The Skrulls are an empire of shape-shifting aliens originating from a planet known as Skrullos. For until centuries they have been engaged in hostilities against the heavy-worlder Kree, a similarly aggressive race of expansionists who have been their greatest rivals.
Throughout their conflict, both sides have sought ways of out-classing their adversaries in both technological and biological ways. The Kree sought a technological means of enhancement, their beliefs forbidding manipulating their genetic code. The Skrulls had no such aversion and ruthlessly manipulated their DNA.
The so-called Super-Skrull program was largely a failure - the species genetics tended to resist manipulation, granting on a few usable operatives. If the Skrulls are to be believed, however, the project would lay the foundations for the Martian species.
With Earth in free-space within striking distance of both Empires, it was inevitable that the planet would become an occasional battleground. Groups like the Justice League and the Fantastic Four have clashed with combatants from both sides over the years and the Office of National Emergency believes that the Skrulls have infiltrated the planet to an unknown degree.
The end of the Skrull Empire would only occur many years in the future with the destruction of Skrullos by the world devourer Galactus. The lost of the Empress left the Skrulls with a power vacuum - the twin Princesses Veranke and Durla each attempted to crown themselves the new rules of the Skrulls. The resulting chaos left the Empire weakened, allowing the Kree to defeat and conquer the ancient enemy.
Those under the banner of Durla, made peace with the Kree and the rest of the known universe, settling on a world they named after their leader. Few people in the 30th Century, where the Durlans are a productive member of intergalactic society, know that these shape-shifters were once the feared and hated Skrulls.
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