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Alli'iHILAT1öii VERBAL LOG. NOVA CORPS OPERATIVE: 112qq-qq396/RICHARD RIDER— LAST SURVIVOR OF THE NOVA CORPS THE MASSIVE INVADING ENEMY PUNCHED THROUGH "CRUNCH" THE CRUNCH ts THE BOUNDARY OF OUR UNIVERSE. THAT MEANS THEY CANE FROM BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE. ÅhhiHILAT .11 THAT'S How NOVA CORPS GOT INVOL VEO XANOAR. THE CORPS' HOMEWORLD. WAS DEVASTATED BY THER ATTACK-•wE WERE ANNML ATON W ANNIHILVS. NOT EVERYONE MADE THE NNECTION. go FROM WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PECE TOGET»CR, OUR UNNERSE ts Aro THE UNIVERSE ANNYLUS RULES THE NEGAT'VE ZONE. ANNHcvs 'S TAXING BACK WHAT HE AWHtun0NEr 1. THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE ANNIHILATION WAVE. THEY LIVE up TO THE NAME TOOK LESS THAN MONTHS TO ERADICATE WHAT w AS LEFT OF THE SKRVLL EMPIRE. TRUTH TO TELL. THERE'S MORE THAN A DOZEN CAN'T EVEN LOCATE!.

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THC RIGHT FLAIIK. 076. gno 3RD ßATTALOons. FICLO comt71At1DER: LßR-Hß. HELL YEAH. IT ALWAYS MATTERS. WE'RE BREACHED LINE OF STAND YOUR GROUND! KREE COMMAND PROTOCOLS, AS WE'VE COME TO UNDERSTAND THEM. HAVE BROKEN DOWN. THEY'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO WAGE WAR, AND THE KREE LIVE FOR WAR. ...TOO MANY! STANO YOUR GROUND! SWCE HOUSE OF PIYERO SEIZED CONTROL OF NALA, THEY JUST THROW WARM BODES AT THE WAVE. CONTROLLED BURSTS! MAKE THEM COUNT! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! ARGH! KREE CASUAL HAVE BEEN STAGGERING. HOLO POSITIONS! FALL BACK! FORM A SECONDARY PERIMETER! ALTERNATE COVERAG FRE! MOVE YOUR BEDRAGGLED SHANKS! WE LUCKED OUT THIS TWE_ RONAN WAS ON-SITE..

"SEO TO 60 BY RONAN ACCUSER--JUOGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER. ONE-STOP SHOPPING ALL YOUR L AW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS. THAT WAS THEN. MO HE'S A FUGITIVE FROM THE SAME KREE JUSTICE USED TO ENFORCE. HE W AS CHARGED MASS SAYS THEY WERE TRUMPED up. THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY-BUT RONAN. HW 1 BEI-EVE. CAN TELL THE RANK AND-FLE KREE DON'T Buy THE CHARGES EITHER. HE TALKS HEY LIST". 1 DON'T KNOW HOW HE ASSUMED COMMAND ANO 1 DON'T CARE. ALL 1 KNOW iS HE TOOK WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A BLOODBATH ANO TURNED IT INTO AN ORDERLY WITHDRAWAL. HE BOUGHT US SOME DESPERATELY NEEOEO WOULD you SEE THEN DEAD, COMMANDER?! FALL BACK! THIS FRONT ts LOST! RONAN THE ACCUSED'. you CARRY NO AUTHORITY HERE! OUR ALLEGIANCE'S TO HOUSE F'YERO„ COMMANDER... „.you'RE RELEVED OF DUTY. FALL BACK! ENGAGE AND WITH- DRAW! REMEMBER you ARE KREE! KREE POSTTONS WERE HtT HARDEST BECAUSE OF RONAN, THEY SUFFERED THE FEWEST FATALITES. YEAH„RONAN'S A KEEPER. FORCE FELD GENERATORS ARE GIVINS OUT! MOVE!.

ALL DUE RESPECT, SR. BUT WE ARE our HERE! THAT WAS THE FRST FORCE- GENERATOR. THE REST ARE GONNA DOMINO t:-as IS THE THRO TIME WEVE BEEN FORCED BACK ANO IF you THNX FRUSTRATNG FOR US, WHAT IT'S LÄE FOR THE WAVE. HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE NEVER WITHDRAW. PULL BACK TO SECONDARY PERNETER TELL EVERYONE, PETER! TÆY'RE STLL THE SAME WAR THEY WERE FIGHTNG SIX MONTHS AGO. WERE Nor. EVERY C WE'VE TAKEN HAS TAUGHT VS THAT MVCH MORE THEY'RE HITTING THE SHIPS! GET CLEAR! /8jöA..a. we GOT OUR BUTTS AT TARTUS "NOR BECAUSE WE WERE STILL A O-ONENS'ONAL WAR. T NOW.

DAEDALUS S. -DO WE LET THAT HAPPEN AGAR. ORBIT .PER1mc,TER. WE'VE THE FRELORO RED SAFT AND STARDUST SEE TO THAT EACH ONE A FORMER HER OF GAL ACTUS Y. EACH PACKS ENOUGH FREPOWER TO HOLO OFF AN ARMY. THE EX-HERALDS HAO BEEN THER OWN PRIVATE WAR. HIT TNG WAVE WHEN THEY COULD AND MAKING THEMSEL VES SCARCE WHEN THMS GOT Our RUMOR HAS (T THAT ANN*LUS HAS PRIORITIZED THER CAPTURE. THAT OTHER Ex-HERALDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN. I'VE SEEN THE FREPOWER THE W THROWS AT THEM. MAKES ME •APPREHEND" MAY HAVE BEEN UPGRAOEO TO •TERMNATE"-- JUST LIKE THE REST OF THEY VS BY FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING, HOOKED up WITH VS BECAUSE OF SOMETHING PETER SAO TO THE FREI-ORD. THEY CAN'T COVER THE ENTIRE PL ANET Bur THEY CAN KEEP OUR AIRSPACE CL EAR..

THC 0171171A11D ccnrce: RICHIE, KEEP RUNNNG! WHY ARE YOU— RICHIE, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE TOLD you NOT TO CALL ME RICHE? Losi THREE TOO MANY. DAS'T 1 CAN'T LEAD FROM THE REAR. MAKE IT GET OUR BOYS CLEAR, PETER JT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL HOT!.

•YOV LEAD 'ROY THE REAR " A HARD LESSON. HARD-TAUGHT BY A HARD TEACHER DRAX. LET SO OF ME! 1 WANT TO STAY WITH DRAX! AND CAM"'. DRAX AND CAMMI. FORGET THE GRL. AS F ANYONE COULD. THOSE DAYS AFTER THE FALL OF XANOAR WERE UNBEARABLE. DRAX DON'T MAKE THEM ANY BETTER. w Arce Guess THAT'S WHY THEY CALL "THE DESTROYER." HE DESTROYED RICHARD ROER, THE BOY, TO ROOM FOR NOVA, THE MAN..

TOOK you LONG ENOUGH. YOU'RE WELCOME. ALL THE FORCE FELDS ARE DOWN. TELL ME SOMETHNG 1 DON'T KNOW ANY OF OURS STOP TO COVER THE RETREAT , THEY GET AN UGLY DEATH. roo "ANY ARE STOPPING. OPTONS?.

PONT TAKEN. NOT ALL OF OUR PEOPLE WLL GET CLEAR, BUT GOT TO BE DONE. COMM ANO ALPHA PRNE TO BARRAGE COMMAND, DO YOU READ? BARRAGE COMMAND ro ALPHA PRWE, WE READ BLANKET- BOMB AND PRO TOCOL. ONE ONE ALPHA/ ONE ONE ALPHA ROER CONFRMEO. RANGE AND DVRA"ON? FULL-SCOPE HEAW ORDNANCE BARRAGE. HOME N ON MY POSTON AND CLEAR THE ZONE. SRV you KNOW OAS'T WELL WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO THE WAVE IS CATCHING up TO THE WOUNDED! LOSE HUNDREDS OR LOSE THOUSANDS. YOUR CHOICE. NO ONE LAYS A HARD TRUTH ON you ORAN. LOSE HUNDREDS OR LOSE THOUSANDS you HEARD GOO SAVE MY SOUL.

LUCKY, DRAX WLL COYE LOOKNG FOR ME. I'M REA4LY LUCKY, HE FRO ME AL rj-EN ALL 1 HAVE TO DO ts CONVINCE DRAX NOT TO FN'SH ME FOR CHUCKNG AWAY DVRNG A BATTLE. GOTTA LOVE HN..

PCR't77CTCR, HOURS REST was OVER "E WHLE THE MEDCOS GREW A NEW RIGHT CENTER A COMMAND STRUC ORD PROVED US WHCE WE WERE RVNNNG FOR OUR LIVES ANO rRYNG ro SHORE VP SECONDARY PERIMETER. ERELORO THE FLAGS— USED HWSELF up PROCESS EXPENDED roo uVCS POWER MADE.

1 JUST WISH 1 COULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO SEE IT GO FRELORO. 1 MOST FAVORE6 OF THE LORD A NMLH'L VS. ORDER YOUR FORCES TO S DOWN YOU ARE DEFEATED ANO WHAT OF YOU? you REEX OF DEA SOON EXPRE. "LADES" FIRST. FRELORO ENDED BATTLE. ONCE EXTIRPIA WAS CUT OFF FROM THE WAVE, THER ATTACK FELL NTO DISARRAY.

Alli11HiLt15 FLAGSHIP. YOV„REOVESTED THAT DISCOVER THE OG'CAL APPLCAT'ON OF cosec WER r AGREED ro BE OF SERVCE. you AGREED ro ABOE BY MY METHODS. THE RESOURCES r NEED ARE NOW AT MY DISPOSAL. MOLERABLE! FALLEN AT HANDS OF HERALDS 1 HAVE ORDERED TERMNATEO! YOUR ORDERS ARE TO APPREHEND, Nor TERMAATE, ANNHLUS. THE FORMER IS THE MORE EXCUSES! HOW DISTRACTED WOULD HAVE ME? WE'VE JUST SEEN THE POWER OF UNITED FRONT HAS NO OEA WHAT WE HAVE ACOURED. INTOLERABLE! BE ABOUT IT THEN! WISH..

LISTEN ro PRATTLE! BELOVED IS TAKEN FROM US AND DOES 'r CARE PAST OWN SELF-MEREST!? MUST I RELIEVE THE TW OF you OF YOUR COMMANDS!? AL-DS ST VEX ME?! THWART VENOUS!? NE RESPECT , BUT THEY KNOW THE LORD ANNYLUS WANTS THEM ALIVE. REMOVE THE FEAR OF DEATH AND STRENGTHEN THE FOE. VENGEANCE ts OURS BY RIGHT OF L NEAGE! LET THE BLOOD-DEBT FALL ON EXTERMINA AND SISTER ERADICA! EXTRAA'S THEN THESE OTHERS, THESE EX—HERALDS RRELEVANT! THE PARADIGM HAS SHFTEO_ 00 WHAT- EVER TAKES, RAVENOUS. TERMINATE THE HERALDS! THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL ME MAKES ME STRONGER. THESE ARE NOT THE SLVER SURFER. THE LAST OF GAL-ACTUS' HERALDS wn-L TASTE MY VENGANCE..

206. VERBAL LOG. NOVA CORPS OPERATIVE: 11249-44396' RICHARD ROER. RESUMED. NOT ALL THAT SURE HOW HAPPENED. GUESS IT'S TRUE THAT WAR MAKES FOR STRANGE BED- FELLOWS. NO PUN ATENDEO. THAT AN ORDER? SUGGESTION. YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BIG ON ORDERS, GAMORA. SOMETHNG WRONG? BITE YOUR TONGUE. BACK TO SLEEP. HOWEVER IT HAPPENED, I'M GLAD 'T 00. 4 BEEN THNX NG. YOU'VE BEEN HANGNG AROUND WITH PETER TOO MUCH. YOU'RE DEVELOPAG A SENSE OF HUMOR. SHOULD JEALOUS? I'VE GOT TO TALK TO NO. 1 VALUE MY LIFE. 1 JUST NEED TO TALK TO ONE OF MY OWN--A TERRAN. OH. WAKE ME WHEN IT GETS NTERESTNG_.

LET ME SEE 1 GOT THIS STRAIGHT. you FINALLY GET A FEW HOURS TO CALL YOUR OWN AND you LEAVE A LOOKER GAMORA TO HANG WITH ME? SHE WOULDN'T COME IN THE LAST STRAGGLER WAS ACCOUNTED FOR. you ASK ME, GAMORA'S TOO HARD TO LIVE up TO HER "MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN THE GALAXY" SHE'S DEFINITEL Y SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME WITH PETER. ONE WORD. PRIORITIES. SHE'S EXHAUSTED. WE ALL you ASK ME, PETER QUILL SHOULD BE LIVNG up TO HIS "STARLORD" REP. NOBODY ASKED you DEPRESS SIGH...WE WHUPPED 'EM GOOD THIS TIME AROUND. ONCE THEY STARTED RUNNING AROUND CHICKENS WITH THER HEADS cur OFF, WAS OPEN - SEASON. PART OF ME STILL THBKS WE SHOULD HAVE PRESSED IT , DRIVEN THEM BACK. WHY DON'T YOU? you HAO THE REINS. WHAT ABOUT THE FREI-ORD? LAST TWE 1 PUSHED MY LUCK IT WENT BADLY. WHO CAN TELL?.

you FIGURED you WERE BUILDNG up TO THAT. RED SHIFT ANO THE KANGAROO Guy BROUGHT N LOOKNG ABOUT AS DEAD AS EVE EVER SEEN HAT DO THE OTHER HERALDS HAVE TO SAY? NOTHN6 PAST A SHRUG. AND WHAT OF OUR NEW GUEST? C'MON. THEYJUST GOT THE PSI-BAFFLES up AND RUNNNØ SO SHE'S NOT GONNA BE GETTNG NTO ANYONE'S HEAD I W ANT UNLESS WE WANT TO STOP IN ON FRELORO, TOO. OH, F.YJ., THE SHI'AR ARE HOLDRG TO A "WAIT AND SEE" STRATEGY ALL THE WHLE DENYNG WHAT DONS. HIGH-TONE SCRAGS, THE LOT. THE HUNKERED BADOON? DOWN. TRUST ME, WE DO NOT WANT TO BE DEALNG WITH THE SADOON ON TOP OF ALL THIS. 4. ANY »€MORRHOOS ELSE? ARE ACTNG STLL BvCXNG FOR THAT COURT..

SIGH..BO-RING. YOU'RE DRAX THE DESTROYER. SHOULDN'T WE BE OUT THERE DESTROYNG STUFF? NOTED "WE" HAVE HAD OUR FLL OF BATTLE TODAY. HMPH.SOUE DESTROYER. HUH„CAN'T FOOL ME. THE ONLY REASON YOU'RE FIGHTING THIS WAR ts TO GET AT HIM. 1 THNX THAT KREE GUY MIGHT HAVE MOLESTED ME. you BE MORE CAREFUL WHO you PASS ME OFF TO. BE T F THAT THANOS GUY WAS HERE-- DON 'T. CLEVER GRL....

NONE OF THE MONITOR READBGS VAKE SENSE. TECHNICALLY HE'S BOTH DEAD AND NO. MEAN. NOT THAT WE KNOW OF ALIVE. AT EVEN POSSBLE? WHATEVER GAL-ACTUS TO WAY BEYOND ANYTHING WE'D RECOGNIZE. IT'S LIKE TRYING TO DECIPHER THE WORKNGS OF A GOD. WE'RE DONG ALL WE CAN. NEVER THOUGHT ANY DIFFERENT ANY CHANGE HIS CONDITION, I WANT TO KNOW AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS. YES, .„ISOLATE HW UNTIL WE HAVE A BETTER OEA WHAT WE'RE DEAL-NG WITH HERE. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY? EXACTLY you W ANTED TO SEE. WRON& HAD TO SEE. 0 ALWE, FRELORO'S A HERO, DEAD, HE'S A MARTYR. EITHER WAY USEFUL. HOW COLD ts THAT?.

IT'S GETTING EASER ANO EASER TO THNX THAT WAY, TO REMOVE MYSELF FROM THE DECISION. THAT WORRES ME. A LOT. you FIGURE OUR GUEST CAN BE OF USE? you SAW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FRELORO TOOK HER DOWN. GUESS IT CAN'T HURT TO ASK. POSITIVE DNA MATCH: ROER, LETHAL RESPONSE DISENGAGED. SHOULD'A BROUGHT HER FLOWERS. WOMEN ARE SUCKERS FOR FLOWERS. I'LL TRY TO KEEP THAT.

I DON'T COME TO GLOAT. COME TO GLOAT? COME TO FEAST ON LOVNG EXTRPIA'S DESPAR? SAY YOUR PECE. I'M LISTENNG. THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS, CALLED GALACTUS, ANO HIS WRETCHED HERALD, CALLED SLVER SURFER. you KNOW OF THEM.„YES. you KNOW OF THEM AND FEAR THEM m WHLE OUR BATTLE RAGED, ELSEWHERE, YOU LOST THE MAKE PEACE WITH WHATEVER AFTERLFE WILL HAVE YOU. THIS WAR ts WON! DON'T GET THAT MEMO. you GET THAT MEMO, RICHE? DON'T PROVOKE.

"BEFORE THE FRELORD'S BASE ASSAULT ON EXTRPIA, ExTRPtA KNEW! KNEW AS HER SISTERS KNEW! "THANOS KNEW OF THE ANCIENT ONESw "IT WAS THmS WHO STRUCK AN ALLIANCE WITH THEM, FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF OUR LORD! "„AEGIS, SHE OF ALL SORROS-4E.

"mAND TENEBROUS, OF THE DARKNESS!.

'FROM THE MOONS, THEY CAME, NPRISONEO BY THE DEVOURER WHEN UNIVERSE WAS YOUNG. "AND WHEN THE GLORY THAT IS THE LORD SUNDERED THE e „.THEY WERE FREED! ANO THEY HAVE COME.„ "...TO WREAK VENGEANCE ON THER PERSECUTOR AND ANY WHO DARE STAND WIT*.