Sh'ri Valkyr
Sh'ri Valkyr is a Thanagarian Wing Commander and a Death Cultist. Her Cult of the Seven Devils worshiped the Luciphage, Starbreaker.
Name:
Sh'ri Valkyr
Publisher:
Real name:
Sh'ri Valkyr
Aliases:
- Wing Commander Sh'ri Valkyr
- Herald of Luciphage
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Female
Powers:
- Flight
- Gravity control
- Intellect
- Leadership
- Levitation
- Marksmanship
- Teleport
- Unarmed Combat
- Weapon Master
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Origin
Wing Commander Sh'ri Valkyr is a Death Cultist from the planet Thanagar. She discovered Starbreaker's incorporeal essence drifting aimlessly through space. During the ' Planet Heist' story-arc, the planet Rann appeared to have been utterly decimated. While tensions were escalating between Rann and Thanagar as a result of previous conflicts, the Thanagarians had a vested interest in discovering the cause of Rann's fiery obliteration. The secret Cult of the Seven Devils had come across evidence that Rann had actually been teleported away, and replaced with a star going supernova. Sh'ri Valkyr piloted her ship to Rannian space to see for herself, and wound up rescuing Adam Strange who was also seeking answers about the disappearance of his homeworld. Seeing an opportunity, Thanagar's High Councillor Thrall orderered that Strange be brought back to their planet to take the fall for Rann's destruction. Valkyr rescued Adam by teleporting him into her love nest right before he was about to be executed. She claimed that Thrall's attempt at scapegoating Adam Strange for the disappearance of Rann was merely a short sighted political move, and would cast unnecessary suspicion on Thanagar. Convinced that Valkyr was telling the truth, Adam Stange continued on with his search for answers. He used a Zeta-Beam to teleport himself to the Hydra Nebula, the origin of the Rann supernova. Unbeknownst to Adam, Valkyr had put a tracking device on him in order to discover the location of this suspected new technology.With the help of the Omega Men, Adam Strange discovered that the new technology was an Omega-Beam based on the Zeta-Beam. The device was potentially the most powerful weapon ever created as it had the ability to convert astronomical amounts of matter into energy, and could also draw power from the fabric of space/time. Soon, Adam discovered that it was Sardath that had teleported Rann, and its three suns away in order to keep the Omega Device from falling into Valkyr's hands. Sardath had to act so quickly that he had no time to inform Adam Strange. In fact, it was Valkyr's intention to give this technology to Starbreaker. With it, the Cosmic Vampire would be able to convert the entire universe into energy and beam it into himself. The rogue Thanagarian Commander was promised to have the honour of ruling at his side.