Ruled by an AI system known as the Supreme Intelligence, the Kree Empire developed into
a militaristic and technologically advanced civilization dedicated to expanding their
influence and securing their power.
As they expanded their territory, some accepted subjugation to the Kree, while others like
the Skrulls of Skrullos paid a heavy price for their resistance.
Though the Skrulls were an advanced and prosperous civilization in their own right, the Kree
destroyed their homeworld and launched a campaign of extermination against them.
A species of shapeshifters, those able to escape with their lives tried to seek refuge
on other worlds, blending into the local population.
However the Kree were relentless in their pursuit, beginning a propaganda campaign to
convince their people the Skrulls were the aggressors, using their abilities to infiltrate
and conquer Kree worlds.
Through it became known as the Kree-Skrull war, the remnants of the Skrull population
were too few and scattered to offer any real threat to the Empire, and so were simply hunted
down and eliminated wherever found.
Centuries later, when the Kree discovered that the powerful Space Stone was being held
on Earth, they sent a scientist named Mar-Vell to pose as the human woman Wendy Lawson to
gain access to the item and conduct experiments in the advanced lab orbiting the planet.
However, unlike many of her people, Mar-vell was able to see past the lies to view the
Kree as the aggressors, engaged in a genocidal campaign against the Skrulls.
Offering sanctuary to General Talos and a group of Skrull refugees, she housed them
in her hidden lab, while she planned to harness the power of the space stone, contained within
the tesseract, to build a light speed engine capable of transporting the skrulls to settle
a far away world out of reach from the Empire.
However, her betrayal was discovered by the Empire which sent a team led by the Kree warrior
Yon-Rogg to deal with the traitor and recover the core being used to power the lightspeed
engine.
Unfortunately they arrived while Mar-vell attempted a test flight alongside the human
airforce pilot Carol “Avenger” Danvers, resulting in a crash landing that destroyed
the plane.
And while they both survived the initial crash, Yon-rogg arrived and killed Mar-vell who in
her final moments revealed her true identity to her co-pilot, and made it clear the energy
core must be destroyed.
A determined woman with an iron will, Carol Danvers faced opposition all her life, being
raised by a father who actively discouraged her interests and the sexism of the male dominated
American airforce, which in 1989 did not allow women to fly combat missions.
Yet as a result of the obstacles she faced, she learned to persevere and never stop trying
to reach her goals, eventually becoming an expert pilot who did not waver when confronted
with adversity.
And so when Yon-rogg threatened to kill her if she did not reveal the location of the
core, Carol refused his demand, instead aiming her weapon at the engine and destroying it
herself.
Yet much to the surprise of the Kree, Carol survived the blast, as the power of the space
stone within the engine was absorbed into her body, giving her the power to summon and
manipulate cosmic energy, instantly making her one of the most powerful beings in the
galaxy.
Upon seeing what happened, Yon-rogg took the unconscious woman back to the Kree capital
of Hala, where they wiped her memory and turned her into a warrior for the Empire.
In order to control the vast amount of cosmic energy she could summon, they attached her
with an implant inhibitor, which also allowed them to shut down her abilities if necessary.
Left with only brief glimpses of her past life, Vers as she was known, became a kree-human
hybrid after receiving a blood transfusion from Yon-rogg, greatly increasing her physical
strength and speed before spending the next 6 years training to become a warrior.
When she at last was approved for her first mission, she eagerly joined the elite starforce
team under Yon-rogg as they went to the planet of Tarfa to rescue a Kree agent.
However the encounter turned out to be an ambush, resulting in the capture of Vers by
the Skrull General Talos, who suspected she knew the whereabouts of Mar-vell’s secret
science lab where his people sought shelter after her death.
However Vers was able to escape captivity, crash landing on the planet Earth, where the
Skrulls continued their pursuit.
After contacting Yon-rogg and revealing her location, she allied herself with the human
SHIELD agent Nick Fury and her old friend Maria Rambeau to eliminate the Skrull threat
but was soon approached by General Talos who offered a deal to prevent further bloodshed.
Claiming that the Kree were the aggressors and the Skrulls the victims, he convinced
her to listen to the blackbox recording of her crash landing with Mar-vell 6 years earlier,
so she might know the truth about the past she could not remember.
Upon hearing the tape her memories came rushing back, realizing that the Kree captured and
manipulated her into serving them in their unjust hunt for the Skrulls.
Discovering that Mar-vells secret lab was orbiting above the planet, they modified a
plane to make the journey allowing for Talos to at last be reunited with his family.
And while they also located the tesseract, their celebration was cut short by the arrival
of Yon-rogg and his team, who captured them and forced Carol to communicate with the Supreme
Intelligence who showed no remorse whatsoever for their deception and threatened to take
away her powers completely.
However Carol now realized that she was far more powerful than they her to believe, and
started to focus her mind soon able to disrupt their control over her and remove the inhibitor,
allowing her to realize reach her full potential.
Creating a distraction to allow her allies to escape, Carol summoned vast amounts of
cosmic energy which granted her the ability to fly through air and space, launch powerful
energy blasts and made her invulnerable to most forms of attack.
Exploring her new found powers, she not only defeated the Starforce team, but also the
fleet of Kree starships sent by Ronan the Accuser, who vowed to return for the weapon,
referring to Carol.
During her final confrontation with Yon-rogg she sent him back to Hala with a message for
the Supreme Intelligence, saying she was coming to end the war.
With her enemies defeated, Earth saved and the Skrulls rescued, Carol Danvers, who in
many ways was the heir of Mar-vell, earned the nickname Marvel from Fury, who believed
it sounded better.
Captain Marvel then left the planet, claiming she would dedicate herself to locating the
remaining Skrull population in order to lead them to the new homeworld General Talos would
establish.
Yet before departing Captain Marvel presented Nick Fury with a modified pager to contact
her in case of emergency.
She also decided to leave the tesseract in the hands of Fury and SHIELD, though it had
actually been swallowed by a Flerkin named Goose, a creature that resembled and often
acted like an earth cat, but was in fact a viscious creature capable of terrifying acts
of violence, who eventually threw it back up.
Despite his affection for the creature, it was Goose who scratched Nick Fury in the face,
causing him to lose his left eye.
Realizing that Earth and humanity were not alone in the universe, and that they might
come under threat again, Agent Fury started to work on a project called the Protector’s
initiative, hoping to gather an elite team of superheroes to help defend the planet.
Yet as he looked upon an old picture of Carol Danvers he saw her nickname Avenger written
on the side of the plane, and changed the name of the project in her honor.