66 BETA TAU
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Official Name: 66 Beta Tau
Nature: Extraterrestrial planet (or planetoid) within the Greater Magellanic Cloud galaxy (Kree galaxy)
Natives: None identified
Population: Unrevealed
Capital City: Unrevealed
Government: A Kree colony was present there
Languages: Unrevealed
National Defense: Unrevealed
Places of Interest: None identified
Visitors: Shi'ar Battlegroup Nine
First Appearance: War of Kings#1 (May, 2009)
History:
(War of Kings#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Kree Empire established a colony on 66 Beta Tau.
(War of Kings#1 (fb) - BTS) - After disabling the Kree Shield barrier protecting their Empire from outside attacks, the Shi'ar Empire -- led by Vulcan (Gabriel Summers) and directed by General Ka'arduum -- arranged a number of assaults on Kree worlds. Battlegroup Nine landed ground forces to take the Kree colony at 66 Beta Tau.
(War of Kings#1 - BTS) - General Ka'arduum reported this progress to Vulcan.
Comments: Created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.
The above covers everything we know about 66 Beta Tau. To the best of my knowledge, neither the world nor its inhabitants were pictured. We don't know to what degree the Shi'ar assault was effective on this world, and the Shi'ar eventually left the Kree galaxy.
We also don't know if 66 Beta Tau was a planet, a planetoid, a moon, or something else. We don't know if had an indigenous population before the Kree arrived there.
66 Beta Tau was lumped in the same description as Cybal Magna, as both were assaulted by ground forces of Shi'ar Battlegroup Nine.
Beta is the second letter in the Greek Alphabet, and Tau the 18th. Presumably the planet received those names as they are translations from some older Kree language/alphabet (and the "English" translation would be the Greek alphabet letters)...as there is pretty much zero reason for the Kree to be using the Greek alphabet...
Maybe some writer will read this someday and flesh it out somewhat.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
66 Beta Tau has no known connections to
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None
Appearances:
War of Kings#1 (May, 2009) - Dan
Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Paul Pelletier (penciler), Rick
Magyar (inker), Michael Norwitz (assistant editor), Bill Rosemann
(editor)
Last updated: 01/06/18
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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