Galactus (Earth-616)

## Galactus

* Galactus
* Galan

* Thor #169 (As Galan)

**Galactus** was a Cosmic Being and the devourer of worlds. Galactus was originally a mortal Taa-an man named **Galan** born in an incarnation of the Earth-616 from a previous multiverse. Galan was the only survivor and was reborn in the new one with the purpose of eating and destroying worlds for the purpose of creating room for new worlds to be created and thrive.

## Biography

### Early Life

Galan was born on the planet Taa on an earlier iteration of Earth-616. Galan was a scientist and explorer.

### Big Crunch

One day, the universe was going through a big crunch that would destroy everything. Galan was selected to use a device to see the fate of Taa, however all that he found was that Taa would be destroyed with the rest of the Universe. With no way to save their planet, the Taa-ans decided they needed to prepare for the inevitable, while Galan wanted to find a way for his species to dies gloriously.

The radiation from the Big Crunch was affected nearly every single being in the Universe, killing most beings with the radiation already affecting Taa. In addition all of the radiation began affecting the ships in Taa's orbit and protective spheres to the point that only a few Taa-ans were living. With the death all life inevitable, Galan and the few remaining Taa-ans decided to voyage to the center of the Universe to die along with the universe.

Galan and his crew made it to the center, and were blasted by cosmic radiation. While the other crew members died from the radiation, Galan was still alive and was spoken to by the Embodiment of the Multiverse.

### Becoming Galactus

The Embodiment was dying but wanted to merge with Galan to create a new form of life for the new iteration of the Universe. With the new Universe, Galan's ship, which had become an incubator named the Lifebringer One, traveled through the cosmos before eventually crashing on the planet Ecce the Watcher, where he began incubating and while Ecce watched. Once Galan had stopped incubating and emerged from his incubator. Ecce realized the future of Galan and though about killing him, but stuck by his oath of noninterference allowing the transformed Galan to live.

The nameless being took the Lifebringer One to orbit where he created a special suit of armor that would allow him to regulate his cosmic energy. The Lifebringer One then traveled the cosmos until it reached the orbit of the planet Archeopia. The natives of Archeopia investigated the Lifebringer One, but decided to not enter and fire upon it in case they unleashed something dangerous.

Years past and an invading force came to the planet. During the war the Archeopians fired upon the Lifebringer One under the belief it was an enemy ship or weapon. It was then that the being finally finished incubating and became the being known as Galactus. Galactus used his energy to obliterate the invading force but his hunger turned him to the planet. Galactus devoured the energy of the planet, destroying it and causing a number of Archeopians to flee and vow vengeance against Galactus. Looking upon the destruction he wrought, Galactus pondered if all his life would be is destruction but postulated that he could also create. As a testament to this, Galactus to rebuild Archeopia grander than it ever was.

### Building Taa II

Galactus began rebuilding the planet over the millennia with him intermittently traveling out to devour more worlds to satiate himself. Galactus finished his mission and created the Taa II which became Galactus' worldship allowing him to traverse the Universe and being as large as a solar system. Galactus continued devouring worlds, however he believed that it would one day be his destiny to eventually create rather than destroy.