Abraxas Winterlight
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X-Men: The Legacy of Xavier
Five years have passed since we last visited the students of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters and the world, as we know it is no more. The year is 2007, and America and most other great nations are no more. In 2003, the USA passed the Mutant Registration Act, and the metahuman control laws in an effort to stem the rising panic of the populace at large over mutants and other paranormals. Quite predictably, certain members of the paranormal took great offense at these laws, and conflict arose. For 2 years there was battle after battle, until finally it all came to the last battle. That was the beginning of the end.
Within six months roughly half of the mutant population of America had either been terminated or interred in “Reeducation Camps”, known as “The Final Stop” by the paranormal population. The Avengers, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and many other mutants and paranormals lost their lives in the battles between the government forces and the privatized “Mutant Hunters” that roamed the nation. The world had turned into every mutant’s worst nightmare.
The final battle of the Genocide Wars happened two years after the MRA passed. Magneto had finally finished construction of a device that if used would have eradicated the Homo sapiens population of the world, thus ensuring that mutants would become the only species of human left on the earth. So, of course, the X-men were the ones to stop him. The fighting aboard his space station was fierce, with no quarter given or asked.
Eventually, the battle progressed to where the professor and Magneto were the only ones left to fight each other. It was at that time that the united countries of the world rained fire and annihilation down upon us. Jean was the first to notice the missiles as they flew in, and the first to give warning. I tried to get us all out, but there was no way to get the professor or Magneto out. I gathered everyone who could move or be moved, and transported us all to Shadow moments before the missiles struck. Nobody left on the station survived the cataclysm of nuclear fire, and nobody thought of the consequences.
The blast shifted the moons orbit slightly, but that was enough to cause the weather patterns across the world to go mad. Compounded with that was Magneto’s virus, which had survived to rain down on the planet. It was 3 more years until the weather calmed down, and the plagues ran their courses. Most civilizations were reduced to feudal states, some low tech, some high. We remained in Shadow, until Storm decided it was time to go back, and reclaim what was left of our homeland. A new base was built, in the Andes Mountains, and a new team of X-men lives on. We will survive, we will carry on our calling, we will teach others to live in peace.
We are The Legacy of Xavier.
From the journal of Kyle Greystone, Wraith of the X-men
Five years have passed since we last visited the students of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters and the world, as we know it is no more. The year is 2007, and America and most other great nations are no more. In 2003, the USA passed the Mutant Registration Act, and the metahuman control laws in an effort to stem the rising panic of the populace at large over mutants and other paranormals. Quite predictably, certain members of the paranormal took great offense at these laws, and conflict arose. For 2 years there was battle after battle, until finally it all came to the last battle. That was the beginning of the end.
Within six months roughly half of the mutant population of America had either been terminated or interred in “Reeducation Camps”, known as “The Final Stop” by the paranormal population. The Avengers, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and many other mutants and paranormals lost their lives in the battles between the government forces and the privatized “Mutant Hunters” that roamed the nation. The world had turned into every mutant’s worst nightmare.
The final battle of the Genocide Wars happened two years after the MRA passed. Magneto had finally finished construction of a device that if used would have eradicated the Homo sapiens population of the world, thus ensuring that mutants would become the only species of human left on the earth. So, of course, the X-men were the ones to stop him. The fighting aboard his space station was fierce, with no quarter given or asked.
Eventually, the battle progressed to where the professor and Magneto were the only ones left to fight each other. It was at that time that the united countries of the world rained fire and annihilation down upon us. Jean was the first to notice the missiles as they flew in, and the first to give warning. I tried to get us all out, but there was no way to get the professor or Magneto out. I gathered everyone who could move or be moved, and transported us all to Shadow moments before the missiles struck. Nobody left on the station survived the cataclysm of nuclear fire, and nobody thought of the consequences.
The blast shifted the moons orbit slightly, but that was enough to cause the weather patterns across the world to go mad. Compounded with that was Magneto’s virus, which had survived to rain down on the planet. It was 3 more years until the weather calmed down, and the plagues ran their courses. Most civilizations were reduced to feudal states, some low tech, some high. We remained in Shadow, until Storm decided it was time to go back, and reclaim what was left of our homeland. A new base was built, in the Andes Mountains, and a new team of X-men lives on. We will survive, we will carry on our calling, we will teach others to live in peace.
We are The Legacy of Xavier.
From the journal of Kyle Greystone, Wraith of the X-men
