That is probably about right as Franklin Richards is forever 8-10 years old.
Not anymore he isn't. The Secret wars time jump added 5 years onto his and Valeria's ages while not aging anyone else in the marvel universe.
Yeah, I'm gonna need to read that again holy shit.
I can't believe Mars is actually involved in this lol
We knew they planet Krakoa seeds on Mars in HoX #1, so there was definitely going to be a gate there. Someone else pointed out it was likely near the Gardens established there during Hickman's run on Avengers.
Edit: My take on this is that we're looking at a "future" which is intended to be the "past" of the mutant race.
This timeline had mutantkind eventually come into conflict with the man-machine supremacy, which ended disastrously for mutants due to a number of things Mr. Sinister orchestrated.
By the year 100, the total number of mutants that exist is somewhere around 10,000- almost none of which remain in the Sol system. Nimrod begins building a living archive/collective consciousness of the remaining mutants that exist as they are captured. Charles Xavier and a handful of remaining mutants run a suicide mission which eventually leads to the "surprising" end of the mutant/man-machine supremacy war.
1000 years into the future, what appears to be a highly evolved Xavier is in conversation with a highly evolved version of Nimrod- neither is in conflict with the other and both are in cooperation, however the living collective consciousness Nimrod built appears to be decayed and unsalvageable as it was not designed to maintain data integrity for 1000 years. Homo sapiens largely no longer exists, and mutantkind is likely either highly endangered or virtually extinct. Earth appears to be a tech wasteland.
The opening of the book has "someone" approaching charles Xavier in "year 0" that is referencing characters and events from Year 100- implying that the woman we see in Year 0 is a time traveler sent back to avert all this from happening- approaching a young charles Xavier with knowledge of the future before he forms the Xmen.
So the opening of the book is the last thing that actually happens. I was thinking that the drastic departure of professor X from every previous version of him was due to being resurrected as "X", but I don't think Hickman is leaning on this. I think Hickman is establishing that Charles Xavier radically changes due to being exposed to knowledge of future events in PoX, and the intervention of whoever that is that approaches him during the opening of PoX.
Why he doesn't really change until year 10 is a mystery here though.