Can someone post a background on who Kang the conqueror is?
Nathaniel Richards, a 31st-century scholar and descendant of
Reed Richards' time traveling father
Nathaniel, becomes fascinated with history and discovers the time travel technology created by
Victor von Doom, another possible ancestor of his.
[4][5] He then travels back in time to ancient
Egypt aboard a Sphinx-shaped timeship and becomes the
Pharaoh Rama-Tut, with plans to claim En Sabah Nur—the
mutant destined to become
Apocalypse—as his heir.
[6] Rama-Tut's rule is cut short when he is defeated by the time-displaced
Fantastic Four.
[7] An embittered Nathaniel Richards travels forward to the 20th century where he meets
Doctor Doom, whom he believes might be his ancestor.
[8] He later designs an armor based on Doom's and, calling himself the
Scarlet Centurion, pits the
Avengers team against alternate-reality counterparts. He plans to dispose of all of them, but the Avengers manage to force him from the timeline.
[9]
Nathaniel then tries to return to the 31st century, but overshoots by a thousand years, discovering a war-torn Earth that uses advanced weapons they no longer understand. He finds it simple to conquer the planet, expanding his dominion throughout the galaxy, and reinvents himself as
Kang the Conqueror. But this future world is dying, and so he decides to take over an earlier, more fertile Earth.
Kang has no superhuman abilities but is an extraordinary genius, an expert historical scholar, and a master physicist (specializing in time travel), engineer, and technician. He is armed with 40th-century technology, wearing highly advanced battle armor that enhances his strength, is capable of energy, hologram, and force-field projection, has a 30-day supply of air and food, and is capable of controlling other forms of technology. Courtesy of his "
time-ship", Kang has access to technology from any century, and he once claimed his ship alone could destroy the
Moon.
[11]
As Rama-Tut, he used an "ultra-diode" ray gun that was able to sap the wills of human beings. At a high frequency, it is able to weaken superhuman beings and prevent use of their superpowers. They can be freed from its effects if the gun is fired at them a second time.