BIOGRAPHY
Captain Universe is the modern name given to any host of the Uni-Power, an expression of the Enigma Force.
The Enigma Force seemingly dates back to the Second Cosmos. After the fall of the First Firmament, its rebel creations the Celestials engineered the Second Cosmos to be the first multiverse, an infinite of possibilities. To oversee this multiverse, the Celestials orchestrated the 
creation of Omega-Beings known as the Beyonders. These Ivory Kings occupied a space known as “Beyond,” outside the growing multiverse, where they operated the Engine Room of Creation. Their Concordance Engines were powered by the Enigma Force, the first known reference to that power. The Enigma Force itself hales from the White Hot Room, the same birthplace of the Phoenix Force. [Defenders: Beyond #2-3] Concordance Engines were once described as a magnet for miracles, the Enigma Force within them ensuring the birth of coincidences, of the fantastic, of… Marvels. [Defenders (4th series) #11]
While the Beyonders operated as the Kings in White, an opposing role existed for the King in Black. Described as more organic or “messier,” the King in Black and their Engine Room existed within the multiverse instead of Beyond it, functioning in symbiosis with the aspects of life and matter. [Venom (5th series) #18] When the Second Cosmos gave way to the Third, it manifested as a constant balancing between light and darkness, a struggle represented by entities known as Lifebringer-One and the Anti-All. When the Third Cosmos fell, some aspects of these ultimate expressions of light and darkness continued to exist and would re-emerge in later multiverses. [Defenders (6th series) #4-5]
At the dawn of the Seventh Cosmos, the Celestials once again worked to bring light and life into the universe. They used the Enigma Force as the “Light of the Creation” to manifest existence itself in the wild space-before-space. Knull was an ancient god of darkness who cherished the void and found the introduction of light into his space to be an anathema. Knull may have been a surviving aspect of the Anti-All, and the Celestials wanted him to serve as this multiverse’s incarnation of the King in Black. Knull claimed the title by default when he struck out at the 
Celestials who approached him and decapitated a Celestial. He used that dead Celestial as a forge to refine his instinctive blade into his own ultimate weapon, All-Black the Necrosword. Knull continued to extend the black ooze that was his essence as the King in Black, forming symbiotic matter that shaped into armies acting on his will. He sought to return all of space to the abyss of the void. [Venom (4th series) #4, Venom (5th series) #18]
The Light of the Creation stood against Knull’s rise, directly and indirectly. The Enigma Force brought life into existence throughout the cosmos. It began with stars and moved on to living races. Among the earliest species birthed by the Enigma Force were the Builders, who worshipped the Force as their Mother, the Universe itself. The Builders populated the multiverse and developed the means of moving between universes thanks to the Superflow. Amazingly powerful and stunningly advanced, the Builders adopted the Universe’s goals as their own and began to shape and cultivate life on other worlds. They created Systems at different points in cosmic history, designed to promote biological and societal evolution. Admittedly, though, as they moved beyond the Universe’s direct grace, the Builders became more critical and exacting in their standards. Many worlds filled with life were razed by these Systems for not measuring up to the Builders’ expectations. [Avengers (5th series) #3]
[Note: It’s not clear how the Builders’ claim of being “the first race, the oldest living things in the cosmos” is measured compared to other ancient forces. Do they predate the Proscilicans and the First War which annihilated 9/10ths of the cosmos? Are they from the same generation or earlier than the races which spawned the Elders of the Universe? A comparative history has not yet been made.]
The Enigma Force also bestowed light-based symbiotic power to the creatures emerging from the void willing to fight against Knull. The God of Light and the King in Black warred for eons through 
the use of champions or other means. Their climactic battle came an untold period of time in the past when Knull and the Enigma Force’s primary host fell from space and impacted on an unnamed planet. Knull lost the Necrosword here to an inhabitant named Gorr, but the mortal’s hatred of any being claiming godhood led him to murder the Light of the Creation’s greatly weakened avatar. Knull recovered, but the Light of Creation ceased warring against the King in Black directly after this. In fact, this defeat may be when the Light of the Creation first began cloaking its true identity as “the Enigma Force” in order to avoid Knull’s scrutiny in the future. The Enigma Force slipped into obscurity, inhabiting only a single host at a time, until it was better prepared to face its ultimate adversary. [Thor: God of Thunder #6, Venom (4th series) #4, King in Black #4]
One tale of the Enigma Force brings its power forwards and backwards through time. More than 15,000 years into the future, mankind journeyed to the stars and eventually colonized a distant galaxy. The colonists made many new homes and, through science and evolution, adapted themselves to a variety of alien worlds. Over time, however, science declined into myth and barbarism seized the new galaxy. The children of man lost touch and forgot each other, only to reconnect generations later and perceive their distant cousins as different and alien. War became common among the various savage colony worlds, especially thanks to the Black Fleet of 
Haamin, descendants of the colonists who traveled the furthest into the outer dark.
When the kingdom of Ithakon fell to Haamin, the dying lord told his son, Prince Wayfinder, that he was destined by prophecy to leave Ithakon and discover the Sword in the Star, which would grant him sight beyond sight. Wayfinder learned the lost history of his people and encountered many allies and many threats on his quest. [Marvel Preview #4, 7]
Prince Wayfinder eventually claimed the Star-Sword and used its power to bring his united people back in time to Earth over a million years ago, a primal era where the survivors of all colonist races could live in peace. [Micronauts #31] Instead, fearful Whirl-demons attacked Wayfinder’s settlement in the area that would one day become India. With his people in peril once more, 
Wayfinder merged with the power of the Sword in the Star, and together they drilled into subatomic space, creating a solar system smaller than an atom. The diverse people of Wayfinder’s future now colonized their own worlds again, hidden away in this incredible Microverse, bound behind the Spacewall which separated them from the world above. [Micronauts #35]
When Wayfinder merged with the Sword in the Star, they embodied a power known as the Enigma Force and Wayfinder became its first avatar, known as a Time Traveler. These Time Travelers would often appear throughout the Microverse, manifesting the power of the Enigma Force through a physical body. Eons after Wayfinder, modern Time Travelers sprung into 
existence by the score when the Enigma Force connected with the prince’s descendant, a micronaut named Arcturus Rann. Tasked with exploring the Microverse at sub-light speed, Rann spent 1,000 years in suspended animation, telepathically linked to his roboid helmsman Biotron directing the HMS Endeavor. This unique relationship and Rann’s lineage allowed the Enigma Force to use Arcturus as the template for an endless collection of Time Travelers, as Rann’s mind was reflected throughout infinity.
[Note: In Micronauts #11, the Time Travelers were described as a unique creation of Rann’s subconscious connection to the Enigma Force, making them no more than 1,000 years old. In issue #35, Prince Wayfinder was reportedly the first Time Traveler over 1,000,000 years ago, when he and the Sword in the Star merged to create the Enigma Force and the Microverse. In Micronauts: The New Voyages, we were instead told the Microverse was created by the Makers long before. Since then, we’ve learned the Enigma Force predates Wayfinder even further. By the King in Black event, it was spelled out that the Enigma Force deliberately obscured the truth of its origins.]
The Time Travelers became necessary, for Arcturus’ old teacher, Baron Karza, seized control of Homeworld in his absence. Karza murdered Rann’s parents, Dallan and Sepsis, and won over the population by offering them practical immortality. His Body Banks used mass organ transfers and bio-cybernetics to preserve the lives of the rich indefinitely, harvesting the poor as raw materials for the process. The discovery of the warp drive allowed Karza’s hordes to expand beyond Rann’s exploration, bringing Karza’s conquest to other worlds. In order to curtail Karza’s influence, the Time Travelers disguised themselves as a mystic order known as the Shadow Priests. They presented themselves to Karza as allies, offering to craft a religion to indoctrinate the masses in support of his rule. A man of science, Baron Karza feared the unknown, and the Enigma of mysticism the Shadow Priests served. He accepted the alliance to one day betray the Priests once he understood the Enigma Force enough to exploit it.
The Micronauts formed in opposition to Karza’s reign once Arcturus Rann finally completed his long mission and returned to Homeworld. Arcturus and Biotron were joined by Princess Mari of the puppet royal family retained for show by Baron Karza. As Marionette, the princess and her tutor Microtron joined the resistance alongside aliens to Homeworld including Bug of Kaliklak and the deposed king of the Acroyears. Together, these six Micronauts traveled to and from Earth before 
returning to the Microverse for the final battle with Baron Karza. Arcturus Rann came into his true cosmic power when he learned the truth behind the origin of the Time Travelers and Shadow Priests. He merged with them in order to access the Enigma Force, making him strong enough to battle his eternal foe to a stalemate. Karza was lost when he tapped the full power of the Worldcore Pit at his Body Banks for a mindshock attack against Rann, only for it to seemingly reflect back upon him. [Micronauts #1-11]