Kree-Skrull War

The Kree-Skrull War is an ongoing conflict between the Kree and the Skrulls that has lasted for thousands of years. The war started when the Skrulls had refused to submit to Kree rule and thus were marked as targets. Following the Destruction of Skrullos, the Skrulls became an endangered species on the brink of extinction and were forced into refuge, constantly being hunted by the Accusers and the elite Kree operations unit Starforce.
In 1995, the conflict expanded to include the combined forces of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain Marvel on Earth. With aid from their newfound allies, the Skrulls managed to elude Starforce.
==Background==
The Kree are a major force in the galaxy that controls a vast empire. With their extremely advanced technologies and characteristic arrogance towards other races in the universe, they seek to force other civilizations in the galaxy to submit to the Kree rules, frequently waging wars against the ones who don't accept it. The Skrulls soon came to be one of the victims of these genocidal wars,Captain Marvel sparking an ongoing conflict between the two races for millennia.The Art of Captain Marvel
On Hala, Kree propagandists framed the Skrulls as war criminals, who were actively infiltrating and invading planets across the galaxy as part of a Skrull Expansion.
==Conflict==
===Destruction of Skrullos===
At the peak of the conflict, the Kree destroyed the Skrulls' homeworld, Skrullos. This effectively turned the Skrulls into an endangered species at the brink of extinction, with the surviving Skrulls scattered around the universe, looking for a refuge.
===Assassination of Mar-Vell===
During a test flight of the Light-Speed Engine piloted by Carol Danvers, they were shot down by Yon-Rogg. In the aftermath of the crash, Mar-Vell tried to destroy the engine so the Kree couldn't use it. But before she could, she was shot and killed by Yon-Rogg. Shortly after, Danvers destroyed the engine, causing a massive explosion that gave her cosmic powers. Her memory was erased as she was taken in by the Starforce and Yon-Rogg believed her name to be Vers.
===Aphos Prime's Destruction===
Skrulls took up residence on the remains of Aphos Prime, but were discovered by a Kree scouting ship. The Skrulls destroyed the ship, prompting the Kree to realize something had happened on the planet, but that they were unsure of what. They decided to send two members of Starforce, Vers and Minn-Erva, to the planet to investigate and report back. As Vers and Minn-Erva explored the planet, they were discovered by a group of Skrulls, who attacked them. Vers easily destroyed the Skrulls' hovercraft, but their fight with the Skrulls was interrupted by a Skrull appearing out of the planet's muddy surface and calling to Vers for help before getting dragged back under. The attacking Skrulls were dragged under as well, followed soon by Vers and Minn-Erva. The two soldiers met a Skrull who helped them escape and brought it back to Hala for interrogation, where he became a prisoner.Captain Marvel: Starforce on the Rise
===Axiom Cannon===
Sometime later, the Skrulls and Kree both learned about a weapon called the Axiom Cannon which was being developed by Peer Kaal for the Nova Empire to use against the Kree in the Kree-Nova War. The Kree were beginning to realize that their war against the Nova was draining resources that they wanted to dedicate to fighting the Skrulls, so they decided to consider peace, but first thought to steal the plans for the weapon. Meanwhile, the Skrulls heard about this plan and sent two agents to infiltrate Starforce and steal the plans for themselves. One Skrull disguised himself as a Xandarian warrior and attacked Vers and Rhomann Dey, who had the plans. However, Vers managed to kill the Skrull with a photon blast, revealing to Vers that Skrulls were on the planet.
Meanwhile, another Skrull killed the Kree agent Sun-Val and impersonated her. She came across Yon-Rogg and Bron-Char, who eventually found Vers with the plans. As they returned to Starforce's ship, the Skrull prepared to kill Vers, but was noticed by Minn-Erva. Minn-Erva killed the Skrull and the Kree got the weapon.
===Ambush in Torfa===
The Supreme Intelligence sent Starforce and Accusers to retrieve a Kree spy named Soh-Larr from Torfa, a planet that hosted a group of Skrull refugees. The Accusers bombarded the southern regions of the planet with Kree Ballistic Missiles, providing a diversion while the Starforce members silently infiltrated the planet, landed in its waters and used their suits to reach the surface. While Vers found what she believed to be Soh-Larr in a temple, the rest of Starforce was ambushed by a group of Skrulls disguising themselves as Torfans. While Starforce defeated the Skrull force with no casualties, "Soh-Larr" revealed himself to be Talos and abducted Vers.
====Escape from the Skrulls' Ship====
Skrulls took Vers to their flagship in Earth's orbit, where they used a device to look through her memories for information regarding the Light-Speed Engine. As they were searching through her memories, Vers woke up, freed herself and fought her way to the ship's space pods. Talos damaged the space pod, causing it to crash-land on Earth.
===Earth===
====Chase of the Skrulls====
Talos and three of the survivors from the Skrulls' Ship tracked down Vers to a store, where she was in a discussion with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury. One of them disguised himself as Phil Coulson, while another one attempted to shoot at Vers from a rooftop, but she spotted him and fired a photon blast at him, causing him to flee. Vers followed the fleeing Skrull to the 7th Street/Metro Center station where they both took a train, while the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents followed them in a car. Vers recognized the Skrull in disguise and started fighting him, but she was briefly restrained by the train's passengers, allowing the Skrull to escape from her, but not before he dropped a strange crystal which she picked up.
====Ambush at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility====
Vers attached the crystal that the assailant Skrull had dropped, to her uniform to extract its information, which led her to Pancho's Bar where she met with Nick Fury again and he agreed to help her find information about Wendy Lawson. The two headed to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility and found classified information regarding Lawson and, to their surprise, Vers' past as a pilot on Earth.
Fury, who had been instructed by the S.H.I.E.L.D. director R. Keller to capture Vers, used a pager to call them in, unaware that Keller was actually Talos in disguise. After 'Keller' and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived, 'Keller' accidentally blew his disguise to Fury, leading to a fight between the two. Despite learning that Fury called the agents, Vers decided to save Fury. The two escaped the facility in a Quadjet.
====Battle at Mar-Vell's Laboratory====
After Captain Marvel, Nick Fury, Maria Rambeau, Talos, and Goose arrived at Mar-Vell's Laboratory, they were ambushed by Starforce, who sent Danvers to commune with the Supreme Intelligence, imprisoned the Skrull refugees and decided to dispose of Fury and Rambeau. But before they could, Danvers overpowered the Intelligence in a mental battle, managed to break free from it and the Photon Inhibitor, and asserted control over her full range of cosmic powers.
In the process, she caused the cells where the Kree were keeping the Skrull refugees to overload, giving them a chance to escape. Danvers retrieved the Tesseract and decided to give it to Fury. He refused to touch it but Goose swallowed it. Danvers then stalled Starforce, allowing Skrulls, Fury, Rambeau, and Goose to escape in a Quadjet. She fought and defeated all of her former teammates.
In a rage, Yon-Rogg authorized Ronan and the Accusers to dispatch Kree Ballistic Missiles at Earth. He and Minn-Erva then embarked on space pods to follow the Skrulls to Earth. Danvers damaged his pod, causing him to crash, and destroyed the incoming Ballistic Missiles. Ronan sent more forces to battle Danvers but she destroyed all of them along with one of the Accuser Warships accompanying him, forcing him to retreat.
On Earth, Minn-Erva tracked down the Quadjet carrying Skrulls, but Rambeau defeated her in air combat, destroying her pod and killing her. Danvers arrived on Earth and defeated Yon-Rogg once more, sending him back in his still functioning pod to Hala with a warning message to the Supreme Intelligence.
==Aftermath==
After their defeat at the hands of Captain Marvel when attacking Planet C-53, the Kree retreated from Earth. Danvers agreed to finish what Mar-Vell started and helped the Skrulls find a new home, using the Light-Speed Engine to travel to parts of the universe that were far away from the Kree. Before she left, she gave Fury an upgraded version of his pager, which enabled him to call for her assistance in emergencies from galaxies away. Goose later vomited the Tesseract, allowing S.H.I.E.L.D. to take it back for later use. The experience with the Skrulls and Kree showed Nick Fury that Earth was not capable of defending itself from alien threats and with Captain Marvel going with the Skrulls, he made a proposal draft originally called the Protectors Initiative but renamed it the Avengers Initiative after Carol Danvers' Air Force callsign.
==Behind the Scenes==
*Following the Skrulls' appearance in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Kevin Feige teased at the possibility that the Kree-Skrull War is not over and that more of it could be seen in the future.MARVEL'S KEVIN FEIGE ON THE MCU MULTIVERSE, 'FAR FROM HOME' POST-CREDITS SCENES AND THE FUTURE OF SPIDER-MAN
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