Shortly before leaving on its trip through time, the Star Child absorbed the power and personality of his two older aspects, Ken Connell and the Old man, and used his power to save the world one last time. You see, World War 3 had broken out, and after the world's powers launched their missiles and discovered them to be inert (the Child had rendered them useless earlier), armies rolled across the earth.

Enraged that the humanity he was trying to help was on the verge of annihilating itself, the Star Child made its voice known to the people of earth, telling them that he'd saved them from a nuclear holocaust, and that he would save them again, this time by deactivating each and every weapon on earth. However, he vowed not to do so again and, after this message sank in, he passed through time.

He then rewired the minds of all three of his component consciousnesses. The Old Man, he totally wiped clean and sent back to become himself. Ken, he transformed into a man with the mentality of a Dutch duke, made a place for him half a millennium back, and then sent him there. Finally, he altered his own mind and memories and, creating a life for himself, sent himself to 1986 to become Ken Connell.

And that was it. For three years, nobody would see or hear anything concerning the Star Brand; this was because Jim Hanrahan refused to use the Brand's power whatsoever. You see, when Jacob healed the pilot, the Star Child reached out to give him the Brand, and conveyed to him memories of the people that had used it in order to help him use the power responsibly.

So apparently, the paradox that the Star Child needed to resolve wasn't the existence of the Star Brand, so much as it was Ken Connell! Thus, his plan allowed him to totally remove all three aspects of himself from the timeline by trapping himself in that pre-existing temporal loop - while keeping the power of the Star Brand intact in the universe so it could be used to help others.

Jim wouldn't risk causing any destruction with the Star Brand, however, so he simply sat on it until he was approached by Wendell Vaughn, otherwise known as Quasar on another earth. You see, while traveling sideways across the timestream, Quasar got himself blasted way off the beaten track; so far, in fact, that he wound up outside his normal multiverse and in the timeline of this relatively New Universe.

He had sought Jim out because, thanks to information given to him by the fine paranormals of D.P. 7, he knew the Star Brand was his only way to get back home - his own weapons, the Quantum Bands, weren't working properly in this universe. Not sure he wanted to give this awesome power to a total stranger, Wendell agreed to tell the man everything about himself until he was convinced.

This took about seventeen straight hours of talk, at which point Jim finally yielded the Star Brand to Wendell, who then used it - way, way, way out in space - to power a dimensional transit back home. Happy to be free of the power, Jim cried out in happiness, though if the past has been any indication, he nonetheless still carries a significant portion of the Star Brand's power within him...

Back on his own earth, Wendell thought that the power of the Star Brand had burnt itself out, but he had in fact inadvertently transferred it to his girlfriend, Kayla Ballantine. She didn't know she had it, either, until she found herself abducted by the strange being known as the Chief Examiner, an artificial being who was copying the powers of various earthen heroes in order to create yet another artificial being.

He couldn't copy Kayla's Star Brand, however, and as it blew him to bits, the Chief Examiner's synthetic guardian fulfilled its purpose, that of protecting its homeworld from the depredations of the evil Black Fleet, a band of outlaw, techno-organic ships. After this artificial entity was destroyed, along with a large portion of the planet Scadam, Kayla lost it, and used her newfound powers to wipe the Fleet out.

Well, all but one ship, at any rate, which would return to plague her later. However, in the mean time, Kayla was in much more danger from her supposed friend, H.D. Steckley, who was in fact the deviant sorceress known as Ereshkigal, who was plotting to steal Kayla's power for herself. At the same time, however, Quasar had his own problems, having lost his quantum bands after being nullified.

To his delight, he discovered that he still had a portion of the Star Brand's power left within him, and he used this to protect himself while he adventured about the cosmos for a bit. He eventually got his bands back, however, and once again thought he'd burnt out the Star Brand, but a miniscule amount of its power remained within him, one so small that only the Living Tribunal itself could detect it.

In time, Ereshkigal eventually tricked Kayla into giving her the Star Brand, and the sorceress used its power to enter the Interzone, the interdimensional passageway between alternate realities and variant timelines. There, she collected several errant guardians of their world's respective nexuses of reality, and enlisted their aid in order to shift the balance of the Cosmic Axis itself!

As she began her work, however, the Living Tribunal appeared, imploring her not to do this. She ignored him, as the power of the Star Brand allowed her to ignore his multiversal law, but the Tribunal convinced her to hold a contest for the fate of the multiverse. If he won, she would surrender the Star Brand to him, and if she won, the Tribunal wouldn't oppose her bid to reorganize the face of reality.

To this end, each chose champions to their cause, Quasar and the Silver Surfer, who would battle in their stead; if Ereshkigal and the Tribunal fought directly, the consequences would be too dire to contemplate. Furthermore, neither hero was told which side he would be on, so both fought on desperately to save reality. However, Quasar noted that each time the Surfer hit him, a bit of order was restored to reality.

This was because the Living Tribunal was accompanied by Master Order and Lord Chaos, and their physical size seemed directly tied to the tides of Quasar and the Surfer's battle. As such, Quasar let the Surfer beat the snot out of him, though he made a good show of it. Defeated, Ereshkigal apparently committed suicide rather than concede her loss, and the Tribunal seized the power of the Star Brand.

As he couldn't retain the power of the Brand without surrendering his limitless authority, the Living Tribunal told Quasar he would determine who could best utilize the power, and sent him home. This person was apparently Kayla Ballantine, however, as the woman manifested her full Star Brand powers shortly after this debacle. Before she could do anything about it, though, she was kidnapped.

A group of alien marauders, led by the last ship from the Black Fleet, abducted her in order to seize the power she used to eradicate said fleet. Setting up an apocalyptic diversion to keep the earth's heroes busy, these so-called Starblasters then took Kayla to the Stranger's laboratory world, where he proposed to remove the brand from the human, in order to determine its realm of origin.

In exchange for this information, Skeletron, the last Black Fleet craft, would allow the Stranger to retain its power; the techno-organic entity fully believed that there were more Star Brands available wherever it came from. Convincing Kayla that he was God, the Stranger then gained the Brand from her easily, and when he did so, his world partially entered the realm of the Brand's origin - the New Universe!

When Skeletron went to enter this (to him) variant plane, the Stranger betrayed him by seizing the world of paranormals in his midst, and as such, Skeletron tried to take the power of the Star Brand for his own. He eventually managed this, but caused himself to be trapped in this other timeline when the Stranger yielded the Brand to him; this caused the rift his possession of the Brand had created to collapse.

This has trapped the actual world of the Star Brand's origin in orbit around the Stranger's laboratory planet, and stranded Skeletron within a virtually lifeless universe with nothing to keep him company but that Gladiator fellow, who Ken Connell pitched into deep space so many years back. What these two beings are up to at the present is currently unknown.

The Brand's native earth, however, was sealed off forever by the Living Tribunal, who feared that the anomalous energies of the Star Brand and the paranormals it had created would cause an imbalance in the 'normal' universe that surrounded it. As such Kayla (who still bore a portion of the Star Brand) and all the other residents of this earth remain so imprisoned to his very day.

Their further chronicles have yet to be revealed.