Hogan Oxford, is the founder and leader of the team. He gets his name, "Mandate," from two sources. One being his suit of armor, which is known as the "Mandate Armor," which he had before ever gaining super-powers. How he obtained it or how it was created is a mystery, it is just assumed that he got it from his time as a C.I.T.A.D.E.L. operative, or as a spoil from some adventure. The armor is inspired somewhat as a cross between Mandalorian armor, and Iron Man armor complete with a double-bladed energy sword as his primary weapon. The second origin of his name comes from his particular power given to him by the "Manpower Chip" in his head, which is the ability to make any living thing follow his commands through expressed "mandates." He has to actively choose to emphasize the commands though, as not every word he speaks is an absolute to be followed. This keeps his power in check so as to not be total mind control at all times, and makes it so that he cannot abuse his power and be corrupted by it, as his is probably the most potent out of the entire team. Although, as stated above, they are a family, and would not abuse their powers that way, yet having limitations helps in keeping that promise a reality. His place of origin is New York, NY, and he apparently met Sara Rogert, a.k.a. Manifold, while she was in graduate school somewhere at an unnamed university. Whether he was a student there himself or not is also unknown. However, as the story above goes, they fell in love, and she eventually joined him on his freelance adventures at some point prior to their fated mission that ended with the two of them and their associates gaining super-powers. At some unknown point in his life he also came to know the alien elf, Zarn, from the planet Vegtan, and one of his oldest and closest friends, Harold Lloyd, who also turned out to be the boyfriend of Sara's half-sister, which no one knew at the time, until the fated day that Lloyd came to Oxford for help. So, although much of his past remains a mystery to be explored at a later time, what is clear, is that it seems that for a long time he was something of a loner, and through many twists of fate over the course of his lifetime, he came in contact with a very particular set of people that he would come to know and trust not just as teammates, but as a family who would be by his side forevermore. And, that seems like something that they all have in common.