The Alliance of Gods had gone on the highest alert, but Thanos merely smiled and sent his avatars on to other universes in search of pawns.
As he continued, however, he discovered that two of the four cosmic coordinates he possessed no longer worked. Those universes had shifted from their original positions.
That was common in the Chaos Universe.
Reality Universes did not stay still. They moved constantly through the Chaos Universe.
It was not movement through space in the usual sense, because space did not exist in the Chaos Universe.
Instead, they moved from one dimension to another.
That was why the Dimension Lords searched for Reality Universes every day. Even when they found one, the Celestials' interference soon caused them to lose it.
Thanos was lucky that two of his coordinates still worked. Those universes had not moved far.
Unless he established something in a target universe that let him locate it, or left an avatar there as he had in the dead universe, he would lose track of it.
Otherwise, the two universes he could still reach would soon vanish from his grasp as well.
So he left an avatar with Planetary Level power in each of them.
They would serve as anchors for the coordinates.
To avoid drawing the Celestials' attention, he also had his avatar in Universe E461973 recruit Emma. Through the Hellfire Club's influence, she secretly gathered talent and continued sending people with Superpowers to his universe.
He also leaked advanced technology from time to time, hoping Blue Star in that universe would reach deep space before Tiamut emerged from the ground and wiped everyone out.
His avatar had not been so lucky in the second universe.
The Superheroes there were powerful, so he had the avatar hide his identity and live as an