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New Genesis is one of two home planets of the New Gods, ruled by the wise Highfather.
History[]
Galactica, the world that would one day become New Genesis, and its dark twin Apokolips came into existence after the war that destroyed the Old Gods and split their homeworld of Urgrund into two entirely opposite planets within the Sphere of the Gods. The beings of Galactica were born from the living atoms of the Old God Balduur; their counterparts on Apokalips were from the atoms of a mysterious Old God sorceress. The inhabitants of Galactica and Apokalips warred with each other for generations, locked in an eternal battle; this was the Third World. In time, they achieved true godhood, and forged Supertown, with their world rechristened as New Genesis, dawning the Fourth World.
At some point, the New God Izaya came to rule New Genesis. The long war with Apokalips continued until the New God Metron proposed a peace treaty bound by the exchange of the newborn sons of Darkseid and Izaya, a move that brought about a tenuous peace that both knew wouldn't last long.
Some time ago, Apokolips' despot Darkseid visited New Genesis to encounter a young boy, a youth that was easily manipulated and corrupted by the evil God. This child followed Darkseid to Apokolips and became the Torture God known as Desaad.
In contrast to the industrial wasteland of Apokolips, New Genesis is covered in lush forests and grasslands filled with abundant flora and wildlife, alongside scattered ruins of Third World population centers destroyed in the long war against New Genesis' dark twin. The only urban location is Supertown, a floating city designed not to affect the planet's surface which is usually inhabited by a group known as the Primitives who decided to live a life free of Highfather's rule. This planet also hosts a race of super-evolved insectoids known simply as the Bugs of New Genesis, who have come to be accepted as equals by the Genesisians. Each Genesisian goes through a ceremony known as "The Rite of Ascension" that imbues them with power from the Source in order to officially become a New God.
New Genesis is the home of the young Forever People, created by Highfather Izaya by collecting five human children through history and raising them together in order to unite them as a team, formed by the Beautiful Dreamer, Big Bear, Mark Moonrider, Serifan, and Vykin who can combine their powers to summon the powerful Infinity-Man.
At one point, a human man called Joshua Saunders was chosen by Highfather Izaya to be a living Avatar of The Source, bestowing him a fraction of the entity's near-limitless power as well as a vast amount of universal knowledge, transforming him into a New God capable of replacing him as New Genesis' ruler in the event of his death. This man was since then known as Takion of the Source.
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