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President En-Nur's endeavors in the Nexus have been pleasantly successful, thus far. A variety of deals made and technologies traded for, and a thankful lack of attack by spandex-or-leather-clad mutant assassins.
And now, an invitation to a more private sort of meeting, in order to discuss a potential exchange of genetic technologies. Lovely. He's had put together a thorough briefing on his nation's technologies as pertain to biological and genetic manipulation, just for the purpose. (All sorts of artificial and mechanical enhancements, power inducement, refinement, removal, the many ramifications of the 'genetic reboot' process he and Nathaniel developed in the late 19th century, the intricate understanding of the X-gene and all its possibilities that's been built up since then, an overview of the samples on the national genetic database -- the collected powers of a good 80 years worth of mutants...)
Of course, Sabah En-Nur wasn't born yesterday -- he knows that there's a fair chance of this being some kind of trap. Going to a strange place at the invitation of an unknown party whom you haven't even been able to telepathically scan? Hah. Which is why he insisted upon bringing with him to this little soirée a few companions.
Lalla, for intelligence purposes. Karolyn, for... defense. (Wear the fingerless gloves, young one, just in case.) Nathaniel, for his scientific expertise and his telepathic abilities.
And himself, as dangerous as all of them put together.
"PINpoints, all?" His scientists haven't had time to entirely check out the Nexus technology, true -- but they're in wide enough use that they're almost undoubtedly without serious flaw, and a slightly uncertain escape route is better than none.
And now, an invitation to a more private sort of meeting, in order to discuss a potential exchange of genetic technologies. Lovely. He's had put together a thorough briefing on his nation's technologies as pertain to biological and genetic manipulation, just for the purpose. (All sorts of artificial and mechanical enhancements, power inducement, refinement, removal, the many ramifications of the 'genetic reboot' process he and Nathaniel developed in the late 19th century, the intricate understanding of the X-gene and all its possibilities that's been built up since then, an overview of the samples on the national genetic database -- the collected powers of a good 80 years worth of mutants...)
Of course, Sabah En-Nur wasn't born yesterday -- he knows that there's a fair chance of this being some kind of trap. Going to a strange place at the invitation of an unknown party whom you haven't even been able to telepathically scan? Hah. Which is why he insisted upon bringing with him to this little soirée a few companions.
Lalla, for intelligence purposes. Karolyn, for... defense. (Wear the fingerless gloves, young one, just in case.) Nathaniel, for his scientific expertise and his telepathic abilities.
And himself, as dangerous as all of them put together.
"PINpoints, all?" His scientists haven't had time to entirely check out the Nexus technology, true -- but they're in wide enough use that they're almost undoubtedly without serious flaw, and a slightly uncertain escape route is better than none.