KRAKOAN MEDCINE IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
As preparations for Krakoa came together, Xavier recruited Emma Frost to help distribute the life-saving medicine through the Hellfire Trading Company, which combined the Hellfire Club‘s vast resources with the assets of a pharmaceutical company Xavier purchased to export Krakoan medicine. After Krakoan bases were established in the Savage Land and on Mars, Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, and his duplicates oversaw the growth of the Krakoan flowers and the process that turned those flowers into pills. Frost took charge of the medicine’s distribution to countries that recognized Krakoa, while Sebastian Shaw oversaw black market circulation of the medicine in areas that did not recognize Krakoa.
Thieves regularly tried to steal Krakoan medicine and resell it in places without a formal way to get Krakoan medicine, as the villain Whirlwind attempted to in X-MEN ANNUAL (2022) #1 by Steve Foxe and Andrea Di Vito. However, the X-Men, X-Corp, and Kate Pryde‘s Marauders protected Krakoan medicine across various fields.
Although the medicine saved and prolonged millions of human lives worldwide, several villainous groups tried to use Krakoan pharmaceuticals for their own ends. For instance, the mad botanists of Hordeculture hacked into Krakoa’s biotechnology in their efforts to wipe out humanity. Elsewhere, the Flower Cartel used pollen from Krakoa’s flowers to make narcotics. The anti-mutant group Homines Verendi even tried to poison Krakoa’s drug supply to turn public sentiment against mutants.
