Curtis Elkins was a Guardsman at the
Vault, a prison for super powered criminals. While there, Elkins befriended Hugh Taylor, a new guardsman fresh out of the army. Elkins left the Vault sometime after Hugh was murdered by
Venom during an escape. Elkins and a few of his fellow Guardsmen join the Jury, an agency organized by
General Orwell Taylor to track down and destroy Venom for his part in killing Hugh Taylor, Orwell's eldest son. To this end, many of the Jury's members are armed with sonic and fire-generating weapons, which Venom is vulnerable to. After Orwell is arrested for his involvement in the Arachnis Project, his younger son Maxwell reforms the Jury to fit the principles of civil rights and Elkins' ideology of law and order. ==Powers and abilities==