Melanization

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## Melanization

### **Concurrent**

Battle of Solis Lacus
Duel in Elmira
Albanian Expedition
Werewolf Renaissance
Beta Prison Escape of 2040
Chase of Manhattan
Return of Hell Burnbottom
Robbie Evans' campaign
Third NoHead War

### **Result**

The known universe is made pitch-black by the Eye of Remembrance

### **Book(s)**

*The Woman Who Talked to the Hand
Band of Justice*

*"My lord, would your eminence wager the survival of our race over the well-being of the entire universe? We have had foreign company for a considerable period of time."
"When the changes arrive, the strong and righteous will have nothing to fear. The weak will die from the lack of light. The wicked will die because of their inability to lay aside their own desires for the souls of their fellow men. The U.S. Government and the dictatorships intact in our age will be the first dominoes to collapse. In the end, nature will get the final say on who is destined to survive."*
―Olibon and Genesis[src]
The **Melanization** was the massive fallout across all civilizations and species in the universe which made all of the cosmos pitch-black after the Eye of Remembrance was unleashed. The seemingly eternal darkness was initiated by Genesis of the primordial Resometh at the end of the Battle of Solis Lacus, marking the end of his campaign to blacken the universe.

## Background

*"I saw the universe… being blotted out, like a painting, drenched in black… I don’t know how to describe it. I could feel all this death… as if trillions of voices cried out in horror and disbelief… the universe was being erased, like… a three-dimensional painting, that someone poured black paint all over…"*
―Sopherie[src]
The Resometh are the oldest species in existence, having ruled unchallenged for untold ages before the Big Bang, thriving in the shapeless, lightless void and having to answer only to their lord, an accomplished Resomethean sorcerer named Genesis. After the creation of the current universe, however, the Resometh's power waned, their influence in the cosmos grateful reduced with the introduction of manifest light. The Resometh eventually settled in Vartal, the darkest and bleakest space amongst Andromeda Galaxy, one of the few places in the universe dark enough to sustain them.

For millions of years, the Resometh sought to return to their former power. This yearning led their lord to personally forge a spherical metal relic called the Eye of Remembrance. This weapon had the power to convert matter to dark matter and, in practice, could restore the entire universe to its prior state of total darkness, judging the strength of every lifeform in existence, ensuring the Resometh would once again be able to reign supreme.

The Resometh came dangerously close to succeeding in their plan to unleash the Eye of Remembrance on the universe, but were prevented by the intervention of the primitive forerunners of the Proximan society. Finding their declaration of war amusing, Genesis arrived on their land in 7000 BCE, intending to unleash that destructive relic of his own making upon the galaxies and destroy them all entirely; Genesis believed that once the galaxies were destroyed, he could recreate them in his own image. The ensuing battle between primordial creatures and enhanced primitives resulted in the Resometh being forced to flee upon their lord's disappearance and presumed death. However, Genesis managed to survive and unwillingly hid in stasis, while the Eye of Remembrance was found and hidden by Zamb Organa Senior.

In 2035, the recently orphaned ninja mystic Jay Organa went and enrolled in the Church of Oltron, around the time that the Resometh, having been alerted to their lord's awakening, attacked the entire galaxy, resulting in the death of Rene, who had been bringing together a team of superpowered beings. Intending to avenge his mentor and finish what she started in spite of losing half the team to the Resometh's aforementioned galactic onslaught, Jay encountered a breathtakingly beautiful girl named Wanda, who lured him to the Resometh homeworld, Vartal, where she gave the Eye of Remembrance to Genesis, unpredictably revealing she was his girlfriend this whole time. While Vincent Organa, who was Jay's twin brother, was presumably killed by Genesis, Flubberdubber sacrificed much of his power and very essence to save Jay and together they returned to Proxima. The Band of Justice came together and realized that Genesis intended to repeat his actions from millennia before, not knowing he had recently chosen to darken the universe and determine the worth of its inhabitants individually, instead of destroying it altogether as he had intended nine thousand years ago.

During the Battle of Solis Lacus, Wanda interfered to aid Genesis when the dimensional rifts reached their peak, only for Valhalla to blast her in the head originally aimed for Genesis, mortally wounding her. But Wanda managed to open a Matter Projector and take Valhalla's precious friend from her when Scarlet Fist sacrificed herself to prevent Valhalla's demise as Genesis ran to Wanda's aid, watching her die. Genesis and his relic became one and he prepared to use it but was caught aback when Jay brutally attacked him, drawing Ogrod and momentarily flooring him.

As Jay confronted and reminded Genesis that he made a promise to kill him for his actions during the Sacking of Andromeda, including his murders of Rene, Vincent, and the Proximan warriors, Genesis simply taunted him by claiming that probability itself had seen his grief and given him what he "truly wanted". Before his stunned opponent could react, Genesis simply lifted the Eye of Remembrance into the air and at last unleashed it upon the unsuspecting cosmos. The energy surged from the Eye, which then caused the enormous shockwave of black energy flooding the battlefield as Jay Organa was knocked clean off his feet. Giving his enemy a spiteful glare, Genesis Deteleported away.

## The Melanization

*"Our work is done. Our lord is a benevolent lord, and he has kept his promise to us. There is nothing these wannabe superheroes can do, now leave them be. History will doubtlessly remember this day for all time."*
―An unnamed Resometh soldier[src]
The surface of the planet Mars darkened until the entire planet was black. The entire star system became consumed by strands of ever-darkening Eye of Remembrance essence. Even dimensions across the Multiverse, such as the Axis Dimension, were affected by the Melanization. Others were unaffected, namely a parallel universe where the Sun still hung high in the sky on its version of Mercury.

The raging battle within the Martian capitol quickly wound down into a ceasefire as the Resometh, their gratitude to their lord doubled and realizing there was no point in continuing to engage with the resistance, teleported away from Mars, gleefully returning to Vartal. As the effects of Genesis' cosmic blackening took hold across the universe, his enemies could do nothing but accept the reality of Genesis' overpowering ascendancy and the consequences it had for them and the rest of the universe.

All at once, an eccentric officer and ex-scientist named Roy Walltalker was unable to find his family anywhere as he heard his surrogate son Binoculars cry out and his gentle wife Janice scream his name before he blacked out.

As the universe lost much of its light, the light near a relevant dimension, in which Armageddon had been entrapped thousands of years ago, did not have enough energy to awaken him. As a result, Armageddon's awakening, as well as the Renascence, was delayed.

A video was anonymously given to *The Ghost*, showing altered footage of the Battle of Solis Lacus and implicating the Band of Justice as the villains behind it. Additionally, Genesis revealed Valhalla's code to the entire galaxy, as the video was aired in public, much to Valhalla's horror.

In the weeks following the outbreak of the Melanization, werewolves rose up and attempted to conquer their fully human counterparts, using the perpetual cover of night to infect untold people with lycanthropy. Seeing this chaos ensue, the vampires, who viewed the werewolves as primitive beasts, sought to follow suit and enslave humanity, relishing the idea of bringing forth werewolf slaves. The werewolves fought back and eventually defeated the vampire army, ending their insurrection. The werewolves did not have any fighting after that, and the eleven-decade Werewolf Renaissance began. Many werewolves became more interested in the fine arts of life. However, humans tried to catch the werewolves off-guard, leading to the direct interference of the S.M.S.B. By 2039, the werewolves and humans had become more united, although the species would continue to war with each other from time to time.

Despite all the terrible consequences of the Melanization, the following seventeen year period was an unprecedented era of global unity. Many of the nations of the Eight Worlds came together to help each other in a time of severe crisis, putting aside their hostilities and differences and opening their borders.

With resources diminishing, the rate of repopulating became far slower. With Neptune suffering most of all, the robot Creeper made cruel and ultimately futile attempts in trafficking women from Earth in order to find an unethical resolution.

At some point, all the great scientists of Uranus sought to harvest the limited supplies of energy and create an artificial sun for all eight of the planets, hoping everything could return to normal within the Eight Worlds. This scientific project was contested hotly by the Council of the Sun, leading up to the War of Jupiter.

## Aftermath

*"One last alliance of brave heroes came to return the light."*
―Ramona Meyer[src]
In 2052, the War of Jupiter commenced, and Valhalla was ultimately able to undo the Melanization. The Melanization was remembered as a historical event. Although the Brightening eventually brought back all the light that had been extinguished by Genesis' actions, the sudden return of numerous scientific elements surprised most of the fragmented universal populace, who had moved on with their lives without thinking they would ever see daylight again. The year following the War of Jupiter, a documentary film about the event, entitled *Eternal Night*, was released.

## Behind the scenes

D. Isaac Thomas viewed the inclusion of the Melanization, along with the subsequent Brightening, as a major crux in the DLU timeline, similar to how the Battle of Quackville in the third act of *Superquack* and the Battle of Tsala in the fourth act of *The Super Babies: Pride of the Super Babies* would go on to be referenced as a pivotal event in multiple DLU media.

## Reception

The introduction of the Melanization drew positive reviews from readers as an effective plot device due to its use as a plot twist in *Band of Justice*, serious tone, and overarching implications in the D.I.T. Literary Universe.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Band of Justice*
2. ↑ *Band of Justice: Omniverse*
3. ↑ *The Woman Who Talked to the Hand*
4. ↑ *Sebiscuits: Renascence*
5. ↑ *S.M.S.B.: Where Are You Now?*
6. ↑ *S.M.S.B.: The Return of the Verasect*
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Latest Threat*

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