Thread:HBK123/@comment-37854037-20191114094217/@comment-764333-20191114095503

There are tons of different alternate futures, all of which are equally possible futures of Earth-616. Speaking of Marvel 2099 in particular, in recent years there's been quite a lot of different 2099's appearing in various books, most of them clearly contradicting one another. Hence the need for multiple separate TRNs for each version of 2099, as the official Handbooks and Appendix have been quite slow at giving them proper designations. Specifically, Warda's 2099 lacks such prominent features of Earth-928 as Nueva York (the city is still called New York), the Public Eye (there is regular NYPD instead) or any mentions of a cataclysm that ended the Heroic Age.

With no other previously established characters from any of the other 2099's appearing, it only makes sense to separate that reality for the time being. Of course, it is quite likely that the upcoming 2099 Alpha Vol 1 1 will introduce yet another retcon to 2099, but at the moment we're just trying to document existing stories as best we can.