The Diverting of the Hydra Galaxy is a trial set for humankind by the Super-Ancient Beings, wherein a series of ritualistic challenges must be completed in order to prevent the Hydra galaxy from colliding with the Milky Way.
History[]
Early History[]
At a currently unknown point in Earth's history, a race of Super-Ancient Beings discovered the Hydra galaxy, which was hurtling through the universe aimlessly. Having actually created this universe themselves, the Ancients were able to somehow change the direction of the Hydra galaxy as they saw fit. Already in the process of devising a series of trials to determine if a sentient species was worthy of existing, the Super-Ancients decided to make diverting the Hydra galaxy one of their tasks, and so set about constructing a mysterious antennae out of an unknown substance with the appearance of mountain rock within a meteor crater on Earth that any intelligent species that arose could use to accomplish this.
In order to provide a challenge in order to let the antennae be used, the Ancients established a ritualistic series of challenges that participants would have to accomplish to retrieve nine Golden Spheres. These Spheres would need to truly be earned in order to activate the mysterious device, which upon completion would activate and send out a signal that would divert the Hydra galaxy from its collision course with Earth. The Super-Ancients sealed the Spheres in a chamber near the antennae, which would only open only a few months prior to the arrival of the Hydra galaxy, heralding the time that any new sentient beings had left to divert the Hydra galaxy.
After the Super-Ancients were gone, the Four Legendary Kingdoms learned about the trials left behind by the Super-Ancient Beings, among them the diverting of the Hydra galaxy. One of these four kingdoms, the Kingdom of Underworld, was given the role of maintaining the realm containing the antennae and challenge areas, keeping them secret from the rest of the world. Over the next few thousand years, the Four Kingdoms held three Great Games of the Hydra in order to prevent three other passings of the Hydra galaxy, the success of which allowed one of their own the opportunity to receive the Mysteries, knowledge from the Super-Ancient Beings regarding the final two trials they would have to face.
The Four Legendary Kingdoms[]
Around September 2016, the observatory in the Underworld which tracked the movements of the Hydra galaxy detected that it was close enough to Earth, and unlocked the Star Chamber vault the Golden Spheres were locked inside, signaling to the Four Kingdoms that the time to divert the Hydra galaxy was upon them. As a result, the Four Kingdoms began their final preparations for the Great Games of the Hydra to fulfill the third trial.
Later, during the banquet hosted by Hades between the Fourth and Fifth Challenges, Ricardo Mendoza explained to Jack West Jr how the Hydra galaxy and its diversion was but the third of five tasks set by the super-ancient beings to test life on Earth.
Following the Fifth Challenge, the first five Golden Spheres were set in place within the Summit Temple atop the antenna mountain, raising the obelisk and completing the first phase of the trial. After Jack won the Great Games, the remaining four Spheres were set into place, and though Orlando Compton-Jones attempted to enter the recess that would allow him to receive the Mysteries, Jack stopped him, and so as the obelisk powered up and sent out its signal to the Hydra galaxy, the ever-moving galaxy was re-directed to alter its course away from Earth, completing the trial.
After The Four Legendary Kingdoms[]
As Alby Calvin was tasked with figuring out when the Trial of the Cities was set to be completed by, he discovered that radio waves from the Sagittarius A-star singularity in the Milky Way galaxy would pass through Earth and onwards through the path that the Hydra galaxy had cleared a path on its original trajectory to the center of the universe, be able to determine if the next trial had been completed or not. (The Three Secret Cities)
Trivia[]
- Though no specific time was apparently set for the diverting of the Hydra galaxy to be completed by, the next trial, the Trial of the Cities, was set to be completed on December 1st of 2016. As the Star Chamber is implied to have opened around mid-September of the same year, and with Abrahamson's implication that the Hydra galaxy would not destroy Earth until two months from November (January 2017), it suggests that the Super-Ancients intended for the task to be completed almost as soon as the Star Chamber opened.
- This brings into question why the Four Kingdoms left initiating the Great Games for nearly two months, though with few pieces of information regarding the trials, it may be that they were unaware.
- Incidentally, the implied time of impact of the Hydra galaxy with Earth (estimated January 2017) is suggested to occur after the due times for the Trial of the Cities, the Trial of the Mountains and the arrival of the Omega Event. Therefore, even if those trials were completed successfully, failing to divert the Hydra galaxy in time would have resulted in the Earth's destruction soon afterwards anyway.
- However, it is noted that the Sagittarius A-star's radio waves passing along the Hydra galaxy's path was necessary for the confirmation of the former trial's completion, thus explaining why the Diverting of the Hydra Galaxy needed to be completed first.