Hala

Galaxy. The immediate thought that comes to people's minds when they hear the word galaxy is an image lot of stars arranged in a spiral formation. That is practically an image burned in the minds of common people. But this image creates a problem.

When you see something on the scale of a galaxy being portrayed in a small picture, you are bound to not understand just how large a galaxy can be. The numbers that explain this scale don't help either.

It is said that there are anywhere between 100 to 400 billion stars in the galaxy and a similarly large number of planets. But for common people, anything above the unit of thousands is hard to intuitively imagine and understand. They can only think 'Oh that sounds like a lot'.

Not just the number of planets and stars, but the distance between each of them is also unimaginable for common people. Just the distance between the East and the West Coast in America is enough to baffle most people who visit America for the first time, but the distance between the planets and stars that are measured based on the speed of light is beyond human comprehension. How can you understand something you haven't experienced?

In such a vast galaxy, there are bound to be quite a few civilizations beyond humans. Some might still be primitive civilizations that are still stuck on their planet, some civilizations like humans might be reaching out to the stars, and some civilizations would already have become interstellar and begun spreading out into the galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy in the Marvel Universe had many civilizations in it. Many of them were even on the level to be called interstellar empires.

The Skrull and the Kree . They were each other's enemies for a long time.

But the Skrulls eventually lost the war when a very hungry Galactus ate their homeworld. They became a wandering civilization that is looking to build a new empire and a new home world. Earth was even once their prime candidate.

So what about their enemies, the Kree? Unlike the Skrull, They continued to thrive and expand and had thousands of planets under them with Hala being their homeworld.

Millions of years ago, the mistake of some Kree who wanted to control artifacts beyond their capabilities put a curse on the entire civilization of the Kree. Their race could never evolve beyond that point and were stuck at that point.

But the Kree didn't give up and sought to master science and technology to artificially induce evolution among their people. In the process, they created the Supreme Intelligence, the AI that controls their entire civilization. It was almost like a deity to the Kree.

Besides the Supreme Intelligence, the Kree had other achievements too. On their voyage across galaxies, they had come across Earth and the primitive humans living on it. What interested them about humans was the artificial genes introduced by the Celestials to induce human civilization.

And so, in the process of studying and recreating such a method used by the Celestials, the Kree had inadvertently created a new race. They were the Inhumans. Eventually, the Kree left Earth and their creations behind and moved on to other things. But the Inhumans continued to exist and grow on the planet Earth.

This was a secret that almost none of the Inhumans had known. But being one of the smartest Inhumans, Maximus had found out about this secret origin of the Inhumans through some old inscriptions and other clues that he had found throughout historical records.

It had come as a shock to Maximus that his entire race was just a product of the experiments by some aliens. He had not told anyone about this and kept it to himself. He continued to dig into the existing records until he even found the location of the Kree homeworld Hala.

Until very recently, all of this had nothing to do with Maximus. The Kree were just some distant alien civilization that he had to be aware of when he eventually became the ruler. But everything changed when the humans who had grown stronger came to Attilan and poured cold water over his decades of planning. The humans would rule over the rulers of Attilan now.

Maximus couldn't accept this. It was his right to rule over the Inhumans and he didn't want to give up on it. But he couldn't go against the human civilization that was growing rapidly. So, Maximus decided to hold hands with the alien civilization that created his race.

Maximus slipped away from the pointless discussions between Doom and his brother and went to find the communicator left behind by the Kree. He had never activated it out of fear but he couldn't wait any longer now. He put the communicator on his head and activated it.

The moment he activated the device, he lost consciousness and when he finally got his bearings, he found himself suddenly transported to the void. "Oh, you are a descendent of one of our experiments?" A booming voice with a mechanical pitch attracted Maximus' attention.

When he turned to look in the direction of the voice, Maximus came face to face with a giant green face that looked like an overweight person had swollen due to allergies. The face couldn't be described as anything but ugly. Tendrils were growing out of the floating ugly head.

"You are in the presence of the Supreme Intelligence. Why have you come to find me?" The green head asked Maximus.

Maximus was still processing how he suddenly appeared in the void and how a giant green head was talking to him right now. But he was quick to react. He asked, "Are you from the Kree civilization? What is your position? I need to talk to someone in the leadership."

The head looked intently at Maximus. "You can be forgiven once for being ignorant. I am the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree, the highest authority of the empire. Speak, why have you tried to contact me like this?"

Maximus had doubts about whether the first person he contacted in the Kree empire just so happened to be the most powerful being in the empire, but he didn't dwell on it. It didn't matter if the being was telling a lie. As long as his words were relayed to the Kree, he was fine.

Maximus began his explanation, "Your civilization created us by experimenting on humans…"

It was a long explanation but the gist of it was simple. Maximus conveyed how Inhumans were persecuted by the humans. He also emphasized the potential of the Inhumans and finally, he portrayed the humans as a fast-growing candidate for a galactic empire.

"It won't take more than a decade for them to conquer the solar system. And looking at their rapid growth, I wouldn't be surprised if they take over a large part of the galaxy within the next century. Their potential is immense and their strength cannot be underestimated."

Maximus understood that he had very little to offer to the Kree. He didn't have anything he could use to bargain with them. There was his race of Inhumans of course but they didn't seem useful as a bargaining chip against the Kree. If the Kree had thought of the Inhumans as something they needed, the Kree wouldn't have abandoned the race for such a long time.

So, he chose a different strategy. What is a large empire most wary about? It was the emergence of a young and powerful empire that had greater potential. They would never want someone else to get as strong if not stronger than them.

No matter if it was between small nomadic tribes in a small grassland area on Earth, or if it was between the interstellar civilizations, there was always a competition for hegemony. And given the chance, any powerful group would immediately decide to strangle an emerging group to death, should it be considered a threat.

Maximus decided to play on that fear and subtly pointed the humans as the biggest future threat to the Kree Empire. Even if it wasn't for the Inhumans, he hoped that the Kree would fight the humans just for the future interests of their civilization.

The Supreme Intelligence listened to the long explanation from Maximus which contained a lot of detailed information regarding the humans. Even for the Supreme Intelligence, the humans had been an annoying bunch. Carol Danvers or Car-ell had recently escaped its grasp and was now beginning to become a threat to the Kree.

The Supreme Intelligence took the matter very seriously that the humans had created a Federation and were expanding outwards into space at a rapid pace. Through its own calculation, the clash between their civilizations was inevitable in the future. So, it was only right to destroy the humans before they became a threat.

What was even more important to the Supreme Intelligence was another fact that Maximus had shared. There were millions of dormant Inhumans on Earth. The Supreme Intelligence had abandoned the Inhumans all those years ago because it saw them as a threat to the Kree.

But now, there weren't just the Inhumans but there were also the mutants, the sorcerers, and the humans who had their own advanced technologies. The Kree had to prepare countermeasures.

"I will teleport you to Hala. You will testify before the council and tell them everything that you have just told me." The Supreme Intelligence ordered Maximus. It wanted to prepare the Kree for war by using the justification of the Inhumans' cause.