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Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:30:47 GMT -5
Operation: Galactic Storm
Rick Jones is kidnapped by Shi'ar agents that are intent on recovering Kree artifacts to aid them in the construction of a super weapon. In the course of rescuing Jones, Captain America discovers that a conflict has begun between the alien Kree and Shi'ar empires.
Captain America's fellow Avenger Quasar discovers that the use of a nearby stargate by the warring factions is destabilizing Earth's sun. The Avengers gather and resolve to intervene in the conflict to try and ensure the safety of their solar system either by bringing about a truce or by diverting the two empires from using the nearby stargate.
A gathering of over twenty Avengers are divided into three teams to deal with the threat. One of the teams stays on the Earth to protect the planet for the duration of the conflict, while the other two are sent to the Shi'ar and Kree homeworlds via the Stargate to try and negotiate with the two empire's leaders.
The "Earth team" is led by the Wasp and includes the Falcon, Henry Pym, Gilgamesh, Mockingbird, She-Hulk, Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter), and U.S. Agent.
The "Shi'ar Team" is led by Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) and includes the Living Lightning, the Scarlet Witch, Starfox, Thor (Eric Masterson), Vision and Wonder Man.
Finally, the "Kree Team" is led by Captain America and includes the Black Knight, Crystal, Goliath (Henry Pym), Hercules, Iron Man and Sersi.
U.S. Agent is originally assigned to the "Kree Team" and Hawkeye to the "Earth Team", but Clint Barton (Hawkeye's real identity) perceives this as a slight and convinces Hank Pym to provide him with some Pym Particles so that he might increase his superhuman abilities (and thus qualify for inclusion on the "Kree Team") by reassuming his Goliath II identity.
The Kree and Shi'ar Avengers teams go on to encounter the various factions and are largely unsuccessful in engaging them in negotiations. Captain America's team are repeatedly captured and imprisoned by the Kree authorities while Captain Marvel II's team engages in a number of short battles with various Shi'ar forces.
During the course of these encounters it is revealed that the Sh'iar has managed to create a massive super weapon — the "Nega-Bomb" — using Kree artifacts including the original Captain Marvel's Nega-Bands which has been stolen from the dead hero's tomb. This bomb is capable of devastating an area equivalent to that of the Kree Empire (which is supposedly located throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud).
Also during the conflict, the Kree's military leaders are assassinated by the Shi'ar agent Deathbird, the Supreme Intelligence regains (temporary) control of the Kree forces, and Skrull agents are revealed to be surreptitiously manipulating the court of the Shi'ar Majestrix Lilandra into escalating the conflict.
Eventually, Captain Marvel II's Avengers delegation manages to convince Lilandra to try and begin peace negotiations with the Kree. However by this point, the Nega-Bomb has been stolen by Skrull agents and her efforts to recall the weapon fails.
Despite the presence of Avengers members Wonder Man and the Vision in the Nega-Bomb's massive interior, the device is successfully detonated. The Kree Empire is devastated by its effects with billions dying instantaneously.
The various Avengers--all of whom manage to survive the bomb's effects--gather on Hala, the Kree homeworld, and discover that most of the events of the war — up to and including the Nega-Bomb's detonation — have been manipulated and engineered by the Kree Supreme Intelligence. This creature, an amalgam of the consciousness of thousands of generations of Kree military leaders, calculated that the bomb's radioactive effects would serve to jumpstart the Kree race's evolution which had previously been thought stalled.
Horrified by this revelation, and faced with the problem with what to do now with the captured Supreme Intelligence, a group of Avengers decides that the creature should be killed for its crimes.
Disagreeing with this idea completely, Captain America holds a vote and when a majority of Avengers agree that killing the Intelligence is not appropriate he orders that no Avenger should kill the creature. A group of Avengers — Iron Man, Black Knight, Hercules, Sersi, Thor, Vision and Wonder Man — nevertheless disobey this order and are apparently successful in terminating the creature.
A Shi'ar delegation then appears and announced that they would annex the devastated Kree Empire, with Lilandra's sister Deathbird becoming viceroy of the Kree territories. The Avengers return to Earth divided and disillusioned by the events of the storyline and the consciousness of the Supreme Intelligence is shown to have survived and escaped to a waiting spaceship manned by Skrulls.
The immediate aftermath of the event is explored when Captain America examines the effects of the conflict; his disappointment in those teammates who disobeyed his orders and in the Avengers group as a whole. Quasar explores the larger repercussions of the event: the effect on the wider cosmos of the Nega-Bomb explosion and the sudden death of billions of lifeforms and the collapse of a major space empire.
In a more general sense, the implications and repercussions of the events have had a wide and continuing effect on many events later on in the universe, most especially the Kree, Shi'ar and Skrull as the events changed the status quo of each of those races to varying degrees.
More specifically, many subsequent Avengers interactions feature attempts by surviving Kree to exact revenge on the Avengers team for their supposed role in the Nega-Bomb's detonation.
Rick Jones is kidnapped by Shi'ar agents that are intent on recovering Kree artifacts to aid them in the construction of a super weapon. In the course of rescuing Jones, Captain America discovers that a conflict has begun between the alien Kree and Shi'ar empires.
Captain America's fellow Avenger Quasar discovers that the use of a nearby stargate by the warring factions is destabilizing Earth's sun. The Avengers gather and resolve to intervene in the conflict to try and ensure the safety of their solar system either by bringing about a truce or by diverting the two empires from using the nearby stargate.
A gathering of over twenty Avengers are divided into three teams to deal with the threat. One of the teams stays on the Earth to protect the planet for the duration of the conflict, while the other two are sent to the Shi'ar and Kree homeworlds via the Stargate to try and negotiate with the two empire's leaders.
The "Earth team" is led by the Wasp and includes the Falcon, Henry Pym, Gilgamesh, Mockingbird, She-Hulk, Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter), and U.S. Agent.
The "Shi'ar Team" is led by Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) and includes the Living Lightning, the Scarlet Witch, Starfox, Thor (Eric Masterson), Vision and Wonder Man.
Finally, the "Kree Team" is led by Captain America and includes the Black Knight, Crystal, Goliath (Henry Pym), Hercules, Iron Man and Sersi.
U.S. Agent is originally assigned to the "Kree Team" and Hawkeye to the "Earth Team", but Clint Barton (Hawkeye's real identity) perceives this as a slight and convinces Hank Pym to provide him with some Pym Particles so that he might increase his superhuman abilities (and thus qualify for inclusion on the "Kree Team") by reassuming his Goliath II identity.
The Kree and Shi'ar Avengers teams go on to encounter the various factions and are largely unsuccessful in engaging them in negotiations. Captain America's team are repeatedly captured and imprisoned by the Kree authorities while Captain Marvel II's team engages in a number of short battles with various Shi'ar forces.
During the course of these encounters it is revealed that the Sh'iar has managed to create a massive super weapon — the "Nega-Bomb" — using Kree artifacts including the original Captain Marvel's Nega-Bands which has been stolen from the dead hero's tomb. This bomb is capable of devastating an area equivalent to that of the Kree Empire (which is supposedly located throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud).
Also during the conflict, the Kree's military leaders are assassinated by the Shi'ar agent Deathbird, the Supreme Intelligence regains (temporary) control of the Kree forces, and Skrull agents are revealed to be surreptitiously manipulating the court of the Shi'ar Majestrix Lilandra into escalating the conflict.
Eventually, Captain Marvel II's Avengers delegation manages to convince Lilandra to try and begin peace negotiations with the Kree. However by this point, the Nega-Bomb has been stolen by Skrull agents and her efforts to recall the weapon fails.
Despite the presence of Avengers members Wonder Man and the Vision in the Nega-Bomb's massive interior, the device is successfully detonated. The Kree Empire is devastated by its effects with billions dying instantaneously.
The various Avengers--all of whom manage to survive the bomb's effects--gather on Hala, the Kree homeworld, and discover that most of the events of the war — up to and including the Nega-Bomb's detonation — have been manipulated and engineered by the Kree Supreme Intelligence. This creature, an amalgam of the consciousness of thousands of generations of Kree military leaders, calculated that the bomb's radioactive effects would serve to jumpstart the Kree race's evolution which had previously been thought stalled.
Horrified by this revelation, and faced with the problem with what to do now with the captured Supreme Intelligence, a group of Avengers decides that the creature should be killed for its crimes.
Disagreeing with this idea completely, Captain America holds a vote and when a majority of Avengers agree that killing the Intelligence is not appropriate he orders that no Avenger should kill the creature. A group of Avengers — Iron Man, Black Knight, Hercules, Sersi, Thor, Vision and Wonder Man — nevertheless disobey this order and are apparently successful in terminating the creature.
A Shi'ar delegation then appears and announced that they would annex the devastated Kree Empire, with Lilandra's sister Deathbird becoming viceroy of the Kree territories. The Avengers return to Earth divided and disillusioned by the events of the storyline and the consciousness of the Supreme Intelligence is shown to have survived and escaped to a waiting spaceship manned by Skrulls.
The immediate aftermath of the event is explored when Captain America examines the effects of the conflict; his disappointment in those teammates who disobeyed his orders and in the Avengers group as a whole. Quasar explores the larger repercussions of the event: the effect on the wider cosmos of the Nega-Bomb explosion and the sudden death of billions of lifeforms and the collapse of a major space empire.
In a more general sense, the implications and repercussions of the events have had a wide and continuing effect on many events later on in the universe, most especially the Kree, Shi'ar and Skrull as the events changed the status quo of each of those races to varying degrees.
More specifically, many subsequent Avengers interactions feature attempts by surviving Kree to exact revenge on the Avengers team for their supposed role in the Nega-Bomb's detonation.