back to Earth.
Comments: Created by Steve Seagle, Joseph Harris, Chris Bachalo, and Tim Townsend.
I guess I'm ASSuming that the Barodi are
both the beings referred to as the smugglers, as Karel notes the city Kuth to be
the smugglers city, and to contain the warp gate. At the gate, Karel points out
the Barodi as the controllers of the gate, and notes that they can be bought.
That is pretty much the extent of their description in the
comic, and I may have misinterpreted something...but that's how it seems to be.
Anyone see anything else?
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Barodi have no known connections to
The city of the Barodi, who are smugglers, Kuth is by the ocean on an unidentified "traders' planet." Kuth is home to a warp portal, the means to escape the planet, as the alien Chnitt mothership occupied an orbital position around the planet and prevented any space exodus.
Kuth lies across the "flats," a dangerous stretch of terrain teaming with predators and ravaged by storms. The flats are almost unnavigable by low-flying craft. The Chnitt, whose mothership ,did not interfere with the gate because they would have to break their blockade by traveling their with their mothership.
Seeking the means off of the traders' planet and to destroy the Chnitt, Karel (an alien who had crash-landed on the traders' planet after being shot down by the Chnitt), led his allies, Lucas Bishop and Deathbird, to Kuth in hopes of accessing the warp portal.
The Chnitt assaulted Kuth to prevent Karel's escape, but Karel escaped through the gate just before its destruction, while Bishop used Karel's nullifier charge to destroy the mothership.
--Uncanny X-Men#358
warp
gate
The Barodi controlled the warp gate, the portal off the planet, in their city, Kuth. Seeking the means off of the traders' planet and to destroy the Chnitt, Karel (an alien who had crash-landed on the traders' planet after being shot down by the Chnitt), led his allies, Lucas Bishop and Deathbird, to Kuth in hopes of accessing the warp portal.
The Chnitt assaulted Kuth to prevent Karel's escape, but Karel escaped through the gate just before its destruction, while Bishop used Karel's nullifier charge to destroy the mothership.
--Uncanny X-Men#358
images: (without ads)
Uncanny X-Men#358, pg. 17, panel 1 (map showing Karel's craft passing the flats
and heading into Kuth)
panel 5 (Barodi
guards)
pg. 18, panel 2 (Chnitt mothership
assaulting Kuth);
pg. 19, panel 4 (Barodi weeping over
a fallen ally or family member)
Appearances:
Uncanny X-Men#358 (August, 1998) - Steve Seagle (story), Joseph Harris (script),
Chris Bachalo (penciler), Tim Townsend (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
Last updated: 12/03/13
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