Powers of X #2 deepens that connection and, in a way, inverts it. The Phalanx, as introduced in the “Phalanx Covenant,” is a cybernetic alien race.

Phalanx have been created, revived, experimented on, weaponised, invariably turning against those who try to use them and infecting them in the process. Halfway Borg, halfway Alien xenomorph, you ...