New X-Men needs heroes! - Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
The Story So Far
The X-Men had seen better days. For a time, the Children of the Atom were building a free mutant nation of Utopia. Then the Phoenix returned to Earth and left mutantkind in tatters. Wolverine attempted to salvage Xavier's Dream by opening the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Meanwhile, Cyclops formed the New Charles Xavier School to promote a more militant vision of how to save mutantkind.
Eventually, the two factions set aside their differences when the Terrigen Mists threatened to destroy mutants on a planetary scale. The X-Men brought the fight to the Inhumans in order to survive, and both sides suffered terrible casualties. This conflict was ended abruptly when the Apocalypse Twins manipulated the Scarlet Witch into an en masse relocation of mutantkind into another universe dubbed Planet X. The vast majority of Earth's mutants were shunted to Planet X, though the process was stopped when the Avengers killed Wanda Maximoff.
There are fewer than 100 mutants worldwide. The heroes of our story are among the world's remaining mutants, and they were inspired by the X-Men to safeguard what's left of mutantkind.