Counter-Earth

Counter-Earth is the name for a planet on the other side of the sun, rotating in such a way as to be largely unseen from Earth. It was first sighted by the greeks and called *Antichthon.* There have been Five Counter-Earths that have occupied the position opposite to the Earth in the sun. They have been named Cornellia, Mondas, Gor, Counter-Earth, New Krypton and Hestia. Many have been destroyed, leading to their replacement by another.

## **Counter Earth I: Cornellia/Mondas**

### **Pre-65 Million B.C.E.**

Jack Garland arrived in Cornelia to destroy Chaos and recruits Ash and Jed. The King allows them to go on their quest. They saved a young girl named Neon and later Sophia. Each gains a crystal representing one of the four elements(Earth, Wind, Fire, Water). Restoring the crystals caused the darkness to grow instead of being halted. The group regained their memories of being agents for the other world of Lufenia sent there to fight the darkness and that they were sent to Cornelia many times before. Jack turned on and killed his companions, absorbing their darkness to transform into Chaos itself. His former friends were revived as the Dark Fiends. He then attacked and cut off the connection to Lufenia, who warned him that warriors of light native to Cornellia would rise to oppose him(*Strangers of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin*).

### **65 Million B.C.E.**

The Four Heroes of Light, native to Cornellia, battled many monsters to unite the crystals, including the Lich(who would later terrorize the land of Ooo), Tiamat, Kary, Bahamut and the Kraken. The Four Heroes learned that the Four Fiends(Jack Garland's former friends corrupted) granted Garland greater power and prevent them from doing so in the first place, creating a paradox that resets the universe, leaving the four heroes unknown without the threat ever rising in the first place(*Final Fantasy 1).* Unfortunately, The Sage Sarda used his abilities to render the Four Heroes incompetent, resulting in his possession by Chaos. He was defeated by Four White Mages(*8 Bit Theater*)( The Placement is due to one page of the webcomic showing a blast from Black Mage missing and showing it heading towards Earth during the Mesozoic era, mentioning Dinosaurs. The implication is clear even if the blast didn't actually hit here. 8 Bit theater is confirmed on one page to be the original Final Fantasy Universe but altered by time manipulation).

Some unknown time later, the planet was knocked out or orbit and into deep space by the Priest-Kings in order to replace it with their world of Gor. The Human inhabitants faced extreme cold, forcing them to adapt by transforming themselves into the robotic Cybermen. They named their planet Mondas, the original name now having been lost to time. Mondas would eventually drift back into the Solar System in 1986 to menace the world. It would be destroyed by the Doctor, but the process forced him into regenerating for the first time in his life (*Doctor Who*).

## **Counter-Earth II: Gor**

### **C.1,998,034 B.C.E.**

At approximately this time, the Priest Kings bring a new planet called Gor into the Solar System, having removed Mondas. The oldest known being on Gor, The Mother of the Priest Kings, was over two Million Years old and dates from this time. The Priest Kings are a race of aliens similar to large ants. The Queen Mother's first Five Children became the High Council of the Nest. Sarm was the first born. The nests of the Priest Kings also house a Predatory species called the Golden Beetles, which are capable of hypnotizing Priest Kings. It was forbidden by the Priest-Kings to kill them. Misk, the Fifth Born from the mother of the Priest Kings was birthed at this time before Gor was brought into Earth’s Solar System. Over time Sarm the first and Misk the Fifth would be the only survivors as the others eventually gave in to the hypnosis of the Golden Beetles. At around this time the planet Gor was brought into Earth’s solar System and occupied the Counter Earth position. The Priest Kings were powerful enough to intentionally conceal it from Earth view. They also brought some creatures with them such as Swamp Spiders(known only to be pacifist). Fossil evidence suggests mankind developed independently on Gor but much later humans from Earth were brought to Gor and the descendants as well as those recently abducted of these humans made up the entirety of the known population.

At some point the Priest Kings were joined by a race calling themselves the Terrans with their monster Guiron, who remain isolated and practiced cannibalism, diminishing their numbers further(*Gamera vs Guiron*). they were also joined by the starfish like Pairians, who named the planet Paira(given their appearance I fully believe Starro the Conqueror is a mutated Pairian, thankfully lacking the shapeshifting ability).

### **98,034 B.C.E.**

Elsewhere in space the Kurii civilization formed on a planet orbiting a medium sized yellow star and after two billion years of evolution became the dominant species on their world.

### **38,034 B.C.E.**

The pinnacle of Kurii Civilization. At that time they possessed technology far more advanced than their current tech level.

### **18,034 B.C.E.**

The Kurii fight Wars among themselves that destroy most of their technology and ruins the viability of their home planet, forcing them to search for a new planet. The remains of this technology include interstellar spaceships and steel orbs which they piloted to explore new worlds. One group entered Earths Solar System . They met and began a war with the Priest-Kings which lasted for many centuries. They have tried eleven times to invade and failed each time. It is unknown why the Kurii prioritized Earth’s solar system so much.

### **8,034 B.C.E.**

The Oldest City on Gor, the City of Ar, is founded and the Gorean calendar goes back to this date. The city was founded by a legendary hero of Ar, Hesius, also known as Hersius, which became the Gorean name for the planet Jupiter. Hersius crowned a rock as Ar’s Homestone, said to represent the entire city and be as old as it. The Gorean date is CA or “Contest Ar” meaning the Founding of Ar. Gorean years are the Same length but begin in Spring and so begin at different times than on Earth.

### **c.6,034 B.C.E.**

Only one male Priest King egg hatched around this time.

### **4,034 B.C.E.**

During this time only one female Priest king Egg hatched. Sarm destroyed all others.

The Priest-Kings began abducting Orcs during the Middle Earth period(Necessary for a later part to make sense).

### **34 B.C.E.**

At some point, the Priest-Kings began abducting people from Earth, resulting in shades of various civilizations appearing on that planet. The first among these were Greek and Roman, which came to largely define Gorean civilization. Other groups like Vikings, which became the Torvaldslanders, were abducted.

### **1666-1566 B.C.E.**

Native Americans were abducted from Earth to Gor. They became known as the Red Savages of the barrens(In the books they mention being distrustful of White Men and it is implied that their ancestors at least had contact with European by that time).

The Orcs on Gor introduced female oriented slavery, which they would rape and eat. This practice was capitalized on by the sadistic Dr.Friedman, who discovered the Gor of the past via technology and allied with several transported wizards including an aged Sarda the Sage, and used it to remove several of his female enemies(*Fansadox* Issue Orc Counterpart World, which I should warn if Porn. It's included as there is little explanation as to why Gor has female slavery. It also villifies Gor more through connection as well as connecting a Porn story to an erotica. Plus TV Tropes mentioned it I suppose I could too). There was a mass rebellion known as the Slave Wars. These were a series of on and off conflicts lasting twenty to forty years, involving large scale slaving. While the Orc population on Gor was rendered extinct, the male population adopted female slavery themselves rather than liberate the captives. The Slave Wars occurred in the Northern Hemisphere while the Southern Hemisphere had the Kailla Wars, which occurred among the Wagon Peoples. Acquiring Kailla was the reason for the war but acquiring slaves also became important and the Wagon People also began committing to the practice.

### **5th Century B.C.E.**

The Ancient Greeks discover Counter-Earth, which they call Antichthon(Based on when the Counter-Earth theory was proposed in Real life).

### **1300s A.D.**

(9451 C.A. -9551 C.A.) Matthew Cabot is born at this time and brought to Gor when he is in his 40’s. He becomes extremely long lived.

The City of Samaris is constructed(*The Obscure Cities,* Said to be older than the tower) The City of Alaxis is founded(also said to be among the oldest cities). The world itself changes because of the presence of the Cities on Gor. The Homestone of a City is seen as important in Gorean Culture and the Priest-Kings prevent anything beyond a certain level of technology. The Cities however had no homestones and are allowed by the Priest-Kings to experiment. They also do not practice slavery. Many Goreans choose to keep their distance.

### **1378**

The Priest Kings begin the construction of a massive tower which houses many people. Construction of the Tower begins(*La Tour*). Also known as 1 AT(After Tower)(Part of *The Obscure Cities* series though here it is the Priest-Kings who build the tower).

### **1500s A.D.**

(9651 C.A.-9751 C.A.)Matthew Cabot began working for the Priest Kings.

### **1778**

(400 AT) Giovanni Battista Piranesi is abducted from Earth by the Priest Kings and tasked with assisting in the building of the tower. He eventually goes insane after exploring the entirety of the tower(La Tour)(Battista was a real person and this is used to date the Obscure Cities series as he was presumably abducted close to his Earth death).

### **19th Century**

Gorean Astronomer Wappendorf observes Earth(which he calls "Antinea" and travels there with an expedition, meeting Jules Verne, who was observing Gor at the time. One character in the story is also recognized by Verne as a 19th Century painter) After this encounter the name for Earth changes to its known title and those aware of Earth's existence refer to it as "Terra Nova".

### **1929**

Radio contact was made with Gor from Earth, where it was referred to as Planetoid 127(*Planetoid 127*).

### **1933**

On Earth, Tarl Cabot is born to Matthew Cabot.

### **1939**

When Tarl Cabot is six years old his father, Matthew Cabot disappears and his mother dies.

### **1947**

(10098 C.A.) A Valley War on Gor between Ar and an enemy ended. Marlenus seized power as Ubar of Ar(elected ruler). He refused to step down but the people supported him and he began plans to expand Ar.

### **1950**

Counter Earth is designated as "Antigeos"(*Antigeos* Series) by some of the inhabitants(Information on this series is somewhat scarce).

### **1952**

**January 16:** The Priest-Kings send Vana as a spy to Earth to establish secret contact and she reveals herself to FBR Agent Garry Verth, leading to the FBR and US Government learning of Gor directly from just the broadcasts(*Twin Earths*). Vana shares tours of the cities on the planet. She is not a slave due to working for the Priest-Kings but the US Government has a mixed response to slavery on Gor, this being the 50's many sexist views were taken while others wanted to abolish it but could not due to the power of the Priest-Kings.

### **1956**

The Starfish like Pairan aliens of Counter Earth detect the rogue Planet R heading towards Earth and warn humanity, leading to its destruction just in time(*Warning from Space*). After this encounter peaceful contact is made with the Pairan, who remain peaceful until the attack by Starro the Conqueror led to distrust. The Pairan chose not to publicly reveal the location of their planet under the threat of violence by the Priest-Kings who wished to keep it a secret.

### **1957**

(10108 C.A.) on Gor. Matthew Cabot became administrator of the city of Ko-ro-ba after having served as its Ubar. Tarl Cabot accepts an english teaching position in New Barsetshire.

### **1958**

(10109 C.A.)While camping in the mountains of New Barsetshire, Tarl Cabot is taken in a spaceship by the Priest-Kings to Gor. He arrives on Gor and meet his father. He begins undergoing training.

### **1959**

(10110 C.A.) Tarl Cabot completes his warrior training. He is sent to steal the Home stone of Ar and succeeds. Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, is exiled for the humiliation and the assassin Pa-Kur launches an invasion of Ar that Tarl helped Malenus defeat. Pa-Kur leaps off a high tower. His body is never found. Tarl is allowed to marry Marlenus’s daughter Talena. Tarl is then unwillingly brought back to Earth in September. He does not understand why the Priest Kings returned him to Earth.

### **1963**

(10114 C.A.) Ar establishes a trading outpost on the Vosk river to compete with its rivals Cos and Tyros.

### **1965**

**February 3:** (10116 C.A.) Tarl is taken to Gor again. He finds his home of Ko-ro-ba was destroyed by the Priest Kings and vows to confront them at the Sardar Mountains. On his way there he passes through the city of Tharna to purchase a rideable creature called a Tarn. Tharna is ruled by women led by the silver masked Tatrix and Tarl is accused of plotting against her. He escapes by taking The Tatrix hostage and in their absence the throne is seized by a woman named Dorna. Tarl leads a revolution with the mine slaves and reinstalls the former Tatrix into power before departing.

### **1966**

(10117 C.A.) Cabot enters the Sardar Mountains and discovers the Preist-Kings to be ant-like beings. He becomes involved in the conflict between Sarm and Misk.  Misk takes Tarl with finding the Priest King egg and saving the species from extinction. The destruction of ko-ro-ba was to provoke Tarl into going to them. Sarn sparks a war after the Mother of the Priest Kings dies and Tarl helps defeat Sarn. Tarl meets his father, who escaped with the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba and is rebuilding it. Tarl heads off to locate the female priest king egg among the wagon peoples. He leaves with a woman from earth named Elizabeth Cardwell who was a slave among the wagon peoples.

A manuscript left behind by Tarl Cabot on Earth is published as a novel under the name *Tarnsman of Gor.*

### **1967**

(10118 C.A.)Tarl returns the egg to Misk and is told about “The Others”(referring to the Kurii). He is sent on a mission to infiltrate the House of Cernus, a collaborator with the Kurii.

### **1968**

(10119 C.A.)Cernus, in a power struggle becomes Ubar of Ar. Disguised as a gladiator, Tarl leads a revolt when he runs into Marlenus of Ar and helps him reclaim his throne. He is sent on another mission to Port Car but is captured by the Rencers and tortured into becoming a slave. He escapes with Telima and wins the trust of the Rencers while freeing slaves. Tarl kills Surbus, a captain of Port Car and wins the respect of his men, taking the name Bosk of Port Kar.

### **1969**

(102120 C.A.) Tarl as Captain helps to thwart a coup in Port Kar. Tarl created Port Kar’s first Home Stone from a rock in the streets and carves the initials on it, uniting Port Car and defeating the attacking fleet despite being outnumbered. Tarl, still bitter because of ko-ri-ba's destruction from the Priest Kings, cuts off all ties to them.

Gor is attacked by the Gyaos. There is at this point two Terrans remaining and two children from Earth are abducted by them. The Kaiju Gamera arrives to rescue them, resulting in the death of Guiron and the last two Terrans(*Gamera vs Guiron*).

### **1970: High Evolutionary**

A moment to talk about the "Kurii". Kurii is actually a mistranslation from Gorean for the Kurii's name for themselves. Kur means Beast which fits as the Kurii are beastmen, or rather were. The Kurii were actually long dead. This new foe was similar but was a case of mistaken identity. The Priest-Kings falsely believed it was their old enemies.

Hybert Wyndham was a Scientist supervillain known as the High Evolutionary. He primarily followed in the footsteps of Dr.Moreau and created animal human hybrids or Moreau Sapiens. Wyndham initially operated out of a base at Mount Wundagore but had recently chosen to leave Earth all together. Comic Book adaptations have him using an Infinity Stone to create a duplicate of Earth without heroes. This is false. He was nowhere near that powerful even if he reportedly had an Infinity Stone at the time as using the reality stone would have only been temporary. No he simply set up a secret base and immediately became the resident mad scientist.

(10121 C.A.) One of Wyndham's ships brought a woman named Elinor Brinton to Gor to experiment on her. The ship was shot down and unfortunately Brinton was enslaved. Tarl Cabot meanwhile rescued a captive Marlenus from the Panther Girls(who were not cat-human hybrids). Tarl reunited with Talena but learned that Telima was abducted and sets out to rescue her.

### **1971**

(10122 C.A.) Tarl arrives in Torvalsland, where a large army of "Kurii "attack. This was Tarl's first encounter with the Beast-Men, while initially sufffering a defeat, a second battle results in a victory.

### **1972: Adam Warlock**

(10123 C.A.), High Evolutionary discovered the cocoon of Him, an alien being who had in his possession the Soul Stone. Reborn and taking the name Adam Warlock. The High Evolutionary tasked Warlock with fighting evil on Counter-Earth including-Man Beast and Tarl Cabot. Cabot learned of a potential attack and head to the Tahari region, where he was framed for an assassination attempt on the leader Suleiman and is forced to escape the mines. He met the Beast Man, who informed him of the "Kurii" plan to destroy Gor with a bomb. Beast Man provided Tarl with an ancient object he'd stolen from the Priest Kings who themselves had found it on Earth, a ring capable of granting invisibility, an attempt at recreating an earlier such ring that had been destroyed. Tarl met and fought Adam Warlock briefly. He was outmatched even with the ring but Beast-Man arrived and revealed the purpose of the bomb to Warlock. Warlock allowed Tarl to destroy it, preventing the High Evolutionary's plan to destroy life on Gor and start over. Warlock confronted the High Evolutionary about this and convinced him to give Gor a chance, vowing to help change it for the better, including ending slavery on the planet.

### **1973**

(10124 C.A.) Judy Thornton is abducted and brought to Earth by the Beast Men. Her memories are implanted with a coded message that is uncovered by Tarl Cabot.

### **1974: Removal by the Beyonders**

(10125 C.A.)The Entities the Beyonders with the aid of the alien Sphinxor, stole the Counter-Earth and did so by tricking Adam Warlock into believing it had been destroyed while they abducted it. Adam Warlock therefore left into space, believing the Counter-Earth he had protected destroyed while it was moved out of its orbit and into a pocket dimension. This allowed the High Evolutionary to begin operating unchallenged by Warlock, who he believed would turn on him. The Highigh Evolutionary also began to plot a way to challenge the Beyonders.

Tarl Cabot went on a journey to find and battle the Beast Man "Half-Ear" thwarting his plan to destroy Gor. "Half-Ear" was believed killed in an explosion. The High Evolutionary was furious at this, having believed without Warlock his plan to eradicate and restart life on Counter-Earth would have succeeded. He instead chose to take a different approach and unleash more of his creations on Gor, which he planned to do after the Bomb destroyed all life. The Population of Gor was joined by High Evolutionary's New Men, a race of monster-like minions. The New Men were the subjects of purges by the High Evolutionary himself when they did not meet his standards, as well as the Goreans and the Priest-Kings who saw them as enemies. The New Men. They were granted protection in areas called "Lowtowns" by one of the High Evolutionary's minions, Low Evolutionary. High Evolutionary had other followers he created including Master Scientist and Luminous.

### **1975**

(10126 C.A.) Tarl set out to find Shaba, said to have a ring of invisibility like Tarl himself had, except it was believed this ring was booby trapped. Tarl found Shaba using the rings to study ancient ruins. Shaba was killed in a Beast Man attack and the booby trapped ring taken by them. The Beastmen were killed when the ring exploded. Gor also became known as Anti-Tellus(*X12*) and Zellikian(*Bunduki*).

### **1975-1976**

Jack Marshall, a relative of James Marshall, is brought to Gor and made a slave. He breaks free and helps to form the Vosk League to protect cities from attacks by pirates.

### **1976**

From its pocket dimension, Counter-Earth fell under attack by Galactus. the Beyonders sent a New Men named Gorr ironically enough, to ask the Fantastic Four's help in repelling the attack. The Beyonders then brought them into the Pocket Dimension and then sent them back as soon as they succeeded to prevent them from ending slavery on Gor.

### **1977**

(10128 C.A.) Tarl Cabot learns that the Beast Man Half Ear was alive and set out to find him and chooses to save his life, before returning after Half Ear departed.

### **1978**

(10129 C.A.)Tiffany Collins is sent to Earth and established as the puppet ruler of Tatrix of Corcyrus just as the city it taken over by their rival Argentum. Corcyrus is liberated and became an ally of Ar. Marlenus of Ar launched an attack on his rival City of Treve but goes missing. A New Mother of the Priest Kings takes power and declares Tarl a traitor due to him helping Half Ear escape.

### **1979**

(10130 C.A.) Tarl joins a Carnival troupe while in hiding but is discovered when Ar finds him. Doreen Williamson was abducted and taken to Gor. Cos takes Ar's Station .Tarl meets Jason Marshall.

### **1980: The Fall of Gor**

(10131 C.A.) Tarl Cabot is caught as a spy while trying to infiltrate Cos, but eventually escapes back to Ar. Ar fell to Cos. Many on Gor would see the fall of Ar, the planet's oldest city, as a sign of the collapse of society on the World. Others would say the world changed for the better.

The High Evolutionary having investigated his universe's disappearance caused by the Beyonder, finally confronted them when he succeeded in gaining access to their realm and freeing Counter-Earth, returning it to its normal place in the Solar System, his attempt to face the Beyonders himself led him to develop insanity from the shock of exposure to their power. When he awoke back on Gor, he began in his insanity to uplift more animals and even Dinosaurs from some of Earth's "Lost Worlds" along with prehistoric humans in those areas. Some of the Dinosaurs became known as Dinosaucers and foughts amongst themselves.

The Return of Counter-Earth led to its quick discovery and the Governments of the world along with several superheroes quickly moved in to take the planet with the express goal of ending Slavery. Among the heroes involved in this was the returned Adam Warlock but also Wonder Woman. A Superhero would establish himself as the King of the planet in order to ease gradual change on the world, crowning himself King Sporticus XI(Despite being the First King of Gor, though within his own family he was XI). This was done to help ease the change and maintain a puppet ruler the people would accept. The Goreans also admired his manly strength. Sporticus Xi was the father of a later Superhero of the same name who would operate in Lazytown. Sporticus had another son named Sport Billy.

### **1981**

Sport Billy began making journeys to Earth to become a hero(*Sport Billy*).

### **1986**

By this time Dogs, Cats, Foxes and other animals have gained sentience(*The Space Gypsy Adventures*) thanks to the High Evolutionary's experiments. Two warring groups of Dinosaucers take their fight to Earth(*Dinosaucers*).

### **1986-1993: Decline and Destruction**

Gor received intensive damage from the Crisis on Infinite Earths, forcing much of the population to be evacuated. The Planet remained intact but sustaining life proved difficult and much of the population abandoned the planet for Earth or elsewhere. The Priest-Kings and the Pairans departed into space.

Eventually the abandoned planet was condemned. An experimental bomb called the Nova Effect was tested, resulting in the planet's destruction(*Gulf*)(This event is mentioned in passing within the story).

## **Counter-Earth III: Counter-Earth**

### **1993: Paradise Omega**

An entity known as the Goddess, a split half of Adam Warlock, briefly recreated Counter-Earth under the name Paradise Omega. It was destroyed by Thanos during his quest for the Infinity Stones, specifically the Soul Stone belonging to Adam Warlock. Making this the briefest existence of Counter Earth(*Infinity Crusade*).

### **1996-1997: Heroes Reborn**

On Earth One, during a battle with Onslaught, The Avengers, Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom had seemingly perished in battle but Franklin Richards, in an attempt to save them transferred them elsewhere. He inadvertently created a pocket universe. While this universe did not exist prior to 1996. It did have a perceived history and was limited in its scope due to focusing largely on a handful of heroes. This universe would later be moved to occupy the Counter Earth position.

### **"False" History**

The "False" History included a divergence in World War II. Captain America and his sidekick Bucky(born Richard Barnes instead of James Buchanan Barnes) were never frozen on their fateful mission. Captain America objected to the atomic bombing of Japan. Under orders of President Arthur Hockstader, General Ross formed SHIELD led by Nicholas Fury and had Captain America knocked out. His mind was erased and he was frozen. Using false memories, Captain America would be woken up to fight in many wars throughout history. He was used in the Hun Chiu War. At one point Captain America lost his Shield and it fell into the hands of former Soldier Abraham Wilson. Post-War several splinter organization came to exist, Hydra still existed but Baron Zemo founded AIM while Red Skull and Master Man founded the World Party Organization.

Prior to this at some unknown time, though likely around the 1940's, A group of young students attending State University came together as a group called the Knights of the Atomic Round Table(Due to their shared interest in Atomic research and in the Arthurian Era). This group consisted of Latverian Victor Von Doom, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Conner "Rebel" O'Reilly(who has no known Earth One counterpart), Henry Pym and Reed Richards. The students built high tech exo suits. Victor Von Doom was horribly scarred testing one of the suits and was expelled from the school. He then traveled to Tibet before returning to Latveria.

Reed Richards began a relationship with Susan Storm of Storm industries and began working on "Project: Excelsior" which was a US Government and SHIELD Project to discover warp drive technology.

Stark took over his parent's company with Rebel and Banner assisting him. Stark made technology for shield, creating the Prometheum Armor. Banner worked on Gamma radiation. Rebel O'Reilly took the Prometheum Armor out for an unauthorized test drive in Russian airspace, where he fought Titanium man and Crimson Dynamo. During a test the next day, unforeseen damage caused the Prometheum Armor to explode, seemingly killing Rebel. Something which caused Tony Stark to cancel the project.

Hank Pym began a relationship with Janet Van Dyne, continuing his robotics research he created a size-changing armor and the robots Ultron and Vision(Ultron never turned on Pym and it was his idea to build Vision).

Victor Von Doom created his own suit of armor and conquered his home nation of Latveria. He began to build an empire, creating robots and a time travel device. He backed Hydra and killed and replaced the Mandarin, leader of the ten rings with a robot duplicate. He also contacted and formed an alliance with the Skrull Race in order to confront an energy source heading towards Earth.

### **1965**

In 1965, relative to Counter-Earth's past, The world Party Organization infiltrated SHIELD. While not killing Nick Fury, they replaced him with a Life Model Decoy, while keeping him alive in case they needed to torture secrets out of him. The LMD of Nick Fury also led a group called the Sons of the Serpent.

Peggy Carter was assassinated by World Party Organization members and replaced by a Life Model Decoy. The amnesiac Captain America was given false memories and places with the Peggy Life Model Decoy and that of a son named Steve Jr. Assuming the Life Model Decoy was invented at the same time as on Earth One, this false family was likely created around 1965 and the government was planning to launch Captain America to fight in Sarkhan. Abraham Wilson found and woke up Captain America's true memories, sending him to fight World Party mercenaries. Abraham was killed in the crossfire. Captain America was aided by Abraham Wilsons' Son Sam Wilson in fighting the operative Crossbones. When Sam Wilson was gunned down, Cap gave him some of his blood in the hopes of saving him. Cap also allied with the daughter of Bucky Barnes, Rebecca "Rikki" Barnes. Without being frozen, Bucky had survived to have a family. Rikki became the new Bucky and helped Cap defeat the World Party Organization though Red Skull escaped. They also went onto defeat AIM, MODOK, and Baron Zemo. The Mutant cable from Earth One briefly visited this universe and helped the duo.

### **1966**

In 1966 in-Universe, Doom and the Skrulls formed a plan to siphon the power from the approaching Silver Surfer. A skrull replaced Wyatt Wingfoot during the Fantastic Four's fateful flight on Project Excelsior, which the US government took over as part of the plant(The flight in this version occurring 7 years after the one which took place on Earth One). Reed Richards and Ben Grimm rebelled against the changes in the project and the Fantastic Four stole the rocketship, unaware it had nuclear weapons onboard in order to attack the Silver Surfer. The resulting explosion from hitting the Surfer was a burst of nuclear radiation and Surfer's Power Cosmic. The Fantastic Four gained their respective powers. the Mole Man attacked them on the island they had crashed on, making him the first villain they fought. Reed noticed primitive markings in caves serving as a warning about Galactus's coming.

The Avengers were formed around the first time as the Fantastic Four, brought together by SHIELD on the self named Avengers island. Among the members were Captain America, Scarlet Witch, her mentor Agatha Harkness, the Swordsman, Hawkeye, Hellcat, and the Vision. Hank Pym, Ultron, and Janet Van Dyne provided support. the official government liaison was Henry Peter Gyrich, who disliked the position. The group's first mission was to Arendelle, where Donald Blake discovered the frozen body of Thor. Loki intentionally freed Thor to provoke a fight, which Thor eventually snapped out of. Loki then enlisted the Enchantress.

Seemingly from the pocket dimension's Future, Kang the Conqueror and his lover Mantis arrived(actually created by Franklin subconsciously so the Heroes would have a foe to fight). this distraction allowed the Enchantress to turn Agatha Harkness into a tree and impersonate her. The Avengers defeated Kang but Vision was badly damaged.

The Atlantean warlord Krang attempted to usurp Namor's position, starting a battle in Metropolis. The Fantastic Four officially debuted when SHIELD asked them to become involved and aided the Avengers. Namor was wounded, preventing him from calling off the attack for sometime. During the battle, the Thing met Alicia Masters. The battle made the Fantastic Four instant celebrities.

Tony Stark became a target for Hydra and its leader Madame Hydra, along with associates Happy Hogan, Betty Ross, Jennifer Walters, Leonard Samson, Jasper Sitwell and Pepper Potts. Hydra's attack on Bruce Banner caused his transformation into the Hulk due to his gamma experimentation at the time. Hulk's rampage brought down a helicopter containing Jasper Sitwell and Tony Stark, lodging shrapnel in his heart and forcing him to don the abandoned Prometheum Armor to survive. Stark, now Iron Man fought the Hulk at Niagara Falls but the suit's low power forced him to let the Hulk escape. Pepper Potts created the cover story that Iron Man was Stark's bodyguard. Iron Man then battled the Living Laser and then the Hydra Agent Whirlwind.

Reed Richards began looking into the explosion that gave the Fantastic Four their powers and found an object from space had crash landed in Wakanda, where he met Black Panther. The Skrull Wyatt Wingfoot captured Reed and Sue. The Real Wingfoot escaped custody and told Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm about Doom and they headed to Latveria. Doom revealed his plan to siphon the power Cosmic from the Silver Surfer. the imposter Wyatt Wingfoot, the Skrull named Kl'rt, took the Power Cosmic for himself, becoming a self proclaimed "Super Skrull", revealing his intent to fight Galactus with the power after Galactus destroyed his homeworld. Richards found a way to reverse the polarity and the energy was transferred back to the Silver Surfer with the Super Skrull killed.

Hank Pym was working on repairing Vision in his Ant-Man armor when Loki made his move by having Enchantress posing as Agatha Harkness seduce Wanda to his side. SHIELD and the Avengers were hunting down the Hulk. The Hulk was looking for Banner unaware they were the same person. Loki tricked the Hulk into attacking Avengers Island, which held a Gamma Core reactor that could destroy the eastern seaboard if it went off. Thor and Hulk fought, damaging most of the Island. The Swordsman was hospitalized. Hulk escaped when he reverted to Banner but was captured when he sought aid from the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four, Avengers and Iron Man then enlisted Banner in fixing the Gamma Core before it exploded. Iron Man joined the Avengers and the group separated from SHIELD. Iron man tried to claim much of his technology but as prevented from taking the Vision since Pym had invented him for SHIELD. Stark then provided the Avengers with a Mansion base.

Iron Man was attacked by an armored foe revealed to be the thought dead Rebel O'Reilly, resurrected by Hydra(sort of...His situation is similar to what Bucky Barnes went through as the Winter Soldier on Earth One). Reed Richards helped Reilly recover his mind and Reilly vowed to help Tony take down Hydra. the two switched armors to provide an element of surprise and entered Russia, defeating Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo. Madam Hydra was killed by the Mandarin, who then killed Rebel(who Mandarin thought was Stark due to them switching armors). This led Stark to kill Mandarin in revenge, which he discovered was a robot. tracking the robot to Doom, the battle was taken to Doom's time machine, which sent them back. Since this was the first time Doom technically used the time machine, he realized that his universe was only recently created. Iron Man was left only with questions.

Jasper Sitwell, actually a Hydra agent, kidnapped and experimented on Doc Samson. He had become fascinated with Gamma Radiation after seeing Banner transform into the hulk. Samson was transformed into an abomination that killed Sitwell and his men. Jennifer Walters and the Hulk tracked the mutated Samson down and gave him a blood transfusion. Jennifer received one as well. Samson's mutation stabilized(which it would have likely done otherwise as on Earth One). The three of them dubbed themselves the Hulkbusters.

Loki formed the Lethal Legion consisting of himself, the Enchantress, the Executioner, Wonder Man, Ultron and the Scarlet Witch. Loki killed and absorbed the powers of Kang and Mantis. The Avengers defeated the Lethal Legion with the exception of the escaped Enchantress and Scarlet Witch. Loki then absorbed MODOK and Baron Zemo and all the villains the Avengers had captured. Loki assembled a second group, the Masters of Evil, consisting of the Black Knight, Whirlwind, Radioactive Man, Klaw and the Melter. Thor left the team to track Loki on his own but also disagreed with his Avenger teammates over killing him. Loki meanwhile killed and absorbed the Swordsman while he was still wounded. Ant-Man was just barely rescued when he discovered a bomb had been planet inside Vision, leading Vision to be forced out of the SHIELD Helicarrier he was being rebuilt on before he exploded. Loki also convinced Hellcat and Hawkeye to join him(Unlike their Earth One counterparts, the two lacked the same development and so Hellcat was a fairly bratty super powered teenager and Hawkeye had not truly reformed as a criminal). The Avengers consisting of Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, and Thor fought the Masters of Evil while Loki attempted to absorb ingthe Gamma Energy from the Base's reactor. Loki was betrayed by Scarlet Witch and Hellcat. Hellcat was killed in the magical duel that followed. Loki was finally killed by Thor, ending the threat.

Reed Richards discovered the Negative Zone and was approached by the Watcher, who warned of Galactus approaching. The Fantastic Four then became aware of the Inhumans stealing artifacts around the world and taking them to Attilan. They followed but were shot down and captured. The FF then helped stop an Inhuman Civil War led by Maximus the Mad.

Captain America while travelling to get in touch with the modern America, learned of the hate group called the Sons of the Serpent and began to fight the group, tracking them down. Cap became suspicious of Nick Fury when he was lured into a trap. He escaped and unmasked Nick Fury as a Life Model Decoy, soon after freeing the real Nick Fury.

Galactus arrived on Earth with an army of Heralds including the Silver Surfer, Terrax, Firelord, and Air Walker. The Fantastic Four and Avengers united to fight the Heralds. The Heralds planted devices to aid Galactus in consuming the Earth. Firelord planted a device in Attilan with the Human Torch sent to help. Firelord proved too powerful and Black Bolt was forced to use his voice to destroy the Terraformer, killing everyone present. Captain America, Thor, Namor, Scarlet Witch, Wasp and Hawkeye fought the Herald Plasma on Monster Island. Thor killed Plasma but Namor died bringing down the Terraformer into the ocean depths. SHIELD attacked Galactus directly with the Helicarrier which they were forced to abandon when they fought back, including Reed Richards as he worked on a power siphoning device. The Thing and Thor fought Terrax with the Thing holding him back while Thor destroyed the Terraformer. Thing attempted to use the power siphoning device on Galactus but something went wrong, the energy of Galactus shielded him and the device instead depowered Thing. Left human, Terrax quickly killed the human Ben Grimm, followed by Thor and Black Panther. The Heroes failed to realize there was another herald, Air Walker, planting a device. Doom successfully stole the powers of the Silver Surfer and Terrax and attacked Galactus but was defeated. Doom realized it was too late and entered his time machine as the world was destroyed. In this rare case, no alternate universe was created by the time travel due to the pocket universe nature of this world at the time. The Earth was destroyed one moment and then restored the next because of the machine.

The Second attempt Doom was not trusted by Earth's heroes. Instead he fired Nukes on Galactus which failed and devastated several areas. One nuke fell on Moscow where the Fantastic Four were fighting the Silver Surfer, killing them. The SHIELD Helicarrier this time attacked Plasma when he invaded Los Santos and was devastated. Hulk, a rebuilt Vision and Scarlet Witch attacked Firelord in Antarctica and while they successfully killed him, the Hulk was incinerated. Captain America, Iron, Hawkeye, Wasp and Thor fought Terrax in Hong Kong. While they killed Terrax, Hawkeye and Wasp were killed. Due to not knowing about Air Walker, the world was destroyed again and Doom made a second jump.

The third time, Doom succeeded in convincing the Heroes. The Fantastic Four were sent out as a scout and were killed by the Heralds. Bruce Banner, Hank Pym, Doom and Iron Man were left to work on a device to defeat Galactus. She-Hulk and Thor went to Attilan to fight Terrax during which the Inhumans were killed. Captain America, Namor, Doc Samson and Hawkeye fought Firelord on Monster Island, which resulted in the death of Namor. Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Wasp fought Plasma, which resulted in the deaths of Vision and Plasma. The device built once again failed and Doom's time machine was damaged. He only had one more change.

This Time, Doom had all the Heroes accompany the Fantastic Four and when the Heralds were all in one place a battle ensued in which they were all killed one by one except for the Silver Surfer. Richards, Pym, Banner, Stark and Doom worked on the device known as the Ultimate Nullifier. The Silver Surfer was convinced to turn on Galactus, sacrificing his life to destroy the world eater.

The Celestials, after one year had passed in his pocket universe, came to Franklin Richards and asked him to make a choice. With the aid of the heroes he restored their memories. With Stark and Richards using a carbon dater to determine everything in their universe was one year old. Their memories restored the heroes returned to Earth One.

### **1997-1999: Return of the High Evolutionary**

While it was believed the Pocket dimension operated like an illusion or a dream which faded when the Heroes "Woke Up", The Celestials actually chose to preserve it as a Counter-Earth. This meant, unknown to the Avengers and Fantastic Four, there was a world on the opposite side of the sun, who had heroes, which, as far as they knew just vanished one day and it was also 1966. This left it open to first an Atlantean invasion when Krang attacked and this time succeeded in killing Namor, which devastated the Earth with title waves. The High Evolutionary returned to claim the planet and repel the Atlantean attack.Several ordinary humans rose up as heroes including a resurrected Connor O'Reilly, who battled agains Masters Man and his followers when they attempted world domination. A group of young metahumans led by Rikki "Bucky" Barnes was formed called the Young Allies, modeled on Captain America. The High Evolutionary recruited metahumans such as Samantha Dunbar AKA Lancer. The Black Knight attempted to swear loyalty only to be killed.

### **1999: Spider-Man visits**

Counter Earth became visible over Earth One in 1999(1968 to Counter-Earth's perspective). An expedition led John Jameson was sent to the planet. The craft was attacked by Carnage. Venom leaped onto the craft to attempt to stop him and the ship shot into space. In order to follow, Peter Parker had Reed Richards build a suit designed for space travel and set off. Arriving on Counter Earth, Jameson had joined the resistance in fighting agains the High Evolutionary's new creations of Beastials, Machine Men, and the Knights of Wundagore. Spider-Man eventually helped take down the High Evolutionary but the planet was consumed by a massive symbiote he had created while experimenting on Venom and Carnage (Spider-Man: Unlimited). The planet was forced to be abandoned and was then destroyed to prevent the Symbiotes from escaping.

### **1999-2000: Fire and Water**

The area where Counter-Earth once stood was occupied briefly by two planets called Fire and Water. Fire served as a Hell-like afterlife while Water was a Heaven-like Afterlife. Both were destroyed by the Lexx themselves, who attempted to do the same to Earth but were fortunately prevented(*Lexx*).

## **Counter-Earth IV: New Krypton**

### **2008:New Krypton**

In 2008, after a battle with Brainiac. The Bottle City of Kandor was regrown to normal size near Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. When negotiations with US President Arthur Coleman Winters were attacked. The Kryptonians began a campaign of killing criminals and increasing tensions led to the Kryptonians to form a new landmass opposite of the Earth and move Kandor there, creating a new Krypton. The kryptonians chose General Zod as their leader.

### **2009: War of New Krypton**

With Krypton seen as a threat, Lex Luthor was hired to find a way to deal with the potential menace. Superman himself journeyed to New Krypton and lived among its citizens. An attack by Brainiac led to the new planet being destroyed and starting a short lived war with Earth when Luthor was discovered to be involved in the attack. The Survivors led an invasion, which Superman and his allied helped put a stop to at the cost of much of the Kryptonian population(World of New Krypton)

## **Counter-Earth V: Hestia**

The same year of 2009, The Supervillain Gary Karkofsky fought a heroic counterpart to himself who created a new Counter Earth before his death(*The science of Supervillainy)(*Has been tweaked somewhat to fit as it provides the Origins for a new Counter-Earth). This new Counter-Earth was dubbed Hestia and observed in 2009.

### **2011**

Counter-Earth became visible in Earth's orbit with some people crossing over(*Another Earth*). This Earth appeared to be virtually identical(likely due to basically being a "Cloned Earth" created by Gary Karkofsky from 2009). However observers began to notice subtle differences and it was classified as "not quite the opposite of our own... but somewhat dissimilar in certain ways!". An example of this was a law was introduced taking away the rights to drink from the elderly as well as their ability to drive. Though the elderly made up a large enough amount of the population that they influenced popular music, meaning that older songs were always the most popular. This seemed to be a reversal of the role of the elderly with the role of teenagers(*Tom the Dancing Bug*). Another minor difference observed was Corn on the Cob was eaten vertically instead of Horizontally. Both Counter-Earth and Earth were threatened by the rogue planet Melancholia, which was consumed by Galactus before it could collide with either Earth.

### **2051**

Ancient Cities from the previous Gor, likely of a mystical nature, began to appear on Hestia. This included the Tower, which was now believed to be the fabled Dark Tower, which expanded into other universes or at least a part of it. The towns of Bartoline and Urania merge to form Urbicande, the "City of Cities"(673 AT).

### **2069**

Astronauts Colonel Glenn Ross and Dr.John Kane took off from Earth. They seemed to return to Earth with the mission ending in failure and the death of Kane, only to find they had actually landed on Counter-Earth. Counter-Earth and Earth were almost exactly the same except for some small differences he noticed such as backwards writing and inversed traffic. Jason Webb, the head of the Space Centre aided him in attempting to takeoff due to the belief that the Counter-Earth's Ross was likely experiencing the same thing on Earth. Ross attempted to take off again but an accident causes the destruction of the Space Centre and his death. Jason Webb would commit suicide sometime later(*Doppleganger*).

Astronaut Neil Stryker followed Ross's path from Earth but became stranded on the Counter-Earth, finding it to be much more dystopic than Ross observed(*Stranded in Space*). This was due to the recent founding of a world government headed by a somewhat fascist figure, something which did not transpire on Earth.

### **2069-2114**

Counter-Earth, like Earth itself, was devastated in a nuclear war, presumably due to the election of President Robert L.Booth. However, the nuclear devastation was far worse and unlike Earth it did not recover on its own. Humans began colonizing Hestia. With the native humans keeping their distance from the colonists. It also became home to a race of “Dune Sharks” Sharklike creatures that could bury into the ground(*Judge Dredd*).

### **2114**

Franch and Flemish become the main spoken languages in the city of Brusel, which had by this time recovered from the devastation.

### **2113**

An Object known as the Cube grew into what became known as "The Network" and expanded to consume both the city of Urbicande and then the entire continent the City resided on.

### **2116**

An earthquake completely flattens Urbicande.