Recaps

He-El discovered that the Monitors were seeking to evolve into beings like him and decided to infiltrate their domain by hiding inside Kolon Novo’s genes. He left Doctor Manhattan to restore Kolon Novo and send him back, while He-El prepared to follow him undetected.

• He-El realized that the Monitors’ Completion Gene was directing them toward becoming their own Source Universe and ultimately resembling him.
• He-El laughed as Kolon Novo begged for mercy, then imprisoned him in a dark space within the He-El Universe.
• He-El told Doctor Manhattan that he would return to the Monitor Domain with Kolon Novo, despite Doctor Manhattan’s concerns for his safety.
• He-El explained that he could escape through a Traversal Vortex and instructed Doctor Manhattan to restore Kolon Novo’s galaxy energy and return him and the Grace Search Ship to the New Krypton Universe.
• He-El transformed himself into Completion Gene information matching Kolon Novo’s and hid within Kolon Novo’s genes.

He-El released the tortured Kolon Novo back to the Monitor Domain and warned him to hide what had happened. Kolon Novo refused to abandon his Monitor genes but agreed to spy for He-El, who let him return aboard Grace Search Ship.

• He-El sent Kolon Novo back to the New Krypton Universe and used their genetic connection to order him to act normally in the Monitor Domain.
• He-El offered Kolon Novo a place among his subordinates, but Kolon Novo refused to let him alter his Monitor genes.
• Kolon Novo explained that he would rather remain a Monitor spy than risk becoming a universe native whom the Monitors could erase.
• Kolon Novo proposed feeding He-El information and technology while keeping his position among the Monitors, and He-El agreed.
• Grace Search Ship activated the Hyperthought Engine, left the New Krypton Universe, and entered the Monitor Domain.

Kolon Novo returned to the Monitor Domain aboard the Grace Search Ship and began ascending into four dimensions. He-El examined the higher-dimensional realm through Kolon Novo’s senses, while Kolon Novo reacted to the transformation of the genes they shared.

• The Grace Search Ship carried Kolon Novo back to the Monitor Domain, where his Monitor genes began a dimensional ascension.
• Kolon Novo and the ship rose into four dimensions as his Monitor body emerged from its stacked state.
• Kolon Novo saw successive cross-sections of himself across space and time, then felt disappointed when He-El’s fused genes ascended with him.
• He-El explained that his genes had become inseparable from Kolon Novo and were autonomously continuing his genetic completion.
• He-El experienced the Monitor Domain through Kolon Novo’s senses and found its overlapping four-dimensional spaces vast despite their apparent narrowness.
• Kolon Novo awkwardly denied that he had been disappointed.

Kolon Novo returned to the Monitor Domain with He-El still embedded in his genes, then hid the Grace Search Ship in his dock and resumed his post. When a subordinate proposed giving the idle cleaners work, Kolon Novo asked for suggestions, leaving them worried about what would happen next.

• He-El remained inside Kolon Novo and told him to continue with his work while observing the Monitor Domain through his senses.
• Kolon Novo stored the Grace Search Ship in his dock to keep her from being discovered or earning merit.
• Kolon Novo returned to his post, where the cleaners had become idle because the Parallel Universes were merging into the Source Universe.
• Kolon Novo's confidant suggested assigning the cleaners to assist the transporters and collectors.

Kolon Novo ordered Kude Tahan to lead half the Cleaners in assisting Collector Ruxiangüli Campos, then assigned the rest to investigate several Transporters and Collectors. After witnessing the Monitors’ workplace infighting from inside Kolon Novo, He-El concluded they were mortals too.

• Kolon Novo’s confidant Kude Tahan suggested sending the Cleaners to assist the Transporters and Collectors, but the Cleaners objected because they would be treated as subordinates and scapegoats.
• Kolon Novo ordered Kude Tahan to select half the Cleaners to assist Collector Ruxiangüli Campos, leaving Kude Tahan shaken.
• Kolon Novo ordered the remaining Cleaners to investigate Transporter Fremont Ciampi, Transporter Rosario Solari, Collector Rojna Stefanovich, and Collector Sigitas Espinosa.
• Kolon Novo left the monitoring hall and placated He-El, who had watched the dispute from inside Kolon Novo.
• He-El reflected that the Monitors were like ordinary mortals, caught up in office, political, and personal struggles.

He-El accompanied Kolon Novo to inspect Collector Ruxiangüli Campos’s cruise ship and observe how the Monitors collected Heavenly Blood. After Ruxiangüli Campos exposed Kude Tahan’s attempted misconduct, the ship passed inspection and set sail for New Fusion Universe 588.

• He-El ordered Kolon Novo to take him to a Collector’s site, and Kolon Novo chose Ruxiangüli Campos’s operation.
• Kolon Novo and Kude Tahan led Cleaners and secretaries to the cruise ship dock for an inspection.
• Ruxiangüli Campos confronted Kolon Novo about Kude Tahan’s attempt to make her break regulations, and Kolon Novo ordered Kude Tahan dragged away.
• Ruxiangüli Campos explained the cruise ship’s Catcher vessels, reconnaissance ships, empty tanks, and mission procedures to Kolon Novo.
• After checking the crew, equipment, engines, and blood vessel, Ruxiangüli Campos ordered the cruise ship to set sail for New Fusion Universe 588.

Ruxiangüli Campos led the cruise ship into New Fusion Universe 588 and began extracting Heavenly Blood while He-El examined the Monitors’ technology through Kolon Novo. He-El demanded that Kolon Novo obtain the ships and summon the person in charge of the Level Three Source Universe, leaving Kolon Novo scrambling for a way to avoid blame.

• Ruxiangüli Campos brought the cruise ship into New Fusion Universe 588, confirmed the area was safe, and ordered Catchers deployed and gravitational singularity anchors released.
• Ruxiangüli Campos sent probes through the universe’s boundary to extract Heavenly Blood as Kolon Novo toured the ship under He-El’s command.
• He-El recognized the value of Monitor technology and told Kolon Novo to transport the cruise ship, Catchers, and scout ships to the He-El Universe.
• Kolon Novo warned that the missing ships would bring accountability from the person in charge of the Level Three Source Universe, but He-El insisted he wanted the ships and that person to appear.
• Kolon Novo proposed that He-El send someone to attack the cruise ship and capture it.

Ruxiangüli Campos and the Catchers tried to stop an expanding phantom vortex that appeared beside their cruise ship, but their strongest weapons had no effect. As the vortex grew to the ship’s size, Ruxiangüli Campos realized the danger and ordered everyone to flee.

• A vortex appeared near Ruxiangüli Campos’s cruise ship, and she ordered the Catchers to establish a separation zone around it.
• The Catchers’ barrier missiles failed to stop the vortex from expanding, while the scouts concluded that it was a phantom powered by another universe.
• Ruxiangüli Campos ordered the Catchers to attack with Infinite Gravity Destruction Missiles and then stronger cosmic annihilators.
• The weapons destroyed the space around the vortex, but it remained untouched and expanded to the size of the cruise ship.
• Ruxiangüli Campos shouted for everyone to run and fall back.

Ruxiangüli Campos ordered the cruise ship to flee when a phantom vortex began solidifying, but Doctor Manhattan seized the ship and dragged it into the He-El Universe. Before the ship was taken, she sent Kolon Novo and the cleaners away in an escape craft.

• Ruxiangüli Campos ordered the assistants to abandon the Heavenly Blood probes and flee at maximum speed as the vortex began to solidify.
• Doctor Manhattan extended an enormous azure arm through the Traversal Vortex and seized the cruise ship, foiling its attempt to escape with the Overlimit Engine.
• Ruxiangüli Campos ordered the assistants to dump the ship’s Heavenly Blood containers onto Doctor Manhattan’s hand.
• Tiny Traversal Vortices absorbed the Heavenly Blood into the He-El Universe, and Doctor Manhattan dragged the cruise ship toward the vortex.
• Ruxiangüli Campos sent Kolon Novo and the cleaners away in an escape craft, while she and her assistants were carried into the He-El Universe aboard the ship.

He-El took the registered cruise ship and Ruxiangüli Campos Collector through a Traversal Vortex to draw the attention of higher-ranking Monitors. Kolon Novo secured the scene and ordered a message sent to Gretis Luthor, warning that they might have found traces of a Source Universe.

• He-El explained that the cruise ship’s disappearance would likely bring a higher-ranking Monitor to investigate.
• Kolon Novo and his subordinates panicked when they saw the cruise ship and Ruxiangüli Campos Collector had vanished.
• Kolon Novo ordered reconnaissance scans to continue and Catchers to guard the scene against native lifeforms.
• Kolon Novo reflected that He-El’s ability to wield a Source Universe might exceed even the power of the person in charge of a Level Three Source Universe.
• Kolon Novo ordered Cleaner Rico Savidra to return to the Monitor Domain and summon Gretis Luthor to New Fusion Universe 588.

Kolon Novo summoned Level Three Source Universe Overseer Gladys Boye after the Monitors mistook He-El's phantom vortex for traces of the Source Universe. As Gladys Boye's scout ship approached, Kolon Novo could only hope she would discover He-El inside him and spare Collector Ruxiangüli Campos.

• Kolon Novo ordered Cleaner Rico Savidra to return to the Monitor Domain and summon Gladys Boye to New Fusion Universe 588.
• The Monitors suspected the phantom vortex was connected to the Source Universe, while Ruxiangüli Campos's assistants feared for her safety.
• Kolon Novo asked He-El not to harm Ruxiangüli Campos, and He-El said he would not kill the captives casually.
• Kolon Novo told He-El that Gladys Boye was his direct superior, had a powerful background, and ranked among the best of the fifty-two Source Universe Overseers.
• A dark shadow burst out of the 'Blood Vessel' and crossed into the starry expanse.

Gladys Boye arrived at the scene where a vortex had taken a cruise ship and used stored images to investigate it. She discovered that the vortex contained more than ten kinds of universal operational logic, leaving her unable to explain what it was.

• Gladys Boye arrived and asked Kolon Novo what had happened to the cruise ship.
• Kolon Novo reported that a mysterious vortex had taken the ship and suggested it might be the Wild Source Universe.
• He-El urged Kolon Novo to tell Gladys Boye that something was unusual about his completed genes, but Kolon Novo feared the consequences.
• Gladys Boye replayed the events using the universe's light-effect memory logic.
• Gladys Boye found more than ten strange operational logics in the vortex and wondered how such a thing could exist.

Gladys Boye examined the residual energy and cosmic operating logic left by the vortex while Kolon Novo worried that He-El would reveal himself. He-El explained that he had removed the encryption in Kolon Novo’s Completion Gene, giving him the qualifications to become a Level Three Source Universe administrator, just as Gladys Boye turned her attention to him.

• Gladys Boye repeatedly examined the traces of energy and operating logic left by the vortex in New Fusion Universe 588.
• Kolon Novo described the Shapeshifting Ship as Monitor technology that could control an infant universe and alter cosmic reality.
• He-El told Kolon Novo to inform Gladys Boye that something was abnormal about his Completion Gene, alarming Kolon Novo, who feared being punished for bringing He-El into the Monitor Domain.
• He-El explained that he had removed the encryption from Kolon Novo’s Completion Gene, making him appear to Gladys Boye as someone qualified to become a Level Three Source Universe administrator.
• Kolon Novo felt a surge of joy, then saw Gladys Boye looking at him after she finished examining the starry sky.

Gladys Boye ordered New Fusion Universe 588 emptied and quarantined, then scanned Kolon Novo while taking him toward the Monitor Domain. She discovered his Completion Gene had broken its shackles and made him a Level Three Source Universe candidate, but Kolon Novo remained concerned that He-El was inside him and asked what would happen if his new ability had intelligence.

• Gladys Boye ordered Kolon Novo to help eliminate all life in New Fusion Universe 588 before it was cleansed and sealed.
• Kolon Novo arranged for Catchers to deploy Reality Missiles, while Gladys Boye mobilized personnel and took him away from the universe.
• Gladys Boye scanned Kolon Novo upon entering the Monitor Domain and congratulated him on his Completion Gene mutation.
• Gladys Boye explained that exposure to another Source Universe's operational logic had broken Kolon Novo's genetic shackles, making him a Level Three Source Universe candidate.
• Kolon Novo asked what would happen if his new ability possessed intelligence.

Kolon Novo learned that his Completion Gene ability might be an intelligent life-form shaped by a mysterious Source Universe, while He-El warned him to act in his own interests. As Gladys Boye transported him toward the Monitor Domain, she revealed that Mandrak had rejected the role assigned to it by the fifty-two Source Universe supervisors.

• Gladys Boye explained that a supervisor's ability could create an intelligent 'Stand-in' and suggested the mysterious Source Universe had influenced Kolon Novo's ability.
• Kolon Novo said his intelligent ability communicated like an adult and could perform massive computations, and Gladys Boye planned to test it at the supervisors' residence.
• He-El told Kolon Novo to do what he thought best but warned he would kill him if he said something he should not.
• Gladys Boye carried Kolon Novo through dimensional sheets in her Shapeshifting Ship, and he realized she could observe his past workplaces.
• Gladys Boye told Kolon Novo that the supervisors had planned for Mandrak to absorb the Source Universes' evil and become their ultimate force of darkness, but Mandrak no longer accepted that role.

Gladys Boye brought Kolon Novo into the fifth-dimensional Monitor Domain and revealed the Monitors’ hidden purpose of separating the fifty-two Source Universes. After ascending in dimension, Kolon saw countless possible futures, many involving cooperation with He-El, and Gladys asked whether he had seen his possible outcomes.

• Gladys Boye told Kolon Novo that the Monitors’ ultimate purpose was to separate the fifty-two Source Universes.
• Gladys Boye piloted her Shapeshifting Ship with Kolon Novo into the fifth-dimensional Monitor Domain.
• Kolon Novo ascended in dimension as his Monitor and completion genes rose into the fifth dimension.
• Kolon Novo saw timelines in which he became a chief overseer, was killed or transformed into Mandrak, or worked with He-El, along with futures that ended in unexplained darkness.
• Kolon Novo noticed that many futures showed him and He-El cooperating for mutual benefit.
• Gladys Boye asked Kolon Novo if he had seen the future outcomes related to himself.

Kolon Novo and He-El ascended into Five-Dimensional Space and saw many possible futures, learning that these visions were unreliable possibilities shaped by their current knowledge. He-El discovered the Monitors’ desire for the Source Universe and considered how Kryptonian genes could, under exceedingly rare circumstances, lead to a fifth-dimensional being like Golden Superman; Kolon Novo was left questioning why he could not simply follow a favorable future.

• Director Gladyce Boy recognized that Kolon Novo had seen his possible futures after entering Five-Dimensional Space.
• Kolon Novo and He-El saw that future visions could be true or false, changed rapidly, and could only serve as references.
• He-El learned that the Monitors’ dimensional genes reflected their desire for the Source Universe and that Kryptonian genes also held potential for higher-dimensional ascension.
• He-El considered Golden Superman’s path to the fifth dimension and the rare choices and circumstances that made it possible.
• Director Gladyce Boy warned Kolon Novo not to follow his visions to the letter, and Kolon Novo asked why he could not enact a favorable future.

Kolon Novo learned how choices and attacks worked in five-dimensional space, then asked Overseer Gladys Boye why Level Three Source Universe Overseers had to separate universes. Gladys revealed that the Monitors’ goal was to separate Source Universes, not maintain them.

• Overseer Gladys Boye explained that in five-dimensional space, attacks targeted futures and choices could reshape one another.
• Kolon Novo adapted to five-dimensional space, while Gladys attributed his genetic advancement to the Wild Source Universe and marveled at his luck.
• He-El sent Kolon Novo a question about why Level Three Source Universe Overseers had to separate Source Universes as well as maintain them.
• Kolon Novo asked Gladys, who praised his supposed ability to identify gaps in his knowledge.
• Overseer Gladys Boye said the Monitors had always aimed to separate Source Universes, not maintain them.

Gladys Boye brought Kolon Novo to the Monitors' five-dimensional Supreme Residence and gave him access to knowledge for third-tier Source Universe overseers, while refusing to explain why the Monitors sought to separate the Source Universe. Kolon Novo began studying the information and fixated on Shapeshifting Ships, as He-El considered troubling possible futures.

• Gladys Boye told Kolon Novo that the Monitors aimed to separate the Source Universe, but withheld the reason as beyond his authority to know.
• Gladys Boye brought Kolon Novo to the Supreme Residence and left him to settle into a room tailored to his preferences.
• He-El urged Kolon Novo to use the Array Intelligence service to learn what third-tier Source Universe overseers could know, and they agreed to cooperate.
• Kolon Novo ordered the Array Intelligence to reveal his authorized information and absorbed a vast collection of knowledge about five-dimensional space, the Monitors, and the wider cosmos.
• Kolon Novo focused on the technology for manufacturing Shapeshifting Ships, while He-El thought about troubling futures involving them.

He-El deduced that the Monitors’ Shapeshifting Ships were designed to copy and replace Source Universes, then continued studying Monitor knowledge. At the Supreme Residence Council, the level-three custodians debated their failed Parallel Universe plan and a proposal to merge the Source Universes before Custodian Gladys Boye arrived with a candidate for a vacant universe.

• He-El inferred that the Monitors used baby universes to build Shapeshifting Ships that could record and eventually replace Source Universes.
• He-El continued studying the knowledge of the Monitors available to Kolon Novo.
• The level-three custodians at the Supreme Residence Council discussed the Parallel Universe merger and blamed Mandrak for ruining their plan to split and thin Source Universes.
• A custodian proposed merging the fifty-two Source Universes to identify the original and ultimate universe, but the level-four chief custodian postponed the idea.
• The chief custodian raised the problem of a vacant Source Universe, and Gladys Boye entered the council with a suitable candidate.

Gladys Boye recommended Kolon Novo to fill the vacant Level Three Source Universe Overseer position, explaining that his genetic breakthrough had come from extraordinary luck rather than exceptional talent. She then revealed that Mandrak’s supposed discovery was real: an independent Wild Source Universe existed, cut off from the fifty-two Source Universes.

• Gladys Boye told the Overseers she had a candidate to fill Mandrak’s vacant position.
• The Level Four Chief Overseer and the Level Three Overseers asked Gladys Boye to explain the candidate’s qualifications.
• Gladys Boye said Kolon Novo had not independently broken through the shackles of the Completion Gene and was otherwise an ordinary Monitor who had benefited from a huge stroke of luck.
• Gladys Boye asked the Overseers whether they remembered Mandrak’s claim that he had discovered a Wild Source Universe.
• Gladys Boye confirmed that an independent Wild Source Universe, disconnected from the fifty-two Source Universes, was real.

The Supreme Residence Council learned that Mandrak’s report of a wild Source Universe had been true after Overseer Gladys Boye presented evidence from New Fusion Universe 588. The council discovered traces of more than ten different universal operational logics, and the Level Four chief overseer suggested they might all belong to one Source Universe.

• Level Three overseers debated how a wild Source Universe could have escaped the Monitors’ scans, and recalled that they had dismissed Mandrak’s earlier warning as madness.
• The Level Four chief overseer asked Overseer Gladys Boye to confirm her discovery, and she projected the information she had detected in New Fusion Universe 588.
• The overseers sensed traces of more than ten universal operational logics and were shocked by evidence that seemed to indicate multiple Source Universes.
• The Level Four chief overseer considered the evidence and suggested that the many operational logics might belong to only one Source Universe.

The Level Four Chief Overseer concluded that the supposed wild Source Universe was actually a newly born Lesser Omniverse, capable of containing many different cosmic operating principles. The Monitors began preparing to find and seize it, planning to use Kolon Novo, who had encountered it before.

• The Level Four Chief Overseer argued that the wild realm’s many incompatible operating principles pointed to it being an Omniverse rather than a single Source Universe.
• The Level Three Source Universe Overseers realized it was a Lesser Omniverse, similar in kind to the DC Universe but newly born.
• Gladys Boye connected the revelation to Kolon Novo, whose abilities had awakened after he was affected by the wild realm.
• The Overseers decided to bring Kolon Novo in so he could help them locate the Lesser Omniverse.
• The Overseers called for all Source Universe Overseers to assemble and began preparing to seize the Omniverse.

He-El learned that the DC Universe contained fifty-two Source Universes whose operational logic could help expand the He-El Universe, and he resolved to become a Source Universe Administrator. Meanwhile, Kolon Novo met the Level Four Chief Administrator and eagerly accepted the coming tests for promotion.

• He-El studied the DC Universe information available through Kolon Novo and realized the New Krypton Universe's operational logic was only a basic version compared with that of a Source Universe.
• He-El discovered that the DC Universe held fifty-two Source Universes and decided to seek administrator status so he could access their operational logic.
• Administrator Gladys Boye summoned Kolon Novo to meet the Level Four Chief Administrator.
• The Level Four Chief Administrator examined Kolon Novo's Completion Gene, confirmed it had broken through its shackles, and praised his surname.
• The Level Four Chief Administrator told Kolon Novo to prepare for testing and integration of his ability with his will and soul, and Kolon Novo eagerly agreed.

Kolon Novo received extravagant gifts from the Level Three Source Universe Overseers as he prepared to enhance his Completion Gene abilities and build a Shapeshifting Ship. He entered the Gene Enhancement Vault while the others watched an examination of the Omniverse he had encountered, envying his extraordinary luck but hoping to stay on his good side.

• More than a dozen Level Three Source Universe Overseers gave Kolon Novo rare materials and technology for his future Shapeshifting Ship.
• Kolon Novo agreed to have the Monitors enhance his Completion Gene abilities and extract information about the Omniverse he had encountered.
• Kolon Novo entered the Gene Enhancement Vault, while He-El remained wary but confirmed he could still return to the He-El Universe.
• The Level Three Source Universe Overseers discussed how Kolon Novo had gained his powers far more easily than they had and admitted they envied his luck.
• The Overseers continued trying to befriend Kolon Novo because his Omniverse connection might help him obtain a Source Universe, and the examination began.