<P> The characters have also been featured in other titles, including the "Celestial Saga" storyline in Thor Annual #7 (1978), Thor #283--300 (May 1979--October 1980), Thor #387--389 (January--March 1988), Quasar #24 (July 1991), Fantastic Four #400 (May 1995), X-Factor #43--46 (August--November 1989) and #48--50 (December 1989 × 2--January 1990). The first detailed account of the Celestials' origin was finally presented in Ultimates 2 #6 (2017). </P> <P> The origin of the Celestials has long been unknown, with many species across the mainstream Marvel universe having legends of their beginning, none of which have been validated . There have been major revelations about the origin and nature of the Celestials by the mysterious cosmic entity called the Queen of Nevers . </P> <P> At the beginning of creation itself, countless billions of years ago, before the modern Cosmic Order, creation was composed of a single sentient universe whose omnipotent intelligence was referred to as The First Firmament . For countless ages, the First Firmament was the sole being in creation - until its loneliness became unbearable . It decided to create the first life in Creation to give it companions as well as servants - an act it later came to regret . These servants were cosmic beings of a lesser order of power . They were of two kinds: Black humanoid entities who dutifully obeyed and worshiped their creator . They created their own servants and sought to preserve the simple order their creator had made complete and unchanging for all time . The Firmament named these loyal beings Aspirants and was very pleased by their goals and desire to maintain the status quo of its reign . However, the Firmament also created another group of multicolored humanoid entities whom it considered "rebels" who had completely different values and desires from the Aspirants . The rebels wanted a dynamic, diverse and evolving Reality where beings lived, learned, reproduced, aged and died in order to improve themselves slowly through evolution . The rebels wanted this with the ultimate long term goal of producing superior cosmic beings with the power to create universes of their own and for the universe to evolve with them as they advanced towards that state . These were the beings whom one day would be called by lesser life forms The Celestials . </P> <P> The two opposing factions of the First Firmament's children could not peacefully co-exist and would came to a war with each other that nearly destroyed the first universe . At some point during the war, the Aspirants created a now - lost hyper weapon called the Godkiller, a space - borne 25,000 foot (7,600 m) tall humanoid robot that dwarfed even the Celestials themselves . It was powered by a cosmic artifact later called the Heart of The Voldi (named after the species which would adopt it) and operated by genetically engineered pilots . During the war, the Godkiller destroyed countless billions of Celestials and brought them to the brink of extinction . At this point, for unknown reasons, a civil war broke out among the Aspirants that lead to the Godkiller being stripped of critical parts for weapons . This division within the Aspirants gave the Celestials a chance to recover and make their last stand . In the final battle against the Aspirants, the Celestials detonated their ultimate weapons that tore the Firmament apart and very nearly killed it . In a desperate act of self - preservation, the core essence of the First Firmament took the surviving Aspirants and fled outside Reality . In the wake of its near destruction, the major fragments of the First Universe that the weapons tore off coalesced into a new cosmic being, one with multiple realities comprising it: Eternity . This was the birth of the second creation, The First Multiverse . After the birth of the first Eternity, the "rebels" settled inside him, multiplied and began their vast plan to create and nurture transitory but evolving life on the newborn worlds within . </P>

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