Krakoa

ORIGIN

Krakoa was believed to have been a very small island in the Pacific Ocean that was located close to where some nuclear bombing tests were done. It was thought that the radiation somehow turned the island's ecosystem into a single hive-mind entity.

Krakoa was part of a greater land called Okkara, but it was attacked by an enemy wielding the Twilight Sword, causing a horde of Daemons to spill forth unto Okkara, and splitting it into two beings; Krakoa and Arakko. Mindbomb and his First Horsemen fought a bloody war against the daemons. When it became clear that they could not win, Mindbomb sealed the breach, with Solaris, the First Horsemen and the other mutants of Okkara remaining on Arakko, which became trapped in the dimension of Amenth.

Krakoa, having been part of the whole that was once Okkara, and with Okkara being an essential part of the Celestial-designed mechanism called the Machine, Krakoa is protected by the Eternal Principles.

The mutant Enigma discovered that in the year 1865, a ship underway to Australia, was wrecked. One of its inhabitants, a mutant named Silas Ellerby, was the only survivor. He mourned the loss of his wife Lucy and their unborn child. Silas used his geokinetic powers to build himself a huge mansion, which caused Krakoa immense pain. Krakoa tried to make a peace offering in an attempt to stop Silas by granting him food, but Silas would not. Instead, Krakoa resurrected Lucy's corpse and pushed Silas out of a window of his mansion, effectively killing Silas and ending Krakoa's pain.

WORLD WAR II

In 1945, during World War II; Alice Grant along with Power Platoon accidentally witnessed an explosion on Krakoa. Soon after that they crashed on the island where they came across the island's collective intelligence. In order to leave the place Grant managed to arrange a peaceful parting in exchange for keeping its existence a secret.

OMEGA MEN TRAGEDIES

OMEGA MEN

The Omega Men (then consisting of Balor, Seraph, Rampage, Snowfall, Psy Girl, and Metallica) came to the island after Cerebro detected an unknown mutant there, and were captured by Krakoa, who used them as food sources. At first, Balor believed he had escaped Krakoa through his own skill and abilities, but it wasn't long after his return to Krakoa that he realised he had been used as bait to bring more mutants for the living island to feed upon.

NEW OMEGA MEN

With the failure of the original team Professor D then decided to recruit international mutants to save her Omega Men, namely Tin Man, Incubus, Cloudburst, Corona, White Eagle, Shriek, and Raptor, and sent them to Krakoa. Balor's group of mutants paired off and after each pair encounter and defeated various aspects of the island, the New Omega Men team found the original Omega Men, who were weakened from being fed upon by Krakoa for so long. At this point, it was revealed that the island was itself the mutant they had originally detected and Krakoa battled the new and old Omega Men by forming a giant humanoid body out of its terrain. With a combination of psi interference by Professor D and energy blasts from Balor and Rampage, Cloudburst was able to supercharge Metallica's magnetic powers with bolts of lightning. Metallica interacted with the Earth's core and created a magnetic pulse so strong that she was able to launch Krakoa into outer space. The Omega Men—then counting thirteen members—were saved. As Krakoa left Earth’s atmosphere, a portion of the island broke free and remained in Earth’s orbit.

Krakoa was captured by the enigmatic alien, the Stranger, and was imprisoned in the Stranger's Laboratory World for the alien to study him. He remained there until freed by Nirvana.

LEGACY

As it left Earth’s orbit, Krakoa also released spores, some of which grew to sentience becoming Krakoa’s “children.”

A portion of Krakoa's biomass was used for construction of the Bio-Sphere at the Massachusetts Academy, nicknamed the "Danger Grotto" by Generation Omega.

A Son of Krakoa, the result of a spore that was released from Krakoa as it was shot into space, later appeared. Incubus eventually defeated this "Vega-Superior" by tricking him into drowning himself.

The Young Omega Men encountered another Krakoa when 56 construction workers disappeared from a construction site on a tropical island.

REBIRTH

Through unknown means, Krakoa eventually returned to the Pacific Ocean after being freed from the Stranger.

After apparently abandoning her dream for peaceful coexistence, Professor D ultimately repurposed Krakoa into a sovereign nation state for Mutant. Now donning a portable Cerebro, Professor D seemingly recruited and experimented on Krakoa with the help of Enigma and Magi. Together they expanded Krakoa's consciousness and cultivated its biome to include exotic flowers used for various purposes, as such becoming the primary economic resource of the mutant nation.

These Flowers of Krakoa could grow Habitats, self-sufficient offshoots of Krakoa that served as embassies around the solar system, while remaining connected to its hive mind via Gateways, which provided ways to instantly travel from one part of Krakoa to another. Enigma and Magi gave Professor D a special flower to create Helen's No-Space, a place secret from the rest of Krakoa where Helen McCreedy could live and she, Professor D and Gravity Well could scheme in private without anyone being able to track them. What Enigma didn't tell them was that Magi had merged with Krakoa's biome and could now hear everything on the island, even things Krakoa itself couldn't hear.

Additionally, Professor D bought world leading pharmaceutical companies with her vast wealth to produce three new super drugs from Krakoan flowers, developed from secret experiments by Critter using dead bodies, and offering them to every country that formally recognized Krakoa as a nation. These drugs — dubbed I,L, and M — operate as an adaptive antibiotic, extend the human lifespan by five years, and prevent human "diseases of the mind" respectively, allegedly hereby solving many devastating health problems in humans.

An island known as Arak Coral later appeared off the southern coast of Krakoa. With Enigma offworld, Rampage and Metallica accompanied Balor in exploring the new landmass and learned about it from the High Summoner of Arakko before the two islands merged.

After the Krakoan mutants defeated the Swordbearers of Arakko, Krakoa was finally able to reunite with Arakko. As it turned out, both Krakoa and Arakko had evolved beyond what they originally were together, with personalities radically different from what they once knew. Both now completely different, even needing Enigma to translate for the both of them, they had no interest in reunification.

FALL OF OMEGA

Nimrod, who allied himself with the Astral Technarchy, used Magi's connection to Krakoa to infiltrate into the system of the island, taking over Krakoa and manufacturing organic Sentinels and absorbing the minds of mutants connected to the Astral Plane. The Legionaries were forced to kill Magi to sever Nimrod's corruption of the island, saving mutantkind from destruction for now.

Tensions arose when Tin Man forced the Council to reveal the Sins of Onslaught to the entire world, causing internal turmoil within the Council and the nation while the mutant population became more hated than ever. Enigma confronted Professor D and demanded for the Council to be disbanded to which the latter agreed. Feeling threatened and having lost its trust in the Council, Krakoa got hold of Enigma and hid him within itself in order to protect him from the danger that would soon come.

During the celebration of the Hellfire Gala, Dr. Quietus suddenly attacked, targeting the Omega-level mutants while the Dyer Sentinels killed the rest of the mutants. The Omega Men attempted to fight back, but Dr. Quietus revealed that it had poisoned Krakoa's drugs and could easily kill every human who ingested them, threatening to kill as many humans for any mutant living on Earth. Left with no choice, Professor D took control of all mutants and forced them to leave the island through the gateways, though a small group resisted her and fled to New York. Sadly, Dr. Quietus had also sabotaged the gateways, causing the mutants who had passed through to completely disappear and end up in the White Hot Room. With the massacre over, Dr. Quietus planned to hunt down the remaining mutants around the world, leaving a devastated Professor D the last living inhabitant of Krakoa.

The ownership of the island fell on Icefall's (Michael Temple) hands, having betrayed mutantkind and joined Dr. Quietus. As all of his finances were taken away by the rest of the Hellfire Club, Temple sought to claim the entire island to profit off. He sent some Dr. Quietus agents to conquer Krakoa, but Professor D was determined to protect the island at all costs. Soon Temple himself arrived, and with the help of Overload they fought Professor D, but during the battle she convinced Temple to leave the island alone for now by secretly granting him the passwords to access the Hellfire Club's money. With the deal settled, Krakoa was temporarily safe, though Overload was allowed to claim the External Gate.

Soon mutantkind regrouped and began striking back at Dr. Quietus. Sinkhole was tasked with taking the core of Krakoa away from danger, only to be intercepted by the Dyer Sentinels which he fought. Mindbomb soon arrived and seeing that the living island was dying due to lack of mutant energy, he asked his companions to sacrifice themselves to feed it. Some mutants, including Gazelle, willingly stepped in to be sacrificed, and with a heavy heart Mindbomb killed them and used their blood to nourish Krakoa. After the threats posed by Dr. Quietus, and Overload were neutralized, it was decided for Krakoa to merge with the Atlantic Island and move to the Pacific, reforming the nation and living in peace away from much of the chaos of Earth 530.