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Astarte, the Empress of the Silver Snake, is a space-roving empress who crossed paths with Wonder Woman.

Hippolyte's sister Diana was murdered by Hercules. Her spirit ventured into the stars, unaware of the reason of her death, eventually finding rest on an ore-rich asteroid. She transformed the gold and silver in this rock to a robotic body to house her spirit. She also crafted a snake out of silver, and became known as the Empress Astarte.

When she came to Earth, she chanced across Wonder Woman, who was escorting a lunar mission for NASA. Astarte recognized the body as her own, and thought she was facing was an evil spirit inhabiting it. Wonder Woman got away, but returned with more Amazons, including her mother. Hippolyte recognized the spirit of her sister, and explained how she died and how she crafted her daughter in the image of her sister. Upon hearing this, Diana's spirit passed happily, leaving a crumbled robotic body behind, heading towards the call of Aphrodite and Athena to her final rest.

Powers

  • Robot Body
    • Enhanced Vision: Her eyes were empowered by cosmic rays allowing her to see over all the Earth.
    • Geokinesis: Through some strange cosmic accident, the asteroid of gold and silver allowed her astral spirit to gain control of it and shape it to her will.

Weaknesses

  • Power Loss: When she gets close to Mother Earth her spirit weakens.


Transportation

  • Silver Snake


  • This version of Astarte, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

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