Appearing in "Beg Tomorrow"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Banshee
- Forge
- Paige Guthrie
- Dr. Crispin (First appearance)
- Dr. Valerie Hawkins-Mailer (First appearance)
- Dr. Bernard Wilker (First appearance)
Adversaries:
- Nimrod
- Martin Henry Strong
- Hellfire Club (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Master Mold (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
Other Characters:
- Jaime Rodriguez (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- U.S. Army
- X-Men (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Dr. Bougred Suntas (First appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Shatterstar's Swords
- Siege Perilous (On a TV or computer screen)
- Intellect microchip (First appearance)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Beg Tomorrow"
Domino and Shatterstar sneak into an electronics company outside Houston to investigate the development of artificial intelligence. Inside, they find the company’s owner Martin Henry Strong in a life support tank. The head of the AI research team catches them and, after some arguing, hands over a new, highly advanced microchip. Two days later near Memphis, Rictor and Warpath cause another scientist on the research team to have a flat tire during his morning commute. While Warpath changes the tire, Rictor photographs the scientist’s papers. Three days after that, Cable has lunch with Forge in Washington, D.C. and shows him the microchip. Forge determines its design is 25 years ahead of its time, and Cable worries it is connected to the Sentinel development program at Camp Hayden, Kentucky. The next day, Siryn meets her father Banshee at the Massachusetts Academy which Professor X is taking over. They discuss their relationship, and she asks him about the time-traveling Sentinel called Nimrod. At the Guthrie farm in Kentucky, Cannonball argues with his sister Paige about her desire to go to Xavier’s School. The following day at Camp Verde, Cable briefs X-Force on the history of Nimrod. He warns that the Camp Hayden program is developing an iteration of Nimrod decades ahead of time and that it could lead to the genocide of mutants. That night, X-Force sneaks into Camp Hayden, and Siryn uses her powers to disable the soldiers posted there. Half an hour later, however, X-Force has been beaten and overpowered by a Nimrod prototype. To its engineers’ horror, it is already self-aware and declares it must exterminate mutants to save humanity.
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in:
- X-Force: Child's Play hardcover (2012);
- Cable and X-Force Omnibus hardcover (2019).
Trivia
- X-Force fought Martin Henry Strong in X-Force Annual #2.
- The original Nimrod unit came from Earth-811 roughly 30 years in the future. It arrived in the present-day Marvel Universe in Uncanny X-Men #191, and the X-Men and the Hellfire Club battled it in Uncanny X-Men #208-209. Later, Nimrod merged with Master Mold, and the X-Men forced it through the magical Siege Perilous portal in Uncanny X-Men #247. Its fate is revealed in Machine Man/Bastion '98.
- Although the Nimrod unit that appears in this issue is a new prototype, its neural network is from the original Earth-811 version.
See Also
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Recommended Reading
Links and References
- X-Force at Wikipedia
- X-Force at Marvel Subscriptions
- X-Force series index at Comicbookdb.com
- X-Force series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
- X-Force series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
- The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 06/19/2010
Footnotes
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