“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Magneto said it loud and clear... "Man is not welcomed there". Yet, and quite ironically mutants reserve the right to plant gateways around the globe giving them absolute freedom to go anywhere on Earth they please anytime they want (I.e., Jerusalem for example) which is highly hypocritical.
So...
Xavier has always used Cerebro to download and back-up full copies of the memories, personality and 'soul' of every mutant on the planet. We know it's actually possible to 'download' and preserve minds in this way since we've seen Jean Grey do it for Xavier during Morrison's run, back when Cassandra Nova hijacked his body. OTOH she was only able to do it because she was Phoenix-powered and she was able to use the minds of every human being on the planet as temporary storage for her mind-sized data dump, and even then the scale of the task was melting her brain down for the entirety of the few minutes she was bringing him back together. For Cerebro to be able to store every mutant mind..... damn, that's going to need some major storage capacity. Given that the Mansion and Cerebro itself have been destroyed multiple times, where the hell did Xavier have his servers, and how huge must they be?
That aside, since every mutant mind got copied, including Xavier's own, my suspicion is that every back-up he stored prior to New X-Men must have included a full copy of the Cassandra Nova personality buried inside his psyche. At some point in time before HoX#1, the Cassandra personae broke free of the Xavier psyche stored within Cerebro, 'adjusted' every other mind stored in there to imprint devoted loyalty to 'Xavier', then when the chance came up (perhaps when Xavier was logging-in to update his own back-up, used the Cerebro helmet as a conduit to overwrite Xavier's mind and take over his body herself.
That's why 'Xavier' has been so creepy. That's why the Cerebro helmet stays on permanently (preventing any other mutant from accessing the power). That's why Xavier has been seen dressed as Cassandra and why, in certain unguarded moments of great glee, Xavier has been so 'fabulous'. It's not Charles who's in charge of this Krakoa experiment, it's Cassandra.
Q) But why would a woman who wants all mutants exterminated send the X-Men to destroy the Mother-Mold?
A) Did she? Or did she send a sacrificial team out to ensure that the Mother-Mold was activated - before - it had achieved maturity? Orchis, with its plan to develop 'ethically sound' Sentinels purely as a defensive measure, was a threat to Cassandra's long-term scheme and had to go. I'm sure that in the wake of this attack the voices of HAMMER, Hydra and more hardcore elements from SHIELD and AIM are coming to the fore. Plus the Mother-Mold certainly seemed pretty confident that its plunge into the Sun wasn't the end of its genocidal dream... I wonder where it downloaded itself to.
In addition, Mystique's uncharacteristic bafflement and lack of veteran smarts on board the Sol's Hammer looks to me like someone carrying out a powerful telepathic imperative followed by a mind-wipe. What was she planting on the Orchis base, and why? Maybe a Krakoa flower that human scientists could investigate and retro-engineer? All the better to sabotage Xavier's hopeful plan for a Mutant Nation.
Cassandra operating as Xavier would also explain why she's gathering all the mutants (including the villains) on Krakoa. One target for mass genocide instead of having to hunt the last few surviving mutants and eliminate them piecemeal. So much more elegant, this way.
And it would explain why Jean Grey seems to be rocking a pre-Phoenix, even pre-All New X-Men personae, complete with reversion to the Marvel Girl moniker. Cassandra has only given her limited and/edited memories, because having reviewed the occasions the original 'Cassandra Nova' was taken down, adult and authoritative Jean Grey was responsible for most of them.
Cassandra is turning Xavier's Dream for the X-Men into a xenophobic nightmare that humanity is going to have no choice but to stamp out. By the end of HoX/PoX we might have seen her succeed, in this version of reality anyway.
All that said, I'm still sure this is Life 10 and Moira is going to reboot this failed reality one last time in order to bring about the 616 Universe where her last ditch scheme is to let everyone do their thing without her advice while she concentrates on subverting the Sentinel AI programming to make them evolve into allies of mutantkind.
That would be too reminiscent of the Xornetto reveal.
I have already put forward the theory that Man in this case is very clearly a reference to Mankind. To read it as “any non-mutant ever under any circumstances” is to misrepresent what he said. To then build upon this flimsy platform theories about what is happening and what it all means is just a house of cards. We need to wait and see how this is expressed in the future.
I am happy to speculate but this argument is becoming more than that. It’s becoming a weird form of identity politics for a metaphor that has never been stable and always open to interpretation.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Somehow, I don't see any of those villains in restraints next issues, or being held accountable.
The terms of the Amnesty seems clear: as long as they respect the rules established on Krakoa they are free to live there, with anything prior that forgotten.
They didn't show up to be trialed or thrown in prison.
Now Creed committed murders while on a secret mission for Magneto & Xavier. We'll see if he'll be punished for what he did indeed. But given the FF know, like everyone on the planet it seems, that the Amnesty is applied to every mutants, including super-criminals, including the kind to have massacred thousands of people in the past, their lack of faith is both understandable and justified. It's like those lives lost didn't matter to Xavier and it's jarring.
Sentinels were in play back in ancient times when Selene and Apocalypse were doing all their killings? The THINGS you learn on this forum, that's astounding.
Oh yes, other countries have had bloody act of births, shameful in some cases even. Absolutely. And if this thread was about the founding of France, or the founding of the US, or what have you, I would hold the same pragmatic view as you put it toward them. But this thread and this comicbook is about the beginning of the nation of Krakoa, so I'm scrutinizing the nation of Krakoa.
Surprising, I know.
Also, the comparison you made is yours to make, but I'm not impressed by it just so you know.
Excellent piece of advice, I'm afraid I'm gonna stand by what I said previously though.
"The means are as important as the end - we have to do this right or not at all.
Anything less negates every belief we've ever had, every sacrifice we've ever made."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"No justice, no peace."
Personally I wonder if Hickman has been reading Régis Debray on Mediology. There is a lot of work being put into the various means of building a culture, and Debray (and many of the revolutionary left) used to talk about technological innovation being potentially part of cultural identity. He also believed we moved culturally through three stages from idols to icons to vision, arguing we were in a visionary stage. Which was of course compatible with his left wing revolutionary stance.
So in comic book terms we would have moved from god like superheroes to relatable but iconic heroes to visionary heroes. So maybe Krakoa is an example of a new visionary superheroic approach. Not just as a dream but as a reality.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The reveal that took place in the same run that introduced Cassandra Nova, mass Sentinel genocide on a mutant-run island nation and mutants proudly stepping forward with their own culture and celebrities, including one who seems to making a return in the DoX era?
Pastiche or homage?