Age of Cyclops

by Phil Hartman

Timeline:

BCE (Earth only):

1,000,000: First Host of Celestials implant Celestial Embryo in Earth; implant x-factor and power-gene complex in Homo erectus DNA. First Eternals empowered.

?: Dreaming Celestial creates Deviants.

19,000: Second Host of the Celestials sinks Deviant Lemuria; Great Cataclysm sinks Atlantis. Darkhold lost to history. Vampires start spreading across Earth.

AD. (Earth only until 2000):

1,000: Third Host of Celestials; Greco-Roman, Native American, Hindu and other gods exiled by Celestials.

1928: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr born.

1938 (?): Steve Rogers becomes Captain America.

1942: Erik Lehnsherr imprisoned in Auschwitz.

1944: Charles Xavier graduates Columbia University.

1945: Erik Lehnsherr and Magda escape Auschwitz. Namor rendered amnesiac by first Destiny, bearer of the Serpent Crown.

1950: Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Victor Von Doom, Henry Pym, Bruce Banner born.

1960: Sue Storm, Janet Van Dyne, Hank McCoy born.

1961 (?): Anya Lehnsherr dies in Vinnitsa, USSR. Magnus first displays powers openly; Magda, pregnant, flees.

1962: Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Warren Worthington, Ororo Munroe, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff born. Magda dies in blizzard outside of Mount Wundagore.

1964: Johnny Storm, Bobby Drake, Alex Summers born. Lorna Dane born (?)

1972: Scott and Alex Summers orphaned; Scott manifests his powers early, retaining his telepathy and displaying wide gravitic abilities. Xavier takes both Summers boys as his wards, and Sinister never attains either of them.

1974: Kitty Pryde born.

1980: Second Heroic Age begins - Fantastic Four gain their powers. Victor Von Doom takes over Latveria. Avengers first gather; Captain America discovered in Arctic Circle. X-Men debut, fighting Magneto.

1983: Fourth Host of the Celestials.

1984: Second X-Men. First Alpha Flight, Phoenix.

1987: Phoenix receives psionic lobotomy after sacrificing herself upon realizing she's pregnant with Rachel. Sinister unleashes Madelyne Pryor, who becomes pregnant with Nathan; Scott vows to support both. Kitty Pryde joins the X-Men. Franklin Richards, Nathan and Rachel Summers, the Shade triplets (including Beatrice, this Earth's version of Domino) and most of the rest of the second New Mutants are born.

1988: First New Mutants join Xavier. Luna Maximoff born.

1989: True Jean Grey returns; Madelyne and the Phoenix join forces to slay the Beyonder, succeed at the cost of their own lives. Scott and Jean wed; Jesse Summers born.

1990: Xavier leaves Earth; first X-Factor forms. Magneto and Rogue join Xavier's. Mutant Massacre.

1991: Fall of the Mutants; Stevie Hunter and Sunfire replace Rogue and Madelyne in Forge's spell. Rogue saves Cypher from the Ani-Mator.

1992: Inferno: Illyana captures the Bloodstone Medallion and shoves the Soulsword through it, destroying both, purging Limbo of demons. She reverts to 5 years of age, is taken as ward/apprentice by Amanda Wagner with Colossus' consent.

1993: New Mutants I graduate to X-Force.

1994: Xavier returns; X-Factor 1 join then X-Men in defeating the Shadow King. Second X-Factor forms. Rachel and Jesse protect Nate from the Dark Riders, hence no TO-infected Cable; Nate, however, witnesses Apocalypse face to face, and becomes obsessed with stopping the Dark Lord.

1995: Generation X forms.

1999: Generation X graduates; Adrienne Frost leaves Leech in psi-coma, but is hunted down and slain by the graduated Gen X.

2000: New Mutants II enroll at Massachusetts Academy, learn truth of the Celestials; they slay the Fifth and Final Host of the Celestials.

2001-2005: Earth experiences gradual degradation of climate after the Purge of the Celestial Embryo.

2005: "First Blossoming;" Frank and Rachel Richards, on their honeymoon, somehow terraform Venusian atmosphere. With concerted work from their teammates in Metaforce (the graduated second New Mutants), the couple create an Earthlike paradise. Most mutants and other enhanced power beings flee Earth for new lives on Venus, but many humans remain mistrustful of mutants, travel to Mars, instead.

2006: Human exiles reach Mars, realize Martians -ancient space explorers/pirates - are in stasis. Martians awaken, ready for war, but negotiations by humans and mutants keep the aliens at bay. The Martians leave for their homeworld, which was not Mars.

2007: "Second Blossoming;" Mars terraformed, humans settle. Dividing occurs - humans remain on Mars, while many mutants, disdaining such racist attitudes, remain on Venus.

2007-2020: Massive population growth on Venus and Mars, along with passing of many first-generation heroes to natural causes. Democratic society evolves on Venus with the signing of the Richards Compact in 2010 - government is modeled upon U.S. Constutution - while Mars divides into nations similar to Cold War-Earth. "Askani" philosophy - modified version of the Golden Rule, with uniquely mutant outlooks upon society and social mores - evolves. A sub-sect, the Sisterhood of the Firebird, reveres Rachel Richards as an incarnate goddess, believing her to be the mother of the next Messiah. Rachel politely dissuades such reverence towards herself, but begins to have dire precognitive visions of the entire solar system's future should she ignore the Askani.

2009: Aidan Richards born at Caer Herbie. Sisterhood of the Firebird captures and brutally executes Nathaniel Richards after he is found skulking near his great-grandson's nursery. Rachel slowly recovers from her emergency C-section, performed by Franklin after Hank and Cecilia McCoy are delayed by weather. Grateful for the Sisterhood's assistance, Franklin and Rachel allow the Sisterhood to open a convent on the Caer grounds, and find thousands of young psions of both genders seeking training. Seeking more of a purpose than mere motherhood, Rachel becomes Mother Superior of the Askani. Other offspring of the second New Mutants - including Payne and Morgain Summers (Nathan and Beatrice's twins), Darrell Guthrie, Eric Parker-Shade, Hans Lehnsherr, and others - are also born across Venus.

2020: Third New Mutants enroll at Caer Xavier, the Xavier Memorial Academy on Venus' northern continent. Frank Richards re-elected High Councilor of the Venusian Congress, but faces stiff opposition to his political agenda for opening further relations with Mars. Human radio signals, whose source cannot initially be accounted for, are detected by Venusian and Martian defense commands.

To both governments' shock, the signals are traced to Earth, which is supposed to be vacant of all human OR mutant life after the mass exodus of both species...

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