When not working with Fred back home, Doctor Omega continued on his journey's through time and space with Denis and the two eventually picked up a new travelling companion, a young woman from ancient Greece called Gabrielle.

She came from the beginning of the Roman empire and is believed to have even had dealings with Julius Cesaer himself. There are some who argue she may even have played a role in his demise.

Gabrielle had initially set out to be a bard, but soon fell in love with a beautiful warrior woman named Xena, who was said to have been the fiercest and most dangerous warrior in all of Greece. According to legends even Ares the God of War was said to have been in love with her. Sadly however after several years of travelling together battling evil, Gabrielle's lover was killed (apparently when taking on an entire army by herself.) Leaving the battling bard as she had become known to travel the world alone for a few years, where she eventually met the Doctor and Denis.

It took Gabrielle quite a while to get used to Doctor Omega's machine, even with the life she had lived. Nevertheless she developed arguably a closer bond with him than any of his other companions, becoming in many ways the daughter he never had. The fact that the society Gabrielle came from, had been modelled in some ways on Atlantis, more closely than other ancient societies (with the Greeks even using the same alphabet.) May have helped them grow closer.

Sadly one of Gabrielle's worst adversaries, Alti continued to plague her and Doctor Omega, later becoming one of his greatest archenemies too. Alti was a witch, who through her twisted experiments had tapped into the centre of dark magic on earth. Atlantis had forbidden the use of magic and the supernatural throughout most of their history, until the final days of the war, where in their desperation they turned to it, and many of the surviving elites continued to use it in the years after the fall of Atlantis to help prolong their lives with their secrets and experiments lingering even after their departure from the earth. The time Gabrielle and Alti came from meanwhile marked a brief period where a few of the Atlantean elites returned such as Ares, in an attempt to guide humanity, but again it didn’t last. Still their very presence on earth led to a greater influx of magics than ever before.

Alti actually began as a simple shamaness (who were for the most part charlatans.) Ironically however, for all her cruelty even back then, Alti was the real deal and her skill and knowledge allowed her to develop a strong influence among the Northern Amazons, to the point where with their resources she was able to discover some of Atlantis' ancient dark weapons. Her insane lust for power soon drove her to go further than even the Atlanteans had during the war in terms of her experiments., Following hundreds of failed rituals where she slaughtered countless innocent people (including her own former Amazonian sisters in revenge for banishing her.) Alti was eventually able to merge with the dark magic of the earth itself. This ensured that whilst her physical body could be destroyed, her soul could always re-emerge in times of great distress, suffering and horror and that the more strife and pain there was the stronger her powers became. She had actually re-emerged towards the end of the Mortax invasion of earth, but sadly for the vile former shamaness the Martian's reshaping of the earth itself that she was linked too caused her manifestations to be erratic and she wasn't able to form properly, being a mere ghost, unable to affect the world, until Doctor Omega defeated the aliens and the effect of their Martian weed on the earth was undone. Following this whilst Alti was able to manifest, she was due to humanity working together weak, and so she started a cult, promising her followers that she could elevate and protect them from any future threats with magic, if they carried out horrific acts to feed her. Fortunately she was foiled by Omega, Gabrielle and Denis who were called in by Fred, but Alti's spirit could never truly die and she returned many times to plague Omega throughout all of his lives. Her cult also continued to live on too and assisted her many times.

Alti loved to taunt Doctor Omega that no matter how hard he tried, she would never die because the corruption of mankind would always ensure her return.

As Alti herself said “Pain is my link with the world. My reason for existing, and as long as humanity inflicts it on each other, they will never be rid of me.”

At one point she was even able to use leftover Martian technology to leave the earth and tap into the dark magic from other worlds in a similar fashion, many of which she destroyed both to feed herself and simply satisfy her own lust for power and sadism. She became one of the single most powerful and evil beings in the entire universe and one of the few life forms to terrify Omega and earn his genuine hatred too, as she would be responsible for many of the worst tragedies in his life.

Over the course of their travels Denis developed feelings for Gabrielle and she for him. Still Gabrielle struggled to get over the death of her lover, but she and Denis did begin something of a relationship during their time on the Cosmos that was to end in tragedy when he was killed by the RUR robots.

The Doctor’s final companion in his first life alongside Gabrielle was ironically a former servant of the Mortaxans, Felicia Rainn. She was actually a clone, grown in a lab by the Mortaxans to help infiltrate humanoid races. Thankfully Felicia was able to break free from their control though it would be considerably later before she joined Doctor Omega.

Gabrielle meanwhile stayed with Doctor Omega right until after his first death. Part of why some of the Atlanteans had such long life spans, was through an advanced method of cloning. Whilst their bodies could fight off age and decay for a lot longer than we could imagine due to their advances in medicine and science. Even they could not postpone the inevitable. However through their greater understanding of consciousness and the brain the Atlanteans were able to find a way to drain consciousness from their bodies, just before death and preserve it. This coupled with their ability to produce duplicates of their bodies, could ensure that when a member of the elite died, their mind was simply transported into a new clone body. Even this method of cheating death could still not last forever. Eventually the mind itself would wear down and be unable to merge with a new body.

Still this method ensured that the elites and those deemed of value to the Atlanteans could endure for potentially 1000s of years. Only a very, very few were ever given this luxury however. Even among the Omega's only three had ever been granted this honour, all hundreds of years before Omega's fathers birth. Doctor Omega meanwhile had stolen one of these machines before he fled Atlantis, believing that his work on the Cosmos may take several lifetimes to complete. After the Martians tampered with the Cosmos however, the machine was damaged, but with Professor Helvetius' help, Omega was able to somewhat repair it. Even then his cloning machine was still somewhat more erratic. When Omega later died for the first time, whilst it did preserve his mind and produce a new body for him, the body was not a copy of his first one. Omega's new body took on a totally different appearance, though his personality and consciousness were unchanged.

This would happen all of the subsequent times Omega died and was reborn. It is believed he had up to 19 different bodies and appearances in total.

Omega's machine could not ever be used to clone life forms other than Atlanteans. Due to their experiments over the centuries, the Atlanteans had a unique strand of DNA that had been tampered with over the generations after Atlantis’ fall, even by Gabrielle's time. Furthermore the machine was extremely delicate after the Martian’s actions and since Omega did not even fully understand how it worked, he was stuck with its imperfections. In time however he came to embrace having a different appearance for every clone body, as he felt it allowed him to be truly reborn.

Furthermore the different bodies also gave him certain advantages too. His second body was not only younger in appearance, but also stood six foot 7, had incredible strength, a huge beard and a large bellowing voice which allowed him to intimidate his enemies to a greater extent than his original body, which by the time of his first travel to Mars was old and frail in appearance.

Gabrielle eventually left during Omega's second life when she was reunited with her former lover Xena, who Alti had resurrected in the future to be her servant in a trap to lure both Omega and Gabrielle to their deaths. Fortunately Gabrielle freed her lover from Alti's control, after which she stayed behind to help Xena cope in the new world. Omega meanwhile took on many more companions throughout his lifetimes. Among these included a faithful robot, that was named Robby, who Omega first encountered on an earth colony several hundred years in the future. Robby was not just a simple earth robot however.

He had been created from both earth technology and that of an ancient and now extinct race known as the Krell. Sadly Robby's creator was killed on the expedition to the Krell's home planet where he was built and the unique robot subsequently fell into the custody of one of the most influential earth colonies of the future. Over time it slowly developed its own personality, and ultimately joined Doctor Omega because it wanted to see the universe and became one of his most faithful companions.

Another of Omega's companions was Lord John Roxton, a former explorer who had helped to discover one of Atlantis' Dinosaur sanctuaries that had survived until the 20th century in the Amazon rainforest. He first joined Omega when the time traveler was in his second body. Omega and Roxton were later accompanied by Linda Turner, a former costumed vigilante known as the Black Cat who was born in the year 1970. Linda was the daughter of a stuntman and followed him into the profession. Using the skills she'd picked up in her career, she later became a vigilante after taking down the mob who were blackmailing a friend of hers in the industry. She went by the title of the Black Cat before joining Omega. She and Roxton later fell in love and came to settle back in her time where she formed a new team of heroes called the Champions for Justice, which included among others the Spider, Astro Man and Moon Girl.

The third Doctor Omega, who in contrast was a shorter balding man, with a slight frame worked with Spacefleet, whose history we shall explore later, with his best friend being Dan Dare, the finest pilot in all of Spacefleet. He also travelled with Miss Midnite, a wealthy adventuress with a somewhat mysterious past, Professor Peabody (spacefleet's leading scientist), Katsura, a benevolent robot woman, and finally April Walker, a young journalist from the 1970s who helped uncover a plot by a hostile race of alien mutants to invade the earth. These creatures were originally created to be a slave race by a species of humanoid aliens known as the Metulana. Sadly the Metulana were killed off in an intergalactic war in the 1950s, though there was an attempt by a group of their scientists to try and invade and terrorform the earth, ultimately they failed. One ship piloted by some rogue Metulana mutants however was able to escape the destruction of their planet and fled to earth, hoping to finish what their masters had started. These Metulana mutants also had a hatred for all humanoid life forms as well, due to their masters and sought to make humanity their servants. They used similar mind control techniques that had been used to enslave their kind to take control of several influential figures in governments around the world, hoping to weaken the planet from within. Only with April's help was Doctor Omega able to discover and stop the invaders, after which he offered her a place aboard the Cosmos which she accepted. April ended up becoming one of Omega's longest serving companions, and she continued to travel with Omega when he changed into his fourth body, an older, tall, almost deathly thin, hawk faced soft spoken gentleman. The Metulana mutants meanwhile escaped and after recovering later became a powerful race in their own right and major enemies of Doctor Omega facing him in many of his lives.

After April left, Omega's next companion was a woman named Atlanta who came from after the fall of Atlantis, but before recorded history began. She was an Amazon who had been raised in the wild after being abandoned by her parents and who had defied the gods (Or rather the Atlantean elites.) At first she was reluctant to join Omega, blaming him for the state her world had descended into, but in time she came to see him as a hero and the two made an effective team.

Following Atlanta's departure Omega next travelled with Daniel James, the last survivor of the legendary dreadnought, the Thunderchild.

The Thunderchild's defeat famously marked the end of humanity's last line of defense against the Martians, and despite its failure, its attack against four Martian tripods was seen as an inspiring tale both during and after the occupation.

Despite the famous chants of "Come on Thunderchild" at the time, nobody really thought the famous dreadnought was going to win. The fact that after so many crushing defeats, and just when it seemed as though the Martians were invincible; one of our weapons was able to cut down two of the Tripods and blast a third with its cannon shocked both humanity and the Martians. It served as a message and inspiration to the rebels throughout the remainder of the occupation that no matter what humanity would not be easily subjugated. Sadly however the fourth of the Martians it fought used its heat ray to blast the Thunderchild, which in its last moments then charged into the Tripod, ensuring they were both destroyed. The Thunderchild's victory and sacrifice also ensured a steamer carrying civilians from England were able to escape the four tripods, with many of those on the steamer later forming the resistance.

Daniel meanwhile was the only member of the Thunderchild, which carried over 500 men to survive. He was just 14 at the time and was an incredibly low rank on the ship. Nevertheless he survived the initial blast and then jumped from the flaming wreckage just as it collided with the fourth tripod. Following his lucky escape, Daniel became part of the resistance movement and even helped Doctor Omega defeat the Martians years later, though he was not involved in punishing the collaborators. Daniel's actions in the Thunderchild as well as those in the war caused many to view him as a hero, though at the same time there were also some who condemned him as a coward who jumped ship whilst his crew made the supreme sacrifice.

Indeed Daniel himself suffered from survivors’ guilt for years. To be fair almost everyone who made it through the Mortaxans invasion suffered survivors guilt to some extent, but Daniel's became so crippling he became completely reclusive for almost ten years after the invasion. He was in his 30s when he met Doctor Omega again (who at first he didn't recognize due to his different appearance.)

The two worked together to deal with another alien threat after which Omega offered him a place aboard the Cosmos. Daniel eagerly accepted, wanting to get away from the attention his past was bringing him on earth.

The two later picked up another companion in the form of Wang Zhenyi. Just as in our reality, Wang was an astronomer centuries ahead of her time. She first met the Doctor and Daniel when an alien was trying to use her knowledge to help it map a journey home. (As its own equipment had been badly damaged.) The alien had not intended to land on earth, but rather it had crashed here, when scouting for planets for his people to colonize. He believed the earth was suitable and hoped to report back to his people, but Omega and Daniel with Wang's help were able to stop the alien and save the earth after which she joined him. Sadly her husband was killed whilst helping to stop the alien, and history came to believe she died as well (with the poison the alien used against them both being attributed to simply an illness.)

Eventually Zheni and Daniel fell in love and retired to live in the 29th century, and Omega’s next two companions would be among his most powerful and dangerous. The symbiote creature known as Venom and another former enemy of Xena, Callisto.

Venom or at least a part of him ironically began as a member of one of Omega’s greatest adversaries, the symbiotes. These creatures were in fact arguably the most dangerous of Omega’s adversaries. They were the offshoot of a mass known simply as the grey goo, created on the planet Kylntar many eons ago, though no one is sure exactly who or what created it. Most of the legends state that they were a misguided attempt to unify the universe by creating a life form that could effectively reshape all other species into being identical. Some believe it may have been as a weapon, and others argue that they were not created but simply a product of evolution. Indeed some Symbiotes regarded themselves as the ultimate form of evolution, a creature that can adapt to any others defenses. The most extreme theory stated that it was part of a failed experiment by the creator of our omniverse during his most desperate times to create a life form that would unite us all together in his absence, but that when he realised it was too dangerous, he destroyed it, though a tiny sample survived and remained hidden until after the creator left, after which it consumed Klyntar.

Whatever its origin, the Grey Goo was a gigantic uninhabited ocean that covered the entirety of Kylntar. Any life form or object from weapons to asteroids to spaceships that touched the Grey Goo would be absorbed by and transformed into it. It is believed that it functions through its ability to control nano’s unlike any other life form or computer programme.

It is very possible that Kylntar was once a thriving planet teeming with life that the Grey Goo absorbed into itself..

The Symbiotes meanwhile were the first attempt by the creature to leave its world. Whilst no one, not even Doctor Omega after countless battles could ever hope to understand the creatures thoughts, the Goo was sentient and desired to consume everything in its path. On its first attempt to fly through space, part of the Grey Goo’s mass split off from the rest and proceeded to drift through space. Cut off from the source, its power became less and less to the point where it could only bond itself to other life forms rather than consume them completely. Still this entity soon began to split itself up into several different creatures through a kind of asexual reproduction, which it gained knowledge of through the many complex life forms that had been absorbed into the Grey Goo over the millennia.

The offshoot’s goal was the same as the monstrosity that spawned it to spread throughout the universe and it believed it could accomplish this by becoming a race of creatures, with all of its offspring being able to reproduce asexually. In time these symbiotes did spread to millions of planets across the universe, bonding to a wide variety of creatures. Unfortunately for the symbiotes the bonding process was a two way street and the symbiotes were often affected by their hosts, causing several of the creatures to develop their own personalities, and mutations as well, leading to several symbiotes going rogue and forging their own individual paths.

What would one day become known as the venom symbiote meanwhile was a renegade who crashed into the earth in the late 80s. It was discovered and abducted by a company known as the Life Foundation who wanted to make use of its ability to repair tissue to try and create a cure for numerous diseases.

Ultimately however the creature was able to hack its way into their mainframe with its ability to influence nanos allowing it to control electrical systems too. The creature then in its weakened state fled through the streets of New York until it discovered its perfect host, former reporter Eddie Brock.

The symbiote sensed Brock’s rage and hatred that eclipsed that of anyone in the city. Due to a mutation caused by one of its former hosts, what we would come to know as the Venom Symbiote differed from others in that it fed on hatred and anger which produced higher amounts of adrenaline.

Brock’s anger came from the recent injustice over his wife and daughters death. He had attempted to expose the local kingpin Richard Fisk’s dealings. Brock was a good but somewhat naive man who never backed down from any threats. In the case of Fisk however he got in way over his head and the cruel kingpin not only had Brock’s legs broken, but his wife and 3 year old daughter horribly killed in front of him.

Brock was left a broken man, raging at not just Fisk, but the corrupt system and his fellow cowardly journalists who had all abandoned him. When the Symbiote rebonded itself to Brock it restored his ability to walk and granted him superhuman abilities culled from its many hosts over the years. The two together became known as Venom, named after the poison Brock felt towards those who had betrayed him.

As Venom Brock went after the killers of his wife and daughter and subjected them to absolutely horrific deaths. There was barely enough left of one of them to bury.

He then broke down Fisk’s empire slowly, and drove the Kingpin completely insane, before finally killing Fisk in his jail cell.

After this Brock then started to target those in the police force who had been in Fisk’s pocket as well as others, including even an actor who Fisk had helped get jobs for, whose legs Brock snapped.

The Life Foundation were soon drawn in with Brock’s antics and having successfully created 6 synthetic symbiote clones from a sample of Venom’s DNA, all bonded to agents, sent them to hunt down Venom, forcing him to flee New York and go on the run for several months. During that time the synthetic symbiotes would break free from their hosts control and take control of the Life Foundation hoping to use its resources to create an army of symbiotes who could sweep over the earth. Working together Venom and Doctor Omega were able to shut down the Symbiotes’ plans and destroy five of the six synthetic symbiotes, with the survivor and its host being named Scream, who fled New York.

Venom and Doctor Omega did not have an easy partnership at first, with the good Doctor even double crossing Venom in the hopes of freeing Brock from its influence. To Omega’s shock however Brock after being separated attacked the Doctor and willingly rejoined with the Symbiote. He had come to see it as his only friend and believed that with it he could do more good in the world. He also vowed that if he saw the Doctor again he would kill him.

As time went on however Brock began to fight the Symbiotes influence. After returning to New York and seeing the full extent of his previous actions, the loved ones of his victims, the actor he’d attacked committing suicide as a result of his actions, Brock’s guilt was finally able to get through to him despite the Symbiote’s best efforts to repress it. Brock vowed to use his powers to make up for his past sins and in time became something of a folk hero to the city, though there was one cop, Officer Mulligan whose partner had been killed by Venom during his initial rampage who became obsessed with hunting the monster down. Mulligan’s partner had been a crooked cop, who turned a blind eye to Fisk’s activities, but at one point he had been a good man and served as a father figure to Mulligan who was determined he would avenge him.

Mulligan’s chance came when the Venom symbiote started to give birth. As the Venom symbiote had been a loner throughout most of its life, it had no idea about their reproductive cycle or indeed the danger it presented to Brock. Venom was caught completely off guard by the pain and collapsed in the centre of Madison square, which allowed Mulligan to capture him.

Venom was taken to a local prison (as he had shifted back into Brock’s form when the police cornered him.)

Unfortunately whilst contained within the prison, the symbiote gave birth and the second symbiote, wild and feral, searched through the prison for a host. It was soon drawn to someone even more unstable and full of hatred and bitterness than Brock. Cletus Kasady, a demented serial killer who had been imprisoned for carrying out 15 murders, though Kasady actually boasted about carrying out many more. According to most accounts, Kasady was abused by his demented mother, father and grandfather. His parents’ marriage was an unhappy one, and both of his equally vile parents blamed the young Cletus for trapping them together and took out their frustrations on him. However, according to other accounts, Kasady was a monster even as a child, with his mother having reportedly caught him torturing her dog to death when he was just five years old. Some even argue that he killed his grandmother by pushing her down the stairs when he was 8. Either way Kasady was sent to live in St Estes home for boys when he was 12 after his father killed his mother in a fit of rage. As St Estes, Kasady was subject to more abuse from both the staff and other pupils until he was 17 years old when he finally burned the orphanage to the ground killing dozens of the staff and pupils.

From that point on Kasady developed a twisted philosophy that law and order were cages designed to keep us imprisoned. Ignoring them in his mind had given him the strength to escape his tormentors, and so Kasady hoped to spread this message through his killings and made a point of choosing his victims at random to show people that no one was safe from the chaos of the universe.

When the symbiote fused with Kasady, they became the hideous monstrosity Carnage who went on a gigantic killing spree throughout New York. Just as before Carnage chose his victims at random with his victims ranging from a 70 year old cleaner to a young supermodel/actress, to a local crime lord, to the mayor of New York. At the remains of each victim he would write “Carnage Rules” in their blood to further spread his vile message.

Venom and Officer Mulligan were forced to work together to track down this monster, with both feeling guilt over having unleashed it. Sadly Carnage was too strong even for Venom. Being born on earth and the experiments from the Life Foundation on the Venom symbiote had ensured that its offspring was even more mutated.

Venom and Mulligan were only able to eventually defeat Carnage with the aid from Scream who much like Brock had struggled to control the symbiote, but after hearing about Carnage’s rampage became concerned about another Symbiote on earth. Brock refused to believe that Scream had changed, but they nevertheless put their differences aside, though Carnage was still able to remain two steps ahead of all of them and eventually shut the power to the city off, though not before leaving a message, telling the people to learn the lesson he did and be free.

Sure enough New York was soon plunged into anarchy and in the course of the slaughter, Carnage captured and tortured Venom almost to death. Venom was only rescued from his twisted son, by ironically Scream who Carnage promptly killed. Still Scream’s actions allowed Venom to escape and gravely wound Carnage by trapping him in a burning building, with fire and sonics being the only two things that could harm the Symbiotes.

Carnage survived and fled New York with Venom wanting to hunt him down. Brock in particular felt extreme guilt for not trusting his symbiote daughter Scream and vowed to make it up to her. Along the way Carnage formed an alliance with Callisto. She had been brought back by Alti. After Doctor Omega had defeated her, and Xena and Gabrielle were freed from the witch’s grasp. A weakened Alti used the last of her power to bring Callisto back from the dead in the hopes that she could torment Xena.

Callisto had been Xena’s archnemesis back in the day. Before Xena met Gabrielle, she had been a ruthless warlord who had raided villages for profit though her code of honour still ensured that she kept civilian casualties to a minimum and that children were never killed in her raids. In the case of Callisto however, one of Xena’s men whilst they were preparing to attack Callisto’s home village of Cira accidently dropped his torch in the forest, which led to a forest fire that spread through Cira, killing most of its civilians including Callisto’s mother, her father, her brother and seemingly her little sister. Callisto, who was just a child at the time, was driven insane with rage and grief and vowed to track down Xena and make her pay. The two fought many battles, and over the years Callisto inflicted similar tragedies on Xena including playing a role in the death of her son. Callisto would also over the years dabble in black magic as well as the magics of the Atlantean elites, transforming herself into a hideous, monstrous entity along the way. It wasn’t just Xena’s life Callisto destroyed. She slaughtered scores of innocents, initially to frame Xena for the killings, but later to satisfy her own rage and bloodlust.

Ultimately however Callisto, despite having become a monster in more ways than one, would be redeemed when she learned incredibly enough that her little sister had survived the attack on Cira. Ironically one of Xena’s men had managed to rescue the child after which Xena’s forces nursed her and the other survivors back to health, except ironically for Callisto herself who had fled at the start of the raid in fear, leaving her little siblings behind (which no doubt contributed to her guilt.) Callisto retreated into the wilderness to survive on her own and only returned a few weeks later, where she believed her sister was dead along with her parents.

Callisto’s sister whose name was Anaka, after being released by Xena’s forces would search for her sister but was subsequently captured by Julis Cesear’s forces who ironically were searching for Xena, his sworn archenemy that they knew was in the area. Anaka remained a slave for 10 years until Cesars death after which she managed to escape Rome and return home. She was utterly horrified to see what her sister had become, but in spite of that she didn’t give up on Callisto and was eventually able to convince her to fight against the darkness. In time, ironically much like her mortal enemy, Callisto became a hero. She and Xena could never forgive one another for the horrors they had inflicted on each other. Still they did work together in many instances and ironically Callisto originally died helping Xena and Gabrielle stop Dahak, one of the former Atlantean elites who had twisted himself with dark magics to become a monster. Callisto had actually served him previously for her own ends, but redeemed herself by giving her life to finally finish the monster

When Alti revived her however, she wiped Callisto’s memory of her sister’s survival turning her back mentally into the monster she once was. Luckily for Callisto Alti couldn’t control her as the witch was too weak, but Alti knew that and simply let Callisto go free to destroy Xena.

Callisto wanted to reclaim her old godlike powers. The fact that she had been fused with the power of the Atlantean elites once, meant she still had a link with the few tiny traces of their magic that still existed on earth, under Greece.

Along the way she met Carnage and the two formed an alliance and romance too. Both were able to relate somewhat to having been deprived of the chance to have a normal childhood and both had adopted a similar nihilistic philosophy, though in truth the romance was nothing more than a convenience as neither could ever at least at that point come close to loving anything. They soon gathered an army of similar degenerates and psychopaths, who were united under their similar twisted philosophy.

Carnage and Callisto’s family soon arrived in Athens where they slaughtered their way through the city. Doctor Omega, Venom, and Xena and Gabrielle were all brought in to fight them, but unfortunately the closer Callisto got to the dark power the more she was able to draw from it.

In the end with Xena’s help, Doctor Omega was able to break the blocks Alti had placed around Callisto’s memories, just as she was about to consume the power for herself. Unfortunately Carnage, who had just defeated Venom in his attempts to defeat his vile son, consumed the dark power of the gods after Callisto had raised it from the earth whilst she and the others were distracted. The symbiote’s ability to fuse itself to other life forms allowed it to merge with the power to a greater extent than even Callisto ever could and it soon caused Carnage to grow to several hundred feet tall. In this form Carnage rampaged his way through Europe, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Godzilla was even summoned by Doctor Omega to help fight the monster. Whilst Godzilla was more powerful at one point in the fight the symbiote attempted to fuse itself to Godzilla, though it did not abandon Kasady in the process, as they had now achieved a closer symbiosis where much like its grey goo ancestor, the symbiote could consume and bond to multiple creatures at once. Whilst Godizlla fought off its attempts to bond to him, Callisto was able to defeat her former lover, by using her connection to the power to draw it from his body, leaving him powerless, though doing so very nearly killed her, and she only accomplished this thanks to technology from the Doctor which was able to trap the power afterwards and prevent it from ever being used again. Carnage returned to his normal size afterwards and was left completely drained afterwards, which allowed Venom to rip the Carnage symbiote from Kasady and consume it, after which Godzilla stomped on Cletus Kasady.

Following this, both Callisto and Venom were offered a place aboard the Cosmos by Doctor Omega. Both of them wanted a new start and a chance to redeem themselves. Despite Venom and Omega’s bad history, they had both made an effective team against Carnage.

Things between Doctor Omega and Gabrielle however were awkward for a while. Callisto had murdered Gabrielle’s husband and first true love Perdicus right in front of her and even on Xena’s urging, Gabrielle had never been able to forgive her.

Still Callisto and Venom would go on to become two of Doctor Omega’s longest running and closest companions.

Carnage meanwhile was not completely dead. Traces of the Carnage symbiote survived within Venom and later took him over, forcing Venom to take over the Cosmos. Following a confrontation with Doctor Omega to try and regain control of it the ship crashed into Victorian England. There the pieces of Carnage eventually left Venom and were not only able to form together but were able to produce a clone of Cletus Kasady as a host, made from tiny traces of his DNA to serve as its new host. This clone however was not rebuilt exactly as Kasady had been physically, and had a hideous, rotting, deformed appearance. Some have speculated that the symbiote however did this deliberately to further motivate Kasady’s bitterness and hatred.

This second Carnage began killing people in the streets of London, giving rise to the myth of Jack the Ripper. This time however he hoped to lure Omega, Callisto and Venom into a trap and kill them so that he could then use the Cosmos to travel through time and space carrying out massacres on an unprecedented scale. Whilst Kasady obviously could never hope to pilot the Cosmos in a million years, the symbiote could easily take control of its inner workings and adapt to its technology, as Venom had almost done whilst under Carnage’s control.

The trio had their final showdown with Carnage in Bedlam asylum which Carnage had seized control of. In the end Carnage was a victim of his own sadism as in his psychotic fury he ended up killing people who weren’t supposed to die according to the timeline, which changed history, leading to the Guardian’s imprisoning him in the Abyss for all eternity. The ramifications of Carnage’s changes however would affect Omega for years to come.

Venom eventually returned to earth in the late 00s and formed a team with Xena and others such as the renegade Treen Sondar and former secret agent Mailory Kane (with whom Eddie Brock fell in love and even had a child with, who was part symbiote, part human. Her human name was Kai, whilst her symbiote name would be Ravage.) Together this team continued to help the Doctor on other missions.

They were later called on to help the Doctor defeat the Carnage symbiote for the last time. Sadly whilst trapped in the Abyss the Carnage symbiote was somehow able to bond to one of the Guardians. It left Kasady behind and without the Symbiote to hold his body together the clone began to crumble into several pieces, but sadly in the Abyss he could not die and was left trapped in this nightmarish state.

How the Carnage symbiote was able to bond to one of the Guardians, it is not known. The Guardians are immune to even the most powerful demonic creatures. Some believe that this is proof that the Grey Goo was the creation of the creator himself, but whatever the case after bonding to one of the Guardians, the Carnage symbiote would escape and go on massacres throughout all of time and space and change history in many ways The Guardians themselves spent years hunting him, but Carnage freed many of the rogue time travellers from the Abyss (though not Kasady who it left to rot) and imbued them with enough power to fight the Guardians, leading to the natural order being thrown out to an even greater extent

Eventually the Symbiote decided that in order to be truly free it would need to tear into the heart of time itself not just for our reality, but the centre for the omniverse. (Prior to this only the Guardians were aware of the centre of time) Whilst its minions held off the guardians, Carnage used all the resources and knowledge he had gleaned from the Guardians to try and accomplish this task. According to the Guardians either he would unravel all of time and destroy our entire Omniverse, or Carnage would fuse with it and be able to control our Omniverse for all eternity, subjecting it to an eternity of torment.

One of the Guardians was forced to go to Doctor Omega and Venom and their allies for help, and together they were narrowly able to defeat the Carnage symbiote though tragically Venom was forced to sacrifice himself to defeat his son once and for all, trapping them both in an explosion created by Carnage’s attempts to use the Guardians technology.

Following her husband’s death, Mailory retired from her allies to live a quiet life for a while, though her daughter Ravage would later go on to be a hero like both her parents and later a companion of the Doctor, something Mailory wasn’t entirely happy about.

The Doctor himself always had regrets about what had happened with Venom and despite their differences he came to regard him as one of the greatest heroes he ever had the good fortune to travel with.

After Venom, the Doctor would next take on Faith Lehane, a former Slayer who much like Venom had found herself in trouble with the law and would ironically find stability with the Doctor. Faith and Callisto in particular developed an incredibly close friendship. They travelled with him until the start of Doctor Omega’s fifth life. His fifth body was a tall, long haired, grizzled, middle aged, somewhat stronger body like his second, which allowed him to take a more direct role once again in fighting his enemies.

After Callisto and Faith left together, the Doctor became trapped with Dan Dare and Morag in our future, before travelling with a young witch named Morgana. She came from the heyday of Atlantis and had been forced to flee beyond the Federation's reach when she was caught using magic. At first Omega assumed she was corrupt, due to his own prejudices against witches (which had only been reinforced by his dealings with Alti.) Morgana was not a real witch however. She had only a basic knowledge and talent, but for an Atlantean like Omega that was enough for him to see her as being no better than a Mortaxan. Thankfully Doctor Omega was able to overcome his prejudice and took Morgana on as his companion. Morgana had a keen scientific mind as well, and the good Doctor served as something of a mentor to her that way. However her continued experiments with magics did lead to further conflicts between them, though Morgana stayed with Doctor Omega until his sixth life. When she left she had fully mastered magic to the point where was not only an incredibly powerful witch, but could travel from world to world using a magic broomstick. Morgana became a great hero in her own right saving hundreds of worlds.

It was in his sixth body, which was considerably younger than any of his others that Omega travelled with Ravage and Ed Mercer, former captain of the USS Orville (ECV-197). Following many years travelling with them he then entered our universe for the first time, though we will explore his time in our reality later.

In his 7th body, which was a shorter, older bald man with a somewhat more unnerving voice and demeanor, Omega after returning to our reality became trapped for a short while on 20th century earth. There he became a member of the Strange Family, before travelling with Bettina, a reformed vampire and Alvin, a man from billions of years in earth's future, with his final known companion being Claudia McGrath from our reality, though we will explore all of their histories later.

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Sadly none of his companions are known after his 7th life. In fact we don't know anything about his lives after his 7th. All we know is that he made it to 19 different bodies, after an encounter between his 7th and 19th incarnations.

Back on earth meanwhile after the original Mortax invasion, whilst humanity did by and large remain united and advanced considerably more than they did in our reality from the 1920s-1940s. Sadly they also came to enslave another race referred to somewhat disparagingly as the Newts. First discovered by man in the year 1931, though there had been sightings from before then, which were dismissed as legends. The Newts were a primitive, but docile race of amphibian humanoids who had evolved at the bottom of the ocean. Few in number and not violent by nature, the Newts as humanity came to nickname them were exploited throughout the 30s and 40s in a variety of ways. It's true that humanity did improve the quality of the Newts lives to some extent, giving them sanctuaries from predators of the deep on land (some believe had it not been for our intervention the Newts may very well have been wiped out by their predators, though for the most part this is dismissed as propaganda.)

However tragically in spite of how they had been treated by the Martians, humanity it seemed had learned nothing and treated this placid race in a similar fashion throughout the decades. There were Newt rights campaigners, who did at least win some concessions for these creatures in the 60s thanks to the Kaiju war (with Doctor Omega himself giving them a hand, though he also faced extremist Newts who wanted to exterminate humanity at different points too.) In the meantime hundreds of thousands of Newts were worked to death and experimented on.

It was humanity's exploitation of another species however, their forebears the Dinosaurs during the 1950s which would lead to far more devastating consequences for the world.

Humanity first learned that there were non-avian Dinosaurs alive in the modern day in 1908 when George Challengers expedition (which again Roxton was a member of) discovered the main Atlantean Dinosaur sanctuary hidden high above the Amazonian rainforest. Several more expeditions were sent to the plateau, and though there were many casualties they nevertheless established a base in Challengers Lost World where they were able to study both the Dinosaurs and the Atlantean ruins eventually discovering a large lab beneath the plateau's surface. The scientists learned that these were no ordinary Dinosaurs. During the later stages of the war with the Federation, the Atlanteans began to tamper with the Dinosaurs DNA to make them larger, stronger and more useful for ground assaults, with many new species of Dinosaurs being created this way such as the Gwangis (Tyrannosaur/Allosaurus hybrids.)

Sadly just a few years later in the 1950s humanity's testing of nuclear weapons would lead to another Atalntean sanctuary under the ocean being disturbed, mutating another Dinosaur that had been kept in suspended animation within it, known as Godzilla. The humans had no idea that the Atlantean chamber was near where they were testing their weapon, as it was deeper than their submarines could go, whilst the blast radius ended up being larger than they could have predicted as well.

Godzilla was created near the end of the war with the Federation. He was in many respects their ultimate weapon. A Tyrannosaurus Rex, that through their experiments had grown far larger than any other Dinosaur and was capable of absorbing massive amounts of radiation into its body, and surviving in any environment, from the air to the water, to even space. Ultimately however the Dinosaur had not been brainwashed into serving them before Atlantis fell and was therefore left in a suspended animation chamber for thousands of years. Modern man's weapon meanwhile not only finally awoke Godzilla, but further twisted and mutated the Tyrannosaurs body until he grew even larger, over 700 feet tall. It also allowed the Dinosaur to harness the radiation in his body to the point where he could produce an atomic breath from his mouth.

Crazed and feral, Godzilla went on a rampage almost completely destroying Tokyo, and attacked several other cities across the world, before finally retreating to a remote island in the Ogasawara chain.

The earth government sadly did not learn its lesson and attempted to create more monsters from the Atlantean lab in Challengers Lost World using a similar process in the hopes of defeating Godzilla after all their conventional weapons failed. Other Atlantean ruins were also discovered in the intervening years after too, as well as some remote surviving monsters from Atlantis’ time on other colonies, who would be tampered with and in some cases exposed to radiation to make them large and powerful enough to fight Godzilla. None of these Kaiju were ever able to topple Godzilla who soon earned the title of the king of the monsters from the media and the people, much to the government’s chagrin.

Furthermore whilst these monsters were stable and loyal to humanity in most cases, sadly divisions soon emerged within the different powers of the united earth government, many of whom wanted the most powerful monsters to protect their own cities. This in turn led to skirmishes that in the space of just a few years ripped the earth government apart, resulting in a world war in 1954. Whilst the war was fought largely by each of the fragmented powers monsters, 60 million people still lost their lives in this conflict. The war lasted from 1954=1958, and in the end most of the giant monsters were killed by each other on their human masters orders, but a few did break free from human control, with the survivors coming to live on Godzilla's island in the Ogasawara chain which then became a sanctuary for the monsters known as Monster Island.

Ironically whilst he was originally an enemy to man, Godzilla soon became a boon to humanity, as not only did he keep the other rogue monsters in check. He would also go on to defend the earth from other threats. This was not out of loyalty to humanity however, at least not at first. It was more to protect threats to his own territory. Ironically Godzilla had only stopped his war against us as he came to view humanity as irrelevant. That said he did later develop friendships of sorts with certain humans who came to help him against other threats such as Madison, Katsura and Doctor Omega himself.

The former Atlantean first became acquainted with Godzilla when earth faced an invasion from one of the other surviving races from the original Federation. A race of hostile ape like creatures, whose sun was beginning to die known as the Ishoraks.

These creatures had once ruled over a massive empire before the establishment of the Federation. They had only joined after their empire had collapsed, and they were facing a famine on their world due to exploiting it in their own wars. The Ishoraks had never forgotten their old ambition however, and even attempted to re-establish their old empire during the civil war, which ended up costing them dearly. The thousands of years since were a desperate time, with their sun having been damaged in the war. The heat from the unstable sun became so unbearable that the creatures were eventually forced underground, though even then, excess radiation still flooded the atmosphere, leading to mutations, death, and at least the majority of the Ishorak's being horribly disfigured.

These creatures soon set their sights on earth, as it had been an Atlantean weapon that had devastated their sun. They spent many decades preparing their invasion, which Doctor Omega was able to derail for many decades. By the time the creatures were ready to attack humanity again Godzilla and the rest of the Kaiju had already emerged and so the Ishoraks soon sought to create a similar creature. With most of the life forms on their planet having died out, the Ishoraks instead constructed a gigantic robotic replica of Godzilla, that they came to simply dub, Mechagodzilla. In their efforts to survive the hostile terrain of their world, the Ishoraks had become masters of robotics. In addition to this however the Ishorak's also formed an alliance with an embittered scientist named Doctor Mafune, whose experiments to create the ultimate Kaiju saw him locked up after the war, though he had managed to escape and was forced to go on the run. In truth Mafune had worked with the full backing of the government, but after the ceasefire he was made into an easy scapegoat along with others.

The Ishorak's gained his trust when they staged an accident with one of his experiments that nearly killed his daughter Katsura and placed her into a coma. The Ishorak's who claimed they had simply taken an interest in his work, offered to help Katsura in exchange for his services. Mafune who was consumed with guilt over his daughter's accident and rage at humanity for betraying him agreed and gave the aliens control over a mutated Atlantean Dinosaur of his own creation, a Spinosaurid known simply as Titanosaurus.

Kastura meanwhile was revived as a partial cyborg, that the Ishorak's could control mentally and further use to corrupt and coerce Doctor Mafune. Every now and again however Katsura would break free from their control and try to convince her father against what he was doing, but the Ishorak invaders always broke her back down.

The Ishorak's invasion began in 1975. They made their presence known with a vicious attack on Monster Island, where their dreadnought Mechagodzilla killed many of the Kaiju there and even wounded Godzilla, who only survived with the aid of Doctor Omega and his companion Professor Peabody. The Atlantean and the Dinosaur subsequently worked together to defeat the Tyrannosaurs mechanical double. It was only with Katsura's help however, who finally broke free from their command that Doctor Omega was able to destroy the Ishorak's invasion fleet whilst Godzilla finally bested his mechanical twin by literally tearing its head off. Once Titanosaurus was free from the aliens’ control, Doctor Omega was able to stop Godzilla from killing the confused Spinosaurid in retaliation, and ironically Titanosaurus came to live on Monster island and even became an ally of Godzilla. In fact, ironically Titanosaurus became Godzilla's closest friend in a manner of speaking alongside the mutated Anklyosaur, Anguirus.

Katsura meanwhile, finally free from the Ishorak and with her own father having sacrificed himself to save her from them when he realised they were controlling her, decided to join Omega and Peabody and continued to travel with them both for many years.

Godzilla continued to face many other threats to mankind, with his greatest adversary being the truly monstrous King Ghidorah. This entity was created by one of the most advanced races of the Federation, the Dorats. These winged creatures wanted to create their own monster to counteract Atlantis' Dinosaurs and fused the DNA of several of the most terrible predatory creatures of several planets in the Federation together, as well as their own DNA to ensure that it would possess a loyalty to them. Unfortunately however the Dorats used powerful black magic and other supernatural forces previously forbidden to create this monstrosity, which made it more unstable and ultimately allowed it to break free from their control. At that point Ghidorah had not yet reached his final form and the Dorats were able to weaken him before he could devastate their world. Still the winged abomination managed to escape and fled to the farthest reaches of the cosmos with its creators being too preoccupied in the war to chase after it.

In the centuries since Ghidorah grew in power, transforming into a golden, three headed, two tailed, winged 900 foot tall Dragon. Ghidorah proceeded to destroy countless worlds in the process, becoming the single most feared monstrosity in the cosmos. Doctor Omega himself later mentioned how tragic it was that the Dorats who had actually helped establish the Federation and were prior to the war, among the most advanced and peaceful species in existence ultimately left a bigger legacy of destruction throughout the cosmos with Ghidorah than races like the Mortaxans.

Ghidorah did not destroy all of those he encountered however. The most evil, wicked, and destructive creatures were spared, though only if they followed Ghidorah. Much like Godzilla himself, Ghidorah became the king of a horde of horrific monsters and creatures, such as Gigan, Destroyah, and a race known as the Xilans who helped carry out his slaughter of countless more planets. Among the worlds Ghidorah destroyed included that of the Dorats themselves who, having never recovered from the war, were forced to face the true extent of the horror they had unleashed upon the universe with this abomination centuries later.

Earth was invaded by this monster and his horde in 1995, which led to the second great Kaiju war.

Ghidorah's presence on a world he targeted was always foreshadowed by a time of great unnatural disturbance and earth was no different. The six months before his invasion began were truly hellish as they were marked with natural disasters, plagues, people going insane in the streets, a rise in supernatural creatures. Human society almost collapsed. Even Doctor Omega was unable to do much to counteract the effects of the Dragons dark magic on our world. People began to believe it was the end of days, even before Ghidorah and his vile horde emerged in the skies above Tokyo like the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Ghidorah's monsters fought with Godzilla's monsters across the globe. Godzilla himself personally destroyed many of Ghidorah's most loyal followers including Destroyah, Gigan, Ebirah, Spiga, and Biollante, whilst Doctor Omega helped humanity take on the Xilans. Ultimately however it was Godzilla who brought an end to the war, when he and his most loyal monsters finally slew Ghidorah after a brutal fight. Titanosaurus, Gorosaurus, Rodan and Mothra all aided in the last battle, with Titanosaurus personally sacrificing himself to save a weakened Godzilla from an attack, and Rodan then nobly holding the monster off long enough for Mothra to give up her life force to revive Godzilla. Rodan's actions also allowed Anguirus, and Gorosaurus to get the drop on Ghidorah, though it was only with a rejuvinated Godzilla that they were able to beat the Dragon and then pin him down. Gorosaurus broke the Dragon's back, whilst Godzilla severed the middle of his three heads using his atomic breath, and crushed another under foot, whilst Anguirus crushed another in his jaws. After Ghidorah's death the survivors of his horde fled back into space. The second monster war lasted a mere 4 months, but it saw up to 20 million people die in the crossfire.

Godzilla continued to help humanity for years after, fighting a variety of monsters, including Carnage. His final battle of the 20th century was with a gigantic vampiric creature known as Daksor. This monster had been created by Ambrogio, whose history we shall explore later, and had literally fled through time. After crash landing on earth in the late 20th century, Daksor hoped to convert many more people into his servants to help repair his machine to allow him travel through time and space and convert billions of planets throughout all of history into vampires to create an army to rule the cosmos. (Ambrogio had hoped for the same thing when he created the monster in the future, but sadly for him it had escaped from his clutches.)

Daksor and Godzilla fought, with the 700 foot tall vampiric monstrosity ultimately being no match for the king of the monsters. Sadly Daksor was still able to infect Godzilla with vampirism. There was nothing even Doctor Omega (who helped deal with Daskor's vampire army) could do to help Godzilla, and the giant, feeling that it was being overtaken, placed itself into a state of suspended animation at the centre of Monster Island, with the Dinosaurs radioactive body allowing it to preserve itself this way which at the very least halted the spread of vampirism.Over the years Godzilla thanks to his mutation had developed a level of intelligence which some including Doctor Omega himself argued was a kind of sentience.

Godzilla remained in suspended animation in Monster Island for over 50 years, whilst the rest of his Kaiju died out in wars or of natural causes. He was finally awoken in the year 2054 when humanity again began to experiment with Kaiju. The Japanese government had kept the body of Ghidorah frozen after its death. Using leftover technology from the Ishoraks, they augmented and replaced Ghidorah's missing head, transforming Ghidorah into Mecha Ghidorah who they hoped could protect the earth in Godzilla’s place. Sadly however Mecha Ghidorah soon went rogue as the alien, dark magics in its body once again allowed its will to break through. With no choice, Doctor Omega helped the Japanese free Godzilla from his slumber. The Dinosaur tried to hold off the vampirism long enough to battle Mecha Ghidorah, but as his former archfoe proved too strong, Godzilla was forced to give in and allow the infection to further consume him. Whilst this made Godzilla strong enough to destroy Mecha Ghidorah, Godzilla would subsequently go on a rampage throughout Tokyo, dazed and confused by his new state. It took the combined might of Mothra, who had been reborn thanks to her regenerative powers and Doctor Omega to finally bring the Dinosaur down. Even then however if he had wanted Godzilla could have destroyed both Mothra and Omega, but fortunately with his last ounce of strength, Godzilla allowed himself to be slain before the vampirism took him over completely.

Doctor Omega and Mother reportedly sat beside Godzilla in his final moments as his life finally ended. Nobody knew where exactly Mothra came from. Even Doctor Omega considered her the last true great mystery of the earth, with many speculating that she was a manifestation of its very magic. Or perhaps just as Alti had tapped into the darkest magics and become their personification, then perhaps this unknown beast had tapped into its light magics of the earth and become their guardian? Whatever the case Mothra and Godzilla had not always had the easiest relationship so to speak, in that unlike all the other creatures of Monster Island, she did not bow before Godzilla and often challenged him. Still there was a degree of respect between them and in the end Mothra nevertheless proved her loyalty to the king of monsters in his last moments.

The two Kaiju wars were among the most notorious conflicts in all of human history, but some good did at least come from the first Kaiju war.

The 1960s which followed the first proved to be another golden age for humanity, in terms of technology and culture. The Newts were finally given their freedom as humanity after their losses could no longer afford to keep them as slaves and there were many Newt uprisings. Furthermore Challengers Lost World and the other Atlantean/Dinosaur colonies were also given full protection after the war to ensure no new Kaiju could ever be created. Whilst the united earth government was never re-established, the peace this time did last, barring the blackout for a few months in the 70s, which we will explore later, as well as the second Kaiju war.

Mankind eventually developed the technology to travel into space in the 1990s, which saw the establishment of Spacefleet.

Sadly this later led humanity into conflict with the Treens, who at this point in their history were led by the evil Mekon, a mutant that had been bred specifically to lead their kind. The Mekon not only possessed incredible intelligence, but a much longer lifespan as well, living to over 600 years. Finally the Mekon also had far greater ambitions than any Treen before it. For the past several hundred years the Treens had been forced into a stalemate by the Therons, with both species being so evenly matched a war would surely have destroyed both. The Therons also ensured our protection this way too. Many of the Treen leaders had become complacent, but the Mekon sought to not only conquer humanity and the Therons, but also build a Treen empire that would spread across the galaxy. However the Mekon's plans were interrupted when Dan Dare led humanity's first expedition to Venus in the late 1990s. though it was a peaceful mission. Humanity's population had increased dramatically over the decades to the point where they were suffering from a food shortage, and they hoped the Venusians could help. (Space probes had shown there was life on the planet since the 1970s.)

The Mekon still captured Dan and his team, and hoped to use them in his plan to infiltrate and exterminate humanity. Fortunately captain Dan, with the aid of a defective Treen named Sondar (whose emotions had not been purged) and the Atlantine rebels were able to overthrow the Mekon and drive him and his loyalist Treens from the planet. A peace treaty was then signed with the Treens, and Therons.

Sadly the Mekon later successfully invaded and conquered humanity in the 21st century for one year in 2004. Over 20 million were killed in the Mekon's invasion, but the domed headed tyrant did not devastate the earth to the same extent as the Martians. On the contrary the Mekon had become such a tyrannical narcissist he no longer cared for the Treens and actually sought to see if another species would make better soldiers for his empire. He performed horrific experiments on thousands of human slaves in order to see if he could make them superior creatures and at one point did actually consider making humanity his soldiers instead, believing that their inbuilt aggression could be harnessed more successfully than the Treens.

Thankfully Dan, who been whisked away by accident on a mission to another world with Doctor Omega, returned one year after the Mekon conquered humanity and with Doctor Omega's help defeated his archenemy, though in the process, Dan was caught in an explosion which mutilated his face and put him in a coma.

2005 in many respects marked the end of the second golden age. Whilst humanity did recover and continued to advance, it became a more paranoid and hostile race to aliens following the Mekons invasion (this is what also later led in part to the creation of Mecha Ghidorah.)

This paranoia also led in 2007 to a weapon whose chemical formula had been unknowingly developed by Peabody, being deposited on Venus when the Mekon reconquered it. The governments of the earth were so terrified of another invasion and there was such a lingering resentment towards the Treens, that the weapon was unleashed without too much opposition (apart ironically from Peabody herself.) Millions of Treens and even Therons were killed in an instant, though the Mekon himself escaped. It was this devastating conflict that led to Peabody joining Doctor Omega on his travels in the hopes of redeeming herself.

One year later however the Mekon was captured by Doctor Omega and Peabody and brought to the earth authorities, where he was sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment in solitary confinement on a penal planet. He remained there for up to 70 years before finally escaping.

Dan meanwhile had been placed into a state of suspended animation until science could reach a stage where it could help him. He was afforded this special status due to his years of service and heroism in stopping the Mekon.

Later in the 2150s, mankind dealt with another threat, this time of their own creation, the RUR.

These synthetic Androids who were created by the RUR company were originally designed to be servants of mankind, but ultimately rebelled against their human masters, very nearly wiping out humanity in what would prove to be its most devastating conflict since the Martian invasion itself. Once again Doctor Omega was able to save humanity and destroy RUR forces, though doing so caused his first death. Some of the Androids however who now called themselves RUR after their creators were able to escape the earth and settled on an uninhabited planet, eventually building themselves up into a powerful galactic force and rival to humanity just like the Martians. The destruction the RUR inflicted upon hundreds of thousands of worlds sadly led to many species condemning and even trying to avenge themselves on the Robots creators, humanity in the ensuing centuries.

The RUR also become among the most recurring and deadly of Doctor Omega's adversaries, being among the few along with the Martians and Alti to face him in all of his lives.

Later in the 23rd century Captain Dan was finally awoken from his coma and his face restored due to advances in medicine and surgery, though his appearance was completely different as a result.

By this stage due to both the Martian invasion and Mekon invasion, and subsequent attacks from the RUR and their enemies, mankind had established a brutal and tyrannical empire to protect itself. Captain Dan was revived only as a piece of propaganda, with the empire's leaders hoping that the greatest hero from earth's golden age could help unite the people. Unfortunately for them Dan soon clashed with the leaders of the empire who later relieved him of his command and sent Dan on seemingly a suicide mission to explore the Lost Worlds, a galaxy where the natural laws were said to have been twisted. Dan's crew made up of former convicts survived for up to two years in the Lost Worlds, before they were destroyed by a planet full of vampires. Dan was the only survivor along with Morag, a woman who was found guilty of stealing a Pteranodon egg. She only did so because the Pterosaurs unique sense of smell could allow her to track down a shapeshifting criminal that had murdered her parents regardless of what form he took. The Pterosaur remained loyal to her however, and she was given a pardon on what was essentially a suicide mission. She and Dan were both rescued by the vampires from Doctor Omega, whose Cosmos had also become damaged by the unique properties of the Lost Worlds when he travelled through it to the point where it could no longer travel in time. Together Dan, Morag and Omega took on the vampires as well as a wide variety of other strange foes in the Lost Worlds.

Doctor Omega, who at that point was in his fifth body, had many experiences with vampires prior to being stranded. They, much like the Mortaxans and the RUR, were collectively among his greatest enemies.

In this universe vampires were not the children of Khastran like in ours. Rather they were instead a time travel experiment gone wrong. One group of surviving Atlantean elites after the war, the Ambrogio family (the most influential family in all of Atlantis) held onto the last scraps of the Omega family's time travel technology and research that had been left behind during the war. They hoped if the war did not go their way, they could use it to alter events. Sadly however as the bulk of the research had been taken by the two Omega's, the Ambrogio family who had become somewhat stagnated in their privilege, were unable to master it before their civilization fell. After the war the Ambrogio family survived and established a base in what would one day become Mesopatmia, and both they and their primitive followers who they amassed over the centuries attempted to recreate the Omega's time experiments in the hopes of going back and changing the history of the earth. (They foolishly had come to believe the Guardians as nothing but superstition over the course of the war.)

Eventually they were able to construct a crude version of a time machine like the Cosmos, which their leader known simply as King Ambrogio used to attempt to travel backwards in time. The King only led the journey out of fear that someone else might change history to their benefit and not his. He did however take his pet bat, a mutant creature that he used as a guard dog and had named Camazotz with him on the journey as well as his daughter, the spoiled and vicious Lilith, and a handful of their best scientists, soldiers and slaves.

Unfortunately this crude Cosmos exploded when it was travelling through time and the crew became trapped in the one of the deepest parts of the vortex, where there was virtually no life. (There are many different areas of the vortex, some of which are home to a wide variety of life forms.) The energy from their vessel and the power of the time vortex itself became fused to the Atlanteans bodies the longer they spent in it (they could not die in the vortex from the energy as the laws of cause and effect did not apply there, at least not in the same way as they did in our universe.) As they all struggled to break free, their link with the vortex built up over years until they became a part of it, which eventually allowed each of the Ambrogio expedition to create small holes in the vortex for themselves, that deposited each of the expedition several centuries into the future to different eras and locations of the earth. The energy from the vortex had also altered all of the Ambrogio and their servants trapped there in similar ways. It effectively froze them in terms of age, ensuring that at least some of the laws of cause and effect no longer applied to them even in our reality. Barring accidents they could all potentially live forever. The energy however also made them all significantly stronger, and would repair any damage to their bodies, barring a few exceptions such as decapitation and their heart being completely destroyed, as their hearts were where the energy took root in order to spread its way through their bodies.

It also altered all of the expedition's brain chemistry too. Their minds became more unstable and emotions such as empathy, remorse and compassion were effectively erased. Worse than all of the above, they all developed a thirst for human blood. In reality the time displaced former Atlanteans in order to keep the energy that had infected their bodies stable had to feed on time energy itself which is present in all life forms. The easiest way to drain time energy from another life form however was through its blood. The altered time energy within the Ambrogio and their servants bodies had almost developed a mind of its own and even altered their forms, including giving them hosts fangs and claws to be able to drain the blood/energy from their victims. (Some believe it also intentionally limited their compassion and remorse too.)

There were physical drawbacks to the energy's transformation of the time displaced tyrants and their servants bodies however. The time energy (that wasn't filtered in the Ambrogio clan like it was for everything else in the universe thanks to their time there) made King Ambrogio and the others vulnerable to Ultraviolet rays to the point where it would cause the energy in their bodies to overheat and explode. They also now cast no reflection or shadows as a result of no longer being subject to the laws of time itself in the same way. Furthermore their bodies were also now more vulnerable to certain substances that reacted badly with the unstable energy such as silver and wood. (Though both could only kill them if they pierced the heart.)

Finally in addition to this the time energy could also now spread like a virus through the displaced Ambrogio clan and their servant's bite or blood, allowing them to transform others into similar creatures making them the first vampires.

Whilst all of the Ambrogio clan and their servants who had been trapped in the vortex possessed these powers and attributes, the energy from the destroyed and crude Cosmos itself helped to alter their bodies in different ways, also not all were infected with the same amount of energy. This caused each of the time displaced clan to become a different type of creature. The first of a new breed of vampire.

One of the clan for instance fused physically with Camazotz and became a hideous, mutated bat humanoid like vampiric creature. He was teleported straight into Mesopatmia several hundred years later after the last of the Ambrogio left behind had died out and was subsequently worshipped as a god.

Another known as Turok Han, was altered by the energy to such an extent that not only did his form twist into a hideous, bald headed, muscular, demonic looking creature, but his entire mind was erased and replaced with savage, bloodthirsty instinct. Those he created who were simply known as the Turok Han, or Uber vampires, were believed to be the strongest and most feared of all the vampire breeds in this world. Doctor Omega himself described them as among the few creatures he actually feared.

Lilith meanwhile's mental abilities were highly advanced to the point where she possessed some telekinetic and hypnotic powers which over time allowed her vampire clan to build up a secret and powerful society that ruled certain aspects of our world from behind the scenes. Lilith's breed of vampires were able to establish a peace treaty with both the Mortaxans and the Mekon during their reigns over the earth. In both cases the aliens agreed to spare the vampires in exchange for secrets of time travel which Lilith had to some extent. These secrets would later allow the Mortaxans to make better use of the leftover technology from Omega.

Another member of the original time displaced clan however or rather one of their servants, named Vandal's body was altered to the point that his claws became more prominent than the fangs of other vampires. His claws allowed him to literally rip the time energy straight from his victims rather than their blood, which to the primitives of his time made it look as though he were removing their souls. Those Vandal turned who were known simply as the vandals, became the enemies of the other vampire races as Vandal himself was the last survivor of another family of elites, whose area had been conquered by the Ambrogio. Vandal himself was only spared due to his scientific genius, but the Ambrogio loved to humiliate him all the same.

Now finally free of their tyranny and with his own army, Vandal waged war against their children, the vampires, leading to a brutal feud between the vampires and vandals, just as in our reality.

Finally another of their enemies, the Slayers were created this way, by a former slave of the Ambrogio clan. Whilst she gained the same supernatural strength as they did, her mind was not altered and she did not have to feed on blood. Remaining true to herself, she started to hunt vampires, the children of her former oppressors, and as the years went on she became a great hero. Sadly however this led to a group of warlocks known as the Shadow Men to capture her. Unknown to the first Slayer, they used magic to cast a spell that would ensure if she ever died, her power would be passed onto a similar great warrior and so on. This led to the creation of the Slayers, one girl in all the world gifted with the strength of the first slayer to fight the vampires and forces of darkness and who the Shadow Men’s descendants would train and guide. The fact that the Slayers powers were fused with time energy also allowed them to experience prophetic visions from time to time as well. Faith was one such Slayer, though she later broke free from the Shadow men’s command and went rogue before joining the Doctor.

Omega faced vampires throughout most of his lives. Much like the Mortaxans, the vampires were among his most personal enemies as it was tragically as a result of his family’s research that they had been created in the first place.

King Ambrogio himself proved to be Omega’s most prominent vampiric adversary. He had been transplanted to the time of the gods (in reality the last surviving Atlantean elites who had finally after centuries of isolation and fighting among themselves began to rebuild civilisation, with their early attempts at doing so, and the subsequent worship of them laying the groundwork for our own society.) Ambrogio arrived in what would one day become Greece and attempted to overthrow the gods, but even his vampiric powers were no match for them.

He soon however teamed up with the last of a rival family of elites, the Titans, known as Selene. Together they performed experiments where fusing her godlike powers with the unique properties of his blood, they were able to create a new race of super vampires which they used to attempt to wipe the gods from the earth and claim it as their own.

Doctor Omega aided the gods in destroying their vampiric army and used Ambrogio's own experiments with his blood to send him and Selene back into the time vortex itself.

Selene later escaped in the 21st century to try and rebuild her army, but fortunately a later incarnation of Omega was able to finally destroy her and her forces once and for all.

Ambrogio however had a very different fate. Just as before his connection to the vortex via his blood, allowed him to push his way through it to the point where he created a small rip that allowed the vampire to escape back into his universe, arriving on a remote planet in the Lost worlds. He was not able to rescue Selene as she was trapped in a different part of the vortex. Omega had made sure to separate them. Sadly Omega had no idea how they had escaped the first time, and was not aware of how strong their link with the vortex was. Even Ambrogio himself did not understand it, believing it to be an after effect of the explosion that had weakened the barriers at first as to how he was able to escape before.

On this new remote world, Ambrogio was forced to survive off of the animals for years, until other life forms were soon drawn in by the very rip that had allowed him to escape. This rip due to the experiments Ambrogio had performed on his blood with Selene was more unpredictable than the first and had not closed. It continued to grow and grow causing all kinds of disturbances throughout the system, from some creatures on its planets rapidly aging to dust, to others returning from the dead, to some becoming immortal, to even time periods fusing together. Life forms from all over came to both exploit or try and repair the rip. Unfortunately Ambrogio was able to use this to sire several of the other life forms that arrived and created a new and powerful army of vampires who soon guarded the rip. Their attempts to harness its power however led to even greater disasters and anomalies across this galaxy. In time the galaxy became known as the legendary and terrifying Lost Worlds area of space that most great powers avoided due to its unpredictable laws and frightening monstrosities.

The vampires experiments eventually destroyed their new planet, though King Ambrogio escaped to another planet in the Lost Worlds area of the cosmos where he attempted to rebuild, by slowly luring other vessels down through distress signals and siring any crew members he felt had potential. In the meantime other life forms attempted to harness the strange properties of the Lost World, including humanity, with all of its previous expeditions and colonies to Captain Dan's mission failing.

Sadly whilst Omega, Morag and Dan did eventually cripple the vampire’s power in the Lost Worlds, some of Ambrogio's agents were still able to infiltrate the leaders of the earth empire (thanks to one of Dan's crew who had been sired.) Working within the vampires not only destroyed the earth's power, but spread the poison of vampirism like never before allowing the bloodsuckers to place the earth under Ambrogio's rule. The vampires played on many other species’ hatred of the earth in their conquest too. Fortunately Doctor Omega and Dan gained allies in the Lost Worlds that they had freed from the vampires to help bring down Ambrogio. In the end, with his greater knowledge of the vortex, Omega was able to use the power of the rip Ambrogio had hoped to harness to ironically destroy the vampire fleet once and for all before sealing it shut forever. King Ambrogio himself however escaped, and the combination of his ancestors research, and his years in the Lost Worlds, allowed him to build a time vessel. The vampire king had no desire for his kind to rule. On the contrary he only ever saw them as a means to gain power so that he could in his mind improve the world. Now that he was free to explore all of time and space, the vampire king sought to reshape history for the better. He accomplished many terrible and incredible things over the course of his travels, just like Omega, though they were always despite his claims purely for his own good, and whilst he and Omega did work together a few times against a greater threat. Overall King Ambrogio remained one of his single greatest adversaries alongside Alti

Following the vampire invasion the human empire was finished, and instead a new federation of worlds began where humanity worked with many of the races in the Lost Worlds, which in turn led to alliances with other races who were terrified of the Lost Worlds and wanted to be on good terms with any potential power within it. Dan and Morag stayed behind to help rebuild the new Federation, whilst Doctor Omega, who had finally been able to repair the Cosmos, was free to go exploring all of time and space again. Sadly whilst Dan and Morag eventually married and had a child together. Dan's old archenemy the Mekon soon returned. Hoping to take advantage of the weakened earth. Dan faced his arch foe many times, but the Mekon was still able to regain a footing in the galaxy and build up a gigantic Treen empire, which lasted for hundreds of years, with Dan's son and descendants being forced to continue to battle the monster and his forces for generations. Many of them were of course assisted by Doctor Omega.

After the final death of the Mekon, the Federation became known as the Planetary Union and it is from this point in history that Captain Ed Mercer is from.

Doctor Omega also battled the Grey Goo that gave rise to the symbiotes many times as well. The Goo was able to find a way to leave its planet after several failed experiments and travelled through space as a gigantic mass devouring all life on every planet it arrived on. The more it ate the larger it became. Doctor Omega spent centuries trying to find a way to destroy it as it eventually became large enough to devour entire stars. In the end Doctor Omega was forced to ally with a powerful race known as the Olan and together they attempted to seal it in the barrier around the universe, but as it soon began to consume even that, the Olan were forced to blast the creature outside our very omniverse and into the void where its fate is unknown.

Among the other major enemies of Doctor Omega included, the Mad Mind, a creature created by humanity from billions of years in the future, the insane witch Jadis, the Demons, the Mammosaurs, and most tragic of all Professor Helvetius himself.

Jadis was a witch who had originally come from the planet Charn in another universe. She was also along with her equally vile sister, the latest in a long line of cruel warlocks and witches who ruled over the great civilisation of Charn (though her family tree is also said to have included giant, and Djinn blood as well.) Jadis and her sister fought a war over the throne, which she eventually lost. Rather than concede defeat, Jadis instead spoke the deplorable word, a spell so powerful and deadly it destroyed all life on her planet. She then placed herself into suspended animation, until such a time when someone would come to her world and she could use them to escape and begin again somewhere else. That time eventually came in the early 20th century, when a former warlock from earth named Andrew sent his nephew Digory and his friend Polly to Charn as part of his interdimensional experiments. Digory inadvertently awoke Jadis who used him to return to our world, hoping to conquer it. She was later using Andrews’ magic sent back through the dimensions, where she eventually ended up in Narnia, a world in another universe. The witch later took control of Narnia and imposed a brutal reign of terror over its people for centuries until Aslan, their god, finally slew Jadis.

However many of her vile demonic followers survived Jadis’ defeat and later tried to bring her back to life. Aslan was able to stop one such resurrection spell in time preventing her from returning to Narnia, but Jadis' spirit was still revived and trapped in the nothingness between realities, where she drifted for goodness knows how many centuries until she was able to enter Omega's universe via a gap in the forcefield (the cause of which we will explore later.) Jadis' spirit was then able in Omega's reality to build itself a new body using magics and she subsequently attempted to build a new and vast empire across the cosmos. She became one of Omega's greatest enemies.

Jadis was different to Alti however in that all Alti cared about was in causing chaos to make herself stronger, whilst with Jadis there was a method to her madness. She wanted absolute dominion, believing that it was her birth right and therefore unlike Alti, other life forms could live under her rule as long as they obeyed (though it wasn't much of a life.) However she was arguably even more sadistic when it came to punishing her enemies than Alti. Her skill and knowledge of the black arts from across many different realities allowed Jadis to create some particularly nightmarish and horrific curses on her victims and in extreme cases entire worlds.

Still many life forms were seduced by her promises and came to serve her willingly, giving the infamous white witch a powerful army made up of the scum of the universe with which she would destroy and curse countless more worlds with.

Demons meanwhile in this universe were in reality aliens, whose species real name was Dyskaos. Rather than simply use force to invade other worlds, the Dyskaos instead infiltrated hundreds of worlds throughout the universe, and took them over in secret. They'd install puppet leaders from each dominant species on a planet, manipulate the natives to war with each other for their own efforts, even in some cases shape the genetic make up and evolution of certain species in their infancy from behind the scenes, all to suit their interests. They soon built up an empire far greater than the Mortaxans, the vampires or the RUR combined, yet very few life forms were aware they even existed. Their home planet remained hidden. (Some believe they removed its core and replaced it with a giant motor, allowing them to pilot it to safety around the universe.)

Either way it was never found and their forces continued to rule an incalculable number of worlds throughout the universe in secret for hundreds of thousands of years. Certainly most if not all of the myths and legends about demons on this version of earth came from encounters with these creatures or the mutants they created, who at the very least had an interest in the earth.

The Dyskaos or Demons were often opposed by the Olan who gave rise to myths about angels on the earth too. Eons ago when Omega's reality was young, the Olan, who are believed to be the first intergalactic species encased it in a forcefield to prevent any life form from another universe entering after a hostile invasion from interdimensional creatures. (The invaders are believed to have inspired the Dyskaos to become conquerors as well and were even referred to as Demons.) The Dyskaos special method of punishing other life forms meanwhile was to download their minds into a virtual reality (using a similar process to the Atlanteans) where all of their worst nightmares came to pass over and over again, with this virtual world being dubbed hell by these creatures.

The Mammosaurs on the other hand were an advanced race of aliens who were named as such as they appeared to be a hybrid of reptillian and mammalian life. They evolved from a planet very similar to earth, but for whatever reason on this world, the dominant life forms, through convergent evolution evolved traits similar to both reptillians and mammals. The Mammosaurs that Doctor Omega faced many times were a humanoid race of warriors known as the Astrax.

Finally Professor Helvetius, though starting out as Doctor Omega's loyal brother, was driven insane when he travelled further than any other time traveller had ever ventured into the future of this universe, including Doctor Omega himself. What Helvetius saw horrified him to such an extent he spent years conducting experiments that he hoped could allow him to change this horrifying future. Sadly they were all failures that led to devastating consequences. As time went on his experiments also began to alter him physically, transforming Helvetius into a hideous twisted mutant. No matter what horrors his actions caused, Helvetius was still determined that this history could not be allowed to pass, and this determination eventually drove him completely insane. Doctor Omega genuinely tried to help his brother, but sadly Helvetius came to resent his brother’s interference in his plans, and the two soon became bitterest enemies. In time even Helvetius came to see his experiments were pointless and instead started to spread chaos throughout all of time and space since nothing mattered to him now that he had seen the end. Doctor Omega eventually gave up on his brother, and Helvetius became his most hated and dangerous enemy with their battles seeing entire worlds destroyed in the crossfire.

Doctor Omega never dared venture to the point in time that Helvetius did, as he was too terrified. He could only hope that somehow his actions would prevent whatever his brother had seen from happening and that this was what the creation of the Cosmos in general was to prevent.

Despite all the horrors he faced in his own reality however, Omega's greatest challenge would be in our universe and in the next section we shall explore how he was able to enter our reality thanks in part to Professor Fang.