Externals
AKA High Lords. Externals are immortal mutants, whose immortality is not their mutants power, and is discovered upon the event of their initial death. Many of the older Externals banded together, using their amassed wealth and knowledge to play power games across the globe. This group included Absalom, Burke, Crule, Gideon, Nicodemus, and Saul. Other Externals, such as Apocalypse, Candra, and Selene never joined with the rest of the Externals, preferring to manipulate people and events individually, and in their own ways. Nicodemus and Burke died from the Legacy Virus, and the rest of the External boys' club were killed by Selene. Cannonball was supposed to be an External, but recent intimations by Selene have cast doubt on that theory. While Externals are immortal, they can be killed. Originally, it seemed that this could be accomplished by severing "the five branches," probably the head, arms, and legs. However, it also seems that their life-force can be totally drained, as Selene proved. Supposedly, there will be a battle between the Externals called the "High Lord Ascension," which will leave only one of them alive and in control of Earth. It appears that in Cable's future the victor was Apocalypse, and Cable's ultimate purpose in journeying back to our time was to find a young External (Cannonball) whom he could shape and train to fight Apocalypse during the Ascension Wars. (This plot thread seems to have been discarded by now, as Cable seems to have taken it as his destiny to fight Apocalypse.)
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