Sentinel

__**Sentinels **__



Sentinels are a variety of mutant-hunting robots. Sentinels are programmed to locate mutants and capture or kill them. Though several types of Sentinels have existed, the typical Sentinel is three stories tall, capable of flight, projects energy blasts, and can detect mutants.


 * History **

Sentinels were first created by Dr. Bolivar Trask, who intended to use them to save humanity from what he saw as a threat to the species' existence in the form of mutants. In a television debate between Trask and Professor Charles Xavier, Trask revealed and then activated the Sentinels. The Sentinels then promptly decided that the best way to protect humanity was to rule it themselves. The Sentinels kidnapped Xavier and brought him and Trask to the primary Sentinel, Master Mold. Xavier's students, the X-Men, found them. When Trask realized the error in his ways and that not all mutants were a threat to the world at large, he aided the X-Men by sabotaging the machinery in the Sentinel base. This destroyed Master Mold and the Sentinels in the explosion, but Bolivar died in the process. However, numerous Sentinels and several Master Molds were built after the destruction of the original models.


 * School’s Out **

A Sentinel attacked the Danbury Fair Mall in Connecticut forcing the remaining seniors at Xavier’s School to defend a captured mutant by the name of Rafael “Rafé” Lopez. It is later revealed that this Sentinel had attacked the X-Mansion in the past and had been rebuilt by members of The Travelers (Dane and Lucius). They sent it against the mall to motivate the seniors into becoming a superhero team.


 * Welcome to Paradise **

A future sentinel called “The Monitor” attacked the school with two older model sentinels under its control. The Monitor sought to capture one of the students (Dagan Lightfoot). The eXalts are able to destroy one sentinel and drive off the Monitor and the other sentinel. The destroyed sentinel is later rebuilt by Dane’s technology class, but it is stolen by Cassandra Nova and destroyed for good.

The Monitor later ambushes Dagan when she runs away from Academy X and nearly kills her.


 * Hotel California **

A backup model of The Monitor is captured at The Monitor’s base at Alcatraz Island. Lucius is able to locate files about future versions of several Academy X teachers. The Monitor later activates nanites that target Dagan’s internal organs in order to kill her. The source of the nanites is tracked by Magneto to a military base near the school. There The Monitor activates several Omega Prime Sentinels. After a vicious battle, the sentinels, including The Monitor, are destroyed. Lucius uses the time circuitry on the backup model of The Monitor to send Dagan back to her time.


 * Children’s Crusade **

Mark VIII Sentinels under the control of H.A.M.M.E.R. are sent to Academy X and Academy M to “protect” them from the Purifiers. The sentinels lock down the schools and do not allow anyone in or out without authorization. A group of students at Academy X take over the sentinel at their school and use it to attack the sentinel at Academy M. Both sentinels are destroyed.

__**Powers **__

Sentinels are technologically advanced and have exhibited a wide variety of abilities. Most are armed with energy weapons and restraining devices. Most are capable of flight and can detect mutants at long range. They possess vast physical strength and their bodies are highly resistant to damage. Some are able to alter their physical forms or re-assemble and reactivate themselves after they have been destroyed.

Some Sentinel variants have the ability to learn from their experiences, developing their defenses during an engagement. Several groups of the robots have been created or led by a single, massive Sentinel, called Master Mold.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Generations **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark I and Master Mold//: Created by Bolivar Trask.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark II//: Created by Larry Trask. This model was capable of adapting to and counter-acting super-powers almost instantly.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Composite//: Created by merging the remaining portions of five Sentinels destroyed by the X-Men and came under control of Ashley Martin. It was destroyed by her when it rebelled against her.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark III//: Created by Stephen Lang and Project: Armageddon. Mark III Sentinels were secretly funded by Edward Buckman and the Council of the Chosen.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//X-Sentinels//: Created by Stephen Lang. X-Sentinels were androids that were duplicates of the original X-Men.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark IV//: Created by Sebastian Shaw.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark V//: Created by Sebastian Shaw for U.S. government's Project Wideawake.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark VI//: Created by Shaw Industries for Project: Wideawake, then used by Onslaught. This model also incorporated parts of Project Nimrod.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark VII//: Created by Shaw Industries. The Mark VII were experimental and remotely controlled.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Nimrod (later Bastion)//: Nimrod was a prototype Super Sentinel that arrived from a future timeline and was later reactivated by Reverend William Stryker.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Project Nimrod//: Created as an experimental sentinel by an offshoot of Project: Wideawake. It was cancelled after X-Force interfered. It was based on the Nimrod Sentinel.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Prime Sentinels//: Created by Bastion and Operation: Zero Tolerance. Prime Sentinels were handicapped humans equipped with nanotechnology without their knowledge at the Prospero Clinic. They were used as sleeper agents until activated by an attack or the presence of a mutant.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Omega Prime Sentinels//: The second generation of Prime Sentinels.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Wild Sentinels//: Built in secret by a new Master Mold in Ecuador, activated by Donald Trask III and used by Cassandra Nova. New units are produced based on the currently available resources; salvaged parts, weapons and sometimes even entire vehicles. The Mega-Sentinels used to destroy Genosha belong to this kind of Sentinel.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mark VIII//: Unlike other Sentinels, the Mark VIII requires a human pilot. These Sentinels were used by Norman Osborne under control of H.A.M.M.E.R.