Was Project Pegasus about the light-speed engine?

The real question is, did SHIELD know it was for that specific result - the light speed engine?

Or was this secretly a Mar-Vell project, or, a Kree project?

What did SHIELD think it was about?

Was it simply about knowing more about the Tesseract?

Or...was it more about weaponizing it (as Dr. Zola did - in Captain America - The First Avenger)?

Best Answer

Did SHIELD know it was for that specific result - the light speed engine?

No.

They were trying to investigate the properties of the Tesseract for it's power potential and to create weapons.

In the comics, Pegasus stands for "Potential Energy Group/Alternate Sources/United States,"

^ComicVine

Mar-Vell was using her knowledge of the Tesseract for her own reasons

Captain Marvel plays off of the events established in The Avengers, showing that the Air Force also had a hand in SHIELD's work at Project Pegasus under Dr. Wendy Lawson, who was experimenting on the Tesseract as well for entirely different reasons. We find out that she was creating a Light-Speed drive for space travel.

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What was Project Pegasus in Captain Marvel?

Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., also known as Pegasus, was the name of the joint project between S.H.I.E.L.D., NASA, and the United States Air Force to study the Tesseract and harness its power.

Was the Tesseract in the engine in Captain Marvel?

In 1989, Yon-Rogg killed Lawson to obtain the Tesseract, but pilot Carol Danvers destroyed the engine, causing her to be doused in Tesseract energy. Six years later, Danvers, now Captain Marvel, recovered the Tesseract from Lawson's laboratory and renounced custody of it to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Is MCU Captain Marvel light speed?

Captain Marvel (aka Carol Danvers) travels close to the speed of light and arrives at a key destination unaged, even though she leapt a generation into the future.

Is Dr Lawson a Kree?

But in a massive reveal, Lawson turns out to be a Kree scientist named Mar-Vell who was actually trying to help the Skrulls find a new home. The Skrulls are actually refugees.

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