It's still pretty paltry as compared to the scale of the entire universe that's getting destroyed, really. I mean, we know that one Beyonder, who's not even at full power for a Cosmic Cube because his power is split with Molecule Man, can create an entire new universe, so for a bunch of Beyonders/Ivory Kings to make a pocket universe big enough to hold Battleworld and collect the pieces for it isn't that much by comparison.
Perhaps the multiversal collapse is only unstoppable by Franklin/Beyonder levels of power (usually sufficient to create brand new universes) until it is complete, apart from any little outposts and bits of detritus in the white void between universes that we've seen can survive like the Black Priests' HQ, Hyperion, Doom and Reece. In that case, rather than forming Battleworld and its pocket universe while the Incursions and multiversal collapse are still ongoing, the Ivory Kings might be collecting their game pieces, keeping them in stasis in the void, and waiting for this last Incursion to finish before they piece them together.
And once everybody is on Battleworld, and there are no other universes to crash into, who's to say that there's anything stopping the Beyonders, or Franklin, from going ahead and creating brand new universes, perhaps using the Zones from Battleworld as seeds? Only you probably want to take out the Great Destroyer and anybody else who doesn't like that idea first....
I think we've solved Marvel's loophole, vitruvian. Between this and one of your following posts (which I will quote momentarily), I think we know what they're planning.
Here's your other post that I'm talking about:
If this is following the pattern of the old Secret Wars closely enough that the Beyonders are the ones responsible for setting up Battleworld, then it probably follows that they're offering a prize of their heart's desire to whoever 'wins' the battle/contest.... and since that desire for a lot of the place's inhabitants is likely to be a restoration of their home universe (not all, there are certainly some dystopic realities that would prefer the chance to go live in some other universe), it certainly leaves that option open.
Perhaps the GD wants to destroy even what's left in Battleworld, the Beyonders are offering the restoration of one single universe for whoever wins, and Franklin ends up outdoing them and restoring the whole shebang. We'll see.
The Beyonders will offer the survivors of these various universes the opportunity to have their universe restored by defeating all the rest, and then Franklin will subvert their plan by granting
everyone's desire -- they will all get their universe back, but they will have to share the space. Franklin will detonate Battleworld and the various pieces will grow into the new, unified Marvel Universe.
Marvel has been giving us the answer all along: "Battleworld is the Marvel Universe going forward."
Not because they plan to keep stories going on Battleworld rather than Earth (in what we've established would be a measure of absolute insanity when the movie franchise is at the height of its popularity), but because
Battleworld literally will become the new Marvel Universe, complete with an Earth based on the one most familiar to us and a new cosmos to be explored and charted. It's been right in front of our faces.
The announcement for the "Warzones!" banner gave it away in so blatant a manner I don't know how we missed it until now:
"'If you want a glimpse of what the future holds, you’ll find it in the WARZONES titles,' Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso said in the teaser image'saccompanying press release. 'Our creators let their imaginations run wild as they lay down the
foundations for the future.'"
"While the Secret Wars rage, the
building blocks of a new Marvel Universe take form within the war-torn Domains that make up Battleworld!"
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All that remains in the cosmos is Battleworld, the strange, patchwork realm playing host to countless realities, all existing side-by-side, fused into a single planet."
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These titles will lay the building blocks and groundwork for what’s next, if that gives any indication of how important they are!”
So we'll see the Manhattan section of Battleworld (the Earth-616 and Earth-1610 section) grow into a new Earth while other territories grow into a multitude of other new worlds. And they were literally telling us this from the start.
In this way, Marvel will get to have its cake and eat it too. To explain:
-They get to streamline the creative sandbox that is the multiverse by condensing it
-They get to clean up the publishing line and start it as fresh as they decide they want to
-They get to jettison the baggage of the Celestials having had their hands in everything back to the dawn of time
-Piggybacking off the previous point, the new creative sandbox is a whole new universe begging to be explored by characters like the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Silver Surfer and Nova
-They get to keep their word that "Battleworld is the Marvel Universe going forward" without sacrificing brand synergy with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
-They get to reboot the sandbox while still being able to say "We've never done a reboot like the Distinguished Competition," since it won't combine a multiverse into a single universe in quite the same way "Crisis On Infinite Earths" did. Rather than seeing their histories merged, the old universes will merely see their remaining physical debris grow into a new shared space. All past continuity technically remains intact even as it simultaneously becomes largely irrelevant
Start placing your bets now, people.
) of standing up to take notice: