Ultimate Universe (Earth-6160)The Maker's Council

Devised in secret and composed of Super Villains, The Maker’s Council rules Earth-6160 and ensures that Super Heroes are systematically eradicated.

A Secret Organization

In alternate reality Earth-6160, diabolical genius Reed Richards, AKA the Maker, from Earth-1610 travels back in time to create his ideal world by preventing heroes from existing. To accomplish his aim, he forms a secret council of Super Villains to rule the world from the shadows. They are the Maker’s Council. 

The World Remade

Ruling the world in secret, the Maker’s Council is made up of several members who each manage the major territories across the globe. 

Khonshu and Ra, the force known collectively as Moon Knight, are the Lords of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms, ruling all of Africa, except the isolated, sovereign nation of Wakanda. The pair speak at separate times: where Ra speaks as the sun waxes and remains silent when it wanes, the inverse is true for the full moon of Khonshu. They are also the chosen representatives of the Egyptian gods on Earth.

Bruce Banner, AKA the Hulk, oversees the Children of Eternal Light and the Shadows of the Immortal Hand. He is also the absolute monarch of the Seven Celestial Cities of Heaven, AKA the Immortal City of K’un-Lun. He is the spiritual leader to billions and known as the Incredible Enlightened Hulk as he achieves a state of peace and serenity. He finds random acts of violence unacceptable, though he is not beyond using violence himself when necessary.

The genial Henri Duggary, AKA Captain Britain, possesses the Sword of Might and the Amulet of Right, granting him providence over the entirety of the European Union. He is also the King of Avalon. 

Emmanuel Da Costa manages the Society of South America and is the Black King of the Hellfire Club. He taps into his son’s mutant abilities via an IV and uses them for himself.

Piotr Rasputin, AKA Colossus, Illyana Rasputin, AKA Magik, and Arkady Rossovich, AKA Omega Red, rule the Eurasian Republic and Limbo with an iron fist. 

Kenuichio Harada, AKA Silver Samurai, Shiro Yoshida, AKA Sun Emperor, Aida, AKA Viper, who is the “Voice of the Rising Sun” manage the Hi No Kuni, the Land of Fire, and Daimyos. The Sun Emperor speaks through the Viper while he wears his veil.

Technocrat Obadiah Stane oversees the North American Union and regional subsidiaries. His business partner, Howard Stark, purposefully remains unaware of the Council’s business until he’s forcibly brought into it. 

The Maker remains largely inside the City, an advanced dome of the Maker’s own design, which is located in the Latverian Territories. It is a temporally protected headquarters of sorts where time passes differently inside; where only one month passes outside of it, a thousand years could pass inside. The City is also where the Maker stores his broken Immortus Engine, a time machine which he used to get to this reality, and where he becomes trapped for a period of two years.

Ultimate Terrorists

Those who go against the Maker’s Council are often considered terrorists, and such foes to their positions of power include the Ultimates, a group of Super Heroes gathered by Howard’s teenage son Tony Stark, AKA Iron Lad. The team’s roster includes but is not limited to Asgardians Thor and Sif, the original earth-6160 Reed Richards, AKA Doom, Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, Hank Pym, AKA Giant-Man, Jim Hammond, AKA the Human Torch, Janet Van Dyne, AKA Wasp, America Chavez, AKA Miss America Chavez, and Charli Ramsey, AKA Hawkeye.

Each Council member’s territory has their own individual foes to manage as well. In the Eurasian Republic, the Opposition rises up, which includes mutant fighters opposing their rulers; in Africa, the King and champion of Wakanda, T’Challa, AKA Black Panther; in New York, Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, and Harry Osborn, AKA Green Goblin. Though oftentimes, the Council struggles to determine the identities of their foes.

Subordinates

Many of the Council’s allies are those that work under them to help maintain control over their territories. Captain Britain has his personal guard known as the Black Crusade and places Midas in control of North America’s White House, while the Hulk has the Immortal Weapons of Hulk at his disposal.

A pawn of the Council is Nick Fury, the director of Heroic Anomaly Neutralization Directorate (H.A.N.D.), an organization dedicated to predicting and preemptively eliminating threats to global order. The organization’s headquarters is the Beast, a flagship “Cumulo-Carrier” of the H.A.N.D. Heli-fleet, and it’s disguised within a mile-wide thunderstorm. From the HQ, the agents of the H.A.N.D. who largely have no faces, can systematically target and annihilate budding terrorists. In the absence of the Maker, Fury answers to the Council.

Wilson Fisk, AKA the Kingpin, is the owner and operator of the Daily Bugle in New York City, who works with The Maker’s Council to control the spread of information in their favor. Though an ally, he’s more of a subordinate of the Council.

In the Eurasian Republic, as one of two places on the globe for all known mutant activity, the Council members Colossus, Magik and Omega Red create a secret division of the government, Directorate X, headed by Dr. Alonya Prostovich and designed to exploit the genetic powers in mutantkind. Their Sentinel and Winter Soldier programs hunt and kill threats to their rule.

Ruling the World

One day, when the Council met, a slew of super-powered individuals attacked them, which led to the death of one of their members, Obadiah Stane. After the attack, the Council brought Obadiah’s business partner and inventor Howard Stark into the fold. Upon meeting the Council members, Howard was surprised to see the Rasputins as members since he perceived them to be the enemy, but the Hulk claimed that the Council was a peaceful union. He further explained that each of their nations played adversary to the others for a generation, which rallied the other nations to the cause of fighting the given evil, and that they would take turns doing this to keep citizens from prying too closely into their own territories. The Maker entered the room and confirmed it was all true and added that the little people hated the giants who ruled the world. He subsequently took Howard on a tour of the City to show him the real work of the Council and that was to prevent Super Heroes from ever existing.

When the City became closed off for a period of two years with the Maker and Howard trapped inside, the Maker’s Council convened and discussed how to move forward. They first discussed what to do with America and their Union since it no longer had a head. They put it to a vote but it did not go anywhere until Howard’s son, Tony, broke into the Latverian Castle and stole merely one of the Maker’s many repository containers of catalysts to each hero he wronged. Captain Britain attempted to stop them, stabbing Thor but losing an eye to Tony, and failed. He notified the rest of the Council of the situation to which they responded in kind by targeting Stark Tower, where Tony and his allies had fled. With one of Stane/Stark’s satellites, the Council destroyed it, killing thousands in the process and cementing the Council’s hold over North America by blaming Tony for it. The territory of North America was eventually redistributed among Council members Captain Britain, overseeing the East Coast of North America, and Hulk managing the West Coast.

With the Maker trapped inside the City, the Council members moved on to plots of their own, expanding their influences. Ra and Khonshu worked closely with a spy within the sovereign nation of Wakanda, planning to lay siege to the kingdom. Their first step was successful in killing the Wakandan King T’Chaka. Though his son, T’Challa, stepped up to the mantle of King and Black Panther, causing Ra and Khonshu many headaches. The pair as Moon Knight eventually got ahold of a mystical green ore that created life itself and used it to empower their own kingdom against Wakanda, making people believe they were gods.

Meanwhile, Captain Britain and his Black Crusade had their hands full with the newly formed Ultimates team–a team of Super Heroes bent on undoing the Maker’s good works. When it looked like the Captain and his guard had the upper hand, they lost the very public battle against the upstarts when Hank Pym, accepting his hero catalyst, transformed into the towering Giant-Man and crushed the crusade under his massive boot.

The Kinpin of New York had a couple menaces on his back in the form of masked vigilantes Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, both of whom he soundly defeated when they crashed into his building demanding answers about who he worked for. Fisk visited Captain Britain to answer for the agent he had lost to the Goblin. The Captain offered Fisk several of his Bullseye agents but Fisk refused them and instead gathered the Sinister Six to solve his vigilante problem.

After a year in the absence of the Maker and following the Hulk’s failure in K’un-Lun to bring the Ultimates down in a battle that seemingly left Iron Lad slain, Nick Fury, director of H.A.N.D., called a meeting of the Council. Fury recounted how the Ultimates Terrorist Network was still operational, noting that America Chavez, AKA Miss America Chavez, protected a group of pro-democracy protestors in Guatemala City and another Damage Control facility was raided and burned to the ground by a “flying man on fire.” Fury reported the good news as well, that the Council was winning the information war by framing the Ultimates as terrorists, largely thanks to Narrative who writes the narratives. The Council grew tired of the meeting and nearly left until Fury revealed that he had H.A.N.D. agents embedded all over the world disguised as prospective candidates for the Ultimates, and had been turning someone inside the Ultimates already. But Fury, who had grown a conscience, attempted to blow up the Beast flagship with all Council members aboard. But the Council laughed at him and killed him quickly, only to upload his memories into a new copied body of Nick Fury, possibly a Life Model Decoy, as this wasn’t Fury’s first time betraying them. They kept him around so that he’d reveal other traitors in their midst.

Meanwhile, in the Eurasian Republic, Magik, Colossus, and Omega Red had their own problems. A covert group called the Opposition rose up to free mutants from experimentation and Republic control. So the trio deployed their most lethal weapon: The Winter Soldier, a powerful mutant known as Logan reprogrammed to serve the Republic. Though when he faced the Opposition’s Gambit and Kitty Pryde, he’s left disoriented and questioning his Maker’s Council overlords.