BIOGRAPHY - Page 14
It was an emotional whirlwind for Emma when the majority of the X-Men seemingly died in battle with Legion and X-Man, leaving the path clear for O*N*E to outlaw mutants and preemptively eliminate them with their vaccine. However, Emma also detected Scott Summers, somehow alive again in all this chaos. She considered reconnecting with Cyclops, but recognized that would only put him in Callahan's crosshairs. Instead, she mentally prodded Wolverine into joining back up 
with Scott, then cast a blanket telepathic amnesia over them and their ragtag remaining X-Men to forget she ever existed. Callahan discovered Cyclops was alive when he and Wolverine raided O*N*E to rescue the techno-organic New Mutants and other prisoners. Emma managed to convince Callahan that Scott was of more use in the field than captured or dead. With her White King Mystique posing as Captain America, Emma directed Scott's X-Men into hunting down various super-villains and mutant threats, then turning them over to "Cap" so Callahan could collect these threats without risking O*N*E resources to do it.
Emma was a survivor, betraying and exploiting others as necessary to protect herself. However, she would never be content under Callahan's thumb, and had long-term plans in play to free herself from his reins. The X-Men rediscovered Emma's existence, and she brought Scott, Hope, Dani Moonstar and the others in on her plot. With the help of prisoners Fabian Cortez and Mister Sinister, as well as Doctor Nemesis to surgically remove her gene bomb implant, Emma was able to make the world safe for mutants. She constructed a new Cerebro unit that amplified and broadcast her telepathy around the globe, removing the very concept of mutants from the minds of humanity. They no longer remembered the existence of mutants or mutant groups, and subconsciously would not even acknowledge displays of mutant abilities. Peaceful co-existence had been imposed upon the world. [Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #18-21]
Despite her wishes, Scott was not quick to accept Emma or her new world order. While she tried to remain patient for him to come around, Emma was confronted at the Hellfire Club by General Callahan and his techno-organic Sentinels. Still protected from Emma's telepathy, Callahan alone remembered humanity's fight against mutantkind. The fighting was brutal and Emma lost several more allies to the Sentinels before Callahan was killed and the robots destroyed by an unlikely source... the lost X-Men, back from beyond, alive and well. Emma was forced to watch uncomfortably as Scott and Jean Grey-Summers reunited passionately for the first time. It was also Scott who led the debate to undo Emma's efforts. A telepathic masking effect gave mutants peace, but they were effectively still in hiding, and not accepted by the world. Cyclops wanted to demand acknowledgement and acceptance from humanity, and so Emma and the united X-Men accepted the idea and destroyed the Cerebro to return to the previous status quo. [Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #22]
Emma Frost retreated from the X-Men for a while after that, continuing her work at rebuilding the Hellfire Club into a force to be reckoned with in the business world. And then, one day, Charles Xavier and Magneto came to her with a plan to change all the rules. With the help of the mutant linguist Cypher, they had forged an alliance with the living island Krakoa, laying the foundation for 
a new mutant nation-state. Emma still vividly remembered the failure of Genosha, and was quick to call Magneto on this mistake. This time, however, the mutant homeland would be done right. Xavier had worked with Krakoa to grow a set of flowers which could be synthesized into mass-produced drugs. These drugs could extend a human lifespan by five years, act as a universal antibiotic, and cure maladies of the mind. The leverage these drugs would bring to market would allow the nation of Krakoa to set its own boundaries on the world stage.
With Emma's approval, Xavier and Magneto wanted to re-imagine the Hellfire Club as an international distribution network for their drugs. Emma came around to their thinking, seeing Krakoa as more fortifiable than Genosha and recognizing the revenue possible from being mutants' own East India Trading Company. After negotiating the initial terms of their deal, Xavier and Magneto let the other shoe drop that they wanted Emma to bring Sebastian Shaw into the Hellfire Trading Company. Emma balked at the idea, considering how much effort she had just put into getting rid of him. With the White Queen acting as the public and political face of Hellfire and Krakoa's trade franchise, though, a Black King was also needed to control the resale of the drugs 
on the black market, and ferry drugs and mutants in and out of nations that proved antagonistic to Krakoa.
Emma reluctantly agreed to their reasoning as discussions progressed to the matter of governance. Krakoa's initial government would be forged of a twelve member Quiet Council to set laws and make decisions on behalf of the nation. In addition to herself and Shaw, Emma bartered for a third seat on the Council to be reserved for Hellfire Trading, a Red royalty to be named by Emma at a later date. Krakoa's declaration of statehood became a rousing success as the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council toured a Krakoan habitat and reluctantly, hesitantly, begrudgingly accepted the terms being offered. When the vote for acceptance into the United Nations was cast, it was Emma who compelled the Russian representative to abstain rather than vote against Krakoa, a small tweak of the mind to clear the path towards mutants joining the world's governments.
The Quiet Council of Krakoa was soon populated. Well-intentioned X-Men like Jean Grey, Storm and Nightcrawler joined allies of necessity like Apocalypse, Exodus and Sinister. Laws were enacted by the council and Sabretooth was the first to be exiled by order of the state. Five amazing mutants brought their powers together to give mutantkind the ability to resurrect themselves and defeat death itself. Cyclops was named Captain Commander of Krakoa in times where military might was needed. As celebrations of a new Eden broke out on Krakoa, private overtures between old rivals were also made. At Scott's request, Jean and Emma shared a beer from Logan's stash. [Dawn of X event]
The White Queen initially considered Storm and the Stepford Cuckoos to take the Red, but when they refused she made overtures to Kate Pryde. The former Shadowcat had suffered an ordeal, going from leader of the X-Men to almost unwelcome on Krakoa. An organic teleport gate technology was grown in sites around the globe, allowing instantaneous access to Krakoa from most countries and their major cities for any mutant willing to pass through. The Krakoan gates seemed to reject Kate, however, and she suffered a broken nose the first time she tried to walk through one. Reaching Krakoa manually on her own using a stolen boat, Kate was approached by Emma to continue her life at sea as the Red Queen. When the Russian gate was surrounding by hostile government forces, Kate led a crew of Storm, Pyro and Iceman by boat to rescue a group 
of Russian mutant refugees. The adventure sparked her desire to take Emma's offer, and soon the Quiet Council and Hellfire had its red royalty.
Emma arranged for Kate and her crew of Marauders to have a top-of-the-line vessel for their work, dubbed the Marauder, outfitted with its own Krakoan gate for easy access at sea. Because of her own issues, Kate preferred to remain sailing and away from Krakoa most of the time. Emma, in fact, had privately arranged for the Omega-class mutants Storm and Iceman to shadow Pryde -- there was an ominous concern that, if the mutant-only Krakoan gates didn't work for the Red Queen, the mutant resurrection protocols might fail as well. Besides Kate's activities, though, Emma also established her own court at the White Palace in Krakoa's Hellfire Bay. She recruited Callisto of the Morlocks as her White Knight, and installed her brother Christian as White Bishop. With the Marauder as a public, attention-grabbing facet of Hellfire, she gave Christian captaincy of the Mercury, a second ship serving as a submarine or UFO for stealthier deliveries and rescues.
Emma's work with Kate stymied Sebastian Shaw's plans for Hellfire, however. Sebastian had arranged for the resurrection of his son Shinobi, hoping to install him as the Red King. Emma stretched the truth that she had already recruited her Red Queen before Sebastian returned to Hellfire, when she was the sole Lord Cardinal and had full decision-making abilities. Furthermore, Emma and Kate used the Marauders to slap Sebastian's hand when he tried to make a side profit on the Krakoan drugs with his 1% buyers instead of the pre-arranged black market routes made for the good of Krakoa. The voting block of the Red Keep and the White Palace against Blackstone meant considerable tension in Hellfire Bay. [Marauders #1-3]
In time, Sebastian Shaw moved against the Red Queen standing in his way. He struck at Kate when the other Marauders were off-ship, drowning her and leaving her body adrift at sea. He covered his tracks so that, even when Kate's body was discovered, his involvement in the matter was not clear. Storm and Emma nearly came to blows in their grief over Kate's death, for it was still uncertain whether she could be revived on Krakoa if the gates rejected her. [Marauders #6-8] In truth, Xavier and the Five made eighteen attempts to resurrect Kate. Each time, the proto-husk appeared to be non-viable, waiting inert inside the egg instead of fighting its way free like in other resurrections. [Marauders #9-10]
On the night of Kate's funeral, as the Five reluctantly moved on from their efforts until some new plan could be made, Emma had a visitor. Lockheed had been left for dead by Shaw as well, but the small dragon made his way back to Krakoa and shared his memories of Kate's death with Emma. Furious at the betrayal, Emma calmed herself enough to keep the matter private, but she was determined to find a way for Kate to be resurrected and seek vengeance herself. She and Nightcrawler petitioned Xavier and the Five for one final attempt at resurrection. While in 
attendance at the Arboreum, it was Emma who realized Kate's proto-husk WAS viable -- it's instinct to phase simply meant it lacked the instinct to physically break through the egg. Once they knew the proto-husk wasn't defective, Xavier and the Five completed the resurrection process and Kate's mind was restored to her body, hale and whole. It was a testiment to how far they had come as partners that Emma understood Kate even better than Charles in these circumstances. [Marauders #11]
Emma shared Lockheed's memories with Kate, and she agreed taking revenge on Shaw would be an internal Hellfire matter. [Marauders #12] The Red and the White Queen assaulted Sebastian at Blackstone, neutralizing his powers and beating him into submission. Lockheed took his pound 
of flesh as well, biting out one of Shaw's eyes for good measure. Emma, Kate, and Storm poisoned Shaw and left him crippled, with no confusion over how his life was in their hands and not his own. Hellfire had evolved beyond him, and the women of the Quiet Council would not tolerate any further indiscretions on his part. [Marauders #16]