The mutant nation of Krakoa has a "no precognitives" rule. I know this concerns primarily resurrections, such as how Destiny hasn't been brought back, to Mystique's annoyance. Although that might be more out of spite on Moira's part, honestly. But it would also seem to extend to Blindfold, who as far as I know didn't once take part in killing Moira and burning all her shit.
Not sure how Mystique and Destiny didn't expect that to come back to bite them on the ass, but Mystique's always doing dumb shit, then being shocked when it backfires. "I used this teenage girl as a weapon in my terrorist activities and deeply traumatized her, and now she wants nothing to do with me?! Has the world gone topsy-turvy?"
Does the rule (which I'm assuming isn't openly stated, because that would raise questions the people in charge don't want to answer) extend to living mutant precogs who want to immigrate to Krakoa? Some mutant in Mozambique, or Alabama, decides Krakoa sounds pretty bitchin', and they want to move there.
Would they be turned away at the gates? Would they be quietly killed (in a tragic accident, of course), and then have to wait their turn behind all the millions and millions of other mutants that are still waiting to be brought back because the Five have to resurrect Quentin Quire's dumb ass every five minutes?
Either of those seems as though it would raise too many questions, within Krakoa and especially outside it. We know that most of the major world powers (and several off-world) are watching Krakoa closely. If mutants who all have the same ability are being told they aren't welcome, or all seem to be turning up mysteriously dead, somebody's going to notice.
I suppose that a precog would be able to tell ahead of time what their fate will be if they try moving to Krakoa. If they're going to end up turned away or dead, they probably wouldn't bother. Which solves the problem rather neatly. Or, they wouldn't bother because they see far enough ahead to know Krakoa's going to come tumbling down, and it's safer to be someplace else when it does.
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And what of precogs who aren't mutants? I suppose that falls under the same category of "Inconvenient and Ignored" as all the various AIs running around the Marvel Universe that for some reason are not an existential threat like the ones in the X-books are.
I was thinking about the AI issue. If Krakoa decides to try and eradicate Ultron once and for all, not sure anyone will bat an eye. If they decide to go after the Vision, or Victor Mancha, or Machine Man, that might create some problems for them.
They may be able to get away with Vision, since they hate the Scarlet Witch so much, but all of this implies more thought into the setup than may have happened.
I imagine the thought was, "well, those AIs are OK! These other AIs over here, that we just created, are bad and so we can kill them."
I especially love the "kill no human", and then they way they add, "This thing doesn't count as human, nor does this, or this, or this. Kill the shit out of all those things."
Kind of funny (or distressing) coming from a group that's spent a long time having people use the same reasoning on them. Though that does seem to be a big issue with Krakoa, that they aren't really doing new things, just the same old stuff humans did, but it's OK, because they're mutants and they do it better.
I'm only following it at a distance but the whole thing seems like it's full of all these little contradictions that suggest interesting stories, but I don't know if they are following through on any of them.
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