The Seattle Core is a fictional location found in Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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 Age of Apocalypse

Age of Apocalypse

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 storyline. The core was a slave camp ran for the sole purpose of generating electricity across North America. The Seattle Core was run by a four-armed mutant named the Sugar Man

Sugar Man

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. In the Age of Apocalypse storyline Colossus

Colossus (comics)

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 was charged by Magneto

Magneto (comics)

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 to break into the core with his students, named Generation Next

Generation Next

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, to find his sister Illyana Rasputin.