System-Eater

SYSTEM-EATER

Real Name: None

Class: Cosmic entity

Occupation: Destroyer of solar systems

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Cosmic Negator, Wrathful God-Being of Universal Nihilism

Base of Operations: Mobile across the universe, Earth-50

First Appearance: Mr. Majestic #1 (September, 1999)

Powers: The System-Eater sent out Tyrellian Probes to analyze the known universe and then consumed every recorded solar system it came across.

History: (Mr. Majestic #1) - The System-Eater was a cosmic entity and part of the natural order of the cosmos that sent out Tyrellian Orbs to explore and analyze the universe. The System-Eater followed in their wake, consuming every recorded solar system it came across. Mr. Majestic, taking some time away from his adopted home of Earth, encountered a Tyrellian Orb in the Milky Way, and after dispatching it performed an analysis on it with his Kherubim quantum computer. He’d heard legends of the System-Eater as a child on Khera, but always assumed it was a cosmic boogeyman. He brought his data to Desmond, a child prodigy cyborg employed at the Pentagon, and they gathered a group of fringe cosmologists and physicists together to figure out how to save the world. Majestic confided in Desmond that he was having a crisis of faith, saying some things were too big, cosmically speaking, to meddle with, and he feared he was playing God. Desmond said the preservation of the human race was a fine justification for interfering in the cosmic order. Majestic decided humanity was noble, if flawed, and worth preserving. It took months, but by August, 1974 Majestic had forged Kherubim kinetic field gauntlets and assembled stabilizing satellites to move Earth’s moon’s orbit by a tenth of a degree as a test run for hiding Earth’s solar system in plain sight. During the U.S. bicentennial Majestic moved Mercury until it became a satellite of Jupiter. Over the next few years Majestic used his heat vision to change Jupiter’s elemental composition and removed Saturn’s rings. He bemoaned that he’d only been off-world a few times in the past few years and missed exploring the universe. He called Desmond who kept him abreast of the last few years of politics, including the Iranian Revolution and Ronald Reagan running for President. Majestic created rings around Mars and added Halley’s Comet to the planets of the Milky Way. Under cover of a solar eclipse Majestic moved Earth into Jupiter’s orbit. His final task was to covert Sol into a binary sun using ancient Kherubim rituals which gave him a moment of cosmic awareness that briefly connected his mind to the entire universe. Majestic was just in time to confront the System-Eater, an entity that moved through the universe consuming every solar system its’ probes discovered. The System-Eater didn’t recognize the Milky Way after Majestic’s work, and part of it sensed that someone had dared to judge it and challenge the natural order, but it nevertheless moved on. Majestic was relieved and exhilarated, and began the long process of restoring the Milky Way to its’ natural order.

Comments: Created by Joe Casey, Brian Holguin & Ed McGuinness.