Real Name: Tiana (surname unknown)
Known Alias/Nicknames: Queen of the Underworld, Mistress of Niflheim
First Appearance: RAVAGE 2099 #1 (as Tiana); RAVAGE 2099 #14 (as Hela)
Hela was one of the few members of the Aesir Project whose pre-Aesir personality managed to reassert control. Before volunteering for the Aesir Project, Tiana was chief secretary to Paul-Philip Ravage. His various adventures put her in danger, and soon enough she grew tired of being the victim. It was then that she was found in a Thorite church, praying to an image of Hela. She asked for strength and desired to become a new woman. She was approached by the Reverend Cecil McAdam and her off-hand remarks about wanting to be a super-heroine prompted the Reverend to inform her of the Aesir Project. She accepted and the experiment began. Alchemax was attempting to recreate the gods of Asgard through a process known as "bionanotronics." Tiana's gene type, belief system, etc, matched perfectly, and she was transformed into Hela, Queen of the Underworld!
Hela has the same superhuman strength, agility, fighting prowess, and power of flight as her cohorts at Valhalla. She wields a signature "death-rake" as her weapon of choice. One power that sets her apart from the others, as demonstrated graphically in RAVAGE 2099 #19, is her ability to siphon away an organism's life-force, reducing even a superhuman to a withered husk.
Hela manages to escape the fate of the other gods in the Aesir Project, and manages to regain control of the nanoids in her body, while still holding on to her own personality. She used her godlike powers to start up an orbitial salvage company before finally making her way to Hellrock in order to help Ravage. The two became lovers once again, but it didn't last long before Doom made an executive decision to rid the world of Hellrock. Hela died in Ravage 2099 UG # 33 (Marvel Series), when Doom, using a preprogrammed keyword, neutralized all of the powers derived from the nanotech in her body. Having caused her to revert back to Tiana, Doom dropped her from a colossal height into the toxic, rocky waters around Hellrock.
