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A Senate Committee Hearing was chaired by Senator Robert Kelly to address the growing mutant community in the United States. Prof. Charles Xavier and Dr. Moira MacTaggert were in attendance to champion the mutant cause. Over the last year, Kelly had been a proponent of legislation requiring adult mutants and parents of child mutants to register their identity and abilities. Xavier and MacTaggert along with certain Civil Liberties groups argued the legislation would violate Privacy rights. While agreeing with the privacy provisions, Sen. Kelly argued the existence of mutants posed a clear and present danger to the people of the United States. Something needed to be done.
The Senate meeting was interrupted by the appearance of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! They assassinated Sen. Kelly, Xavier and MacTaggert before a live national audience, throwing the United States into a period of social chaos!
Within a few years, Henry Peter Gyrich, an anti-mutant reactionary, was elected president and advanced legislation that essentially made mutants second-class citizens! Registration was law! While the president's opponents argued successfully to have the legislation struck down by the Supreme Court, the President and his army of national supporters remained determined to solve the mutant threat!
Consequently, the following years were plagued with civil unrest. Humans attacking mutants, increased anti-mutant propaganda, political in-fighting that brought no answers, and a growing divide between the nation’s human and mutant populations.
While many groups like S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers and Fantastic Four argued for the mutant cause, they found little success against the massive national anxiety opposed to the mutant population. Even heroic mutants like the X-Men found themselves assaulted by the very populace they fought to defend! The U.S. was spiraling out of control and few could understand how terrible the consequences would become!
They came like a storm. Hundreds of them.
The Sentinels overwhelmed the X-Men. The Avengers. The Fantastic Four. None of the heroes could stop them. Not for long. Within weeks, the superhero enclave of New York City had been defeated and in their place, the robots established their bases. The Sentinels continued across the country: San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Chicago. All the major cities with large mutant populations fell. Even when the U.S. military intervened, it too fell under the Sentinels' tactical superiority.
Over months time, the United States fell into two regions: the unaffected "life as normal" cities, and the Sentinel-controlled larger cities. Adjacent to the razed metropolises were internment camps where captured metahumans awaited a fate worse than death.
Despite the bleak scenario, some mutants and supporting groups operate around the country as a relentless army determined to overcome the Sentinels. The terminators’ war to exterminate Mutantkind has raged for decades but the final battle to save Earth from a nuclear holocaust is about to be fought …
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