Genosha
Places of Interest: Hammer Bay, Carrion Cove, The Citadel
A small island off the coast of Africa, Genosha seems like the ideal place to
live: a high standard of living, an excellent economy led by advanced technology
companies and ample food and space for all. However, this apparent utopia is anything
but. Genosha's prosperity was built on the backs of its mutant population, who
tested genetically-positive and who were altered in mind and body to become mutates,
servants of the state. The mutates were policed by magistrates, and many were
kept in concentration camps. The X-Men have been to Genosha four times. The first
time, they were for Madelyne Pryor, who had flown
some escaped mutates off the island, and who had been hunted down by the magistrates
and imprisoned. The X-Men were themselves captured, but managed to escape and
bring down the Citadel they were in, but they could not topple the social system.
Later, Storm and ome of the New
Mutants were captured by magistrates and arraigned for crimes against the
state. When the remaining X-Men and New Mutants, along with X-Factor
came to their rescue, they too were captured and put on trial. They eventually
escaped and brought down the corrupt government, leaving a new regime in charge
which promised to treat mutants better. See X-Tinction
Agenda. The third time was actually to aid the Genoshans against the original
Acolytes, who were slaughtering humans in
the name of mutant supremacy. The fourth time the X-Men went to Genosha was to
find Quicksilver's daughter Luna, who had been
abducted by Cortez. The team was joined on this mission
by the Avengers. See Bloodties.
Genosha is still a country in turmoil. However, after Magneto
made a second attempt to disrupt the Earth's magnetosphere, the U.N. ceded control
of Genosha to him, in the hope that the civil war would keep Magnus to busy to
ever threaten Earth again. Magneto became the ruler of Genosha, and has, contrary
to all expectations, actually succeeded in restoring most of it to its former
glory. There are still racial prejudices, but now they are directed from mutants
towards humans. There are also internment camps for those suffering from the Legacy
Virus. Quicksilver joined his father's regime, hoping to offer a voice of
reason, but after Magneto crushed the Carrion Cove rebellion and used the mutate
technology to restore himself to full power, he left.