Ulysses Klaue (Earth-21399)

Early Life
Ulysses Klaue is the son of Fritz Klaue, a Belgian pilot who joined the Nazi cause during World War II, and fled for his grandfather Sebastien's estate in South Africa shortly after its end. It was there that Ulysses stumbled upon Sebastien's private journals, which detailed his exploration into the jungles of Central Africa, searching for a fabled lost city he had heard stories about from the native African tribes. Ulysses was highly intrigued by his grandfather's story, and resolved to complete his mission.

Business Career & Trek to the Lost City
In his adulthood, Ulysses took over control of the Klaue family estate after his father died suddenly of an infection. With the vast sums of money he earned, both through his profitable diamond mining business and his black-market weapons dealings to both pro and anti-Apartheid militias, in time Klaue amassed a large group of mercenaries and embarked on an expedition into the Congo, using his grandfather's journals as a guide as well as his father's connections in Intelligencia, a HYDRA front organization.

At some point, Klaue's team successfully managed to cross the threshold into the isolated African nation of Wakanda, where the only naturally occurring deposit of vibranium in the world existed. The group swiftly came into conflict with the native Wakandans, under the leadership of the Black Panther T'Chaka, and though Klaue lost both his arm and most of his men in the fighting, he managed to escape with half a ton of vibranium in tow and T'Chaka dead by his hands.

Black Market Career
Klaue's black market business boomed thanks to his newfound status as the only seller of vibranium in the world. He is currently wanted in Wakanda for crimes against the crown, although the rest of the world remains unaware of Klaue's criminal activities. He has vowed to return to Wakanda to try and draw back an even bigger supply.