>>6151605>Art: Barry-Windsor Smith>A naked man with metal claws in his knuckles floats in a tank with machines plugged into him.The room smells of an abattoir. Bodies lay burnt and lacerated around you. Molten metal flows in pipes through the walls.
The pathetic humans huddle in fear. Save for one. At the center of the room, naked and bursting with power lies your prize.
Magneto: What have you done?!
The bravest of the humans stands.
Hines: The impossible! Man and weapon united as one! A perfect killing machine. No memory, no passion other than what we give it. That commie pervert in the desert thought he became death, but no. <span class="mu-s">I</span>created it.
Magneto: Then Allow me to reunite you.
The machines burst into shards and fly at the scientist.
Essex: Magnetooohh---<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">STOP.</span></span>
The metal falls to the ground in a steel rain.
Magneto: I see the puppet is no longer in control.
Apocalypse: <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">I speak through this vessel.</span></span>
Beast: Dr Essex, what in the blue blazes is happening?
Magneto: As far as you have known him, “Dr Essex” has been possessed by the mind of En Sabah Nur, the so-called first mutant.
Apocalypse:<span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s"> Called? I have been called many names. Kali Mata. Aten. God. This age will call me Apocalypse, for I bring The Revelation. </span></span>
Beast: This is nonsense.
Apocalypse:<span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s"> You witness the power of your kin daily, yet doubt mine? Behold! </span></span>
The figure in the center of the tube awakens and bursts from the electric shackles in a flurry of rage. Metal claws slice from his knuckles.
Apocalypse: <span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s"> I sense your rage young one, and I intend to temper it. In time, Death shall be your name, and Death you shall bring. </span></span>
Magneto: And yet you deny this mutant vengeance. I swore never again. I will prove myself truthful in their blood!
Apocalypse: <span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s"> Vengeance shall be had. The fittest among these humans, those of agile minds and brutal cunning, will serve our nation, building our towering future.</span></span>
Beast: You speak of enslavement.
Magnet: No. I understand now. Not slavery. Reparations.
The metal shards warp into chains, coiling around the scientist's necks.
Magneto: Let this day stand as Mutant Year One! And this former cage of our kind as the first capital and fortress of our glorious nation. Long live, Nation X!
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">Asset Acquired</span></span>
>Base X (Base Ten)>Available Assets: Posthuman Research. Adamantium Reserve. 2 Beta-Level Mutants, 2 Alpha-Level Mutants,<span class="mu-s">End of 1961. Start of Mutant Year I</span>
