Post by ROGUE on Jun 28, 2009 13:38:30 GMT -5
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.
That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Four years have passed since both X-Men and Brotherhood faced the blazing fury of the Phoenix on Alcatraz Island. Time enough for Jean Grey’s death to be mourned by those who cared for her, and for those tears to be wiped away in turn by the wondrous reappearance of Charles Xavier. However, such peace could never last for long. A barbaric assault by the Purifiers claimed the lives of dozens of children, and the X-Men had no more than twelve hours to properly mourn the loss of young, innocent lives. Broadcast on national television for the whole of America and, indeed, the world to hear, a representative for the Purifiers not only incriminated the X-Men into the slaughter of his brethren at the Church of Humanity, but proclaimed a warning that the school housed a mutant army. Assuming a proactive approach, the Office of National Emergency claimed jurisdiction, stationing two Sentinels at the institute and placing its inhabitants under house arrest.
Diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue.
It makes it a requirement for survival.
The Brotherhood remains at large, still sought after by every law enforcement agency in the country for their part in the Church of Humanity massacre. Meanwhile, the media frenzy surrounding Xavier’s has not lessened; the organization, once thriving on anonymity, was now thrown into a glaring spotlight. Parts of society have begun clamouring for legislation of mutants once again, and although nothing concrete has come of it, the school continues to keep its doors open to homo superior around the globe. Renamed to Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning, no longer offering high-school classes but also college-level courses come the fall – to all those who are unable to further their education elsewhere, for one reason or another – the school’s inhabitants, warriors, teachers and students alike, aspire towards holding together some sense of normality in the middle of the uproar their ever changing world has been pushed into.
DAMASCUS ROAD