BIOGRAPHY - page 6
Captain Marvel and Rick faced numerous threats throughout the vast expanse of the Kree Empire. Mar-Vell battled the Stranger, Drax the Destroyer and the Null-Trons on their quest back to Hala. All this was intended by the Supreme Intelligence, who knew that struggle would cause both men to draw power from the Nega Bands and, through them, each other, thereby 
strengthening their bond even further. Rick learned to access the same powers as Mar-Vell (and more besides) while Captain Marvel began expressing himself with Rick's voice and attitude. The two men desired freedom from each other more than ever and eventually were locked in psychic combat by the Infinity Gem, the Mind Stone. Nevertheless, they survived and were peacefully reunited, forging a stronger partnership as they pressed onwards towards Hala. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #42-45]
In orbit around the planet, Captain Marvel and Rick encountered the Star of Vengeance, an imperial dreadnought in the Kree space fleet. In an opening volley, the Supreme Intelligence blasted his foes and teleported them separately, sending Rick aboard the Star and Mar-Vell down to the planet's surface. The Intelligence appeared before both men as Supremor, a powerful 
android that possessed as much physical strength as the Supreme Intelligence possessed mental strength. Mar-Vell and Rick each fought Supremor, believing at first they were fighting to find and rescue the other. In fact, the Supreme Intelligence's plan was weaken his foes by making them drain each other through the Nega Bands. Like a tug-of-war, both fighters tried to draw more strength from their twinned bands, one draining the other each time they grew stronger. Captain Marvel's cosmic awareness eventually saw through the Supreme Intelligence's ruse, however, and he managed to communicate a plan to Rick telepathically. Aboard the dreadnought, Rick reached the bridge and launched the entire planet-razing arsenal of the Star of Vengeance at Hala. The Supreme Intelligence was forced to throw everything into the planetary defense shields. The planet survived, but the overload took the Intelligence off-line, leaving Captain Marvel and Rick free to leave. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #46]
On their way home from Hala, Captain Marvel and Rick suffered a great setback. By flying too close to a black hole, Mar-Vell found his link with Rick horribly disrupted. All their enhanced powers and connection were lost, even leaving them incapable of communicating with each other from the Negative Zone without great effort. Whichever partner was not on Earth was now more isolated and drained by the Zone than ever before, with neither man able to survive more than ten hours at a time in the anti-matter universe. Captain Marvel tried to access Rick in the Negative Zone through the Fantastic Four's portal, but was unable to pull Rick through as they had months earlier. The two men were stuck with each other once more. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #47]
As Rick and Mar-Vell struggled to balance their lives again, Sentry #459 was activated again on Earth, this time possessed by the life essence of a Mexican bandit with a grudge against Americans. The Sentry Sinister and his transformed partner Cheetah destroyed numerous 
American industries at or near the Mexican border before confronting Captain Marvel. Mar-Vell was initially overcome by his foes and saved by Tara and Mac-Ronn, two Kree scientists who had been shot down after trying to bring Sentry #459 home, kicking off these events. They warned Rick and Mar-Vell that Ronan the Accuser was also aboard their crashed ship and his energy bonds would soon fail. Captain Marvel found the ship and was forced to fight Ronan, Cheetah and the Sentry Sinister. He defeated his foes, but not before Ronan murdered Tara for trying to stop him. Mar-Vell could not even enjoy his victory, for Ronan had gone completely mad and was reduced to a child-like state. Mar-Vell left Ronan and Mac-Ronn with a kindly couple on a rural farm, which they chose to make their home. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #47-49]
Rick had renewed his partnership with Mordecai Boggs and began holding concerts again. After one performance, he was met by Edwin Jarvis of the Avengers, who invited him back to the mansion for tea. At Avengers Mansion, however, they found the team under assault by the Super-Adaptoid, an android capable of mimicking the powers and attributes of his foes. Rick summoned 
Captain Marvel to join the fight against the Super-Adaptoid. The Avengers warned Mar-Vell to keep his distance in order to prevent the Adaptoid from adding his powers to its collection, but Mar-Vell had a different idea. He continually confronted the Super-Adaptoid up close until it finally adapted him too. The rush of Captain Marvel's cosmic awareness was not something the ultimately single-minded robot was capable of processing, leaving it stunned. As a coup de grace, Mar-Vell seized the Super-Adaptoid's wrists and slammed its artificial Nega Bands together. Sure enough, Rick Jones materialized and the Adaptoid was cast into the Negative Zone. Captain Marvel had defeated his opponent and solved his situation with Rick in the same deft maneuver. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #50]
In Rick's absence, Mar-Vell finally had time to recognize that he had no real life of his own. He existed in the Negative Zone, emerging when threats required his aid, but little else. As he worked to establish an independent existence, Captain Marvel was drawn into the conclusion of the War of Three Galaxies. He was assailed by Doctor Minerva, a bio-geneticist who wished to follow in the Supreme Intelligence's footsteps and mate with Mar-Vell to produce genetically superior Kree. Meanwhile, The Kree had been aggressively courting the Inhumans as potential assets in their war with the Skrulls and Mar-Vell joined Black Bolt in taking the fight directly to the Supreme Science Council to make their displeasure known. Captain Marvel uncovered a Skrull infiltrator on the Council who had been pressing the Kree into a war they couldn't win. Mar-Vell saved countless Kree lives with this revelation, but Phae-Dor and the council still treated him as a pariah among his own people. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #51-54]
Captain Marvel considered tenancy near a Denver observatory, hoping to offer his scientific and astronomical knowledge to the research team there. He was still negotiating terms with Director Jacqueline Carr when he was attacked by Deathgrip. A former member of the Organization, Deathgrip was the sole survivor of the Eon Ray that Captain Marvel had turned on the terrorists during one of his earliest adventures. Deathgrip recognized Mar-Vell as "Walter Lawson," creator of the Eon Ray, and attempted to force Captain Marvel to cure his vampiric condition by holding the observatory staff hostage. Mar-Vell could not reproduce Lawson's knowledge and Deathgrip 
destroyed himself rather than live with his fate. This encounter led Mar-Vell to believe he needed a secret identity again and could not openly associate with the observatory as Captain Marvel without risking the people there. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #55-56]
One night, Captain Marvel's cosmic awareness brought him to Avengers Mansion along with Moondragon, anticipating a threat of dire consequences. The Captain and the Avengers were soon met by Adam Warlock, who warned them of the return of Thanos. The Mad Titan had siphoned the power of six Soul Gems into a single synthetic super-gem, rigged to destabilize and destroy stars as a gift to Mistress Death. He had assembled another space fleet, and so the heroes set forth to confront Thanos' forces again. During the battle aboard Sanctuary II, Warlock learned the fleet was a diversionary tactic and Thanos was really hidden on the far side of the sun. Captain Marvel joined Adam Warlock, Thor and Iron Man in racing to the Mad Titan's ship, just as he began activating his stellar projector. The synthetic gem was destroyed, leaving Thanos incapable of triggering the chain reaction that would destroy all stars in the heavens.
However, Thanos' instruments retained enough power to destroy a single star and he planned to take revenge on Earth by obliterating the sun. Thanos killed Adam Warlock and teleported back to his fleet, rallying his troops to defeat the Avengers. He then turned his ship's weaponry on Captain 
Marvel, Thor and Iron Man, who were chasing him. The heroes were all captured, but miraculously freed thanks to the intervention of the Thing and Spider-Man, whom Moondragon had summoned to their aid before she fell. Captain Marvel and the other heroes stood against Thanos one final time, until Adam Warlock rose from his own Soul Gem and took revenge on his murderer, draining the life from Thanos and turning the Titan into a lifeless statue of stone. Thanos was dead and Mar-Vell's greatest foe was gone, seemingly forever. [Avengers Annual #7, Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2]
The legacy of Thanos would never truly die, though. Captain Marvel soon recognized that Thanos had already made small alterations to the sun before he was stopped. The sun was now outputting energy in a manner that overloaded Captain Marvel's Nega Bands and photonic powers. Mar-Vell began building towards a chain reaction that would annihilate the Earth. He desperately sought to expend his energies and even became suicidal in a fight with Thor as he begged the Thunder God to kill him in order to save the Earth. Instead, Thor opened a portal into a pocket universe and expunged Captain Marvel's accumulated power into that realm. Mar-Vell was saved, Earth was saved and a new star existed in that pocket universe where before there had been none. Life, not death was the result of Thanos’ last act. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #57]
The Supreme Intelligence soon came back on line and restored Ronan the Accuser's mind in the process. Captain Marvel learned of his enemies' return when they came after his old friend, Carol Danvers. Months earlier, Carol's exposure to the Psyche-Magnitron had imbued her with a facsimile of Mar-
Vell's enhanced super-powers. While she had begun a career as Ms. Marvel, Carol was also a perfect example of the hybrid the Supreme Intelligence had tried to create with Rick and Mar-Vell. Captain Marvel first encountered Ms. Marvel as Ronan kidnapped her for the Supreme Intelligence. The Intelligence attempted to use the siren-call of the Millennia Bloom to steal Carol's soul, but underestimated her self-control and determination. Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel sent the Kree villains packing back to Hala, and Mar-Vell congratulated Carol on the new career she had begun in his name. [Ms. Marvel (1st series) #19]
The two heroes met again shortly thereafter during the Avengers' war with Michael Korvac, the Enemy. Mar-Vell, Carol and many other Avenger associates were called in to search for the hidden threat of the Enemy. Captain Marvel lent his cosmic awareness to the search and remained through the final battle. Henry Peter Gyrich (the Avengers' draconian government liaison) soon forcibly limited the team's roster down to seven members, but by this point Mar-Vell had secured an official position as an honorary and reserve Avenger. [Avengers (1st series) #172-181]
Back in Denver, Mar-Vell was looking to establish his private identity when he was attacked by Drax the Destroyer. The Destroyer had been an ally in Mar-Vell's first fight against Thanos, but he had trended towards nihilism ever since being deprived of the final blow against the Mad Titan. 
Drax fought Mar-Vell previously when he thought Thanos was dead and missed out entirely on the last battle with his eternal opponent. Blaming Captain Marvel for his now directionless life, the Destroyer intended to kill Mar-Vell with the same monomaniacal focus he once directed at Thanos. Captain Marvel and Drax only relented in their fight when they received a holographic call from ISAAC. The super-computer of Titan warned them that Thanos had set in motion a final plan before his death and Titan was now in danger. Drax agreed to put aside his vendetta against Captain Marvel in order to stop Thanos' legacy, but promised to kill Mar-Vell as soon as they dealt with the threat on Titan. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #58]
As they approached the moon of Saturn, Captain Marvel warned Drax that his cosmic awareness sensed something amiss with ISAAC. Sure enough, Titan was revealed as a giant deathtrap for Mar-Vell and Drax, for Thanos had corrupted ISAAC's programming in his failsafe plot, making ISAAC their true enemy. The super-computer used Eternal genetics technology to engineer a new pantheon of "gods" to carry out Thanos' will and deal with his foes, including Stellarax, Lord Gaea, Chaos, Tartarus and Dionysius. Captain Marvel and Drax bonded as they battled their varied foes, and Mar-Vell saved Drax's life on several occasions. Nevertheless, Drax constantly reminded Mar-Vell he was still marked for death by the Destroyer.
ISAAC and Thanos' plan was not flawless, for their new beings each possessed their own personalities and drives. In particular, ISAAC's lieutenant Elysius was swayed by her attraction to 
Mar-Vell and decided to aid him and Drax against ISAAC. They fought into ISAAC's control center and defeated his final guardians, freeing Mentor, Eros and the other Eternals. While ISAAC was seemingly helpless (if still malevolent), Captain Marvel and Drax had to pursue his general Stellarax to Earth in order to prevent harm from coming to humanity. Rick Jones and his girlfriend Gertie came into contact with Stellarax's forces, and they united with Captain Marvel and Drax to bring down Stellarax's starship and quash his alien mercenaries. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #59-62]
Unfortunately, Captain Marvel's absence from Titan gave ISAAC time to repair his inner circuitry. He not only shut down the life support controls that fed oxygen into Titan and sustained its environment, but also managed to revive his various minions and cast a humanoid body for himself. When Captain Marvel and his allies returned from Earth, Titan's planetary defenses were used to shoot them down. Captain Marvel and Drax were overwhelmed by their opponents and brought back to ISAAC's control center to die with Elysius, Eros and the others. When Stellarax attempted to execute Drax, however, Mar-Vell threw himself in the path of the blast, despite Drax only moments earlier reminding Mar-Vell of his pledge to kill him. Seeing Mar-Vell risk death for him regardless finally made Drax realize Mar-Vell had become his friend, and he struck back in rage against Stellarax, killing the villain.
Still, Drax fell against Chaos and Captain Marvel was dead on his feet facing ISAAC. The carnate computer taunted Mar-Vell that the Eternals would all soon die because of the failing life support on the moon. In what he thought might be his last act, Captain Marvel reached out with the power of the Nega Bands, extending his photonic energy to revitalize all of his friends present, preserving their lives even for a few moments longer at the cost of his own. As an unexpected side effect, this outpouring of life touched even ISAAC, causing the computerized being to temporarily experience and understand life, empathy and suffering. It was too much for ISAAC to bear, crashing his entire system and allowing Titan to keep on living. [Marvel Spotlight (2nd series) #1-2]
In the days that followed, Mar-Vell and Elysius formally began a relationship, as he confessed to her how closed his heart had been since Una's death. Drax moved on from Titan in peace, having 
resolved his issues with Mar-Vell and prompted to seek a new meaning to his life. The time came to return to Earth, though, and Mar-Vell brought Elysius with him as they took Rick and Gertie home. During their journey, Mar-Vell was visited by Eon for the first time since gaining his cosmic awareness. The entity warned Captain Marvel of an alien threat which had reached Earth before him, and that he must remain on his guard. [Marvel Spotlight (2nd series) #3]
Despite Eon's warnings, Captain Marvel found his aid needed less and less often in defense of Earth and its solar system. Other heroes continued to keep the world turning, and so Mar-Vell and Elysius toured Earth in privacy for a time before returning to Titan in virtual retirement. This was a time of great peace for Mar-Vell, a pause before the final trial to come.