Post by Wonderphoenix on Nov 11, 2007 23:33:55 GMT -5
The SKRULLS
The Skrull Empire is an ancient militaristic empire that has existed for thousands of years. Millions of years ago, the Skrull ancestors were taken as slaves onto the barbaric world of Apokolips until they revolted and fled. While there, they were experimented on and evolved giving them shape-shifting abilities.
After taking refuge on an uninhabited world, the survivors swore to never again be exploited as they were on Apokolips. They began forming a military and used their skills to fortify their world. They named it Skrullos.
For centuries, they lived in peace until their planet was invaded by a joint strike force from the Kree and Dominator Empires. The Skrulls were able to defend their homeworld but one-third of the population was massacred during the battle. Seeking vengeance, the military launched a counter attack.
This attack began the centuries old Dominator/Kree/Skrull War.
The Skrulls infiltrated a Dominator outpost and murdered all men, women, and children - totaling close to one million. This act of aggression was the turning point for the Skrulls. They then began invading additional planets and adding them to what would become the Empire. Massacres, just like the one at the outpost, continued on each planet.
The war continued and the Empire grew until tragedy once again struck. In an act of vengeance toward his former slaves, the evil Darkseid brainwashed the herald of the Great Devourer into believing that the Skrulls had attacked and destroyed his homeworld when, in fact, it had been Darkseid who had done so. The herald took the Devourer to Skrullos and the planet was destroyed.
This turned the tide of the war. Many planets once loyal to the Skrulls began to revolt and join with either the Kree, Dominators, or both. Whereas the Skrull population had once been in the hundreds of billions - within months there were less than one-hundred thousand remaining.
The once mighty Empire was no more.
The Skrulls fled in search of a new home.
They found what they wanted - EARTH.