Aarn Munro

Aarn Munro
Biographical Information
Real Name	Aarn Munro
Homeworld	Jupiter
Physical Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Height	5' 7"
Weight	350 lbs (on Earth)
Chronological / Political Information
Occupation(s)	Physicist
Fictional Information
Created by	John W. Campbell
First Appearance	The Mightiest Machine
Final Appearance	The Incredible Planet

“	I saw a machine. It was the mightiest machine that could ever exist. It was an atomic, better, a material, engine. It burned matter to energy. Most of the energy was electrical in nature at one stage of the process, but it was converted to heat and light and other forms of energy. And one of those forms of energy was a curious field of force that could tear great holes in tremendous masses of matter, and there appeared coincidentally with that a force that seemed to hurl masses of matter greater than a dozen worlds like Earth, greater than mighty Jupiter, a million miles into space. It was a wonderful, pulsing, rhythmic machine and operated in a wonderful adjustment more delicate than any machine man ever made. Controlling unimaginable billions of billions of horse power, yet it remained in perfect balance with a variation in its output of less than one per cent. Controlling forces that could have hurled this planet about like a bit of dust, it remained in perfect equilibrium. It was a star. Any star. It was the Sun, the mightiest machine man ever observed. A titanic, inconceivable generator handling the power of three millions of tons of destroyed matter every second—and maintaining equilibrium. The explosion of more than three million tons of matter, really, regulated and controlled. Save that occasionally a great rent appears in its surface that could swallow all the planets of the system, and not be filled, or a tongue of flame a quarter of a million miles high and a million miles wide darts out, apparently lifting billions of tons of matter hundreds of thousands of miles against a gravitational force ten times as intense as Jupiter’s—twenty-five times Earth’s.	”
–Aarn Munro, describing the Sun and his development of interstellar travel

Aarn Munro was a Jupiter-born human physicist who worked for the Spencer Rocket Co.. Alongside Don Carlisle and Russ Spencer, Munro travelled beyond the boundaries of the solar system in the Sunbeam and encountered hostile extraterrestrial life.

Weapons and Abilities

Inherent Abilities

• Intelligence: Munro possessed a genius-level intellect in the field of physics. (PROSE: The Mightiest Machine)
• Strength: Munro's having been born and raised on Jupiter gave him prodigious strength, allowing him to carry loads of 2.5 tons under Earth's gravity. (PROSE: The Mightiest Machine)

Notes

Behind the Scenes

• Munro was created by American author John W. Campbell.

Appearances

• The Mightiest Machine (first appearance)
• The Incredible Planet (final appearance)