Affiliation:NoneAbout sixteen years in the future, one of the first Nimrod units came to Forge's Aerie in Eagle Plaza and attacked his wife Ororo and their children. Holding the children hostage, Nimrod forced Forge to design and build a time machine and install it in the robot's body. However, Forge managed to sabotage the unit, dumping Nimrod in an alternate timeline. Damaged and barely functional, the robot was found by Reverend Stryker, who (possibly with the aid of the nanotech Paul with whom he had merged earlier) was able to access Nimrod's database and effectively view the future. Over time, Stryker used his detailed knowledge of future events to recruit devoutly loyal followers by "saving" them from deaths that he had viewed in Nimrod's database. It was Nimrod's recollections of the future of mutantkind that were more interesting to Stryker, however, and he strung Nimrod up as almost a Christ-like figure as he used those memories to plot against the mutants and ex-mutants following M-Day. As Stryker killed more mutants and ex-mutants, Nimrod's memories adjusted to incorporate the events into his future timeline. Eventually, Stryker's plans called for him to bring Icarus to his hideout, where the mutant's presence re-activated Nimrod. Though Stryker's men shot Icarus, Nimrod was already active, and he killed a number of the Purifiers while effecting his escape.
Badly damaged, and missing most of one of his arms, which Stryker was using as a gauntlet to control the O*N*E Sentinels, Nimrod teleported to Eagle Plaza to confront Forge. Threatening to teleport to Africa and kill Storm with the last of his power, Nimrod demanded that Forge repair him. Forge tried to stall, but meanwhile, the New X-Men were en route to Dallas, having deduced a partial message left by the dying Icarus and having received a distress signal via Surge II's Forge-designed gauntlets, but the main X-Men team did not believe that Nimrod was really there. When Nimrod attacked the Blackbird, Forge showed Nimrod an anti-Sentinel unit he had just completed, to which Nimrod transferred his programming. Nimrod took over all of Forge's prototypes and made them attack the kids while he was transforming. However, Forge gained the upper hand when he activated a secret protocol that made his unit protect mutants. Unfortunately, when the unit containing Nimrod went to assist the New X-Men, they thought it was attacking as well, and they blasted it. This caused a conflict between the unit's protocols to protect mutants and preserve itself, and during that conflict Nimrod's program re-asserted itself. Nimrod re-wrote the software and physically changed the outer shell to his old appearance, and apparently used its nanotech to effectively re-create his old body. The New X-Men were nearly killed, but eventually they managed to crack Nimrod's carapace and Surge II overloaded his time device, causing Nimrod to disappear.
Nimrod was adrift in the timestream for a while, until he was able to re-boot his time device and make an emergency jump anywhere. He ended up in the past, just after Rachel Summers arrived in our timeline. Landing on a subway platform in Nyew York City, he noticed one man attacking another and disintegrated the attacker. The man he saved was named Jamie Rodriguez, and he took Nimrod in and let him stay at his house. Nimrod quickly learned to alter his appearance, and Jaime, a dock worker, helped "Nicholas Hunter" get a job. Nimrod soon discovered that Rachel Summers was in this timeline, and fought the X-Men a few times. It finally took the combined might of half of the X-Men plus the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle to even stop Nimrod.
Nimrod then bided his time posing as human, until he happened upon a control board from the original Master Mold. The Master Mold program imprinted itself onto Nimrod and the two programs began to fuse as Master Mold built itself a giant body out of steel beams to attack the X-Men. Nimrod was not happy about being co-opted, and internally fought Master Mold so that when the X-Men convinced the robot that it, being a synthesis of two programs, with thoughts and "feelings," was also a mutant, they were able to force it into the Siege Perilous.
Later on, a copy of Nimrod's program that he had downloaded into
the government's intranet reconstructed himself when scientists developed advanced
enough circuitry, but was convinced by Cable that his
presence in our time would destroy more humans than if he was created in the future,
causing his mission to fail, whereupon the Nimrod copy deactivated himself. The original
Nimrod (along with Master Mold) has since returned in the form of Bastion,
granted to him by the Siege Perilous.
See Bastion (now Template)
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