Children of the Vault

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The Children of the Vault are a species that features in Marvel Comics.

History

The Children of the Vault (Los niños de la cámara acorazada) were a species of superhumans that arose from mankind. Their existence was traced to a group of biologists that were largely researching global warming and global eco-catastrophe in the 1970s. One among them was Bella Pagan who was a temporal physicist with the team showcasing a temporal accelerator and produced a shared paper on parallel evolution. The scientific community believed the works of his group to be fraudulent and ignored their findings. However, the team was determined increasing the speed of evolution over a quick period of time through the accelerator. Thus, in 1972, they persuaded the government of Chile to lease them a UCLCC-type tanker with a Panamanian registry listing it as the Conquistador. It was refitted with scientific equipment and the scientists absconded with the vessel and in the 1973 coup attempt in the government all records of it were lost. During this time, the ship was enveloped in a sealed space of time where everything within moved at an accelerated rate by several hundred times. As such, over the course of three decades in the real world the people inside the ship went through six thousand years where the human crew went through divergent evolution. The result was the creation of a new breed of superhumans that were a separate species born from humanity. (X-Men v2 #191)

The Conquistador was meant to serve as a time capsule for their kind that was to only open when global catastrophe had erased humanity. It was then that the Children of the Vault intended to emerge and inherit the Earth. However, the energies released as the result of M-Day caused the Decimation of the Mutant population and thus caused the Children of the Vault to react early. As such, they decided to eliminate both mankind and Mutants as they believed that only they were strong with this entailing them in eliminating the weak from the world. (X-Men v2 #193)

The lone Serafina remained on the run where she fled back to the Vault whilst being pursued by Wolverine who was unable to capture her in time. Once inside, she interfaced with the Vault's artificial intelligence that reconstituted fallen Children and began growing more as part of a new cycle of response towards threats in the world. To stop them, the X-Men staged an attack on the structure in order to distract the automated defences whilst they dispatched a tea consisting of X-23, Synch and Darwin to infiltrate the facility. (X-Men v5 #5)

Overview

In appearance, the Children of the Vault had a vast variety of appearances with these being factored on their abilities. Though possessing powers, they were not Mutants but rather the result of centuries of genetic drift to the point that they were counted as a separate species. (X-Men v2 #191)

They believed that only they were intended to inherit the Earth and that they intended to achieve this goal. (X-Men v2 #193) The Children of the Vault were said to represent the single greatest threat to Mutantkind. (X-Men v5 #5)

The Children of the Vault were said to typically operate in packs. (X-Men v5 #5)

Central to their operations was a structure known as the Vault that contained a chamber where time operated differently with a temporal shear serving as a barrier into the space inside. It was said to be similar to the World in that time was accelerated within the structure. However, a key difference was that the Vault was based on human adaptation entirely on technological lines rather than evolutionary based as was the case in the World. Automated defensive systems were noted to protect the structure with this being guided by its artificial intelligence. (X-Men v5 #5) Within the Vault, reproduction was achieved through asexual means though certain members like to experience other means of begetting offspring. (X-Men v2 #191)

It was said that they had developed technologies that were as formidable and dangerous as any superpower. (X-Men v2 #191) This meant that it was difficult to steal their powers as they were noted biological but rather rooted in their technology. (X-Men v2 #193)

They were known to had created machine viruses that were able to infect a person and kill them in 30 days. (Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost v1 #1)

Members

• Sangre :
• Serafina :
• Perro :
• Fuego :
• Aguja :
• Cadena :
• Corregidora :
• Martillo :
• Luz :

Notes

• The Children of the Vault were created by Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo where they made their first appearance in X-Men v2 #188 (September, 2006).

Appearances

• X-Men v2: (2006)
• X-Men v5: (2020)
• Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost v1: (2020)

External Link

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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