Richard Rider was born in Hempstead, New York. As a teenager, he was chosen at random by the alien Rhomann Dey, last surviving Centurion of the planet Xandar's elite Nova Corps, to inherit his power and succeed him in the rank of Nova Prime following the destruction of his world by the intergalactic tyrant Thanos. Not knowing that a villain that crash landed on earth that Rhomann was in pursuit of wants to kill him(the last Nova officer) Richard must figure out how to work the suit.
