Now known primarily as the fallen mutant homeland, the island nation of Genosha was originally something very different. The Genoshan government built a technologically-advanced society on the backs of mutant laborers, legally considered the proprietary genetic property of the State. Most were reengineered into a pliable slave class called Mutates, but Pipeline and his colleagues in the Press Gang were loyalists and collaborators. His unique form of digital teleportation was the signature deployment method for the Genoshan Magistrates during illegal missions abroad. After civil war between Magistrates and Mutates consumed the nation, Pipeline was the first to see the light when he learned the Mutate process was invented by not only a mutant, but a foreigner. He joined his former foes in the resistance to try and return some semblance of peace to Genosha...even if it was under Magneto's thumb.

In Marvel’s X-Men: The Hidden Years, a series created by John Byrne and intended as a continuation of the original 1960s X-Men, the sliding time scale presents a unique challenge to continuity. Now set topically in the 1990s but visually in the 1960s, the series introduces a young mutant with potential that was said to mirror Jean Grey and a power that should terrify the Sentinels. She would have come in handy during the Krakoan age, just saying. Read here about Ashley Martin.