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Thanks to her mutant powers, Moira was reborn with the knowledge of the post-humans and their attempts to become part of a Dominion in her subsequent lives.

While this would allow post-human culture, history, and collective consciousness to exist outside of the bounds of space-time, the Phalanx would have to destroy every living thing on Earth to harvest enough energy for the expansion process.Īlthough one post-human Elder was assimilated and killed through this process in POWERS OF X (2019) #5, the death of Moira MacTaggert ended this timeline before the Phalanx could consume the post-humans and make their machine intelligence part of a Dominion.

Subsequently, the Phalanx found and absorbed Nibiru and followed the implicit invitation to Earth.Īfter reaching Earth, the Phalanx announced they would absorb and assimilate the post-humans’ intelligence and preserve it as part of their collective as well as the larger Dominion they served. In hopes of preserving their civilization, these post-humans turned the planet Nibiru into a planet-size artificial intelligence, Nimbus, to draw the attention of a stronger civilization that could help them ascend to the next galactic level. Like the Children of the Vault, these genetically engineered superhumans were known as the Homo novissima. In that world, the war between humans, mutants, and machines ended with the emergence of post-humans, who quickly took over Earth and reigned as its dominant species for a millennium. The Phalanx almost consumed the timeline created by the sixth life of Moira MacTaggert starting in POWERS OF X (2019) #1. Although the Phalanx control a galaxy, they still serve a Dominion and act as a way for it to continue to expand and increase its intelligence. On a galactic scale, the Phalanx are essentially one level below Titans and exist primarily to consume lesser societies to grow their intelligence and manage the energy needed for that kind of assimilation. Created by Scott Lobdell and Jan Duursema in UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #305, the Phalanx are techno-organic aliens who share a hive mind and try to assimilate or absorb others into their collective. Silva’s POWERS OF X (2019), where the Phalanx served as a Dominion's emissaries and almost assimilated the culture of a future Earth. The clearest example of a Dominion’s power can be found in Jonathan Hickman and R.B. However, these methods would require raw power and processing ability on an unfathomably large and complex scale. While Dominions are generally machine-based, there are other theoretical ways for a being or culture to evolve to Dominion status. Outside of abstract forces like Death and Chaos, Dominions are so advanced that their only natural threats are Galactus and the Phoenix Force. Operating on a near incomprehensible scale, Dominions can include many more Titans, and the Dominion that controls Earth and its surrounding area includes 112 Titans. When ten or more Titans link together and act in unison, they create a Dominion and generate a sentient singularity that controls an area of physical space and an epoch of time. Silva, Dominions are generally made up of Titans, each of which is a unified intelligence that can generate a singularity alone. Put more simply, that means a Dominion exists in its most advanced state across all points in time simultaneously.Īs revealed in POWERS OF X (2019) #5 by Jonathan Hickman and R.B.

With a functionally limitless amount of processing ability and knowledge, a Dominion has godlike power and exists outside the traditional bonds of time and space. A Dominion is essentially the ultimate evolution of machines and artificial intelligence. Dominions represent the highest stage of interstellar intelligence within the Marvel Universe.