Kit Rafter
Origin: Unknown
Archetype: Blaster or Defender
Power Sets/Powers: Luminary has the ability to project, bend, and control
light. His exact powers are unknown, but may include:
·Radiation
Emission
·Radiation
Blast
Levels: Unknown
Current Whereabouts: Unknown
Group Affiliation: Hero Corps (Official Spokesperson); Dawn Patrol (former member); Freedom Phalanx (former member)
Benefits/Rewards
·Unknown. It's conceivable that Luminary could offer missions, training,
information, and perhaps even membership in Hero Corps.
History
In 1993, Rebecca Foss founded Hero Corps, an organization that provides "hero franchises" to countries worldwide. "She and her sales force shopped
the plan around to heroes first, looking for a notable spokesperson around whom they could forge a corporate identity and
media campaign. While literally thousands applied for the job, Foss knew she had found the right man for the job as soon as
he walked through the door: Kit Rafter, AKA, Luminary. Possessing the ability to project, bend, and control light, Luminary
had served for a time with both the Dawn Patrol and the Freedom Phalanx and had garnered international attention when he saved
a cruise ship from certain doom at the hands of the evil Torrent and his watery minions. Luminary had recently resigned from the Freedom Phalanx in order to move from Paragon City to Paris
with his wife Jeanette Vesey, a world famous actress/model (indeed, it was their honeymoon that Torrent had so maliciously interrupted.) Already a little
bored with the low risk life of a married man, he jumped at the opportunity to become Hero Corps’ new worldwide spokesperson.
"In 1995, Foss and Luminary joined hands and cut
the ribbon on the world’s very first Hero Corps (HC) franchise, located in Mexico City. This first Corps team consisted entirely of home grown, Mexican
heroes, although they received most of their training at the Hero Corps Training Campus in Provence
under Luminary’s watchful eye."
In 1998, Luminary was at the forefront of the effort to build a Hero Corps
franchise in Paragon City. He undertook
a three-week publicity tour and engaged in debates with his former teammates in Freedom Phalanx, who argued that the city
did not need Hero Corps. Hero Corps eventually failed to establish the Paragon City
franchise, but it's assumed that Luminary continued to work with the organization.
As with other members of Hero Corps, Luminary's current fate is unknown. Because
of his relationship to other hero organizations, it's likely that Luminary participated in the war against the Rikti. However, it is not known whether he survived these battles.
Kit Rafter has been succeeded by a second, android Luminary who possesses the original's powers and the likeness of Rafter's wife, Jeanette.
