A freak accident involving the hole in the ozone layer in combination with particularly heavy sunspot activity caused the chemicals in her sun tan lotion (SPF 300) to mutate her skin and transform this mild-mannered, brilliant researcher into 300 pounds of purple fury. Temperature extremes tend to set off her transformation, so she tries valiantly to keep her core body temperature at 36.6 degrees Celsius. In the face of injustice, though, she can be seen calmly putting on an extra sweater with a smile on her face.

When the Galactic Peace Alliances last Strykker Wing had been obliterated by the belligerent inhabitants of Dorkhathi Prime, all seemed lost. In desperation, the Alliance turned to the ranks of its hard-working sanitary engineers corps, hoping to mount one final stand prior to almost certain annihilation. Donning his Strykker uniform for the first time ever, Jeb recalls, 'Was like falling back into the arms of a former lover." The following days gave birth to the rag-tag and now legendary Strykker squadron dubbed the Trash Corps, which would turn the tide of the war for stability in Altair 3. A Star was born.

Harold Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D., earned his M.D. from Columbia College of
Physicians and Surgeons. He also received a Ph.D. in Medical
Information Sciences Program from Stanford University. Dr. Lehmann is
currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor
of Biomedical Information Sciences for Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine. Dr. Lehmann is also currently the director of the
research-training program in the Division of Health Sciences
Informatics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He
has published extensively in the areas of decision support and medical
informatics.

Jive Turkey! From the moment he lost the 1975 Disco Down in Brooklyn to his arch rival Unskinny BeeBop, Disco Sanchez knew that there had to be more to life than the cha-cha and the California hustle. Partially completing a correspondence course in Shao Lin Kung Fu, he took to the streets crime fighting the only way he knew how, in style, brotha!

Mary White is an NIH/NLM Fellow in Health Informatics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has her undergraduate and graduate training from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with specializations in information and library science, international development and public health. She has worked with community centers and libraries in South Africa and Honduras. DISCO (Dance based Interventional Study on Childhood Obesity), her other research project at Hopkins, utilizes the Dance Dance Revolution video game for childhood obesity prevention with children in East Baltimore.

Robert Swain is an Informationist Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Johns Hopkins University.

Lance comes from a long line of superheroes, namely the Spectaculars, who distinguished themselves by being just that, spectacular, at a one particular thing. Momma Spectacular roped in villains with her Spectacular Lasagna (one bite, and they simply would turn themselves in, weeping with joy). Poppa Spectacular could make paint blister with his Spectacular foot odor. Sister Spectacular could turn hardened fiends into blubbering idiots with her condescending glances during an episode of her trademark Spectacular PMS. And Lance? A gifted child psychiatrist by day, Lance still has yet to find his Spectacular skill. He does play a mean game of Boggle™, though. Spectacular, though? This remains to be seen.

It is said that on nights when the moon is but a sliver of silver, the phoenix is reborn. By day, a gifted, prolific performance scientist, and by night, a red leather clad maelstrom of blond tresses. She searches tirelessly on these nights, bringing swift justice to those vermin foolish enough to wrong others on the night of the phoenix. And with the first glimmer of daybreak, phoenix falls from the sky consumed in flames, to emerge, reborn, as her mild-mannered alter ego. That is, until the next silver moon.

The rivalry between the Sao-Ching and Tatsuma empires had raged through many decades. Both sponsored and were in turn protected by their respective houses of secret police, the innat. Clans of svelte and deadly assassins, these secret societies fuelled the hatred felt by these houses for each other by frequent acts of treachery. Heihachi-san, born into the Sao-Ching innat group, and a student of the healing arts, struggled deeply with the lot he had been cast in life. On many a night, he would hold up his hands to the moonlight and question their purpose: to hurt or heal? The following day, while on a 'mischief' mission deep within the Tatsuma stronghold, he spied the Clan's head, Hirako being bitten by a deadly taipan. Instead of rejoicing with his counterparts, he compromised their position, stepping forth and providing the life-saving aid that Hirako required. Within five days, the Pax Tatsuma-Ching was signed and established, ending seven decades of bitter rivalry and needless bloodshed.

Dr. Kong has over a decade of expertise in the fields of biotechnology research, clinical medical training, and computer technology journalism.

In 1995, his work on viral research in the Department of Immunology at the University of California at San Francisco was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. He has also contributed editorial reviews of computer medical applications to publications such as Next Generation, Boot, and Maximum PC.

Dr. Kong has an Integrative Biology B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. in Immunology from the University of San Francisco. He received his MD from Royal College of Surgeons and has thus far, licensed his computer medical training programs as part of the teaching curriculum to his former medical school.

Omega is a sleeper; trained by the US government for ten years in the arts of espionage, counter-intelligence, basic and advanced melee and weapons training. Fluent in 8 languages and 12 dialects, he was selected for his remarkable ability to infiltrate multi-national corporations, establish lines of trust, and monitor for terrorist threats, both real-world, and through the complex channels of e-commerce. The billion dollar catastrophic implosions of the telecom giants of the early millennium which left hundreds of thousands of individuals in financial ruin, represent Eric's loyal and unknowing supporters.