The skinny on SABER, Nick Fury’s fancy space station that keeps showing up in the MCU

polygon.com:

The premiere of Marvel’s Secret Invasion series does a lot of talking about something that it never quite shows. No, it’s not the shadowy threat of Skrull invasion — it’s SABER, Nick Fury’s space station that he uses for… You know, it’s not really clear why Nick Fury has a space station.

But what is clear, if you’ve been following along, is that SABER is going to be a part of the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s already cropped up in trailers for this fall’s The Marvels, and we got our first look at it in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. SABER is getting around a lot for a MCU thing we know so little about, and it has an analogue in the comics, but only if you squint.

So here’s everything we know about SABER, the next big set piece of the MCU.

[Ed. Note: Mild spoilers for the first episode of Secret Invasion follow.]

Secret Invasion’s premiere lays out Nick Fury’s new status quo: After getting Blipped in the credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War, he returned and absconded to space, aboard the space station SABER, apparently inhabited by friendly Skrulls. Since then, he’s interceded in Earth’s affairs only through Skrull intermediaries — sending Talos to masquerade as himself in order to keep Spider-Man and Mysterio on the up and up in Spider-Man: Far From Home, and sending another agent to recruit Monica Rambeau at the end of WandaVision, and bring her to SABER to meet him. And thanks to the trailer of The Marvels, we know that she makes it there.

It’s unclear, so far! (We don’t even know what it stands for.) After all, Earth already has a new SHIELD-like program defending against alien threats: SWORD. The program was introduced in WandaVision, as a program created by Captain Marvel’s late friend