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|name = B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology

image=[[Image:Polariscolor.png|225px]]

|image = [[Image:bvbcetlogo.jpg|200px|BVBCET Logo]]

|caption=Polaris<br>[[Billy Tan]], artist

|motto = Creating Value Leveraging Knowledge

|comic_color=background:#ff8080

|established = 1947

|character_name=Polaris

|type = [[Education]] and [[Research]] [[Institution]]<br>[[Government Aid]]ed

|real_name=Lorna Dane

|principal = [[Dr Ashok S. Shettar]]

|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]

|faculty = 204

|debut=''[[Uncanny X-Men|The X-Men]]'' #49 (October, [[1968]])

|undergrad = 2600

|creators=[[Arnold Drake]]<br>[[Jim Steranko]]

|postgrad = 120

|alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0

|city = [[Hubli]]

|status=Active

|alliancesstate = [[X-MenKarnataka]]

|country = [[India]]

|previous_alliances=[[X-Factor]], [[Genosha]]n Cabinet, The Twelve, [[House of M|The House of Magnus]], [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse (comics)|Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]

|campus = [[Urban area]] <br> 56&nbsp;[[acres]] (0.227&nbsp;[[square kilometers|km²]])

|nickname = [[BVBians]]

|website = [http://www.bvb.edu http//www.bvb.edu]

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The '''B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology''' in [[Hubli]] was founded in 1947. It started as a Polytechnic in [[Gadag]] but was moved to Hubli in 1948 and simultaneously upgraded to an Engineering College. At first it only offered a civil engineering programme but as of Jan 2006, it offers 11 undergraduate and 6 postgraduate programs besides M.Sc.(Eng.) and Ph.D. programs.

|aliases=M2, Magnetrix, Pestilence

|relatives=[[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]] (father), Pietro Maximoff ([[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]] half-brother), Wanda Maximoff ([[Scarlet Witch]] half-sister), [[Zaladane]] (alleged sister, deceased), [[Crystal (comics)|Crystal Maximoff]] (sister-in-law), [[Luna (comics)|Luna Maximoff]] (niece), [[Thomas Shepherd]] (nephew) and [[Wiccan (comics)|Wiccan]], (nephew)

It is affiliated to [http://www.vtu.ac.in Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum], the University to which all Engineering colleges in Karnataka are affiliated.

|powers=Ability to manipulate electromagnetic energies allowing flight, force-fields, concussive blasts and the manipulation of [[Iron|ferrous]] metals. Formerly could convert emotions into strength. Depowered as of House of M. Now able to ingest and manipulate disease due to machinations of Apocalypse.

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'''Polaris''' ('''Lorna Dane''') is a [[Marvel Comics]] [[superhero]], a member of the [[X-Men]]. Created by writer [[Arnold Drake]] and artist [[Jim Steranko]], she first appeared in ''[[Uncanny X-Men|X-Men]]'' #49 ([[1968#October|October 1968]]).

== Educational Programs ==

A [[mutant (fictional)|mutant]], Polaris can control [[magnetism]] much like the X-Men’s adversary [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]]. She had a long-held suspicion that Magneto was her biological father, which he recently confirmed. Questions about her origins have been one source of mental instability for Polaris, which has complicated her long term relationship with the X-Man [[Havok]].

'''Undergraduate Programs'''

Polaris has appeared semi-frequently in X-Men [[comic books]] throughout the years. She was a member of [[1990s]]-era [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]]-sponsored mutant team [[X-Factor]].

* Mechanical Engineering (1960)

== Character history ==

* Electronics & Communication Engineering (1979)

===Origin===

* Electrical & Electronics Engineering (1959)

[[Image:UncannyXMen50.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Cover to ''The X-Men'' #50. Art by [[Jim Steranko]]]]Polaris was first encountered by the X-Men when she, as the innocent orphan civilian Lorna Dane (then dating [[Iceman]]) was kidnapped by Samuel "Starr" Saxon; the master roboticist whose brain patterns were later preserved in the [[Machinesmith]]. Saxon had constructed an android duplicate of Magneto, the mutant with great magnetic powers who was then believed to be dead and a small army of androids with strange powers called the Demi-Men. Saxon's plans were to use these androids as his means of accumulating vast wealth and power, while deceiving the world into believing them to be examples of evil mutants who had become objects of widespread fear. Saxon decided he needed a few mutants to lead his army so he recruited [[Mesmero]]. Saxon also acquired a "psyche-generator," which has some features in common with [[Charles Xavier]]'s Cerebro machine.

* Computer Science & Engineering (1985)

* Civil Engineering (1947)

* Automobile Engineering (1986)

* Industrial & Production Engineering (1983)

* Information Science & Engineering (1999)

* Biotechnology (2002)

* Instrumentation Technology (1986)

* Architecture (1983)

'''Postgraduate Programs (M.Tech.)'''

Mesmero used the psyche-generator to summon mutants in North America with latent powers. The nearest such mutant with latent magnetic powers, Lorna Dane, found herself compelled to travel to San Francisco where Mesmero was. Mesmero and his androids captured her and brought her to their desert headquarters where they placed her inside a "genetic stimulator," which altered her genetic structure so as to allow her to exercise her previously latent powers.

* Computer Science (2004)

When the X-Men attempted to rescue her, Magneto revealed himself as the leader of the group behind her abduction--and, more importantly, claimed to be Lorna's father. Despite the X-men's assertions that Magneto was evil, Lorna agreed to join his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto's ruse did not succeed for long. [[Iceman (comics)|Iceman]] provided evidence that convinced Lorna that her true parents had died in a plane crash years earlier. She then turned against Magneto and joined the X-Men. When the old and new X-Men together fought the island Krakoa, Lorna displayed her major power potential for the first time as she disrupted the Earth's magnetic field.

* Digital Electronics (1995)

* Energy Systems Engineering (1993)

* Production Management (1989)

* Structural Engineering (1988)

'''Postgraduate Program (M.C.A.)'''

For a while, Iceman had a crush on her but Polaris didn't truly reciprocate the feelings. She did however, fall in love with her teammate [[Havok]] aka Alex Summers who is the brother of [[Cyclops (comics)|Cyclops]]. The two left the X-Men to pursue their mutual interest in geophysics. They moved to the Diablo mountain range in California.

* Master of Computer Application (1999)

===Mind controlled===

== Distinguished Alumni ==

Lorna received her former costume, which is of [[Shi'ar]] design, when her mind came under the domination of the Shi'ar Intelligence agent Davan Shakari, also known as [[Erik the Red (comics)|Erik the Red]]. It was he who gave Lorna the codename Polaris, in ''The X-Men'' #97 (1976). At the time Shakari served [[D'Ken]], the now deposed emperor of the Shi'ar Galaxy. This was previous to the reign of his sister [[Lilandra]]. Shakari kidnapped [[Havok|Alex Summers]] and Lorna and subjected them to a powerful form of mind control: they were turned against the X-Men and attempted to assassinate Xavier. A massive battle ensued at [[Kennedy International Airport]] with the duo battling the X-Men. Polaris was defeated by Storm but Shakari managed to escape with both her and Alex. Charles Xavier finally freed her from Shakari's control.

* Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation

* [http://www.gwu.edu/~stat/irra/Irra_files/irra_nds-home.html Nozer Singpurwalla]

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Lorna and Alex returned from time to time to assist the team. She remained in civilian life for a number of years. Polaris and Havok led a happy life. They settled down in New Mexico and completed their degrees until the [[Marauders (comics)|Marauders]] ambushed her and Havok around the time of the [[Mutant Massacre]]. Lorna's mind was overtaken by an evil being known as [[Malice (comics)|Malice]]. Malice's energy matrix was very compatible with Lorna's powers and the two became grafted together, inseparable.

*[http://www.bvb.edu BVB College of Engineering & Technology website]

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As Malice, Lorna led the Marauders for several years. After Mister Sinister was seemingly killed, Malice's hold over Polaris weakened and Lorna was able to place a phone call to the X-Men in Australia for help, but they arrived too late. Lorna was with her alleged half-sister [[Zaladane]], a priestess for the [[Savage Land]]'s Sun People. The X-Men arrived in time to witness Zala's get away, but Havok managed to infiltrate her army in disguise while the X-Men followed. There the X-men had found that Zaladane had amassed an army of Savage Land natives who were being mentally controlled for her by Worm, one of the [[Savage Land Mutates]]. Zaladane revealed that she was in fact Lorna's sister and, using the Evolutionary's machinery, stripped Polaris of her magnetic powers and took them as her own. The process finally separated Lorna and Malice. Zaladane and her forces clashed with [[Ka-Zar]] and the X-Men who were trying to free Lorna. During the encounter, Zaladane's army was released from Worm's control, and Lorna regained her freedom.

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Having nowhere else to go, Lorna headed for Muir Island. On her way there, it became clear that she drew her strength from being a nexus for negative emotional energies. Lorna became a gateway for negative energy, gaining super strength and invulnerability as the gateway powered up. Lorna's new status as a nexus was perceived by the villainous [[Shadow King]], who used Polaris as a gateway to allow him access to the mortal realm from the astral plane, causing a world-wide increase in anger, hatred and violence in the process. Lorna was freed of his influence with the help of X-Factor and the X-Men during the [[Muir Island Saga]]. Upon the defeat of the Shadow King, Lorna's powers returned due to a combination of Zaladane's death a short time before and the neural-disruptive psionic blade of the X-Man [[Psylocke]] leaving no trace of her increased size, strength or emotion control powers.

===X-Factor===

[[Image:PolarisX-Factor.png|thumb|During her time with [[X-Factor]], Polaris changed costume frequently, and unlike the primarily green or purple costumes from the rest of her career, her X-Factor suits tended to be blue and yellow (as with this one, her third costume from her time with the group) or red and yellow. Art by [[Greg Luzniak]].]]

She was then asked to join the newly formed [[X-Factor]] by [[Valerie Cooper]], and tired of hiding out on Muir Island, she accepted. Lorna and Alex were set as its leaders. Her joining X-Factor offered her the chance to reunite with Alex, but their relationship remained largely unresolved. Since this time X-Factor has changed dramatically, and so has Polaris, growing stronger and more sure of herself, and more independent from Alex. They tried to maintain the relationship but they broke up and reconciled multiple times. Polaris became a mainstay of X-Factor and became the government's secret weapon against a possible attack from Magneto. Malice returned to bother her once more but Havok and Polaris, out of their love for each other, each tried to absorb her, preventing the other from being possessed. In the end, Malice perished at the hands of Mister Sinister.

X-Factor's atmosphere changed as renowned criminals [[Mystique (comics)|Mystique]] and [[Sabretooth (comics)|Sabretooth]] were forced by the government to join. Lorna began to question her place on the team and finally found her suspicions to be justified after Sabretooth ran amok almost killing the whole team.

When Havok finally revealed that his "terrorist" activities had been a front for his true undercover work, Lorna forgave him although she rejected him romantically. She also rejoined X-Factor only to watch as Havok was seemingly killed in the explosion of a faulty [[time machine]] constructed by the mutant from the future, Greystone.

Weeks later, [[Nightcrawler (comics)|Nightcrawler]] encountered Lorna in a church and she confided in him that she felt she was being followed and that she was sure Alex was still alive.

A group of [[Skrull]]s working with [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] were indeed shadowing her and broke into her apartment to retrieve the headgear from Havok's original costume. Lorna then learned that she was one of the fabled "Twelve"; a team of mutants destined to usher in a new golden age for mutantkind.

Polaris journeyed with the X-Men to Egypt to battle Apocalypse. During the encounter, Magneto, another member of the Twelve, discovered that he could use Lorna to tap into the Earth's magnetic field with incredible force effectively hiding his current reduced-power state.

[[Image:PolarisRedCostume.jpg|thumb|Lorna's red [[X-Factor]] costume]]

===Acolyte===

After [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] was defeated, Lorna returned to [[Genosha]] with Magneto to supply him with power and help him keep order. She believed she was doing it for the greater good, but also knew that she enjoyed the education in her powers that she was receiving. In the end, Magneto launched a full-scale assault on Carrion Cove, the last city opposing his rule, in order to gain access to technology that would restore his full abilities. Polaris attempted to stop him, but was defeated and left the country with the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]]. She later snuck back in with [[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]] to help oppose Magneto's tyrannical rule.

Polaris later went to [[Genosha]] to help out Magneto and monitor him. When [[Sentinels (comics)|Sentinels]] destroyed Genosha, she was one of the few survivors. She was left emotionally scarred after witnessing the massacre while being unable to save them.

===Insanity===

Later, some of the X-Men went to Genosha to survey what occurred there. They encountered Polaris in Genosha some time after its population was massacred by [[Cassandra Nova]]'s Sentinels. Polaris was possessed by the ghosts of those who died residing in magnetic fields. When Polaris rejoined the X-Men, she had a darker personality and was more ruthless in battle, especially when she killed some members of the [[Church of Humanity]]. Havok broke up with Polaris after they were about to be married, leaving her for another woman. She went berserk and commenced to go on a rampage that nearly resulted in her killing Alex. [[Juggernaut (comics)|Juggernaut]] succeeded in knocking her out, though only temporarily. She remained this way until some psychic therapy with [[Professor X|Professor Xavier]]. Polaris promised to do no more harm and she was accepted back to the X-Men. Polaris once again helped to save her teammates from the devilish dimension of Nightcrawler's "father" [[Azazel (X-Men)|Azazel]] using her new mastery of her powers.

Polaris also told the X-Men that she had discovered that Magneto was her true father after all. Before the destruction of [[Genosha]], she had a blind genetic test performed and this demonstrated her real paternity.

[[Image:PolarisReload.png|thumb|left|100px|Polaris in her ''[[X-Men ReLoad]]'' costume. Art by [[Salvador Larocca]]]]

Iceman later admitted to Polaris that he still had feelings for her and after some mild flirtation the two began a relationship. Since then, Alex and Lorna's other relationships have dwindled and feelings between them are once again unresolved. Havok has confessed to still loving her after Annie had left him.

===Decimation and Blood of Apocalypse===

In "[[House of M]]" #8, it appears that Polaris is among the many thousands of mutants who have lost their powers due to the magics of the Scarlet Witch. This was revealed in "X-Men" #177, but as of issue #178, Polaris has yet to tell the team. When confronted by Valerie Cooper, who has knowledge of her power loss, Polaris claims that her power loss is psychological and she believes she is preventing herself from using them. Polaris eventually was forced by circumstance to accept that her powers were gone, leaving the mansion with Havok to "search" for her lost powers. Recently in space, Polaris had spotted an alien named Daap, who is identical to [[Doop (comics)|Doop]], the dead team member of [[X-Statix]]. Daap soon crashed to Earth and kidnapped Polaris and the Leper Queen, the leader of the anti-mutant group known as the Sapien League. [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] took them both, restrained the Leper Queen, and forcibly transformed Polaris into the new Pestilence. She has been ingesting viruses from the World Health Organization and is attempting to create a mega-plague. She did not remember anything about who she is. When the X-men defeated Apocalypse, they soon discovered Pestilence was Lorna. She is currently in recovery in the X-mansion. She has been seen in previews for upcoming comics with powers fully restored and as an active member of the Uncanny team.

==Powers and abilities==

Polaris' mutant powers enable her to control [[magnetism]], including manipulating metals which are susceptible to that force. She can also manipulate the Earth's [[magnetic field]] to allow herself to fly, generate magnetic energy pulses and create force-fields. She has bright green hair, the first indication of her mutation.

At first, she dyed her hair brown to hide this. In recent comics she appears with her characteristic green hair.

Earlier in her history, Polaris lost her magnetism power, but gained the ability to absorb negative emotions from the environment and use it as strength, endurance, invulnerability and increased size. She also became more violent during this time, presumably because of the negative emotions she was storing within. Those around her also became more volatile and aggressive. Under the Shadow King's influence, the range of this effect was vastly increased, reaching at least from Scotland to Egypt.

Polaris was among the mutants depowered by [[Scarlet Witch]] during the [[House of M]] storyline, and as such is currently powerless.

As the Horseman Pestilence, Lorna has shown the ability to ingest virulent diseases without harm, absorbing their traits, and according to Apocalypse is able to spread a "meta-plague" that will kill anyone who has not been inoculated with the virus' vaccine, the Blood of Apocalypse.

== Ultimate Polaris ==

In the [[Ultimate Marvel]] continuity of ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'', Polaris is an attractive teenage mutant girl who is a member of the ''[[Academy of Tomorrow]]'', a mutant peacekeeping squad led by [[Emma Frost]]. In this continuity, she is also the girlfriend of [[Havok]] but as a twist, she was also the ex-girlfriend of his brother [[Cyclops (comics)|Cyclops]], whom Havok hates with a passion.

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Polaris is framed for killing dozens of people with her powers during a rescue mission, and imprisoned in the [[Triskelion]] of the [[Ultimates]] with mutant terrorist [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]]. Magneto uses her to goad Havok into rescuing her, so that he can escape the maximum-security cell by swapping places with [[Mystique (comics)|Mystique]]. In the end, Polaris' name is cleared, and she returns to the Academy of Tomorrow.

==Appearances in other media==

* Polaris appeared in the [[animated television series]] ''[[X-Men (animated series)|X-Men]]'' episode "Cold Comfort" as a member of X-Factor where she was [[Iceman (comics)|Iceman]]'s girlfriend and is now romantically involved with [[Havok]]. She was later featured in the episode "Phalanx Covenant Part 2."

* While Polaris could only be glimpsed briefly in a corner of a cinematic, she appeared in [[X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse]] having been captured before the game began.

== External links ==

* [[MarvelDatabase:Polaris|MDP: Polaris]] - Marvel Database Project

* [http://www.freewebs.com/xpeoplescerebro2/polaris.htm Polaris at X-Peoples Central]

* [http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/spotlight/showquestion.asp?faq=10&fldAuto=58 UncannyXmen.net, Spotlight feature on Polaris]

* [http://www.mutanthigh.com/polaris.html Polaris biography] at mutanthigh.com

* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2855/polaris.html Women of Marvel Comics Polaris Page]

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