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The ultimate team has come together to solve the ultimate problems. . Spectrum. Black Panther. . Ms. America. They are...

The impossible is where they start.

This is the --their core Colonel private audio mission: to solve Danvers was log of Philip problems of cosmic using the -- Nelson Vogt. scope before they outside their stated My most recent became problems remit--to assist in assignment on behalf for Earth-- investigating the of the NSA was to --in order future predictions covertly monitor the of the inhuman superhuman response to assess their Ulysses-- team known as stability and current The Ultimates-- threat level. I’m sad --predictions to report that they that caused the have failed this recent Superhuman assessment. between Danvers’ forces and those of Tony Stark. During the course of said Civil War, the Ultimates came to blows with each other in their own HQ, resulting in an escape by of Titan, who was subsequently recaptured--

(--his current whereabouts can be found in the “Guardians” --and files--) Conner Sims, the Anti-Man, a dangerous cosmic being with uncontrollable powers…who remains at large. in a later battle, was publicly disavowed by King T’Challa, the Black Panther, and an exploding spaceship all but destroyed the Ultimates’ And after headquarters, the that…well, we . all know how the Civil War ended, of course. All of this information has been conveyed to the President. We await his reaction. Personally… I fear for us. The Ultimates stood between Earth and cosmic forces too terrible to Who can contemplate. take their place?

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