BIOGRAPHY - Page 14
Kid Cable behaved hypocritically when he sent the O5 home, yet remained in the present himself. The time came when he realized the older Cable’s maturity and experience was needed for the 
battles to come, for Stryfe had begun making moves again. In the Age of Krakoa, Kid Cable worked with Hope and the Resurrection Five to return his older self to life. Together, they killed Stryfe (at least in this timeline), and Nathan sent his younger self back into the future to close the loop and continue living out Cable’s past as he remembered it. Barely missing a step, Cable reunited with Hope, stepped into his role as security director for S.W.O.R.D., and continued on with the life on Krakoa he remembered leaving behind decades previously. [Cable (4th series) #11-12]
Cable settled back into his role as S.W.O.R.D.’s security director, splitting time between the Keep and the Peak, over Arakko and Krakoa. During the Last Annihilation War, he gathered a team of X-Terminators with Cannonball, Wiz Kid and other allies to assist Rocket Raccoon’s plans for the Guardians. They infiltrated Breakworld to steal a planet-scale super-gun for use against the Dread Dormammu. [Cable: Reloaded #1] When Henry Gyrich and Orchis attempted to undermine 
Krakoa on the world- and galactic stage, however, Cable was left out of the loop for Brand’s counter-strategy. She employed Wiz-Kid as a triple agent to “betray” Cable and send the Keep crashing to Earth, trusting Nathan and Eden Fesi to solve the problem while she and Taki infiltrated the Alpha Flight station to deal with Gyrich. They did, but Cable exerted his telekinesis on the station so much that the T-O virus in his system started becoming a problem again. And Cable had his suspicions that weakening him may have been one of Brand’s goals all along. [S.W.O.R.D. (2nd series) #9-11]
Brand continued making moves on Arakko-occupied Mars, using the Diplomatic Ring at Port Prometheus as an excuse for S.W.O.R.D.’s involvement with Arakko society. Storm now sat on the Great Ring of Arakko, and Brand wanted her to lead an “X-Men Red” team of heroes to further influence Arakko. When Storm refused and founded her own Brotherhood of Arakko, Brand tapped Cable to lead X-Men Red instead, joined by Manifold, Frenzy, Random, Mentallo and Nate’s crazy uncle, Vulcan. X-Men Red was a political blunder by Brand, as the people of Arakko considered it an insult for outsiders to fight their battles for them. When the Progenitors attacked the Morrowlands, Cable’s X-Men failed to impress the people. A Progenitor consumed Cable’s techno-organic load and killed him shortly before Storm arrived with her Brotherhood. By declaring a “Challenge to All,” the Brotherhood worked with the Arakkoans instead of “defending” them, a victory of both strategy and public relations for the Brotherhood.
Nathan Dayspring was no fool, and he knew Brand was not to be trusted. Even while he worked within S.W.O.R.D. and the X-Men Red, he began making countermoves to Brand. While they were publicly at odds, Cable secretly forged an alliance with the recently returned X-Man John Proudstar. Manifold openly defied Brand and left S.W.O.R.D. because of his suspicions. When Cable woke up in Arbor Magna after the Progenitors fight, Thunderbird and Manifold met with him to discuss how to discreetly investigate Commander Brand and her intentions. [X-Men: Red (2nd series) #1-3]
The Eternals War struck Krakoa and Arakko alike. Cable and Commander Brand were updating the Great Ring of Arakko when the omnicidal despot Uranos attacked the planet. They were both killed in the initial wave and Cable was soon resurrected on Krakoa. He lent his support to the battles with Eternals and the Celestial that followed, but he also multi-tasked and used this opportunity to gather some of Brand’s secrets. S.W.O.R.D. Station Two was quantum entangled with Station One upon its creation. With Wiz Kid’s help, Cable was able to view Brand’s private files when she accessed them from the other station, catching up on her own activities since her last Cerebro backup. Nate and Taki learned Brand was working with Orchis against Krakoa and deliberately arranged for the Progenitor attack, among other nefarious dealings. [X-Men: Red (2nd series) #5-7]
Cable, Wiz Kid, Manifold and Thunderbird were joined by the Arakko sisters Weaponless Zsen and Khora of the Burning Heart as they investigated Brand. They determined the Progenitors were acquired through an arms dealer from the Galactic Rim called Orbis Stellaris, who wanted the sample of Cable’s techno-organic virus as part of his payment. That virus sample allowed Manifold to home in on the Progenitor Worldfarm on the Rim, bringing Cable’s team to Orbis’ 
laboratory. During a fight with Orbis Stellaris and his piloted Progenitors, Nathan reabsorbed the techno-organic viral load from the lab to augment his abilities. Cable’s group defeated their foes at the Worldfarm, left Orbis inert and took revenge for the attack on the Morrowlands. Brand’s plans fell apart back on Arakko and she was forced to flee as a war criminal from both Arakko and the Shi’ar Empire. [X-Men: Red (2nd series) #8-10]
Wiz Kid assumed the role of station commander while Cable remained comfortable in his position as security director. Nathan kept busy with field work mostly, although he did return to Earth when Hope needed his help on a mission. [X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #61] Sadly, he also returned when Hope was murdered by Mister Sinister in an attempted coup of the Quiet Council. Mercifully, Synch was able to take Hope’s place as a surrogate member of the Five, and Nathan’s daughter soon lived again. Still, a chain reaction of consequences for Krakoa was set in motion in part because of Hope’s temporary loss. [Immortal X-Men #9-10]
Before the next Hellfire Gala, Orchis managed to ambush and capture Cable. As a result, he was off the board when Nimrod assaulted the Gala and killed many of the X-Men, including 
Cannonball and Jean Grey. The majority of mutant citizens were forced through the gates to an uncertain destination, with Hope and the Five among the missing and presumed dead. Cable was physically and psychically tortured by Orchis in an effort to extract his knowledge of the future for their benefit. Nathan maintained mental disciple, thanks to the Askani teachings in his head, and was already preparing an escape when Bishop (of all people) arranged his early release.
The S.W.O.R.D. security director and the Captain Commander of Krakoa found themselves uneasy but necessary allies. Mutants were blamed for a massacre at the Gala and actively hunted in the streets by Orchis. The most imminent threat, however, came from the Children of Tomorrow, fresh from the Vault and preparing to conquer a mutant-less Earth disguised as heroes. They unleashed a semiotic virus into the population, an aggressively infectious idea compelling 
humanity to “Become the Future” on the Children’s terms. Cable and Bishop infiltrated the City, which acted as a central hub for the Children. Once there, Cable infected it with a hyper-evolved super-strain of the techno-organic virus he had picked up while visiting a possible future, and Bishop rigged oblivion bombs to their Nursery and genetics library. Faced with utter annihilation, the Children accepted Cable’s terms to disarm and return to the Vault, permanently. [Children of the Vault #1-4]
Cable discovered his younger self had returned to the past and was also detained by Orchis, held at the Gyrich Re-Education Center on Randall’s Island. Nate made a commando raid to rescue Kid Cable and ordered Belle to extract as much data from their computers as possible during the escape. The younger Nate was ready to jump into mix for the mutant resistance to Orchis, but the 
elder Nathan spotted something in Belle’s download that needed addressing. The Neocracy was a possible future Cable had seen dozens of times in his travels, one where all diversity was eliminated by Homo unitus evolving humanity into completely equal (but generic) energy beings. Orchis’s data dump showed signs that the Neocracy was beginning now, and Cable felt their efforts were needed to stop it before it even started.
Irene Merryweather owed Nathan a few favors since he bent space and time in order to bring her back to life after Deadpool killed her. She helped Cable and Kid Cable trace the viral marketing campaign that announced the Neocracy to a corporation called Parvenu Industries. They 
employed or exploited a diverse group of contributors, including Grey Gargoyle, Empyrean and the Black Womb (plus data from Orchis’s examination of the Cables’ T-O virus) to achieve Homo unitus decades earlier than Cable had seen in other timelines. Hard choices were made along the way in this mission to which Cable was thoroughly calloused but which Kid Cable struggled to accept.
Nathan didn’t realize how divergent his outlook was from his younger counterpart until they spoke with Henri Parvenu himself, the well-meaning narcissist behind the Neocracy revolution. Kid Cable was optimistic enough to give Parvenu a chance and shot his older self in the head to get him out of the way. Parvenu worked with Nate to use the transmode virus and complete the transitional evolution from matter into energy. However, when he used his new power to reach out to every mind on Earth and invite them into Homo unitus, Parvenu found they were too afraid of change to accept his gift. By trying to force the change upon them mentally without the benefit of T-O virus, Parvenu over-extended himself and dispersed entirely.
Cable and Kid Cable had an awkward reunion after the Neocracy case ran its course. Nathan 
admitted he had failed to give Nate a reason to trust his viewpoint of the timeline, and at that age he had never wanted to grow up and be as jaded and cynical as he is now. They discussed the finer points of time travel and divergent realities to decide if Kid Cable still had a choice of not turning into Cable when he grew older. The question was left open-ended, for the only fate is what we make. In the meanwhile, Orchis needed a few people to shoot at them a bunch of times. [Cable (5th series) #1-4]
The Neocracy were a genuine threat in many realities, but perhaps Nathan Dayspring wanted a reason not to be more directly involved in the climax of the war with Orchis. The renegade A.I. members of Orchis drew the attention of a Dominion intelligence outside of space and time called Enigma, the remnants of the original Nathaniel Essex given god-like power. To confront Enigma, Jean Grey would be brought back to life in the White Hot Room as the cosmic avatar of the Phoenix Force, now and forever. The timeless nature of the White Hot Room meant that this would be the first spark that ignited the Phoenix and gave birth to its cycle of fire. And to complete that cycle was the sacrifice of the Phoenix’s own child, Hope Summers. It was Jean and the 
Phoenix who quickened the life of a child within Louise Spaulding to counter Enigma, ensuring Hope would be born to restore power to the Decimated mutants and give life to the Phoenix in an endless flow of birth and rebirth. Cable knew some, or all, of this already, but being there might have compelled him to stop what was to come. Instead, he bodyslid in at the last moment before Hope passed back into the White Hot Room forever, to give a salute to his daughter and fellow soldier before her last mission. [X-Men: Forever (3rd series) #3-4]