ummm guess i still am. i dont know if youve covered this but il say it anyway. if pheonix is the protector of evolution like a few of you have said. And if cassandra is from the future maybe when she went back in time (being a organism that was not supose to have evolved until 150 years in the future when beast creates her)It forces the pheonix to prematurely come and protect the evolutionary process and then prematurely die.
Mags was the informant. In planet X he refers to the lies he told Weapon Plus to start a war in Charlie's name. It's implicit but it is magneto. Not sure which ish that was in, I think 148.
I think that Magneto's role may be made a bit more clear in the next issue - Sublime Beast may make some reference to him that makes it easier to understand how he was being manipulated.
I got NXM #154! Read the preview! Some of you were not to far off, but some of you will be disspointed. It's mixed bag. And very open to interpretation which is kind of irritating. Send me a message if you want spoilers!