Dark Heart (NanoTechnology)

File:An Dark Heart.png  The **Dark Heart** was a highly advanced alien construct capable of endlessly recreating itself via the use of nanotechnology.

## History

The "Dark Heart" was created 50,000 years ago as a weapon in the battle between two far-off planets (possibly across a galaxy). It successfully consumed its creators' enemies—and promptly returned to feast upon its creators themselves. Afterwards, it (possibly) endlessly continued the cycle of consuming planets, reproducing then moving onto the next planet. Eventually the Dark Heart found its way to Earth, landing on a mesa near ***Goldhanger***, Nevada.
Upon its discovery, an Omega level threat was immediately issued, but strike groups from Nellis Air Force Base and a large number of ***Justice League*** members could only barely manage to contain it. Not until ***Atom*** found its weakness—a central power core—could the alien machine be defeated. Atom traveled inside the Dark Heart, and successfully gave it a "heart attack", rendering the Heart and its constructs motionless.
The remains were confiscated by ***General Eiling***, and eventually found their way to a ***Cadmus*** storing facility. Research on it by Cadmus scientists proved to be fruitless, however.
After Brainiac revealed himself inside Lex Luthor's body, he absorbed the nanotechnology of the Dark Heart. He skilfully mastered the alien device.

## Powers and abilities

The Dark Heart could convert any raw material it touched into a viscous liquid that served as the base for several independent constructs. If any of the constructs were damaged or destroyed, its fragments would instinctively recreate the original machine and a copy created from surrounding matter. Only one weakness plagued the formidable technology: it required a central processing unit stored in its main core to calculate all its planning, including combat strategy and nanotech control.

## Itself

**Powers:** Cloning and Material Conversion
50,000 years ago, two worlds were at war. One created a war machine composed of nanotechnology. When sent to another planet, it begins to duplicate itself and overrun everything. In the process, the machine uses any material it can to duplicate, animate and inanimate. The machine accomplished its task but kept on duplicating. Across time, the Dark Heart spread. The Dark Heart has demonstrated the ability to create three types of drones; a small insect that mainly seeks out materials, a tiger-like drone that is more offensive and a larger scale insect. The materials collected are sent back to the central dark heart in liquid form through artery like constructs. The Atom was able to expose its only weakness, to 'clog' an artery and cause an overload. The U.S. military took the alien remains away to be disposed of but most of the Justice League Unlimited remained skeptical of its future.
The remains of the Dark Heart were confiscated by Cadmus. However, the technicians under the employ of Cadmus could never re-activate them. They were stored away in the main Cadmus facility in Washington DC. Being the most sophisticated nano-technology on Earth, the Dark Heart became the target of Lex Luthor and Brainiac in their bid to become gods and remake the universe. After assimilating a drone's nano-assemblers, Brainiac gained the ability to create anything from raw material and the duo moved forward with their plans.

### An The-Dark-Heart Drones

**Powers:** Enhanced Physical Attributes and Matter Assimilation
The primary force of the Dark Heart are insect-like drones programmed to seek out all organic and non-organic matter. Their nano-assembler sub-routines then convert the matter into a liquid material fed back into the main Dark Heart. A small amount of larger drones are created to assist the smaller ones. Once the Atom overloaded the Heart, the drones were automatically deactivated. General Eiling gathered all the drones and remains, allegedly intended for destruction.
In reality, the drones were handed over to Project Cadmus. The technicians were unable to reactivate the drones and stored them in a vault located in a Cadmus facility near the White House in Washington DC. During their partnership, Lex Luthor convinced Brainiac to seek out these drones. After assimilating their abilities, Brainiac and Luthor converted every drone into a new form that would make the two villains one unique persona. This form was soon never destroyed by Anyone that-are Not Using-Lightspeed Vibrations.

## Appearances

*Justice League Unlimited*

* "Dark Heart"
* "Divided We Fall"

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