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| - This contraction causes universes throughout the Multiverse to collide, with each universe's respective Earth as the point of impact. The incursion is the name given to the period of time in which the two Earths collide, and lasts exactly eight hours. During that time, there is a short period of harmonic alignment which allows both Earths to exist next to each other without any detrimental effects. The fist incursion happened seven years after the first Molecule Man was killed. But once the eight hours pass, and the Earths collide, both the planets and their respective universes are obliterated. The only way to avert the destruction of the two universes involved in an incursion is to destroy one of the Earths before they can collide. Doing so will save both universes, and one of the Earths. Each time a new incursion happens, the rate in which universes collide accelerates. With each universe that is destroyed, the Multiverse contracts and its lifespan is shortened. For each incursion there is an "incursion point," a single area in each of the colliding Earths from which the other Earth can be seen approaching, the sky inside the incursion point can be of varying colors, while usually colored red, it can also be blue which portends the Mapmakers. Outside the incursion point, everything looks normal. An unusual phenomenon called "Simtum Tapputu" can occur, in which an Earth is in incursion with two realities at the same time. According to the Black Swan, there are at least eight ways of averting an incursion.
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