The Center of Xavier’s training program for mutants is the Danger Room, where the X-Men hone their athletics and combat skills. The original Danger Room was located on the first floor of Xavier’s mansion. Within the room, the X-Men would in effect run a hi-tech obstacle course, contending again anything and everything from metal tentacles to jets of flame to robots. Xavier’s relationship with Lilandra, ruler of the alien Shi’ar Empire, led to his creation of a radical new version of the Danger Room concept. The current Danger Room is located on the Sub-Basement Level Two of the mansion and employs Shi’ar technology. Through the use of solid holograms (images created with lasers), the Danger Room can now simulate any environment. Moreover, Shi’ar technology can create a whole range of formidable adversaries for the X-Men to test themselves against.
Danger Room Specs
-Dange Room Master Control: The Danger Room is always monitored during a session by an outside party. This is done through the Direct Viewport. Viewing is "one way" with highly directional active photon filtering (APF). APF functions by turning on a force field so that the incident wavefront is altered to follow the room programming.
-Shi'ar Fast Processing Computers: The basic Danger Room in/out system is maintained in the original Shi'ar fast processing computers, parts of which cover the entire inner surface of the Danger Room. Heating and cooling is all electronic.
-Mobile Laser Cluster Heads: Moved over the danger room's surface to facillitate the placement of gravity lenses and associated effects.
-Overlapping Gravity Fields: Solid surfaces with thoroughly realistic appearances are achieved with accurate surface texture modeling laid on polygonal surfaces of overlapping gravity fields.
-Projectiles: Composed of rapidly moving and tightly focused pressor beams (force fields). they can be made non-lethal by reducing the momentum signature - this awareness of being hit is maintained without the loss of life.
-Extensive Files and Modeling Programs: Allow for a great variety of realistic environment as well as atmospheric and dust effects.
-Progressive Wave Tractor/Pressor Beams: Allow for realistic exhaust/wind effects.
-Pinpoint Gravity Lenses: Projected pinpoint gravity lenses allow simple laser beams to be redirected as other light sources.
-Pressor Beam Acoustic Engines and Lensing: Allows for accurate noise level and frequencies.
-Targetting and Communications Antennae: Accurately modeled using gravity lensing, allows for direction-finding and ranging.
-Internal Library: The Danger Room can synthesize random danger elements from its internal library of weapons files, alien combat files, or random danger generator.
-Danger Room World View Model Library: Designed models of over 50 million objects and their attributes, included are: garbage cans (plus sub-elements), buildings, etc..
The Danger Room, in short, is dangerous. The higher the level, the more real the peril. Several X-Men have been injured while practicing in the Danger Room, although not seriously. It has continued to be a very important part of X-Men training throughout the years.
The Danger Room's Master Control
Inside the Master Control
