Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2008 20:23:27 GMT -5
:: Origins ::
Change. It is inevitable. It is evolution. In a world vastly expanding, yet slowly decaying, there is very little that can stop the changes society will face. Without protection against the looming shade, humanity has fallen into a dark place filled with hatred and intolerance. Instead of acceptance, facing each other with arms open, there is a cold shoulder hiding a massacre behind it. No one has come to know this more than the X-Men and students at Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters. Their home still lay in mourning for those lost in District X ‘Decimation.’
Considered the mutant crisis of 2007, the Decimation has finally come to pass, though its ghosts remain to haunt the city it ruined. The government has pulled out of the lonely streets, leaving its mutants to their own devices. Many are still hurt, wounded by both the war and the Chimera Virus that sparked the turnover. Mister M, the districts’ unofficial leader, has vanished into his own depths, content to lick his wounds in private. Thankfully, the X-Men and Brotherhood found a common, though temporary, peace over their differences and worked together to treat and cure the citizens. District X is scarred by its past, but is now more than ever a beacon of hope among all of mutantkind, a haven for all genetic freaks among freaks.
With their students too petrified to leave the campus, Xaviers suffers an emotional hard time. The X-Men have regrouped to mourn those lost, remaining thankful that the war stayed outside their school for once. Selfish as it may seem, Emma Frost, Scott Summers and the staff are final able to take a breath for themselves and ready for whatever tides rise next.
Suffering the loss of Exodus, their second-in-command, at the hands of Emma Frost and her protégées, the Stepford Cuckoos, the Brotherhood lays dormant. Magneto and Mystique have once more come together in hopes of rallying their brethren. They’re smaller now, and weaker than before, but like always, the Brotherhood possess the spirit to rise above all else.
A new term of ignorance has encompassed New York, for both its human and mutant inhabitants. The government has issued no official record of invasion over District X, acting as if the movement was nothing more than hearsay. The media has also chosen the silent approach, blacking out any and all mention of the mutant affairs in the past six months. To the untrained eye this silence seems like a new peace, but those of experience know it is only the quiet before a new, worse storm. Neither the X-Men nor Brotherhood stand well, their own ranks diminished by the Decimation and its after effects.
The questions now arises, who will survive the evolution of days? What the future holds no one knows. One thing is for certain. We must live together, or otherwise die alone.