

From this dead planet, Krypton, using the technology and weapons developed during the war, became an expanding empire that sought out and conquered other planets.

The formerly lush garden world was burned and left mostly as a lifeless desert. Though it had perceptively survived the war, Krypton had been scarred deeply. At the time, it was believed that the device had been stopped before it could achieve planetary destruction but the reaction had simply been slowed to a nearly imperceptible rate. Among them were the devices which became known as the Eradicator and the Destroyer.īy the time the Kryptonian government admitted defeat and abolished the clone banks, a pro-clone rights terrorist faction known as Black Zero had activated the Destroyer projecting massive streams of nuclear energy into the core of Krypton with the intention of triggering an explosive chain reaction within the planet's core. This incident ignited the "Clone Wars", during which Kryptonian science was turned to warfare and several super-weapons were developed and used. When the son eventually discovered that his beloved wife was actually a clone of his mother, and that she was pregnant with their child, he snapped and killed his mother, his wife and then himself. Eventually this disagreement led to open conflict after an overprotective mother freed a younger clone of herself and guided her to be her son's girlfriend and lover, and later wife, as she did not believe that any other woman besides herself would be good enough for her son. However, this society was tipping toward decadence and eventually political strife arose from a debate as to whether the clones should have rights. With these discoveries, all Kryptonians were effectively immortal and enjoyed an idyllic, sensual existence in an Arcadian paradise. Over 100,000 years ago, Krypton had already developed scientific advancements far beyond those of present-day Earth, and within a few millennia had conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning creating vast banks of non-sentient clones which held multiple copies of each living Kryptonian so that replacement parts were always available in the case of injury. Until its destruction, many dangerous animals still existed on Krypton and Kryptonians had to use their advanced technology to survive. Krypton's primordial era produced some of the most dangerous organisms in the universe.
