Marvel's First Ancient Mutants Are Returning (Two Billion Years Later)
WARNING: Spoilers for Marauders #1 ahead!
With the launch of the new Marauders from Marvel Comics, Captain Kate Pryde's own X-Men team are going on a search and rescue mission to Shi'ar space, with a promise that the ancient «first mutants» are being held against their will. If this eventual reveal turns out to be true (and not a carefully planned ruse from the still evil Cassandra Nova), this will be just one more major retcon to mutant history… and their cosmic origins.
Kate Pryde and her Red Bishop have recruited a new team of Marauders to fulfill a huge need for mutantdom: searching for and rescuing mutants in need. Her new team consists of Bishop, Tempo, Psylocke (Kwannon), Aurora, Daken, and Somnus, with Marauders #1 introducing Cassandra Nova, Charles Xavier's definitely still monstrous twin sister, as the final crew member. Nova's arrival has lead the team to their first major mission, with a a group of apparently unknown and unaccounted for ancient mutants held captive by the Shi'ar.
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The trouble with this is that Cassandra Nova has a long and violent history with the Shi'ar, having taken possession of then Majestrix Lilandra in the pages of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men, almost slaughtering the mutants on Earth and effectively wrecking the entire Shi'ar Empire for some time. In Marauders #1 — written by Steve Orlando with art by Eleonora Carlini and Matt Milla and lettering by Ariana Maher — Pryde confronts Cassandra Nova over a 2 billion year old box she found in the pages of Marauders Annual #1. Apparently the ancient box, written in Pryde's own handwriting, led her to the area of Krakoa where Nova had been
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