<P> Star - Lord's adventures in Marvel Preview #4 and #11 have been officially designated as occurring in an alternate past . In these issues, Peter Quill is born during an unusual astronomical phenomenon when many of the planets align . Seeing no resemblance, the man who believed he was Quill's father accuses his wife Meredith of infidelity and attempts to kill the infant, but dies of a sudden heart attack . Peter is raised by his single mother until she is killed by Ariguans when he is eleven . Quill is placed in an orphanage but escapes and eventually becomes a trainee NASA astronaut . An alien entity called the Master of the Sun later visits the space station that Quill and other astronauts are inhabiting, and offers the mantle of Star - Lord (an interplanetary policeman) to a worthy candidate . Quill volunteers, but is rejected in favor of a colleague he once treated badly . Quill is outraged, and NASA orders his return to Earth and discharge for his conduct . Instead, he steals a scout ship, returns to the space station, and takes his colleague's place . Quill becomes Star - Lord, with the Master of the Sun first creating an illusion in which the character is able to find and kill the aliens that murdered his mother to free him of his past . Equipped with a sentient vessel called "Ship", Quill commences his role as Star - Lord . </P> <P> Years later, Star - Lord becomes involved in stopping a group of slavers who are destroying worlds . His efforts led him to discover a conspiracy to replace the emperor of the Spartoi Empire . In order to thwart the takeover, Star - Lord travels to the imperial throneworld Sparta where he encounters and kills the alien who killed his mother . Star - Lord then meets Emperor Jason who reveals that he is Peter's father . Jason explains that he had crashed on Earth decades earlier and been rescued by Meredith Quill . During the year that he had spent repairing his ship, Jason and Meredith fell in love . When it came time to leave, Jason, for Meredith's safety, had placed a mindlock on her memories of him, causing her to remember their year together as only a dream . </P> <P> During the 2013 "Age of Ultron" storyline, Wolverine and Susan Storm accidentally create an alternate timeline after traveling back in time and assassinating Hank Pym before he can create Ultron . In the new reality, Star - Lord is seen as a member of the Defenders, who have replaced the defunct Avengers as the world's premier superhero team . </P> <P> Lord Starkill debuted in Captain Marvel #126 in 2018 . He is an evil version of Star - Lord from an alternate universe . He possesses the Reality Stone and is allied with Thanos . </P>

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