'Peter Quill, well I'll be damned. Small universe, indeed.' Adam thought to himself as he studied the young Peter Quill.
"Ravager eh, which clan? Wait, don't tell me, from your colors and clothes, you look to be in the Yondu Ravager Clan, am I right?" Adam asked, even though he already knew the answer.
Peter froze, he was wanting to say Charlie-27 clan since Yondu was now the weakest clan of Ravagers, since he had been excommunicated from the other clans for trafficking people, he tried to look down at his clothes, he didn't know how his clothes gave him away.
"So Star-Man, what were you doing sneaking aboard this ship?" Adam asked as he signalled Yelena she could drop Peter.
"It's Star-Lord, man. Legendary Outlaw. I am the best outlaw of this generation, my homeworld is a planet of outlaws; Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, John Stamos. So get the name right, my girl was abducted by these bozos and I was going to handle them all, but I saw that these guys had it covered, so I was just waiting to make sure none of your people got hurt or captured." Peter answered back indignantly.
"This Star-Prince sounds like he's from Earth." Yelena said as she hit the button on the side of Peters mask causing it to retract.
"IT'S STAR-..... Wait, you know Earth? Who are you people?" Peter was about to scald her for getting his name wrong too till he just realized she just said his home planet name. Most everyone called it Terra, but those were all people who had never been there, any alien that visited the planet would know that the locals called it Earth.
"Of course we are from Earth, what is a kid from Earth doing out here? Where are your parents mister?" Yelena, shocked that a young man from Earth was out on another planet, it was hard to believe considering before Adam showed up, Earth wasn't a space faring planet.
"My mom died when I was a kid, I was picked up by Yondu and earned my place amongst the crew" Peter explained as he looked back and forth between the two. He couldn't believe they were from Earth since he saw Adam control lightning, plus he was huge.
"Now if you'll excuse me I have places to be, oh and if you ever have any trouble with pirates, just tell them your friends with Star-Lord. I'm very famous, legendary even." Peter tried to casually leave, however a liquid metal wrapped around his body and formed a harness, like one made for toddlers so that parents could let the child walk freely since it had a lanyard attached.
Yelena had used her nanobots to create it, this stunned Adam, he was not sure whether to be worried or impressed. Either she was able to program the harness on the fly, which would be impressive, or she had scanned one before and saved it, which would be worrisome a bit.
If you liked a weapon, all you had to do was hold it in your hand, the Mjolnir armor would then scan and copy the weapon into its armory, you could also design brand new weapons if you were good at weapon development and designs. This was how Adam was able to redesign the Covenant energy sword into a light sabre.
Although it wasn't a real one, like found in Star Wars, since he didn't have a kyber crystal which is the key component to make the light saber, but the technology was very similar. Adam's light saber used hard light and hi-density energy particles to generate the blade, it was why when he swung it or activated it the sound wasn't the same.
"Hey! What's the big idea! Stop treating me like a kid! I'm 20 years old damn it. I refuse to be someone's pet!" Peter said with indignation, especially when he saw a long cord that ran from his back to Yelena's hand.
Adam seeing Yelena messing with Peter just smiled and said, "Alright, Peter we will let you go, however before you do, we will need a blood sample from you to verify who you are as well as see if you have any open bounties, if you're clean then you're free to go. If not then you're coming with us. Yelena, you can take him to look for his supposed girlfriend." Adam said as he thought now would be a good chance to be able to get a DNA sample from Peter.
He was only half Earthling. In the Movie Universe, he was part Celestial, Ego the living planet had visited Earth to plant two seeds, one a plant made from a part of himself, and one seed in a female Earthling since he was trying to become stronger. He had a plan to help with that, leaving two seeds was part of his plan. He had done this same thing on multiple planets, Earth was just one of hundreds of planets, each one he left the seed within the ground, and impregnated a local.
In the comics however, his father was the Emperor of Spartax. He had crash landed on Earth where he met Peter's mom and fell in love, he left Earth after repairing his ship, his Empire was fighting a war, he left before knowing Meredith, Peter's mother, was pregnant.
Much like Ego, Emperor J'son, Peter's father, upon finding out about Peter's existence had sent his soldiers to capture Peter and the Guardians of the Galaxy, he wanted his son to join him. When Peter refused then escaped from the soldiers. His father turned on him as well and began trying to kill all the other Guardians of the Galaxy, he figured if he killed the whole team, Peter would choose to join him and rule alongside him.
So Adam wanted to see which he was, even though he was pretty sure it would be Ego, since all signs he has seen point to the Cinematic Universe, he wanted to be sure. Plus the UNSC were very good with genetic research, Adam was thinking about using the DNA of various beings to see if he could integrate it into his own, he figured he was already a conglomeration of various species already, so what would be wrong with adding more?
Adam watched as Yelena practically dragged Peter off the bridge, then Adam plugged Eve into the ship's navigation terminal. Eve began downloading and analyzing the information and cross-referenced it with current star charts that were saved in the UNSC database.
This was a high priority for Adam right now, although he was able to get a lot of information from the Chitauri navigation database, it wasn't much compared to what was on the Marauder database, the Marauder pirates traveled all nine realms regularly, the Chitauri only really conquered and went where they were told, they didn't explore.
Marauder groups explored all the time, always looking for easy planets and transport ships to raid and plunder. So their database was much more informative as well, information on planets and shipping routes, information of territories of not only the major powers but also of other pirate group territories.
Star charts were extremely expensive, even the most basic one cost almost as much as a ship, Empires and various organizations guard their star charts very closely. It is a matter of security, if they just sold their full star chart, then their shipping routes and resource planets would no longer be safe. So most star charts were just basic charts only showing the major planetary systems and the jump points.
Now Adam had access to a large database thanks to these pirates, after Eve copied all the data from the ships computers, Adam proceeded to scan the planet for Peter's ship, after locating the Milano, Yondu had given Peter the ship for his birthday a few years ago, Adam made his way out of the ship to go copy the navigation database on Peter's ship as well.
Ravagers too would have an extensive database, in fact, Adam knew that the star chart aboard the Milano was much more valuable than what he could get from the Marauder ship.
There were six Ravager clans, all of whom worked together, they shared their navigational data amongst each other. They were one of the largest pirate organizations in the galaxy, even though Yondu may have been kicked from the alliance, that didn't mean they left him high and dry. If he was in trouble and needed help, the other clans would come to his aid without hesitation.
Yondu had just lost his seat at the big boy table when he was kicked out, but they didn't remove his navigation systems from accessing the Ravagers navigation network. Marauder groups worked alone and shared with no one but those in their group already.
As soon as he stepped out of the ship, Adam observed the activity in the destroyed camp, Natasha had set up a registration station where the captured people would provide their information, that way they could submit names to the Nova Corps so that cases could be closed, after providing their information they were given food and water as well as clean clothes.
Peter was caressing a beautiful Krylorian woman as he hugged her; skin a dark shade of pink, her figure was truly captivating, her hair was long and golden. She had tears in her eyes as she held on to Peter tightly, she had thought she was going to be taken to become a slave, she knew what was to become of her if she was not just saved, suicide had crossed her mind many times for the last week she had been held in the cage.
Seeing everything going smoothly, Adam began it float up into the sky, he notified Yelena that he would be going to retrieve Peter's ship and check on Frank and his team, he made sure they knew to copy the star charts in every ship since it wasn't uncommon for captain's to guard their own findings even from other's within their own group. They were pirates, if a ship stumbled on a habitable planet, and was inhabited by primitive but intelligent life, or perhaps a shipping lane used by banks or high value goods, they would keep it to themselves so that they had a constant flow of credits.
Arriving at Peter's ship, the Milano, Eve hacked into the ship's systems and opened the door, Adam walked straight to the bridge and to the navigation terminal and did the same thing, after Eve was plugged into the terminal, she confirmed that the star chart aboard the Milano was extensive.
"Eve, I want you to plant a tracker and a backdoor to this ship's navigation computer. I want our systems to update with the data from the Ravager network regularly. They are a very large organization, constantly working, exploring and stealing themselves. Having access to their communal navigation network will allow us to stay informed." Adam felt that this would allow him to get a general feel for the ever changing environment across the universe.
"Also once you've completed the copy fly Peter's ship over to his location, also gather the battle report for the mission and remove any unnecessary data that doesn't involve us getting paid. Make sure to include that the Nova base should fall under the category of rescued so we do expect to be rewarded as such." Adam then flew over to Frank and his team to get a visual of the situation, although he had the combat data, there are things that the data may not show clearly, unless you were there.
Upon arriving, Adam could see Frank talking to a Nova Corps guard, while his men tended to the wounded. The guard had a look of admiration and respect as he looked at Frank and the other UNSC, in the beginning they feared them since they not only were able to wipe out a large convoy of pirates quickly, they also were able to somehow show up so close to their base without them knowing or detecting anything.
Once Frank provided the security credentials that were provided to them by Nova Prime, any wariness they had vanished instantly, word spread quickly within the base of Frank and the UNSC. Many had come and thanked the soldiers, this made each soldier feel proud, the feeling you receive from a heartfelt thank you from someone, is priceless.
If you don't believe it, buy a nice gift, wrap it up and go down to your nearest children's hospital. The look of surprise, joy, shock and thankfulness that you receive from the child would far outweigh any cost you had to purchase it.
It feels good to do good, Adam had even noticed that some families had even brought food as the soldiers cleared the battlefield, seeing what was salvageable, taking inventory then using Pym tech to shrink the vehicles down for easy transport back to the ship.
Adam briefly spoke to the base commander, offered the full assistance of the UNSC, if he wanted to be a successful mercenary group he needed to build connections. After a brief chat, Adam left behind several business cards, these were one time use cards that allowed the holder the ability to contact the Infinity no matter where she was, the General could keep one and the others were for his friends in the military.
Word of mouth was always the best advertising strategy, good mercenary groups were hard to find, most just took permanent positions in a rich empires military, even though they were still mercenaries, that's only the first several years. After they build ties to that empire, such as having a family, they lose that classification and have fully assimilated into the military.
Adam chose this route because it gave the most protection for Earth, if Adam joined Earth to Nova, it would instantly be at war with the Kree. If he went to the Kree, instant war with Nova. Shi'ar would basically come take a bunch of beautiful Earth women to make into concubines then enslave the rest of Earth's population, stopping by every so often to grab some more women.
By making the entire UEG a mercenary organization across the galaxy, they are neutral, credits buy Earth's loyalty, and for only as long till the agreed time, if someone offers more money then all the same. Sure, it also leaves you alone if attacked, but each power knows that if they did attack, all they would gain is the satisfaction of the attack, they wouldn't be able to destroy Earth since it fell under Asgardian protection, they would also push the UEG to side with their enemy. The risk was too high with little to no gains at all.