Adomox was a member of the Nova Corps who felt dissatisfied with the distribution of power among the Corps. Seeking more power than granted to him, Adomox formed the Black Novas, a renegade off-shoot of the Corps that used technology to illegally gain access to the full power possible from their helmets, an act that would ultimately sap power from the Nova Force as a whole, in order to augment their own strength for personal glory and gain. When a member of the Nova Corps began to catch on to the team's trail, Adomox had him killed by the hand of Jesse Alexander, another member of the Corps who wanted to join the Black Novas. While Adomox was dissatisfied with Jesse's decision to kill the Nova quickly and leave no traces, as he wanted to leave a body as a message, he nevertheless was pleased to see Alexander prove his loyalty to the Black Novas and brought him into the group officially shortly thereafter.