Chlorites ("race" of mutations occurring within individual species/races)

CHLORITEs
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Classification: Mutation-type within individual species/races of physical beings throughout the universe

Location/Base of Operations: Earth-62342 (and potentially the surrounding Milky Way galaxy eventually);
scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy, at least, in Earth-616's universe;
they were reported exterminated in the Shi'ar galaxy long ago, although new mutations were still possible.

Known Members: Goora race (unidentified female), Shuki race (Buza and his slain children, Cal, Kussa), Zann race (Seden Karm / "John Chang"), many unidentified, including the mole of Alcala, the Chlorite touched by Rogue, the Chlorite of Latveria, the Chlorite of Surat , and the Chlorite of Los Angeles;

Affiliations: Meena Banerjee (later designated Visionary), Beanpole (Mike Galbraith), Diascar race, Kristin Koenig (later designated Flasher), Harry Mills, Papillon (Sarah Allaire), Todd Watkins, Charles Xavier, X-Men (most notably Beast/Hank McCoy, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Kitty Pryde, Rogue/Anna Marie, Wolverine/James Howlett/Logan)

Enemies: Henry Peter Gyrich, Sentinels;
formerly Valerie Cooper, Diascar race (esp. Poratine & Taforne), Imperial Guard (Astra, Blackthorn, Flashfire, Magique, Manta, Nightside, N'rill'iree, Smasher/Vril Rokk), Lash (James Wheaton), Lilandra, National Security Council, "Crush" Russell, Shi'ar Empire, Todd Watkins, X-Men, unidentified pyrokinetic and other mutants;
the people of Alcanos, Brazil (all of whom perished, including an aquatic dish-scaled mutant and energy absorbing mutant) and other races who lost their worlds and/or people to the Chlorites; numerous mutants who were assaulted and/or injured or killed during efforts to bring in Chlorites (including Mutant Force (Burner, Lifter, Peeper, Slither), a blue-skinned mutant in Surat (who perished), mutants injured and killed in Madripoor), an unidentified non-mutant Surat man with a skin condition, and a protest rally leader clearly meant to be Stan Lee

First Appearance: X-Men: Watchers on the Walls (May, 2006)

Powers/Abilities: Chlorites breathe (and require) oxygen as do many other species, but their bodies, and the symbiotic microbes within them, produce chlorine gas as a waste product of their metabolism. Chlorites exude a strong, chemical chlorine smell; however, different species gave off differing levels of such gases, with some being almost undetectable; further, some used technology to mask these emissions.
Some of them gave off DDT as a natural pheromone.

This chloride makes the air around them irritating -- and eventually poisonous -- to others, and it combines with water to form hydrochloric acid.

The released chlorine causes environments to become acidic and corrosive, even as the air becomes toxic to breathe. Metals, soils, limestone, chalk, almost everything but clays, silicates, gold, platinum, and quartz erode away. Every living thing -- besides Chlorites -- dies, and most existing technology, architecture, etc. is destroyed. As chlorine was more dense and tended to settle, this made lower levels more toxic than upper levels. Chlorites could not breathe in these densely chlorinated areas.

Chlorites tend to leave behind microbes, which thrive on worlds without chlorites as there were substantial chlorides without any competition. The chloine emitted by the microbes made them toxic, so nothing could feed on them.

Even the advanced technology of the Shi'ar and Diascar found no means to neutralize the Chlorite microbes once they had infiltrated host's bodily systems: despite thriving on toxic chemicals, the microbes also thrived on that which sustained their hosts: It was virtually impossible to kill the microbes without kiling the hosts.

Chlorites' bones were essentially made of PVC plastic.

There were reportedly eleven known Chlorite species of approximately humanoid configuration that could not be immediately detected by the emission of toxic respiratory gases; she added that they could have further altered their appearance. Minus the Goora, Suki, and Zann, that would mean 8 unidentified, and presumably the ones in Cincinnati and Surat represented 2 others of those.

Traits: Chlorites are not a race, but a group of beings from different races who have developed common mutations that give them their chlorite nature.

Chlorite worlds have their own plant and animal species, and they live in cities built out of clay, glass, ceramics, and gold.

Rogue briefly absorbed the nature of one of the Chlorite refugees on Earth, but she found the thoughts confusing, mixed in with strange and ugly sensory memories and hard-to-define emotions, although he knew his biology could kill someone like her. She also knew that the Chlorites had no conspiracy agenda; rather they were desperate to stay alive, find their next meal, and to escape everybody that wanted to kill them.

They were often dressed in tattered rags and odd pieces of worn-down plastic or ceramics that seemed to be comlinks or other electronic gear.

Chlorites stole technology from others, including starships.

Using a Chlorite hypnotic device, Seden Karm (aka John Chang) was able implanted false memories of abusing him within his foster parents.

Seeking to make new worlds they could safely inhabit free of persecution from the natives ("oxy-life," as they called them), they reportedly bombarded those worlds with asteroids carrying Chlorite microbes; these fell unnoticed into the oceans or empty plains, and microbes thrived and devastated those worlds.

Chlorite terrorists sent to worlds did not know the identities or locations of other Chlorites on those worlds, so any individual could not betray and expose others. The Chlorites nonetheless remained in communication so they could receive coded orders via the internet or radio. They were trained to give out false codes under torture, so Chlorites hearing the true codes would believe them.

Chlorite terrorists tended to spout rhetoric, noting that Chlorites would eventually exterminate non-Chlorite life even if through sheer chance. They also noted how deliberately seeking to infect other worlds and people could be seen as speeding their inevitable end, a type of mercy killing.

Type: Exact types vary between races, but those seen thus far were bilaterally symmetric semi-humanoid bipeds (but that is likely due to choosing races that might better infiltrate humanity)
Eyes: Varies between races
Fingers: Varies between races
Toes: Varies between races
Skin color: Varies between races, but most seem to be light green to light blue or light blue-green
Average height: Varies between races

History:
(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) - Chlorites are beings who have developed a spontaneous mutation that causes them to develop symbiotic microbes in them that caused them both to become tolerant of higher levels of chlorine but also to release chorine gas from their bodies and eventually to shed chlorine microorganisms that might infect others.
Chlorites are not members of any single race but rather a number of individuals from numerous races who have spontaneously developed the mutation. They gathered together because of their common natures.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Chlorites are believed to have obtained technology from hapless starfarers who came to their worlds. They likely shared their technology with others of their kind.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) - Chlorites traveled to other worlds, and their microbes eventually made those worlds uninhabitable to the natives, who either perished or fled, often carrying

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) <As related by Diascar Fleet Leader Poratine> - Eventually a Chlorite ship came to one of the outlying worlds of the Diascar, a small crew of explorers who told the peaceful Diascar they were venturing out of their system for the first time, drawn there by beamed invitation (as the Diascar had sent welcoming messages out from their worlds). The Chlorites were welcomed, and they stayed a few weeks, then returned to their home to share what they had learned.

Soon after, that Diascar outworld began to die. The microbes left behind by the Chlorites made the atmosphere toxic with chlorine, too toxic to breathe, and their technology and architecture (including libaries, museums, and hippodromes) crumbled to nothingness. As their atmosphere became toxic, the Diascar fled this world for others, unwittingly carrying Chlorite microbes with them and allowing them to grow on every planet to which they had fled, destroying those worlds and threatening those populations as well. Quarantines were imposed, and the Diascar had to stand and watch whole populations suffocate and die.

Too gregarious and mobile to consider restricting free movement, the Diascar swiftly found their defenses to be too little and too late. World after world was infected. Eventually, those who had avoided infection had no choice but to abandon the entire Diascar Consortium.

Nonetheless, considering the events as a tragic accident, when the Chlorites requested permission to settle their worlds, the Diascar granted it, figuring they were the only ones who could safely live there. Great numbers of Chlorites swiftly arrived, bringing their own plant and animal species to repopulate their worlds, their own equipment to build new cities out of clay, glass, ceramics, and gold. As the Chlorites remade their worlds in their image, the Diascar realized they had been conquered without a shot being fired.

The Diascar resolved to blockade their former worlds to prevent the Chlorites from traveling to other worlds, but they were willing to coexist through mutual avoidance. Eventually, the Diascar's former worlds were directly attacked and destroyed by another race that had lost its world to Chlorite infiltrators, and these attackers tried their best to destroy every ship that sought to flee. Over time, they realized there was no other choice: The Chlorites would not stay on those worlds indefinitely, the Diascar could not isolate whole planets for eternity, and there were other Chlorite worlds in the galaxy.

After the war, the Diascar warned their neighbors of the threat, but the Chlorites found ways to infiltrate those worlds as well. Even when worlds were warned not to allow Chlorite immigrants, the Chlorites bombarded those worlds with asteroids carrying Chlorite microbes; these fell unnoticed into the oceans or empty plains, and microbes thrived and devastated those worlds.

As it became clear that Chlorite microbes could travel through space unprotected, the Chlorites realized if a sizeable asteroid impacted a Chlorite world, it would blast chunks of that world into space to eventually reach and contaminate other worlds. They ultimately concluded that the Chlorites were an intolerable threat to forms of life: If life as they knew it was to survive, then all Chlorite life must be eradicated.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Five: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) <Per Lilandra, over millennia> - Many times previous Shi'ar rulers attempted policies of coexistence or isolation in the face of Chlorite outbreaks; these never succeeded, as they found the Chlorites, "as a breed," were never content with the worlds they had, instead always striking out and infesting other worlds. Eventually the Shi'ar adopted a policy to take whatever action was necessary to neutralize Chlorite life wherever it was found. They would assist any other state in its efforts to do the same, and they would show zero tolerance toward any who would impede those efforts.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies (fb) - BTS) - When the Diascar could not eliminate the Chlorites on a world, they were forced to destroy that world.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - On Earth, Chlorine-producing life was a subject of the book World-Building by science fiction writer Stephen L. Gillet.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - Seden Karm of the Zann race was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Diascar Defense Leader Taforne, at least, posited that the Chlorites had targeted Earth in hopes that they might be assumed to be human mutants with variant/mutated appearances and thus be able to move about more freely.

X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Ten: Exitus Acta Probat (fb) - BTS) - Karm was surgically modified to make him somewhat more acceptable to humanity, such as by removing his keratinaceous spines

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 1: Exordium (fb) - BTS / X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Ten: Exitus Acta Probat (fb) - BTS) - Keeping his Chlorite nature hidden and suppressed, Seden Karm took the name John Chang and settled in Canton, Ohio. He was assumed to be a mutant whose power suppressed detection (just as he suppressed telepathy) and recruited as a student at the Xavier Institute alongside his friend, the hairy mutant Harry Mills.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus (fb) - BTS) - Shi'ar Magestrix Lilandra allied with the Diascar Confederacy and sent a contingent of the Imperial Guard (Astra, Blackthorn, Flashfire, Magique, Manta, Nightside, N'rill'iree, Smasher/Vril Rokk) to accompany a Diascar ship to Earth to exterminate those aboard a Chlorite ship fleeing there.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 2: Ex Silentio - BTS) - A Chlorite ship containing chlorites of over a dozen species, closely pursued by the Diascar and Shi'ar Imperial Guard, approached Earth. The Chlorite ship was sensed by Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, after which its pursuers shot it, causing the ship to lose control and head towards Pennsylvania.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus (fb) - BTS) - A Diascar contingent met with members of the US government (the National Security Council, if not others), convincing them of the dire threat of the Chlorites and arranging their cooperation to protect Earth from this threat.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 2: Ex Silentio - BTS / X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Three: Exigency - BTS) - Xavier summoned a team of X-Men (Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Wolverine), as well as Lockheed, to meet the crashing ship in Pennsylvania

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus (fb) - BTS) - The Chlorite ship landed southwest of Harrisburg, near I81; approximately half of their number perished in the crash. The farm owners were out of town, and the caretaker fled upon the ships' arrival.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus) - The arriving Jean Grey and Professor X shielded the Chlorite ship with their own Blackbird. As the Diascar ship fired around the Blackbird, a number of Chlorite assumed the Blackbird to be new attackers and fled its relative safety. As Xavier tried to calm and direct those fleeing, the Diascar ship moved the Blackbird aside with a tractor beam, leading Jean to protect the Chorites telekinetically.

Soon, the Imperial Guard exited and announced that Lilandra had allied with the Diascar Confederacy and sent them to Earth to exterminate those aboard a Chlorite ship fleeing there. As Smasher unsuccessful tried to explain the threat, the X-Men and Imperial Guardsmen fought. Eventually, after Flashfire unwittingly knocked Rogue into the midst of the Chlorites, who were grateful for her help, a young Chlorite unwittingly touched Rogue's ungloved hand; as the alien fell unconscious from her power absorption ability, Rogue was transformed, developing his alien and Chlorite nature, as well as sensing his lifetime of traumatic memories.

Finally, a number of US military helicopters arrived, and National Security Council (NSC) member Valerie Cooper arrived and ordered the X-Men to desist; the Diascar also stood down, as did the Imperial Guard. After Xavier telepathically ascertained Cooper's sincerity, he agreed to allow the Chlorites to be taken captive and to allow the X-Men to submit to decontamination procedures as long as Xavier could observe the Chlorites' containment to ensure they were treated humanely.

It is unclear if any Chlorites may perished from the Diascar ship's assault.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - As the biohazard suit-wearing US government forces approached, the Chlorites took a defensive posture, but the X-Men intervened, and Valerie asked Jean to telepathically communicate and convince them to come along peacefully to receive shelter, food, and medical care, and to along decontamination of the environment.

Valerie convinced exposed X-Men to board the Diascar ship for decontamination, asking them to meet the Diascar for themselves and judge them only thereafter.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) - Aboard the Diascar ship, the Chlorite refugees were flown to a US government isolation facility in a remote part of the Allegheny Mountains. Valerie supervised the removal of the Chlorite refugees to quarantine facilities; consulting with Diascar technicians, Val instructed her staff to follow their lead.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - Supervising this, Xavier mentally offered the aliens functional language knowledge uploads; few Chlorites accepted, and few of those responded further.

Lilandra related to Xavier the Shi'ar history with and policy toward the Chlorites. Though no one in thousands of years had found a solution, Lilandra admitted Xavier could do it if it could be done; she advised him that while Chlorite life had been exterminated early in the existence of worlds in the Shi'ar galaxy, this had not been done in the Milky Way, which made the problem even more complex. Xavier conceded the point, but noted that it might also provide a greater opportunity for solutions. Nonetheless, Lilandra advised him that she would be willing to exteriminate him along with the Chlorites to prevent a single chlorite microbe from escaping that facility, which could kill everyone on Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - On Xavier's recommendation, the NSC called in Dr. Hank McCoy (aka Beast of the X-Men) to serve as medical consultant in the case of Chlorite refugees.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - McCoy was excited to examine the Chlorites, recognizing how close they were to those in the stories by Gillett. He determined that their bones were essentially made of PVC plastic and that some of them gave off DDT as a natural pheromone.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations - BTS) - McCoy discussed his findings with the X-Men.

Cooper allowed Taforne to join the NSC in interrogating the refugees, but assured everyone they would follow protocols on treatment of prisoners; she offered to allow one of the X-Men to come along as an independent observer. Wishing to personally learn more of the Diascar, Xavier appointed Jean Grey as that observer.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Taforne interrogated five Chlorite prisoners, each members of a different race/species.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - Taforne interrogated a Chlorite prisoner, Buza, assuring the starving alien he would be fed once he had answered the questions satisfactorily. Buza stated he knew nothing of a conspiracy or other great plot, and Jean confirmed his honesty. Unmoved by Buza's grief and rage at the constant flight and the loss of family by hunters, Taforne instructed the next prisoner to be brought in.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra - BTS) - Upon being released, Rogue argued that the Chlorites had just been trying to escape the Diascar.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra - BTS) - Alongside Val Cooper, the US secretary of defense, and the UN secretary-general, Poratine staged a joint press conference in which they spelled out the whole situation to the public, showcasing the known Chlorite races believed to be infiltrating them and warning that if they did not urgently stop the Chlorite spread, their way of life would end.

The US defense secretary announced plans to test all non-human appearing mutants (and to place identification bracelets on those cleared), and the UN secretary-general urged UN member nations to comply; he also advised people not to take actions on their own, as most were harmless mutants, and instead just report them to the authorities.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra - BTS) - Mutaphobic NSC agent Henry Peter Gyrich resolved to inform the Diascar of the mutant-tracking resource they had in the Sentinels, despite Cooper's warnings that the Sentinels tended to get out of control.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat (fb) - BTS) - The Diascar swiftly provided software upgrades to the Sentinels to make them hunt Chlorites instead of mutants and to see the X-Men and other programmed associates as non-hostiles, although they could reassess such beings if they were specifically attacked.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure - BTS) - The Diascar's claims initially inflamed anti-mutant sentiment. After the initial wave of negative reactions, however, anti-mutant tensions began to ease. The majority of people were skeptical of the aliens' claims.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure (fb) - BTS) - The Diascar determined the Brazilian town Alcala to be infested with Chlorite microbes. Two days later, a pair of Diascar ships encased Alcala in a force field with only 2-3 days of oxygen inside.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure - BTS) - Learning of this, the X-Men investigated.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure (fb) - BTS) - The Diascar razed the surrounding forest with their lasers, leaving a scalded, smoking wasteland around their force field dome; the Imperial Guard thwarted retaliation efforts by the Brazilian government.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure - BTS) - As the X-Men approached, the Imperial Guard incapacitated Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde (rendering them unconscious but otherwise unharmed for 2-3 days), the two most capable of transporting themselves and others into or out of the force field-enclosed town.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure - BTS) - The next day, people within the field began dying as the chlorine levels reached toxic levels.

Hank McCoy's readings confirmed that the Diascar's explanations of the chlorine levels and need for containment had been completely truthful.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure - BTS) - Poratine resolved that the humans needed to graphically witness the fate of those exposed to the Chlorites, and the X-Men became somewhat resolved to the threat they faced.

Portaine noted that the only advantage of the situation was that the last survivor within the force field could be confirmed as the Chlorite infiltrator.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies - BTS) - Wolverine sought out the Chlorite within the dome; learning of Diascar plans to incinerate the town, he reasoned the Chlorite must have burrowed underground. After Wolverine located the Chlorite and it became clear that the rhetoric-spouting terrorist would yield no information, Poratine ordered the town's incineration. Usurping the Chlorite's protection chamber, Wolverine survived, while the Chlorite was incinerated. The Diascar released Wolverine after standard decontamination and screening revealed him to be clear of Chlorite microbes.

The Diascar and X-Men gained some mutual respect as the X-Men appreciated the necessity of the Diascar's actions, until Val Cooper and Poratine revealed the Diascar's utilization of the Sentinels in their Chlorite search.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies - BTS) - The events of Alcala convinced most governments to comply with the Diascar's investigations.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat) - Appalled at the use of the Sentinels, the X-Men parted ways with the Diascar, planning to deal with the Chlorites on their own from that point forward.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat) - Wolverine sensed the presence of a Chlorite at the Xavier Institute and swiftly confronted and confirmed it to be "John Chang." John was placed in a force field and taken into custody.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat - BTS) - Subsequent scans proved there to be no Chlorite microbes left behind by John. Xavier resolved to keep John there without informing the government or Diascar, both to spare his student body from Diascar or Sentinel examination and to allow the questioning of a Chlorite away from the Diascar's intimidating methods.

Most of the X-Men agreed to work with the Sentinels, as long as at least one X-Man was sent to monitor their actions; Rogue, however, steadfastly refused, feeling that someone needed to stand up for the Chlorites.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 12: Excursus) - At the University of Cincinnati, a pair of Sentinels, joined by X-Men Cyclops and Iceman, plus Imperial Guardsman Flashfire pursued a female Chlorite of the Goora species. Ultimately, her weapon exploded after a Sentinel encased her in a Diascar-modified capture sphere, killing her. The campus was severely damaged in the struggle.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 13: Excavation - BTS) - Cooperation between the X-Men and London Morlocks lead to their willing registration.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 14: Exposure (Northern) (fb) - BTS) - The members of Mutant Force were tested to confirm their lack of Chlorite-nature.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular (fb) - BTS) - A Chlorite in Latveria was captured and submitted for testing.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 15: Execution (fb) - BTS) - An unidentified Chlorite of an unspecified race based in Surat, India sought sanctuary as a persecuted mutant in the holy Swaraj Ashram. Using an energy weapon, the Chlorite took hostage several Hindu pilgrims. Based on information on the Chlorite's race provided by the Diascar, Storm generated a mini-blizzard that left the Chlorite virtually comatose. The Sentinel then transferred the Chlorite to the Diascar ship.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 15: Execution - BTS) - Mutants were assaulted and slain in Surat in efforts by the citizens to eliminate mutants.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular (fb) - BTS) - On the same day as Kitty and Ororo's encounter, Sue Richards (aka the Invisible Woman) captured and turned in a Chlorite in Los Angeles.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial - BTS) - Diascar ships forced their way into Madripoor, and at least one mutant perished as residents tried to take down non-human appearing mutants; Quicksilver was captured by the Sentinels after he fought them for taking no action to protect the mutant.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies) - Poratine clarified to Xavier that they needed to stop this threat now, or the Diascar would destroy Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular - BTS) - After Xavier shared Poratine's warning with the X-Men, most ultimately agreed that getting the Chlorites off of Earth had to be the priority, even though they knew the Diascar would almost certainly kill all captured Chlorites. Rogue, however, refused to accept this.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular - BTS) - At the Xavier Institute, James "Lash" Wheaton threatened to inform the government of the hidden Chlorite in hopes of ensuring the government would spare him from Sentinel assault. This led a number of students to plot to help get "John" off of grounds and into another hiding place, and Rogue agreed to help them. However, this plan frightened Todd Watkins sufficiently that he instead contacted the government and revealed the existence of "John" as a Chlorite hidden on Xavier Institute grounds.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular - BTS) - Henry Gyrich informed Poratine, leading her to coordinate a Diascar-Sentinel-Imperial Guard assault on the Xavier Institute, which Gyrich hoped would eliminate Xavier's organization for good.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 20: Extraction) - With aid from Rogue, Xavier Institute students broke "John Chang" out of his cell in hopes of hiding/protecting him; they were discovered by the senior X-Men who ultimately agreed to protect John and seek a peaceful resolution with the Chlorites. Almost immediately thereafter, Sentinel, Diascar, and the Imperial Guard arrived to collect "John."

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 21: Extermination (fb) - BTS) - Frustrated with the Sentinels' repeated questions about reclassifying specific beings as threats, Gyrich told them to reassess all status assignments as the situation warrants, unwittingly neutralizing much of the controls the Diascar had programmed into the Sentinels.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 21: Extermination - BTS) - The X-Men had Meena Bannerjee take "John Chang" into hiding.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 21: Extermination - BTS) - The Sentinels progressively reclassified the Imperial Guard and the US troops as threats when they tried to prevent the Sentinels from slaying mutants who had previously been trying to aid the Sentinels (as they wanted to be rid of the Chlorite). As a result, all forces temporarily united to take out the Sentinels.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - Sentinels worldwide went rogue simultaneously, but -- as they were in groups of 2 or 3 -- they were taken out by the soldiers and superheroes accompanying them.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - Taforne's forces captured "John Chang" and Meena in the woods behind the Xavier mansion. They transported them both to Poratine's command ship for quarantine.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena - BTS) - After Poratine announced the capture of the Chlorite and his accessory, McCoy noted how there was almost certainly some universe -- amongst the infinite probabilities of the multiverse -- where Chlorites arose early enough in its development that they might already be the dominant lifeform: where Chlorites could live freely without endangering others. If they could find such a world, they could offer it to the Chlorites as a haven. When Taforne scoffed at this, Xavier noted how Meena Bannerjee's mutant reality-scanning powers could locate such a reality, and McCoy felt he could access that reality with cooperation from the Diascar and Shi'ar.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena) - McCoy further explained to the released Meena how after found such a world, she would then allow Rogue to absorb her powers and knowledge, after which Rogue would absorb Nightcrawler's powers, which would allow her to teleport to that other reality. McCoy finally explained that with the help of Diascar engineers, he was confident that he could modify a Shi'ar stargate generator to scan Rogue as she traveled to the desired reality; this would allow them to lock onto the timeline's quantum signature and open a stargate portal to it. They could then send in probes to verify the nature of the universe and question some of the natives on their history. If it was not the reality they were looking for, they could try again.

Poratine reiterated the urgency, but McCoy posited that the search for a Chlorite-dominated universe would likely go more quickly than the search for Chlorites hiding on Earth. When Taforne questioned how they would get the Chlorites across the galaxy to cooperate, "John" assured everyone that such a place to call home and to live in peace -- away from the oxy-lifes that were trying to destroy their people -- was the Chlorites' whole goal. Taforne suggested that Chlorite terrorists would not agree, John explained that he was indeed one of the terrorists, because he felt he had no choice.

John offered to go to and explore this proposed reality along with any other captured and still-living Chlorites, after which they would come back and announce their findings, which would bring in the remaining Chlorites on Earth. In a gesture of good faith, John admitted there were four Chlorites remaining at large on Earth. Per Taforne's questions, John explained that he did not know their identities or locations -- so any individual could not betray and expose others -- but that the Chlorites stayed in communication so they could receive coded orders via the internet or radio; as they were trained to give out false codes under torture; Chlorites hearing the true codes would believe them.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb)) - "John" revealed his real name to Meena as Seden Karm.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - As planned (presumably with Seden's coaching), Meena located Reality-62342, which fit their goals. Rogue absorbed Meena and Nightcrawler's powers and teleported to Earth-62342 while being scanned by the Shi'ar stargate generator. A portal to that world was then opened.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - Seden Karm walked through the portal to Earth-62342, followed by the containment suit-wearing Meena, Hank McCoy, and Taforne (the latter's quite bulky).

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - McCoy and the Diascar's telescopic observations confirmed Meena's perceptions: Every planet they detected with a free oxygen-line also showed free chlorine. They also launched some hyperspace probes to let them get line-of-sight views of the whole galaxy, but he felt they'd make the same findings.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - On Earth-62342, Seden Karm removed his helmet and surveyed, savored and was refeshed by his new world.

After Beast then reported his findings, Taforne asked about the rest of the universe, especially once the Chlorites eventually became so numerous that they needed to spread beyond this galaxy. Seden reported that they should be able to adapt the stargate to scan other realities and find other Chlorite universes to colonize; there would be no more reason to war with oxy-life. Taforne argued that it might be difficult to convince all Chlorites of this, and Seden countered that it would also be difficult to convince all of the Diascar and other oxy-life that they no longer needed to hunt Chlorites. Taforne noted they would still need to locate all Chlorites so they could be relocated to this world, and Seden added that he and his kind would help in tracking down and convincing others.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - The Chlorite refugees and the remaining infiltrators were relocated to Earth-62342, except those who had volunteered to help spread the news to the rest of the people.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - Poratine pressured Earth's govenments to reverse the mutant registration laws and to release any mutants arrested for resisting registration or attacking Sentinels in exhange for Diascar medical and agricultural technqiues and the prospect of future trade between their peoples.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes - BTS) - Following suitable warning, Portatine destroyed all of their technology left on Earth, destroying the remaining Sentinel construction facility.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes - BTS) - Before departing the X-Men's company, Poratine noted the Diascar had to finish locating Chlorites throughout the galaxy and offer them their new home. She acknowledged that it would be difficult for the Diascar and Chlorites to get along after their long history, but stated that Xavier had taught her that it was worth the effort to tear down walls rather than build them.

Though Xavier wondered if transferring the Chlorites to a new world was not just creating one more wall, McCoy suggested that they could still communicate and exchange ideas on science and culture. Nightcrawler added that it also gave them more time to look into solutions that might allow co-existence.

Comments: Created by Christopher L. Bennett.

No images of the Chlorites exist. Not a single picture in the whole story.

The term Chlorites was first used on pg. 53, in Chapter 4: Exodus.

Each of the chapters in Watchers on the Walls had an "X" or "Ex" title. An exordium is an introduction; ex silentio means not only "from silence," but also "for lack of contrary evidence"; exigency means "emergency"; ex cathedra means "by virtue of office or authority"; an exclosure is an area fenced off to prevent intrusion; exequies are funeral rites; exitus acta probat means "the outcome justifies the deed"; an excursus is a digression or sidebar; and exeunt omnes is a stage direction that means "they all exit."
"Deus ex Meena" is obviously a play on "Deus ex Machina," originally used to describe mechanical devices used to simulate godly powers in Greek tragedies and later used to mean simply a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly abruptly resolved by the intervention of some event, character, etc.

As an interesting comparison to the toxicity of the Chlorites, McCoy noted how anerobic life had previously dominated Earth, until being virtually wiped out with the advent of oxygen-generating photosynthesis.

Great story. You can buy it on Amazon, etc. for a few dollars. I would love to see it adapted to the comics and get some visuals on all of the cool characters introduced in this book.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Chlorites have no known connections to

Buza

A member of the Shuki race, the son of Kussa, and the mate of Cal.

As one of the Chlorites, Buza exuded chlorine gas as part of his metabolism.

Jean Grey could not tell if the Shuki's hairlessness, sunken eyes, and long, bony limbs were natural features or the results of starvation.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Buza and his mate, Cal, had daughters and a son who were slain by the Diascar.

He lived in the barracks on the ship, washing the clothes, purging the cyclers, and cleaning the decks to earn his ration. He claimed to have no involvement on where their ship went (Jean Grey's telepathic probe noted he was telling the truth). He and the other Chlorites shared tales, songs, prayers, and mah-chi (some ritual involved with ancient traditions and remembrance of lost ancestors). He occasionally heard talk, generally idle dreams, of finding a planet on which to live. His ship sometimes met with other ships to be resupplied.

He was amongst the Chlorite refugees pursued en route by the Diascar who crash-landed in Pennsylvania and were taken captive by the US government.

They had saved two daughters from starving, but when their ship crashed, the metal cut through both daughters despite his trying to spare them. He wished he had died in their stead.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - At the Diacar Defense Leader, Taforne interrogated Chlorite prisoner Buza, who claimed to only know that he and his mate, Cal, needed food; Taforne assured him that he would be fed once he had answered the questions satisfactorily.

Taforne questioned if they had targeted Earth in hopes that those giving off lower levels of chlorine or other noxious/toxic gases might be able to blend in amongst its mutants, mutates, etc.

As Taforne continued to press him, Buza admitted that he and his people dreamed of finding a home they could defend and live in peace, free of the Diascar (and others who would kill them); of hunting down the Diascar who slew their family.

Unmoved, Taforne ultimately considered Buza useless.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Cal

The mate of Buza, she was also a Chlorite, and presumably one of the Shuki as well.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls (fb) - BTS) - Cal and Buza had several sons and daughters who were slain by the Diascar.

She and Cal were amongst the Chlorite refugees pursued en route by the Diascar who crash-landed in Pennyslvania and were taken captive by the US government. Both of their remaining daughters were slain in the crash.

When interrogated by the Diascar, Buza expressed that he and Cal were starving.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Kussa

A member of the Shuki race and the father of Buza.

It is unrevealed whether he was still living at the time of the story, and, if not, when he perished.

It is unrevealed whether he was a Chlorite as well, but given Buza's lamentations about their lost fathers, it seems likely.

Anything else is speculation.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Shuki race

Members: Buzza, Cal, Kussa

Jean could not tell if their hairlessness, sunken eyes, and long, bony limbs were natural features or the results of starvation

They gave off relatively few gases people could not tolerate and only in small quantities (while many other Chlorite species gave off less)

Beyond Buza, there were "others" of the Shuki aboard the Chlorite refugee ship.

Note: It's not quite clear to me whether once one being developed the mutation that made him or her a Chlorite, if others could become infected and become Chlorites as well. I THINK so...otherwise, if this was this crazy rare mutation, why were their multiple members of the Shuki on board. Or perhaps, once one being became a Chlorite, any of his or her offspring were also Chlorites...that also seems fairly likely.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

mole of Alcana

He was medium-sized, wiry, and agile. He had gray skin and slit nostrils. He also had slim, backswept tendrils instead of hair; these were part of him and were painful when pulled.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - Seden Karm of the Zann race was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

Wolverine located the Chlorite, hiding in a hidden protection chamber in a cellar and using a pipe to obtain oxygen from the surface. Ready for Wolverine, as soon as the hero yanked the door open, the Chlorite shot him repeatedly with an old Colt revolver. Only slowed down, Wolverine slashed the revolver into pieces and hurled the Chlorite across the room. After a short struggle, Wolverine got the better of him, but the Chlorite remained defiant, describing how Chlorites would eventually exterminate non-Chlorite life even if through sheer chance. He also described how deliberately seeking to infect other worlds and people could be seen as speeding their inevitable end, a type of mercy killing.

When it became clear the Chlorite mole would reveal nothing, Poratine ordered the incineration to proceed. The Chlorite mocked Wolverine as the force field began to contract, incinerating everything it touched, but he screamed in terror when Wolverine usurped his protection chamber; the Chlorite was apparently incinerated.

Wolverine survived as the rest of the town was incinerated.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Earth-62342

The air had a strong, bracing chlorine fragrance and was misty and yellow-tinged. Heavy mists in the low valleys would make them impassable without oxygen gear, but Chlorites could develop the infrastructure to pass through via oxygen tanks or enclosed vehicles, or to build roads above them. The forest had sturdy trees, with white vinyl trunks supporting wide crowns of deep red and brown leaves, which Diascar botanists had told him would fade to yellow-green in autumn. To the south lay a beach of sand and quartz, lapped by waves of a greenish-blue ocean. In the sky, the sun shone a lurid reddish-orange as the atmosphere scattered and absorbed its blue and green light.

On Chlorite worlds, McCoy speculated that one could not generate fires, only causing smoldering, as fires could not burn in a chlorinated environment. They did not have strong metals with which to build, but could use clay, glass, ceramics and gold.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena - BTS) - Dr. Hank McCoy (aka the Beast) noted how there was almost certainly some universe -- amongst the infinite probabilities of the multiverse -- where Chlorites arose early enough in its development that they might already be the dominant lifeform: where Chlorites could live freely without endangering others. If they could find such a world, they could offer it to the Chlorites as a haven. When Taforne scoffed at this, Xavier noted how Meena Bannerjee's mutant reality-scanning powers could locate such a reality, and McCoy felt he could access that reality with cooperation from the Diascar and Shi'ar.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - As planned (presumably with the Chlorite Seden Karm's coaching), Meena located Reality-62342, which fit their goals. Rogue absorbed Meena and Nightcrawler's powers and teleported to Earth-62342 while being scanned by the Shi'ar stargate generator. A portal to that world was then opened.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - On Earth-62342, Seden Karm removed his helmet and surveyed, savored and was refeshed by his new world.

As Taforne's legs moved in a nervous canter and he resisted the impulse to bolt back to the stargate portal and back to his home universe, he noted it to be hideous. When John said he thought it was beautiful, Meena tried to see things his way and noted it to be nice, but John squeezed her hand, reassuring her it was OK not to see things his way.

Taforne asked about the rest of the universe, especially once the Chlorites eventually became so numerous that they needed to spread beyond this galaxy. Seden reported that they should be able to adapt the stargate to scan other realities and find other Chlorite universes to colonize; there would be no more reason to war with oxy-life.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - The Chlorite refugees and the remaining infiltrators had been relocated to Earth-62342, except those who had volunteered to help spread the news to the rest of the people.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Rogue-touched Chlorite

A young Chlorite, he had yellowish, bipedal male with pebbly hide and spines down his back

He was amongst the Chlorite refugees pursued en route by the Diascar who crash-landed in Pennsylvania and were taken captive by the US government.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus) - During a confrontation between the X-Men and the Imperial Guard following the refugee ship's crashlanding, Flashfire unwittingly knocked Rogue into the midst of the Chlorites, who were grateful for her help; a young Chlorite unwittingly touched Rogue's ungloved hand; as the alien fell unconscious from her power absorption ability, Rogue was transformed, developing his alien and Chlorite nature (which was nauseating), as well as sensing his lifetime of traumatic memories.

Rogue found the thoughts confusing, mixed in with strange and ugly sensory memories and hard-to-define emotions, although he knew his biology could kill someone like her. She also knew that the Chlorite refugees had no conspiracy agenda; rather they were desperate to stay alive, find their next meal, and to escape everybody that wanted to kill them.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Goora female

She was 7' tall, possessed orange hair and teal-blue scales, and notably had a second pair of arms that she could conceal under her jacket

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - She was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 12: Excursus) - At the University of Cincinnati, a pair of Sentinels, joined by X-Men Cyclops and Iceman, plus Imperial Guardsman Flashfire pursued the Goora Chlorite. She carried and used a plasma bolt-firing pistol with experienced accuracy. Dodging their attacks, after her blaster overloaded, she made her way to the Particle Technology Lab where she had hidden another, even more powerful weapon, sufficient to melt most of a Sentinel's face. When her second weapon overloaded, she hurled it toward a crowd of students to try to force the heroes to abandon their pursuit to save the civilians; however, Flashfire destroyed the weapon, while Iceman encased her feet in ice until the Sentinel could encase her in a Diascar-modified capture sphere. Regardless, her weapon's explosion smashed the sphere with sufficient force that the concussion was fatal for her.
The campus was severely damaged in the struggle.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Zann race

Members: Seden Karm (aka "John Chang")

Zann's bodies are normally covered by keratinous spines, although Seden's were surgically removed prior to his arrival on Earth.

Seden was small and pale with "four-fingered hands" (as this was noted as an abnormality, presumably they meant three fingers and a thumb), beady eyes, no nose, and four pairs of canine teeth.

Seden's eyesight was poorer than the human normal and he was of below-average strength.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat) - Wolverine recognized Seden's appearance as consistent with others on the refugee ship, meaning their were likely multiple Zann Chlorites.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Latveria Chlorite

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - He or she was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular (fb) - BTS) - A Chlorite in Latveria was captured. His or her fate is unrevealed.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Surat male

His race was known and described by the Diascar, it just wasn't identified in the story.

He and the rest of his race was poikilothermic (which made him highly sensitive to cold and heat extremes), and who also had eyes in the back of his head and also possessed some sort of anatomical pouch (it is unrevealed whether these latter features were standard for his race or unique to him)

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - He was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 15: Execution (fb) - BTS) - A Chlorite male based in Surat, India sought sanctuary as a persecuted mutant in the holy Swaraj Ashram. Using an energy weapon he had hidden in his pouch, he the took hostage several Hindu pilgrims.

Kitty Pryde, Storm, the Imperial Guardsman Magique, and a Sentinel arrived to oppose this Chlorite. Kitty phased into the room to try to free the hostages, but the Chlorite's eyes (literally) on the back of his head spotted this, and he nailed her with his energy weapon; this pained her despite her phased state, and she narrowly prevented herself from partially solidifying in the ground. Storm generated a mini-blizzard that left the Chlorite virtually comatose. The Sentinel then transported the Chlorite to the Diascar ship.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Chlorite of Los Angeles

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena (fb) - BTS) - He or she was one of 10 Chlorites sent to infiltrate Earth.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

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