Release Date: Sept. 2005

"What Lies Beneath"

Writer: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Pencils: Georges Jeanty
Inks: Trevor Scott
Colours: Carrie Strachan
Letters: Phil Balsman
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Alex Sinclair
Cover by Neil Googe


Solicitation:
Featuring guest art by Georges Jeanty (Gambit) and an appearance by Zealot! Majestic sets out to discover the secrets of the hidden Kherubim technology lacing the planet's crust. But someone isn't happy about that, and Majestic is targeted for execution.


SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT
Synopsis:
The issue opens with Desmond discussing corporate matters with his advisers in the wake of the attack by the Atlas robot. After the meeting, Desmond goes to his private office to spy on Majestic’s current activities at Rushmore. Majestic determines that the Atlas robot he fought was actually an older model than the ones he was familiar with in his youth. He then reveals to Desmond that he’s aware of the secret surveillance before demanding that it stop. He then asks Desmond to meet him in the Amazon basin to attempt to track down the Atlas’s command signal, which ordered it to attack Quickthink.

Once in the city of Punto Hejada while tracing the command signal, Majestic is attacked by a pair of Coda warriors. Easily beating them and killing one, he tries to question the survivor, but she triggers a suicide glands that prevents Majestic from learning anything. Desmond arrives shortly after surprised to see the two dead ‘hotties’. Zealot then greets the duo and reveals that the two warriors were not Coda and that she’s in Punto Hejada also seeking the cause of the Atlas robot attack. She also reveals that the warriors who attempted to kill Majestic were members of the Skein, a radical sect of the Coda.

Meanwhile, Desmond picks up the command signal from the Atlas robot and the trio heads for the source. They arrive at a very deep abyss in the jungle and explore further. Finding ancient embedded Kherubim technology, they are met by James Wyvern, a rival entrepreneur of Desmond’s, flanked by men armed with high-yield plasma rifles. He plans to claim the large cache of ancient Kherubim technology for his own.


Notes:

• This issue is collected in the Majestic Vol. 2: Meanwhile, Back on Earth... trade.

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