Later, Lord is diagnosed with a brain tumor and seemingly dies. The alien cyborg Kilg%re however, had been waiting patiently for the right moment to reactivate its control of Lord. Kilg%re downloads his consciousness into a duplicate of one of the Extremist robots, Lord Havok (in a further retcon the body is said to be a New Genesis-built automaton, which later fell into Checkmate's possession). In this form, he spends some time testing the League for unknown reasons. He also takes control of the secret organization known as the Arcana. His cyborg body later comes to resemble his original human form.