In First Mud (backup story of Tales of the TMNT volume 2 issue #14: Loops, Part 2 of 2), Professor Obligado uses black market information to rediscover the lost original Utrom homeworld of Magonia, but finds it has been intentionally hidden in a massive planet-sized cloak, and its surface almost completely devoid of life. Continued in Apocalypse Vow (backup story of Tales of the TMNT volume 2 issue #15: Hell's Blacktop), Magonia proves to be a not-so-lost world, as it is actively monitored by the Utromi Obscura Secreti, who are tasked with maintaining the planet's secrecy and killing anyone and everyone who dares discover it. Obligado, a trained commando, not only evades the Secreti attempt to kill and silence him, but he covertly steals one of the Secreti ships to escape Magonia. Obligado