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Moment of Awesome: Magneto On a small island in the Pacific, Magneto has founded Avalon, his mutant nation. In the following passage, we see Erik the Statesman, as he tries to explain his change of heart. "My efforts have always been about the survival of mutants. I know firsthand how more populous cultures can destroy potential challengers, especially in the early years. I had once walked the same path as Charles, towards education and integration. Later, I saw the first violent backlash, and believed that only fear would protect them. For all my efforts, all the cost, it wasn't even my efforts that proved my way futile. It was Apocalypse." Erik stopped and took a seat on the benches along the beach. "He took his city, lost it, and in the process, caused the deaths of thousands of mutants worldwide. No, I cannot protect them through education. I cannot protect them through fear. But I can protect them through strength. This island." "What, a make believe nation?" "Make-believe? Oh, it is very different than that. This island I can secure. Against any who come for mutants here. If the rest of the world needs time to be safe for mutants, I will provide a place they can wait for that day." "And how is it secure?" Adrienne inquired curiously. "I mean, where the hell are we, first of all, but secondly, how is where we are secure? Cuz it pretty much looks like a jungle and a fucking volcano to me," she mused with a raised eyebrow. "The magnetic fields are strong enough that I could stop a navy alone. I have also developed an amplifier which once finished will be capable of generating a shield strong enough to withstand any assault." He smiled at Kane's reaction. "Yes, Mr Kane, why would I tell you about my capabilities so easily? Because they are going to protect them." He indicated the tent city going up. Children played on the beach, and for each Brotherhood terrorist he could identify, there were a dozen others he didn't know of. "Avalon." "It's genesis, yes. One day, perhaps this will be the place that a new, better world started." "Are all these people... mutants?" Adrienne asked in disbelief. "No non-mutants here?" It also didn't escape her attention that Erik was the second person to ignore her question about where exactly they were. "All mutants, Ms Frost. Together for the first time in a place they can truly call theirs."