History
Deo is the fifth planet from the sun in the Denebola star system in the Milky Way galaxy. It was the homeworld of the Deonists, a humanoid race with pale white skin.[1]
Deo was accompanied in its orbit by two dangerous astronomical phenomena which, oddly, served to protect the planet. The space above one of Deo's poles was dominated by perpetual meteor storms while the space above the other pole was constantly menaced by a celestial maelstrom. The only way in which space vessels could approach the planet was through the space above its equator.[2]
Deo's biosphere was fragile and there came a time when energy from an external source was required to sustain its habitability. For many years, that energy was provided by an entity known to the Deonists as the One Above All, a god whom they worshipped and who, in return, gave freely of himself, allowing his limitless strength to flow into the energy-siphons that supplied the power to keep Deo alive.[3] This Celestial Being had a symbiotic relationship with the Deonists since it nourished itself by feeding off the psionic energy that the Deonists generated by their devout worship.[4]
At some point, Deo became part of a confederation of planets. For some reason, possibly relating to the presence of the One Above All, Deo was chosen to be the planet where the greatest treasures of the Confederation were stored in giant golden shrines. As a result, the planet came to be known as Templeworld.
After a long period of peace, the worlds of the Confederation were attacked by a vast armada of ships that included members of the Skrull, Badoon, Aakon and Kree races. The other planets in the confederation were swiftly destroyed but the One Above All added to Deo's natural defenses by creating a massive wall in space around the planet's equator. The alien armada was unable to breach the wall and all its ships were destroyed during their failed attempts to do so. However, the effort of creating that wall somehow exhausted the One Above All's life-giving energies and, despite the fervent worship of the Deonists, he perished.[3]
Without the One Above All to sustain their planet, many Deonists died.[4] Those Deonists who survived began calling themselves the Soul-Survivors and, desperate to preserve what remained of their world, they built an armada which they used to seek out and capture other "gods" that they could use as sources of energy. However, being worshipped by the Soul-Survivors seems not to have nourished any of these gods so the draining of their life-forces caused them to weaken and die. The Soul-Survivors were thus forced to keep searching for new gods and many more Deonists died while doing so.[3]
At some point, the planet once known as Templeworld came to be called the dreaded Doomsday Star.
Eventually, after many "gods" had been captured and subsequently perished, the Soul-Survivors captured All-Father Odin and began draining his living energy, the Odin-Force, to sustain their world. However, a party of Asgardians led by Thor soon came in search of their missing liege. During the ensuing confrontation, K'rll was forced to use the Spirit-Mold against the Asgardians but his gambit failed and the resulting power-feedback destroyed the energy-siphons and other mechanisms that the Deonists had been using to maintain their world's habitability.[5]
With no more "godly" life-force to sustain it, the Doomsday Star swiftly became uninhabitable and the Deonists were forced to evacuate it.[4]Points of Interest
- The Wall Around the World
Residents
Notes
- In Thor #255, when Thor sought aid from Mimir in finding Odin, he was given a vision of a dark orb that Mimir implied was the Doomsday Star. Later, in Thor #260, after the Asgardians had passed through a galactic graveyard, Thor stated that the nearby "smoldering star" that shone before them but seemed to "cast smothering shadows instead of a true star's light" was the dreaded Doomsday Star. However, the storyline in Thor #261-263 established that the so-called Doomsday Star was not a star at all but actually the planet formerly known as Templeworld.