New Skopes: X-Men’s The Purifiers

And the skopes just keep on coming… looks like when your inspiration gets a hold of you it just doesn’t want to let go.

May I present to you one of the biggest threats in the X-Men universe.. The Purifiers!

The Purifiers are followers of Reverend William Stryker, a minister who believes that mutants are unnatural beasts spawned from Hell to test humankind. He kidnapped Professor Xavier and a few of his students and then held a rally inside of a sports stadium to make his agenda known to the public at large. He showed his true intensions to the crowd by trying to shoot Kitty Pryde and declaring the X-Men as monsters.  Stryker went sent to prison for his actions and the murders of all of the families and children they later discovered assassinated by his Purifiers. While his remaining followers disbanded and went into hiding  they kept his plan alive and eventually created a web page dedicated to the Reverend and his church until he was released from prison.

Stryker was eventually released and discovered the damaged remains of the futuristic Super-Sentinel called Nimrod within his old church. He contacted his Purifiers and they slowly managed to build an army using the knowledge of the future from Nimrod’s data banks to save people that would be suitable for his needs. He learned that an event called “M-Day” would occur which would erase the mutant gene from 99% of the Earth’s population and that moment would be the perfect time to strike. Over the course of a few days Stryker blows up a bus full of depowered students leaving the mansion and then has his best assassin, Matthew Risman, use his long range automatic rifle take out certain students that would be the first line of defense during an attack. Stryker himself lead the main invasion of Xavier’s Institute using a part he salvaged from Nimrod as a gauntlet to shut down all electronic and robotic defenses as well as blasting away at any mutant that got in his way. The mutant known as Elixir attacked Stryker after he entered the mansion and used his powers over organic material to kill him before he could aim the gauntlet at any of his teammates. The Purifiers were slowly defeated by the X-Men and the remaining student population but Risman and several others managed to evade capture and went to regroup and figure out how to move forward without their founder.

Risman took the role of leadership as the Purifiers replenished their ranks and then found through their spy network that S.H.I.E.L.D. had recovered the head of Bastion who was an alternate version of Nimrod from another reality. They invaded the base killing all agents in their way and retrieved the head then reattached it to the body of Nimrod which restored Bastion back to full functionality. Bastion quickly evaluated the situation and had a group of Purifiers retrieve a lifeless offspring from the body of Magus (the techno-organic father of New Mutant’s Warlock) and used it to restore several deceased anti-mutant leaders including Reverend Stryker himself back to life. The infected Stryker and Bastion have taken a fraction of Purifiers from the main group to engage in their own battle with The X-Men.

Risman, wanting nothing to do with Bastion’s plans, has taken the main group of Purifiers and assembled his own group of allies to help him complete the original plan. With help from Lady Deathstrike, Reverend Craig (father of Rahne Sinclair) and a group of scientists X-Force member Wolfsbane was lured away to be captured and reprogrammed so she would remove the wings of Warren Worthington (aka Angel) and bring them to their base lab. Using their technology they discover that the nanites Apocalypse used to enhance Warren are able to be transfered, which would allow them to artificially create an army of winged horsemen to lead the Purifiers into massacring the remaining mutants. Risman had his “Choir” of death angels, lead by his son Gabriel, attack Bastion’s base to get his attention and remind him that the original Purifiers still had a much bigger role in the future. However the arrival of Warren restored as The Angel Of Death and the other X-Force members sent both factions of the Purifiers scattering to avoid being wiped out in the carnage.

The arrival of the first mutant born after M-Day sent the Purifiers into a panic because Stryker had foretold in his writings that an Antichrist would arrive and allow the mutants a chance at stopping  their extinction. A branch of The Purifiers invaded the small Alaskan town where the baby was born and killed every child to insure that the newborn would never get the chance to fulfill her destiny. Cyclop’s son, Cable, managed to get there first and rescued the child and then was told by Professor X and Cyclops to flee into time until she was old enough to return and save mutantkind. The Purifiers have been preparing their armies for a war that will rock the foundations of the world upon her return.

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First of the skopes is… Purifier leader Matthew Risman (armed with Mini-Uzis and his trusty Long Range Auto Rifle)

Then a skope of a Purifier soldier with regular weapons (including a flamethrower, rocket launcher, shotgun, pistol, sniper rifle & machine guns)

Next is a Purifier soldier with energy weapons (large rifle and pistol) and a crossbow

And finally an enhanced Purifier from “The Choir” with living-metal wings

You can find these skopes available here:  http://drop.io/crimsonquill/asset/purifier-skopescq-zip

Now remember you need  to  use these..  Enjoy!