BIOGRAPHY
The geneticist Minn-Erva (or Dr. Minerva) hails from Edelix on the Kree planet, Kree-Lar. Studying at the Kree Science Academy in Vartanos on Kree-Lar, the ambitious young Minn-Erva committed herself to becoming the scientist who would finally lift the Kree from their evolutionary dead-end. [Avengers: Roll-Call #1]
Minn-Erva believed eugenics were the only viable solution for the problem. To her disdain, she found the Kree traitor, Captain Mar-vell, the ideal “Adam” to her prospective “Eve.” His mutated genetics, combined with her compatible gene pattern, could yield the ubermensch Kree offspring she hoped could secure the future of their species.
Minn-Erva was a public critic of the Kree Supreme Science Council for their “war of the three galaxies,” which she felt would bring ruin to the Kree. Nevertheless, they granted her a ship and allowed her to pursue Captain Marvel to Earth. Remotely, she observed the traitor and couldn't help but be impressed by his vigor. However, when he was temporarily off-world on the planet Gramos, Minn-Erva feared he would be lost. As such, she kidnapped his friend Rick Jones, who had previously been fused to him and shared similar chromosomes as a result. When Marvel returned and pursued the missing Jones, he and Minn-Erva finally met. After a tussle, Marvel released Jones and forced Minn-Erva to reveal her reason for the abduction.
Before she had a chance to even hear Marvel's answer, an urgent communication was received by the Science Council. Minn-Erva was told to abandon her mission and return to Kree space with Marvel as 
a captive. When Minn-Erva refused, seeing her mission as more important, she was blasted by the Science Council and her ship was commandeered, both done remotely. Luckily, the empowered Captain Marvel destroyed the ship and pulled her from the wreckage. Minn-Erva was surprised to see Marvel rescue her, believing he underestimated the threat she posed to him. Marvel wanted information from Minn-Erva about this war of the three galaxies anyway and flew off with her. As they were airborne, Marvel felt something grab him; it was queen Medusa of the Inhumans. The Inhumans had befriended Falzon, a former colleague of Minn-Erva. After a debrief from Falzon, the Inhumans and Minn-Erva, Marvel took the fight to the science council, where he found out it had been infiltrated by the Skrulls. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #50-53]
Minn-Erva remained stranded on Earth and relocated to the Sullivan farm in Texas, already home to a number of other Kree refugees hiding out on Earth. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #55] Her stint there was brief, as it was destroyed. [Ms. Marvel (1st series) #19]
Minn-Erva then wandered, studying Earth's “Terran” population as she explored the planet. As a geneticist, she couldn't help but be awed at their mutagenic potential and excited by the avenues for her research they offered. Still, her paramount hope was that Captain Marvel would “come to his senses” and, for the good of their race, propagate with her. She was nearly overcome with despair when she heard of his passing to cancer. She now needed to be the “hero” she wanted him to be. Luckily, she discovered the Psyche-Magnetron, an experimental Kree device that could unlock mutagenic potential through exposure to radiation. Minn-Erva activated the machine and became a super-being in much the same way as Marvel was. Now the ubermensch herself, she contacted the Kree Empire and told them to send someone to retrieve her. [Quasar #10] Captain Atlas arrived, himself an old Captain Marvel foe. Minn-Erva took a “liking” to Atlas and decided to share the power of the Psyche-Magnetron with him, though he lacked her potential and received a lesser variant of her power. Still, even if he was not quite her equal, she considered him her “ideal” mate with Marvel dead.
Minn-Erva was no fool and she knew her ideas about eugenics would be a tough sell to the masses back home. Seeing the young Avenger called Quasar wielding the quantum bands gave her an idea to increase her popularity. She thought they looked very similar to the legendary power-bands of Rinn, an important missing artifact for the Kree. Initially, she hired the terrorist group A.I.M to steal them for her but, when that failed, she and Atlas took matters into their own hands. She traced Quasar and slipped into his bedroom in Connecticut, shooting him with a synaptic disruptor gun. They then took the unconscious hero back to their ship. While examining the unconscious Quasar, Minn-Erva couldn't help but think how handsome he was. Initially, she tried to humanely remove the bands with lubricant but, when that failed, she saw no option but to sever his arms. Minn-Erva did at least regard it as a pity and had ensured that Quasar was anesthetized so he would not feel the pain of her operation.
Quasar had a supernatural mentor, Eon, who woke him during Minn-Erva's procedure and he freed himself, placing her in a forcefield generated by the very bands she was trying to steal. Atlas attempted to knock Quasar out himself with his new st
rength but during the melee he was blasted outside the ship's hull. With Atlas seemingly lost, Quasar returned to Minn-Erva. Minn-Erva was distraught and wanted Quasar to release her, so she could save Atlas as he still had ten minutes of oxygen left. The magnetron had granted Minn-Erva incredible perceptual powers and, even in the vacuum of space (and at hyperspace speed to boot) she was sure she could find Atlas. After Minn-Erva explained who she was and why she had targeted him, Quasar agreed to help, provided she and Atlas agreed to not return to Earth. Sure enough, Minn-Erva's new powers did the trick and they miraculously found Atlas. Quasar held no grudges against Minn-Erva and Atlas, and actually wished them luck in their goal, considering the universe big enough for them all. [Quasar #9-10]
At an unspecified point, Minn-Erva entered into an alliance with the Supreme Intelligence, the deposed leader of the Kree Empire. Though it had organic components, the Supreme Intelligence was a super-computer, who possessed the entire genetic memory of the Kree. It had come up with an elaborate plan to depose the current rulers, Dar-Benn and Ael-Dann, while also simultaneously getting the Kree out of their evolutionary dead end. The plan involved manipulating the Shi'ar, the Kree's rivals, into activating a device called the Nega bomb.
Minn-Erva and Atlas were dispatched to Titan to the tomb of Captain Marvel to retrieve one of the components, the Nega Bands. As the Intelligence expected, the Shi'ar and the Avengers tried to intercept. 
Atlas retrieved the bands and put them on but, even with their added power, he was no match for the Avengers, Quasar and Wonder Man, and both he and Minn-Erva were imprisoned on Earth in the West Coast Avengers compound. This ruse allowed the Shi'ar to retrieve the bands from Atlas themselves, using brute force and subterfuge, and bring them back to the Empress of the Shi'ar, Lilanda, all none the wiser they were simply playing into the Supreme Intelligence's plan. Minn-Erva was later released by the Avengers on the premise that she help them using her perceptual powers to track a Shi'ar vessel, again as the Intelligence had predicted. Minn'Erva journeyed back to Hala to play her role in the Intelligence's endgame. [Quasar #32, Wonder Man (1st series) #7, Avengers West Coast #81-82]
Minn-Erva met Atlas and the rest of her new team, called the Starforce, on Hala. All had been assembled by the Intelligence, though it appears only Minn-Erva was aware of his plan. He convinced the rest of the group that the Avengers were on Hala to assassinate the current rulers of the Kree, instigating a battle between the two groups. Dar-Benn and Ael-Dann, however, did not trust either group and imprisoned them both in a forcefield. This proved a fatal mistake as, without any formidable protection, both men were easy prey for the sister of the Shi'ar empress, Deathbird, who had stolen onto to Hala herself and executed them. Immediately after their death, the Supreme Intelligence broadcasted it across the Empire, declaring them “patriots” and that he/it would avenge them. He instructed the Starforce to journey to the Shi'ar homeworld, while Atlas and Minn-Erva would stay and guard the still imprisoned Avengers.
As the war had become more vicious, Lilandra with great reluctance approved the deployment of the Nega Bomb in Kree space, wiping out 98% of its inhabitants. The Avengers, Deathbird, Minn-Erva and Atlas all survived, along with scattered pockets of Kree. The Supreme Intelligence revealed to Captain America and Deathbird that he/it had planned the whole thing to advance the Kree in a Darwinian fashion, by killing off the weak and mutating the remnant Kree with the radiation from the bomb. In another millennia, 
he predicted that the remainder of the Kree would form an even more powerful race and conquer the stars. It did not take long for everyone to realize that, as their goals were so aligned, Minn-Erva must have been in on the Supreme Intelligence's plan. She had no qualms admitting it, the ends justified the means for her in this instance, even if the loss of life was great. Atlas, in seeming disgust, activated a self-destruct button on his pouch and both he and Minn-Erva appeared to perish. The incident caused a schism for the Avengers and half decided to execute the Supreme Intelligence for the crime of genocide. [Avengers (1st series) #346-347]