Beast just sort of casually info-dumps that Krakoa eats two mutants per year to sustain itself. That's new to me...
Which two?
If I was Krakoa, I'd pick two that were competing with me for that sweet, sweet life-force, Selene and Emplate. Gank those two, and the line at the buffet is all Krakoa, no waiting!
I would *not* pick one of the ever-lasting gobstoppers of Wolverine, Daken, Laura, Sabertooth, Gabby, etc. If it don't die, but can go on being tasty *forever,* it can stay... forever.
On the other hand, I might pick two from among those who leave the island the most, and deny me their precious tastiness. Welcome back Captain Britain. And now you are never going to leave me again! Snarf!
Or perhaps those whose powers are most personally intrusive to me, personally, like Black Tom, Cypher, Mondo or Nature Girl, any of whom might be able to 'hack Krakoa' (or, conversely, be 'hacked' *by* Krakoa...)?
Or just Polaris, 'cause bitch shot me into space that one time...
And if I were the Richards family, and found out the mutant community attempting to recruit my son wants him in a place that has a non-zero chance of *eating him* to sustain their party island? Yeah. No.
I wonder if a mutant can *volunteer* to be one of the annual sacrifices? Icarus kind of hates being a mutant anyway, and might not want to be alive again. Rahne might not even think this current life is anything more than an amusing diversion, and that her actual soul is long gone to heaven, and just be putting on a brave face for her friends, since she knows *they* are happy she's alive (and she loves them and doesn't want to rain on their parade)...
I wonder how many mutants on the island even *know* about this? Just because the Beast knows about it, doesn't mean that everyone down to jobbers like Forearm and Gorgeous George do...
Random other thought; 'Make more mutants.' I wonder if those retrovirals are part of this plan, and, unbeknownst to most, anyone taking them is getting a cure for what ails them, as advertised, and a sneaky little X-gene spiced into their ACGT sequence somewhere. Maybe they won't personally turn into a mutant all at once, but their kids, who knows?