The future of Marvel 2099 was seemingly etched in stone last year when Victor Doom created a new version of the timeline in The Amazing Spider-Man. However, it didn't answer what became of the X-Men in the future, or what eventually happened to the island nation of Krakoa.
While the island nation of the X-Men gave mutantkind its best possible chance for survival, it may have left mutants in a very similar state to where the X-Men 2099 ended up. a secret may have given mutants a way to survive, not unlike the final fate of the original X-Men 2099. Now, we're going to see if the future that Krakoa is built for has a chance of surviving into the 2099 timeline.
Who Are the X-Men 2099?
The original X-Men 2099 were a collection of some of the last mutants in their version of the Marvel Universe. In the years since the end of the Age of Heroes, a "Great Purge" led to the near extinction of the entire genetic line. Two of the survivors - Desert Ghost and Cerebra - held out hope for a better future and assembled some of the other remaining mutants to form a new X-Men team. In particular, Desert Ghost wanted to protect the other remaining mutants from persecution around the world, potentially even leading to their own home in co-existence with humanity. They slowly built a team and, after many trials and tribulations, were given Halo City as a new base of operations by their ally, a time-tossed version of Doctor Doom.
While there, Cerebra broke off from the core team and founded X-Nation, a group dedicated to finding the supposed "Mutant Messiah" that Doom was able to prophecize. But when the world was almost destroyed by a massive flood, the mutants fled (alongside the rest of humanity) to the Savage Land, where Desert Ghost set up the Xavier Colony as a stronghold for the last mutants. Meanwhile, Cerebra went on to become one of the leading liaisons between the remaining mutants and humans, helping foster a potential future unity between the two races. In a sense, Desert Ghost became a more calm and collected version of Magneto, while Cerebra was more of an heir to Xavier's way of thinking.
Could Krakoa Lead to Marvel 2099?
Krakoa has basically become something akin to what the Xavier Colony was ultimately designed to be - a safe place for mutants to gather and come together. Both Krakoa and the Xavier Colony also have an element of separation from the rest of humanity, as both Desert Ghost and Charles Xavier have seemed to lose much of their faith in humanity. While they may want peace, they're willing to achieve it at the cost of being removed from the rest of the species in their own community. This makes it possible that the new 2099 version of the Xavier Colony could be a new version of Krakoa - especially considering that the base was established inside the more natural Savage Land.
While the new 2099 universe was introduced with mutants seemingly largely wiped out during a massive purge, some may have survived thanks to Krakoa and are now in hiding from the rest of the world. Xi'an Chi Xan, Desert Ghost, also spoke about being directly inspired by Xavier's teachings, and that example may have shaped his thinking with the Xavier colony. However, that still doesn't explain what actually happened to Krakoa.
Some of the various lives of Moria MacTaggert have suggested that mutants - especially when mutants are given the chance to try and unite as a species across the globe - will have a place in the future of the Marvel Universe. In some of her alternate lives, Moira lived well beyond the present day and into futures dominated by artificial intelligence.
In those timelines, characters like Wolverine would have needed to live through the very worst of humanity - including the chaotic events of the year 2099 - which suggests that mutants may have a few ways to make it to at least the year 2099. Thanks to the resurrection protocols set up, the X-Men as we know them could even potentially last into the 2099 world. If there was anything that could help protect the X-Men in that type of scenario, it would be Krakoa, but it's not clear what ultimately happened to the island or many of its residents in the world of Marvel 2099.