Planet Eaters

The Planet Eaters are part of the Destroyers agenda. They were released as part of the Rise series and received supplemental content from the I Chomp NY and All Your Base sets.

These ravenous creatures from a far away world want nothing more than to wreck our planet.



Story

 * Damn tradition! It hardly seems fair to name that bloody comet after me just because I found it.
 * '''-Professor P. Thaddeus Blott,
 * '''astronomer and namesake of the comet, Blott's Folly

Since the dawn of civilization, Man has sought in the heavens for omens of good or ill. Had we known what lurked among the stars, humanity might have kept our eyes on the ground.

Five years ago, astronomers discovered a new celestial body: a six-tailed, golden-hued comet streaking its way into Earth's solar system. The trajectory of the comet put in on course to pass within 67 million miles of the Earth in 2007. This resented a unique opportunity for scientists to launch an intercept probe and study the most elusive of celestial wanderers. In late 2006, the Harbinger Comet Explorer launched and successfully intercepted the comet eight months later. The probe transmitted less than three seconds of video before contact was lost. Though awash in light and indistinct, more than a few observers claimed the images depicted a shape that resembled a giant eye.

Within hours of losing contact with the probe, the comet appeared to change course-intelligently! Its new trajectory would intercept Earth in less than five months. The defense forces of every major nation worked feverishly to move the comet off course with a barrage of nuclear warheads but to no avail. Four hundred thousand miles from Earth, the comet split into six separate fragments that crashed at equidistant corners of the globe. Earthquakes and tsunamis shook the planet, and a sizable portion of Chicago disappeared forever in a massive crater that has since altered the contour of Lake Michigan. The Planet Eaters were here.

From the devastation caused by the impacts emerged six gargantuan, ravenous creatures and a host of lesser minions. These space-born terrors on impenetrable flesh and glistening metal stormed the landscape and devoured all but the very ground they walked upon. With no apparent purpose other than to consume everything in their path, these alien horrors continue to raze cities and repel every military force that dares stand before them. Humanity's only peace comes when it seems these creatures have had their fill for a time and burrow deep beneath the Earth's surface for a brief hibernation. Such respite brings little solace, however, for the beasts always return hungrier than before.

Series 1: Rise

 * Gorghadra
 * Rogzor

Series 2: I Chomp NY

 * Xaxor
 * Zorog

Series 3: All Your Base

 * Vorgax

Series 1: Rise

 * Belcher
 * Crawler
 * Destructomite
 * Explodohawk

Series 2: I Chomp NY

 * Chomper
 * Scorcher

Series 3: All Your Base

 * Constrictor
 * Explodomite

Series 3: All Your Base

 * Harbinger Comet Shard