Healing Formula
The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire is actually a living computer created by taking the brains of their thinkers, generals, philosophers, scientists, and other figures after their deaths and integrating them together.
Every decision is like a conclusion reached through collective discussion among these wise individuals, a conclusion that is universally accepted. And this discussion is devoid of personal factors such as stance or interests; it is solely based on the differing wisdom and perspectives of these people.
Furthermore, once the system is completed, every five years, a person qualified to join the Supreme Intelligence will be selected. Upon the death of this qualified individual, their brain will become part of the Supreme Intelligence, just like the other wise beings.
In other words, this living computer is constantly being enhanced, supplemented with new decision-makers, in order to adapt to the new era environment and absorb new perspectives and knowledge.
Therefore, maintaining the health of living brains was a crucial issue for the Kree Empire.
Just like machines wear out over time, need repair, and if they can't be repaired, they need to be replaced, the human body also experiences these problems. Knee degeneration, muscle atrophy, and decreased cardiopulmonary function are all signs of aging, which in turn affect a person's mobility.
The internal organs and brain can also experience the same problems and malfunctions. Don't assume that what's encased in skin and bones will never break or age.
Even if these organs are removed from the human body, whether transplanted into another person or, like Supreme Intelligence, integrated into the brain—of course, one of the components of a living computer—they will continue to age as long as they are still functioning.
The Supreme Intelligence has existed in the Kree Empire for millions of years.
For a brain to be used healthily for millions of years, like a component, is simply impossible without proper maintenance. It's important to understand that the components of the Supreme Intelligence brain don't have a wear and tear mechanism; they only take in and don't leave.
Henry certainly couldn't remove Catherine Hepburn's brain, soak it in a special solution, and then remotely control a living, artificial body via wireless transmission technology.
Damn it—doing this seems like it could achieve cyber immortality.
Unbeknownst to him, Henry discovered a potential technology tree unlocking possibility within Kree Technology, and promptly abandoned any further contemplation of it.
The reason is simple: think about why the Kree Empire didn't take this path. You can probably guess that there must be some huge pitfall here that would make a cosmic empire abandon the path of cyber evolution.
Henry focuses solely on the technology of preserving living brains.
Soaking the brain in a medicinal solution and constantly supplying it with nutrients is only one of the conditions for maintaining brain activity. In addition, specially formulated solutions can also effectively reduce the occurrence of abnormalities in the brain.
Note! This only reduces the frequency of abnormal phenomena; it does not completely prevent them from occurring.
Based on individual DNA, each person carries different genetic traits to varying degrees. These traits may not necessarily develop into hereditary diseases, but they do relate to whether a person's brain is prone to lesions, degeneration, and functional impairments.
Therefore, the first step to maintaining a healthy brain in the long term is to repair DNA defects. However, this only reduces the chances of brain aging or disease, not completely eradicates them.
Then, for a range of lesions, degenerations, and functional impairments, there are different treatments to maintain the brain at 100% health.
What If...? Marvel has Brainiac comparable to Brainiac, the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire, then it must be Brainiac.
Even with Henry the Kryptonian's Super Brain, after understanding the construction data of the Supreme Intelligence, he could not fathom just how powerful the Supreme Intelligence truly was.
However, the decisive difference between the Supreme Intelligence and Brainiac is that Brainiac is a virtual life form capable of self-replication, self-evolution, and creativity. This means he can infiltrate any environment similar to a computer network to survive or control everything.
The Supreme Intelligence cannot replicate itself and can even be killed or destroyed. For example, Captain Marvel later invaded Hala, the homeworld of the Kree Empire, and destroyed the Supreme Intelligence in one fell swoop.
What If...? this universe follows the trajectory of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Carol Danvers, misled by the Skrulls, will likely do something irrational, then be plagued by her own Moral conscience—a classic case of creating trouble out of nothing.
This weakness in the brain is probably a major reason why the Kree Empire abandoned cyber evolution. Because the weakness is just too obvious, like it's laid out on a table, attracting people to attack it. Once someone succeeds, the entire empire will be wiped out.
In short, regarding the three steps of brain maintenance, the first two steps don't need to be considered. Henry wasn't aiming for cyber immortality; modifying DNA defects is too significant and difficult to manage.
Moreover, the reason the Kree Empire took these two steps was that it aimed for a million-year lifespan. They didn't have such grand ambitions and didn't want to create a Shocker scene where, a hundred years later, Catherine Hepburn's bones had turned to ashes, but her brain was still intact.
Therefore, we only need to focus on the third step, which is to maintain brain health and implement repair measures for various diseases and degeneration.
Similar to the previous research on Kree Technology and Skrull Technology, the main challenge is that many materials are not available on Earth. Finding substitutes and producing even downgraded products is a significant challenge.
Henry has made some progress in analyzing the field of mechanical technology. The duck and Leopard Type Duck Type of the Duck Leopard armor are the result of combining alien technology with Earth technology.
But in the field of biochemistry, it seems that Henry is going to repeat the same path he has taken before in a different field, and he has started the process of research, comparison, and interpretation again.
After in-depth research, Henry was surprised to find that analyzing alien technology in the field of biochemistry was much easier than analyzing it in the field of mechanics.
Both the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire have moved beyond the practice of having to extract a matrix from something in order to further refine a chemical substance.
Instead, it truly starts from basic elements, goes through a series of chemical synthesis processes, and finally produces a certain substance.
Therefore, in the field of biochemistry, there is almost no need to search for specific materials that lack alternatives. As long as there are basic elements and synthetic spectra, one can synthesize the desired chemical compounds using machines.
The reason for using the phrase "almost none" is that building that machine was no easy task. This machine, which had no name, only a number, and which Henry jokingly called the "Universal Pharmaceutical Machine," had many aspects of its construction that he still didn't understand.
For the Kree Empire or Skrull Empire, as long as they find out which synthetic formula works for which symptoms, they can make it.
Therefore, the most difficult aspect of pharmaceutical research is finding suitable drug components, without the challenges of production or mass production.
However, this advanced medical technology became a problem for Henry. The data only contained formulas and results, but not the complete drug synthesis process, which became a black box operation for the Universal Pharmaceutical Machine.
So now Henry's problem has become whether to find a way to build this Universal Pharmaceutical Machine or to figure out the synthesis steps of the target drug himself.
After considering the original design size, usage requirements, and energy consumption of the Universal Pharmaceutical Machine, Henry decisively abandoned this approach and focused on researching the synthesis method of the target drug.
It's like wanting to buy a bottle of water at the grocery store downstairs from your apartment, but instead you end up building a car, driving it around the city, and then finally returning to your starting point to buy the water and go upstairs. Enough with the ritual, but you'd probably be dying of thirst by then.