Chapter Summaries

As Atlantis’s forces overwhelmed the defenders with magic and towering waves, Ancient One held back the flood while the heroes moved to stop the spellcasters. After sensing Orm’s death and seeing enemy reinforcements arrive, Arthur Curry called on the sea to unleash a worldwide assault, leaving the land facing an immense catastrophe.

• Black Adam killed an old fish-man mage, while Doctor Doom and Tony Stark fought together against Atlantis’s forces.
• Arthur Curry held off Diana, Wolverine, and Cyclops as Mera, Nereus, and Fishermen Kingdom mages raised enormous waves toward New York.
• Clark tried to freeze the waves, and Ancient One erected a vast magical barrier to keep them from reaching the city.
• Jean Grey and the other heroes entered the water to attack the fish-man mages, while Arthur sensed that Orm had died and withdrew from the battle.
• After more than a hundred Setaar warships and human-made ships arrived, Arthur called on Atlantis’s warriors and the sea to flood the land.
• The oceans and vast rivers surged toward the continents as giant sea beasts emerged from the water.

Jude stopped the Atlantean flood and attacked the remaining army, then announced that he would sweep through the Seven Seas. As Arthur Curry and the other rulers argued underwater, Jude’s portal appeared beside King Xebel and cut him in half.

• Jude dispelled the storm and stripped the fish-man mages of their magic, stopping the global flood before it could cause greater devastation.
• Jude used Cowboy 2 to devastate the Atlantean army by striking and boiling the surrounding seawater.
• Jude called for allies to join him in sweeping through the Seven Seas, and most of the assembled superpowered individuals followed him through a portal.
• The fleeing rulers blamed Arthur Curry for Atlantis’s defeat while Mera and Arthur had no answer to their accusations.
• A portal appeared beside King Xebel and cut him in half.

Jude led a surprise attack that killed King Xebel, Arthur Curry, and Mera, then decided to destroy the Five Nations with a targeted genetic serum instead of finishing the battle himself. After Veronica scattered the serum across the oceans, it began making the seabed’s people explode, leaving the fate of the Five Nations unclear.

• Jude and his allies attacked the Atlanteans through a portal, killing King Xebel, Arthur Curry, and Mera while the survivors fled.
• Jude stopped his allies from pursuing the fleeing Atlanteans and announced that Atlantis would be destroyed by the next day.
• Jude examined corpses from the Five Nations and developed a genetic serum designed to kill them without harming other marine life.
• Veronica replicated the serum and scattered it across the oceans from a giant robot.
• A young fishgirl touched a serum bubble, and people across the Five Nations began exploding as the liquid spread through the Seven Seas.

Jude transformed the Moon into the planetary warship Star One and launched it into space before an audience from Earth. The chapter ended with Star One leaving its orbit and sailing toward the farther reaches of the universe.

• Little Spider arranged the Inhumans for the launch ceremony as Jude welcomed the visitors from Earth to his realm.
• Professor X identified the Inhumans as an ancient race created by the Kree, while Superman sensed that the transformed Moon resembled Mongul's Warworld.
• Jude activated Star One with the Micro-Universe Battery, causing Attilan to descend inside as the Moon's surface broke apart and its preserved soil grew vegetation.
• Jude showed the visitors Star One's interior and inserted a palm-sized sphere into the launcher after Doctor Doom asked what would replace the Moon.
• Jude pressed the launch button, and Star One's engines fired as the Moon broke free of its orbit and sailed away.

Jude removed the Moon from Earth’s orbit and replaced it with a dense sphere before taking Star One beyond the Solar System. He initiated a spatial jump, leaving most of the passengers incapacitated, as Diana spotted the Milky Way Galaxy and Veronica reported an unknown signal.

• Jude activated Star One’s systems to stabilize its occupants after the Moon left Earth’s orbit.
• Jude launched a black sphere that expanded and settled into the Moon’s former orbit, restoring the gravitational effects.
• Jude guided Star One past Saturn and out of the Solar System, impressing the passengers with its speed.
• Jude initiated a spatial jump, and the immense force left most passengers collapsed and ill.
• Diana looked back at the Milky Way Galaxy, and Veronica announced that Star One had received an unknown signal.

Jude received an invitation to a Cosmic Auction on Qatar Planet and decided to trace its signal despite the location being absent from Star One’s map. After sending the Earthlings back to New York, he prepared to begin the search and revealed a Star Love Robot intended for Peter.

• Veronica alerted Jude to an unknown message, which translated into an invitation to a Cosmic Auction on Qatar Planet in the Fan Sector.
• Tony, Lex Luthor, Bruce Wayne, and other Earthlings expressed interest in attending the auction.
• Jude opened a portal and kicked the Earthlings through it into a fountain in Central Park.
• Ivy encouraged Jude to explore freely, but he decided to build a device to trace the message’s source and called Peter to work.
• Jude revealed a Star Love Robot for Peter, who tried to push it away before it pounced on him.

Jude and his crew traced signals across space, then encountered a stranded spacecraft broadcasting a familiar Earth song. The chapter ended with Jude recognizing that the song could reveal who was aboard.

• Jude had Little Spider make a reverse-tracking device, which traced the first signal to a planet billions of light-years away.
• Jude ordered Star One to use Super Jump Mode and search for intelligent planets, and the crew discovered primitive marine life in the White Grass Galaxy.
• A week later, Veronica detected a new alien signal, and Jude traced it to a spacecraft less than five light-years away.
• Jude prepared to investigate the stranded ship, but its message changed from a request for help to Redbone's “Come and Get Your Love.”
• Ivy recognized the song, and Jude said he thought he knew what was going on.

Jude rescued Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot after their ship became stranded in space, then demanded compensation for saving them. He revealed that he knew Star-Lord had obtained the Power Stone, leaving Star-Lord alarmed.

• Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon argued over how their group had ended up stranded while the Guardians waited for rescue.
• Jude sent a ship from Star One, docked with the Guardians' vessel, and invited them aboard.
• Jude met Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot, and asked what they could offer in return for their rescue.
• The four Guardians introduced themselves and insulted one another while making competing offers to Jude.
• Jude stopped their bickering and asked Star-Lord about the Power Stone, startling him.

Jude brought Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot aboard Star One and learned that the Collector’s territory could be found through Xandar. As they prepared to head for the Xandarians to retrieve the Power Stone and seek Qatar Star’s coordinates, a fleet of Hex Starships appeared.

• Star-Lord admitted that the Power Stone was in Xandarian hands and offered to guide Jude to it, so Jude took him, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot aboard Star One.
• Jude revealed that Star One was the Moon transformed into a spaceship and told the group that Earth had recently repelled Mongul’s attack, making Gamora react with surprise.
• Ivy met Rocket Raccoon and Groot, learned Groot’s origins, and used her plant-controlling power to make flowers bloom across him.
• Jude asked Veronica to display auction information, and Star-Lord identified Qatar Star as the Collector’s territory and suggested asking Xandar for its coordinates.
• Veronica detected approaching warships, and a fleet of Hex Starships emerged as Star-Lord realized the Xandarians had come after them.

Jude refused to surrender Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Gamora to the Xandarians, instead demanding the Power Stone and provoking a fight. His newly built fleet overwhelmed the Nova Corps at great cost, leaving three Nova Centurions facing the encircling ships.

• Jude told the Xandarians the prisoners were with him and demanded the Power Stone in exchange for their return.
• When the Xandarians threatened coercive action, Jude ordered Veronica to sound the alarm and prepare for battle.
• More than ten thousand of Jude's ships launched from the Star One and encircled the three hundred Hex-Star Battleships.
• The Nova Corps used their superior combat experience to destroy many of Jude's ships, but their fleet was eventually reduced to three battleships.
• The last three Hex-Star Battleships stopped, and three Nova Centurions emerged in space to face Jude's forces.

Jude Herbert and Little Spider confronted three Nova Centurions attacking the Inhumans' fleet. Jude killed two of them, while Little Spider defeated the third, and the surviving heroes celebrated their victory.

• The Nova Centurions tore through the Inhumans' ships, and Jude ordered the Inhumans to retreat.
• Jude launched himself and Little Spider into the battle, revealing that he had tricked Peter by not upgrading his armor.
• Jude used Cowboy 2's enormous Energy Lightsabers to cut two Nova Centurions in half and tear open a rift in space.
• The final Nova Centurion grabbed Little Spider, but Jude urged him to fight back rather than flee.
• Little Spider blinded the Nova Centurion with webbing, stabbed him with his steel spider legs, and knocked him unconscious with a kick.

Jude captured Nova Centurion Raul to find out where the Power Stone was hidden, then forcibly extracted his memories. The recovered memories revealed that Xandar had stashed the Stone on a desolate planet used as a secret research base.

• Jude spared the badly injured Raul so he could question him about the Power Stone.
• Rocket Raccoon woke Raul by spraying urine into his injured eye sockets, and Jude subdued him when he tried to fight back.
• Raul claimed he did not know where the Stone was, so Jude ordered Veronica to use a memory extraction device.
• Veronica extracted Raul's memories, and Jude sent Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot to rest.
• Jude and Veronica searched the blue memory crystal and learned that the Power Stone was hidden at a secret Xandarian research base on a desolate planet.

Gamora wrestled with whether to tell Thanos that Jude had defeated Mongul, while Jude and his crew traveled to Skarbraal, where the Xandarians were researching the Power Stone. When a planet emerged from a massive spatial gateway, Jude ordered Veronica to prepare the Planet Destroyer Cannon.

• Gamora decided she had to tell Thanos about the Power Stone but fell asleep before she could find a way to contact him.
• Jude, Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, and Ivy ate breakfast aboard the Star One while Gamora stayed in her room.
• Councilwoman Alice questioned Director Karman about the Xandarians' Power Stone research and told him someone else would take over.
• A vast gateway opened near Skarbraal, and an enormous planet began passing through it, shaking the research base.
• Alice ordered the Nova Corps to prepare for battle as the Star One received her warning to leave Xandar territory.
• Jude dismissed the message as a stalling tactic and ordered Veronica to prepare the Planet Destroyer Cannon.

Jude Herbert used Star One’s Planet Destroyer Cannon to destroy Skarbraal, overcoming the Nova Corps’ defenses. With the planet reduced to debris, he flew out and quickly found the Power Stone.

• Veronica charged Star One’s Planet Destroyer Cannon with energy from the Micro-Universe Battery, and Jude Herbert ordered it to fire at Skarbraal.
• Alice and the Nova Corps formed a defensive line, but the cannon’s beam instantly destroyed their ships and Centurions.
• The Planet Destroyer Cannon struck Skarbraal and caused the planet to explode, leaving Star-Lord and the others stunned.
• Jude reassured Star-Lord that the Power Stone had survived, then flew out of Star One to search the debris.
• Jude found the Power Stone inside a boulder and caught the purple gem in his palm.

Jude scanned Star-Lord’s brain to copy his knowledge of alien languages, then took the Star One to Knowhere, the Collector’s territory. The warship’s arrival during the Collector’s auction drew the attention of powerful visitors, who assumed Mongul of the New Gods had come.

• Star-Lord tried to grab the Power Stone, but its energy threw him into a wall, and Jude warned the group that the Infinity Stones could harm anyone too weak to control them.
• Jude got Star-Lord drunk on vodka and ordered Veronica to scan and simulate his language center while the others watched in horror.
• Veronica finished the scan and repaired Star-Lord’s head, and Jude sent him to rest before ordering the Star One to teleport to Qatar Star.
• Jude explained that the Collector was a powerful member of the Elders of the Universe Council who lived on Knowhere among his vast collection.
• The Star One arrived at Knowhere during the Collector’s auction, and powerful factions mistook its arrival for Mongul’s.

Gladiator and Hyperion mistook Star One for Mongul’s Warworld, while Blue Marvel and Captain Marvel recognized Jude Herbert’s arrival as an unexpected chance to pursue their revenge. The three knock-off Supermen and Captain Marvel were gathered on Qatar Star, where they planned to confront Jude after the auction.

• Gladiator and his adviser Ultron watched Star One appear and debated whether it belonged to Mongul.
• Hyperion joined Gladiator and also wondered if the mobile planet was Mongul’s.
• Blue Marvel and Captain Marvel recalled how Earth blamed them for arriving too late to stop the war, and how they left the galaxy after losing their homes and loved ones.
• Blue Marvel and Captain Marvel became a couple and resolved to avenge Nick Fury by killing Jude Herbert after the auction.
• Blue Marvel and Captain Marvel saw Jude arrive on Qatar Star before they could go looking for him.

Star-Lord brought Jude, Little Spider, and Ivy to Qatar Star, where he explained how energy served as the universe’s currency and offered to exchange Jude’s miniature Dyson Sphere. The group then arrived at Star-Lord’s favorite bar.

• The group discovered that Qatar Star was a gigantic head, and Star-Lord said it was believed to belong to a Celestial.
• Star-Lord paid a three-headed kangaroo man for docking guidance and transport, then explained that energy was the universe’s universal currency.
• Star-Lord described the different forms and grades of energy that could be used as money, while Jude showed him a miniature Dyson Sphere filled with solar energy.
• Rocket Raccoon warned Jude not to let Star-Lord exchange the Dyson Sphere because he would take half the profit.
• Star-Lord led the group to Mediocre People's Filthy Bar, which Jude identified as a place where poor people and hookers gathered.

Jude and his group visited a crowded alien bar on Qatar Star, where Captain Marvel Carol Danvers confronted him and declared she had come to kill him. As the bar erupted into a standoff, Jude provoked her by revealing that he had killed Nick Fury.

• Jude and his companions ordered drinks at Mediocre People's Filthy Bar, and Jude secretly had the bartender fill his flask with beer.
• A Three Milk People woman approached Jude, but Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel intervened when she was harassed by a bull-headed alien.
• Blue Marvel punched the bull-headed alien through a wall, prompting bar security to fire energy cuffs at him and Captain Marvel.
• Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel broke their cuffs, and Captain Marvel pointed Jude out as her target while the bar's guards surrounded them.
• Jude recognized Captain Marvel as Carol Danvers and taunted her with details of her past and his killing of Nick Fury.
• Captain Marvel fired an energy shockwave at Jude.

Jude Herbert fought Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel after they attacked him on Qatar Star, but Grandmaster intervened and announced a tournament. The rivals were left to settle their conflict at the event ten days later.

• Big Guy Billy protected Jude in Mediocre People's Filthy Bar, but Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel defeated him and his men.
• Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel challenged Jude, who flew out to fight them in Cowboy 2 while his companions stayed behind.
• An invisible barrier repelled the Marvels, and Grandmaster restrained them before they could reach Jude.
• Blue Marvel accused Jude of causing his family's deaths, and Jude denied responsibility while arguing that the Space Stone conflict had helped Earth.
• Grandmaster ordered everyone to stop arguing and invited them to compete in a tournament on Qatar Star ten days later.

After Grandmaster forced Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel to enter the arena tournament, Jude humiliated them with repeated slaps and promised to defeat them. He then agreed to enter the tournament and told Little Spider he would upgrade his armor to Version 1.5, leaving Peter determined to keep improving.

• Grandmaster released Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel on the condition that they compete in the tournament ten days later and cause no trouble.
• Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel confronted Jude, who slapped them repeatedly while they restrained themselves to avoid Grandmaster's wrath.
• Jude threatened to beat Captain Marvel and Blue Marvel into meat paste during the next ten days, and they flew away amid the crowd's jeers.
• Jude told Little Spider he would enter the tournament and insisted that Peter participate as well.
• Jude promised to upgrade Little Spider's armor to Version 1.5, while encouraging him to keep climbing toward the summit of science.