Providence

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Providence is a fictional island featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Providence, located in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Hawaii at 20°N 165°W, is an artificial island made of parts from Cable’s old space station Graymalkin. It first appeared in Cable & Deadpool #6.

Inhabitants

Providence was intended to be a place where the best minds on Earth could gather, live, and find new ways of doing everything in hopes of giving the world a peaceful future. Providence is open to all who wish to immigrate there, though all residents must undergo various psychological and skills tests.

Staff

• “Owner” – Cable
• Chief of Staff – Irene Merryweather
• Chief of Security – Johann Kriek
• Head of Multi-Religious Studies – Prester John

Notable Residents

• Haji Bin Barat – One of the world’s most wanted terrorists, likely a reference to Osama Bin Ladin. Barat became the first murder victim of Providence.
• Roger Stevens – Captain America's alias during his brief stay on Providence.

Technology

Since Providence is built out of a space station from the future, it has an abundance of advanced technology. Most of this technology Cable allows to be freely given out to the world.

• Teleportation Matrix – Providence is equipped with a teleportation matrix that responds to the verbal commands of both Cable and Deadpool. It allows them to be teleported anywhere on Earth, and was once modified to teleport between dimensions as well.Cable generally uses the command Bodyslide by one or Bodyslide by two or more to activate the transportation. It is similar to the Star Trek saying "Four to beam up".
• Skimmer Jets – solar-powered vehicles requiring no fuel, used by Cable when he no longer had the ability to fly of his own accord.
• Fission Waste Processor – Used for processing waste, and presumably an energy supply, this device was shared with Tony Stark.

It was later self-destructed by Cable himself to keep the future evidence of Hope Summers birth away from the Marauders.

Fictional history

Graymalkin: Cable's space station

Providence was originally named Graymalkin, a space station made with technology from 2000 years in the future and equipped with a time-displacement core and a teleportation unit and property of Cable which allowed him to teleport or "bodyslide" as Cable called it as well as a timecore that allowed for time travel. An interesting part of Graymalkin's construction was its Professor (not to be confused with Professor X).

X-Force was forced to destroy Graymalkin when S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to take it over, however the destruction was a faked one as the station dumped parts of itself in the ocean and in X-Force's base, but the remaining parts, including its core remained, now using cloaking to hide itself.

Avalon: Magneto's Acolytes' space station

Avalon was a fictional space station inhabited by the Acolytes, a cult devoted to Magneto and his views on human-mutant relations. The space station was made of pieces from Graymalkin and Magneto's older space station, Asteroid M. It first appeared in the Fatal Attractions storyline in Marvel Comics's X-Men books.

Magneto discovered the abandoned space-station, deactivated the Professor and used Shi'ar technology to expand it, turning it into his new base and sending out his new servant Exodus to bring worthy mutants to it. His first choice were several members of X-Force, who had been students of Magneto when they were part of the New Mutants. X-Force leader, Cable, followed them and managed to disable Avalon's teleportation system and copy the Professor from the core of the station into his own techno-organic bodyparts. Cable and his team escaped, but former New Mutants Rusty Collins and Skids remained on Avalon with Magneto.

Shortly afterwards, Magneto sent Exodus to bring his followers, the Acolytes, to Avalon as well. He declared that Avalon would be a safe haven for all mutants, away from humanity. The X-Men battled Magneto and he was put into a coma. Exodus took over the leadership of the Acolytes and Avalon. The Acolyte Milan repaired the teleportation systems of Avalon.

Avalon was destroyed during a battle between reality jumper, Holocaust, and Exodus, after Holocaust arrived in mainstream reality and assumed that Exodus was the same Exodus from Holocaust's timeline, leading the space station to crash landing into unknown parts of Australia. Many members of the Acolytes died, but several--including Exodus, Scanner, Frenzy, the Kleinstock brothers, Unuscione and Holocaust himself were able to survive.^[1] Exodus tried to gather the pieces of Avalon to rebuild it shortly afterwards, but halted his plans when Joseph turned up, thinking that Joseph was Magneto. Pieces of Avalon and Graymalkin were later gathered by Cable to build the island of Providence, his former base of operations.

Other media

Video games

• Avalon also appears as the last level in X-Men: Children of the Atom where the player must face Magneto.
• Avalon is also shown and is a level on the SNES game X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and on the Sega Genesis game X-Men 2: Clone Wars.
• In Magneto's ending in Marvel Super Heroes, he uses the Infinity Gauntlet to create a new Avalon, an entire moon to serve as a homeworld for Mutantkind.
• In the video game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse Avalon is Magneto's base in the Savage Land. The X-Men and Brotherhood use Avalon as their headquarters during their stay in the Savage Land.

See also

• Asteroid M - Magneto's first space station.

Sources

• Cable & Deadpool

References