Pegasus

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Pegasus

Date	Summer 2008
Team Lead	Scott Summers
Team	Jean Grey, Jubilation Lee, Rogue, Magneto, Zenith
Location(s)	Outer Space
Casualties	Jubilation Lee
Link	unknown
GM	unknown

The Pegasus mission takes its name from the ship which carried a team of mutants into space in order to destroy an asteroid bound for earth.

The asteroid, designated 24021-Loki, hurtled toward the Earth on a collision course; using their combined mutant powers and technology courtesy of Stark Industries, the team successfully diverted the course of the asteroid fragments and prevented them from destroying civilization as we know it. This mission is what outed the X-Men to the world and obtained a full pardon for Magneto's past crimes.

Events

Pegasus I launches to attempt to use a nuclear warhead to deflect the asteroid from its collision course with the Earth in June of 2008. Link
The mission fails; the asteroid begins to fragment. The Earth begins to be peppered with space debris from the oncoming asteroid fragments. The world reels in the throes of its certain doom. Link, Link, Link
Armed with Stark Industries repulsor technology, the Pegasus II launches.
While in space, Magneto, Jean Grey, Zenith, Marie D'Ancanto, and Jubilation Lee used a combination of their mutations and Stark Industries technology to deflect each individual asteroid fragment large enough to be dangerous to the planet.
Jubilation Lee was lost to the rupture of her spacesuit in the process of handling a large asteroid fragment (link).
The team returned home to the thunderous applause of a grateful nation and a grateful world.