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| | Destroyed home of the race known as [[Kryptonian]]s, and formerly the seat of the [[Kryptonian Hegemony]]. | | Destroyed home of the race known as [[Kryptonian]]s, and formerly the seat of the [[Kryptonian Hegemony]]. |
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| − | The Kryptonian Hegemony erupted out of nowhere and declared war on the universe in approximately 50,000 BCE.
| + | Created as part of the endless experimentation by the immortal space-faring race known as [[Celestial]]s. Krypton was seeded with life that was adapted to survive in a low-light planetary environment. Heavy metals were in great abundance in the upper atmosphere, making survival inimitable to non-native life forms. It was a near-Earth sized planet with significantly higher gravity and unusual naturally-occurring crystalline deposits that bore a striking chemical resemblance to [[Zero-Point Energy|artifically created]] minerals on other planets. |
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| − | Many species took decades or centuries from their first space flight to their first interstellar colonies. Almost to the moment that the first colony ships left Krypton's solar system, they became a warfaring species bent on conquest. Kryptonians had discovered they were virtually invulnerable. Little could kill them, or meaningfully hurt them. They turned from an exploratory species to an invasion force overnight. In the space of fifty years, Kryptonians had conquered a dozen neighboring sectors and were engaged in full-scale war with [[Oa]], effortlessly crushing legions of their [[Manhunter]] robots. A single Kryptonian was an army. Ten of them in one sector was a war crime. Needing little materiel to begin with, the Kryptonians soon found they could fly across the stars without even needing spaceships.
| + | Krypton's primary sun, Rao, was destroyed by [[Oa]] as the final nail in their mass genocide of the Kryptonian species. The entire solar system was obliterated. [[Kandor]] is the Last City of Krypton, surviving in miniaturized form only due to the interest of the rogue [[synthetic|artificial intelligence]] known as Braniac. |
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| − | Oa, their chief rivals, attempted three gambits to stop the Kryptonians. The first was the formation of the [[Green Lantern Corps]], more flexible and cunning than their Manhunter robots. The second was to irradiate entire galactic sectors with wavelengths of energy known to be hazardous to Kryptonians. The third was to create an army of warriors, physical equals with Kryptonians but armed with magical weaponry. For this, they turned to the [[Demiurge]], a proto-sapient mass of energy in deep space, and the refugee [[First Gods]] living there. Together, Oa and the First Gods pushed the Demiurge into true self-awareness, and from that evolution came the hawkish, proud warrior kingdom of [[Asgard]].
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| − | Finally, Oa's long-term gambit: a genetic plague, slow incubating and difficult to detect. Krypton did not know it was poisoned until fertility rates abruptly reached 0%. In the space of a decade, no new Kryptonians were born, to a species with an already low birth rate. In the space of a century, the Kryptonian population dropped by 99% due to war and attrition. They huddled on their home world of Krypton to try and find a solution. Oa seeded their orbit with irradiated rocks formed from chunks of a neighbor planet, creating a web of "[[Kryptonite]]" that prevented independent space flight.
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| − | Krypton turned to science, and the few survivors rapidly made up for centuries of their intellectual dark ages. Though they were unable to repair the damage to their main star, they built domes that mitigated the worst of the lethal Kryptonite and used genetic therapy to sustain the species with new Kryptonians. The most desperate even used cloning techniques that had been outlawed since time immemorial. For thousands of years they limped along, frequently subverted and sabotaged by Oa. Even their attempts at technology were stymied-- their [[Brainiac]] AI was corrupted and sabotaged shortly after flying off-planet, becoming a dangerous threat to much of the universe's life.
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| − | In the end, one Kryptonian scientist made a desperate gamble. In approximately 1918 CE, [[Jor-El]] boarded the last of their hyperspace ships to try and locate the ancient cousins of the Kryptonians: the [[Kheran]]s.
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| − | Malfunctioning equipment led Jor-El not to Khera, but to Earth and the nation of [[Wakanda]], and their reserve of the [[heart-shaped herb]]. It was in the blood of Wakanda that the solution could be extrapolated, and the scientist hurried home with his discovery in hand.
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| − | Jor-El and his brother were able to use the gene therapies and help their wives conceive one child each. [[Kara Danvers|Kara Zor-El]] was born first, and her cousin [[Clark Kent|Kal-El]] was born some thirteen years later.
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| − | For a brief moment it looked as if the Kryptonians might survive. A race brought low, allowed to return to life and flourish once more.
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| − | It was not to be. Krypton's time had come, and their planet's doomed star was rapidly destabilizing. The House of El worked frantically, modifying Jor-El's spaceship into a pair of emergency hyperspace pods. The cousins were placed into them, Kara admonished to care for infant Kal-El. Kor-El set the coordinates for the only safe place he could think of-- Earth. A primitive backwater near the Great Void at the center of the universe, far from the machinations of the rest of the universe. The only place in the entire cosmos where the House of El was honored and respected.
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Planet Krypton
Destroyed home of the race known as Kryptonians, and formerly the seat of the Kryptonian Hegemony.
Created as part of the endless experimentation by the immortal space-faring race known as Celestials. Krypton was seeded with life that was adapted to survive in a low-light planetary environment. Heavy metals were in great abundance in the upper atmosphere, making survival inimitable to non-native life forms. It was a near-Earth sized planet with significantly higher gravity and unusual naturally-occurring crystalline deposits that bore a striking chemical resemblance to artifically created minerals on other planets.
Krypton's primary sun, Rao, was destroyed by Oa as the final nail in their mass genocide of the Kryptonian species. The entire solar system was obliterated. Kandor is the Last City of Krypton, surviving in miniaturized form only due to the interest of the rogue artificial intelligence known as Braniac.
