Full Name: Gabriel SummersUnbeknownst to her other sons, Katherine Summers was two months pregnant she and her husband, Christopher, were kidnapped by the Shi’ar. She was forced into slavery of then-Emperor D’Ken while Chris was put in prison, who fought long and hard to escape and kill D’Ken. When Chris failed, D'ken killed Katherine in front of him, and pulled out her unborn child, who was near to term. However, the baby was not killed, as Chris thought, but was put in a incubation chamber, where he was grown to a teenager in a matter of weeks. He was then put into slavery of Davan Shakari (Eric the Red II) on Earth, where he befriended one of the Shi’ar slave women, who gave him a book on Roman Mythology, from which he favored the name Vulcan. But one day, his mutant powers manifested themselves, and he accidentally incinerated his only friend, and then used his powers to escape.
He later turned up in New York City, where he was taken in by the police, and then turned over to Moira MacTaggert, who brought him to her stateside labs, which she was also using as a school for some mutants who had nowhere else to turn. Not knowing his true name, he chose the name Gabriel and provided no surname. He quickly became friends with the other students at the school, Petra, Sway, and Darwin, and was even favored by Moira’s compatriot, Charles Xavier. Gabe was fascinated by the X-Men, so he felt it was an honor to work with the man. Xavier had several sessions with the boy, mainly to help him recover his lost memories, but was unable to really help in that area, but did help with his training, even bringing in Cyclops to train with him, afterwards revealing to Gabriel that Cyclops was his brother. Xavier also brought Gabe along on a recruitment mission to try and bring a young Emma Frost back to the school. Then, one day, he came with a darker request. He had lost contact with his X-Men after they were sent to Krakoa and he needed help to save them. The kids, led by Vulcan's desire to be an X-Man like his brother, agreed to help, and Xavier put them through mental training that would make them think and feel like they had been training with him for months. He then gave them their own uniforms and sent them to Krakoa.
Once there, they lost contact with the Professor, but were able to free Cyclops from the island’s captivity, severely hurting Krakoa in the process. This infuriated the living island, and after they got Scott on their jet, they went back for the others, but it sent a volcano creature after them. Sway was killed immediately, but her powers remained to slow down time for her friends, allowing Petra to open the ground to save them, although she perished too. Darwin and Vulcan were also on the brink of death, when Gabe’s last friend converted himself to energy and merged with Gabe, allowing him to survive in an almost comatose state throughout the years after Krakoa was launched into space.
After M-day on Earth, a wave of mutant energy flew into space, washing over the rock in which Vulcan was buried, essentially resurrecting him, and boosting his powers to Omega levels. He found a nearby space shuttle, the pilots of which were killed from the wave, and saw the date and became furious when he realized how much time had passed. He used his powers to navigate the ship back to earth, and landed it safely by using Petra’s power to form a hand from the earth to catch the shuttle. Wolverine, Cyclops, and Marvel Girl III came to the crash site to investigate, but were attacked by Vulcan, with Logan left for dead and the other two kidnapped. The other X-Men tried searching for them, but Vulcan also attacked some of them from afar, using Sway’s phantom projections in combination with Rachel’s powers to make them see demons from their pasts. He even killed longtime X-Man Banshee by ramming him with the Blackbird when he found out too much about the mutant and his past.
Scott and Rachel soon attempted to make an escape, and learned some of Vulcan’s secrets, with Gabe himself revealing his relation to Scott. Rachel escaped when a ONE Sentinel tracked and fought Vulcan, but the pilot was killed and Gabe took Scott to go and find Xavier. They arrived on Muir Island, where they met up with Xavier, who could miraculously walk again. The reunion was short as the rest of the X-Men arrived, and Vulcan attacked and took Xavier hostage, wanting him to show them what he did to Gabe and his friends, but he couldn’t because Xavier was no longer a mutant. So, Gabe forced Rachel to link up with Xavier and himself to show all the others what happened. While doing so, she sensed something strange inside Gabe, and while he was distracted by her revealing how his friends tried to save him in their last moments of life, she awoke another consciousness that was sharing the same body as Vulcan, which turned out to be Darwin. As Darwin’s energy left Vulcan, he was weakened and the X-Men attacked. He was still strong enough to fend them off, and, disgusted with how his former heroes and brothers were treating him, took off to the stars with revenge on his mind for the man who had killed his mother; D’Ken.
After confronting and destroying Shi'ar ships near Earth, Vulcan began using and subsequently destroying the Stargates leading to Shi'ar space. he also expanded his control over his powers to produce an electronic voice for himself so that he could communicate with the ships in the vacuum of space. Once he realized how far he was, he commandeered a starship and forced its captain to teach him about the Shi'ar Empire. The captain eventually led Vulcan to a planet where he was ambushed by the Imperial Guard. Though he decimated their ranks, Vulcan was eventually defeated, and he lost his left eye in the process. In jail, his captors gave him a bionic eye, but left him alone for the most part. Vulcan began to hallucinate, seeing himself at his true calendar age of 15. Soon, however, he was released from his cell and directed to another inmate, whom he freed, finding it to be none other than Deathbird!
Deathbird convinced Vulcan to join her on her trek back through the Imperium, and they became lovers. Finally, Deathbird took Vulcan to the planet on which her comatose brother D'ken was residing, and for her love, Vulcan healed D'ken's broken mind. Vulcan then assisted the revived D'ken in a coup against Lilandra, though the Majestrix escaped with the X-Men and Starjammers. Recognizing both Vulcan's danger and his sister's love for the human, D'ken next made the shocking suggestion that because of a little-used law stating that anyone born in the palace (as Vulcan technically was), Vulcan was entitled to marry Deathbird and join the Royal Family!
D'ken himself performed the marriage ceremony at the M'Kraan Crystal, right before the Starjammers and Lilandra's forces attacked. During the battle, Vulcan grabbed Professor X and threw him into the Crystal, intending to trap him there forever. Darwin, whom Vulcan had kept alive to serve as a witness, jumped into the Crystal to save his mentor. Then, just as the Imperial Guard began to gain the upper hand, Vulcan incinerated D'ken from behind, exacting his revenge for the murder of his mother, and naming himself Emperor by right of combat! Vulcan then tried to kill Lilandra, but was stopped by Corsair, whom he killed instead, enraging the X-Men and Starjammers. Vulcan was wounded and forced to flee into the Empire to continue consolidating his power against Lilandra's forces.
Special thanks to Specter313 for most of this bio's info.
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