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Stellaris

Stellaris is a fictional extraterrestrial warrior appearing in comic books published by American publisher, Marvel Comics.

Publication history

Stellaris first appeared in The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 #419-420 (July-August 1990) and was created by Tom DeFalco and Gary Hartle.

The character subsequently appeared in The Mighty Thor, Vol. 1 #424 (October 1990), Thunderstrike #16 (January 1995), Annihilation: Ronan #1-3 (June-September 2006), Annihilation: The Nova Corps Files (October 2006), and Annihilation: Saga (May 2007).

Stellaris received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #25.

Fictional character biography

Her exact origins largely unknown even to herself, Stellaris travels the universe seeking vengeance against the god-like Celestials whom she claims destroyed her home world after judging it "unfit". Eventually her travels lead her to Earth when she pursues a Replicoid, a messenger of the Celestials sent to Earth to summon the heroes Thor and Hercules to the "Black Galaxy". After finding the messenger, she destroys it out of her hatred for the Celestials. Stellaris fought Hercules and was defeated by Thor. The pair allowed her to escape when she threatened to destroy the Earth. Stellaris secretly entered the High Evolutionary's starship New Wundagore, where she freed Nobilus. Stellaris escaped with Nobilus, and follows Hercules and Thor to the Black Galaxy to kill the Red Celestial. In the Black Galaxy, she found a group of Celestials in the process of bringing to life a new Celestial. Stellaris attacks intending to destroy the new Celestial by setting off an enormous explosion, only to find she has inadvertently provided the final energy needed to allow the new Celestial to come to life. She later recovered, and returned to Earth to kill Thor. She fought the original Thor and the third Thor, and then decided to "relax" on Earth for a while.

Grand strategy

Grand strategy, also called high strategy, comprises the "purposeful employment of all instruments of power available to a security community". Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart says about grand strategy:

[T]he role of grand strategy – higher strategy – is to co-ordinate and direct all the resources of a nation, or band of nations, towards the attainment of the political object of the war – the goal defined by fundamental policy.

Grand strategy should both calculate and develop the economic resources and man-power of nations in order to sustain the fighting services. Also the moral resources – for to foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power. Grand strategy, too, should regulate the distribution of power between the several services, and between the services and industry. Moreover, fighting power is but one of the instruments of grand strategy – which should take account of and apply the power of financial pressure, and, not least of ethical pressure, to weaken the opponent's will. ...

Midway Studios Los Angeles

Midway Studios Los Angeles Inc. (formerly known as Paradox Development) was an American-based video game developer. They are best known for fighting games such as the X-Men Mutant Academy and Backyard Wrestling franchises, as well as the Mortal Kombat action game spin-off Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. The team was also responsible for the controversial PlayStation title Thrill Kill.

History

Paradox Development was founded in 1994 by Christine Hsu and went on to produce titles for top video game publishers including Activision, Electronic Arts, Virgin Interactive (later acquired by Electronic Arts), Interplay, and Namco. In 2004 they were bought out by publisher Midway Games, where they were renamed Midway Studios – Los Angeles Inc., sometimes called "Midway Los Angeles" or "Midway L.A."

In 2008, Midway Los Angeles was relocated and merged with Midway's San Diego office. The following year, publisher Midway Games filed for bankcruptcy, and in August 2009 the Midway San Diego studio was closed and most of its assets were purchased by publisher THQ, who only offered about 40% of the studio's personnel new positions within the company. Many of the laid-off developers were hired by High Moon Studios.