In this follow-up to War of Kings, the fallout from those events leads to a tear in space known as the Fault, resulting in incursions from a twisted alternate reality called the Cancerverse.

When a reality tear known as the Fault threatens to allow entities from the Cancerverse—a twisted dimension where death has been conquered at a horrific price—to invade our universe ...

For instance, in 2010's The Thanos Imperative by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Nova and Star-Lord sacrificed themselves to ensure Thanos wouldn't escape the collapsing Cancerverse. After being ...