Collector's Fortress

**The Collector's Fortress** also known as the **Tivan Collection** is the setting of *Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!*.

## Description

The Collector's Fortress is a towering fortress capable of teleporting through space. The fortress is home to Taneleer Tivan AKA The Collector and houses his massive collection of artifacts. The fortress was largely supplied by the alien corporation X-S Tech and powered by a single generator.

### Features

* **Collector's Office**:
* **Gantry Lifts**:
* **Gardens**: Tivan's Oasis also known as, "The Gardens of the Galaxy".
* **Generator**:

### Collection

* **89P13's Blaster**: The Blaster of Rocket Raccoon.
* **Abilisk**: A giant inter dimensional creature.
* **Asgardian Guard Armour**:
* **Atlantean Artifacts**:
* **Audio Artifacts**:
	+ **Alien music**:
	+ **Bird Calls**:
	+ **Gettysburg Address**: The address of Abraham Lincoln.
	+ **Voyager space shuttle launch**:
* **Book of Yggdrasil**:
* **Brazier of Bom'Galiath**
* **Celestial Masks**:
* **Cocoon of Unknown Origin**: A large alien cocoon containing an unknown entity.
* **Coelacanth**:
* **Cosmo the Spacedog**:
* **Crimson Bands of Cyttorak**:
* **Crystal of Conquest**:
* **Dark Elf**:
* **Dark Elf Artifacts**:
	+ **Book of Yggdrasil:**
	+ **Dark Elf Mask:**
	+ **Malekith the Accuser's Dagger**:
* **Death Dealer's mask**:
* **Death's Head's Head**:
* **Destroyer Armour Prototype Gun**:
* **Dolores the Octopus**:
* **Dragon scale weapons**: Weapons made from red dragon scales such as those used by the residents of Ta Lo.
* **Einherjar Armour**:
* **Figment**:
* **Fire Dragon**:
* **F'Saki**:
* **Gamma Super-Soldier Serum**: A failed green super-soldier serum made by Dr. Bruce Banner in an effort to imitate that of Dr. Abraham Erskine.
* **The Guardians of the Galaxy**:
	+ **Drax the Destroyer:**
	+ **Gamora:**
	+ **Groot:**
	+ **Rocket Raccoon:**
	+ **Star-Lord:**

* **Golden Apples of Idunn**:
* **Hollywood Tower Hotel Bellhop hats**:
* **Hollywood Tower Hotel Bookmark**:
* **Howard the Duck**:
* **Jotunn Beast**:
* **Kamar-Taj Dragon**:
* **Kang the Conqueror's belongings**:
	+ **Books**: These books include *Cyclopedia of Telephones and Telegraphy, Miller's Gardeners Dictionary,* and *Tirinus in Scriptura*
	+ **Pitcher & Cups**:
* **Kree Artifacts**:
	+ **Obelisk**:
	+ **Orb**:
	+ **Terrigen Crystals**:
* **Kronan**:
* **Matterhorn Yeti**:
* **Napoleon III portrait**:
* **Nova Corps Uniform**:
* **Orloni Pack**:
* **Sakaaran**:
* **Sakaaran Head**:
* **SONY Walkman**:
* **Stan Lee**:
* **Star-Lord's Boombox**:
* **Stormbreaker**:
* **Time Variance Authority technology**:
* **Tom Morrow's head**:
* **Totem pole**: A totem pole outside of the fortress which depicts acquisitions and entities such as Groot, Star-Lord, several frogs, and a dragon-like creature at the top.
* **Ultron Sentry**:
* **Vyloo**:
* **Warlock's Eye**:
* **Warriors Three weapons**:

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The Collector's Fortress is the teleporting fortress of the evil Taneleer Tivan and the Tivan Group which ran an amoral collection and sometimes kidnapped its own tourists. When Tony Stark planned the *Global Avengers Initiative* in 2019, Tivan contacted the Avengers and promised to bring his fortress to *Avengers Campus California* and educate Earth's populace on his collection. He send a tanked Vyloo to an expo presenting the initiative to show this.

#### Mission: BREAKOUT

While in the Campus, the Collector sent out various spam texts for promotions in the general area. During residency in Avengers Campus, the fortress was overrun by the rogue, "Spider-Bots" of W.E.B. member Peter Parker who used his *Spider-Man* moniker to infiltrate the fortress via the campus' utilidoors, and pacify the robots in webbing. The Collector contacted Avengers member Scott Lang AKA *Ant-Man* and stated that he liked Scott's ideas and wanted to discuss them over, "Sakaaran Cold Brew". It was likely that this was a trap set up by the Collector though the outcome of this incident is unknown.

Tivan invited Star-Lord of the *Guardians of the Galaxy* to attend with promise of a free tour. Tivan proceeded to kidnap the guardians for his collection and put them on display as his main attraction but failed in capturing their fellow member, Mantis. During their imprisonment, Star-Lord and Gamora sent messages for help to Avengers member Wasp while Rocket managed to send out an S.O.S. signal to the California area.

After escaping containment, Rocket Raccoon debriefed these contacts in the Collector's Office and orchestrated a plan to knock-out the fortress' generators by connecting it to Star-Lord's Walkman and using their guest ID hand-scans to hack into the system. This released all of the creatures in the Collector's possession while the Guardians escaped in their ship the Milano as piloted by Mantis, accompanied by Cosmo the Space-Dog but not realizing that they forgot Baby Groot.

#### Monsters After Dark

The monsters of the facility proceeded to run amok and cause carnage in the powered-down facility. Various Tivan Group workers attempted to recapture the creatures as the monsters preyed on the fortress' inhabitants. During this time, the ghost of outlaw guardians ally Yondu Udonta was spotted wandering the hallways. Rocket Raccoon returned to the fortress to find Baby Groot and had a group of tourists act as bait and distractions from within the Gantry Lifts as Rocket did so. The tourists were terrorized by the Fire Dragon before escaping while Rocket and Groot did likewise.

#### Awesome Dance Off

By the time Groot regrew from a baby to an adult, Star-Lord had the Guardians return to the fortress to take back his boombox (though he did not tell Gamora this). Quill retrieved the boombox from a box outside of the fortress in Avengers Campus only for him and Gamora to realize that the Collector was tracking their body-heat signatures. Star-Lord then used the boombox to play music for nearby Terrans to dance to in order to overload the Collector's sensors while he and Gamora escaped.

The further fate of the Collector's Fortress remains unknown.

### Development history

The Collector's Fortress was created from the building for the fan-favourite defunct attraction, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror where it was themed to the haunted Hollywood Tower Hotel. The building was given more of a science-fiction/Jack Kirby aesthetic to be repurposed for Mission: Breakout.

## Appearances and allusions

### Avengers Assemble: Flight Force

Iron Man will attempt to call Rocket, only for Rocket to be trapped within the fortress.

### Disney’s Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel

There is a photo-op themed to the Collector's Fortress, based off of its counterpart from the MCU films.

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

The fortress is the setting for this attraction.

### FAN-tastic Food Truck

A photograph shows Beth Clapperton outside the fortress in the campus.

### Hollywoodland

An issue of *The Daily Bugle* had a photograph of the fortress by Peter Parker and front-cover story by J. Jonah Jameson titled, "Alien Invasion? Is Spider-Man to Blame?".

### PYM Test Kitchen

Wasp will occasionally receive spam texts advertising the fortress. Star-Lord, Gamora, Scott Lang and Tony Stark will also all text the Wasp with references to the fortress.

### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

One of the levels in this attraction has Spider-Man fighting off waves of Spider-Bots attempting to invade the fortress.

## In other media

### Film

#### Thor: Ragnarok

The Collector's Fortress makes a cameo on Sakaar in the film Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2021/09/photos-props-from-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-now-on-display-in-avengers-campus-at-disney-california-adventure/
2. ↑ https://dlnewstoday.com/2019/08/photos-a-closer-look-at-avengers-campus-projects-coming-to-disney-parks-at-d23-expo-2019/
3. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2021/08/25/tour-and-review-hotel-new-york-art-of-marvel-at-disneyland-paris/
4. ↑ https://www.superherohype.com/news/398047-guardians-of-the-galaxy-mission-breakout#/slide/75