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| Creators = Kieron Gillen; Greg Land |
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Revision as of 15:19, 24 May 2015
History
Origin
After ascending to the role of Heir of Apocalypse following his death, Archangel, along with Genocide, and Dark Beast, planned to use an artifact known as the Life Seed to purge the Earth of all life and replace it with an entirely separate chain of evolution.[1] In an early experiment with the Seed, the group transformed a ten-mile wide area of Montana into a primordial wilderness known as Tabula Rasa.[1] Though they were stopped by X-Force before they could transform the rest of the world,[2] the biosphere had already experienced 130 million years of accelerated time, and produced an insectoid sentient species known as the Apex, which included the inquisitive Savage.[3]
New World
Savage, along with one other Apex, would come to be regarded as the best scientists of their species. They deduced that since Tabula Rasa still existed in a state of accelerated time, yet shared the same sun as the outside world, that the coming nightfall would plunge their world into a prolonged age of darkness which they could not survive.[4] While Savage suggested that his people place themselves in stasis pods, his partner instead campaigned for the Apex to create special suits that would allow them to venture into the outside world. Both ideas were rejected, and the two took to their respective plans alone.[4]
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Savage without his faceplate
While Savage slept, the other scientist broke the barrier to the outer world, but became trapped in a layer of suspended time. When Savage awoke the following morning several years in the future, he found that his species had all slowly perished after attempting to go into stasis themselves.[4]
Eventually freeing himself from the time barrier, the other Apex, now calling himself the Immortal Man rejoins his kinsman. Being the last two members of their race, Savage suggest that they wed, but since neither wanted to be the "wife" in the arrangement, they settled on each one being the "unwife", and set about trying to revive what was left of their people.[4]
The two would meet their first "Non-Apex" outsiders, the X-Men, after the team came to investigate the mysterious incident in Montana. While Immortal Man used his weaponized containment suit to battle the "false gods",[3] Savage would enlist their aid to help protect all life inside Tabula Rasa from the steadily approaching full sun.[5]