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<blockquote data-quote="historian" data-source="post: 2835591" data-attributes="member: 13438"><p>Hey Servitor:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanos is a Marvel Comics persona. You can find his profile here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://" target="_blank">http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/t/thanos.htm</a> </p><p></p><p>The HOU is an acronym for the Heart of the Universe, an artifact that would if it could be "controlled" would make the wielder something along the lines of the Supreme Being (arguably).</p><p></p><p>I pulled the following description from Marvel's official website:</p><p></p><p>"Following these events, there appeared the powerful Ankhenaten, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who sought out the mystical object known as the Heart of the Universe, from which all energy physical and metaphysical emanates, and thereby gained infinite power. Several heroes tried to stop Ankhenaten’s rampage, and the conflict gathered Thanos, Galactus, and other cosmic beings as well. Through a mixture of guile and power, Thanos stole the Heart of the Universe, merging with it to make himself like unto a god. First defeating Ankhenaten in ancient Egypt, Thanos remade the universe as if Ankhenaten never appeared. The Marvel Universe seemed once again safe."</p><p></p><p>"Nevertheless, a cabal of cosmic beings of power, such as Eternity and the Living Tribunal, ruled that the now-omnipotent Thanos must be stopped. They prompted an assembly of nearly every super-being, god, and cosmic entity (such as Galactus and the Celestials) help take Thanos down. Dismissing them all, Thanos proved to be too powerful. He could even kill a Celestial with but a glance! Thanos decided that the true sign of his ultimate power would be to destroy the universe and become the one true supreme being. However, after doing so, he realized that this role was ultimately hollow, unfulfilling and empty, not to mention unnatural. He subsequently undid the destruction of the universe and obliterated the Heart from existence. Thus, not only did he strip himself of power, but he made the entire series of events null and void." </p><p></p><p></p><p>at</p><p></p><p><a href="http://" target="_blank">http://www.marvel.com/universe/Marvel_Universe</a> </p><p></p><p>U_K has incorporated the HOU into his website commentary:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://" target="_blank">http://www.immortalshandbook.com/sermon2.htm</a> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Well, in fairness I was merely extrapolating from U_K's Transcendent (x2) and Omnific (x10?)</p><p>multipliers with an idea that there might be roughly 50 Transcendent abilities and 25 Omnific abilities.</p><p></p><p>I believe U_K has played around with even CRs orders of magnitude higher than what I came up with in designing the IH. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="historian, post: 2835591, member: 13438"] Hey Servitor: Thanos is a Marvel Comics persona. You can find his profile here: [URL=http://]http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/t/thanos.htm[/URL] The HOU is an acronym for the Heart of the Universe, an artifact that would if it could be "controlled" would make the wielder something along the lines of the Supreme Being (arguably). I pulled the following description from Marvel's official website: "Following these events, there appeared the powerful Ankhenaten, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who sought out the mystical object known as the Heart of the Universe, from which all energy physical and metaphysical emanates, and thereby gained infinite power. Several heroes tried to stop Ankhenaten’s rampage, and the conflict gathered Thanos, Galactus, and other cosmic beings as well. Through a mixture of guile and power, Thanos stole the Heart of the Universe, merging with it to make himself like unto a god. First defeating Ankhenaten in ancient Egypt, Thanos remade the universe as if Ankhenaten never appeared. The Marvel Universe seemed once again safe." "Nevertheless, a cabal of cosmic beings of power, such as Eternity and the Living Tribunal, ruled that the now-omnipotent Thanos must be stopped. They prompted an assembly of nearly every super-being, god, and cosmic entity (such as Galactus and the Celestials) help take Thanos down. Dismissing them all, Thanos proved to be too powerful. He could even kill a Celestial with but a glance! Thanos decided that the true sign of his ultimate power would be to destroy the universe and become the one true supreme being. However, after doing so, he realized that this role was ultimately hollow, unfulfilling and empty, not to mention unnatural. He subsequently undid the destruction of the universe and obliterated the Heart from existence. Thus, not only did he strip himself of power, but he made the entire series of events null and void." at [URL=http://]http://www.marvel.com/universe/Marvel_Universe[/URL] U_K has incorporated the HOU into his website commentary: [URL=http://]http://www.immortalshandbook.com/sermon2.htm[/URL] Well, in fairness I was merely extrapolating from U_K's Transcendent (x2) and Omnific (x10?) multipliers with an idea that there might be roughly 50 Transcendent abilities and 25 Omnific abilities. I believe U_K has played around with even CRs orders of magnitude higher than what I came up with in designing the IH. :eek: [/QUOTE]
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