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And this is why writer Gerry Duggan just up and killed a whole bunch of them.
And it might all mean the end of the Krakoan era as we know it.
Something wonderful happened [withHouse/Powers of X], Duggan says.
Orchis is, like any bureaucracy, sprawling and occasionally ridiculous.
They have HR and communications departments.
The policy Orchis is researching and advocating for just happens to be the extermination of mutantkind.
Theyve got AIM scientists perverting Krakoan technology, as MODOK is doing with the Captain Krakoa suit.
They have evil geneticist Dr. Stasis sabotaging Krakoan medicine and turning it deadly for the humans taking it.
Duggans fixing that, though.
Its time for DOOM.
I didnt intend for it to be very funny, but Victor going Oh, hell no is great.
Im writing a soloIron Manbook that is in my mind, effectively Armor Wars 3, Duggan explains.
Those first twoArmor Warswere really what happens when [Tonys] enemies get [his armor].
Well, what happens when everyones enemy gets your technology?
It also almost fully integrates the main Iron Man series within the X-Mens narrative.
Orchis fascism does not give an inch, Duggan says.
Every fascism has one thing in common, and its that its uncompromising.
So there was nothing that Krakoa could have done to mitigate or negotiate their way to make Orchis happy.
But who better to fight fascists than Captain America?
Cap gathers up the Unity Squad to fight all that.
The X-Men are on the run, living in sewers as they stage hit-and-run attacks on anti-mutant forces.
Will everything pay off?
And what does a post-Krakoa status quo look like for the X-Men?
When we leave, I hope everyone says, Wow, they never didnt have it, Duggan says.
If things keep hitting the way they have been, that probably wont be an issue.
