Asgard War

The **Asgard War** was a major war from Marvel's *Guardians of the Galaxy*. The war was between the Asgardians of Asgard and the Spartaxians of Spartax over a misunderstanding regarding the theft of the Cosmic Seed. The war takes place in the two-part Season 1 special, "Asgard War."

## History

### Background

It all started with the ruler of Spartax, King J'son during his time as a Prince of Spartax who was also a notorious thief who would travel around the Galaxy stealing things for his own selfish gain. During his travels, J'son allied himself with the evil alien warlord, Thanos, and under his orders, J'son stole a powerful object from Yggdrasil the World Tree of Asgard known as the Cosmic Seed. A powerful cosmic artifact that could accelerate life energy which J'son stored in a special device known as the Crypto Cube which could only be opened and used by someone with Spartaxian royalty DNA. During his escape from Asgard, J'son traveled across the Galaxy on different planets until he was pursued by the Destroyer, and the Cosmic Seed was stolen back by Loki for his own evil goals after impersonating the A.I. of J'son's ship, Rora after disabling her. J'son then crash-landed on Earth where he met a woman named Meredith Quill who nursed him back to health and together they fell in love then later had a son named Peter Quill. However, J'son had to go back to Spartax because his theft of the Cosmic Seed started a war between it and Asgard but before he left, J'son tied both his and Meredith's DNA to the Crypto Cube and gave her one of his Element Blasters as a gift for Peter which also could only be used by someone with Spartaxian royalty DNA. Somehow the war between Asgard and Spartax ended, J'son was cleared of the charges, and both worlds were at peace with nobody ever knowing about J'son's theft of the Cosmic Seed or even Loki's because he placed it in a magic box and hid it somewhere that he didn't even know using his powers. After that, the Cosmic Seed was never seen or found by anyone again, not even by Heimdall who tried using his all-sight on the Spartax to find it. A temple was even built on the planet, Retsemaw to honor the truce between both Asgard and Spartax which later fell into ruins. Over the years, J'son kept the peace with Spartax and Asgard when he became King, a member of the Galactic Council, and had a daughter named Victoria who became captain of the Spartaxian royal guard but J'son secretly wanted to try and eventually restart the war with Asgard so he could win it again. J'son would also try to find the Cosmic Seed so he could give it to Thanos for him to rule the Galaxy, destroy Asgard, and give Spartax protection. This led to him using Peter to find it by hiring a space pirate named Yondu and his crew called the Ravengers to kidnap Peter from Earth to toughen him up and teach him how to be a thief so Peter would be ready to be an heir of Spartax and so he could access the Crypto Cube. Which eventually led to him becoming the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy which consisted of Gamora, Drax, Rocket Racoon, and Groot, and Peter becoming known as Star-Lord. Loki would also try to find the Cosmic Seed for himself so he left the Destroyer at the temple on Retsemaw to lure out and detect those who had Cosmic Seed energy.

Years Later, the Guardians of the Galaxy were looking for the Cosmic Seed to protect it from Thanos after they found the Crypto Cube which was bringing them to J'son and Spartax by collecting the residual cosmic energy of the Cosmic Seed from the places J'son had visited back when he still had it. During which, they had an encounter with both Loki and the Destroyer after Rocket found it at the temple on Retsemaw. Which Loki tried to use as an excuse for his brother, Thor to have Asgard go to war with Spartax again so he could take over Asgard since Thor was in charge while their father, Odin was in his Odin-Sleep. However, Rocket was able to get access to the Destroyer's memories after linking it to Star-Lord's helmet which led the Guardians of the Galaxy to Spartax where they meet J'son and Victoria. The Guardians then found out about J'son's connections to the Cosmic Seed and even searched Asgard and the World Tree which had the biggest source of Cosmic Seed energy using tools from Spartax that were secretly given to them by Loki but they were caught by the Asgardians. Loki tried to use their actions as a way to restart the war with Asgard and Spartax. But Thor let the Guardians go scot-free since nothing was actually stolen from the World Tree nor was it damaged. Eventually, the Guardians discovered the truth behind the Cosmic Seed's theft from Rora but when they presented the evidence to the Galactic Council using Star-Lord's helmet, Thor immediately took J'son's theft of the Cosmic Seed as an act of war. Then he left to go gather up his forces to attack Spartax before the Guardians could show him the rest of the evidence about Loki's theft of the Cosmic Seed. J'son then arrested the Guardians and confiscated all their stuff including Star-Lord's helmet which still had evidence as the war between Asgard and Spartax had been restarted.

### The Battle

Both Asgard and Spartax prepare for war with Loki encouraging Thor to fight off Spartax with some of Asgard's best warriors consisting of Angela, Fandral, Hogun, and Heimdall while at the same time convincing Thor to leave him in charge of Asgard which Thor does. J'son also sends out his Spartaxian Soldiers led by Victoria to fight off the Asgardians and gives a speech to the other Spartaxians that they will all fight Asgardians until they are all destroyed. However, the Guardians are then secretly freed by Victoria after Star-Lord convinces her to help them while at the same time, they realize how J'son must want the war since he hid the evidence the Guardians got instead of showing it. Then after the Guardians get back all their stuff that J'son confiscated from them from the Spartaxian vault, they all go to try and stop the war. The Spartaxian Soldiers fight with a whole armada of ships while the Asgardians fight with one large ship and the Destroyer with the Asgardians having the upper hand as the Destroyer shoots down some of the Spartaxian ships then the Asgardians fight off the Spartaxian ships themselves. The Guardians try to get to their ship, the Milano in the Spartaxian hangar where they left it to try and stop the war but are confronted by some Spartaxian Robot Guards and J'son. Star-Lord fights off J'son with both of them using their Element Blasters while the other Guardians fight off the Robot Guards. After the Robot Guards are defeated, Star-Lord orders the other Guardian to get to the Milano while Star-Lord continues to fight off J'son. Meanwhile, Loki officially crowns himself the new All-Father of Asgard believing that Thor will never come back as the war continues on with the Asgardians still fighting off the Spartaxian Ship and Thor fighting off Victoria on her ship. The other Guardians are able to get to the Milano after dealing with some Spartaxian Soldiers while Star-Lord eventually finds out during the fight with J'son that he deleted the evidence of Loki's theft of the Cosmic Seed from Star-Lord's helmet. J'son also admits that he was planning to restart the war with Asgard from the beginning by trying to keep the peace for years which Star-Lord secretly records with his helmet. Star-Lord then regroups with the rest of the Guardians on the Milano and they all try to protect the other Spartaxians from the war. But they soon get chased and attacked by the Destroyer while trying to save Victoria from it then Star-Lord gets an idea to have Rocket gain access to the Destroyer's memory using his helmet again and get back the evidence of Loki stealing the Cosmic Seed. Since the Destroyer records everything it sees and it was there when Loki stole the Cosmic Seed when it was attacking J'son after he stole the Cosmic Seed first. As Rocket and Groot go to try and hack into the Destroyer with Star-Lord's helmet, Star-Lord confronts Thor and Heimdall on the Asgardian Ship and tries to get Thor to stop attacking Spartax by talking some sense into him about his father wanting the war. But it gets difficult when Loki makes the Destroyer target both Thor and Star-Lord with Rocket on it which makes Thor believe that Rocket is controlling the Destroyer to attack him and then he attacks Star-Lord while Heimdall attacks Groot. Gamora and Drax then fight off Angela, Fandral, and Hogun after they attack the Milano while Star-Lord tries to convince Thor that Loki is controlling the Destroyer since he has seen it before but Thor doesn't believe him and continues attacking Stard-Lord. But during their fight, Loki has the Destroyer attack both Star-Lord and Thor on the Asgardian Ship again which destroys it. Afterwards, J"son tries to get the Spartaxian Soldiers to fight off the remaining Asgardinas but Loki confronts J'son and has both him and his army stop fighting by offering them peace as the new All-Father of Asgard.

### Aftermath

With everyone beveling that both Thor and Star-Lord are dead, Loki assumes full control of Asgard as All-Father then tries to declare peace with Spartax while J'son blames the Guardians for causing the war and death of Star-Lord. Until Rocket shows the evidence of Loki stealing the Cosmic Seed using Star-Lord's helmet which he successfully got from the Destroyer. Which makes Loki admit to stealing the Cosmic Seed and orchestrating the war to get rid of Thor to take over Asgard. But since he is now All-Father he doesn't care and tries to pardon himself until both Star-Lord and Thor arrive after surviving the attack from the Destroyer and making everyone think they were dead to expose Loki which was Star-Lord's plan to stop the war. Thor then has Loki arrested and Star-Lord later uses his helmet to show the evidence of J'son also wanting to cause the war to destroy Asgard. J'son tries to escape but is confronted by Victoria so he calls upon Thanos to come and invade Spartax with his army of Sakaarans. Both the Guardians and the Asgardians fight off the Sakaarans together but during the fight, Loki escapes then Thanos comes down to Spartax so Thor, Angela, Heimdall, Hogun, the Destroyer, and Victoria fight him off but they all lose. The Guardians then fight off Thanos until J'son tells Thanos that Star-Lord can find the Cosmic Seed so he captures Star-Lord to try and find the Cosmic Seed to destroy the Universe. The Guardians go to rescue him on the Milano with help from Thor, Angela, the Destroyer, and reluctantly J'son who has a device to track Thanos while Thor orders Fandral, Hogun, and Heimdall to go back to Asgard to protect it from Loki. Meanwhile, Thanos tortures Star-Lord on his asteroid ship, the Sanctuary to find out the location of the Cosmic Seed where Star-Lord reveals that he was following the Cosmic Seed's path across the Galaxy in reserve using the Crypto Cube which collected the residual energy from it so Thanos wants Star-Lord to open up the Crypto Cube to gain that energy. When he refuses, Thanos traps Star-Lord in an illusion where he sees his mother die again to trick him into opening the Crypto Cube which works and allows Thanos to get the residual Cosmic Seed energy. But then the rest of the Guardians and Asgardians arrive and try to sneak past Thanos' Sakaaran fleet but J'son sabotages them and they fight off Thanos' Sakaaran fleet instead while J'son escapes. The rest of the Guardians and the Asgardians then fight off Thanos and rescue Star-Lord but Thanos attacks them with the Cosmic Seed energy and proves to be too strong but Star-Lord takes back the Crypto Cube, freezes it with his Element Blaster, and has Thor destroy it with Mjolnir. Which overpowers Thanos to open up a black hole that sucks up the entire Sakaaran fleet then the Guardians blast Thanos into it with help from Loki. Afterwards, Loki reveals to everyone that he has no clue where the Cosmic Seed is and is free to go due to a loophole. J'son is then captured and arrested by Victoria and Star-Lord becomes the new King of Spartax but he gives rulership of Spartax to Victoria so he and the rest of the Guardians can protect the Galaxy and find the Cosmic Seed. Which Star-Lord discovers through visions he got from the Cosmic Seed's energy after the Crypto Cube was destroyed that it is located on Earth. The Guardians would go to Earth to get it and face off against Thanos again but they were able to beat Thanos which caused him to be buried into the center of the Earth. The Guardians then gave the Cosmic Seed in its magic box to the Avengers who later gave it to Thor who returned it to Asgard. Loki would later be captured and imprisoned on Asgard until his eventual release after the Symbiote War, while J'son came up with a plan to take over the Galaxy that eventually led to the Attack of Magus.

## Belligerents

### Spartax

* J'son
* Victoria
* Spartaxian Soldiers
* Spartaxian Robot Guards

### Asgard

* Thor
* Angela
* Fandral
* Hogun
* Heimdall
* Destroyer
* Loki

### Other

* Guardians of the Galaxy
	+ Star-Lord
	+ Gamorra
	+ Drax
	+ Rocket Racoon
	+ Groot

* Volstagg
* Hermod
* Thanos
* Sakaarans

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