Avalon (Greymalkin) (Earth-616)

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Avalon

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Official Name

Avalon

Aliases

Greymalkin

Locale

Earth Orbit

First appearance

Unknown

History

Avalon was a space station inhabited by the Acolytes, a cult devoted to Magneto and his views on human-mutant relations.

Avalon was originally named Graymalkin, and was the property of Cable. An interesting part of Graymalkin's construction was its Professor. Graymalkin faked its destruction when S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to take it over, dumping parts in the ocean and in X-force's base, but the remaining parts, including its core remained, now using cloaking to hide itself.

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

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

Avalon's destruction by Holocaust.

Avalon was destroyed by a battle between Holocaust and Exodus. Exodus tried to gather the pieces of Avalon to rebuilt it shortly afterwards, but halted his plans when Joseph turned up, thinking that Joseph was Magneto. Pieces of Avalon and Graymalkin were later gathered by Cable to built the island of Providence, his current base of operations.

Notes

While in use, Avalon contained teleportation systems, quarters for each Acolyte, and a "throne room" for Magneto, and later, Exodus.
Originally, Avalon also held the sentient program known as the Professor (formerly Ship, later Prosh). However, Cable successfully raided Avalon and was able to download the Professor into his systems.

Trivia

Avalon is shown and is a level on the SNES Game X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and on the Sega Genesis game X-Men 2: Clone Wars. In Magneto's ending in Marvel Super Heroes, he uses the Infinity Gauntlet to create a new Avalon, an entire moon to serve as a homeworld for Mutantkind.

In the video game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, which is loosely based on the Age of Apocalypse storyline, Avalon is Magneto's base in the Savage Land. The X-Men and Brotherhood use Avalon as their headquarters during their stay in the Savage Land.

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