BIOGRAPHY page 2
Galactus had arrived in the Ultimate universe due to an incursion, an event that was causing the collision of the Earths of both the “616” and Ultimate universes. Eventually, both realities, along with the multiverse ceased to exist. The supervillain Dr. Doom managed to harness enough power to save some fragments of the multiverse and formed "Battleworld". Later, Reed Richards co-opted this power and was able to recreate the multiverse. [Secret Wars event]
When reality was remade, Nomi and some other mutants from her reality ended up on Earth 616. Very early on, they were found and targeted by the villainess Miss Sinister. Miss Sinister immediately saw the advantage in artificially-created mutants such as Nomi and conscripted them into her service as a strike force, as had her predecessor, Mr. Sinister. Miss Sinister made Nomi the field leader of the “New Marauders,” which included Armor, Quicksilver and Guardian. They did not appear to have access to their memories. Miss Sinister later claimed this was a byproduct of being disconnected from their home reality but she may have been lying. Their first known mission was the attempted retrieval of one of their own Jimmy Hudson, whose natural resistance to telepathy had allowed him to escape the thrall of Miss Sinister, after which he had fled into the wilderness in Colorado. The New Marauders managed to track Hudson down to a dive bar but he had already been found by the time-lost original X-Men.
A battle quickly erupted with Nomi using her magnetokinesis to secure her old sparring partner, Hudson due to his metal claws. With their errant member incapacitated, Nomi ordered a retreat but she was attacked telepathically by Jean Grey, who distracted her. Miss Sinister was on hand remotely to fight Grey but the momentary distraction caused Nomi to lose her grip on Hudson, who broke free, becoming berserk and he viciously attacked the teen. Seconds before he could kill Nomi, Hudson came to his senses and tried to flee the scene. Nomi attempted to gain control of the situation and ordered pursuit of Hudson only for Miss Sinister to command the group to stand down, deciding that the re-acquisition of Hudson was too much trouble at this juncture. [X-Men: Blue #4-5]
Miss Sinister's experimentations on the ultimate universe mutants were sometimes fatal, such as when it had cost the life of Quicksilver, bringing the New Marauders line up down from four to three. [X-Men: Blue #12] Miss Sinister had recently entered into an odd alliance with the prime sentinel Bastion, the Whitequeen (who had recently split from the X-Men) and an inverted Alexander Summers, intending to use the knowledge she had gained from the Ultimate universe X-Men to restart the mutant race artificially. Needing her own team to have greater firepower, she began recruitment of other mutants. She dispatched Nomi's team to the Mojave Desert to recruit the mutant pacifist Xorn.
Nomi tried to charm Xorn but, when that failed, she threatened to kill him. Xorn unsurprisingly did not take kindly to such threats and defended himself. During this skirmish, Nomi's recklessness was on display when she attempted to rupture her target's metal helmet, which contained the black hole that was held within his skull. The New Marauders were interrupted by two X-Men, Jimmy Hudson and Bloodstorm. Nomi still felt that she and Hudson had a score to settle. She stated he should have stayed with the group and that Miss Sinister had restored their memories. Bloodstorm used this opportunity when Nomi was distracted to summon a swarm of bats and she flew off with Hudson and the injured Xorn in tow [X-Men: Blue #23-24]
[Note: it was never determined if Nomi's claim that her memories were restored was legitimate. Given her history in her own reality, it is conceivable that, with her memories restored, she may have decided to remain in alignment with Miss Sinister.]
With Miss Sinister's mutation program, “Mothervine” in full swing, mutants and former mutants all over the globe were gaining prior or new abilities, though the mutations were proving unstable. Magneto in particular took issue with this scheme and was actively working against Miss Sinister. As such, she naturally dispatched her kill squad, the New Marauders, to his stronghold in Madripoor. Nomi was actually very excited to meet the master of magnetism and test her abilities against his. She even remarked what might have been, had they met under different terms, as there was a possible kinship given their similar powers. Nomi's excitement was quickly quelled when she was overwhelmed by the more experienced master of magnetism. While Magneto ultimately escaped, Nomi did manage to destroy his mechanical guardian, Ferris. [X-Men: Blue #25-27]
Nomi and the New Marauders returned to their mistress' base of operations after their failure to kill/apprehend Magneto. In the meantime, Miss Sinister had managed to secure Jimmy Hudson again and was torturing him as part of her Mothervine program. Seeing the boy being tormented was the final straw for Emma Frost and she revolted against her allies, taking mental control of Nomi and the New Marauders, sending them against their mistress. As Miss Sinister had been studying and experimenting on the New Marauders for months, she quickly incapacitated them and they fell to the ground, their fate being uncertain. [X-Men: Blue #28]
[Note: Several online sources have interpreted the scene in X-Men: Blue #28 as definitive confirmation that Nomi and all the other members of the New Marauders are dead. However, it is also possible to view this as a far more ambiguous scene, with the mutants merely incapacitated. Even if this particular version of Nomi did perish, another version may exist in the recreated Ultimate Universe timeline, depicted in Spider-Men II #5.]