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Omega_DCD
The entire team suffered an explosion that killed Archangel and Husk
Also, from my understanding, Jean and M, and eventually Jean solo, were the ones transmitting from Orchis to Earth...Xavier's role was as a receiver and distributor to the Cuckoos, and each of them forming a 2-person mini link with Storm, Beast and Trinary, for "Invocation" "Observation" and "Analysis" respectively.
PyroFN I think it's a wee bit dismissive to say "it's just range, not power", when more power does enable further range. Indeed isn't that the whole point of Cerebro/a, to boost a telepath's power(but specifically for RANGE, something some writers forget and treat it as a generic power booster). And there's been numerous times when a telepath's range has been boosted or diminished based on their power being affected (recovering from an attack, drugged/poisoned, ambient interference, natural or artificial psi-inhibitors, etc).
Post Operation Zero Tolerance, when Jean made it a point she was starting to push her powers more and stop repressing them, she tells the other O5 she's been telepathically searching, globally, for Xavier.
In X-Men The End, when Phoenix/Jean and Xavier are communicating telepathically across galaxies, she says she'll have a big headache to show for it the next day, or something to that effect.
I think what can sometimes circumvent certain hindrances (distance, diminished power, or sometimes outright power cancelation) are psychic rapports, which can be forged or sometimes it's just a psychic resonance thing as I believe was the case with Xavier and Lilandra