Eventually, the Shi'ar settled on their planet, took the M'Kraan Crystal as their own, and passed down the legend of the M'Kraan Crystal as a sacred gift from their deities, Sharra & K'ythri.
Holocaust would have this shard embedded in him for a while, draining power from the Crystal until X-Man removed it.ĭuring the X-Men: Emperor Vulcan limited series it was revealed that the World was once inhabited by the race known as the M'Kraan, until the Shi'ar attacked them, killed a great number of their people, making the rest flee for their lives. A small shard of the Crystal was responsible for moving X-Man and Holocaust from the Age of Apocalypse Earth to Earth-616, while Sugar Man and Dark Beast entered a larger version to make the same trip. Apocalypse was planning on using the Crystal to conquer other universes, but Bishop used the Crystal to travel back in time and restore reality.
During the AoA the M'Kraan Crystal was a major factor as it was discovered that a small shard of the M'Kraan Crystal contained the power of the full Crystal. This resulted in a time being 'restarted' as the Age of Apocalypse. This resulted in a disruption within the Crystal which exploded with a massive wave of energy which washed over the universe, crystallizing everything that existed, before destroying it all.
When Charles Xavier's son, Legion traveled back in time to kill Magneto, he instead killed Charles. The M'Kraan Crystal is also sensitive to disruptions of history and reality. Phoenix/Jean Grey used her powers to try to repair the latticework but found she wasn’t strong enough, so she reached out telepathically to her fellow X-Men for aid, and with their combined power Phoenix/Jean Grey was able to repair the Crystal and thus save the universe from ultimate destruction. If it failed, the intense gravity from the Neutron Galaxy would cause all of creation to be sucked into it and the resulting Big Bang effect would give rise to a new virgin universe. Using the empathic link she had with the crystal, Phoenix/Jean Grey discovered an energy field in the form of a latticework which acted as a living shield for the Neutron Galaxy. The X-Men, along with D'Ken, were rendered immobile by a ray coming out of the orb which caused everyone to live out their greatest nightmares. Inside they found a large endless city, at the center of which was the heart of the Crystal - a sphere which contained a Neutron Galaxy. The Phoenix Force, still weakened and inexperienced in using the new host body of Jean Grey, flew to the crystal to try to stop D'Ken, but was sucked in with everyone else. The mad Shi'ar emperor D'Ken wanted to use its legendary power for his own ends, and so D'Ken's sister Lilandra Neramani allied herself with the X-Men to stop her brother's mad quest, knowing that the Crystal was nicknamed "The End of All That Is". Placed on an abandoned planet, known only as The World, the Crystal was considered sacred by the alien race known as the Shi'ar, a symbol of their faith. The M'Kraan Crystal first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #107. It apparently can also repower depowered mutants, as Professor Xavier regained his powers after being trapped in and escaping the M'Kraan Crystal (Rise and Fall of the Shi'Ar Empire). The Exiles used it as a means to reach the Panoptichron, a place that exists outside of time and space.
It also houses the White Hot Room, the place in which the Phoenix Force places all beings to heal them or return them to life.Īs it is a singleton across all universes, the reality-hopping Exiles have recently figured out how to use the Crystal to visit selected realities on the Age of Apocalypse, Dark Beast discovered a means to travel through the Crystal to alternate Earths.
The city inside can only be reached once every million years: when specific galaxies are aligned, the M'Kraan Crystal will allow entry for a short period of time. As the Nexus of all Realities, the Crystal can allow travel between universes, but opening the Crystal could cause the mass of the neutron galaxy inside to suck in the entire universe and cause a chain-reaction across the Omniverse, destroying all universes in existence.