The Urathians are a species native to the planet Urath.
Background[]
The Urathians are members of the Coalition of Planets. Per the rules of the Coalition, each planet assigns a champion with the sole job of defending their world against minor orbital threats and etc. The Coalition then dispatches a Champion Evaluation Officer to those planets on schedule encounters with those champions every three years. Said encounters are brief duels between the officer and champion to measure if their world's champions are up to Coalition standards.
Urath was assigned to Allen the Alien, a Unopan, some fifteen years ago before the start of the Invincible Comics timeline. However Allen due to a clerical oversight on his part was evaluating the wrong planet. Instead of Urath, he found himself visiting the planet Earth, a world which had no knowledge of the Coalition of Planets or its procedures. Allen in the meantime had been fighting against Omni-Man, who unknown to him was a Viltrumite spy, sworn enemies of his Coalition. Though the two never questioned the battles they fought, with them assuming one to be the champion of "Urath" and the other an alien invader.
The error was later revealed by Invincible, the son of Omni-Man who acted as substitute in order to deal with the "invader". After a conversation during the fight, Invincible pointed out Allen's mistake who upon realizing his mistake ceased fighting to report to his superiors. Allen deduced that the Urathians would be angered by this debacle and Allen hoped he could avoid being fired.
Sources[]
- Invincible Issue 5 (2003)