The Helion Technology

The Helion is a ship of Kree manufacture intended to operate as an espionage vessel, coordinating and supporting the efforts of Kree spies around a given planet. Ships of its type can be found around a number of lower-technology planets that have come to the attention of the Kree Empire; the Helion itself has been assigned to Earth.

The Helion is typical of its class, possessing a small hangar bay for shuttles, limited weapons, a specialized array of sensors, and various stealth technologies. These stealth technologies include a cloaking device, a hull designed to reduce its sensor signature, heat exhaust bafflers to reduce its infrared heat signature when firing its thrusters, and a dynamic chameleon hull to hide it from sight when the cloaking device is inoperable. Its weapons array consists of a pair of long-range X-ray lasers and a battery of point-defense blaster turrets. The hangar bay houses a single shuttle and a trio of fighters for self-defense; it also has a tractor beam to assist in landing the shuttle and fighters, and for bringing operatives to the ship.

Commanded by Colonel Yon-Rogg, who saw the posting as a means of stalling his career, the Helion oversees over a hundred spies located in various nations on Earth. The ship's command crew consists of the commander, a helmsman, a science officer, a tactical officer overseeing the weapons, an engineering officer overseeing the cloaking device and managing damage control, and a communications officer. The chief tactical officer is also in charge of the ship's security complement; the security complement in emergencies typically man the defensive turrets, while the tactical officer handles the primary weapons.

Foremost, however, the Helion has a large central operations center where thirty analysts monitor and decipher the communications from and sensor readings of the planet they are observing. The ship houses three full shifts of analysts who rotate on a nine-hour shift schedule.

The Helion's existence is currently known to select individuals in the United States government; however, because of the ship's cloaking device, they are unable to determine precisely where it is. Presumably this knowledge has been shared with their allies in NATO and possibly even with Russia and China.

First Post-Reboot Appearance: CAPTAIN MARVEL #1.