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The White Queen: Emma was born to a wealthy Boston family and raised in a life of privilege. When her mutant ability of telepathy surfaced, she used it as well as her natural intelligence to rise through college and the business world. Emma secured a majority share in an electronics, ship building and aircraft manufacturing company at a very young age and took on the role of chair and CEO, renaming the company Frost Enterprises - but her personal acquisitive streak was not yet satisfied. The world of business offered all sorts of rewards, but it didn't convince Emma that she would really be leaving her mark on the world, so she took an interest in a private school, the Massachusetts Academy in Snow Valley, MA, where she eventually finagled her way into the role of headmistress. She used the Academy to shape the next generation of power players, including the next generation of mutants. After a collaboration with Sebastian Shaw and his company to pitch the initial Sentinel project to the US government, the project was shifted to a more anti-mutant stance without Emma's knowledge and subsequently declined by the government. When Emma withdrew her company's funding, a vengeful employee named Donald Pierce took a prototype Sentinel and unleashed it on the Academy, killing most of the students, with Haroun al-Rashid and Emma being the only survivors. Emma was brought to the school after her secondary mutation emerged, the ability to transform her body into an impenetrable diamond shell. When she recovered, she became a staff member at the school, as well as resuming control of her business and her role as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. While at Xavier's, Emma acted as a mentor to a number of students, including Sarah Morlocke, Jonothon Starsmore, and Manuel de la Rocha. Emma chose to leave Xavier's school in 2004, to focus more on her business ventures. While maintaining her role with the Hellfire Club, she was a part of Pete Wisdom's scheme to bring down the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club by posing as the White King. Since the fall of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, Emma has faded into the background to focus more on her business activities, while quietly funding X-Force from the shadows.