X-men Red is BACK:
Storm starts the issue angry and filled with guilt about not being there when Uranos attacked Mars. Her internal conflict has always been about not being everywhere for everyone, such as with the Morlocks and X-men, because her followers rely on her power. Sobunar reconciles that unsettled feeling with a strong and comforting truth: Storm always fights for her people, even when she's not around them.
Magneto who went full omega is pumping his blood with solely willpower and Magnetism. Recalling a recurring element (pun intended) of their battles as masters of energy being able to draw on eachothers power, Storm forms a mutant circuit for the first time on-panel and in front of Arakko.
Her lightning is but one expression of Storm's elemental powers, she uses it as a channel to jump-start Erik with energy and life force without losing her own. This is but one of many sparks of the evolution of Arakki culture.
On Arakko, Mutant circuits are expressions of intimacy and reserved for lovers, but Storm and Magneto conducts one in public to not only boost his power but to fight for Arakko and answer Uranos challenge. The Arakkii look upon in awe and this is noted as history being made without disrespecting any of their traditions. It's a rare instance that Krakoan ideals are passed on, and it makes sense that it is Storm who passes this on because this era in Storms' life is transformation and adaption. This also overlaps with the theme of the formal introduction of the table of Night.
Sunspot, the Fisher King, and Syzya come out of the shadows to answer Uranos' challenge. Under the reign of Genesis, the Night Seats were regarded as cowardice and disbanded, but they continued their tactics of espionage, secret war, and influencing events to keep Arakkii alive, but The shadows no longer served them under this imminent threat. In the spirit of change and unity, the Night Seats reveal themselves publically to the Great Ring, Sunspot among them, revealing they were covertly influencing all of the events and decision-making up until now!
The mutant metaphor taps into its roots of black and Jewish identity and the struggle of marginalized peoples. A black Nasa employee offers his life to save the young mutants who is then accepted as kin, Sunspot finds common cause with the secret Night Seats who function to preserve Arakkii and all mutants, Magneto who is faced with yet another genocide fulfills his promise to use every bit of life to preserve Arakko even if it means leaving the paradise he's built for mutants forever, and Storm who is seen as the leader of leaders breaks frigid traditions to usher in a new era and war with the Eternals under a united Ring for the first time in millennia.
