Indomitable X-Men
Prologue
A Darker World
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Location: Earth-PRN962
A Description…
The people of the United States finally lived in peace, thanks to the tireless efforts of President Robert Kelly and his Secretary of Defense, Bolivar Trask. Trask's creation of the peace-keeping automatons commonly known as 'Sentinels' sparked a new era of prosperity for humanity.
Not so for their brethren. Mutants. This group was an offshoot of humanity that had been around for a long time, but was incredibly rare. In fact, they were almost an urban legend until they began to appear in larger numbers in the late 1940's, after the detonation of the atomic bombs. Most of them looked like humans, though many were what most would call deformed. Most, but not all, had unearthly powers.
When Robert Kelly was just a senator, his family was killed when a young boy manifested his powers in a rather explosive manner. It wasn't his fault, but it caused a hatred of mutants to grow in Senator Kelly's mind. He joined forces with Dr. Trask and was elected to the office of president on a strong anti-Mutant platform. Then the Sentinels were released.
On the face of things, they made life better. They lowered crime rates, and unsolved cases were a thing of the past. Policing the general population, however, was only their secondary task. The first was to hunt Mutants.
On manifesting his or her power, every mutant was to turn his or herself in to the Mutant Control Agency (MCA). Once there, they would register and receive an irremovable power control collar. If they did not turn themselves in, the Mutant Response Division (MRD) would go after them with Sentinels.
Some submitted peacefully enough, wanting nothing more than to live ordinary lives full of ordinary things. There were some, however, who resisted this tyranny and stood up for themselves.
This is their story.
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Feel free to play the Wolverine & the X-Men theme here. To be Continued.