guardians of the galaxy 2 what is a celestial
Celestial (comics) At the beginning of creation itself, countless billions of years ago, before the modern Cosmic Order, creation was composed of a single sentient universe whose omnipotent intelligence was referred to as The First Firmament. For countless ages, the First Firmament was the sole being in creation-until its loneliness became unbearable. It decided to create the first life in Creation to give it companions as well as servants-an act it later came to regret. These servants were cosmic beings of a lesser order of power. They were of two kinds: Black humanoid entities who dutifully obeyed and worshiped their creator. They created their own servants and sought to preserve the simple order their creator had made complete and unchanging for all time. The Firmament named these loyal beings Aspirants and was very pleased by their goals and desire to maintain the status quo of its reign. However, the Firmament also created another group of multicolored humanoid entities whom it considered "rebels" who had completely different values and desires from the Aspirants. The rebels wanted a dynamic, diverse and evolving Reality where beings lived, learned, reproduced, aged and died in order to improve themselves slowly through evolution. The rebels wanted this with the ultimate long term goal of producing superior cosmic beings with the power to create universes of their own and for the universe to evolve with them as they advanced towards that state. These were the beings whom one day would be called by lesser life forms The Celestials.[1]