Spoilers: In the early 21st, an interconnected neural network was developed, allowing mental communication between bio-modified users in a "cyberspace." Eventually some users, possessing special genetics dubbed the .EXE/gene, discovered they could break protocols preventing user modifications and brain death at will, which made them targets of the government. After foiling Magneto's plans to turn all BASES into .EXES, Xavier decides it's time to stop running and hiding and gathers a team of technology-evolved .EXEs, including an alternate Psylocke.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
