I wonder if Synch will be able to extend the powers of others to the team, that could be extremely valuable when on a mission he can synch them up and utilize laura healing factor. This is actually a really powerful team. You have a power copier and a power absorber.
And this may have been posted already but it looks like this team is going into the vault to take it down.
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I really thought there was going to be someone from Arrako on this team.
Was the "a member from each habitat" just forgotten by the X-office, or a headcanon of the board?
LOL - I had the same thought, this was a well represented team save for an LGBTQ character. Iceman is a good choice because of his friendship with Rogue but also makes fun counterpoint to Sunfire, though I don't think they're ready to remove two main Marauder members just yet (plus with Jean, Scott and Lorna already on the team, I don't think they want to lean too heavily into the legacy aspect of the X-team).
I'm curious to see what Hickman will be working on but given his groundwork in HOX/POX, it would make sense for it to deal with space exploration or further development of the posthumans/Nimrods. Space seems an odd place for Ororo (given her natural connection to the earth), but we've already seen the promos for Reign of X have Storm holding the cosmic crystal retrieved in S.W.O.R.D. #1 (and Xandra professing a favor to Storm at the end of X-Men #17). With Cyclops' team keen on being Earth's heroes, I would love to see Storm lead her own team in space. We have Cannonball (and seemingly Sunspot now) settled in Shi'ar space, and Hickman orchestrated Vulcan's return (not to mention the X-office editors would have had to review and approve Adam-X's tale in X-Men Legends). All potential players.
Yeah, I can see the space team with something like Storm, Old Cable, Cannonball, Sunspot...
Well they still can handle the avengers jean alone can solo easily, and synch and rouge are more than a match for the team. The problem is lorna and sunfire though powerful will need some help and cyclops and wolverine well they can't. But overall this is an op team without jean. The omega just makes it over kill. Extinction had like three omegas at once along with the world's most powerful telepath at the time, king of atlantis, limbo's ruler, colossus, danger, it was over kill.
SWORD is more like "Protecting the Earth from enemies of space", this team imagine it more as explorers. You're right with the redundancy but in fact SWORD # 1 already involved that cosmic stone that Storm has on the Reign of X poster. What is the other alternative, Storm joins SWORD?
I'm just okay with the team. I guess I just expected the first official X-Men of Krakoa to have a bit more grandeur. and at least 9 members.
I'm glad Sunfire is part of the group. But with so many X-Men heroes and villains to choose from, nobody on the roster was really surprising.
Still can't wait for the Hellfire Gala to see what other shenanigans are going to occur