(New Gods I #11) - Darkseid observed Orion and Kalibak’s cataclysmic battle on Earth from Apokolips and acknowledged that he didn’t want to see eitherof his sons die. Desaad taunted him, and Darksewid gave him the warning blast of an omega beam, revealing that he knew it was Desaad who killed Kalibak’s mother Suli. The battle raged in Kalibak’s favor because Desaad was pumping power into him, so Darkseid obliterated him with an omega beam. The battle swung back in Orion’s favor, and the Black Racer claimed Kalibak.

(New Gods II #6) - Orion got word that his mother Tigra was still alive on Apokolips, and traveled there, causing havoc. Darkseid made Apokolips universally automated, run by machines that protected Apokolips and kept the populace in line, but his elite troops craved the old days of war and glory. Darkeid too, longed for previous times, and used his machines to resurrect Desaad, Kalibak, Steppenwolf and Mantis, but they were mere shells acting on instinct, their true personalities dwelt in the Source. Orion fought past Steppenwolf and confronted Darkseid, who showed him Tigra, trussed up, and threatened her life. In his unreasoning fury Orion was unprepared, and Darkseid’s marksmen shot him down into a fire pit. Darkseid hoped Orion was dead, although he knew he couldn’t have brought himself to kill his son.

(DC Graphic Novel #4) - Darkseid was presented with Micro-Mark technology that could destroy a planet by Esak, who’d turned against New Genesis after Metron abandoned him. Himon, his daughter Bekka and the Hunger Dogs of Armagetto nursed Orion back to health, and they stole a container of Micro-Mark, but Darkseid had plenty more in production. He attacked New Genesis, using Boom Tubes to bring the Micro-Mark there, forcing Highfather to construct a satellite city to save the New Gods. Darkseid hoped to corrupt New Genesis, and expected a counter-attack of terrorism, but none came. Orion led a Hunger Dog revolt by killing one of the citizen’s tormentors, and killed Esak for creating Micro-Mark. Highfather allowed New Genesis to be blown up, and Darkseid’s followers realized the Micro-Mark in production no longer had a target, and could very easily consume Apokolips. The revolts continued, and Orion used the confusion to rescue Tigra, and escape with her and Bekka off-world. Darkseid vowed to crush the Hunger Dog revolt and rule with an even mightier fist.

(Adventures of Superman #426) - Darkseid wanted to crush any great revolt from the Hunger Dogs, so he had Amazing Grace mind control Superman and have him lead a small Dog rebellion. The Dogs suffered heavy losses battling the Parademons, but won a brief victory. As they celebrated Amazing Grace had Superman address them and tell them their hopes were about to be crushed, and a squad of Parademons slaughtered the Dogs. Amazing Grace, satisfied with showing the Dogs how hopeless their situation was, handed control of Superman over to Darkseid.

(New Gods III #1, 3) - Darkseid sent Kalibak and a horde of Para-Demons to Earth to retrieve Eve Donner, Dave Lincoln and Wilson Gillmore, three Earthlings that held a part of the anti-life equation. Orion and a host of New Genesis gods resisted them, forcing them to flee, but not before activating a Morrow Block that sapped the lifeforce of Earth. The Morrow Block killed a number of New Genesis gods, including Jezebelle, before Orion destroyed it. Kalibak managed to kidnap Wilson Gillmore, and Desaad diseccted his essence with his machines, extracting the fraction of the anti-life equation and using it to power an anti-life crystal for Darkseid. Darkseid wanted to eliminate certain obstacles before unleashing his anti-life crystal, so he summoned Mantis, Desaad, Cyborg-87 and Iota, and gave them missions.

(New Gods III #5, 6) - After Mantis’ failed attempt at irradiating Earth with nuclear missles Darkseid’s anti-life crystal was growing dimmer, so Desaad had a troupe of Para-Demons kidnap Eve Donner from Earth and bring her to Apokolips. Darkseid wanted to lure Orion into killing Eve, but his plans fell apart when the Dreggs, the undead Old Gods, invaded Apokolips after Kalibak attacked a stray one. In his conflict with them Darkseid’s Omega-Beams struck Orion, Lightray and Eve, sending them all off-planet. The Dreggs lost interest in Darkseid and disappeared back to their subterranean lairs. Darkseid failed to see his future in their current state, gods brought low by unyielding warfare.

(New Gods III #7, 8, 10-12) - Orion was determined to save Tiggra from her imprisonment in Section Zero and prowled Armagetto. He disgusted with the toil of the Hunger Dogs, and the statues dedicated to Darkseid as lord of his people. Statues built by people near-starvation, people who lived only to prop up Darkseid’s ego and make machines of war for him. Orion smashed one of the monuments, and Darkseid dispatched Kalibak to reclaim his prodigal son so he could bring him to the dark side. After a quick, furious battle Kalibak was defeated. Darkseid punished Kalibak with his omega-beams for his failure, and Desaad proposed they execute Kalibak. Darkseid gave Kalibak another mission, to retrieve Harvey Lockman and his fragment of the anti-life equation from Earth. Darkseid had troubles extracting the equation from the boy, and accused primal forces of plotting against him. Darkseid sent Tyrus and his hound Tracker to retrieve Orion, and while they failed Tyrus gave him the location of Jovita and a group of rebel Hunger Dogs. Darkseid assigned Kalibakto exterminate them, unhappy with Kalibak’s recent failures and sensing that his son was no longer satisfied with his life as a soldier with no reward beyond pleasing Darkseid. Kalibak led a squadron, including Orion, who’d posed as a soldier to get close to Darkseid. Kalibak continued his rebellion against Darkseid, and after letting the Hunger Dogs escape he let Orion beat him and claim a key to Section Zero where Tiggra was being held. Orion fought his way to Tiggra, but she refused to leave, telling him she’d be a prisoner no matter where she went because of what she knew and had seen. She also affirmed for Orion that he was just like his father, and he left Section Zero in disgust. Kalibak observed through a monitor, his plan was complete, he’d taught Orion the same lesson he’d learned a long time ago, that he truly was his father’s son. Desaad saw his trechery and Kalibak strangled him, long overdue revenge for poisoning his mother Suli. Darkseid couldnot pry the anti-life equation from Lockman, and returned him to Earth in frustration. Darkseid saw Kalibak standing over the dead Desaad and Kalibak told him all he ever wanted was his love. Darkseid disintegrated him with an omega-beam, and reflected that now he’d have to resurrect Desaad and his son again.

(New Gods III #15) - Darkseid resurrected Desaad, and promised it was the last time he woulddo so. Desaad started impersonating Darkseid and engaging various metahumans on Earth. Darkseid chastisized him, and reminded Desaad that as hard as he tried he could never be like Darkseid. Darkseid punished him be destroying his emotion detector.

(New Gods III #16) - Desaad alerted Darkseid to the emergence of a power-source on Apokolips, a shattered sword of the Old Gods. After begging for Darkseid to favor him again, Darkseid gave a speech about the importance of power, and how every source of power belonged exclusively to him. He assigned Infernus to retrieve the sword, and although his minion was terrified of failing, because that was equivalent to suicide, Fastbak managed to keep the sword from him.

(New Gods III #17) - Necromina asked for control over the Dreggs’ Cavern, and while |Darkseid had no interest in the Dreggs he still demanded a favor for a favor. He took her to his science priests and had them install Mortis Mark technology in her so she could raise an army of the dead on Earth and kidnap Orion. Two science priests addressed Necromina before Darkseid, so he had them execute each other. He then got his high science priest alone, and told him he was one of the only people entrusted with the secret that Apokolips’ dependency on technology was a sham. The people were gods in their own right, and Darkseid didn’t want them to realize their own potential power, so he used the Omega-Beam to obliterate the priest.

(New Gods III #19-21) - Necromina succeeded in her task and her zombie army brought Orion back to Apokolips. Darkseid said her reward was the pleasure of serving his every whim, and she should be satisfied with that. She started begging, and Darkseid nearly obliterated her, but her feigned loyalty and claims of respect for his power made him decide to grant her the Cavern. As much knowledge as Darkseid had, he rarely learned anything from it, including the fact that fear did not equal loyalty. Yuga Khan approached and Darkseid said over an over again that he had no fear of Khan. When Desaad questioned him he claimed no to be in the least worried. Khan arrived, and Darkseid put up a brave front, telling Khan his time had past, but in truth, for the first time in his life he felt fear. Khan subdued him and asked if he wanted to greet his father with a hug. Khan took over Apokolips, and Desaad pledged his loyalty to him, telling him his service to Darkseid had been a lie. Khan disintegrated him, and went to fight an invasion force from New Genesis. Orion, still fixated on killing Darkseid, found his father. Darkseid told him he must destroy Khan, and the only way he could do that was to kill Darkseid. He explained that it violated the primal laws for a son to kill his father, so he could never kill Khan himself. He took Orion to Section Zero, home of the Lump, and told him they’d fight and he would slay him within the mindscape of Lump. This violation of the primal forces would allow Darkseid to conquer Khan. Orion found that even in the mindscape he couldn’t kill Darkseid, that killing the one that gave you life would be the ultimate act of self-loathing. He left the battlefield, and told Darkseid that some day he would answer for his sins, but it would not be by Orion’s hand. Yuga Khan’s reign ended when he tried to pierce the Source Wall for a second time, and was once again imprisoned in the Promethian Galaxy.

(New Gods III #23) - Darkseid and Desaad found that Ellis Ames, a man with a terminal disease, possessed a piece of the anti-life equation. Darkseid sent his warrior Agogg after him, and while Orion and Lightray initially took him to safety Agogg used his psychic profile to track down the last places Ames had been, including a music publishing company, one of many that found Ames’ work sub par, and Royer’s Children’s Hospital, where Ames played before he contracted his disease and was banned from the premises by an overly fearful nurse. Ames told Lightray how he envied him, and that how all he ever wanted was to make the world a better place than if he’d never been born. Agogg defeated Orion and Lightray in combat, and when he attacked the hospital Ames gave himself over to keep his beloved children from harm. On Apokolips he was brought before Darkseid, and when Darkseid turned his back he claimed he’d already given the anti-life equation to Agogg, and tossed himself out a window, acting like Agogg was the perpetrator. Darkseid believed the ruse and killed Agogg with the omega effect. In honor of his sacrifice Orion and Lightray gave Ames a heroes’ funeral.

(New Gods III #24, 25) - Darkseid became aware of Maya, the daughter of Beautiful Dreamer and Big Bear, and knew she could be a source of great strength, but when he callously refused to return Desaad’s emotionalizer his flunky decided to claim her for his own devices. Desaad engineered a nuclear disaster on Earth and tried to force Beautiful Dreamer to hand over her daughter. Darkseid overheard Desaad’s gloating, but decided to stay back and see how it played out. In the end Desaad was thwarted by Orion and Infinity Man.

(New Gods III #26) - Desaad, again acting under the false guise of Darkseid’s authority, told Tyrus to bring Rodman’s nephew Randy to Apokolips, because he possessed a piece of the anti-life equation. Darkseid was monitoring him, and although he knew Desaad was treacherous he was incredulous, and knew Desaad was signing his own death warrant. Orion and Lightray saved the boy, and Tyrus had a change of heart, switching allegiances to New Genesis.

(New Gods III #27) - Darkseid became aware of Earthwoman Anne Flaherty, who possessed part of the anti-lie equation, and sent his ruthless soldier Dispatcher to retrieve her, warning him he’d be disintegrated if he failed. Highfather sent Orion and Lightray to stop him, but by the time they reached her she was dead, killed by drunk driver John Elliot.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #1, 3) - Apokolips and New Genesis merged, and Highfather hoped he’d made the right call in deceiving Darkseid and his own people into believing the Source was corrupted, the motivating factor that allowed for the merger. He knew Darkseid would seek the power of the Old Gods, and hoped his new quest would keep him occupied. With Desaad dead, Darkseid turned to his lackey Kalkus to use Desaad’s equations to unleash the Old Gods, and warned Kalkus that if he failed him, he’d suffer an eternity of torment. Tigra had escaped bondage, and posing as a Hunger Dog learned of Darkseid’s schemes. She used Desaad’s work to bring forth Thor from a portal, and demanded he kill Darkseid, but the god had his own ideas about what to do with his newfound freedom. Tigra brought Thor to the New Gods, and he admitted that Darkseid had chosen to strike against his pantheon because ethey were weakened after Odin disappeared. Mr. Miracle found Odin in the Promethean Galaxy, and saved him with the help of the Forever People. Darkseid roared with laughter when he saw the sun rise on Apokolips for the first time, and confided in Kanto and Granny Goodness that he always had a good sense of humor about the cosmos, and was honored that Highfather was going through such effort to distract him, but he wouldn’t be foiled. He assembled an armada of spaceships from all the worlds and pantheons of gods he’d conquered, and aimed them at Earth.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #5) - It turned out that one of these ships had a doomsday weapon, the oblivion bomb, capable of destroying the universe. They were so bitter with the meaning Darkseid took from their lives that they sought revenge by extinguishing life in the cosmos. Only the astro-force could deal with it, and in desparation Highfather resurrected Orion from the Source, though he noted something different about him. Darkseid appeared on the ship carrying the oblivion bomb and told the aliens they were foolish to attempt to destroy his universe. He used the omega beam to erase them from existence, but as he faded the captain of the ship activated the oblivion bomb. Orion deactivated it with the astro-force, and Darkseid disappeared. Highfather and the New Gods made a peace with the aliens, allowing them to chose among their ranks for new deities to worship so their lives could have fulfillment. Darkseid met Orion on a nearby asteroid as the alien armada left in peace, and told him he recognized something different, yet familiar in him since he’d returned from the Source. He asked his son how he’d deal with the aliens, and Orion responded by destroying every last ship with the astro-force. Darkseid said he finally felt like he had a son.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #6) - Kalibak demanded Darkseid release him from bondage after he’d heard Orion was resurrected. His entire life’s purpose was to destroy his brother, but Darkseid chided him that Kalibak’s goals were but a fraction of his own, and that the final fate of Orion was in Darkseid’s hands. Darkseid learned from his underling Kalkus that the wavefront of the universe had reached its limit and was contracting. Darkseid senses that great power could be harnessed from such a cosmic event. The Female Furies tunneled a hole into New Genesis in preparation of a military strike, but were confronted by Orion, who started mowing them down. Darkseid finally realized the presence he felt in Orion, and intervened. He prepared to use the omega effect to kill Orion, in defiance of prophecy, to separate the other presence, but Takion ordered him to stand down, and knowing Takion was the will of the Source Darkseid complied. Takion and Highfather used their power to release the corrupting influence from Orion, which turned out to be Desaad.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #7) - Desaad returned to Apokolips, and Darkseid confided in him that the Source was in danger, and was agitated at the idea of the Source coming to an end, and a Fifth World beginning. Desaad felt nothing, and this confirmed for Darkseid that whatever shriveled soul he possessed had died. Darkseid had a soul dark as night, but he was still connected to the Source.

(Genesis #3, Spectre III #58) - Darkseid blamed Desaad for his plans for the Source not progressing. Spectre appeared to him, suspecting the disturbance in the Source had something to do with the disappearance of God from Heaven, but not willing to tip his hand to Darkseid. He told Darkseid he invited conflict with a dark god of greater powers than his simply to befuddle him, since Darkseid could conceive of no one more powerful than himself.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #14) - For his own inscrutable reasons Metron needed Darkseid back on Apokolips, and teamed with Desaad to venture into outer space to ask a Promethean Giant, Prodigian, to help them free Darkseid from the Source Wall. An enormous being hidden in robes appeared, and expressed his own interest in the situation. Metron and Desaad visited the Source Wall with Prodigian, and Desaad was surprised to find the wall once again keeping Promethean Giants prisoner. Metron explained that he had to warp time to talk to Prodigian, and in their breif conversation, billions of years past, and new giants sought the wall and fell short. Metron made a trans-phasic inversion using the Mobius Chair, slipping the giants into parallel dimensions briefly so he could dig through the wall to Darkseid. Metron still questioned the hooded stranger, who only replied that he was invested in freeing those trapped in the Source Wall. Metron noticed how carefully he phrased himself, and wondered if their objectives were truly the same. The stranger and Metron created a dimensional intersect so they existed at all points in time, because Darkseid and the others trapped after Genesis were too much a part of the Source to be freed in the present. Back in the time they started they freed Darkseid, with Prodigian agreeing to take his place for a while. The stranger revealed himself as Mars, and freed Ares, undoing the schism Uxas created so long ago, and making them one god. Takion investigated, but the immense energies from the Source Wall buffeted him. Mars / Ares promised to make the New Gods pay for their separation.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #18) - Tigra convinced Kalibak that she’d cuckolded Darkseid with Orion’s father, and that Kalibak was the one true son of the dark god, and the only claimant on defeating him in final battle. Shwe lied because she wanted to speed up the process of Armageddon, and knew Orion was too level-headed to push final battle. Kalibak set up his lair in the machine Metron used to try and free Darkseid from the Source Wall, and used it to channel Darkseid’s energy into himself. Metron arrived as Kallibak commanded his Parademonds to use the lair’s energy transponder to drain the remainder of Darkseid’s energy, planning on then freeing him and provoking their final confrontation. Metron added his own energy to the beam, causing it to free Darkseid. Kalibak demanded final battle, but Darkseid said that was Orion’s fate. Metron explained Tigra’s story, refusing to divulge if it was true, and told Darkseid the only thing that mattered was that Kalibak was issuing a challenge he saw as his due. Darkseid accepted, blasted Kalibak into nothingness with his omega beams, and chided his son for having schemes that amounted to nothing. Darkseid though an eternity of scalded nerves was a fitting punishment for his child. Metron awaited a speech from Darkseid, but the evil god only told him that now that Darkseid was back, the universe would return to the status quo.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #19) - On Apokalips Desaad gave Darkseid a battle report of the forces Kalibak raised against him. Darkseid was somewhat confused about Kalibak demanding final battle, and Desaad reminded him of Tigra’s lies that Orion was not his son. Darkseid, completely out of character, apologized, and admitted that he was unfocused after his time in the Source Wall. Desaad was worried about his master’s state of mind, and shared his knowledge with Darkseid’s Elite Vundabar, Kanto and Granny Goodness. They bickered, and Virman tried to play both sides Kanto physically subjugated him, and told him his only use was as a paperweight. Tigra appeared, and told the Elite the time had come to take power from Darkseid, and if his weakness was known his own supporters would be on their side. Virman Vundabar schemed to assassinate Darkseid in his weakened state. He pointed a crossbow at his lord, but Darkseid had predicted that he was his only minion who would plot against him after his return from the Source Wall. Darkseid’s weakness was a ploy meant to draw out enemies. Vundabarr reminded him that Darkseid taught survival of the strongest, and Darkseid said he once again confused strength with cunning. Darkseid used his omega beam to wipe Vundabarr from existence.

(A. Bizarro #3) - When A. Bizarro arrived on Apokolips Darkseid captured him and gave him to Desaad. Desaad determined that Bizarro was too ugly and stupid to be from New Genesis so Darkseid told Desaad to do with him as he pleased.

(Martian Manhunter II #19) - Darkseid constructed the Deus ex Machina, or D.E.M., a technoorganic machine that would attach to the Source Wall and send a soul into the Source to send back info to him about the Spurce’s secrets. He sent Kanto and a squad of Paraemons to attack JSA hq and steal the Star-Spangled Kid’s soul with the living death. He used her soul in the D.E.M., but Martian Manhunter went to Apokolips and merged his soul with the Kid’s to extract her from the Source and return her to her body. The Source gave Manhunter a message for Darkseid, it warned him never again to make such an attempt on its secrets. Manhunter asked him what he would do if he ruled the cosmos, and Darkseid said he would create order from chaos, an order that could only be imposed by someone of his willpower.

(DCU Holiday Bash #2) - Despite Darkseid’s best efforts, Santa Claus once again made it to Apokolips, dropped off coal for Darkeid and ran away from Darkeid’s military force.

(Superman: The Man of Steel #115, Action Comics #780) - Darkseid had the Alien Alliance evacuate the citizens of Metropolis to a space ark so Metropolis could serve as a staging ground in the Imperiex War. Darkseid brought his forces to Metropolis and tried to provoke a fight with Superman, but President Luthor assured Superman that Darkseid was an ally, and that Earth needed him to defeat Imperiex.

(Action Comics #781) - Darkseid and Maxima sent their holograms to Washington when President Luthor briefed them about the Imperiex War, and let them know that if Imperiex destroyed Earth he would complete his plan to set off a new Big Bang and recreate the universe.

(Superman II #173, Adventures of Superman #595) - President Luthor, the Atom and Doc Magnus devised a plan to crack Imperiex Prime's armor and channel the energies back to the galaxies he stole them from using a Boom Tube provided by Darkseid. Strange Visitor absorbed Superman's energy and bombed Imperiex with 30 hydrogen bombs, sacrificing herself to crack his shell. Brainiac-13 stole the released energy using Warworld and used the LexCorp Towers, actually a temporal displacement cannon, to bombard Apokolips with the energy. Darkseid used this attack as a reason to declare war on Earth, sending an army of Parademons to attack the planet. Superman and Darkseid fought an even battle until Grayven revealed to Darkseid that he served Brainiac-13, who planned on remaking Apokolips and Earth into planetary computers. Darkseid used the Omega Effect to disintegrate his traitorous son, and agreed to ally himself with Superman to destroy Brainiac-13.

(Action Comics #782) - Superman came up with a plan to end the Imperiex war. Troia, Tempest and Wonder Woman increased Darkseid's power so he could use the Omega Effect to create a Boom Tube that opened up to the beginning of time, which swallowed Warworld. Imperiex' energy was powering Warworld and set off a big bang that melded with the original, allowing him to fulfill his purpose, and scattering B-13's consciousness across all spacetime.

(Lobo / Deadman: The Brave and the Bald #1) - Darkseid’s quest for godhood led him to bring Lobo and Deadman, two men who’d been to Heaven, to Apokolips, where they were attacked by Para-Demons. Lobo mauled the soldiers before Doctor Kroolman tricked him into killing himself. He used a psionic dissembling machine on Lobo and Deadman to break apart their spirits in hopes of finding the subconscious part of their spirits that knew the way to Heaven. While dragging away Lobo’s body a Para-Demon accidentally summoned Lobo’s bike, disrupting the dissembler and allowing Deadman to escape and Lobo to return to his body. Darkseid was not pleased with Kroolman’s failure and demanded he commit suicide. Lobo fiddled with Kroolman’s mother box before handing it back to the despot, and it sent Darkseid on a boom tube trip across the universe. Lobo was satisfied with his revenge.

(JLA #15) - Metron passed Darkseid on the Source Wall as he headed to the year 85271.

(Superman / Batman #9-12) - Darkseid wanted someone to replace Big Barda as head of the Female Furies, but Granny couldn't produce any worthy candidates. Darkseid told her he wanted Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El, who'd recently landed on Earth, and warned that if she failed he'd have the Furies kill her. He had Dr. bedlam make an army of cloned Doomsday animates and set them on Paradise island where Kara was saying. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Amazons fought them off despite heavy casualties, but they managed to bring Kara to Apokolips. Darkseid brainwashed Kara and brought out her dark side. When Superman arrived to rescue her he had Kara attack him, and Superman subdued her using Batman's kryptonite ring. Batman threatened to explode hellspores that would destroy Apokolips unless Darkseid gave his word to leave Kara alone, and Darkseid had no choice but to agree. On Earth the damage Darkseid did to Supergirl was undone with a combination of Amazonian science and Barda's mother box. Darkseid was waiting for Kara and Superman in Smallville, and told them he wasn't breaking his word because he'd come to kill Superman, not Kara. He shot omega beams at Superman, but Supergirl jumped in front of her cousin and was seemingly disintegrated. Superman actually spirited her away with the JLA teleporter so Darkseid would think her dead. Superman and Darkseid engaged in battle, which ended when they traveled to the edge of time and space and Superman hurled Darkseid into the Source Wall.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #35) - Prof. Martin Stein, one half of the hero Firestorm, uncovered the secrets behind Firestorm’s elemental nature. The equation of fire was a part of the life-equation, and its full unraveling posed a grave threat to Darkseid, so he sent the Female Furies and Kalibak to Earth to claim Stein. Firestorm, aided by Orion and Mr. Miracle defeated the villains, so Darkseid decided to take measures into his own hands. He appeared on Earth, and bafter complimenting Firestorm on his power, told him he had no more time for games. He broke the Firestorm-matrix, separating Stein from his partner Jason Rusch, and took Stein with him to Apokolips through a Boom Tube. Jason formed a new matrix with his girlfriend Gehenna, and the new Firestorm went in search of Darkseid and Stein.

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(Martian Manhunter II #1,000,000) - Over 30,000 years in the future Darkseid took over Mars, making it into a new version of Apokolips in orer to avenge a wrong he suffered in the past at the hands of Martian Manhunter. Manhunter led another army of heroes to battle Darkseid and his Paraemons, driving them from Mars. Manhunter used a Boom Tube to take himself and Darkseid to the Source Wall. The Source told Darkseid his time was past, and Darkseid’s threat was ended as he left the earthly plane and became one with the Source.