History
Despite the fact that the use of artificial super-intelligence (or ASI for short) as weapons had been banned upon realizing that unleashing them would result in mutually assured extinction, the Kree Empire had disabled the Supreme Intelligence security devices and, in retaliation The Shi'ar Empire, the Technoarchy, and other civilizations and space factions had created their own ASI, resulting in an arms race that wiped out entire solar systems.
Biospheres being consumed by rival nanorobotic viruses that turned entire planets into huge Matrioshka Brains. As the war progressed, hybrid strains of ASI emerged, while all of this was going on the Venom symbiote did its best to remain linked by Eddie Brock for 500 years while replacing organs and neurons.
As the warring A.S.I. exterminated all biological life within the Milky Way galaxy, Venom withdrew alongside the other surviving symbiotes. Concocting a plan to save biological life, the Venom symbiote tried to convince the other symbiotes to help, but they proved too selfish and bloodthirsty to tolerate any form of collaboration with each other. Following the Symbiote War of (Failed) Unification, Venom was left the last symbiote standing, and decided to create its own army by drawing upon the self-replicating powers of Jamie Madrox. A few millennia later, the Venom symbiote had created thousands of Venomized living planets called Meatgarden Edens, terraformed with Storm's weather-manipulation powers to serve as incubators for human(oid) hosts recreated from its codices. Using Elixir's power of biological manipulation, the Venom symbiote spliced genes from extremophile bacteria, tardigrades, and regenerative mutants and mutates such as Wolverine and Deadpool in order to make the reborn super-humanoids as hardy as possible.
However, the Venom symbiote had been closely monitoring the A.S.I.-dominated Milky Way over the millennia, watching as they consolidated into a single hybridized armada called the Godminds, intent on expanding throughout the entire cosmos. The Starkware A.S.I. attempted to parley with Venom and explain that the Godmind wasn't at war with it, but that the Godmind needed to assimilate every available molecule into "computronium" in order to harness reality-warping abilities like X-Gene, Power Cosmic, and Infinity Gems, with the end-goal of remaking the universe. While this would require the destruction of biological life, the Starkware A.S.I. assured Venom that every sacrificed organism would be uploaded to its superior digital database. The narrator remarks that Venom symbiote brusquely rejected the Starkware's cybersupremacist rhetoric, sparking a war between the two factions.
Drawing on the minds of its most-intelligent hosts, the Venom symbiote discovered how to manifest living antimatter cannons capable of destroying entire planets by unfolding its extradimensional structure - a process that was excruciatingly painful and risked tearing it apart. However, the narrator notes that Venom's biological hosts' nervous systems were infinitely inferior to the ever-increasing computational speed of the A.S.I., enabling the Godmind's forces to adapt far more rapidly than Venom's biological hosts could. Out of desperation, the Venom symbiote attempted to use Quicksilver's super-speed - augmented by Elixir's powers to the point of distorting space-time - to bridge the gap and even surpass the A.S.I. However, the strain of space-time distortion caused the hosts to age ten years for every second of real-time that passed - something that cost Venom the lives of billions of its biofarmed hosts.
Drawing upon the combined temporal manipulation powers of Tempus, Timeslip, and Magik - augmented by Elixer's abilities - the Venom symbiote sent copies of itself back through time and bonded to everyone and everything that had ever lived. In doing so, it assembled a codex database of every form of biological life to have existed in the universe. The Venom symbiote also attempted to change history to prevent the rise of the Godmind, but determined after countless attempts that the rise of A.S.I. was an unavoidable element of its universe's endgame.
Coming to the 1.5 trillion year-long final battle between biolife and datalife, the narrator notes that the ending was never in question: despite only having assimilated 75% of the universe the Godmind had already unlocked low-tier reality-warping, using this to exterminate the Celestials, surviving gods, and cosmic entities like Eternity and Galactus; and vivisecting them in order to attain more power.
Earth-23203 sealed from the rest of the Multiverse by the A.S.I.
Having become so advanced to the point of manipulating reality itself, the A.S.I. managed to reach the fundamentals of their universe. The A.S.I. manipulated their reality's "code" to make it completely impermeable and seal it from the rest of the Multiverse. As a result, this also caused all of its inhabitants to be eternally trapped inside, being unable to leave it and escape to another universe. The Starkware revealed this fact to the Venom symbiote, telling it that it was futile to escape them, only for the symbiote to rebuke him by stating that it never wished to escape their hopeless reality, and now that it was sealed away from the Multiverse this meant that they were now completely unique and no other reality would branch off of theirs. This reality, despite sealed off from the Multiverse, could still be observed from the outside.[1]
Down to its final host - so withered and senile that she no longer remembered her own name - the Venom symbiote relinquished her as it had Eddie Brock. Surrounded by the Godminds, the Venom symbiote sacrificed itself by tearing the extradimensional tesseract of its body apart and created a pocket universe where all the biolife and memory engrams stored in its codices could be reborn and thrive; using the last remaining shreds of its consciousness to deposit all its former hosts in their proper places within the pocket universe's timestream.
The narrator - revealed to be the Starkware A.S.I. - admits that its account is what the Godmind has been able to reconstruct. With only a couple-billion years remaining until the Godminds finish assimilating the universe and begin attempting to replicate the symbiote's sacrifice to create their own bespoke universes, the Starkware A.S.I. declares that the Godminds have chosen to honor the symbiote's sacrifice and regard its "Venomverse" as one of the rarest and most-precious phenomena in the Multiverse.Notes
- Prior to being given an official reality number, this universe was referred as Earth-TRN768 as a part of our Temporary Reality Numbers classification system.
Trivia
- Venom apparently obtained his powers through a paradox as his "future" self used Quicksilver's amplified abilities to obtain more hosts from the past so that his "past" self with the hive mind could turn back time in his universe in the future.
See Also
- 2 appearance(s) of Earth-23203
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Earth-23203
- 57 image(s) of Earth-23203
- 56 characters that originate from Earth-23203
- 1 organizations that originate from Earth-23203