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The year: 1988
The Age Before Apocalypse.
Apocalypse is an unfamiliar name, a strange man in a big flying ship who has been sighted outside of several major cities.
Beetlejuice is in theaters.
Crime rates are a bit higher than they were last year, especially crimes involving alleged super-powered individuals.
Layered socks are cool.
A handful of confusing television broadcasts have overridden
stations in the last few months, announcing
that 'mutants' everywhere should rise up to take their birthright away
from homo sapiens.
Prozac is introduced to the pharmaceutical market.
Broadcasters can't figure out how the overriding signal worked.
'Radical' only means a number if you're too old to know better.
Reagan has informed the American public that the confusing message was probably a Russian scare tactic.
Gorbachev has informed the Soviet public that the confusing message was probably an American scare tactic.
Both are wrong.
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In the wake of Charles Xavier's death, a man called Erik Lensherr took a new path. Instead of parting ways bitterly with his erst-while friend, divided irrevocably over a question of hope, he saw his idealistic friend die, and took it upon himself to see that friend's dreams become reality.
The world is calm, today. The only war is a Cold one. This is the decade of free enterprise, materialism, and shameless self-promotion.
A new school, for mutants, is opening... Erik plans to teach them tolerance and understanding for their fellow humans, and maybe, just maybe, teach them how to stop those mutants who would promote dissent and fear. It's been years since Charles Xavier died. But will his dream survive?
