(Astonishing Tales I#30) - Deathlok protected Linc from the tank, but just as they had nearly escaped, Linc was slain by other agents of Ryker, the Trouble-Shooters. Deathlok went after the killers, but was again forced to flee before the tank. The Trouble-Shooters pursued him as well, but he eventually dropped them all. In addition, he fashioned a crossbow out of scrap material and launched a girder into the tank, destroying it.

    Meanwhile, Mike Travers escaped from Ryker's cell and began tracking down Deathlok.

    However, by the time Deathlok had traveled to the helicopter atop a building on 57^th and Madison, the pilot had already slain a pair of cannibal attackers and -- wounded in the process -- fled toward the 59^th and Lexington subway station.

    There Deathlok found the mortally-wounded pilot and his killers, lobotomized human drones, eventually knocking out a support beam and collapsing the subway on them when they threatened to overpower him by weight of numbers. Deathlok subsequently opened the courier's briefcase and found it filled with counterfeit money.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 (fb) - BTS) - Hellinger apparently arranged that entire confrontation in order to draw Deathlok to him so that Deathlok could claim for him Nina Ferry, who would be mindlocked to Ryker's Omni-Computer, making her aware of everything Ryker was aware of and making her the key to Ryker's destruction.

(Astonishing Tales I#32) - Meanwhile, Travers returned to Ryker's base. Although Ryker's aide warned him of the Omni-Computer alert, Ryker disregarded this and instead instructed his aide to have the computer assemble a readout on Victorio Quartuccio.

Travers located Nina Ferry, fought off security alerted by the Omni-Computer, and disconnected Nina from the computer bank, setting off a self-destruct signal, but he escaped with Nina. However, Travers was unaware that Ryker's Terminal Eye nonetheless linked up to the otherwise unconscious Nina, allowing it to continue to monitor Travers' activities.

    Travers and a conscious but mute Nina Ferry were confronted and taken captive by the Provisional Revolutionary Army.

(Captain America I#288 (fb)) - BTS) - At some point, Godwulf gathered together some of the former N^th Commandos -- notably the ones now going by the aliases Big Man, Gentle Sam, Iron Butterfly, Sage, and Swashbuckler -- as his Redeemers. They recruited a relatively small number of followers who engaged in war against Hellinger and the other would-be enslavers of America.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Godwulf allied with Timestream in efforts to destroy Hellinger.

(Captain America#288 (fb) - BTS) - Godwulf was approached by the Luther Manning clone (the one originally possessed by Simon Ryker and later associated with the CIA; the one with Deathlok's memories and computer link-up). The clone stated that he theorized that Deathlok might still be alive in another era. Godwulf offered him a chance to prove his theory.

(Captain America I#286) <1993 (see comments)> - As a cannibalistic street gang slew a man just outside the station, Godwulf sent the surviving Luther Manning clone from his 23^rd Street station subway base back and across time to Earth-616, just days before Operation: Purge.

(Captain America I#286 - BTS) - Manning tracked Deathlok to the seemingly abandoned Brand Corporation facility, where he was observed and joined by Captain America. The two invaded the facility, but Deathlok -- who had been reprogrammed by the Brand Corporation/N^th Command -- then appeared and shot the Manning clone through the chest.

(Captain America I#287) - Deathlok overpowered Captain America, but he was then drawn to the dying Manning clone; upon contact, the clone restored Deathlok's memories. Deathlok then turned on the Brand Corporation agents, freeing Captain America and then blowing up the facility. After burying the clone, Deathlok returned to Manhattan's 23rd Street subway station to be picked up by Godwulf's transport device, and Captain America dove through the portal as well.

(Captain America I#287) - Deathlok and Cap arrived on Earth-7484 at Godwulf's 23^rd Street station subway base.

(Captain America I#288) - After Captain America was caught up on the history of Earth-7484, they met up with Godwulf's Redeemers and prepared for an assault on Hellinger to stop his plans to destroy all humanity and replace them with his Homo Ascendant machine followers.

     Captain America, Deathlok, Godwulf, and the Redeemers assaulted Hellinger's base. Only Captain America and Deathlok made it to confront Hellinger, who used his machines to wrest control of Deathlok's computer mind and to make Deathlok attack Cap, although he only stunned the hero. Perhaps inspired by Cap, Deathlok's humanity resisted Hellinger, and he turned on Hellinger, blasting him repeatedly through the chest, destroying him.

    Godwulf and his Redeemers then rejoined them, and they made an alliance with Deathlok to help rebuild their world.

(Deathlok II#32 (fb) - BTS) - Restoring a semblance of civilization apparently drew the interest of a foreign monarch (unknown to Deathlok, this was Henry Akai, aka Timestream). Timestream established a command center from which he launched a cyber-tank army that ravaged the country (presumably America).

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Apparently after Timestream/Japan's forces established a presence in America, Godwulf resolved that he did not want Timestream in his country.

(Deathlok II#32 (fb)) - Godwulf led Deathlok and the Redeemers on a mission to oppose this foreign monarch, whose identity was only appreciated by Godwulf. They successfully destroyed his command center, but all of the Redeemers were killed in the struggle. Deathlok and Godwulf were the only ones to make it out alive on their side. Timestream survived as well.

    The retaliation for this mission led to massive nuclear attacks from three sides. Godwulf blamed the CIA for not doing things his way.

    After learning that Godwulf had been withholding information from the others, Deathlok separated from Godwulf.

(Deathlok II#31 (fb) - The ensuing conflicts toppled what was left of civilization.

(Deathlok II#33 (fb) - BTS) - The Time Variance Authority commissioned Godwulf to capture and execute Timestream for his threats to the temporal continuum.

    Godwulf defeated Timestream, but gave him the option of life imprisonment.

    Timestream accepted that option but later escaped.

(Astonishing Tales I#36 (fb) - BTS) - The revolutionary known as Godwulf established a base within the abandoned 23^rd Street subway station.

(Astonishing Tales I#36) - Deathlok went out on assignment to locate remaining agents of Simon Ryker within the former 23^rd Street subway station.

    These men had no idea Ryker was no longer active. While Deathlok fought Mason and his associates, he encountered Godwulf, who used the subways as his base to oppose and sabotage the efforts of Ryker, etc.

(Captain America#288 (fb) - BTS) - Godwulf was approached by the CIA created Luther Manning clone (the one with Deathlok's memories and computer link-up). The clone stated that he theorized that Deathlok might still be alive in another era. Godwulf offered him a chance to prove his theory.

The 23^rd Street Station in Manhattan is a block from Madison Avenue on W 23rd and 6th Avenue.

The 23^rd St station has some distinct landmarks around it, including the skinny Flatiron building where the Daily Bugle was located in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies (seen under construction in the Google Street View image below) - and Madison Square Park on the other side.

In the future scene in Cap 286, looks like the Madison Hotel is across the street.  There is (or was) a Madison Hotel a few blocks away from the station at 21 E 27th Street
The entrance does look like it does in the comics - with stairs that go below the sidewalk.

In comparison, look at the area surrounding the Fordham Road Station. Look at the sky - no tall buildings around. The tallest building in that area is about six stories.

      Further, as Earth-7484 diverges from Earth-616 with the stories published in 1983 and parallels the real world 's 1983 (they don't have a sliding timescale like Earth-616), there would not be any further development beyond the time around 1983-1985 when unidentified parties bombed New York City (specifically Manhattan in earlier stories, but New York City in Captain America I#288). The world descended into chaos after that. Long Island became the new metropolis.  

     So...I don't see any "No-Prize" way around it. The Fordham Road references have to be errata.

    The apparent base of the revolution associated with Linc Shane, its walls were covered with graffiti.

(Astonishing Tales I#28) - Deathlok entered the 42^nd Street museum, ignoring his computer's reports about nearby cannibals; Simon Ryker's Terminal Eye reported Deathlok's location.

    Within the museum, Deathlok observed graffiti on the walls indicating a revolution (see comments; this was almost certainly written by the members of Linc Shane's associates).

    Finding a book, he considered this a novelty as he had not seen a book since holographs replaced them as the primary method of storing knowledge. However, when the book turned out to be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, he was reminded of his own nature as a re-animated corpse, and he tore the book apart.

    As Deathlok departed the building, the Terminal Eye noted that Deathlok was unaware of the "cannibal-decoys" and that it was initiating phase two of the plan.

(Astonishing Tales I#28 - BTS) - Soon after, the cannibals attacked Deathlok, who beat them senseless. Deathlok subsequently encountered Linc Shane.

 --Astonishing Tales I#28

Note: Ryker's Terminal Eye noted this location to be 10 kilometers from the periphery of the black market meat operation.

    The title of the story in AT#28 and the graffiti on the walls are derived from the Doors song, "Five to One."
    If you don't know the song...I'm sorry for you.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - In the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, the pilot/courier who had fled from Deathlok with the briefcase of money was assaulted by at least a pair of male "lobotomized human drones controlled from outside programming" who stabbed him repeatedly in the chest.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - The men had received orders to kill the pilot (presumably by Hellinger).

(Astonishing Tales I#32) - Having seen blood amongst the most recent footprints, Deathlok entered the station to find the pilot being overwhelmed by knife and club-wielding men.

    As Deathlok battered and incapacitated the pilot's attackers, his computer revealed the two men to be programmed drones and then noted the target (the pilot) was dead.

    The computer then warned Deathlok that there were multiple drones approaching and that he should depart.

    Instead, Deathlok stayed to take his frustration (at having lost the chance to find the surgeon who might be able to restore his humanity) out on the drones.

    He battered them and smashed them back by throwing some sort of maintenance rail device at them. Eventually, Deathlok targeted a rolled steel girder -- which his computer noted supported a considerable portion of the tunnel structure but was unable to withstand the stress he could apply to it -- collapsing the station on them (and himself).

    Avoiding injury, Deathlok exited the station, after which his computer identified the money in the briefcase as counterfeit.

 
Note: The Terminal Eye reported as Deathlok entered the station but it noted that there were not any Terminal Eyes located in the station and that it could not further track him there.

    When I lived in Manhattan for a little over a year back in 1996-1997, I lived on 63^rd and York, and the 59^th and Lexington Station was the one closest to me (IIRC) and therefore our usual starting point.

    I mis-remembered this, but the Columbus Circle Station is also on 59^th street, but further west, where 59^th street, Broadway, and 8^th Avenue intersect.

      Apparently located within Central/Suicide Park

It contained various firearms, including handguns, and explosives, such as grenades.

--Astonishing Tales I#30

Note: As he had so easily taken out the first two Trouble-Shooters, I don't know why he wouldn't have continued to use the armory as a shield/base long enough to take them out as well...or why he didn't take the time to grab one of the laser pistols and finish off the other Trouble-Shooters.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#31 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Avengers, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes -- Captain America, She-Hulk, Starfox, Thor Odinson, and the Wasp, at least -- to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

--Captain America I#288

Note: In the original flashback shown in Captain America I#288 (top left), She-Hulk, Thor Odinson, and the Wasp were clearly shown. Only the arm of another Avenger being banished was shown, but the arm has a wrist bracelet matching that of Starfox (Eros of Titan).

    In Deathlok II#31 (top right), a different perspective of the scene is shown...Starfox's form (most notably his hair and his costume's shoulder cuff pattern) is more clearly shown. Additionally, Captain America's distinctive boot cuff is shown as well.

    In Deathlok II#34 (to the direct left), Captain America, She-Hulk, Starfox, and Thor are clearly seen. Wasp may be underneath the caption.

    It is also noteworthy that none of the characters were identified in the panels, so they could have had different names.

    Captain America I#289 details the divergence, where Captain America is not in Avengers Mansion to get banished and instead takes out the N^th Generator, de-powering the N^th Projectors and eliminating the threat.
    While we may ASSume that much of what the N^th Command and the N^th Commandos did in Captain America I#289 (barring the conflicts with Captain America) -- or something very similar -- occurred in Reality-7484.
    Even more significantly, as DeVoor discusses the intended fates of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, the X-Men are seen to have been banished to another world and to perish in flames. I would think this is LIKELY what happened in Reality-7484...but, of course, this is unconfirmed.

    Regardless, the scene imagined/described in Captain America I#289 is pictured to the right here. ------------->

    Regardless of the topical date of 1983 A.D., the Avengers issue around the time of Captain America I#289 would be Avengers I#239, while the Avengers Official Index to the Marvel Universe chronology notes that Captain America I#289 would have taken place after Avengers I#237 and presumably before Avengers I#238.
    Their headquarters would have been the classic Avengers Mansion.
    Avengers I#239 was the "Assistant Editors" issue where Wonder Man and a few others appeared on the David Letterman Show, which was also a topical reference.
    Regardless, the other Avengers in the surrounding issues who may or may not have been present for the banishment include Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau, whose should have been able to shift into light-form and escape, although perhaps she was just caught off guard); Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) and the Vision ("Victor Shade"). If they were trying to save energy, they may not have blasted Jarvis, but they may otherwise have dealt with him harshly.
    Thor was pretty occupied with his own business at the time and was not active in the Avengers issues I#235-239. But maybe he stopped by for a drink or three of mead, which may have slowed his reflexes.

     The headquarters of the Fantastic Four.

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  --Captain America I#288

Note: In Captain America I#289 Godwulf and Iron Butterfly are leading the N^th Commando raid on the Baxter Building. The image from Deathlok II#34 (left) shows Godwulf-7484 confirming to Siege that this also held true in his timeline.

      The Provisional Revolutionary Army had a base in Belvedere Castle within Central Park 

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - Deceiving Deathlok into believing Mike Travers and Nina Ferry were in the Provisional Revolutionary Army's custody and that he wished to recover Nina because she was linked to the Omni-Computer and was the key to defeating Simon Ryker, Hellinger convinced Deathlok to travel to the castle with a briefcase bomb strapped to his wrist. Hellinger told Deathlok that the bomb -- which was set to explode in about 20 minutes after Deathlok had reached Central Park -- would deactivate when Deathlok reached the castle.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) <1/1/1991> - Mike Travers, wearing a powerful exoskeleton and now recording his own log, arrived; Travers also apparently set and detonated charges that then destroyed Belvedere Castle stronghold and any of the Provisional Revolutionary Army within.

(Astonishing Tales I#26) - Deathlok traced the helicopter that had abducted Mike Travers to a storehouse for black market meat. There he defeated (and possibly killed) a sniper presumably Peters, and certainly one of Ryker's agents who had abducted Mike) who attacked him.

 
     Deathlok subsequently fought his way into the storehouse and overpowered Ryker's agents, forcing them to reveal that Travers was being held in the Statue of Liberty.

--Astonishing Tales I#26

     In Astonishing Tales I#28, Manning wondered if the black market meat was human, and his computer noted it to be a 89.937% possibility.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - The man who would become Godwulf was employed by the N^th Command, an offshoot of the Brand Corporation, which in turn was a division of the Roxxon Oil Company. 

--Captain America I#288

Note: The Brand Corporation was not directly shown. The Earth-7484 stories focused on the N^th Command.

Following the bombing of Manhattan and other cities as well as the mass evacuations, those left in the city presumably had no access to livestock or other animals or to farms or gardens. This would seem to most likely be the reason that a portion of the population resorted to cannibalism.

(Astonishing Tales I#26 (fb)) - Having escaped Ryker's base with Mike Travers via helicopter, Deathlok landed on a roof top and lit a fire to cook some food.

(Astonishing Tales I#25) - A group of scavengers, who were also cannibals, were known to exist in a slum-jungle. When Curtis Giles' associate came to meet him there, a group of these men assaulted the associate, noting that he didn't belong there, meaning he probably had money.

    Appreciating his mission's urgency and the risk to his own life, Giles' associate shoved his attackers and fled, leaving the scavenger-cannibals sprawled in the garbage as he rushed down into the former subway station, where Deathlok slew him.

(Astonishing Tales I#28) - As Deathlok approached the former 42nd Street Library/Museum, his computer detected the presence of fearful cannibals nearby.

(Astonishing Tales I#28 - BTS) - Ryker's Terminal Eye noted that Deathlok was unaware of "cannibal-decoys" and that it was initiating phase two of plan.

(Astonishing Tales I#28) - After Deathlok departed, six cannibals assaulted him.

Ignoring his computer's advice that such fighting was counter-productive, Deathlok took out his frustrations on the cannibals, beating them unconscious.

(Marvel Fanfare I#4/2 (fb) - BTS) -

--Marvel Fanfare I#4/2

Perimeter of barrier surrounding Central Park (aka Suicide Park)

--Astonishing Tales I#30

Note: I believe this to be the second wall Deathlok went over while fleeing the Death Machine / Super Tank. However, it may have just referred to the portion of the North Wall nearest Central Park.

(Astonishing Tales I#25) - Deathlok killed Curtis Giles within this subway station and then slew his associate on the streets just outside of the station after he had escaped some scavengers/cannibals.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 (fb) - BTS) - Four unidentified men reportedly had information on one of the surgeons who had worked on Deathlok.

    Apparently wishing to encounter this surgeon for unspecified reasons, Victorio Quartuccio sent his agent Summers to meet with these four men and pay them a large sum of money (see comments).

(Astonishing Tales I#31 - BTS) - Presumably Summers or some or all of the unidentified men used a helicopter to arrive at the planned meeting point atop an unidentified building in lower Manhattan.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 - BTS) - Seeing the helicopter arriving, Deathlok headed up to the top of the building, intending to take it for himself.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 (fb) - BTS) - Summers paid the men a briefcase containing a large sum of money.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 - BTS) - The briefcase contained counterfeit money.

(Astonishing Tales I#31) - As Deathlok approached the top of the building (unseen by the others), the cigarette-smoking Summers asked if the others were sure that they were discussing the surgeon who had worked on Deathlok.

    The unidentified leader of the group -- to whom Deathlok later referred to as "Mr. Briefcase" (in the green jacket in the top left image) -- assured him that he was certain, mockingly asking if he would have taken all of the money if he weren't sure.

    Unamused, Summers asked the leader why he didn't prove it by delivering the goods to his penthouse (delivering the doctor to Quartuccio's penthouse).

    Deathlok then announced his presence with, "Nice shootin', scumballs." 

    As the surprised men looked toward him and the leader asked, "Who--?!!", Deathlok mockingly told them to call him "Twinkletoes."

    Deathlok then attempted to show-up their shooting, but his weapon's power crystal had been depleted, and so pulling the trigger did nothing.

    As the other gunmen opened fire, Deathlok dove behind the masonry surrounding the stairs entrance.

    As the first man approached the corner by Deathlok, Deathlok punched the masonry, causing a chunk of bricks to strike the man in the face.

    Although the man was knocked down, he regained consciousness, but as he reached for his gun, Deathlok rushed forward and punched him down.

    The fourth unidentified man, the leader (whom Deathlok identified as "the weasel with the briefcase") then jumped into the helicopter, took off, and was out of Deathlok's leaping range before Deathlok could stop him.

(Astonishing Tales I#32) - Wanting the money and the information on the surgeon who had created him, and with his handgun out of ammunition, Deathlok hurled his dagger, taking out the helicopter's stabilizer blade and causing it to slowly descend to the ground. Noting that he wanted the "rent-a-thug" inside the helicopter, Deathlok went after it.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - Almost immediately after the helicopter landed, the pilot was assaulted by a number of cannibals. Killing two of the cannibals but receiving unspecified wounds, the pilot fled with the briefcase full of money.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 - BTS) - The helicopter landed on a nearby building, and by the time Deathlok arrived there, he found the pilot gone and a pair of dead cannibals inside.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 - BTS) - An Omni-Computer readout identified this location as "coordinates X575MNY in Northwest Sector 6."

(Astonishing Tales I#32 - BTS) - The Terminal Eye or Omni-Computer pinpointed Deathlok's location as atop building on 57th street and Madison Avenue."

    Guided by his computer, as the target had departed within five minutes ago, Deathlok tracked his footprints via infra-red vision.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - In the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, the pilot was assaulted by at least a pair of male "lobotomized human drones controlled from outside programming" who stabbed him repeatedly in the chest.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - The men had received orders to kill the pilot (presumably by Hellinger).

(Astonishing Tales I#32) - Having seen blood amongst the most recent footprints, Deathlok entered the station to find the pilot being overwhelmed by knife and club-wielding men. As Deathlok battered the pilot's attackers, his computer revealed the two men to be programmed drones.

    The computer subsequently informed Deathlok that his target (the pilot) was dead. Frustrated at having apparently lost a chance to find the "cyborg-doc," Deathlok grabbed the man's corpse and insisted that he (the corpse) wasn't dead.

    The computer then warned Deathlok that there were multiple drones approaching and that he should depart. Instead, Deathlok stayed to take his frustration out on the drones, eventually collapsing the station on them.

    Outside the station, Deathlok examined the money and found it to be counterfeit.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - Deathlok returned to the helicopter atop building on 57th street and Madison Avenue.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - Deathlok repaired the helicopter.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - When Deathlok started the helicopter, it locked onto pre-programmed coordinates and took him to Hellinger's mansion in Long Island.

Note: In Astonishing Tales I#33, Hellinger later revealed that he engineered the whole encounter to draw Deathlok to him. All involved were presumably pawns of Hellinger on some level, but there is no evidence that Summers and/or those who killed him knew that they were working for or being manipulated by the same person.

    The helicopter was programmed to return to Hellinger's Long Island mansion, so presumably whoever flew there in the helicopter was more directly associated with Hellinger.

    I believe the four men (including "Mr. Briefcase") arrived in the helicopter, as "Mr. Briefcase" was familiar enough to jump in and take off immediately; however, it certainly could be that Summers had arrived in the helicopter and that "Mr. Briefcase" was just very experienced with helicopter flight.

    The helicopter's blades were stationary when Deathlok arrived on the roof, and it takes a little while to get a helicopter going, so perhaps it was started during the fight between Deathlok and the three unidentified man and neither Deathlok nor his computer noticed this? Or perhaps it was an error showing the blades to be stationery.

    With regards to the surgeon who had worked on Deathlok, if they really did know something about this person, they pretty much had to either be referring to Dr. (James?) Wilcox or Harlan Ryker (Hellinger). As Wilcox was under Simon Ryker's control, and as Hellinger had manipulated the whole scenario, presumably they were talking about Hellinger.
    See the comments on Curtis Giles for a detailed discussion of the identities of the surgeons who had worked on Deathlok.

    While Manhattan and a number of other cities had been devastated, presumably much of the rest of the USA was still intact, and notably Long Island was the new metropolis of New York, so cash apparently still had some value.

    JUMP AROUND!

• In Astonishing Tales I#31, Ryker's Terminal Eye notes Deathlok's location to be lower Manhattan.>
• In the next panel, he hears a helicopter and -- because he wants it for himself -- follows it to a meeting atop a building.
• Long-story short, but the people meeting at the building are talking about one of the surgeons who had created Deathlok, and after a conflict, the last survivor of the meeting flees in the helicopter.
  
• Wanting to question the man, Deathlok throws his knife to take out the helicopters back/stabilizer blade, and it descends softly.
• Deathlok tries to rush down the fire escape, but his weight collapses the fire escape, making him landing on the ground.
• In the next panel, he is atop a building where the helicopter landed, and Ryker's Omni-Computer identifies Deathlok’s location as atop a building on 57^th and Madison Avenue
• So, what is considered lower Manhattan? I see online that this is south of 14^th Street.
• When I lived in Manhattan, I was on 63^rd and York, and I thought that was the Upper East Side.
• Madison Avenue is certainly further west than York, so maybe not the East Side, but still upper...and I'd think 57^th would qualify as "upper," too.
• So, I guess it is possible that Deathlok nailed the helicopter and it traveled a significant distance northward before landing on the building.
• And, definitely some time had passed, because by the time he had reached the helicopter, the pilot had killed a pair of attacking cannibals and left them behind. Deathlok tracked the pilot's footprints via infra-red.
• Also possible is that while the notation of Lower Manhattan was correct, time elapsed between panels, and Deathlok was many blocks north when he saw the helicopter...
• AND/OR, when he saw the helicopter, he was in Lower Manhattan, but he followed it many blocks north.

Note: In Earth-616's timeline, Simon Ryker struggled against Dr. Doom and the Sub-Mariner, in Super-Villain Team-Up#4 and Marvel Spotlight I#27. Presumably, some similar events took place on Earth-7484, resulting in Ryker's injuries and transformation into a cyborg, as noted in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#3: Deathlok entry. These events are detailed in the profile for Simon Ryker of Earth-616.

(Astonishing Tales I#25 (fb)) - Four men -- including Wilkins and Jim -- worked on the Deathlok cyborg. 

    When one man noted that the metal graft would take, Wilkins added that everything seemed to be progressing well, but that it would be better if Ryker wasn't constantly spying on them. 

    The third man silenced Wilkins and then received a report from Jim that all vital functions were stable. 

    As they installed the brain, one of the doctors subsequently noted that there were rumors that this was not the first time computer-housing had been installed in a man (unbeknownst to them, Ryker was the first subject (and apparent failure) of Project: Alpha-Mech), but another man advised him that he should make sure those rumors never left the room, as there were still some taxpayers who would not like the idea of the military spending its time making monsters.

     One of the doctors queried who designed the prosthetic arm, and another replied that it was top secret but that it was supposed to have the tensile strength of forged steel and the grip of an iron vice.

     One of the other doctors (presumably the same doctor involved in the initial brain harvest surgery who compared the procedure to that of Frankenstein) commented that he was glad that the rest of them had the capacity for levity because he considered what they were doing to be blasphemy, even in the secular sense.

"This being is hideous -- a mockery of man -- and by Ryker's deliberate specification. Plastic surgery would diminish its psychological potency as an object of fear, he claimed. And, though I am loathe to phrase it this way gentlemen...it appears our operation is a success."

 -- Astonishing Tales I#25

Note: I discuss the identities of the doctors in detail in the comments for Curtis Giles, but I believe the four men in the operating room were most likely Curtis Giles, Harlan Ryker, Dr. Jim Wilcox, and Dr. Wilkins; but it could also be Giles, Wilcox, Wilkins, and Jim; or, other possibilities, of course. I think it depends on whether Harlan Ryker actually was one of the surgeons physically working on Deathlok or if he was just involved in the design.

     Ryker addresses one of the surgeons as "Mister," but that was almost certainly just him being disrespectful, as in "Listen, buddy..."
    He does properly address him as "doctor" later in the same discussion.

(Astonishing Tales I#30) - Simon Ryker departed to get on with the next phase of "Operation: Savior Machine."

    Although one of his doctors asked him if he wished to review the Terminal Eye's report on Mike Travers, Ryker declined, planning to review the tapes later at his leisure.

    The other doctor then told Ryker that the surgery room was ready.

    The first doctor (brown hair, brown eyes) subsequently questioned Ryker on whether he wanted to go through with this as he was already a cyborg, but Ryker warned him that if he ever presumed to question him again, he may find his own brain locked up in some cold, gray machine.

    Ryker angrily continued, telling the doctor that he was paid to operate, not to think, and that he would indeed operate immediately.

    The doctor meekly replied, "Yes, sir."

(Astonishing Tales I#33) - A trio of surgeons -- Drs. Blaine, Lemner and Wilcox (the latter of whose mind had been placed into a clone of Luther Manning (or would presumably have this done soon after) -- prepared to operate on an anesthetized Simon Ryker.

    Dr. Lemner suggested that they could adjust the computer to ensure that it miscalculated slightly in order to kill Ryker.

    However, another doctor (Wilcox?) then advised him that Ryker had been in total mindlock for hours and that everything they said was being recorded and retained.

    This doctor further explained that the Omni-Computer had imprinted Lemner's treacherous words on circuitry that now encompassed part of Ryker's memory patterns.

    Per this doctor's advice, Lemner fled rather than risk being there when Ryker assuredly would awaken.

    The remaining doctors began their work, and the Omni-Computer noted that all linkages were established and functioning: Subject Ryker was primed and ready for stage four.

    One of the doctors (presumably the one who had been speaking with authority throughout, apparently Wilcox) told the other doctor(s) (there had only been three originally, but after Lemner's departure, there was another person gowned up in the room, and this may have been another doctor or a nurse, etc.) that the three preparatory operations were child's-play compared to the next one and that one slip-up now could kill Major Ryker, or them, if the computer, of which Ryker was now a part, so decided.

    The Omni-Computer subsequently noted that subject designate Ryker was in neuro-sedation with cardiovascular activity stilled. 

    After the main doctor reiterated this, Dr. Blaine noted that Dr. Lemner had left, but Wilcox (presumably) advised that Lemner was not needed, and he suggested they proceed.

    The Omni-Computer finally reported that the operation was complete and that it was initiating programming for post-operative care.

    One of the men, who was not wearing a surgeon's cap and was standing in front of a computer, stated enthusiastically that the computer was taking over and that the operation was done.

    One of the gowned-in doctors replied, "Yes. We've done what we were forced to do!"

    As the other gowned-in doctor stammered a query, the first doctor replied, "Yes...he'll live doctor."

    One of the doctors instructed the other to check the electrodes once more, as "nothing must disturb the linkage now, gentleman."

    A doctor then noted that from there on in, Major Ryker was in the hands of the Omni-Computer, and that he and it were one and the same..."possibly the first human equivalent to a god."

    One of the doctors queried whether Ryker had achieved his objective, selling his chance at humanity for the soul of a machine.

    Another doctor (presumably Wilcox) confirmed that he had indeed achieved his objective: "Major Ryker is now the Savior Machine -- and may God help us all."

(Astonishing Tales I#34 - BTS) - Deathlok stormed Ryker's tower base.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) - However, Ryker's body was inert due to his mind being transferred into the city-wide Omni-Computer, but Deathlok nonetheless insisted that Ryker get up as he was not going to cheat him out of killing him.

    One of the doctors expressed concerns that the "Deathlok cyborg" had gone mad, but Dr. Wilcox -- whose mind had been transferred into Simon Ryker's Luther Manning clone -- countered that Deathlok was not as mad as they were, and that that may be their only hope.

    Deathlok was shocked to learn that there was another clone of him, but Wilcox explained that his mind was that of the last surviving cyborg-surgeon who had created Deathlok.

    Wilcox further explained that he was responsible for merging Simon Ryker with the Omni-Computer.

    Hating Ryker on his own and driven to compulsion by his CIA programming, Deathlok demanded to be linked into the Omni-Computer and go after Ryker.

    To make certain that Ryker had no chance of coming back, Deathlok prepared to slay Ryker's body, but Wilcox warned him that even though the combined Omni-Computer/Ryker complex could not sense their actions during the adjustment period, Ryker's body was still protected by pre-operative safeguards.

    The warning came too late, however, and Deathlok's touching of Simon Ryker's form triggered the room's defenses, and sonic disruption beams affected Deathlok and the doctors' inner ears, causing massive vertigo; Deathlok either felt like something picked him up and tossed him across the room or some other force actually did cast him across the room.

    As Deathlok's computer struggled to compensate, Deathlok appreciated that the sound was wiping out the doctors and that he needed them to help him get Ryker. 

    Eventually, Wilcox reached and shut down the sonic disruption beams, saving himself and the other doctors as well as restoring Deathlok to function.

    Deathlok ordered the doctors to get him ready to be linked to the Omni-Computer quickly, but his programming pushed him to put his laser to Wilcox/Manning clone's throat; after Deathlok explained his programming, Wilcox was able to overcome this compulsion by explaining that if the programming allowed him to kill him (Wilcox), Deathlok would never be able to get in after Ryker, as he was the only one who could perform the linkage. 

    As Wilcox and the others linked Deathlok to the Omni-Computer, Deathlok expressed concerns that the doctors could kill him if they wanted and then there would only be one Luther Manning (the clone Wilcox's mind inhabited). Wilcox assured Deathlok that Simon Ryker was the problem, not each other, after which the others noted that the linkage had been established and the power sources coupled. Wilcox advised Deathlok that there was no turning back after this, and Deathlok told him to "shoot the works."

    Wilcox then had the other doctors recline Deathlok and stand back, as they were beginning. Deathlok was successfully linked to the Omni-Computer.

(Astonishing Tales I#34 - BTS) - Appearing as a massive projection of a face that combined Ryker and Deathlok's features, Ryker welcomed Deathlok.

(Astonishing Tales I#35 - BTS) - As Deathlok's manifestation ultimately grappled with Ryker's, their opposing ionic charges generated greater amounts of destructive force, threatening to destroy them both.

(Astonishing Tales I#35 (fb) - BTS) - Dr. Wilcox, however, managed to pull both of them back into the real world.

(Astonishing Tales I#35) - Initially Deathlok's mind was in Ryker's body and vice-versa.

    At Wilcox's direction, one of the other doctors reversed the molecular flow and returned Ryker and Deathlok's minds to their bodies.

    Unhinged by the various transfers and still believing himself to be Deathlok, Ryker cried out in denial and ultimately collapsed to the ground, insensate.

--Astonishing Tales I#30

 "Lobotomized human drones controlled from outside programming," these were a group of at least 14 men who followed instructions to fight but otherwise had no capacity for independent thought or self-preservation.

They would fight until physically incapacitated.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - In the 59^th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, the pilot/courier who had fled from Deathlok with the briefcase of money was assaulted by at least a pair of male drones who stabbed him repeatedly in the chest.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 (fb) - BTS) - The men had received orders to kill the pilot (presumably by Hellinger).

(Astonishing Tales I#32) - Having seen blood amongst the most recent footprints, Deathlok entered the station to find the pilot being overwhelmed by knife and club-wielding men.

    Instead, Deathlok stayed to take his frustration (at having lost the chance to find the surgeon who might be able to restore his humanity) out on the drones.

    He battered them and smashed them back by throwing some sort of maintenance rail device at them.

 
     Eventually, Deathlok targeted a rolled steel girder -- which his computer noted supported a considerable portion of the tunnel structure but was unable to withstand the stress he could apply to it -- collapsing the station on them (and himself).

    Avoiding injury, Deathlok exited the station, after which his computer identified the money in the briefcase as counterfeit.

 --Astonishing Tales I#32

Note: It is not outright confirmed, but as Hellinger orchestrated Deathlok's encounter with Summers and "Mr. Briefcase" and his men, it is almost certain that the drones were also agents of Hellinger.

    The drones who slew "Mr. Briefcase" are seen in the bottom panels in his sub-profile. You can also see them in the middle section of the 59th and Lexington subway station sub-profile.

    You'd think the drones would all have shaved heads or something since they all had lobotomies, but maybe it was done long enough ago that their hair grew back; or they wore toupees or had hair implants; or the procedure was done via microsurgery, laser, etc. that didn't require a shaved head.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS/ Captain America I#289 / Deathlok II#32 (fb - BTS) / Deathlok II#34) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Fantastic Four, Godwulf's team of N^th Commandos, including Iron Butterfly, used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes -- Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, the Thing -- to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

  --Captain America I#288

Note: Circa Fantastic Four I#262, I believe it was still the original four, based out of the Baxter Building.

    The Baxter Building-7484 was shown earlier in the story of Deathlok II#34.

    It is also noteworthy that none of the characters were identified in the panels, so they could have had different names.

    Captain America I#289 details the divergence, where Captain America is not in Avengers Mansion to get banished and instead takes out the N^th Generator, de-powering the N^th Projectors and eliminating the threat.

    While we may ASSume that much of what the N^th Command and the N^th Commandos did in Captain America I#289 (barring the conflicts with Captain America) -- or something very similar -- occurred in Reality-7484.

    Even more significantly, as DeVoor discusses the intended fates of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, the X-Men are seen to have been banished to another world and to perish in flames. I would think this is LIKELY what happened in Reality-7484...but, of course, this is unconfirmed.

    Regardless, the scene imagined/described in Captain America I#289 is pictured to the right here. ------------->

(Captain America I#289) - Godwulf and Iron Butterfly's team were the ones who broke into the Baxter Building to eliminate the Fantastic Four.

     Grissom and Strake were apparently government assassins (see notes under Strake).

    Strake was experienced with a sighted rifle, although superhumans with advanced warning systems and superhuman speed, reflexes, etc. could evade his fire.

(Marvel Team-Up I#46 (fb) - BTS) - After the Omni-Computer identified Deathlok as being near Times Square. Grissom and Strake then hid out behind a billboard-type sign, observing the nearby streets via the open mouth of the figurine holding a cigarette on the billboard.

(Marvel Team-Up I#46) - After Deathlok -- joined by the time-traveling Spider-Man (Peter Parker) of Reality-616 -- had encountered and battled a group of ("Cubist") "Muties," the pair wandered below the billboard, and Grissom advised Strake that the cyborg was coming into sight. Strake considered that it was about time as they had been waiting all morning since the Omni-Computer had latched onto signals coming from that freak. Strake wondered who was "the guy in the 'party suit' with him"; having never seen Spider-Man before, Grissom suggested that they should check with Central, but Strake countered that they had been ordered to stay clear of the CIA as "somethin' funny was going on with them these days." Regardless, Grissom concluded that if the other guy was with Deathlok than he must be a target as well; Strake agreed and noted "they both go...but the cyborg gets it first" as he took aim.

    As Strake fired, however, Spider-Man's spider sense warned him (and presumably Deathlok's computer similarly warned him) and he warned Deathlok; both Deathlok and Spider-Man avoided the gunfire, but the "Mutie" who was being carried by Spider-Man took at least three bullets in the back, apparently killing him.

    Enraged at the senseless death, Spider-Man took off after the shooter's location while Deathlok's computer located them and he fired with his laser pistol as well. Grissom chastised Strake for missing Deathlok and noting that he had spotted them, but Strake told him to shut up, countering that the cyborg could not hit them from the angle he had and that Deathlok could not get back out onto the street without them getting him.

    Strake initially considered that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel as they could pick up their targets nice and easy. However, as Spider-Man swung toward them, evading his fire, Strake called out to Grissom, warning him of the "dude in the costume" swinging at them on some kind of web and moving so fast that he could not draw a bead on him. When Spider-Man swung right into the crosshairs on his rifle's sight, Strake was sure that there was no way he could miss, and he slowly tightened his finger on the trigger. However, he severely underestimated Spider-Man's speed, and before he could fire, Spider-Man crashed through the billboard and kicked Strake in the face. Spider-Man angrily derided Strake, telling him that with his rifle taken away, he was just another slimy little weasel, not much of a man, not even much of a murderer, in fact, not much of anything.

    As Spider-Man delivered a pair of punches while noting that the screwed up nature of this reality did not excuse such behavior, Grissom fired a poorly aimed shot at Spider-Man. Turning toward Grissom, Spider-Man observed that he had already taken an apparently lethal blast through the chest from Deathlok. Spider-Man advised Deathlok that he could have finished him a little less permanently and suggested that he actually seemed to enjoy the killing. Deathlok told him otherwise and while he really didn't care if he saw it that way, he should not be so sure about it.

 --Marvel Team-Up I#46

Note: Grissom had the blonde crew cut hair, while Strake had the longer, strawberry-blond hair. Strake was the one with the rifle.

     Continuity concerns as well as who Strake and Grissom may have worked for are discussed in the comments for Strake.

    Grissom and/or Strake could receive their own profiles (perhaps one gets a profile and the other gets a sub-profile)...I just don't have time to do it at the time I write this profile.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - Henry Akai used the powers granted him by a power surge in the N^th Generator to acquire the monarchy of Japan. He greatly benefitted from the ensuing wars.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Akai adopted the alias Timestream.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Godwulf allied with Timestream in efforts to destroy Hellinger.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Apparently after Timestream/Japan's forces established a presence in America, Godwulf resolved that he did not want Timestream in his country.

(Deathlok II#32 (fb) / Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Godwulf led Deathlok and the Redeemers on a mission to oppose Timestream, a foreign monarch, who was at the time unidentified to all others involved. They successfully destroyed his command center (from which he had launched his cyber-tank army), but all of the Redeemers were killed in the struggle. Deathlok and Godwulf were the only ones to make it out alive on their side. Timestream survived as well

(Astonishing Tales I#35 (fb) / Captain America I#288 (fb)) - BTS) - Explosions destroyed Manhattan and a dozen other American cities, but no one seemed to know who had launched the strike.

(Astonishing Tales I#35 (fb) - BTS) - Ryker had most of the people of Manhattan relocated to Long Island, which became the new metropolis.

(Captain America I#288 (fb)) - BTS) - It is unclear whether more people were killed in the initial blast or in the emergency mass evacuation. Regardless, some scattered pockets of humanity made it to safety.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 (fb) - BTS) - Simon Ryker had an estate in Long Island in which he allegedly imprisoned his brother, Harlan. However, Harlan took control of Simon's computers, rebuilt himself as the cyborg Hellinger, and erased existence of himself from the rest of the world's computers.

(Astonishing Tales I#33) - Hellinger eventually manipulated Deathlok into traveling to his estate via helicopter and then further manipulated Deathlok into a trap, attempting to kill him when he returned to Central Park.

     Mason and a number of other operatives of Simon Ryker operated out of a base in the 23rd Street subway station.

(Astonishing Tales I#36 (fb) - BTS) - Mason and/or his associates encountered Godwulf under unrevealed circumstances, but they were apparently easily defeated.

(Astonishing Tales I#36 (fb) - BTS) - They were apparently unaware of Ryker's downfall at Deathlok's hands, and they continued to do whatever they had been instructed to do.

(Astonishing Tales I#36) - Deathlok went out on assignment to locate remaining agents of Simon Ryker within the former 23^rd street subway station.

    As Deathlok entered the abandoned station, his computer advised him that the nearby communications center contained subjects operating several detection devices and that the probability of Deathlok escaping was zero.

    Speaking out loud, Deathlok countered, "So, who's thinkin' of escape?"

    Approaching Deathlok from behind, one of the men (white shirt) replied, "Not you, Demolisher," and the other one (green shirt) added "'Cause your demolishing days are over!"

    As the first man fired, however, Deathlok dropped to the floor, and the bullet(s) instead struck their ally, Mason (pink (magenta?) shirt).

    After Deathlok grabbed the automatic weapon from the first man's hands, Mason and the second man fled (with Mason having apparently only received a superficial wound).

   Deathlok turned and shot the first man (white shirt) through the chest with his laser pistol, presumably killing him, after which Godwulf swung in on a cable.

    Recognizing Godwulf, the guy in the green shirt warned Mason that they didn't have a chance in -- and before he could finish, Godwulf had already kicked both men to the ground, knocking them out.

(Astonishing Tales I#36 - BTS) - Godwulf introduced himself to Deathlok and advised his departure, but Deathlok refused, attempting to finish his mission.

    Godwulf tried and failed to warn him of a trip wire, which Deathlok set off, causing an explosion. Only stunned, Deathlok followed Godwulf back to his base only to be sent back in time to Earth-616 by Godwulf.

--Astonishing Tales I#36

(Astonishing Tales I#26 (fb) - BTS) - Captain Simon Ryker was the commanding officer of this military training camp.

(Astonishing Tales I#27 (fb)) - During a war-games training session, Col. Luther Manning shared his frustrations with his friend and fellow soldier Mike Travers.

     They were visited by Captain Simon Ryker (see comments), who punished them for their irreverence by sending them into war maneuvers without helmet or gear.

(Astonishing Tales I#26 (fb) - BTS / Astonishing Tales I#27 (fb)) - While on the obstacle course, Mike Travers saved Luther Manning's life from a bomb.

(Astonishing Tales I#25 (fb) - BTS / Astonishing Tales I#26 (fb)) - Ten minutes later, however, Luther Manning had half of his face and all of his right arm blown off by a concussion bomb.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) <Mid-1970s> - The man who would become Godwulf was employed by the N^th Command, an offshoot of the Brand Corporation, which in turn was a division of the Roxxon Oil Company.

    N^th Command was clandestinely devoted to the development of the N^th Projector, a device capable of opening holes into an infinite number of alternate realities. They spent years carefully generating the needed power and preparing for Operation: Purge, designed to eradicate the USA's super-powered beings.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - N^th Command's Henry Akai designed the N^th Generator and N^th Projectors.

    A secret passageway into and out of N^th Command was created in case of heroic intervention. It was used by Roxxon scientists many times during...<Operation: Purge?>

(Captain America I#289) - At least some of the N^th Commandos, including Godwulf and Iron Butterfly, trained for their attack on the superheroes for a full decade.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#32 (fb) / Deathlok II#34 (fb)) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Avengers, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS / Deathlok II#32 (fb)) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the X-Men.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Fantastic Four.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Defenders.

    The success of Operation: Purge represents the point of divergence from Earth-616

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - Once the larger groups had been banished, the individual heroes were stalked and readily eliminated.

(Deathlok II#34) - A time-traveling Henry Akai (empowered as Timestream) led his Bangers -- cyborgs from various dimensions -- in a plot to assassinate his past self, apparently hoping to create a new reality that he could then control.

    Also time-traveling, Godwulf and Deathlok the Demolisher of this reality, alongside Reality-616's Deathlok (Michael Collins) and Siege (John Kelly) defended the modern day Akai and apparently destroyed Timestream.

    Under direction of the Time Variance Authority's Justice Peace, Godwulf erased Akai's memory of the last hour. Two minutes later, Akai was alerted to a power flux in the N^th Generator complex below. As its designer, he was summoned to fix it, and he reluctantly complied.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - Henry Akai was caught in the surge of the N^th Generator, granting him temporal powers while destroying the entire N^th Command complex.

--Captain America I#288

Note: See also Earth-616's N^th Command for further reference on the events up to the point of divergence.

    In Reality-616, N^th Command HQ was based below Metrobank.

    Godwulf led one of ten teams of N^th Commandos -- which included the people who would become known as Big Man, Gentle Sam, Iron Butterfly, Sage, and Gentle Sam -- who spent ten years carefully generating the needed power and preparing for Operation: Purge, designed to eradicate the USA's super-powered beings.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - N^th Command's Henry Akai designed the N^th Generator and N^th Projectors.

    A secret passageway into and out of N^th Command was created in case of heroic intervention. It was used by Roxxon scientists many times during...<Operation Purge?>

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#32 (fb) / Deathlok II#34 (fb)) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Avengers, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS / Deathlok II#32 (fb)) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the X-Men.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) - Godwulf's team of N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Fantastic Four.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Defenders.

(Captain America I#289 (fb) - BTS) - While other N^th Commandos were taking out the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, other designated commando units were going to be stalking the various members of the Defenders (as well as numerous solo operatives, including Spider-Man, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Power Man and others). At the same hour the next day, when the N^th Generator(s) had had time to return to maximum power levels, those superhumans, too would be eliminated (see comments).

(Captain America I#288 (fb)) - With the superhumans out of the way, Roxxon launched its revolutionary army in an attempt to take complete control of the USA.

    However, as the N^th Projectors' power had been exhausted in Operation: Purge and would take years to regenerate, Roxxon was forced to rely on more conventional warfare.

--Captain America I#288

Note: See also Earth-616's N^th Command for further reference on the events up to the point of divergence.
It is likely that events on Earth-7484 paralleled those events, but I'm including that information only in italics.

     The N^th Generator was deep in the basement of N^th Command base.

    It tapped energy from other dimensional planes and fed it into the individual N^th Projectors, which were devices capable of opening holes into an infinite number of alternate realities.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) <Mid-1970s> - The man who would become Godwulf was employed by the N^th Command, an offshoot of the Brand Corporation, which in turn was a division of the Roxxon Oil Company. N^th Command was clandestinely devoted to the development of the N^th Projector, a device capable of opening holes into an infinite number of alternate realities. Godwulf led one of ten teams of N^th Commandos who spent years carefully generating the needed power and preparing for Operation: Purge, designed to eradicate the USA's super-powered beings.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - N^th Command's Henry Akai designed the N^th Generator and N^th Projectors.

    A secret passageway into and out of N^th Command was created in case of heroic intervention. It was used by Roxxon scientists many times during...<Operation: Purge?>

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#32 (fb) / Deathlok II#34 (fb)) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Avengers, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS / Deathlok II#32 (fb)) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the X-Men.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Fantastic Four.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Defenders.

(Captain America I#289 (fb) - BTS) - While other N^th Commandos were taking out the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, other designated commando units were going to be stalking the various members of the Defenders (as well as numerous solo operatives, including Spider-Man, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Power Man and others). At the same hour the next day, when the N^th Generator(s) had had time to return to maximum power levels, those superhumans, too would be eliminated (see comments).

(Deathlok II#34 (fb) - BTS) - Henry Akai was caught in the surge of the N^th Generator, granting him temporal powers while destroying the entire N^th Command complex.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - Akai used his new powers to acquire the monarchy of Japan, and at some point he adopted the alias Timestream.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - After wiping out the remaining heroes, the N^th Generator's power was exhausted, rendering the N^th Projectors inoperative.

--Captain America I#288

Note: Captain America I#289 details the divergence, where Captain America is not in Avengers Mansion to get banished and instead takes out the N^th Generator, de-powering the N^th Projectors and eliminating the threat.

    While we may ASSume that much of what the N^th Command and the N^th Commandos did in Captain America I#289 (barring the conflicts with Captain America) -- or something very similar -- occurred in Reality-7484.

    Even more significantly, as DeVoor discusses the intended fates of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, the X-Men are seen to have been banished to another world and to perish in flames.

    Captain America I#289 has a nice image of the N^th Generator, so I included it here.

    In Reality-616, N^th Command HQ was based below Metrobank, and the N^th Generator complex could be bombarded with psycho-rays that could force anyone attempting to interfere with the generator to confront his or her greatest fears.

Powered by the N^th Generator, the N^th Projectors were devices capable of opening holes into an infinite number of alternate realities. They were wielded by the N^th Commandos.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) <Mid-1970s> - The man who would become Godwulf was employed by the N^th Command, an offshoot of the Brand Corporation, which in turn was a division of the Roxxon Oil Company. N^th Command was clandestinely devoted to the development of the N^th Projector, a device capable of opening holes into an infinite number of alternate realities. Godwulf led one of ten teams of N^th Commandos who spent years carefully generating the needed power and preparing for Operation: Purge, designed to eradicate the USA's super-powered beings.

(Deathlok II#34 (fb)) - N^th Command's Henry Akai designed the N^th Generator and N^th Projectors.

    A secret passageway into and out of N^th Command was created in case of heroic intervention. It was used by Roxxon scientists many times during...<Operation: Purge?>

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#32 (fb) / Deathlok II#34 (fb)) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the Avengers, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS / Deathlok II#32 (fb)) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the X-Men.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Fantastic Four.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS) - The N^th Commandos similarly used their N^th Projectors to banish the Defenders.

    After wiping out the remaining heroes, the N^th Generator's power was exhausted, rendering the N^th Projectors inoperative.

--Captain America I#288

Note: The image I have chosen is from Captain America I#289, and it takes place in Earth-616 prior to the divergence point. Regardless, I think the image is suitable for visual reference.

Note: Astonishing Tales I#31 has Ryker's Terminal Eye reporting on Mike Travers "returning to the Pan Am building where he had been held captive."

    It initially did not make much sense to me, as Ryker's base was shown clearly to be in one of the World Trade Center towers in Astonishing Tales I#28 and #35.

    However, Ryker was pretty much in charge of the city with his Omni-Computer controlling most things and his Terminal Eye reporting/recording almost everything.

    Therefore, it does make sense to me that Ryker controlled the Pan-Am building, too, and while Travers had previously worked at Ryker’s base in one of the towers, after apparently betraying Ryker by departing with Deathlok, Travers was recovered and imprisoned in the Pan Am building.

    The most troubling part, though, is that when Travers returned to the Pan Am building, he freed and fled with Nina Ferry. 

• Nina was plugged into the Omni-Computer, which I would think would have been in Ryker's primary base...
• In Astonishing Tales I#28, when Nina was first shown to be plugged in an electronic stupor (with Ryker in the same room), the exterior of the building was shown as one of the World Trade Center towers (above left image). She was subsequently linked to the Omni-Computer in the same issue.
  
• When Travers escaped from Ryker's custody in Astonishing Tales I#30, the Pan Am building was shown as he hit the streets.
  
• Ryker was with Nina in Astonishing Tales I#30, but the exterior of the building was not shown.
  
• As Travers prepared to rescue Nina in Astonishing Tales I#32, the Terminal Eye readout noted that he was returning to the Pan Am building, which was shown as well.
• In Astonishing Tales I#33, as Ryker was linked to the Omni-Machine, the exterior of the building was not shown.
  
• However, Ryker remained linked and could not be moved, and when Deathlok traveled to Ryker's base, both the inset and the waterline below the approach make it clear that this building is one of the World Trade Center towers (image to the right).
• What makes sense to me is that at some point, Nina was transferred from the World Trade Center tower to the Pan Am building.
  
• It also makes sense that, once she was linked to the Omni-Computer, she could not have been moved/separated, but perhaps she was hooked up to a mobile
  
• As the Omni-Computer was essentially a super-computer network (accessing cyberspace, akin to the internet, which did not exist in the 1970s, when the comic was written).
  
• It is certainly possible that there was either a temporary linkage before she was transferred to the Pan-Am building and fully linked.
  
• The Omni-Computer may have had access/link points in both the Pan Am building and the World Trade Center tower.
  
• Possibly Nina was transferred from the World Trade Center tower within Astonishing Tales I#28, after she had been shown to be in an electronic stupor but before she was linked to the Omni-Computer.
  
• OR, she was transferred from the World Trade Center tower after Astonishing Tales I#30, following the destruction of the Death-Machine/Super-Tank.

     The Provisional Revolutionary Army (PRA) was a group opposing the rule/domination of Simon Ryker.

Known Members: Strake, Sylvia; perhaps 10-12 others unidentified

Base of Operations: Belvedere Castle, Central Park, Manhattan, New York

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - After Mike Travers had freed Nina Ferry from Simon Ryker's base/custody, the two were monitored by Hellinger's Terminal Eye, which noted them to be on a rooftop near the perimeter of the North Wall and that Nina's Mindlock had been completed and was functioning but that Travers remained unaware of this.

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - Hellinger showed Deathlok his footage of Travers and Nina, noting how Nina's mindlock made her aware of everything that Ryker and the Omni-Computer knew and that she was the key to Ryker's destruction. Hellinger further stated that the revolutionaries and others were all using archaic weaponry but showed Deathlok a room full of advanced weaponry; Deathlok claimed a new laser pistol.

     After Deathlok told Hellinger that if he could find a way to make him human again he would make Ryker pay, Hellinger convinced Deathlok to strap a briefcase containing a bomb to his wrist. The bomb was set to explode at a set point in time that necessitated haste, but Hellinger promised it would be released from him upon reaching the base of the Provisional Revolutionary Army and/or at 10 seconds before detonation, where Travers was allegedly being held.

     As he approached Central Park, Deathlok considered that he could unhitch the bomb at any time, but his computer advised him that it was set to explode immediately if tampered with.

(Astonishing Tales I#33) - 14 minutes before the planned detonation time, one of the PRA members jumped down from a tree to confront Deathlok, and his computer warned him of the impending attack. Appreciating that the delay could risk his life, Deathlok easily dropped the man by hitting him in the mid-section with the briefcase containing the bomb.

      Deathlok considered that attacker to have been so slow and easy that it was almost as if whoever sent him knew he was sending a boy to do a man's job; he further wondered if the attacker may have just been a diversion.

     Putting his laser pistol to the young man's head, Deathlok told him to reveal the location of his associates, but another member of the PRA (likely Strake) interrupted, stating, "Right here, cyborg! Back off an' let the kid up!"

     Deathlok readily agreed, noting that he had no fight with them and asking if they were the revolutionaries. Strake told Deathlok, "That's our business, cyborg! Put up your gun...and maybe we'll let you out of here alive!"

      With 10 minutes left before the detonation, Deathlok refused to give up his gun but did tuck it into his belt, and one of the other PRA members told Strake that he had the money in the suitcase cabled to his wrist.

     Nonetheless, Deathlok allowed the PRA to keep their guns on him and direct his motion. He asked, "Where we goin', Tin Soldier?" but was answered only with, "Shut up, cyborg -- an' keep movin'!"

(Astonishing Tales I#33 - BTS) - Meanwhile, observing the events remotely via his Terminal Eye, Hellinger noted that Deathlok would soon realize that the safety margin he had told him was incorporated into the bomb's design did not exist. He further monologued how Deathlok had outlived his usefulness.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) - Believing Travers to be inside the castle, Deathlok called out to Travers to get Nina and get out of there. As the door opened, someone (Strake?) ordered PRA member Sylvia to get away from the door and tried to slam it shut. Deathlok shoved his briefcase-bomb holding arm through the door to prevent it from closing, but found his arm jammed in the door. The bomb exploded, blowing off his right arm (and incapacitating but not destroying the rest of him) and presumably killing or injuring any PRA members in the nearby interior. 

(Astonishing Tales I#34) <1/1/1991> - Mike Travers, wearing a powerful exoskeleton and now recording his own log, arrived; Travers also apparently set and detonated charges that then destroyed Belvedere Castle stronghold and any of the Provisional Revolutionary Army within.

• I had initially assumed them to be the group with which Linc Shane had been associated, and that may be the case.
  
• Shane seemed to be associated with a group who operated near the 42nd Street Museum/Library, but that wasn't far from the North Wall, within which Central Park -- in which the PRA was based -- was located.
  
• However, the North Wall seemed to be insurmountable to Shane, so it doesn't seem likely that he was just casually going back and forth to recruit Deathlok.
  
• Ultimately, I don't believe Shane was part of the PRA, although there really isn't anything to definitively confirm nor deny this.
• What happened with Mike Travers and the PRA?
• At the end of Astonishing Tales I#33, Travers had been confronted at gunpoint by the Provisional Revolutionary Army.
  
• At the same time (apparently), Hellinger showed Deathlok a video of this scene.
  
• Deathlok soon after left Hellinger's place and was flying back into Manhattan (time noted as 8:03 pm)
• Deathlok went to the park (time noted as 8:07 pm)
• Deathlok got his arm blown off (time noted as 8:30 pm)
  
• In the next panel Travers showed up, having already apparently gotten past the Provisional Revolutionary Army, allied with the CIA, received the exoskeleton, and been given Deathlok's location. That's a lot to happen in 30 minutes!
• Travers' arrival is given the date of 01/01/1991 (I don't believe we have any other exact dates given in the series beyond the year 1990), but no time, so it could have been minutes or hours or more after the explosion.
  
• My best explanation is that while Hellinger's Terminal Eye had filmed Travers' encounter with the Provisional Revolutionary Army, when Hellinger showed it to Deathlok, it was some period of time after it happened.
• And/or perhaps the CIA was following Mike Travers and they recovered him and Nina shortly after the PRA confronted them.
  
• Or, the Provisional Revolutionary Army could be agents of the CIA/Teresa Devereaux, which would have markedly expedited things. While it would mean the CIA betrayed and slew their former allies, that's obviously within the realm of possibility.
• OR, the PRA could be pawns of Hellinger. The PRA members claimed not to know the name of Hellinger, but perhaps only their leader (Strake?) knew Hellinger's identity and/or dealt with him. Or, they were just unwitting pawns.
  

These two scavengers dwelled in a bombed out city circa 2011 A.D. (see comments).

(Deathlok II#29/2) - As the Demolisher searched for spare parts, a pair of scavengers stole his pack and took off in their Humvee as Deathlok turned and fired on them.

   The Demolisher grabbed hold of their Humvee and fired at their apparently bulletproof windshield, but the driver swerved hard and caused him to fall off; his right bionic arm separated at a junction just below the elbow).

    Reattaching the arm, the Demolisher caught up to the Humvee; although he had initially sought to keep the vehicle in one piece so he could claim it for himself, the Demolisher ultimately sought to punish the scavengers, and he grabbed and flipped the Humvee on its side.

    With the scavengers trapped inside, the Demolisher tore off the vehicle's roof and grabbed his pack as well as their weapons. When the one-eyed scavenger complained that that was their stuff, the Demolisher stared him down and replied, "Was."

    The Demolisher then grabbed the scavengers and pulled them out of the burning vehicle and slammed them up against the wall. When he pulled his weapon, one of them complained that they wished to keep the life they had, but the Demolisher just shot them in the legs and left them as "fast food for the flesh-eaters."

    The wounded scavengers screamed out as they were presumably devoured by cannibals.

    Having observed this confrontation, Timestream then confronted the Demolisher and proposed an alliance.

--Deathlok II#29/2

Note: These scavengers may have been mutants or mutates, or they could have just been scarred from previous injuries or had their appearances surgically altered to make them appear somewhat inhuman. They did not demonstrate any superhuman abilities.
    "Mutants rule" is spray-painted on a wall near where these scavengers encounter Deathlok, that may or may not have been meant to indicate that these two were mutants.
    --The story was written by Gregory Wright. Maybe he remembers?

    The city in which the Demolisher encountered the scavengers was not identified. While the original stories in Astonishing Tales took place in New York and New Jersey, the Demolisher was more nomadic after the nuclear war, and this story took place 18 years after the 1993 stories.
    The subsequent scene with Godwulf in the remnants of the Statue of Liberty says "elsewhere" and does not specify that it is in the same city.

    A Humvee has a top speed of 70 mph, but it may be that they were unable to reach that speed in the short time and/or due to obstacles. Nonetheless, Deathlok swiftly caught up to the vehicle, exceeding its speed.

    Humvee is a nickname for the High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). I believe they weigh up 2.5 tons.

    Again, if they had been identified/named in-story, I'd give them their own profile.

    These two scavengers are also seen in the image of the city in the main profile (with Uatu the Watcher).

Identified member: Danny. two others unidentified

These people dwelled in the sewers below the streets of Manhattan, New York at least prior to Operation: Purge in 1983. They did not demonstrate any superhuman abilities, and they may or may not have had any association with other sewer dwellers, like the Morlocks. The transit authority and police chased them out regularly, forcing them to stay on the move.

(Deathlok II#34 - BTS) - Having traveled to his relative past alongside Timestream and his Bangers, the Demolisher (formerly aka Deathlok, from 2011 A.D.) rebelled upon learning that Timestream had been involved in the conflict that slew his Redeemers allies. Timestream and the Bangers overpowered the Demolisher and left him face down in the sewer water.

(Deathlok II#34) - Seventeen minutes later, a trio of sewer dwellers dragged what appeared to be the Demolisher's lifeless body out of the water. The Demolisher thanked them and, shooting a rat, he offered to bag every "track rabbit" from there to his destination if they showed him how to get to Roxxon's N^th Command.

    Strake was apparently the leader or at least an authority figure within the Provisional Revolutionary Army.

(Astonishing Tales I#33) - Strake may or may not have been one of the PRA members who confronted and apparently took custody of Mike Travers and Nina Ferry.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) - After Deathlok had been sent by Hellinger to meet with the PRA and had taken down a young PRA member who had tried to ambush him, Strake and a number of other PRA members told Deathlok to let the kid go and put up his gun. Another PRA member told Strake that Deathlok had the briefcase, which they believed to contain money.

     Although Deathlok cooperated and tried to explain his mission, Strake or another PRA member told him that they had never heard of Hellinger, and they ignored Deathlok's efforts to discuss matters peaceably. Finally, with time running out on the briefcase bomb, Deathlok fought off the PRA, blasting a tree to scatter them and then rushing to Belvedere Castle.

Astonishing Tales I#34) - Something (presumably Mike Travers or perhaps other CIA agents accompanying him) caused a powerful explosion around the tree Deathlok had recently shot, apparently slaying the PRA members Deathlok had stunned.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) - Believing Travers to be inside the castle, Deathlok called out to Travers to get Nina and get out of there. As the door opened, someone (Strake?) ordered PRA member Sylvia to get away from the door and tried to slam it shut. Deathlok shoved his briefcase-bomb holding arm through the door to prevent it from closing, but found his arm jammed in the door. The bomb exploded, blowing off his right arm (and incapacitating but not destroying the rest of him) and presumably killing or injuring any PRA members in the nearby interior.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) <1/1/1991> - Mike Travers, wearing a powerful exoskeleton and now recording his own log, arrived; Travers also apparently set and detonated charges that then destroyed the Belvedere Castle stronghold and any of the Provisional Revolutionary Army within.

 --(Possibly, unidentified) Astonishing Tales I#33; (confirmed, identified) Astonishing Tales I#34

Note: A Strake was in Marvel Team-Up I#46, but I don't think they are the same guy.

    Certainly Strake is a relatively unique name, but the one in MTU was apparently a government sniper, as opposed to an anti-government revolutionary.

    In the one scene in which Strake was identified, his face was not clearly seen.

    Was he the guy doing most of the speaking in #33 and #34?

    Was he in Belvedere Castle with Sylvia?

    The PRA was apparently wiped out in #34, but he survived?

    The world may never know...

(Astonishing Tales I#31 (fb) - BTS) - Employed by Victorio Quartuccio, Summers arranged to meet with four unidentified men atop a building in Lower Manhattan, and to pay them a large sum of money in exchange for being introduced to one of the surgeons who had worked on Deathlok.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 - BTS) - Presumably Summers or (some or all of) the unidentified men used a helicopter to arrive at the planned meeting point.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 - BTS) - Seeing the helicopter arriving, Deathlok headed up to the top of the building, intending to take it for himself.

(Astonishing Tales I#31 (fb) - BTS) - Summers paid the men a briefcase containing a large sum of money.

(Astonishing Tales I#32 - BTS) - The briefcase contained counterfeit money.

(Astonishing Tales I#31) - As Deathlok approached the top of the building (unseen by the others), the cigarette-smoking Summers asked "But are you sure that this is the surgeon who worked on that Deathlok goon?" The unidentified leader of the group -- whom Deathlok later referred to as "Mr. Briefcase" -- assured him that he was certain, mockingly asking if he would have taken all of the money if he weren't sure.

    Unamused, Summers replied that that is what Quartuccio wanted to know, and he asked the leader why he didn't prove it by delivering the goods to his penthouse (delivering the doctor to Quartuccio's penthouse).

    Summers impatiently continued, asking (as he threw his cigarette down on the ground), "Well? What are you and your thugs waiting for? You got your money...so ain't it about time you went and got the cyborg-doc?"

    The leader replied that Quartuccio deserved his pay off, but first they had something for Summers. As the leader ordered his men to waste Summers, Summers shouted, "No--! My God No!"

    However, while the leader and the gunmen assumed he was reacting to his impending death by gunfire, he actually was staring at the approaching Deathlok.

    Regardless, the gunmen fired, and Summers dropped to the ground. Deathlok's computer confirmed that Summers' life signs had terminated and that his aorta had ruptured.

 --Astonishing Tales I#31

Note: In Astonishing Tales I#33, Hellinger later reveals that he engineered the whole encounter to draw Deathlok to him.

    Sylvia was a member of the Provisional Revolutionary Army, based out Belvedere Castle in Central Park.

(Astonishing Tales I#34) - Believing Travers to be inside the castle, Deathlok called out to Travers to get Nina and get out of there. As the door opened, someone (Strake?) ordered PRA member Sylvia to get away from the door and tried to slam it shut.

    Deathlok shoved his briefcase-bomb holding arm through the door to prevent it from closing, but found his arm jammed in the door.
The bomb exploded, blowing off his right arm (and incapacitating but not destroying the rest of him) and presumably killing or injuring any PRA members in the nearby interior. 

(Astonishing Tales I#34 - BTS) <1/1/1991> - Mike Travers, wearing a powerful exoskeleton and now recording his own log, arrived; Travers also apparently set and detonated charges that then destroyed the Belvedere Castle stronghold and any of the Provisional Revolutionary Army within.

  --Astonishing Tales I#34

Note: Sylvia presumably was slain when Hellinger's bomb went off right in front of where she had been standing.

    And, if she survived that, she was presumably slain when Mike Travers blew up the castle.

    But, of course, her death is unconfirmed.

(Captain America I#288 (fb)) - With the superhumans out of the way, Roxxon launched its revolutionary army in an attempt to take complete control of the USA. However, as the N^th Projectors' power had been exhausted in Operation: Purge and would take years to regenerate, Roxxon was forced to rely on more conventional warfare.

    The fighting was prolonged, and as the body count grew, the government fragmented with the CIA setting up various power bases, with the military digging in in other locations; but still no clear victor emerged.

(Captain America I#288 (fb) - BTS/ Deathlok II#31 (fb) / Deathlok II#34) <1983 A.D.> - Invading the headquarters of the X-Men, the N^th Commandos used their N^th Projectors to beam the heroes -- including Colossus, Cyclops (see comments), Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Storm and Wolverine -- to extradimensional realms where most, if not all, were instantly killed.

  --Captain America I#288

Note: Circa Uncanny X-Men I#177, the issue that came out the same month as Captain America I#289, it should still be the classic Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster, with primary members Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Storm & Wolverine.

    On Earth-616, Cyclops would have left the team, having married Madelyne Pryor, by the time of Uncanny X-Men I#177; however, I am that knowledgeable about chronology to be certain that Uncanny X-Men I#177 took place after Captain America I#289.

    Or, perhaps in Reality-7484, Cyclops did not leave the X-Men to marry Madelyne, or he came back and was present in costume for whatever reason.

   I think I favor the thought that Earth-7484 just did not have the massive number of superhumans that Earth-616 does (which is why they were able to banish all of the heroes (and superhumans), and so perhaps there was no Mister Sinister at all in Reality-7484.

    It is also noteworthy that none of the characters were identified in the panels, so they could have had different names. Charles Xavier is mentioned as the leader of the X-Men, but nothing further is revealed about him or his fate beyond that.

   Captain America I#289 details the divergence, where Captain America is not in Avengers Mansion to get banished and instead takes out the N^th Generator, de-powering the N^th Projectors and eliminating the threat.

    Additionally, in Reality-616, the N^th Commandos used a device that generated a "psi-null field" that knocked out Professor X's mental powers and screwed up the X-Men's mind and bodies as well.

    While we may ASSume that much of what the N^th Command and the N^th Commandos did in Captain America I#289 (barring the conflicts with Captain America) -- or something very similar -- occurred in Reality-7484.

    Even more significantly, as DeVoor discusses the intended fates of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men, the X-Men are seen to have been banished to another world and to perish in flames.

    I would think this is LIKELY what happened in Reality-7484...but, of course, this is unconfirmed.

    Regardless, the scene imagined/described in Captain America I#289 is pictured to the left and right here.