Thanos was a household-name villain in the Marvel Universe, so there was no need for much introduction. All that mattered was his current situation.
He was now in his own realm, the Dark Dimension. After leaving Titan and entering the cosmos, he had defeated a band of space pirates and replaced their leader. Those pirates became the first citizens of Thanos's nation.
At that moment, the Dark Dimension's development was proceeding in an orderly fashion. Thanos's Black Order fought across the universe, seizing resources and territories for his expansion.
Previously, the Dark Dimension had been at the height of its growth. Though destruction was Thanos's nature, he had spent quite a long time peacefully farming in his homeland.
In a sense, Thanos's situation resembled Stark's current one. Developing a territory involved countless tangled matters, and results could not appear overnight. Thanos himself was powerful, but in interstellar warfare, what mattered at times was the overall strength of a civilization.
Thanos wanted to accelerate the development of the Dark Dimension's overall military power, but he did not know where to begin. This was the problem he had been contemplating while seated upon his throne.
He now had two paths before him. One was to become even stronger himself—to fight ten thousand alone, become an army unto himself, and gain the power to conquer the universe single-handedly, like the Cosmic Demons. The other was to build a military empire like Asgard.
For Thanos, the first path was simpler. As a member of the Titan race, he possessed innate advantages; his starting point was already far above that of individuals from many civilizations, even higher than some Cosmic Demons. But if he could truly build an Asgard of his own, that was equally tempting to him.
He had once imagined the great empires