Deviants
The first race of intelligent humanoids created by the Celestials from primitive man millions of years ago. They are all monstrous in appearance, and generally evil. They rebelled against their master and 25,000 years ago enslaved the humans (who had evolved on their own) for thousands of years. However, when the Celestials returned in the Second Host, they sank the Deviants' captial city Lemuria on the island of Atlantis, although some survived to form the modern-day kingdom of Atlantis. The Deviants have frequently fought the Eternals, the advanced race of generally benevolent beings created by the Celestials, but in recent years their ranks have split. Many Deviants, following one Odysseus Indigo, head of the Damocles Foundation, are now preoccupied with restarting their genetic evolution, which has been stagnant for thousands of years. To that end, Damocles experimented on children in Hope, AZ, trying to create a human/Deviant hybrid that would have mutations, and usually, special powers. Unfortunately, most of these children's DNA was unstable, and many of them died, their powers flaring out of control. Daomcles also tried to use a Celestial Golem to jump-start their project, but that plan was foiled by Sledge. The Foundation has a strike force of presumably more stable hybrids called the Sword, which ran into X-Force while tracking down Arcadia DeVille, who was being protected by Odysseus's brother Ulysses. The Sword was defeated, but Damocles continues its operations.
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