Fortunately, I speak fluent morphine and can translate.
When the X-Men ran into Clan Akkaba in Slovakia, they first encounter the new and improved Laurie Collins, now under the employ of Essex. She spoke about getting the intel on En Sabah Nur, some kind of doomsday mutant. Their goal was to apparently summon this creature and in turn, Essex had some plan to confront him.
Since Collins had referred to the mutant responsible for the destruction of Troy, Alabama, let's travel back in time to St. Brendon's Cathedral on Chicago's South Side about 1945, when Father Michael, already six ounces deep in the gin, took the pulpit and told us about the end of the world. Drunk son-of-a-bitch, but he gave a hell of a sermon. The most interesting part is when he talked about the Heralds of the Apocalypse and made them sound like comic villains.
The first Horseman was Pestilence, wearing a crown, mounted on a white horse. They carried a bow and shot arrows tipped with all the plagues of the world.
The second Horseman was War, holding a great sword, mounted on a red horse. In their wake, the armies of the world fought each other until they were all destroyed.
The third Horseman was Famine, holding a pair of scales, mounted on a black horse. Around them, food spoiled and the springs and streams died up, until starvation took all life.
The fourth Horseman was Death, who held nothing, but was cloaked and streaming behind with Hades itself following them. They would collect the souls of those already slain by the other Horsemen, and destroy what remained of civilization to add to the dead.
So, not to get all Biblical here, but when Marsabit in Kenya was destroyed in a zombie plague, the only living figure we found was scant blurry images of a figure in white walking through the city. Jaca featured a former Marine in red armor with Akkaba symbols in the centre of a population senselessly at war with each other. Now, a city of over seventeen thousand is wiped out by sudden and systemic rapid catabolysis as Collins returns and claims it was a Horseman. Only Famine fits that bill, and now Death is coming, on a Pale Horse, no doubt. And it looks like Death's target is going to be as many mutants as possible.
Assuming all of this is true and I'm not still daydreaming in that pew, this Nur has been deploying their minions with an Apocalypse flair to destroy communities in order to wake or empower themselves somehow, and 'Death' is the key. This would be a lot more laughable if they hadn't already killed forty thousand innocent people with less effort than we'd use to brush over an ant-hill. Considering each event took place only a few months apart, we need to start parallel research; intel on Akkaba and Essex, anticipating potential targets that meet the profile Collins spoke of, and thinking about potential countermeasures. In each of the other incidents, the aspects of their powers was radial and finite, so hopefully that applies to suitor number four as well.
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When the X-Men ran into Clan Akkaba in Slovakia, they first encounter the new and improved Laurie Collins, now under the employ of Essex. She spoke about getting the intel on En Sabah Nur, some kind of doomsday mutant. Their goal was to apparently summon this creature and in turn, Essex had some plan to confront him.
Since Collins had referred to the mutant responsible for the destruction of Troy, Alabama, let's travel back in time to St. Brendon's Cathedral on Chicago's South Side about 1945, when Father Michael, already six ounces deep in the gin, took the pulpit and told us about the end of the world. Drunk son-of-a-bitch, but he gave a hell of a sermon. The most interesting part is when he talked about the Heralds of the Apocalypse and made them sound like comic villains.
The first Horseman was Pestilence, wearing a crown, mounted on a white horse. They carried a bow and shot arrows tipped with all the plagues of the world.
The second Horseman was War, holding a great sword, mounted on a red horse. In their wake, the armies of the world fought each other until they were all destroyed.
The third Horseman was Famine, holding a pair of scales, mounted on a black horse. Around them, food spoiled and the springs and streams died up, until starvation took all life.
The fourth Horseman was Death, who held nothing, but was cloaked and streaming behind with Hades itself following them. They would collect the souls of those already slain by the other Horsemen, and destroy what remained of civilization to add to the dead.
So, not to get all Biblical here, but when Marsabit in Kenya was destroyed in a zombie plague, the only living figure we found was scant blurry images of a figure in white walking through the city. Jaca featured a former Marine in red armor with Akkaba symbols in the centre of a population senselessly at war with each other. Now, a city of over seventeen thousand is wiped out by sudden and systemic rapid catabolysis as Collins returns and claims it was a Horseman. Only Famine fits that bill, and now Death is coming, on a Pale Horse, no doubt. And it looks like Death's target is going to be as many mutants as possible.
Assuming all of this is true and I'm not still daydreaming in that pew, this Nur has been deploying their minions with an Apocalypse flair to destroy communities in order to wake or empower themselves somehow, and 'Death' is the key. This would be a lot more laughable if they hadn't already killed forty thousand innocent people with less effort than we'd use to brush over an ant-hill. Considering each event took place only a few months apart, we need to start parallel research; intel on Akkaba and Essex, anticipating potential targets that meet the profile Collins spoke of, and thinking about potential countermeasures. In each of the other incidents, the aspects of their powers was radial and finite, so hopefully that applies to suitor number four as well.