Planet Xandar

Xandar was the birthplace of the Nova Corps and has suffered from many destructive sieges.

Xandar was almost completely destroyed by the Luphomoid Zorr the Conqueror but was saved by the timely intervention of Uatu the Watcher. Uatu then assisted the Xandarians in creating a network of interconnected domed cities out of the largest remaining pieces of the planet.

The planet is nearly destroyed again by the Skrulls. Later still Nebula destroyed the planet, massacring the Xandarians and the Nova Corps. The Nova Corps were resurrected by Richard Rider, a new Centurion who used the Nova Force power to reboot the Xandarian Worldmind which proceeded to clone the dead Xandarians including Queen Adora.

After a mysterious attack on the Kyln, Xandar once again called upon all of the Nova Corps to investigate, only to be utterly destroyed by the Annihilation Wave.

Alternate Realities

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)

Xandar acts as the capital of the Nova Empire and the headquarters of the Nova Corps. Xandar is a home to thriving, diverse, technologically advanced, and socially liberal population. Its government is a stratocracy ruled over by Nova Prime.

Xandar appears to be predominately covered by oceans. Additionally, Xandar's solar system contains three stars (two yellow and one red), which served as the inspiration for the Nova Corps' occulight symbol.

After more than a thousand years of war between Xandar and Hala, Nova Prime Irani Rael was able to broker a peace treaty with the Kree government. Unfortunately, some radical fundamentalist fractions of the Kree Empire refused to honor the peace treaty. Ronan the Accuser and his Sakaaran army were chief among these dissenters. Ronan began attack Nova Corps outposts and garnered a deal with Thanos to destroyed Xandar in exchange for retrieval and delivery of the Orb. However, after obtaining the Orb, Ronan betrayed Thanos, keeping the Orb and planning to destroy Xandar with it. Ronan was only nearly prevented from succeeding by the intervention of the Guardians of the Galaxy with aid from the Nova Corps and Yondu and his Ravagers.

According to Thor, Thanos and his forces decimated Xandar to acquire the Power Stone a week before attacking Thor's Asgardian refugees to obtain the Tesseract.

Points of Interest

• Nova Headquarters
• Spaceport

Residents

• Xandarians (formerly)
• Nova Corps (formerly)

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)

• Xandarians
  • Nova Corps
    • Nova Prime Irani Rael
    • Corpsman Rhomann Dey
    • Denarian Garthan Saal (formerly)
• The Broker
• Krylorians
  • Bereet
  • Karman-Kan
  • Duranna
• Hurctarians
• Aakons
• Xeronians
• Numerous of species possibly including Kree, Centaurian, Gramosians, Guna, Korbinites, and various others

Trivia

• Hindsight Lad once postulated that one of the four bio-domes of Xandar was unaccounted for. Therefore, there may yet be a remaining colony of Xandarians still be alive.

Search for Shalla-Bal

It was highlighted as the second destination to find the Silver Surfer's lost beloved, Shalla-Bal, and Terri, Norrin and Johnny went on the hot pursuit. Elmar had this vision, and they needed to overcome the lava and volcano in order to reach Firelord and save her. Thanks to quick thinking, Terri switched the wires under her Astrowing's motherboard in order to have freezing ice jets to decimate the pyrotic! Terri soon passed out while the other heroes escorted her and her ship back to the Zenn-lavian mothership. It turned out Shalla-Bal hasn't been found yet...

Ikran's F-Zero timeline

It was mentioned in some flashbacks involving the Guardians as they described to Rick and Tinsel of their battle against Ronan, even when Groot sacrificed himself, and when the Nova Corp became obsolete in favor of the more advanced organization, Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.

It seems that the last fic, as old as it was, took place somewhere else in Xandar. As the place was lesser habitable than the metropolis.

Gallery

Xandar, as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy

Metropolis of Xandar

Xandar's skies

Xandar's destruction after the Annihilation Wave