1974 Tesseract Shatter

The 1974 Tesseract Shatter was an event in the Omniverse continuum. It occurred on April 3, 1974, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Causes
*Unknown, possibly a battle or skirmish involving either the Kree and/or the Skrul
Effects
*Shatter of the Tesseract
*Tesseract shards travelled into different minds within the Omniverse
**Receptors of the shards known as Shard Bearers
***Tony Stark is one known Shard Bearer
Effects on Tony Stark
*Stark gains a shard of the Tesseract
::#Travelled into several universes in different time periods
::#Collected the genes of the Kree, Makluans, and Dragonians
::#Touched by Xavier in 1981, turning him into a metaphysical being
::#Touched by Da Yang and Xiao Hu in 1974, merging them into the shard
::#Collected some of Wiley's DNA in 1996
::#Merged into the mind of the fetal Stark
*Becomes related to the Kree, Makluans, Dragonians, and Wiley
*Gains the perspective of a 1970s youngster
**Becomes inherently obsessed with the 1970s
*Stark's shard activates in 2008 and increases in energy over time
**Stark gains the ability to communicate to beings in other universes and the ability to have premonitions
***The universes Stark talks to were travelled through by his shard
The All learned immediately of the Shatter. At the moment of the Shatter, the All relayed its occurrence to Lyra Monlovar, who was his pupil at the time. He later shared this information with the Council of the Stars.
On March 22, 2015, Stark and Banner hypothesized that there must be other beings who possess shards of the Tesseract. Stark ascribed a collective name to these beings—Shard Bearers—and the two based their hypothesis on both previous knowledge of the Shatter and logical conclusions. Stark noted that, since the Tesseract shattered into many shards and one such shard travelled into his own mind, the same must be true for the other shards; other shards must have travelled into different parts of the Omniverse and, therefore, into different beings and/or objects. Because the Tesseract needed to be put together again, Stark concluded that the only way to reunite the Tesseract is to gather all the Shard Bearers and have them reassemble the Tesseract themselves. Stark included himself in this list of Shard Bearers. However, Stark was unable to discern which beings contained different shards due to a lack of information. The hypothesis was proven correct on March 24, 2015, and 46 other Shard Bearers were identified.
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