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“X^3 is life 6, when Moira tried to work with machines” has been said so many times around here that I’m surprised this is the time it suddenly inspired so much brainstorming, but I guess that comes from how impossible it is to keep up with everything that goes into these huge HOX/POX threads, lol
I do think the omegas are a major part of Moira/Xavier/whoever else’s grand plan (to the extent that I still think they may have intentionally created Proteus and Legion for that purpose)
But this sense of value in the collective, I think it works just as well whether X^3 is in Moira’s past, or in the future of our present story. Because it could be that she’s literally embracing the spirit of collectivity because she has some extreme experience with it in the past, or it could be that the X^3 stuff is an evolution of the same collective spirit from HOX, on a larger scale.
At this point I’m not even sure it matters what order they come in (though I assume it will matter once Hickman specifies, assuming he ever feels the need to) because they work so well as thematic reflections of each other. Even without X^3 being in Moira’s past, she certainly would have experienced enough failure in choosing the ideology of just Xavier or just Magneto or just Apocalypse or just herself, enough to recognize that the best hope for survival is ALL mutants united. And in X^3, the desire to be subsumed into a greater collective is the same kind of thinking but on a galactic scale. It could be direct inspiration for HOX, or HOX could have inspired it. But right now they’re basically just two perspectives on the same philosophy.