X-Men's Twisted New Technology is Built From Harvested Brains
WARNING: Spoilers for X-Men #7 ahead!
The last page of X-Men #7 reveals that the Quiet Council, leaders of the mutant nation of Krakoa, have developed a truly horrifying new communication technology that uses the harvested brains of telepaths to function. What started as a simple desire to increase communication capabilities between Krakoa and the newly terraformed Arakko turned into yet another disturbing state secret for the new nation, further cementing Krakoa as a nation with dubious ethics and morals.
The data page in X-Men #7, which were first developed by House of X architect Jonathan Hickman, delves into a new Krakoan technology called the «Earth-Arakko-Relay,» created by the infamous mutant inventor Forge. Forge, a Native American from the Cheyenne nation, was first introduced in The Uncanny X-Men #184 (1984) as a government weapons developer who had the mutant power of vast technological creation, and was most known for a long time as the inventor of a device that removes a mutants powers (recently used in the explosive Inferno event). His latest invention has created a powerful way for Krakoa and Arakko to communicate, but once again has a morally dubious secret aspect to it, with the E.A.R. using sections of brain harvested from clones of Professor X.
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X-Men #7—written by Gerry Duggan with art by Pepe Larraz—features a plot that is seemingly unrelated to the new communication documentation. It follows Scott Summers as he is killed publicly in combat, forcing him to retire his old name Cyclops for his new Captain Krakoa identity. However, communication between Krakoa and Arakko is essential to the continued ascension and progress of mutantdom, and
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