Rifts Crisis

The Shifter describing the effects of the Rifts on her existence. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)

The Rifts Crisis was an interdimensional crisis involving the rapid, destructive spread of Rifts across the Multiverse. The Consistency Imperium was founded to stymie the Crisis, being active for decades from its perspective, but unbeknownst to most members of the Imperium until the last day, the Imperium's own Imperial Advisor was the true culprit for the Crisis.

History

Origins

There were many potential starting point for the Rifts, most of which righted themselves in time, without halting the spread of the Rifts in other dimensions. They included a Rift-making machine built by a “bull-guy”, dangerous chemical manipulations by a juvenile space behemoth called Fyargathaaark865blububurgh$1gkzo, and reckless time-travelling by a man with a bowtie. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) The spread of the Rifts was accelerated by the activities of a sort of interdimensional sect called the Consistency Imperium, who were manipulated by the mad alchemist Mandragora-257. Mandragora also built a Machine designed to be activated once the damage to the Multiverse had become critical, to complete the work of destroying it altogether. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)

Effects

Some Rifts connected dimensions. They allowed, on several individual occasions, the Faction of the Fooling Fish (who, at the time, did not yet possess an interdimensional mode of transport of their own) to cross over from the Prime Universe to the Cupid Homeworld. However, a Rift could also hinder the functioning of normal dimensional transports; after too large a Rift appeared in the Cupid Homeworld, it began to block Fog Ship dematerialisation, sealing off the Cupids in their own Homeworld. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)

The Rifts caused some universes to unravel and, at any rate, made travel between them more difficult. As a result, many versions of Jenny Everywhere temporarily lost the ability to shift and to tap into each other's knowledge, lest they go mad or fall out of reality completely; many more of Jenny's selves died than had in living memory. One version of Jenny who had retained the ability to shift investigated the Rifts' origins and discovered that they seemed to be caused by the activities of a sort of interdimensional sect called the Consistency Imperium: wherever they went, Rifts appeared or worsened. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)

End of the Crisis

Pythagoras-858, whom this Jenny encountered while looking for the Imperium's home base, already knew something of the Rifts, which had cut him off from his homeworld. After learning Jenny had a lead, he decided to join forces with her and the two departed to seek out the Imperium together. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids) Although parting ways with Jenny at Hilbert's, (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) Pythe ultimately made it to the Imperium's base of operations, where he met up with three other Clockwork Cherubs, Marksmanship-522, Tracker-764 and Bibliophile-962, as well as the Hound. They discovered that Mandragora had indeed infiltrated the Imperium. They helped ensure his plan backfired, however, with his Machine imploding and taking the Imperium's base with him. The Rifts were subsequently closed by the bevy of powerful beings who had rallied to the Cupids' cause, including Madame Tarsa. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)