X-Men #191 - Marvel

Another chapter in the Supernovas story line. Or the Children of the Vault. Whatever you want to call them. This issue we find out some more of the history of these people. Creed decides to open up some and tell the X-Men what he knows about them and where they came from. From what he says, Cable pieces the rest of it together. Basically these scientists, in the 70's, built an accelerator, and started perfoming test with it on a leased ship off the coast of Chili. Rogue asks, "You think they did it, Cable? Built an accelerator and then . . . . what? Turned the Conquistador into some kind of time machine?" To which Cable replys, "No. The Accelerator wouldn't have let them travel through time. It would be a sealed space, within which time moved more quickly by a factor of several hundred times. In the three decades that the Conquistador was at sea . . . . assuming it was inhabited . . . . . the people inside it would have lived through six thousand years." Emma asks, "Are you saying that the children are mutants?" "No. They're fully human, but after so many centuries of genetic drift, they have to count as a separate species. And the technologies they've developed are a s formidable . . . as dangerous. . . . . as any super power.", replys Cable. Which Cannonball has already experienced as Serafina, one of the children, while in the infimary, taps into Lady Wyngarde's powers and takes Cannonball though a lifetime of illusion. What he feels is years and years of time they've spent together, is actually only 4 minutes to the outside world. But after their failure with the X-men, the children decide it's time to stop hiding their existance and go out and confront the world. Clay Henry is on pencils, and it is a very visually telling story. Even after this story is wrapped up, I have the feeling these "Children of the Vault" will be affecting the X-Men for a long time to come.