Warning: contains spoilers for Wolverine #9
The recent X-Men relaunch's premise hinges on the island of Krakoa. Seemingly a paradise, the island functions as a safe haven for all mutant kind. However, it might not be as safe as everyone had assumed. While on a mission to find a former teammate, Wolverine learns everything the X-Men have built on Krakoa is at risk. Keeping the mutants on the island safe is a complex job.
Uniting as one has made mutants more empowered than ever before, however, it’s also drawn a daunting target on their backs. The mutants’ society is growing along with their needs, and the need to secure the island has always been a priority. Powers of X #4 revealed the founding Krakoan Systems. Gate transit was to be monitored by Sage, with Black Tom Cassidy handling the observation of the island itself, and Beast in charge of the data analysis. The collective goal being to make sure there are only mutants on Krakoa. However, those defenses were subverted in X-Force #1, when Reavers avoided detection by using skin grafts stolen from Domino, airdropping onto the island, and assassinating mutants, including Charles Xavier. X-Force then being deployed as a black ops unit was reactive, not proactive. In order to stop humans from invading, mutants need to anticipate threats.
While trying to investigate a possible human-mutant international incident, Wolverine stumbled upon his old teammate Maverick, being auctioned as a mind-wiped weapon to the highest bidder. In Wolverine #9 by writer Benjamin Percy and artist Adam Kubert, the auctioneer specifically points to Maverick’s greatest value, being that he is a mutant, and therefore offers access to Krakoa. The idea of wiping a mutant’s mind and sending them through a gate, or to the nation by other means, to do harm, is a frightening concept if mutants are not prepared for it. And as a nation, Krakoa has been caught off guard repeatedly in its young history.
In addition to the Reavers murderous incursion, other groups have also posed security threats to the mutant nation. In X-Men #3, Hordeculture, a group of radical botanists, hacked into the flowers that create Krakoan gates and accessed them semi-freely. Homines Verendi is an anti-mutant offshoot of the Hellfire Club, and they arranged for Pyro to be injected with a miniature submarine containing the shrunken supervillain, Yellowjacket. Yellowjacket spied on behalf of Verendi until Emma Frost discovered the intruder in the pages of Marauders. Even Deadpool #6 saw King Deadpool use Jelby, one of his monster subjects with the mutant gene, to hitch a ride through a gate. As vigilant as mutants are, there are those that will stop at nothing to undermine them and dedicate endless attempts to penetrate Krakoa’s defenses. Wolverine learning that some seek to send brainwashed mutants to Krakoa is an important threat that must be addressed before it becomes a major issue.
Krakoa’s mutants are at a potential disadvantage given that precognitive mutants such as Destiny aren’t allowed. Charles Xavier, Magneto, and Moira McTaggart are trying to keep the secret that Moira’s resurrections have shown her the dream of the mutant society will fail. That worry comes closer to being realized every time the X-Men cannot stop a threat before it arises. A look at Genosha is all the reminder needed that mutant nations have fallen before.
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