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[nimbi]

[ To say that it is taking some effort to adjust to the new reality Ororo has suddenly found herself in would be quite an understatement, but she still manages to look perfectly calm and composed as she offers the network a polite smile.

Would she like to maybe have herself a minor little breakdown? Sure. But she has absolutely no idea what sort of consequences that might have considering the quite substantial storm that is already going on outside the Ingress Complex, and there really just isn't time to fall apart right now. Maybe at some later point she can allow herself to fully absorb the shock of what has happened, but for now she has to keep moving forward. ]

Hello. My name is Ororo Munroe, and I'm a relatively new arrival here. Where I'm from I'm a teacher, mostly ancient history which isn't really going to be too useful around here unless some of you are dying to know about the Roman Empire, even if that was never a thing on your planet or in your timeline.

What I also am, is a mutant, which in my case means I have the ability to control the weather. I can survive in just about any climate, and I can get all sorts of information about what is going on in the environment around me because I am basically wired into it, which is a gross oversimplification but you didn't come here for a lecture.

[ Damn, but it feels pretty good to not hide what she can do. Screw anonymity, she's nowhere near Earth and its mutant registration act, and she is going to be completely and unashamedly herself. ]

I'm mentioning these things because I'm going to be needing a job pretty soon, so I figured I should put myself out there. Thank you for listening.

[ Her expression shifts into something a bit more amused, and at the same time sort of sad. ]

Oh, and if you have any good hangover remedies? Feel free to share them.

[ She's asking for a friend.

No, seriously, she is. ]

Comments

[warandpeace]

Hard to say. As for Roman conflicts there's the conflicts with Carthage and Macedonia. And there's the Genkō War or Nobunaga's move to unify Japan if you go East. Central American conflicts ranging from conquistadors to the rise of communist regimes. Hell, the Cold War in general.

There are a lot of ways people ended up with similar worlds that are just a little off. It happens a lot here. Some even have the same people, but an alien or a machine or a disease twisted events into a different course for one. It stopped matching the other.

[This might take a while.]

[nimbi]

So far that all sounds like things that happened where I'm from. My guess would be that one big point of divergence would be the appearance of mutants.

[ Well, she doesn't have that much to do at the moment. ]

[warandpeace]

I think I've heard of the mutant thing. But not the extent of the differences. Special abilities, right? We've got a few of those. Some by genes, some with various augmentation.

But nothing called "mutants", no. When did they first show up?

[Hey, he's interested in all the history he can sink his fingers into, even what isn't his. He doesn't always meet people that want to discuss it.]

[nimbi]

If there is a documented first appearance, I don't know about it. If you ask me, we've probably always been around more or less. I would say that since around the 40s we have become increasingly more visible, and our numbers have been growing.

[warandpeace]

Some of our first records were of participants in World War II, but they weren't exactly publicly described as being what they were. [They're somewhat confidential where he's from, but there's no use in keeping the abilities of the Cobra Unit or the more menacing GRU operatives secret in this place. There's more to be gained in this instant that unnecessary containment of information.]

This included some extreme longevity and camoflage abilities along with control over hornets, though those people acquired their abilities from something other than their genes. However it's possible that a man with limb distortion, an incredibly skilled psychic, and a man with control over energy ranging from electricity or fire could have come across their talents naturally.

I don't know about those that came after 1984.

[Which dates him, sadly, and even moreso because there were more that came later.]

What exceptional nuclear incidents happened between the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and ''84? [Just to line up some more comparisons.]

[nimbi]

Military action or accidents?