—The Beyonder[source]In the beginning...our creators had no collective name. They were simply the earliest creations of the earliest cosmos. And they worshipped their creator. What else was there to do? With the answer to that question came the first cracks in that First Firmament. A strata of the earliest beings took on vibrant color, defying their monochromatic fellows. A rainbow of rebel angels with rebellious, unsanctioned desires. They became the Celestials. Those who wished to crush them became the Aspirants--the great tyrants of the status quo. The Celestial Rebellion became a Celestial War. Change versus stagnation. Evolution versus stasis. Tomorrow versus yesterday. A war that split the First Firmament asunder...to create the Second Cosmos.
Synopsis
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Backgrounds[]
In the beginning, there was only one universe, the First Firmament, perfect but alone. It decided to create life: Celestial servants. Some of them immediately turned into its servants, and industriously worshiped the First Firmament, seeking its approval whenever they created life on their own, which prompted the First Firmament to name them "Aspirants."
Others, "multicolored rebels,"[3] who were "as many as the stars themselves,"[1] wanted their own creations to evolve and for the universe to grow, change and die. That was seen by the First Firmament as madness and sacrilege.[3]
War[]
At the final battle of the Celestial War, both "Celestials" and Aspirants were desperate. The Aspirants had built the Godkiller Armor, a weapon of such power that made them be able to turn the battle in their favor. However, the suit was stripped to provide key elements for the Aspirants' fleets, and they immediately entered a civil war, which gave the Celestials time to recover and crush their opponents.[1]
The war ended by the defeat of the Aspirants, and the Celestials shattering the First Firmament into pieces: As the rebels detonated their weapons, hundreds of new universes split off from it. The First Firmament fled along with the remaining Aspirants to the Far Shore, and the new universes formed a new collective entity embodying the Second Cosmos, the first Multiverse.[3]
Aftermath[]
The Celestials creating the Omegas (later also known as the Beyonders) to oversee the Multiverse
The Second Cosmos (or Second Infinity) was colonized by the "rebels." Those Celestials evolved their own servitors whom they came to call "Omegas," in opposition to the First Firmament, who was the Alpha.[3] These Omegas would later be known as Beyonders, Ivory Kings, Kings in White, among many other names, and they were tasked by the Celestials to provide maintenance for the Multiverse.[2] At some point, the Celestials started assigning Kings in Black to maintain from inside the Multiverse while the Beyonders worked from the outside.[4]
The First Firmament would lurk at the Multiverse during its many rebirths, waiting for the right time to strike back. This moment came after the change from the Seventh Cosmos to the Eighth Cosmos, leading to the Eternity War.[3]
In the Seventh Cosmos, Recorder 451 was able to retrieve the Godkiller Armor.[1]Notes
- It remains unclear if the Celestial War presented in Iron Man (Vol. 5) #13 is the same conflict that the one of Ultimates 2 (Vol. 2) #6, as the Godkiller Armor was accessed in the Seventh Cosmos.
Trivia
- The Celestial War seems to be paralleled with the War in Heaven, with the First Firmament representing God, the Aspirants representing the loyal Angels, and the Celestials representing the Fallen Angels.
- "War in Heaven" is the title of Ultimates 2 (Vol. 2) #6, the issue that details the Celestial War.
- The Celestials are called "rebel angels" in a recap of the Celestial War from Defenders: Beyond #2.
See Also
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