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As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 6 #15<\/strong>
\n“Collapse Theory”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: Joshua Cassara<\/strong>
\nColourist: Guru-eFX<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> The Children of the Vault with the defeated X-Men. Don’t worry, it’s only a dream.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Data page. An opening quote from Forge. Note that he’s treating Krakoa as a government like any other. When Forge was first introduced, he was a weapon designer for the US government, and he designed the neutraliser device that led Storm to lose her powers for a while.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Forge and Cyclops make their way through the jungle.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is apparently part of the simulation which Forge creates for the Children of the Vault (as explained later), but it’s repeated on page 16 in the real world.<\/p>\n

“You wanted to know what I was doing for the Council so much that you put me on the X-Men.”<\/strong> Cyclops did indeed nominate Forge onto the X-Men without asking him in\u00a0X-Men: Hellfire Gala<\/em>, leading Forge to assure Professor X that it wouldn’t interfere with “Project Blackbox.” We’ll find out in this issue what Project Blackbox actually is.<\/p>\n

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PAGES 4-5.<\/strong> Forge explains his big gun.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is part of the simulation, as we’ll establish on page 16.<\/p>\n

The Vault<\/strong> is the home of the posthuman Children of the Vault; at least in Jonathan Hickman’s run, posthumanity (i.e., technologically advanced humans) were presented as one of the main threats to mutants. The Vault has a time dilation effect allowing the Children to develop for centuries before making each excursion into the outside world. The giant ruined Sentinel is the one that Cassandra Nova used in\u00a0New X-Men<\/em>\u00a0#114 (2001); the Children relocated there in\u00a0X-Men<\/em>\u00a0#193 (2007)<\/p>\n

In the previous volume of X-Men,\u00a0<\/em>Synch, Darwin and Wolverine (Laura) entered the Vault in issue #5\u00a0(2020) and got stuck there for centuries in subjective time before Synch and Wolverine escaped in issues\u00a0#18-19 (2021). Synch remembers this, Wolverine doesn’t, and Darwin was left behind.<\/p>\n

“If Cable sees it, he’s gonna want it.”<\/strong> Just in case anyone reading this is\u00a0really<\/em> new, the idea that Cable is obsessed with big guns is a running gag stemming from the art style of his creator Rob Liefeld back in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

“And please don’t go blabbing about this to Ben Urich.”<\/strong> Cyclops told Ben Urich about resurrection in issue #12.<\/p>\n

“Humans already knew about resurrection.”<\/strong> Cyclops is correct, in the sense that Orchis had already figured it out and were planning to expose it to the wider population anyway.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-7.<\/strong>\u00a0The Children of the Vault emerge.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Children of the Vault have different iterations each time they emerge, due to the development they’ve undergone in the meantime. From left to right in page 6 panel 2, these characters are:<\/p>\n