Genius inventors Lex Luthor and Ted Knight developed the cosmic cannon and cosmic rod, instruments that drew to Earth stellar life forms known as Galactic Golem and Aquarius. The Golem was a being that had been preceded by the energy entity (and a potentially corrupted Sun-Thriver) known as Unimaginable, who twice battled the Justice League now rendered inert, the energy entity became Aquarius after stealing the cosmic rod.
Each was bent on destroying worlds to sustain themselves. When the Golem shifted Earth-One's inhabitants to a parallel world and Aquarius pulled Earth-Two into another dimension, it was up to the Men of Steel to defeat them.
While Superman-One did so twice, the second time encasing the Golem in the core of the planet, Superman-Two relied on not only his Justice Society allies but that of his counterpart and the Justice League, ultimately drawing the being into a negative matter universe where Aquarius imploded.
However, before doing so, at least two lives were lost in his fellow Socialite Black Canary and her husband Larry Lance. The effects of Aquarius' encounter with the twin teams would resonate for years to come, as would that of another entity from space which we'll soon consider.
As to the origin of Aquarius, he was an exiled member of the "Council of Living Stars", sentient stars that banished him in a weakened form. These were the doppelgängers of yhe Sun-Thrivers, more proactive in the affairs of maintaining order throughout their Earth-Two cosmos than were their counterparts within the Earth-One universe
A counterbalance for these strange entities was the Green Globs that existed in Earth-One universe and assisted the Green Lantern Corps in 3600 sectors of space. The Green Flame of Earth-Two was a manifestation of a Green Glob, originating from the Starheart that allied itself with its fellow stellar bodies that were the Council of Stars, maintaining order in the universe.
Similar cosmic entities, designed by the Controllers known as the Sun-Eaters, were living weapons capable of extinguishing stars, were used on a couple occasions. Once in the twentieth century when one of these was stolen by Mongul, a thousand years later another Sun-Eater was employed by a renegade Controller.
These were larval versions of the Sun-Eaters such as the being known as Starbreaker, who due to his energy absorption powers was self-styled a "cosmic vampire". Starbreaker attempted to sow seeds of discontent until he was immobilized by the Justice League.
Earth-Two faced a threat from that universe's version of the Sun-Eaters known as the "vampire globes" for their similar abilities. These orchestrated a battle with the Spectre during a Justice Society case. The counterpart of Starbreaker was an evil entity named Koth, who quarreled with Doctor Occult and his allies of the Seven prior to this.
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