History
Stark Industries built the J-RICE in order to collect limitless microwave radiation and send it back down to Earth, which would be processed into electricity in the J-RICE base station in Kansas.
The special advisor to California's governor Spokesperson Ford sent the West Coast Ultimate Vision to hijack it and make it crash into Sacramento, in order for the West Coast states to interpret it as an attack from the U.S. government, ensuring the union of the wannabe-independent states into a new West Coast Nation.[1]
Their plan was stopped by the real Ultimates, as the lighting of Thor's Mjolnir was enhanced by the power source of Stark's Orbital Armor, a blast powerful enough to destroy the hijacked J-RICE from crashing into California. But the explosion caused a chain reaction in the J-RICE's radioactive core, which was contained by Invisible Woman's force field, whose powers were augmented by one of the newly found Infinity Gems.[2]