RIGELLIAN COSMORECEPTORRIGELLIAN COSMORECEPTOR
Classification: Extraterrestrial (Rigellian) technology
Creator: Unspecified Rigellians
First Appearance: (Referenced, unseen and unidentified); Hulk II#43 (December, 2011)
(seen and identified) Hulk II#45 (February, 2012)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: The
Cosmoreceptor contained the compressed knowledge of Rigel and power
cells to initiate and maintain generation of colonization.
The technology can be used to terraform desert land into an advanced, fertile city.
History:
(Hulk II#45 (fb)) <48,000 B.C.> - In an early attempt at conquest
of Earth and presumably prior to the development of
faster-than-lightspeed travel, the Rigellians sent a Cosmoreceptor pod
that contained the compressed knowledge of Rigel and power cells to
begin and maintain generation.
The pod's purpose was to prepare a subterranean chamber for the arrival of the stage two cosmo-ligand, which contained 10 million blastocysts chosen for colonization.
This process was initiated for over 100 compatible planets throughout the Edzar Galaxy (see comments).
On Earth, the second stage was damaged by cosmic ray activity. Before this receptor could extend the membrane probe, primitive hominids found the transport and consumed the 10 million potentials.
After 5000 cycles passed with no attempt of contact from a colony to the mother system, another stage two is designated. Ten such intervals (50,000 years) passed with no arrival.
(Hulk II#45 (fb) - BTS) - With 50,000 years having passed with no
arrival of a stage two cosmo-ligand pod, physical colonization was
abandoned, and a secondary goal was accepted. 
To spread Rigellian
culture, the homing signal was activated again, and a man, near death
in the desert, heard it and contacted the receptacle.
The man was
brought to the chamber containing the Cosmoreceptor and was joined to
it.
The power and potential within were released into the man, who used
his new power to revive his wounded tribe and then activated the
bio-lab modules, unwittingly using ones that gathered and studied local
fauna: This resulted in hybridization of humans and local fauna.
Overwriting the native host for Rigellian indoctrination failed,
and subsequent attempts to undo the merge also failed, and the native,
Dagan Shah, aka Sultan Magus.
Shah subsequently used the Rigellian resources to manipulate
hydrogen, creating a new water supply and terraforming the desert while
harnessing geothermal power to run the city of Sharzhad and protect it
with an impassable dome.
(Hulk II#45) - Smashing through the floor in Sharzhad, the Red Hulk (Thaddeus Ross) joined Aaron Stack/Machine Man/X-51 in falling until approaching the tunnels into the chamber containing the Cosmoreceptor 10 miles below the surface.
Touching the
Cosmoreceptor, the Hulk interfaced with its systems and was told the
history of the Cosmoreceptor on Earth. Via contact with the Hulk, X-51
learned this as well.
Comments: Created by Jeff Parker and Patrick Zircher.
Using the Edzar Galaxy while referencing Earth and
100+ compatible planets, and with Rigel-3 being in the Milky Way Galaxy, it
makes me wonder if this was just a vague effort to show that alien races
wouldn't have the same names for things as humans...meaning that the Rigellians
(at least formerly) called the Milky Way Galaxy the Edzar Galaxy?
That's how it seemed to be, anyway.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Cosmoreceptor should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads):
Hulk II#45, pg. 12, panel 1 (tunnel);
pg. 13-14 (mechanism);
pg. 18 whole page (Dagan Shah empowered)
Hulk II#43 (December, 2011) - Jeff
Parker (writer), Patrick Zircher (penciler/inker), Jake Thomas
(assistant editor), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Hulk II#45 (February, 2012) - Jeff Parker (writer), Patrick Zircher (penciler/inker), Jake Thomas (assistant editor), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
First posted: 05/17/2025
Last updated: 05/17/2025
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