Earthly Plane

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## Background information

### Books

*The Prime Poppies
Journey to Planet 12
Superquack
Baby Intelligence
Sebiscuits: Dawn of Transcendence
Sebiscuits: Apocalypse
The Super Babies: Pride of the Super Babies
White Messenger
The Man Who Talked to the Wall
The Super Babies: The Blabberish Singer
Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness
The Super Babies: Revenge of Hell Burnbottom
The Super Babies: An Ended Generation
Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent
Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers
Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid
The Super Babies: Final Clash of Brethren
The Woman Who Talked to the Hand
Before The SMSB: The Promises of Sheriff Baldric
Before The SMSB: The Dominion of the Dark Lord
Superquack: Relapse of Power
Band of Justice
S.M.S.B.: Where Are You Now?
S.M.S.B.: The Return of the Verasect
Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Latest Threat
Before The SMSB: The Legacy of Mae
Boys vs. Girls 2
Before The SMSB: The Legacy of Sheriff Bladepoint
Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Inferno Relit
Shields
Boys vs. Girls 2 Prelude
Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The New Order
Convergence
Demolition One
The Marauder
Band of Justice: Omniverse
Adam Catalina and the Legend of the Black Bracelet* (unreleased)
*Pink Figurehead
League of Red Stars
Sebiscuits: Renascence
Superquack: Focal Point
The Prime Poppies 2* (unreleased)
*23* (unreleased)
Vault of Ages: Surface of the Elements *(unreleased)*Vault of Ages: Fusion *(unreleased)*Vault of Ages: Cosmic War *(unreleased)*

## Other information

### Other names

The Universe
The known universe
The material plane
The observable universe

### Visitors

Arudun the Spider
Earrus
Heath
Odin
Trope
The Umbralord
Xitol

### Type of Location

Temporal Universe

*"You think this bleak expanse of blackness and watery rocks and balls of heated hydrogen is all that comprises reality?"*
―The Lady[src]
The **Earthly Plane** refers to the Earth's universe; this being the specific material universe within a reality where the planet Earth is located. When viewed by an observer traveling at less than the speed of light, the Earthly Plane was referred to as **outer space**, or simply **space**. Almost all known events have taken place here.

## Overview

*"The Earthly Plane's got 125 billion galaxies. Ideally, it would take 12 quintillion, 500 quadrillion years for light to reach the other end of the universe. You can't exactly MapQuest that shit."*
―Lode[src]
The Earthly Plane is the plane of existence where the planet shares space and time with other celestial bodies, like the Sun, the rest of Sol, the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and so on. Filled almost entirely with vacuum, a depressurized area devoid of atmosphere, but containing the aforementioned celestial bodies, it was the dimension within which Humans and nearly all other inhabitants of the Eight Worlds lived. When viewed by an observer traveling at less than the speed of light, the Earthly Plane was referred to as outer space. The basic observations of astronomy have given an understanding of planetary movements as well as the ability to make simple predictions, such as calculating the arrival of comets, forecasting solar eclipses, and distinguishing waning and waxing moons. The positions of various celestial bodies relative to the Eight Worlds have a significant impact on mutantry and spirituality. Traveling in particularly isolated areas of space known as *deep space* for extended periods of time caused mental and emotional breakdown.

Holding together the Earthly Plane and many other universes is a fundamental power connecting all living things, often perceived by mortals as mysticism. Over the eons, many supernatural beings would feel that the use of their powers put them in touch with the universe as a whole; otherwise, its use would make them perceive the entire universe as responding to them in some way. When a mutant, for example, experienced a vision of possible futures, it could seem like the passage of time in the entire universe slowed for the person while they took in the information. When using psychometry, a mutated power that allowed one to read impressions from objects, one felt as though they could distinctly feel the object's place in the universe.

## History

### Prehistory

#### The dawn of time

*"In the beginning… …before the dual singularity and the dawn of creation, came the Gods. They brought light into the universe."*
―*Sebiscuits: Renascence*
The Earthly Plane was formed by the Gods, ancient cosmic beings with unprecedented power, fashioning a massive ball of energy at a single point, containing elements of antimatter and dark matter, which was collectively accumulated in the divine palms. Due to the imperfections of the scale of energy, anomalies in the fabric of space collected matter, and ultimately generated enough gravitational pull to stretch out and expand this energy, effectively birthing the Earthly Plane. The Gods proceeded to birth billions of galaxies teeming with life, and also introduced light, effectively dissipating the Abyss and its vast, primordial darkness. Hence, the Milky Way was formed from cosmic debris. Over the ensuing eons, star systems and planets formed within the galaxy, with life and sentience growing upon these worlds' surfaces, leading to the events of international history. A cloud of dust and gas within the universe that was one-hundred-thousand light years across experienced a gravitic collapse; the cloud coalesced to form a disk of the same dimension that revolved around an extremely massive black hole, the galaxy itself. Instantaneously, the Big Bang formed concentrated ingots out of the pre-existing dyad of singularities created by the Gods, which would become the Wolataffe and Almataffe. The Resometh, who were able to pass on to the Earthly Plane, spent billions of years attempting to return it to the Abyss that preceded it.

#### Construction of Egrevond

Millennia before the Shadow Wars, Egrevond was built after Nebelon's tribe enlisted an ancient civilization to create a prison for Nebelon. The ancient plain was eventually used to detain Dark wizards. Karkamel was banished to Egrevond in circa 553 BCE following a series of heinous crimes he committed.

#### Pandora's Rod of Conviction

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In the early 1000s, the Iron Godking had heard legends of Pandora's Rod of Conviction, and deemed it the ideal time to begin his conquest, developing hegemonic cultures which would develop universal influence.

### Sol enraptures the Earthly Plane

Sol would imperil the Earthly Plane two millennia before the beginning of the Common Era when the Lord of the Stone tried to make all things as stone. However, Leonard, Sir Analdas, and the rest of the Impedance overpowered and defeated him. Zhoul became the first mutant to detect the presence of other dimensions. He dedicated his life to protecting his native realm from extra-dimensional threats using mutantry.

Despite being the very first to discover it, Helgoth, who was one of the lords of Metta prominent in the thirteenth century, didn't believe in the presence of other dimensions as a supernatural phenomenon. He thought these so-called realms was in fact the reaction of a mind *"dissipating into the flow of energy lurking in the shadows"* and accepting its fate. This feeling of peace would only be a normal consequence of whatever was out there. Helgoth also thought only the weak would tolerate the loss of their belief that they were not alone in the Earthly Plane. Six centuries passed, and scientists such as Dallin Brock began experimenting with cosmic energy; during one such experiment, Brock unintentionally created a rift where negative energy entered the Earthly Plane and nearly generated a destructive black hole. Eventually, he reopened the rift, discovering another universe outside of the Earthly Plane.

Sol would go on to imperil the Earthly Plane a second time at the dawn of the twenty-first century when Baron Zarath attempted to spread his darkness all across it and remake it in the image of his lord. However, Sheriff Bladepoint, Jean Richardson, and other righteous members of the Police Grand Army overpowered and defeated the malevolent cultist. By 2004, the Earthly Plane could be navigated by the inner circle of the Iron Godking through the closely guarded secret of the Cosmic Interconnected Teleportation Matrix. Despite Lord Helgoth's sentiments, humans would attempt to expand their numbers throughout the Earthly Plane by performing a number of preliminary testing procedures, as in 2018, Elon Musk sent his Tesla Roadster away from Earth and into outer space.

### Converging from a dark place

In March of 2022, an undisclosed party caused a powerful warp between realities in a desperate attempt to change the future from its apocalyptic state, and in doing so was implied to split two dimensions. Two months later, Summer Petersen awoke in Oblivion after she was impaled by Emily Watson on the Earthly Plane and the heads of Vincent and Jay Organa touched in death. She returned to the Earthly Plane, choosing to live. Although she had spoken with her metaphysical grandmother for hours, no time had passed at all on the Earthly Plane.

### Supernatural mysteries unleashed

In 2024, Jamboga the Unholy fashioned Nova Grid, a superweapon designed to re-trigger the Big Bang and create a new universe. He believed this was the only way to give existence purpose. Fortunately, Sarah and Macroburst intercepted him and defeated the malevolent nihilist, deactivating the device.

During the events surrounding the Second NoHead War and the 2030 Pandemic, scientists dwelling on the Earthly Plane discovered the gap between the universe and a universe in an alternate dimension where time ran backwards, which effectively drew an entity named Earrus out, leading to his introduction to Baby Intelligence. One year later, the malevolent crime lord Vertigo attempted to create an Incursion with Mutantry-1980, intending to cause the Earthly Plane to collide with the parallel universe and cause untold death and sorrow. Fortunately, the League of Red Stars battled Vertigo and managed to defeat him, and both universes were saved.

In 2034, Trope and all of his siblings traveled from the Gelatinous Grass Dimension to the Earthly Plane and appeared before the Proximans just prior to the Melanization, which occurred when Genesis, the lord of the Resometh, took advantage of the weakened boundaries between the galaxies to use a powerful weapon called the Eye of Remembrance to revert the Earthly Plane to the Abyss, the primordial state of darkness in which his race had once thrived.

### Freeing the reality

With Erno Silva saved, Heath found Morena Fox and assassinated her and terminated the Apparatus of Spacetime. With its destruction, the Earthly Plane was now allowed to have free will, multiple branches of the isolated realities began to branch off connecting with the rest of the Multiverse, allowing the Black Queen to resurface and establish contact with the before isolated universes lying beyond the Earthly Plane. The Black Queen got control of Needed Evil so she could manipulate the Multiverse at her will. With the flow of the Earthly Plane broken, and the Multiverse under the control of the Black Queen, Jay Organa and Lode could only watch in despair how they had made a terrible mistake.

Seventeen years after the Battle of Solis Lacus, the Final Alliance gathered powerful allies to fight Genesis and defeat him, and following the Brightening, the Earthly Plane was restored. In the year 2060, Armageddon awakened from his stasis. Once awakening and seeing how apparently awful the star system had become, he decided to destroy it so that only the strong could inhabit it. However his plan was foiled by Sebiscuits Cardarphen, Lode, and Dovo and their new friends who together managed to vanquish Armageddon and the deranged exploiter Galfalor of Eris. In the process, a star system was saved from a false god while an entire universe was saved from an evil overlord. Much later, the new Earthly Plane became partially affected by the Black Iron Event.

Subsequently, Nebelon targeted Egrevond, detonating the void with a destructive beam no less than five miles in diameter. The destruction of Egrevond, wiping all traces of the enigmatic structure from the system, killing all within, and destroying countless vessels in its blast radius. As a result of Egrevond's destruction, the Jaw began to malfunction. This caused the shell of black holes that composed the Jaw to begin to slide apart, creating a "crack" in the otherwise complete shell of black holes. This then allowed Nebelon to reach out from the Jaw, which seemed to have blocked her influence when it was intact (as Nebelon was previously only able to influence those within the Jaw). According to Lothrial, the destruction of Egrevond was a direct result of the Dark Flame's attempt to change what he saw in his vision at the Overpowered Abyss. By trying to change the future, the Dark Flame unleashed Nebelon — the Bringer of Unrest.

### Perceived by the Eight Worlds

To illustrate metaphorically the importance or insignificance of an object, a situation, themselves, or others, people would examine whatever it was in relation to the universe. Agent Dot Lodd believed that his lord Mr. Stupid NoHead was the most powerful man in the universe. Some would muse that the universe, sometimes Sol, was sentient, actively affecting their situations, or, more generally, in a destiny they were meant to fulfill. When in severely dire straights, people would think the universe was out to get them, sometimes thinking it demonstrated a sense of humor in its execution. Nonetheless, good influences were registered as well. Still others, like the officer Penn Irma, thought that the universe was completely random, albeit cruel. There was also the idea that even individual people and small acts could affect change in the grander scheme, an idea provoked by people like Baby Intelligence. In addition, individuals from the Eight Worlds tended to have a view of existence centered around their own star system. They referred to Sol as "the universe" on a number of occasions. The word *universal* and its derivatives were used to describe things as *all encompassing*.

In reference to the natural state of things, however they interpreted it, people would say that it was the way the universe worked. Mr. Stupid NoHead himself saw to it that such doctrine was followed by the NoHeads in practice of their Code. Hell Burnbottom learned from his father that that life was defined by conflict and that it took strength to survive. People who could not endure their strife, or became complacent, were snuffed out soon enough and it was their own fault. In the practice of the darkness, they saw this idea as crucial: the reason there were those who followed the dark path and regretted it for the damage it did to their lives was that they were too weak to control themselves in their pursuits. Those people were not fit to use darkness to shape their world and ascend to true freedom and self-reliance, dominating the wills of those around them. Ronan saw the opposite as the truth: that instead of asserting dominance, the strong should help the weak be strong as well. She followed neither the Light nor the Darkness, not wanting to support either, and found power in the universe that one could draw on for wisdom and strength. She even instilled her ideals and this practice into her subordinates amongst the Demolitions, warning them against giving into the Darkness that she perceived as evil.

Still, though many who possessed supernatural powers contemplated the universe with its relationship to the supernatural in mind, there was a division between knowing the spiritual ways of mysticism and the ways of the universe, hence why most superheroes were notorious for their reluctance to follow military orders when these conflicted with their creed.

## Known locations

*This list addresses locations on a universal scale, such as galaxies, stars, and planets.*
* Andromeda Galaxy
	+ Proxima
* Large Magellanic Cloud
* Milky Way
	+ Alpha Centauri System
		- Eeidaria
		- Klorium
	+ Sol
		- Earth
		- Jupiter
		- Mars
		- Mercury
		- Planet 12
		- Planet X
		- Pluto
		- Saturn
		- Sun
		- Uranus
* Sombrero Galaxy
* Triangulum Galaxy
* Zosiforven Galaxy

## Behind the scenes

Certain usages of the word "universe" in the D.I.T. Literary Universe could have been, in context, the character referring simply to Sol. However, the existence of other star systems connected by space meant a universe existed. Further, *The Super Babies: Revenge of Hell Burnbottom* established that there was a definitive difference between the space-time of the universe and Earrus' universe, meaning that all things that have appeared in the mainstream Earthly Plane are relative to the Earthly Plane, even if the concept of the various star systems being parts of a singular celestial association has never been extrapolated upon or spelled out flatly in a source of D.I.T..

## Trivia

* At least some people believe that spirits exist across the Earthly Plane, connected to the stars.
* The phrase "observable universe" is used because light has not yet traveled far enough for us to be able to see the entire universe. Because the universe is also expanding, the entire universe may never be observed.
* In Mutantry-1977, the Galaxy is said to be "far, far away" from our real galaxy, meaning that the universe is the same body as our real universe.
* The Earthly Plane is estimated to contain approximately 125 billion different galaxies.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Band of Justice*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Sebiscuits: Renascence*
3. ↑ *White Messenger*
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6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Superquack: Focal Point*
7. ↑ *Impedance: Dawn of Mutantry*
8. ↑ *S.M.S.B.: The Return of the Verasect*
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Before The SMSB: The Promises of Sheriff Baldric*
10. ↑ *Adam Catalina and the Legend of the Black Bracelet*
11. ↑ *Morgan*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*
14. ↑ *Superquack: Relapse of Power*
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 *The Super Babies: Revenge of Hell Burnbottom*
16. ↑ *League of Red Stars*
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 *Band of Justice: Omniverse*
18. ↑ *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Latest Threat*
19. ↑ *Before The SMSB: The Legacy of Mae*
20. ↑ *Before The SMSB: The Dominion of the Dark Lord*
21. ↑ *The Marauder*
22. ↑ *S.M.S.B.: Where Are You Now?*