Technet (comics)

The Technet are a fictional group of interdimensional travelling bounty hunters appearing in British and American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters appeared mostly in the pages of Captain Britain and Excalibur.

The Technet is a team of bounty hunters, founded and originally led by a villain called Gatecrasher, from various other dimensional worlds. For a price they will hunt down and capture fugitive sentient beings, rescue prisoners from captivity, or track down and retrieve lost objects of value. The Technet range through time, space, and various dimensions in their operations.

The members of the Technet have included:

In the Technet's first recorded exploit, they were hired by Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9, the other dimensional counterpart of Opal Luna Saturnyne on an alternate Earth (Earth-794), to capture Kaptain Briton, an evil otherdimensional counterpart of Captain Britain. Kaptain Briton flees to Captain Britain's Earth and poses as him, switching his costume with that of Captain Britain. The members of Technet mistakenly take Captain Britain prisoner and bring him to Sat-Yr-9's Earth. There Captain Britain convinced the Technet that he was not the man they had been hired to capture, and the Technet join Captain Britain in battling Sat-Yr-9's troops.

Later, the Technet traveled on business to the Wereworlds, whose natives become werewolves under a full moon, having been exiled from their home by Sat-Yr-9. Elmo, a member of the Technet, is fatally wounded by the werewolves. Subsequently, Gatecrasher either seriously injured or killed a member of the 'Berserker Pirates' who attempted to interest her in becoming his lover. The pirate's family forces the Technet to turn over all their accumulated wealth as reparations. Angered by this reversal in their fortunes, all of the members of the Technet except for Yap and Fascination leave the team.

Gatecrasher travels to a celebration held by the despot of Kandahar. A person she believed to be the despot himself hires her to procure a perfect mathematical model of the universe that was held and revered by the Incas of 14th-century Peru. Gatecrasher, Yap, and Fascination journey through time to obtain the model, but Gatecrasher and Yap are tricked by the person they believed to be a native high priest into consuming fruit filled with the eggs of deadly parasites. Gatecrasher and Yap are forced to remain under a cooling waterfall to prevent the eggs from hatching and consuming their bodies. In actuality, an alien had impersonated both the despot of Kandahar and the high priest, and hoped to force Fascination into his employ. This alien had already succeeded in hiring the members of the Technet who had just left the group. His team was the Special Executive, a future version of the Technet.

Fascination brought Captain Britain and his companion Meggan to Peru to rescue Gatecrasher. Captain Britain gathers together the plants necessary to create an antidote to kill the parasites, which is given to Gatecrasher and Yap. They, Fascination, Captain Britain, and Meggan returned to their own time period.

Gatecrasher recruited new members Numbers and Waxworks into the Technet, and all of the former members except Elmo rejoined. At some point during this period, Fascination changed her name to Scatterbrain.