Originally Posted by
NewCanaanite
Well, Doom and the Molecule Man have worked together before. I think they've sort of been friends since the first Secret Wars.
They say Reese and the fragment of the Mapmaker Earth give off the same energy signature. My guess is once they figured out that the fragment was acting as a beacon, they then did a scan of the Earth to see if there were more fragments. Instead, they found the same energy signal emanating from Reese. The Illuminati and the Black Swan never figured this out because they didn't have access to the fragment or the energy signature.
I've read Hickman's run on FF, and I don't remember Reese ever meeting Richards.