As for whether Arcturians actually ate human flesh, opinions varied. Yondu had only irresponsibly repeated a rumor to scare the dumb kid.
Seeing Star-Lord's stupidly shocked expression made him happy, because a long time ago, when the kid had first followed him into space, he had worn that same wide-eyed, provincial look.
But if Deathstroke had been here, he would have said the rumor was not entirely baseless. The Eagle God loved raiding and plundering, and liked war even more than Odin had in his youth.
The Eagle God's diet was much like Galactus's: it fed by devouring other planets. Galactus generally chose Civilizations with little potential for development and consumed their planets, while his Heralds of Galactus handled the screening.
The Arcturian Hawk God was the exact opposite. He liked planets with "substance." The more advanced a planet's Civilization was, and the fiercer its resistance, the more he enjoyed it.
Eagles were like that. They were not Vultures. They did not like carrion; they wanted live prey. The livelier, the better.
For a long time in the past, the Five Creation Gods had regarded the Eagle God as the most unstable factor in the cosmic realm, believing he could ignite a cosmic war at any moment and wreck everyone's Single Universes.
The reason it had remained inside this red giant all along was actually because of a confinement order issued by the Living Tribunal. Now that the Tribunal was dead, it was still not allowed to leave this planetary system.
The Eagle God did not eat as much as Galactus, nor was it driven by Hunger, but it truly loved plundering. That was simply its nature.
Still, it posed no threat to Deathstroke. Just as Star-Lord had said, the Eagle God might be a powerhouse from the Future of