Government: Democratic confederacy;
    formerly the multi-world Diascar Consortium

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

Powers/Abilities: The Diascar are centaur-like in build, with 2 arms, 4 legs, and thick, stout tails. Their faces are equine, with ram-like norns curling back behind foxlike ears. Their four-fingered hands (since stated as it it was different than human, I'd ASSume they meant four-digited, with three fingers and a thumb) and four-toed feet have thick, hook-like nails, producing a clopping sound as they shifted their weight. They have herbivorous flat-teeth.

    Females lacked horns and had udder-like structures on their underbellies.

    The Diascar had an immense interstellar fleet, led by the Endless Plain.

    The Diascar developed extensive a decontamination process to prevent transmission of Chlorite microbes. For living beings, these included a series of high-pressure sprays, chemical baths, room-temperature plasma immersions, and energy-ray exposures. the section could be jettisoned if necessary. They developed impenetrable force field generators to contain a contaminated region; such a force field could span an entire city. Their ships could unleash lasers that would utterly consume everything in their path, leaving behind a smoking crater. 

    The Diascar's force field generating ships utilized a minimal crew, focusing all of their energies on force field protection of targets and around themselves, rendering them virtually indestructible. They had to be towed through hyperspace to their targets.

    The Diascar re-designed the Sentinels, allowing them to independently operate their heads and arms independently of their bodies; arms and heads could also be separated from the bodies, and the heads could fly via turbine fan engines.

    Other Diascar technology included quantum-level sensors, fullerene armor, and nanomorphic servos.

Traits: Veteran warriors, the Diascar were wary, prepared to defend their cause at any cost.

    They displayed some behavior common to terrestrial hoofstock, including putting their ears back when angered/irritated, angling their heads forward in preparation to literally butt heads with rivals 

    They used their horns in youthful contests over females or status.

    With no need for chairs, they kneeled on their haunches atop pillows when they wished to relax..

    The Diascar were originally very peaceful, agrarian, and artistic.

Type: Bilaterally symmetric semi-humanoid-equine centaur-like quadrupeds
Eyes: Two (on head; colors unrevealed)
Fingers: Four (including opposing thumb)
Toes: Four
Skin color: They are covered in short fur, cream-colored on the snout, chest, and under-belly, brownish or greenish-brown along the scalp, back, and flanks.
Average height: Unrevealed (comparable to humans)

History:
(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial (fb) - BTS) - In the "simpler times" of the past, Diascar used their horns to battle rival herds over grazing territory or mating rights. In extreme cases, losies parties were injured or possibly killed.
    When faced with true threats, they ignored pride and self-interest; they fled when possible, and when they could not, they did everything to eliminate the threat as quickly as possible.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) <As related by Poratine> - The Diascar were once a peaceful people, galloping across their world's plains, grazing, cultivating, and making them into a paradise. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Seven: Ex Cathedra (fb) - BTS) - The Diascar were democratic by ancient custom.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda (fb) - BTS) - The beauty and peace of Diasca drew beings from across the galaxy, and the Diascar beamed signals to other worlds: Messages offering to share their knowledge and trade peacefully with other cultures. The Diascar learned from their visitors, and they migrated to other, uninhabited worlds, cultivating them as well, building a rich, democratic community of worlds. They fought off those who sought to take what they had -- Skrull, Badoon, and others -- but mostly lived at peace with themselves and their neighbors.

    Eventually a single Chlorite ship came to one of the Diascar outlying worlds, a small crew of explorers who told the Diascar they were venturing out of their system for the first time, drawn there by their beamed invitation. 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 of their cousins and friends 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. Whenever they thought they had closed off one vector, another got through, and another world was infected.

    Eventually, those who had avoided infection had no choice but to abandon the entire Diascar Consortium. They found being previously migratory to be much different than being homeless, with no place to which to migrate.

    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. The Diascar were surprised by the great numbers of Chlorites that 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. At first, the Diascar were horrified by this brutality. But, 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 "devious creatures" 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 18: Exit Strategies (fb) - BTS) - When the Diascar could not eliminate the Chlorites on a world, they were forced to destroy that world. 

    Poratine kept a relic from each world she visited to save it from Chlorites, whether she was successful or not.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus (fb) - BTS) - Shi'ar Majestrix 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) - The Diascar ship pursued the Chlorite ship as it neared Earth. As the Chlorites' approach was sensed by Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, the Diascar ship shot the Chlorite ship, causing it 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.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus - BTS) - The arriving Jean Grey and Professor X shielded the Chlorite ship with their own Blackbird, recognizing that the attackers' failure to use their more destructive weaponry indicated their lack of desire to cause indiscriminate harm.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus) - 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 protect the Chorites telekinetically. 

    The other X-Men then arrived and assaulted the Diascar ship and used their X-Jet to further shield the refugees; the Diascar tractor beam was disabled, and the Blackbird again shielded the refugees. Soon, the Imperial Guard exited their ship and announced that Lilandra had allied with the Diascar Confederacy and sent them to Earth to exterminate those aboard a Chlorite ship fleeing there. 

    Not accepting of the Guard's explanations, the X-Men engaged them, and Rogue was knocked into the midst of the Chlorites; a young Chlorite unwittingly touched Rogue's ungloved hand, and 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 member Valerie Cooper arrived and ordered the X-Men to desist; the Diascar also stood down, as did the Imperial Guard. After Xavier scanned Cooper's mind to ascertain her 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.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - Valerie asked Jean Grey to telepathically communicate and convince the Chlorites to come along peacefully to receive shelter, food, and medical care, and to allow 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.  

    Aboard the Diascar ship, the X-Men were submitted to initial sterilizing rays; as private facilities were not available, they were forced to strip down naked as a group; Cyclops convinced them to allow him to put in a pair of ruby quartz contact lenses to prevent destruction to their ship. The decontamination process included a series of high-pressure sprays, chemical baths, room-temperature plasma immersions, and energy-ray exposures, leaving the recipients feeling rubbed raw and irritated. Afterwards, they received their equipment, which has also been sterilized. Kitty appreciated a seam in the wall, which she determined meant the section could be jettisoned if necessary.

    Due to Rogue's intimate contact and her transformation, she was quarantined for monitoring; having experienced and been sickened by the chlorite's nature, Rogue agreed a medical screening was wise. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Rogue was kept naked within a Diascar cell.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - The other X-Men then met with Taforne, who brought them before Poratine in time to watch the Diascar ship unleash a blast that left a smoking crater where the former farm on which the Chlorites landed had been; the Chlorite corpses present were utterly consumed in the blast.

    Poratine then explained the Diascar's history with the Chlorites, which Jean shared with Professor X.

(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. Val Cooper 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 6: Examinations) - Poratine and Taforne met Hank McCoy and the X-Men after McCoy had had a chance to examine the Chlorites, warning of the danger inherent in the Chlorites and the necessity of their zero-tolerance policies. Taforne agreed that the Chlorites may be acting out of desperation, but explained that they would do anything to survive. Even if Earth was already too contaminated, they would need to quarantine it before the plague could spread further.

    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. Xavier also requested a visit with Rogue and to arrange her release; Poratine agreed to the former, but release could not be done until she was definitively confirmed to be clear of infection. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Following a meeting with Rogue, Jean Grey arranged to get her some form of clothing and some reading material.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Diascar scientists tested all of the known varieties of Chlorite microbes and found that none of them could surive in Earth's biosphere for long, at least at that time.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - 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. When Jean noted Buza's responses to be truthful, Taforne reminded her that she would only probe their minds so far so as not to avoid their privacy, but Jean assured him that honesty or deceit could be determined via a superficial scan.

    Taforne questioned Buza relentlessly about what he had heard about finding a planet, specifically if they had targeted Earth in hopes that they might be able to blend in amongst its mutants, mutates, etc. After Buza expressed his grief, rage at the loss of his family, and his desire to have a home, Taforne, unmoved, kicked at the partition with his forefoot, announced that this one was useless, and instructed the next prisoner to be brought in.

(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 subsequently reported to Poratine that he had uncovered evidence of Chlorite infiltrators already amongst humanity, disguised as mutants. Poratine noted that it may not be too late, as Chlorite microbes could not apparently survive for long outside of their hosts on Earth; however, over time and given the rapid life cycles of microbes, within Chlorite hosts, it was almost inevitable that they would mutate and develop the ability to survive and replicate within the atmosphere. The only way to save Earth was to round up and remove all of the Chlorite infiltrators as swiftly as possible.  

    Jean argued that information voiced by the Chlorites could have been due to Taforne's leading and aggressive interrogations; but Poratine countered that they could not afford to take the risk. Val Cooper decided to share what she had learned with her government superiors, and Poratine advised Xavier and his allies -- who had been offered to depart by Cooper -- that this was just the beginning.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial (fb) - BTS) - Taforne read of the history of Xavier and other humans of refusing to destroy threats that later returned to kill others; most notably of Reed Richards saving Galactus. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra (fb) - BTS) - Before leaving the government facility, Xavier convinced the Diascar to release Rogue; upon that declaration, she smashed her way out, underlining that she had stayed there of her own will.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra) - Alongside Val Cooper, the US secretary of defense, and the United Nations secretary-general, Poratine staged a joint press conference in which they spelled out the whole situation to the public, noting the Chlorites to be a dire alien menace that had infiltrated Earth's mutant population. Poratine spoke over footage depicting the 11 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. She urged haste in identifying and exposing Chlorite infiltrators. 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.

    Poratine concluded by warning humanity that if they did not do everything in their power to stop the Chlorite spread, their way of life would end.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra - BTS) - Distrustful and disliking of mutants in general, 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. These upgrades also made them 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 fed into the agenda of those who already opposed mutants. Hate crimes more than doubled overnight, and the X-Men were kept busy patrolling the streets each night to prevent mutant abuse. While some politicians urged tolerance and fairness, others took the opportunity to push forward legislation to erode mutants' civil rights. The usual political ideologues on radio and TV used the Chlorite threat as an excuse to condemn mutants in general as a threat to society, and the usual religious ideologues used it to condemn them as a sin against God.

    After the initial wave of negative reactions, however, anti-mutant tensions began to ease. The majority of people were skeptical of the aliens' claims.

    A few days later, as new Diascar ships appeared in Earth's orbit, setting up a blockade around Earth, anti-mutant protests faded to their previous levels, and anti-Diascar protests began cropping up all over.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure (fb) - BTS) - At a mutant sit-in protest where mutants refused to let anyone in to test or ID them, police officers refused to break in despite the insistence of the accompanying Diascar officer.

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

    Those Alcalanos who tried to penetrate the force field suffered burns from the heat it it generated.

(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. 

    Considering this an attack on their sovereign territory, the Brazilian government launched an attack on the Diascar ships, but the Imperial Guard intercepted their missiles and forced the planes into retreat.

(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) - Brazilian ships attacked the Diascar ships generating the force fields, but the ships were too well shielded to be affected.

(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. A fish-scaled woman was incapacitated after diving into a hyper-chlorinated pond.

    Hank McCoy's readings confirmed that the Diascar's explanations had been completely truthful.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure) - Striding the expanse around the dome, Poratine, for all her experience, was still mortified by the progressively painful demise of the Alcalanos. Nonetheless, she appreciated that the humans needed to graphically witness the fate of those exposed to the Chlorites.

    When the X-Men approached, somewhat resolved to the threat they faced, she confirmed that they had found nothing to do 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.

    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) - An Alcalanos mutant nearly drained the force field, but Kitty transported Wolverine inside, and he slew the Alcalanos mutant. Wolverine then sought out the Chlorite within the dome.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies (fb) - BTS) - Learning of Wolverine's efforts, the Diascar came to observe. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies) - When Wolverine's initial searches proved fruitless, he queried whether the Chlorite might have escaped, but Taforne confirmed that a Chlorite would have left a trail, of which there was not. When Taforne confirmed they had planned to incinerate the entire town, Wolverine reasoned the Chlorite must have burrowed underground, perhaps using a reed to breathe. Wolverine located the Chlorite, and when it became clear he would reveal nothing, Poratine -- despite Taforne questioning whether Wolverine's healing powers might be sufficient to eliminate the Chlorite microbes -- ordered the incineration to proceed. 

    After Wolverine survived the destruction by ducking into the Chlorite's planned protective chamber, the Diascar released him 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 10: Exitus Acta Probat) - The X-Men were appalled at the use of the Sentinels, and Val Cooper and Poratine's efforts to convince them otherwise proved futile. The X-Men left, planning to deal with the Chlorites on their own from that point forward. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 10: Exitus Acta Probat - BTS) - After the X-Men discovered student "John Chang" (actually Seden Karm) was a Chlorite infiltrator, he was placed in a force field and taken into custody. 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.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 12: Excursus - BTS) - At the University of Cincinnati, a pair of Sentinels, joined by X-Men Cyclops and Iceman, plus Imperial Guardsman Flashfire pursed a Chlorite of the Goora species, who was ultimately slain by an explosion of her own weapon after a Sentinel encased her in a Diascar-modified capture sphere.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter Thirteen: Excavation - BTS) - X-Men Nightcrawler and Banshee, plus Guardsman Nightside and the floating upper half of a Sentinel head investigated Morlock mutants in the London sewers (near Hyde Park). Ultimately Nightcrawler convinced the mutants Madcow, Nessie, and Spiny Norman to lead them to the rest of their group and allow them to confirm they were not Chlorites. 

(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 14: Exposure (Northern) - BTS) - Investigating an assault on a military base north of Vancouver that included a non-human-looking being, Wolverine, Manta, and a pair of Sentinels, joined by Guardian (James Hudson) encountered Mutant Force members Burner, Lifter, Peeper, and Slither. 

(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 15: Execution (fb) - BTS) - An unidentified Chlorite of an unspecified race based in Surat, India was captured by Kitty Pryde, Storm, the Imperial Guardsman Magique, and a Sentinel.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 15: Execution (fb) - BTS) - Blaming mutants for bringing the aliens into their midst, Rioters in Surat broke into city hall and obtained the records of registered mutants. The rioters then tore the mutants from their homes, intending to slaughter them; in the process, they also captured any mutants (or anyone who looked like they could be mutants) already out on the streets. The riots were dispersed by the Kitty Pryde, Storm, and Magique.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 16: Excelsior - BTS) - Jean Grey, the Imperial Guard's Smasher, and a trio of Sentinels brought in mutants (at a protest rally in Manhattan, New York, which was attended by Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, and Rogue. The latter three, already registered(?), were allowed to depart, but protesters interfering with the mutant captures -- including the charismatic protest leader -- were arrested as well.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies (fb) - BTS) - Evaluating Earth culture, Poratine considered the lava lamp a potential relic to exemplify their world, in case she needed to destroy it.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial) - When Madripoor refused to allow Sentinels into their nation, Sentinels and Imperial Guardsmen entered anyway. When Madripoor's troops attacked the Sentinels, Diascar ships, led by Taforne, entered their airspace and helped quickly take down the opposition. Meanwhile, some natives tried to comply and aid the investigation by gathering up obvious mutants (as well as some questionable mutants) and holding them at gunpoint. 

    After the Sentinels allowed a mutant to perish under gunfire as they captured two other mutants (as this met their primary goal of preventing mutant escape), Quicksilver turned against the Sentinels. Taforne initially refused to allow the Sentinels to re-categorize Quicksilver as hostile; but when the Sentinel noted this response to be insufficient as Quicksilver's actions were preventing its goals, Taforne agreed to capture without injury, partially for expediency. Quicksilver was subsequently captured by the Sentinels.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies) - Xavier met with Poratine in her office aboard the Endless Plain ship in hopes of negotiating Quicksilver's release, but Poratine refused as long as he could not guarantee Quicksilver would not interfere with the Sentinels again. Ultimately, Xavier convinced Poratine that their heavy-handed tactics increased opposition against them, and she agreed to discuss further diplomatic tactics with the UN. However, when he asked what was their exit strategy, meaning when would they leave Earth and would she help prevent Earth's government from continuing with the actions they were currently using, Poratine made it clear 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 what he had learned from Poratine 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.

    Xavier Institute students Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, Kristin Koenig, Mike Galbraith (aka Beanpole), and Sarah Allaire (aka Papillon) resolved to help get "John Chang" off of grounds and into another hiding place, and Rogue agreed to help them. However, this plan frightened student 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) - Henry Gyrich informed Poratine of the students' plot and the hidden Chlorite, leading her to coordinate a Diascar-Sentinel-Imperial Guard assault on the Xavier Institute.

(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) - While the X-Men battled the Sentinels, a Diascar ship arrived carrying Imperial Guardsmen. Rogue hurled Wolverine into the ship, and he tore in on impact via his extended claws, after which he did as much damage as possible to the interior; his damage to the engines caused the craft to spin out of control.

(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) - As Xavier and Val Cooper tried to work out a non-confrontational way to proceed, Poratine interrupted as she trotted toward them, followed by Taforne and several of his troops. After Poratine informed them of the capture of "the Chlorite" ("John") and the human female who assisted him (Meena), Kristin, alongside Papillon, Beanpole, and Harry, at least, stepped forward and announced they had also helped John and should be arrested, too. After the X-Men joined suit, Poratine reminded them their world was imminent peril, but Xavier countered that they must not destroy the world to save it, and that the night's events demonstrated that things would get worse if they proceeded on this course. When Taforne argued that it had only demonstrated that the Sentinels were unreliable, Xavier strongly reminded him that the Diascar had been warned of the Sentinels' nature, history, and danger, but the Diascar had decided they were the right tool for achieving their goal; he showed them that his devastated, formerly placid estate was their will made manifest. Nonetheless, Poratine reiterated the threat of the Chlorites, but 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 could such a reality, and the Beast 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) - Xavier and the X-Men accompanied the Diascar leaders in releasing Meena from her confinement. When Poratine asked if she could directly scan a universe to confirm it was what she was looking for, John explained that she only had to imagine such a reality, after which she could then feel her way through the cosmic wavefunction for a signature that matches it. McCoy further explained that once Meena 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 stated 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 non-Chlorites 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, and he was confident the other Chlorites would feel the same.

    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, but could bring them in via coded messages. 

    Meena insisted John accompany her as she prepared to use her powers to this end, standing up and obtaining the compliance of the initially refusing Portatine. John donned his containment suit, and Xavier escorted him and Meena to a containment room where Poratine granted Meena's request for a moment alone. 

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

(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 transported 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 (whose containment suit was quite bulky).

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - Diascar botanists told Seden Karn that the deep red and brown leaves would fade to yellow-green in autumn. 

(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 McCoy felt they'd make the same findings. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - 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; John said he thought it was beautiful.  

    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 government covered up the Sentinels' actions at the Xavier Institute, and Gyrich countermanded the shutdown order for the Sentinel facility.

(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) - Poratine contacted Val Cooper, informing her they had installed fail-safes in all of their technology to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes - BTS) - As Gyrich plotted future use of the Diascar left behind quantum-level sensors, fullerene armor, nanomorphic servos, impenetrable force field generators, Val informed him of her communication with Poratine and told him they had about 10 minutes to evacuate the building.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - Inside Poratine's shuttle, parked on the Institute's rear lawn, Xavier and the X-Men watched with satisfaction as the Diascar's imaging sensors showed an overhead view of the Sentinel manufacturing facility burning to the ground. Poratine noted it was the least she could do, as they had brought new hope to the galaxy and spared the Diascar from every having to exterminate another world.

    Poratine noted her hopes that, in time, her people could find a new homeworld and return to their pastoral, open ways, although first they 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 extensive history, but stated that Xavier had taught her that it was worth the effort to tear down walls rather than build them.

Comments: Created by Christopher L. Bennett.

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

    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.

    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 Diascar have no known connections to

• other alien races, Centaur-like or not...

Bayrane

    Chief medical officer of the Diascar

    She is female and mahogany-furred

    When questioned whether Wolverine's cells could be adapted to fight Chlorine microbes, she countered that his immune cells were so aggressive toward foreign tissues that if they altered his cells to work outside his body, they could become as great a danger as the Chlorites.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies

Poratine

     Fleet leader of the Diascar

    She is female, tall and elegant with a rich green coat, and she strides with a commanding gait

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

    Poratine kept a relic from each world she visited to save it from Chlorites, whether she was successful or not.

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

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus (fb) - BTS) - A Diascar contingent -- presumably including Poratine -- 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 5: Extinction Agenda) - Taforne brought the X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Wolverine) before Poratine in time to watch the Diascar ship unleash a blast that left only a smoking crater where the former farm on which the Chlorites landed had been.

    Poratine then explained the Diascar's history with the Chlorites, which Jean shared with Professor X.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - Poratine and Taforne met Hank McCoy and the X-Men after McCoy had had a chance to examine the Chlorites, warning of the danger inherent in the Chlorites and the necessity of their zero-tolerance policies. 

    Xavier requested a visit with Rogue -- who had been contaminated by briefly absorbing Chlorite nature via contact -- and to arrange her release; Poratine agreed to the former, but release could not be done until Rogue was definitively confirmed to be clear of infection. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations (fb) - BTS) - Following a meeting with Rogue, Jean Grey arranged to get her some form of clothing and some reading material.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - After a day of interrogations, Taforne reported to Poratine that he had uncovered evidence of Chlorite infiltrators already amongst humanity, disguised as mutants. Poratine noted that it may not be too late, as Chlorite microbes could not apparently survive for long outside of their hosts on Earth; however, over time and given the rapid life cycles of microbes, within Chlorite hosts, it was almost inevitable that they would mutate and develop the ability to survive and replicate within the atmosphere. The only way to save Earth was to round up and remove all of the Chlorite infiltrators as swiftly as possible.  

    Jean argued that information voiced by the Chlorites could have been due to Taforne's leading and aggressive interrogations; but Poratine countered that they could not afford to take the risk. Val Cooper decided to share what she had learned with her government superiors, and Poratine advised Xavier and his allies -- who had been offered to depart by Cooper -- that this was just the beginning.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra (fb) - BTS) - Xavier convinced the Diascar to release Rogue.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra) - Alongside Val Cooper, the US secretary of defense, and the United Nations secretary-general, Poratine staged a joint press conference in which they spelled out the whole situation to the public, noting the Chlorites to be a dire alien menace that had infiltrated Earth's mutant population. Poratine spoke over footage depicting the 11 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. She urged haste in identifying and exposing Chlorite infiltrators. 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.

    Poratine concluded by warning humanity that if they did not do everything in their power to stop the Chlorite spread, their way of life would end.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 7: Ex Cathedra - BTS) - NSC agent Henry Peter Gyrich resolved to inform the Diascar of the mutant-tracking resource they had in the Sentinels.

(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. These upgrades also made them 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 (fb) - BTS) - Two days later, a pair of Diascar ships descended on the town of Alcala, Brazil. Having determined the town to be infested with Chlorite microbes, the Diascar encased the town in a force field with only 2-3 days of oxygen inside. 

(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. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure) - Striding the expanse around the dome, Poratine, for all her experience, was still mortified by the progressively painful demise of the Alcalanos. Nonetheless, she appreciated that the humans needed to graphically witness the fate of those exposed to the Chlorites.

    When the X-Men approached, somewhat resolved to the threat they faced, she confirmed that they had found nothing to do 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.

    Poratine 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) - Wolverine -- who was brought within the dome by Kitty to stop an energy-draining Alcalanos mutant from disabling the force field - located the Chlorite, and when it became clear he would reveal nothing, Poratine -- despite Taforne questioning whether Wolverine's healing powers might be sufficient to eliminate the Chlorite microbes -- ordered the incineration to proceed. 

    After Wolverine survived the destruction by ducking into the Chlorite's planned protective chamber, the Diascar released him 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 10: Exitus Acta Probat) - The X-Men were appalled at the use of the Sentinels, and Val Cooper and Poratine's efforts to convince them otherwise proved futile. The X-Men left, planning to deal with the Chlorites on their own from that point forward. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies (fb) - BTS) - Evaluating Earth culture, Poratine considered the lava lamp a potential relic to exemplify their world, in case she needed to destroy it.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 18: Exit Strategies) - Xavier met with Poratine in her office aboard the Endless Plain ship in hopes of negotiating the release of Quicksilver (who had been captured after attacking the Sentinels when they took no action to prevent a mutant's death), Poratine refused as long as Xavier could not guarantee Quicksilver would not interfere with the Sentinels again. Ultimately, Xavier convinced Poratine that their heavy-handed tactics increased opposition against them, and she agreed to discuss further diplomatic tactics with the UN. However, when he asked what was their exit strategy, meaning when would they leave Earth and would she help prevent Earth's government from continuing with the actions they were currently using, Poratine made it clear 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 what he had learned from Poratine 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.

    Xavier Institute students Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, Kristin Koenig, Mike Galbraith (aka Beanpole), and Sarah Allaire (aka Papillon) resolved to help get "John Chang" off of grounds and into another hiding place, and Rogue agreed to help them. However, this plan frightened student 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) - Henry Gyrich informed Poratine of the students' plot and the hidden Chlorite, leading her to coordinate a Diascar-Sentinel-Imperial Guard assault on the Xavier Institute.

(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 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) - 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) - Poratine trotted toward toward Xavier and Valerie Cooper, followed by Taforne and several of his troops. After Poratine informed them of the capture of "the Chlorite" ("John") and the human female who assisted him (Meena), she reminded the X-Men and students that their world was imminent peril; but Xavier countered that they must not destroy the world to save it, and that the night's events demonstrated that things would get worse if they proceeded on this course. 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. Xavier added that Meena could locate such a reality, and the Beast 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) - Xavier and the X-Men accompanied the Diascar leaders in releasing Meena from her confinement. When Poratine asked if she could directly scan a universe to confirm it was what she was looking for, John explained that she only had to imagine such a reality, after which she could then feel her way through the cosmic wavefunction for a signature that matches it. McCoy further explained that once Meena 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 stated 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. 

    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. 

    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, but could bring them in via coded messages. 

    Meena insisted John accompany her as she prepared to use her powers to this end, standing up and obtaining the compliance of the initially refusing Portatine. John donned his containment suit, and Xavier escorted him and Meena to a containment room where Poratine granted Meena's request for a moment alone. 

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

(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 transported 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) - The government covered up the Sentinels' actions at the Xavier Institute, and Gyrich countermanded the shutdown order for the Sentinel facility.

(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) - Poratine contacted Val Cooper, informing her they had installed fail-safes in all of their technology to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - Inside Poratine's shuttle, parked on the Institute's rear lawn, Xavier and the X-Men watched with satisfaction as the Diascar's imaging sensors showed an overhead view of the Sentinel manufacturing facility burning to the ground. Poratine noted it was the least she could do, as they had brought new hope to the galaxy and spared the Diascar from every having to exterminate another world.

    Poratine noted her hopes that, in time, her people could find a new homeworld and return to their pastoral, open ways, although first they 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 extensive history, but stated that Xavier had taught her that it was worth the effort to tear down walls rather than build them.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

Taforne

     The Defense Leader of the Endless Plain, he is also the largest and the biggest-horned

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - Taforne participated in the mission pursuing Chlorite refugees to Earth, joined by 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) - The Diascar ship pursued the Chlorite ship as it neared Earth. As the Chlorites' approach was sensed by Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, the Diascar ship shot the Chlorite ship, causing it to lose control and head towards Pennsylvania. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus - BTS) - The arriving Jean Grey and Professor X shielded the Chlorite ship with their own Blackbird, recognizing that the attackers' failure to use their more destructive weaponry indicated their lack of desire to cause indiscriminate harm.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 4: Exodus) - The other X-Men then arrived and assaulted the Diascar ship and used their X-Jet to further shield the refugees; the Diascar tractor beam was disabled, and the Blackbird again shielded the refugees. 

    Finally, a number of US military helicopters arrived, and National Security Council member Valerie Cooper arrived and ordered the X-Men to desist; the Diascar also stood down, as did the Imperial Guard. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 5: Extinction Agenda) - Taforne met the X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Wolverine) and then brought them before Poratine.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - Poratine and Taforne met with Hank McCoy and the X-Men after McCoy had had a chance to examine the Chlorites, warning of the danger inherent in the Chlorites and the necessity of their zero-tolerance policies. Taforne agreed that the Chlorites may be acting out of desperation, but explained that they would do anything to survive. Even if Earth was already too contaminated, they would need to quarantine it before the plague could spread further.

    Cooper allowed Taforne to join the NSC in interrogating the refugees, but also allowed Jean Grey to come along as an independent observer. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 6: Examinations) - 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. When Jean noted Buza's responses to be truthful, Taforne reminded her that she would only probe their minds so far so as not to avoid their privacy, but Jean assured him that honesty or deceit could be determined via a superficial scan.

    Taforne questioned Buza relentlessly about what he had heard about finding a planet, specifically if they had targeted Earth in hopes that they might be able to blend in amongst its mutants, mutates, etc. After Buza expressed his grief, rage at the loss of his family, and his desire to have a home, Taforne, unmoved, kicked at the partition with his forefoot, announced that this one was useless, and instructed the next prisoner to be brought in.

(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 subsequently reported to Poratine that he had uncovered evidence of Chlorite infiltrators already amongst humanity, disguised as mutants.

    Jean argued that information voiced by the Chlorites could have been due to Taforne's leading and aggressive interrogations.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial (fb) - BTS) - Taforne read of the history of Xavier and other humans of refusing to destroy threats that later returned to kill others; most notably of Reed Richards saving Galactus. 

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

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies) - When Wolverine's initial searches proved fruitless, he queried whether the Chlorite might have escaped, but Taforne confirmed that a Chlorite would have left a trail, of which there was not. When Taforne confirmed they had planned to incinerate the entire town, Wolverine reasoned the Chlorite must have burrowed underground, perhaps using a reed to breathe. Wolverine located the Chlorite, and when it became clear he would reveal nothing, Poratine -- despite Taforne questioning whether Wolverine's healing powers might be sufficient to eliminate the Chlorite microbes -- ordered the incineration to proceed. 

    Taforne offered condolences on Wolverine's apparent demise, and was astounded when Wolverine survived.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial) - When Madripoor refused to allow Sentinels into their nation, Sentinels and Imperial Guardsmen entered anyway. When Madripoor's troops attacked the Sentinels, Diascar ships, led by Taforne, entered their airspace and helped quickly take down the opposition. Meanwhile, some natives tried to comply and aid the investigation by gathering up obvious mutants (as well as some questionable mutants) and holding them at gunpoint. 

    After the Sentinels allowed a mutant to perish under gunfire as they captured two other mutants (as this met their primary goal of preventing mutant escape), Quicksilver turned against the Sentinels. Taforne initially refused to allow the Sentinels to re-categorize Quicksilver as hostile; but when the Sentinel noted this response to be insufficient as Quicksilver's actions were preventing its goals, Taforne agreed to capture without injury, partially for expediency. Quicksilver was subsequently captured by the Sentinels.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 19: Extracurricular - BTS) - Xavier Institute students Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, Kristin Koenig, Mike Galbraith (aka Beanpole), and Sarah Allaire (aka Papillon) resolved to help get "John Chang" off of grounds and into another hiding place, and Rogue agreed to help them. However, this plan frightened student 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 of the students' plot and the hidden Chlorite, leading her to coordinate a Diascar-Sentinel-Imperial Guard assault on the Xavier Institute.

(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) - While the X-Men battled the Sentinels, a Diascar ship arrived carrying Imperial Guardsmen. Rogue hurled Wolverine into the ship, and he tore in on impact via his extended claws, after which he did as much damage as possible to the interior; his damage to the engines caused the craft to spin out of control.

(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) - 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) - Taforne accompanied Poratine to inform Xavier, etc. of the capture of "John" and Meena.
    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. When Taforne scoffed at this, Xavier noted how Meena could find such a reality.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 22: Deus ex Meena) - Xavier and the X-Men accompanied the Diascar leaders in releasing Meena from her confinement. 

    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 non-Chlorites 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, and he was confident the other Chlorites would feel the same.

    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, but could bring them in via coded messages. 

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

(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 transported 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 (whose containment suit was quite bulky).

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes (fb) - BTS) - 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 McCoy felt they'd make the same findings. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 23: Exeunt Omnes) - 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; John said he thought it was beautiful.  

    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

mutants affected by the Chlorite search and restiction

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

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 8: Exclosure) - The next day, people within the field began dying as the chlorine levels reached toxic levels. A fish-scaled woman was incapacitated after diving into a hyper-chlorinated pond.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 9: Exequies) - A large, brown-skinned Portuguese-speaking energy absorbing mutant, driven to madness, passed out while absorbing energy field. He nearly drained the force field, but Kitty transported Wolverine inside, and he slew the Alcalanos mutant.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 16: Excelsior) - Jean Grey, the Imperial Guard's Smasher, and a trio of Sentinels brought in mutants (including a corrosive glob-firing mutant) at a protest rally in Manhattan, New York, which was attended by Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, and Rogue. The latter three, already registered(?), were allowed to depart, but protesters interfering with the mutant captures -- including the charismatic protest leader -- were arrested as well.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 13: Excavation ) - X-Men Nightcrawler and Banshee, plus Guardsman Nightside and the floating upper half of a Sentinel head investigated Morlock mutants in the London sewers (near Hyde Park). Ultimately Nightcrawler convinced the mutants Madcow, Nessie, and Spiny Norman to lead them to the rest of their group and allow them to confirm they were not Chlorites. 

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 14: Exposure (Northern)) - Investigating an assault on a military base north of Vancouver that included a non-human-looking being, Wolverine, Manta, and a pair of Sentinels, joined by Guardian (James Hudson) encountered Mutant Force members Burner, Lifter, Peeper, and Slither. 

(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 15: Execution (fb) - BTS) - Blaming mutants for bringing the aliens into their midst, Rioters in Surat broke into city hall and obtained the records of registered mutants. The rioters then tore the mutants from their homes, intending to slaughter them; in the process, they also captured any mutants (or anyone who looked like they could be mutants) already out on the streets.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 15: Execution - BTS) - Kitty Pryde saved a non-mutant man with a skin disease giving him a mottled appearance, phasing him through a wall and letting him escape. She was unable to stop the crowd from pouring gasoline over and then setting afire a blue-skinned mutant woman, who apparently perished. With the crowd unwilling to listen to reason, Storm generated a monsoon (aided by illusions of demonic rakshasas generated by Magique) that drove the rioters back into their homes. The heroes then brought the mutants to the local hospital for care.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 16: Excelsior - BTS) - Jean Grey, the Imperial Guard's Smasher, and a trio of Sentinels brought in mutants (including a corrosive glob-firing mutant) at a protest rally in Manhattan, New York, which was attended by Meena Bannerjee, Harry Mills, and Rogue. The latter three, already registered(?), were allowed to depart, but protesters interfering with the mutant captures -- including the charismatic protest leader -- were arrested as well.

(X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: Chapter 17: Extraterritorial - BTS) - When Madripoor refused to allow Sentinels into their nation, Sentinels and Imperial Guardsmen entered anyway. When Madripoor's troops attacked the Sentinels, Diascar ships, led bt Taforne, entered their airspace and helped quickly take down the opposition. Meanwhile, some natives tried to comply and aid the investigation by gathering up obvious mutants (as well as some questionable mutants) and holding them at gunpoint. 

    One of the mutants, begged his captor, Mr. Akayama, to free him (or her), reminding him how he or she had gotten Akayama "those girls." Akayama responded by striking the mutant with the butt of his weapon, causing the mutant to collapse, unconscious and heavily bleeding. Taking advantage of the distraction, another mutant released a burst of strobe lights, and it and others tried to flee. As Taforne instructed the Sentinels to detain the mutants, Akayama fired on the mutants, leading Quicksilver to rush to the mutant's rescue. Ultimately, the Sentinels allowed a mutant to perish under gunfire as they captured two other mutants, as this met their primary goal of preventing mutant escape. 

    When Quicksilver turned against the mutants, Taforne initially refused to allow the Sentinels to re-categorize Quicksilver as hostile; but when the Sentinel noted this response to be insufficient as Quicksilver's actions were preventing its goals, Taforne agreed to capture without injury, partially for expediency. Quicksilver was subsequently captured by the Sentinels.

--X-Men: Watchers on the Walls

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