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Little is known of Trantra's life or its people. We're not even sure about it's gender or even if it has one. He is primarilly known as the first non-humanoid Protector of the Universe, so he must have been worthy of the Quantum Bands in Eon’s estimation.

Trantra is also noteworthy because it is with it that the Bands are first recorded to have signifigantly altered their shape to suit a bearer. Here, the bands a fused together to form a large ring that easily fits like a belt on Trantra’s form. The (now singular Band still maintains it’s familiar look, but all fourteen gems encircle it.

It is not known how long ago Trantra lived or how it died.

He was re-created by Thanos along with three other former bearers of the Quantum-bands to destroy Quasar.

Just on the heels of Cosmos in Collision and just before the first battles were fought over the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos interupted Eon’s funeral and fought Quasar, Thanos soon grew bored with the exchange and created four previous bearers of the Quantum Bands to destroy Eon’s champion. They were: The Stygian Starbender, Ree, Trantra of the Trill, and Robert Grayson also known as Marvel Boy.

After an exchange of energy blasts, Quasar merely put up an energy shield and then burst forth with foot long blunt end stakes and managed to down Marvel Boy. Then they assaulted Quasar with extremely sharp Quantum-weapons and he only just managed to escape their attack by defending himself with nunchucks, but realizes he’s far too outnumbered. He flies off to put some distance between himself and the other Quantum-banders, which the three remaining consider quite cowardly.

Quasar attempts a “total energy drain” but is caught by surprise when they slam a pair of Quantum-slabs the size of trucks in an attempt to crush him. They briefly discuss which of them will win the honor of being the last Protector. Trapped, Quasar briefly considers giving up, but he overcomes it and manages to escape after hearing a call for help that sounds a great deal like Eon. He Quantum-Jumps into the Quantum-Zone and waits for them. He figures that if the ‘background noise” of the Q-Zone can cover what he is attempting then he stands a chance. He begins concentrating on his connection with all fourteen gems on the bands and opens them to their fullest. The three remaining Banders come and he surprises them by overloading their Quantum-Bands with too much power. They get disintegrated and Quasar returns to the Eonverse.

Later, Quasar is nullified during the Infinity War conflict and ends up in the White Room. It appeared to be some sort of purgatory, holding within it’s curtained walls all the beings who had ever worn the Quantum-Bands. There he spoke with Glakandar who appeared to remember their earlier conflict which casts some doubt over if the Quantum-Banders that Thanos created were indeed duplicates and not the originals.

Abilities of the Quantum Bands

Energy Manipulation: Primarily, the bands are tools for manipulating forms of energy. A bearer of the quantum-bands can affect, alter, absorb, and channel any form of energy found in the Electromagnetic spectrum, from Gamma Rays to Radio Waves, and this also includes visible light. Wendell Vaughn, the previous wearer, once absorbed and released the entire energy output of a star, funneling the radiation, and nuclear fusion, passing entirely through the bands. So great is the bands ability to absorb and control energy that most other energy manipulators (Presence, Jack Of Hearts, Living Laser… etc.) cannot come close to overwhelming the bands, only truly powerful energy manipulators (Silver Surfer, Thanos, or Galactus… etc.) are capable of such a feat. The energy output of the bands is generally appears to be yellow in color, but since the bands have mastery of the entire EM spectrum, presumably a wielder could change the color of the energy at will (since visible light is only a small fraction of the greater EM spectrum). It is believed that the energy defaults to yellow because the energy of the Quantum-Zone seems to be yellow in color.

Energy Constructs: The bands can construct anything the wearer can imagine from "Quantum energy", This energy is derived from the Quantum-Zone, although the bands can absorb energy from all known sources. The more care the bearer takes in the creation of a construct, the stronger and more durable it is. A practiced bearer can alter the mass of the constructs so that they have the consistency of molasses or to be lighter than air. These constructs last indefinitely or until the bearer reabsorbs the construct into the Q-bands.





Mental Protection: Despite the fact that the Quantum-Bands have no control over the mind or Psionics, at least one previous bearer (Quasar) had "programed" the Bands to protect his mind for mental attacks and takeover. So powerful is this protection that neither powerful psychics, such as Moondragon, or the Overmind could overcome it.

Mental/Physical Bond: The Quantum Bands bond with their bearer upon contact interfacing with the bearer's mind allowing for mental control. Permanently affixing themselves generally to the bearer's wrists, the flesh and bone within rendered indestructible so long as the bond with the bands persists. The bond can only be broken upon the bearer's death, at which point the bands could be removed easily.




Extradimensional energy: Quasar is susceptible to all persons using Darkforce. His Q-bands cannot create constructs to hold or resist darkforce energy. The Darkforce penetrates his energy like it wasn't even there. Also entities from the Negative-Zone (such as Annihilus) can corrupt the bands if wearing them.

Kinetic Energy: The Quantum Bands have no defense against someone manipulating it psionically. (Which is why Maelstrom overwhelmed Quasar so easily to begin with), but a bearer can resist a kinetically imbued object (sich as a knife or a deck of cards) If a bearer of the Quantum Bands senses the attack they can throw up a shiled to defend themselves with.

Psionic energy: A psionic blast will cut through any quantum constructs like papier mache'. Fortunately, most psionic manipulators are susceptible to the energies of the Quantum-Bands, so it evens out.


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