Bolivar Trask

Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist, who saw the rise of mutants as a threat to Humanity. Bolivar was a father, his son Lawrence 'Larry' Trask, who ironically was revealed to be a mutant precognitive, Bolivar on realising this took steps to hide his genetic quirk by creating a device that 'cloaked' his genetic signature, hidden inside an Amulet that he placed around his son's neck, pledging him Never to remove it. Bolivar Also had a 'gifted' daughter, Tanya, whose ability was to travel through time, unfortunately, her control was sporadically erratic,and was lost on the temporal tides of the timestream. Tanya would be rescued by Rachel Summers in the distant future, and she became a part of the Askani under the alias Madame Sanctity. Tanya's travels through time would result in damage to Trask's property. This mysterious situation would only further cement his fearful attitude.

Bolivar decided that Humanity must take a stand against the mutants and developed a robotic solution, guardians for Humanity, that He named the Sentinels. His son Larry was 'invisible', undetected by the Sentinels' scanning devices, due to the medallion Bolivar had given him. Bolivar published articles on the threat of Mutants. One of these articles showed an illustration of Mutant overlords keeping humans as slaves. This illustration would become a symbol for human/mutant relations and several years later Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang would base their appearance on this picture.

Professor Charles Xavier invited Trask for a public debate on human/mutant relations(at the downtown television studios. Xavier's arguments that mutants were just like humans and not evil did not convince Trask (who decides to unveil his creations to the world. Trask and his scientists (when building the Sentinels' cybernetic brain), had apparently created an adaptive, open-ended tactical/strategic A.I. Cybernetics and Robotics were not his field, and was horrified when his creations rebelled and turned Against Him, claiming that they were superior to Humans. The Sentinels left the studios with Trask, returning to their 'fortress' on the orders of his first creation, the Master Mold, who orders him to construct more Sentinels.