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Revision as of 05:52, 21 August 2019
Appearing in "The Last Dream of Professor X"
Featured Characters:
- Charles Xavier (Main story and flashback)
- Librarian (First appearance)
- Moira MacTaggert (Only in flashback)
- Krakoa
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme)
- Magneto (Erik Lensherr)
- X-Men (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)
- X-Men (First appearance)
- Percival (First appearance; dies)
- Magneto (First appearance)
- Xorn (First appearance)
- Wolverine (Logan) (First appearance)
- Cypher (Doug Ramsey) (First appearance) (Possessed by Krakoa)
- Nimrod the Greater (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Man-Machine Ascendancy / Man-Machine Supremacy (First appearance)
- Nimrod the Lesser (First appearance)
- Unnamed Hunters (First appearance)
- Omega Sentinel (First appearance)
- Unnamed Sentinels (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed fortune-teller (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed Krakoan mutants
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed) (Mentioned)
- Damage Control (Mentioned)
- Judas Iscariot (Mentioned)
- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) (Named only) (Deceased)
- Quentin Quire (Named only)
- Piotr Rasputin (Named only)
- Gunther Bain (Named only)
- Kitty Pryde (Named only)
- Laura Kinney (Named only)
- The "Old Man" (Mentioned)
- Shi'ar Empire (Named only)
- Imperial Guard (Named only)
- Empress Xandra (Named only)
- Cylobel
- God (Invoked)
- Unnamed human woman (First appearance)
- Unnamed human man (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Sentinels
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Pigeons (Only in flashback)
- Hounds
- Chimeras (First appearance)
- Shi'ar (Named only)
- The Brood (Named only)
- Dinosaurs (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United Kingdom (Only in flashback)
- England (Only in flashback)
- Oxfordshire (Only in flashback)
- Oxford (Only in flashback)
- Oxfordshire (Only in flashback)
- England (Only in flashback)
- Pacific Ocean
- Krakoa
- The Grove
- The House of M (First appearance)
- Krakoa
- United Kingdom (Only in flashback)
- Sun (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified reality (Year One Hundred) (First appearance)
- Milky Way (First appearance)
- Solar System (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- The Nexus (First appearance)
- Northern Territory (First appearance)
- SalCen Khennil (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Tower of Nimrod the Lesser (First appearance)
- The Nexus (First appearance)
- Mars (Named only) (Destroyed)
- Sinister Breeding Pits (Named only) (Destroyed)
- Asteroid K (First appearance)
- Krakoa (First appearance)
- No-Place Hub (First appearance)
- Krakoa (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Solar System (First appearance)
- Shi'ar Galaxy (Named only)
- Benevolence (Named only)
- Chandilar (Named only)
- Milky Way (First appearance)
- Unidentified reality (Year One Thousand) (First appearance)
- Milky Way (First appearance)
- Solar System (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- The Nexus (First appearance)
- Mutant Library (First appearance)
- The Preserve (First appearance)
- The Nexus (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Solar System (First appearance)
- Milky Way (First appearance)
Items:
- Cerebro
- Soulsword (First appearance)
- X-Uniforms
- Black Seed of Krakoa (First appearance)
- Magneto's Helmet (First appearance)
- Xorn's Helmet (First appearance)
- Wolverine's Suit (First appearance)
Events:
- Human-Machine-Mutant War (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Last Dream of Professor X"
Powers of X, increasing in scale and complexity. X0 - Year One, the Dream. X1 - Year Ten, The World. X2 - Year One Hundred, the War. X3 - Year One Thousand, the Ascension.
X0
Charles Xavier is walking through a funfair. He is enjoying himself on this beautiful day, sitting down on a bench to people-watch. Here, he is approached by a young woman, Moira MacTaggart, who makes cryptic remarks about a fortune-teller. As the conversation goes on, Xavier mentions a beautiful dream he had, which he is trying to work out in his head, so it can be a story he can tell people. Moira remarks that a dream ceases to be a dream once it becomes real.
Xavier realizes that something is not quite right about this, so Moira asks him to read her mind. Puzzled, he complies, but is surprised by what he finds...
X1
Mystique emerges from a Krakoan portal onto Krakoa accompanied by Toad. Telling Toad that he is off the clock now, she carries on alone to the House of M, where she meets Magneto. She tells him that her partner Sabretooth was captured during the heist, but she got the target - a memory stick. She will hand it over, but says her demands have increased. Xavier steps into view, and counters that they will ask more of her in return. Mystique mocks his seeming lack of humanitarianism. Xavier merely says that he is building a world safe for mutants, and that everyone will owe something to live there...
X2
The war between the mutants and the Man-Machine Supremacy has gone on for years. A four-person squad of X-Men, consisting of three products of Mister Sinister's Mutant Breeding Program - Rasputin IV, an unnamed Cardinal, and Percival - as well as one defector from the Supremacy's Black Brain Program - Cylobel - are on a mission to extract something from the Nexus in the Northern Territory. Their mission has been discovered, leading to the death of Percival. The Cardinal plants a Krakoan seed to be the exfil point, but Cylobel is captured alive and Rasputin struggles to free her. Additional forces arrive, and Cylobel demands that Rasputin leave her behind to complete the mission. Anguished, Rasputin runs.
There is a description of Mister Sinister's mutant breeding program where he ran the Sinister Breeding Pits on Mars. The mutant leaders would only endorse the program because constant fighting made it difficult for mutants to find the time to have children. The program lasted through four iterations:
- The first generation were designed to be divergent copies of a singular DNA source with an uncompromised X-Gene. They were the fodder that were trained until the age of 16 where they would be sent to defend Krakoa which fell 30 years later.
- The second generation marked the beginning of the "Chimera" process. They had DNA comprised of two separate X-Genes resulting in a mutant with the predictable power set of the sourced mutants.
- The third generation produced mutants with amalgamated DNA featuring up to five X-Genes. These generations were universally successful against the Man-Machine Supremacy.
- However, this generation had a 10% failure rate. These failures, with nonthreatening powers and pacifist dispositions, rejected individuality and refused names, thus collectively were called "Cardinal"
- The fourth generation suffered a systematic failure were produced with a corrupted hive mind that were responsible for the destruction of Krakoa and 40% of the mutant generation. They committed mass-suicide, collapsed Mars, the Sinister Breeding Pits, and themselves into a self-singularity.
It was also mentioned that Mister Sinister was executed by the Man-Machine Supremacy after defecting.
Cylobel is taken to the Human-Machine Monolith, to stand before Nimrod the Lesser. Nimrod, recognizing her as a Black Brain, offers a faux-apology: Black Brains like her were created by the Man-Machine Ascendancy to serve a purpose, but so many proved defective by defecting. Her very defective existence is a mark of the Supremacy's failure, and his tribute to that failure - her - will be to ensure that no-one like her is allowed to survive.
The Supremacy wants to question Cylobel for information, but she is resistant to torture, and thanks to her status as a Black Brain, she is immune to telepathic reading. So, the Supremacy is forced to follow Nimrod's suggestion, which makes him briefly giddy. Nimrod orders that Cylobel be placed into a device of his construction - a coffin-sized tube of femtofluid, where she will drown as her body and mind will be rendered down as data, which, once the process is completed after an unknowable length of time, can be turned into a database to help the Supremacy win the war against the X-Men.
There is a description of the Sentinel mutant breeding camps called the SalCen Khennil where they were used to breed mutants that were intended to fight other mutants. The first version of the program aimed to produced Hounds, fearsome man-hunting wretches who would evoke disgust and pity in the targets. This was a failure because the Hounds proved too psychologically submissive to be viable agents. The second version of the program aimed to produce Black Brains - infiltration agents, immune to telepathy, who could be inserted into mutant groups, and would then betray them to the Ascendancy. This too was deemed a failure, as the agents programmed to betray would very frequently betray the Ascendancy instead. The SalCen Khennil was destroyed 10 years ago, along with "all their biological and research material."
Emerging on Krakoa - now on Asteroid K - the Cardinal apologizes to Rasputin IV, saying that, as a Cardinal, he is psychologically incapable of violence. Rasputin is inclined to hate him in the moment, but they have a mission to complete. The rest of the X-Men, including an aging Wolverine, are there for her to speak of the successful extraction of the target item, at the cost of Percival and Cylobel. Wolverine says they need to take it to "the Old Man..."
There is a description of mutant demographic data:
- With the deaths of Percival & Cylobel, the mutant population of Asteroid K is 8
- The majority of the mutant population lives on Benevolence, a converted transit station located on the fringe of Shi'ar space where it served as a buffer between the Shi'ar Empire and the wildness of the Brood breeding territory. The mutant population here is around 8,000.
- The Shi'ar homeworld of Chandilar has a mutant colony of just under 2,000 souls, by a treaty with the Shi'ar Empire. Most of them are used for warrior stock for the Imperial Guard. Currently, there are six mutants that serve as superguardians while 57 are under the subguardian classification
X3
The Librarian considers the body of Cylobel, and laments that the minds in the database are beginning to fade to digital decay. Nimrod the Lesser has given way to Nimrod the Greater, who admits that the database was not meant to survive for so long. The database was intended as a tactical advantage to let the Supremacy win the war, but the world changed so much that the war became unnecessary. Homo sapiens and its subspecies are over and past, but a habitat is maintained in the Nexus, a sealed biosphere containing some recreated humans living wild in pristine wilderness. A museum piece, to prick the curiosity of younger minds. To give them a sense of wonder at the long story of life on Earth - and to give an idea of the horror that could ensue if such creatures ever ruled Earth again...
Solicit Synopsis
FEAR THE FUTURE
Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINITY, NEW AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR) continues his revolutionary new direction for the X-Men. Intertwining with HOUSE OF X, POWERS OF X reveals the secret past, present and future of mutantkind, changing the way you look at every X-Men story before and after. You do not want to miss the next seminal moment in the history of the X-Men!Notes
- A trailer was released by Marvel on YouTube to promote this series and House of X: