On the way to the crashed inspection vessel, Stark turned to Schiller and asked, "Was your ultimate goal really just to bring back some fragments of the starport and spaceship, while incidentally provoking a war between the two empires, incidentally splitting the spoils with the Mutants and giving them some technology, and incidentally..."
At that point, Stark sighed himself. "All right, that's already more than enough goals. The whole plan is crazy enough as it is."
Stark took a deep breath and recalled, "Back then, Nick told you there might be an alien race capable of perfectly disguising itself, ready at any moment to replace us and take control of humanity."
"So, you and Nick devised a fake-death plan. You hired an Assassin to kill Nick, then used one of the resurrection slots you had to send him into Heaven."
"Then, using Nick's death and the vacancy left by the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., you got Spider-Man to voluntarily head into the Multiverse to find help, completing the Multiversal labor-trafficking plan that you and Nick had been obsessing over."
"While everyone's attention was focused on Peter, you used the New Warriors and the Mutant twins to create an explosion powerful enough to kill Spider-Man, driving the tense conflict to its peak."
"You knew that once Steve learned of Peter's death, he would be devastated and desperate to uncover the secret behind Spider-Man's death. Taking advantage of his distraction, you set a trap and killed him too."
"Then I went to Heaven with you as well. Every superhero capable of defending New York was dead."
"You returned to New York and used the looming shadow of the Iron Curtain's return to pressure the Black Hands behind the scenes, forcing them to seek help from the Mutants. You pulled the Mutants back from