REAL NAME: John Hardwich Jr.
OCCUPATION: Adventurer
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Human mutate(?)
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of the Confederate Planets
OTHER ALIASES: Lord of Jupiter
PLACE OF BIRTH: Urbania (Planet Earth)
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: John and Mary Hardwich (deceased parents)
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate Headquarters, Urbania (Planet Earth)
FIRST APPEARANCE: Planet Comics #1 (1940)
HEIGHT: 6' 0"
WEIGHT: 190 lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
In the XXXVII century the planet Jupiter has been transformed into a red dwarf star called Jovis and its moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) have become colonies of the Earth.
Professor John Hardwich was traveling in the spaceship "Aurora Borealis" with his wife and his 8-year-old son. Their journey came to a tragic end when their spaceship was blown off course by a solar storm and crashed into the wild jungles of Ganymede. The professor's son was the only survivor, alone in a vast wilderness with the only help of an educational hologram with the image of his father. One day, looking for food, the boy found the corpse of a devil-cat (a kind of Jovian saber tooth) and next to it a baby pup. The boy adopted the cub, who became his inseparable companion as they grew up. He called her "Tara". Somehow something affected in a good way the boy's development, that he grew abnormally strong, fast and with heightened senses beyond human. Some time later, a spaceship was attacked by pirates near Ganymede. Isobel Blake, aka Lightning Girl, who was traveling back to Earth was unable to stop the raiders, who left her for dead in the burning spaceship.
It crashed onto the surface of Ganymede, but Isobel was rescued by the son of dr. Hardwich, now an adult and calling himself Auro (due to the name of his parents' spaceship "Aurora Borealis", whose name had been partially erased of its keel). She was unable to send a distress signal so Auro decided to accompany Isobel back to civilization, crossing the jungle to the nearest outpost. Along the way, Isobel, Auro and Tara the devilcat, had many adventures and the two humans fell in love. Eventually, they reached civilization and Auro decided to travel to earth and become a member of the Inter-Space Justice Syndicate, as it happened.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Auro's level of strength is several times that of a normal human and he possesses superior senses, reflexes and agility. Although he does not possess superspeed in a strict sense, he is capable of running much faster and longer than the best Olympic athletes. In addition, Auro has Tara, his faithful devil-cat companion, something bigger and stronger than a bengal tiger and with an almost-human intelligence. Auro still keeps with him the educational hologram with his father's appearance and occasionally speaks to it for advice.
