Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25441082-20180322105243/@comment-33690333-20181204234829

I do like the basic gist of my Galactic Storm pitch still too, but I feel like those elements could be better done later down the line. I could definitely still incorporate the Shi'ar into my new pitch, though.

For now I'm just going to use "Captain Marvel: Conquest" as the working title.

So the Phalanx is re-imagined a bit as a war weapon designed by the Kree, a bio-mechanic hive mind designed to assimilate any enemies that stand in its way. However, as the Phalanx developed further and became harder to control, they were forced to shut it down.

In modern times, the Phalanx is mysteriously re-activated, and, more sentient than before, it quickly takes over the Kree Empire, all except for scientist Yon-Rogg, his assistant Minn-Erva, and the Kree Starforce, which is lead by Captain At-Lass and Phyla-Vell, a relative of Mar-Vell. With Yon-Rogg staying back at their temporary base (possibly on Knowhere?), At-Lass and his team are sent to locate Carol Danvers and recruit her to help stop the Phalanx, which is now setting its sights on the rest of the galaxy. They learn of an order of monks in the city of Shao-Lom (on the planet Titan) who could resist assimilation by the Phalanx through psychic power. The monks see the Phalanx turning on the Kree as poetic justice for the Empire's history of attempted galaxy domination, but one of them, known as Moondragon, decides to step up and help the heroes, developing somewhat of a romance with Phyla-Vell throughout the film.

They end up going back to their base, where they discover Yon-Rogg is actually obsessed with the Phalanx, having studied it and its creation extensively, and he believes that the only way to keep the universe going is to let everything become one with it. He actually wanted them to recruit Carol because she'd be the perfect candidate to be assimilated and lead the hivemind on its conquest. The heroes are able to prevent this, thanks to Moondragon, so Yon-Rogg gets assimilated instead, becoming a cybernetic super-being and the true big bad.

In the end, the heroes discover that Yon-Rogg only unleashed the Phalanx after discovering it had been re-activated, and eventually discover that it was a signal from Earth that awoke the hivemind. (Hint hint.)

We could also still totally include a Jane Foster appearance in here somewhere, though it'd probably end up being like Doctor Strange's in Thor: Ragnarok.