Who are the Externals?
Red: They’re also dead, but at least they’re a bunch of tried-and-true X-Force villains. They are also functionally immortal, but some things can kill them for good, like being beheaded or having the Legacy Virus. And a few other things, but they were capable of living for a very long time. Anyway, the only ones of them that are left are Selene, Candra, Apocalypse, and Cannonball, who Selene has hinted is not an X-Ternal. But until that gets proven, he’s still one of them as far as I’m concerned. Anyway, their involvement with X-Force goes a long way back. Gideon took Sunspot under his wing after killing the lad’s father. He and Saul once kidnapped Tabitha, James, and Terry to hold for ransom until Cannonball came to join them. But of course that didn’t work, in fact X-Force blew a big hole in the side of Gideon’s pad getting them back. Well, one day when Sammy and Tab are on vacation at Sam’s family’s farm, Gideon, Saul, and Absalom come along and try to convince him peacefully to com
