Your wholesome sleep paralysis demon

If I wasn't at work this would probably be a fanart. Maybe one day it will be. Quote by doeprince, inspired by this TMBD art by omagpies

Angus XIII: yeeeaaaah, it is my destinyyyy, to rule the galaxyyyyyyy...

Also Angus XIII: [gets stabbed with the Knife of Evil and jumps into a volcano]

The Robot Prince: [destined to reign forevermore] [in search of epic battles to escape his destiny]

Also the Robot Prince: [gets stabbed with the Knife of Evil and dies (band canon)/specifically blows himself up (Hendersonverse)]

Because if they're doing Sacred Timeline shenanigans, where were they during the terror vortex, and if they ARENT, then nothing about this timeline should be abnormal: a multiverse would mean that a Zargothrax wins timeline exists for every one where he is defeated, where all three artifacts clash for every timeline where nobody ever finds one, and that tragedy strikes for every happy timeline.

Or did THEY fuck something up and are desperately trying to hid it from their own superiors, and Argus II's timeline ended up as collateral damage?

See, the thing is we don't know much about the Starlords. They just show up at the end of album 4, say some pompous shit, and nuke everyone save for Angus bc they need him for SOMETHING

So I'm, hah, working with what little we're given and tinkering it for the purpose of a fanfic.

I think the thing with the Terrorvortex is that it's a gate to a pre-existing twisted evil dimension which was already there (it's where Kor-Virliath lives???). Besides, the Ralathor from that universe (the one with the nuclear submarines) is called Ralathor Prime by the wiki and I THINK the official timeline as well, meaning that the Terrorvortex is sill somehow part of the prime, "correct" timeline.

And besides, if the Starlords had known about timeline 38-B from the get go, they probably would've nuked it right away in the same way you usually wipe down spilled orange juice the moment it happens. The fact that they didn't implies one of two things:

Either Angus II's destiny requires him to be grown up and he's so important that they couldn't fix the abnormal timeline for 20odd years & it was an error which was destined to happen (so the 3 artifacts colliding were a convenient excuse to finally get rid of that mess AND II really is important enough to make demands)

OR eternity is a vast thing and they're not all-seeing. Maybe they genuinely didn't notice the stray timeline until the 3 artifacts collided, went "hey did you hear that sound, wait WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING, BLOW IT UP NOW" and kaboomed it while saving Angus and feeding him some bullshit about destiny bc he might come in useful.

Given the running theme of destiny as something like puppet strings and a thief of free will, my money would be on option 1. The lore booklet speaks of a giant, prophesied/predestined cosmic plan which might include a ton of weird shit for all we know, but somehow it included Angus II but not his universe. Or, perhaps, it DIDN'T include him but they just think he's a useful wildcard to have around (ohohohoho!)

So I'm not actually entirely sure how the multiverse works or even why timeline 38-B is called 38-B (though I imagine the B just denotes it as another version of 38-A, perhaps meaning the original, "prime" timeline.) Perhaps the name is random, perhaps there really is only one proper timeline + the Terrorvortex (which is apparently more of a parallel dimension rather than an alternate timeline so MAYBE the rules are different. 38-B Ralathor certainly had to be killed by Ralathor Prime to avoid a paradox as per the official timeline.)

Gonna be real I have no idea. Maybe I'm overthinking it. The lore of GH runs mainly on the Rule of Cool and isn't meant to be taken overly seriously. I'm just trying to twist it into something which makes sense. Maybe album 5 (or album 6 if Ango II doesn't show up in 5) will shed some light on things, but for now that's all I have.