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<td valign="top">[[Image:Collateraldamage.jpg|left|100px]]'''Collateral Damage:''' [[July 2004| July 24, 2004]]. [[Mistra| Mistra's]] quest to recapture its former operative [[Nathan Dayspring|Cable]] took a frightening new turn when a retrieval team attacked him at Columbia University. In an effort to force him to surrender himself, the team targeted innocent civilians, the very people Mistra had been created to protect.
  
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Warren grew up an only child in Manhattan. His grandfather was the founder of Worthington Industries, and as a result Warren's family is extremely wealthy. He was sent to a boarding school as a child, and his mutation emerged while he was a student there. He managed to keep his wings, the physical manifestation of his powers, strapped down but he would not remain grounded -- at one point, his school dormitory caught fire and he was able to rescue several of his classmates, while wearing a wig and sheet. After this he started taking to the skies of NYC, fighting crime in a mask and costume. It was there that [[Charles Xavier| Professor Charles Xavier]] found him, and asked him to join his  school as one of the founding students, along with [[Scott Summers]], [[Jean Grey]], [[Ororo Munroe]] and [[Hank McCoy]]. His parents, still alive and living in New York, thoughr he was adjunting at a boarding school much like the one he had once attended.
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Thirty-six people - mostly students, plus a camera crew who had been filming on campus - were killed. Six Mistra agents also died. Many more were injured, despite the efforts of Nathan, [[Amanda Sefton]] and [[Stephen Strange - Phase 1|Dr. Stephen Strange]] to try and save them. Mistra left empty-handed, but only due to a desperate powers intervention by [[Manuel de la Rocha]].
  
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An only child of privilege, Warren initially had difficulty settling in at the mansion. However his natural charm and wit soon won him friends among his peers, although he never did get on with Logan. Jean's  death hit him hard and he became isolated from the younger members of the school, focussing on his classes and on his lover, [[Piotr]] and Piotr's little sister [[Illyana]].
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The event dominated the media for months, and sparked a resurgence in the mutant debate. Various individuals pored over the footage, trying to identify the participants. Fortunately for those involved, what footage there was tended to be blurry and damaged. Conspiracy theories abounded.
  
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When Illyana was kidnapped and later disowned by her brother, Warren stood by Piotr, despite the uproar the disowning caused in the school and Piotr's general unpopularity among the students. When Piotr left for several months to undergo security training, Warren was forced to interact among a wider group, making some unlikely friends such as [[Amanda Sefton]] and [[Paige Guthrie]]. He also renewed old acquaintances, such as [[Jake Gavin]] and [[Shinobi Shaw]].
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A memorial was built on the site of the parking lot where the incident took place, and the [[Collateral Damage| Columbia Massacre]] is marked by a yearly commemorative service.
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Warren was an active [[X-Men| X-Man]] for all the time he was at the school, however he suffered a crisis of faith after the [[Skippy (plot)| Skippy incident]]. His idealism was dinted by the increasingly violent world outside of the mansion. However, the creation of [[HeliX]] and the [[Red X]] program gave him hope that perhaps not all heroes were naive fools.
 
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Upon his graduation from law school and his passing of the bar exam, Warren returned to the school full-time as a teacher. However he was unable to settle, and when [[Alison]] and [[Haroun]] left to create the [[West Coast Annex]] in April 2006, he and Piotr joined them. His family ties are in New York, however, and the school has a habit of drawing people back.
 
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Warren's mutation is a pair of natural wings that span almost sixteen feet, from tip to tip. His entire anatomy is structured for ease of flight: hollow bones, minimal body fat, greater proportional strength than most humans, eyes that can withstand high winds and lung membranes that allow him to breathe in extreme velocities and altitudes.
 
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Latest revision as of 12:20, 26 August 2015

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Collateral Damage: July 24, 2004. Mistra's quest to recapture its former operative Cable took a frightening new turn when a retrieval team attacked him at Columbia University. In an effort to force him to surrender himself, the team targeted innocent civilians, the very people Mistra had been created to protect.

Thirty-six people - mostly students, plus a camera crew who had been filming on campus - were killed. Six Mistra agents also died. Many more were injured, despite the efforts of Nathan, Amanda Sefton and Dr. Stephen Strange to try and save them. Mistra left empty-handed, but only due to a desperate powers intervention by Manuel de la Rocha.

The event dominated the media for months, and sparked a resurgence in the mutant debate. Various individuals pored over the footage, trying to identify the participants. Fortunately for those involved, what footage there was tended to be blurry and damaged. Conspiracy theories abounded.

A memorial was built on the site of the parking lot where the incident took place, and the Columbia Massacre is marked by a yearly commemorative service.

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