A Fictional History of the United States- A Most Ambitious Crossover

by Ulysses Orbis

A historical summary of the United States set in a universe incorporating hundreds of works of fiction and mythology. It started as a fictional Presidents with footnotes. It now includes multiple character team ups from different franchises as the forces of good battle against alien invaders, secret conspiracies, and Damien Thorn, the future Emperor of the Galaxy and Anti-Christ.

6. Indira Gandhi vs the Mutants

India's Metahuman Purge

While history records India's emergency era as the result of Indira Gandhi moving to insulate herself from the Courts and from her political opposition; the real rationale behind Gandhi's proclamation was hidden from the public. By the 1970s, the number of people in India with superpowers or incredible talents was rapidly increasing. In addition to the hundreds of the Children of Midnight, a magically enchanted generation born upon the eve of India's independence, there was also an increase in the number of mutants in the late 20th century. The emergence of Homo Superior was a global phenomenon that many governments viewed with suspicion. In 1974, the Indian government became appraised of the existence of a genetically engineered group of children known as the Augments. Created by an extremist organization known as the Chrysalis Project; the Augments were trained warriors who were intended to lead revolutions against the world's governments. Paranoid about the the threat that various superhuman groups posed to her rule, Gandhi decided to begin a purge. Gandhi was approached by an Indian Army Major, Shiva of the Knees, who was one of the Children of Midnight. Shiva of the Knees gave Gandhi the suspected locations of the Children of Midnight. After declaring a national state of Emergency, Gandhi used her emergency powers to target India's Metahuman population en masse. The Children of Midnight were kidnapped; and suspected mutants were captured or killed by the thousands. Gandhi was particularly paranoid regarding Metahuman reproduction. Since the Children of Midnight were well into their twenties, many of them had already beget children with superpowers. Gandhi ordered the Children of Midnight to be sterilized, and for their superpowers to be surgically removed in order to eliminate India's superhuman population. Her son Sanjay Gandhi embarked on a massive sterilization campaign targeted against populations suspected of carrying the mutant gene. Furthermore, Gandhi ordered the arrest or murder of the Augments. A teenage Khan Noonien Singh was among those arrested in the Purge. While the Purge succeeded in neutralizing the initial generation of the Children of Midnight, it ultimately failed in eliminating India's Metahuman population. Since the 1970s, geneticists have found that latent Metahuman genes are present in nearly the entire human population, rendering efforts at Metahuman population control difficult. India's Metahuman population has only increased since 1977. Furthermore, the Purge backfired in its' intended goal of preventing a Metahuman takeover of India. The Purge radicalized a group of Augments who escaped government custody. Led by Khan Noonien Singh, the Augments formed a militant terrorist group that arranged the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 as revenge for the torture and mutilation they suffered under Indian government custody. The Augments eventually led a coup against the Indian government in 1992, establishing Singh as the de facto dictator of India. The resulting Eugenics Wars were a planet wide catastrophe that resulted in enormous loss of life. The Augments recruited mutants in order to overthrow humanity, but failed. Khan himself fled the planet and suspended himself and his followers in cryogenic animation to avoid retribution from the United Nations.

Since the Gandhi government intentionally hid the existence of Metahumans from the public, nearly all records of the Purge were destroyed. Saleem Sinai, a Metahuman forcibly sterilized by the Gandhi government, later published a memoir documenting the human rights abuses of the Emergency era in 1980. The Gandhi government seized all publications of the book, and Sinai was exiled to the United Kingdom. Khan Noonien Singh did not expose the details of the Purge to the public, as he was seeking to maintain the illusion of democracy in India and did not wish to reveal the true nature of the Augments. After the Bartlet administration declassified documents relating to the Eugenics Wars, the Xavier Institute has investigated the Purge and petitioned the United Nations and various governments to classify the actions of Indira Gandhi as a genocide. India's Metahuman Purge resulted in the documented deaths of 352 people and thousands of non-fatal injuries.