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Events of 616

Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 1

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  • Begins with Giant Size X-men and introduces a new team- Wolverine, Storm, Nighcrawler, Colossus, Banshee, Thunderbird, and Sunfire

  • Vol 1 contains X-men issues 94-100 in addition to Giant Size X-Men preceding them 

  • Xavier recruits the new members as the new X-men led by Cyclops to go save the original team from the island mutant Krakoa

  • They are successful in defeating Krakoa and take the original team home. There are now 13 X-men with the 7 new members in addition to Cyclops, Iceman, Havok, Polaris, Jean, and Angel

  • Sunfire quits and the original team leaves all except Cyclops who stays to lead

  • The X-men stop Count Nefaria from firing NORAD missiles all over the world and Thunderbird is KIA 

  • The X-men defeat a monster named Kierrok from the Cairn

  • Xavier begins seeing a figure in his mind and the being involved in a great battle in space

  • Havok and Polaris inexplicably and mysteriously attack Prof X and the X-men at JFK airport

  • They are under the control of Erik the Red who’s assassination attempt on Xavier is thwarted and flees with Havok and Polaris

  • While the X-men and Jean are enjoying the winter holidays in NYC, they are attacked by Sentinels 

  • Wolverine, Jean, Banshee, and Prof X are taken captive by Stephen Lang, director of the Sentinels after Bolivar Trask, and taken to his space station, Starcore 1

  • Peter Corbeau, an astronaut/scientist, takes Colossus, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, and Storm into space on a shuttle (Eagle-One) to retrieve the other members from Starcore 1

  • They make it onto the station and dispense with Lang’s Sentinels

  • Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Banshee, and Nightcrawler find themselves facing off against Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Angel, Havok, and Polaris who turn out to be automatons

  • With a hole in the shuttle and Eagle 1’s computer damaged, someone must take control of the ship manually and fly it past a solar flare back to Earth

  • The only one able to is Jean who uses her psychic abilities to protect herself while everyone else is in the radiation-proof life-cell