Krakoa

Origin

The complete truth about Krakoa's origin is unknown, however it is believed that Krakoa came to be as a result of nuclear experiments in the Pacific Ocean. When Professor X detected a powerful mutant signal on a remote island in the middle of the pacific using Cerebro, he dispatched the original team of X-Men to investigate. It would turn out that the island Krakoa was the mutant that Xavier detected. Krakoa would capture the X-Men in order to feed off of their strong mutant energies. Xavier would send two other rescue teams to bring back the X-Men. The first consisted of young and inexperienced mutants that Krakoa was able to defeat quickly. The second rescue team consisted of older mutants from around the globe. The second team would defeat Krakoa and rescue the team. Krakoa was lifted into the orbit by Polaris. Krakoa body is currently in space and is presumed to be dead.

Powers

Krakoa is the combined form of all animal and vegetable life as well as the mineral/soil of the island itself. It was originally believed that Krakoa possessed sentience, however belief was created by Professor Xavier when he wiped the minds of his X-Men involved in the Krakoa incident and replaced all of their memories of the occurrence with new ones. Krakoa cannot actually speak or understand language and does not seem to actually act out of conscious thought. Instead Krakoa simply wails and groans and acts primarily out of instinct to what occurs around it. For instance, capturing the X-Men was not a conscious decision to drain their power, but instead was a low level reaction based on the power the X-Men possessed. Krakoa possessed the natural instinct to feed and when presented with the opportunity reacted instinctively upon it.

Krakoa controls all of the plant growth on the island, using plants and animals alike as an extension of itself. It can also re-arrange the land mass of the island in in almost any way including constructing a crude, bipedal humanoid form with which it used to attack the X-Men. Despite its lack of intelligence, Krakoa is a powerful creature. Originally, Krakoa was also depicted as possessing massive psionic power (enough to rival that of Xavier himself), although this may have only been part of the memory that Xavier created in the X-Men and not founded in reality.