Glossary:Incursion

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 * Title            = Incursion
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 * Definition       = The event known as an "Incursion" is the result of a contraction in the Multiverse's timeline. This contraction was created by the early death of an unknown universe at some point in time.

This contraction causes universes throughout the Multiverse to collide, with each universe's respective Earth as the point of impact. The Incursion is the name given to the period of time in which the two Earths collide, and lasts exactly eight hours. During that time, there is a short period of harmonic alignment which allows both Earths to exist next to each other without any detrimental effects.

But once the eight hours pass, and the Earths collide, both the planets and their respective universes are obliterated. The only way to avert the destruction of the two universes involved in an Incursion is to destroy one of the Earths before they can collide. Doing so will save both universes, and one of the Earths.

Each time a new Incursion happens, the rate in which universes collide accelerates. With each universe that is destroyed, the Multiverse contracts and its lifespan is shortened.

For each Incursion there is an "Incursion point," a single area in each of the colliding Earths from which the other Earth can be seen approaching, the sky inside the Incursion point can be of varying colors, while usually colored red,{{r|New Avengers Vol 3 2}} it can also be blue which portends the Mapmakers.{{r|New Avengers Vol 3 #6}} Outside the Incursion point, everything looks normal.{{r|New Avengers Vol 3 1}} An unusual phenomenon called "Simtum Tapputu" can occur, in which an Earth is in Incursion with two realities at the same time.{{r|Avengers Vol 5 41}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 7}}

According to the Black Swan, there are at least eight ways of averting an Incursion.{{r|New Avengers Vol 3 #5}}

Parties involved
Many multiversal groups and beings are active in what has been called the "Great Game of Worlds". The main players of this event are Rabum Alal and the Beyonders, as the Game of Worlds is described as the war underway between these two separate forces, both competing to destroy the Multiverse.


 * Doctor Doom (aka Rabum Alal), the Great Destroyer, and his servants
 * Black Swans, the Great Ladies
 * Yabbat Ummon Turru
 * Molecule Man


 * Beyonders (aka Ivory Kings, and Sinnu Sarrum) and their agents
 * Mapmakers
 * The Sidera Maris
 * Adaptoids

Two other parties, the Black Priests, the field surgeons of the Multiverse; and the Builders, created by the Captain Universes and managers of the Superflow, are trying to stop the decay of the Multiverse. Their main mean included the destruction of planets Earth. Builders from various universes also united in the Superflow to battle the Beyonders. The Captain Britain Corps investigated the Incursions without taking direct action, but once they actively began to investigate them, they were destroyed by the Mapmakers.


 * Black Priests
 * Builders
 * Abyss
 * Alephs
 * Caretakers
 * Curators
 * Gardeners
 * Manifold
 * Captain Britain Corps (Destroyed)

Are also indigenous groups and people looking for solutions to save their realities:


 * Multiple versions of the Illuminati
 * Illuminati (Earth-616)
 * Illuminati (Earth-23099)
 * Illuminati (Earth-2319)
 * Illuminati (Earth-14515)
 * Alliance
 * Galaktus (Destroyed his reality's planet Earth to save his universe)
 * Great Society
 * Namor's Cabal
 * Mad Thinker
 * A.I.M.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Avengers
 * Sunspot's Avengers
 * Children of the Sun
 * Nation X
 * The Maker

Finally, the Manifolds seem to have some role to play.