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Template


Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: Operation: Zero Tolerance
Aliases: Bastion, Sebastion Gilbert
Alternate-X Versions: Bastion (Mutant X)
Powers: Originally, none, except for a possible ability to detect mutants. As Template, he was a techno-organic being with all the shape-shifting and technological control abilities of such an organism. The being once known as Bastion is actually Nimrod / Master Mold, last seen in Uncanny #247. His mission is to "protect" humanity by destroying mutantkind. To that end, he formed Operation: Zero Tolerance, which captured the X-Men, cleaned out the Mansion, and was responsible for turning many innocent people into "sleeper" Sentinels. After OZT was shut down by S.H.I.E.L.D., Bastion was taken to the Helicarrier for study. He escaped, sporting new energy-blasting and flight abilities. He then returned to the old OZT base where he corrupted Machine Man's programming, forcing him to fight Cable. Bastion then combined with the Master Mold and apparently turned (back) into Nimrod. Somehow, however, Bastion was apparently recaptured, reverted to his original appearance, and was the subject of further studies at the Hulkbuster base. This continued until Death III arrived to destroy the Mannites hiding there. Death also destroyed Bastion's body. Left as a talking head, Bastion taunted the X-Men who came to investigate, and was left there when the base exploded. Weeks later, the villainous Mainspring's Gatekeeper robots found Bastion's head. However, Bastion's advanced nanotech construction took control of one of the robots and used it as its new body. When he got back to Mainspring, though, Mainspring was able to strip away the Bastion and Nimrod layers of programming to reveal the original Master Mold. Then Mainspring rewrote his new "Template's" programming with the Transmode Virus. Template was sent to capture Warlock II and his friends on Muir Island and then to transmode the New York Stock Exchange. Unfortunately, his Phalanx programming was in control by now, and he built a new Babel Spire to signal the Technarch. Mainspring finally destroyed himself and the space station where he and Template were located, and Warlock managed to shut down the Babel Spire. However, if Template was a true Transmode being, he probably survived the station's destruction.
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