#ultralink

Mainly just look at that face mask. 

But seriously Ven Ghan is easily Max Steel’s equal in strength and combat skills. He attacked Makino and lived to tel the tale.

The show spent several episodes showing  that a damaged Ultralink can still link with a sentient being as in Extroyer. 

So here is my theory. During the last stages of Makino’s attack on Kaduonn an Ultralink began to question the “Glory of Makino”. Ven Ghan and his family were hiding out in an abandoned building in an area that  the Ultralink was assigned to patrol. Instead of attacking them he begins watching them. He even starts to bring them food and water. He grows fascinated with the love they show each other and how they are struggling to survive. He even begins to bring them food and water, hiding it where they will find it, when little Ven Ghan gets sick and comes down with a terrible fever. But the invasion continues apace and soon the Alpha Link arrives. The Ultralink panics and rushes back to the little family. He finds them as the planet is beginning to crumble. He has only seconds to act and chooses to save Ven Ghan. He tries to do what Steel did with Mk’rah but the planet is exploding around them and though he succeeds in saving Ven Ghan he goes into mindless stasis. 

When Ragnok finds him(them) floating in the rubble he waits for him(them) to wake up and is shocked to find Ven Ghan’s personality dominant and no trace of the ultralink. Furthermore little Ven Ghan seems to assume the tech is something his parents did to keep him well. Ragnok tries to hand him(them) over to the council but they decide that it is a better idea to raise Ven Ghan as a Hunter than to imprison a nameless Ultralink who is no longer a threat. They agree to pretend that the “life support” suit is Black Star Council tech given to Ven Ghan and he is too young to remember differently.