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His super-human abilities have been described by team mate Jakita Wagner as "heat-subtraction". What this means is that he can affect the tempreture around him producing immense cold. The limits of his powers have not been explored but it has been implied that he is incredibly powerful.
Little is known about Snow's life and even what is known is fairly patchy. Born at midnight on new years eve 1900, Snow was one of the Century Babies. Humans born at this exact moment who were all extraordinary in some way. It has been theorised that these people are analogous to an immune system for the planet Earth. Other notables include Axel Brass and Jenny Sparks.
Almost nothing is known about Snow's childhood but he grew up somewhere in North America and was neither well educated nor wealthy.
By 1919 Snow had become something of a wanderer encountering various paranormal beings and events. In 1919 he travelled to a castle in Europe where an unnamed doctor (presumably Frankenstein) had been resurrecting the dead. There he discovered a map of the world that featured those things kept from public knowledge. He then travelled to London where he met Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. He is famous for his prowess at using logic and careful observation to solve cases. Holmes was said to have lived and Count Dracula. After using his powers to kill Dracula, Holmes admitted that they were part of a conspiracyAlternate uses: See Conspiracy (disambiguation Conspiracy in common usage, is the act of working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. As a legal term, conspiracy has historically been defined, in America, as an agr of various extraordinary people who had attempted to reshape the world. Holmes passed this mantle on to Snow who studied with him for some time.
After this, Snow again began to wander, aware by this stage that he had ceased to age. His adventures included encounters with The Nautillus from Jules VerneJules Verne ( February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction ( scientific romance) genre. Early years Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family's five childre's 20,000 leagues under the Sea , Discovering the Lost City of Opak-Re, and using Ayers Rock to gate into another dimension of reality. All of these adventures were recorded and catalogued in "The Planetary Guide."
Eventually Snow formed The Plentary Organisation to further his explorations. By the early 1990's this Organisation came into contact with The Four who wished to keep as much hidden information and technology for themselves as possible. Snow came close to successfully defeating The Four but was eventually captured and forced to submit to various memory blocks that would prevent him from remembering key aspects of his life including Planetary and his mission in life.
Approximately 10 years later he was "recruited" by the PlanetaryPlanetary is an adjective meaning relating to a planet or planets. A planetary nebula is an astronomical object that appears nebulous and disk-like in low-resolution observations. The name is due to a resemblance to planets, not a similarity to them. field team in an attempt to gently restore his memory. This was successful though the trauma of this experience has made Snow a far more single minded and dark individual.
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