Maximus built the Water-Circulation Apparatus for Triton that allowed him to survive outside of water, which annoyed Gorgon because Maximus should be building a device to free them. For many months the Inhumans tried to find away to get through the barrier. Out of spite, Maximus used the device to erect a " Negative Barrier", a dark force sphere around Attilan, imprisoning the entire race inside. Maximus miscalculated, however, and the device had no effect. Maximus, hoping to win back the public's affection, activated the Atmo-Gun device he had been working on, a machine he believed would kill the human race and leave all other living beings intact. Immediately upon doing so, Black Bolt seized the crown back, to Maximus' dismay. Feeling secure in his position, Maximus bade his servant, the Seeker, to locate the Royal Family and bring them back to Attilan. In the several year interval before Black Bolt and his cousins located her in America, Maximus ruled Attilan in Black Bolt's stead. While the Trikon wreaked havoc in Attilan, Maximus was able to drive the Royal Family of the Inhumans out of the city in search of the amnesiac Medusa. By performing an illegal experiment on the Alpha Primitives, the subhuman worker clones that once served the Inhumans, Maximus created the Trikon, three bodiless energy beings of great destructive power. Maximus staged his first successful coup a few years later. After the Forgotten Reign, Black Bolt assumed the throne and Maximus vowed to oppose his brother and eventually usurp his rule. The reaction also suppressed his nascent mental powers once it was over. Maximus' powers were expanded, allowing him to catch a small glimpse of every moment of his life all at once, driving him mad. The reverberations of Black Bolt's voice also affected Maximus, who was standing nearby. When the ship crashed to earth, it landed on the parliament building, killing several key members of the Genetics Council, including the boys' parents.
In an attempt to stop the fleeing emissary so that he could be questioned by the ruling council, Black Bolt used his forbidden power of the quasi-sonic scream and blasted the alien ship out of the sky. In addition to his objective of seizing the throne, Maximus was making a pact with the Kree in an attempt to learn more about the legendary Primagen, with which he had become obsessed in discovering. One of Maximus' first ploys was an unsuccessful attempt to force his brother to unleash his highly destructive vocal powers in order to have him reincarcerated.Ī month later, Black Bolt witnessed Maximus making a treacherous pact with an emissary of the Kree, the alien race responsible for genetically accelerating the Inhumans eons before. When he was about sixteen, Black Bolt was released from the protective chamber in which he had been confined since birth due to the destructive nature of his Terrigen mutation. As he matured, Maximus hid his developing psionic powers from the community but was less successful at disguising his antisocial tendencies. Maximus' powers additionally caused him to experience flashes of future memories. Maximus' gift manifested in the form of increased intelligence and mental control, powers his parents determined were attuned to those of his elder brother Black Bolt, and vice versa. On Agon's guidance, she ensured the Terrigen concentrated on the baby's brain to grant him a heightened cognitive function, and also made it more pure, and thus closer to the Primagen of legend.
Subjected to the DNA-altering Terrigen Mist while still in his mother's womb, Rynda's powers allowed her to filter the Terrigen that entered Maximus' body. Maximus, an Inhuman, was the second son of two of Attilan's top geneticists, Agon, the head of the ruling Council of Geneticists, and Rynda, director of the Prenatal Care Center. For a complete history see Maximus Boltagon's Expanded History Early Life History This is an abridged version of Maximus Boltagon's history.