History
Avaleen-4 was an agricultural world located in a Kree fringe system. Millions of people lived on Avaleen-4 and thousands more lived in the mining colony that had been established on one of the planet's moons.
When the Fallen One targeted Avaleen-4, Star-Lord and his partner "Ship" intervened. Unfortunately, they discovered that the only way they could prevent the insane ex-Herald from destroying the planet was by channeling a vast amount of life energy against him and the only way that they could generate that much energy was by sacrificing thousands of lives. So, in order to save the lives of millions, Ship decimated the mining colony and channeled the resulting surge of life energy through her ordnance matrix at the Fallen One, rendering him unconscious. The act of channeling that much energy also killed Ship, and Star-Lord, now a mass murderer, turned himself and the Fallen One over to the Nova Corps for punishment.[1]
The collateral damage from defeating the Fallen One in that manner was 350,000 dead.[2]Notes
- Although Avaleen-4 was located in a Kree fringe system, the fact that it had a consulate and not a governor means that it was not a Kree colony or a conquered world but an independent planet with diplomatic ties to the Kree Empire. Nothing has been revealed about the planet's inhabitants.