Fictional character biography
Operation: Zero Tolerance
Bastion is introduced as Sebastion Gilberti, a mysterious man who had risen to power in a relatively short time in the U.S. Government and began assembling the international anti-mutant strike force Operation: Zero Tolerance (OZT). When the X-Men learn about the existence of OZT some months before the operation becomes public, Jean Grey and Gambit sneak into an OZT meeting being held at the Pentagon to learn more about the program and its leader Bastion, but do not come out with much information. [2]
When Professor X voluntarily turns himself in after the Onslaught event, Bastion confines Professor X in an OZT facility along with the artificially-created mutant Mannites, taking control of the Xavier Institute. It also allowed Bastion to gain possession of the Xavier Protocols, a list of files containing information on killing the X-Men. Bastion also succeeds in capturing Jubilee to take to the OZT base in New Mexico. [3]
As the OZT attempt to reconfigure the Sentinel force assembled by Project Wideawake, Bastion deems most of them outdated. Instead, Bastion develops a new type of Sentinel called the Prime Sentinels, who are humans transformed by nanotechnology. [4] After learning of the Prime Sentinels' nature, Robert Kelly and Henry Peter Gyrich convince the President to suspend Bastion's operations. Bastion is captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. with help from Iceman. [5]
Origin
While in government custody, more mysteries surrounding Bastion were discovered. Before a further investigation can be made, Bastion escapes custody and return to the home of his mother figure Rose Gilberti. After the authorities accidentally kill Rose, Bastion is enraged and returns to the former OZT facility. Bastion makes contact with the version of Master Mold that helped created the Prime Sentinels and drains the unit's energy, which transforms him into an entity resembling Nimrod. [6]
This transformation unblocks Bastion's memories, revealing that he had not been born human at all and instead was originally two separate beings: Master Mold and the futuristic Sentinel Nimrod, who were reborn in a single body after passing through the Siege Perilous and left with no memory of their previous lives. Bastion was eventually found by Rose, who took him in and taught him human kindness. [7] Bastion is returned to government custody, only to be killed by Apocalypse's Horseman of Death. [8]
Template
Bastion's remains are found by former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Mainspring, who studies and destroys Phalanx technology. Bastion integrates with one of the Gatekeeper's bodies and uses it to attack the techno-organic hero Warlock and his allies, being eventually defeated. Using the Transmode Virus, Mainspring rewrites Bastion's programming, transforming him into Template. The virus soon takes complete control of Template and forces him to construct a Babel Spire on Earth to signal the alien Technarchy. Mainspring destroys himself along with Template, while Warlock and Wolfsbane destroy the Babel Spire. [9]
X-Force
Following the events of Messiah Complex , the Purifiers attack a S.H.I.E.L.D. installation and recover Bastion's head. The Purifiers attach the head to the body of Nimrod, resurrecting him. Immediately after his activation, Bastion alerts the Purifiers to the presence of the new X-Force. After accessing Nimrod's database, Bastion concludes that the X-Men are the greatest mutant threat to the Purifiers' objectives and that there is no terrestrial force in existence that could guarantee the elimination of the X-Men. Bastion sends the Purifiers to retrieve Magus from the bottom of the ocean, believing that he can assist them in their cause. [10]
It was later revealed that what Bastion discovered was not the real Magus, but one of his offspring in a mindless state. [11] Bastion infects Donald Pierce and the Leper Queen, as well as the deceased Cameron Hodge, Steven Lang, Bolivar Trask, Graydon Creed, and William Stryker with the Transmode Virus, declaring them to be the future of humanity and the end of mutantkind. [12]
Second Coming
Bastion is the primary antagonist in the X-Men: Second Coming storyline. He is seen with Lang, Hodge, Trask, Stryker and Creed, stating that their forces are assembled and at his disposal. Bastion tells them that the Mutant Messiah has returned and gives them orders to kill. [13] Later, Bastion attempts to kill Hope Summers on his own, but he is confronted by Rogue and destroyed by Hope. [14]
X-Men Blue
Bastion is later revealed to have survived by transporting himself to the future, but was severely damaged by Hope's attack. Arriving when mutants were being faced with extinction due to the Terrigen Mist cloud, Bastion dedicates himself to protecting mutants, assembling, and reprogramming a wave of Sentinels. He eventually returns to the present and is confronted by the time-displaced X-Men, who learn that Bastion's actual goal is to preserve mutants until their population rises to a level where he can destroy them all himself. [15]
In the aftermath of the Secret Empire event, Bastion works with Miss Sinister, Emma Frost and Havok to use Mothervine, a drug that accelerates and activates mutation, on a global scale. [16] After Sebastian Shaw fails to kill Magneto to gain a role in the Mothervine plot, Bastion unleashes a wave of Prime Sentinels to release Mothervine under Havok's order. [17]
Thanks to Bastion's efforts, both humans and mutants experience accelerated mutations through exposure to the Mothervine. [18] A group of mutants, led by Polaris, infiltrate the Mothervine group's hideout, with Bastion detecting their presence and alerting the rest of the group. [19] Emma Frost, disillusioned by the Mothervine plot, frees Polaris and her team, who make their way to the inner circle's meeting room. Bastion is caught off-guard by the arrival of Xorn, who absorbs him into a wormhole and seemingly destroys them both. [20]
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