Baron Karza
| This article is about the Micronauts villain. For the other evil, caped space warlord with a black suit of armor, see Darth Vader. |
- Baron Karza is an alien from the Generation 1 continuity family
A ruthless tactician and would-be universal conqueror from a distant dimension, few have underestimated Baron Hraal Karza and lived to regret their mistake. His ability to Enerchange makes him a formidable and unpredictable foe; his gadget-laden suit of shapeshifting armor only adds to his fearsome reputation among his allies and enemies. Karza sees himself as the only individual capable of saving the Microverse from itself, hoping to rule over the realm with his own iron fist. There's only one thing that stands between him and total subjugation over his home - the heroic Micronauts.
Fiction
Unit:E comic
While discussing the heroes of Earth, Synergy warned the young Acroyear that he wouldn't be able to stop Baron Karza without allies. Unit:E
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Hraal Karza was born on the desert world of Aegis-6 and was trained by the Sandmen at an early age. The Empire contracted the Sandmen to suppress a rebellion when the planet Kronos revolted against the empire. Karza served them well and eventually became a guardsman for the planet's emperor, and eventually rose to become the planet's Minister of Defesnse. He genetically re-engineered his Sandmen colleagues into the elite Acroyear warriors.
During this time, Karza met Shazraella, who would become his future wife—after the two colluded to assassinate her betrothed, the Emperor's son the Red Falcon. When the Emperor succumbed to grief-induced madness, which grew worse when a destructive entropy cloud began expanding from the very heart of Microspace. Karza, Shazraella, and Daegon placed the Emperor in stasis while the trio ruled the empire. The entropy storm continued to worsen, sparking a schism between Karza and Daegon which grew into a civil war. Karza's suspicions about the entropy cloud proved correct when he discovered an aged version of his own helmet, and he deduced that the storm was a rift in time rather than space. The New Colossus
In the midst of his war against Daegon, Karza and his crew briefly took on a strange castaway—the Transformer Windblade, who had had her consciousness cast across time and space to learn about the crisis that threatened the universe. Shazraella interrogated the Cybertronian for a while before Windblade could make her escape. Informed
While Scarlett expressed her worry about Optimus Prime's annexation of Earth making a target for invaders, Baron Karza looked upon a holographic projection of the planet. Secret Raiders
After the Micronauts fled into the entropy storm, Baron Karza decided to follow them, in a last ditch effort to save billions of lives. However, whereas only a few days passed for the Micronauts, Karza ended up spending years within the cloud, making numerous discoveries which warped his mind. No longer content just to save his people, he now hoped to shepherd them into a new age of prosperity. Upon detecting the Heliopolis, Karza hailed the ship and spoke to Oz Rael, reflecting on how long it's been, much to Phenolo-Phi's confusion. Microtron informed Oz that Karza's signal was coming from the same source as the energy they were following. Karza welcomed the Micronauts to the birthplace of Microspace and the grave of their progenitor: the body of Micronus Prime. Micronauts: Revolution
Karza had spent many years examining the workings of the comparatively colossal mechanoid, eventually discovering the spacebridge technology embedded in the giant and attempting to open communication with other realities—hoping to refine the cloud into a weapon he could use to conquer his universe. The New Colossus Using Micronus' body and the Prime's personal spacebridge, O Ship of State Karza began transporting Ore-13 from Earth into Microspace. He was displeased that he only managed to get 60% of the Energon he had locked onto. The Divine Source of Liberty His ally in the macro-verse warned him that his actions were putting Earth in danger of destruction and told him to pause his actions. Karza ignored this and reactivated the spacebridge only for huge chunks of Ore-13 to suddenly emerge from the portal and begin detonating. He was displeased at this development. O Ship of State
External links
- Baron Karza at Inner Space Online
- Baron Karza at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
