Krypton:
Krypton was governed by a High Council composed of the leaders of each guild, with a lot of influence from both the Science Guild and the Religious Guild, Krypton's imperialist age ended with a decree to the Religious Guild, which called back every Kryptonian and forbid them from leaving the Rao system, but that was ages ago.
Over the years, Krypton grew distant, paying less and less importance on feelings and more on logic and, slowly, they stopped inovating, stopped dreaming, their society started stagnatting. They were still a great society, but they were in a very, very, VERY slow decline.
Dru-Zod:
He was the perfect general, and the perfect leader for the Military Guild. It's a saying that, "to be kind to your enemies is to be cruel to your allies" and Zod took that as dogma.
To his allies, he was a kind, carrying, loyal and decidated man but, to his enemies, he could lie, torture, manipulate and be as cruel as it was needed.
He had the best in mind for Krypton, but he did see other races as... lesser, and he did have a certainty that he was always correct, with only a few people being capable of changing his mind, such as his wife and Jor-El himself. Still, he obeyed the High Council's orders.
When informed about the imminet destruction of Krypton reached him, he initially supported Jor-El but, when Jor-El failed to convince the rest of the High Council, he was greatly disapointed. He still supported his old time friend, but subsequent failures convinced him that the Council was far too rigid to ever see the light, and that Jor-El himself could fail, something that he had never thought about before.
With his conviction in Jor-El affected, he started making his own plans, where once he was content on following Jor-El's lead, he now thought that his way was the better one. He started making plans and presented them to Jor-El, but Jor-El asked for more time, because he too was making plans.
Unfortunately, Dru-Zod was not as trusting of Jor-El's actions as he had once been, and believed that his own plans would be supperior. Without Jor-El's support, Dru-Zod initiated his revolt, thinking that, once things were in motion, Jor-El would have no choice but to support him. He was wrong.
Not only did Jor-El not support him, he actually warned the rest of Krypton, causing Zod's revolt to fail before it caused any damage, and he was sentenced to the Phantom Zone for his rebelion, together with all of his supporters, Krypton exploded before his sentence was over.
Zor-El:
Zor-El was the perfect second in command, if he was leading the El house, it would be terrible, he was an almost completely amoral scientist willing to do pretty much anything, and he was also incredibly efficient.
While he trouble shooted a lot of Jor-El's projects, his older brother often had to tone down his own projects in order to prevent too much damage, and make them more humane.
He still loved his family, and he even loved his own wife, even when his mariage wasn't by choice, but he was very cold to them, and even colder to anyone else, with barely any political ability himself. He supported his brother and, at the very end, he did consider overthrowing him, but his loyalty stoped him, and then he realised it was already too late anyway.
Jor-EL:
An extremely inteligent man, he was only slightly below his brother as an inventor, but he was much better as a politician, and could look at the big picture far better.
When Jor-El assumed his place as the head of the El house, and the Science Guild, he studied Krypton's history and concluded -correctly- that Krypton had started to decline. For generations, their development had been slowing until it reached a peak and, very slowly, started decreasing.
Jor-El decided a change was necessary but, after long consideration, he realised that he wasn't the right person to do it, neither was it his brother or any of his allies, so he planned. He planed for Kara's birth, and helped design her genetics, then planned for Kal-El's creation, and also his entire childhood.
His plan was for Kal to be a kinder, more idealistic person, one who embodies everything that Jor-El thought as good, the greatest Kryptonian to ever exist, Kal-El would take his place as head of the house, and then take control of Krypton's government, starting a new Era for Krypton. Kara would be his right hand, just like Zor-El was for Jor-El.
As the older cousin, Kara would help raise Kal, getting his respect so that, even when he assumed control, he would still be willing to listen to her, and she would be a harder, less kind person, one willing to call him out, and do what was necessary when Kal hesitated.
With both Jor-El and Zor-El allowed to focus on studying and inventing things, Kal-El to guide the new society, Kara to help guide him, and Zod to be their general, Jor-El imagined Krypton stepping out on the wide Galaxy, and becoming a never before seen powerhouse, maybe even making the Green Lanterns obsolete.
Kal-El would be a great diplomat, able to empathise with all races, and to speak out to them, while Kara would be the harsher, more pragmatic right hand man, willing to inform him when it was time to stop being nice.
Unfortunately, after discovering that Krypton was going to be destroyed, Jor-El had to change his plans. He was forced to act before he was ready, and to compain for leaving Krypton far earlier than he planned. He had been playing a very, VERY long game, and was suddenly forced to move decades before he was ready.
Unfortunately, that showed his hand, and he wasn't the only genius in Krypton, much less the best politician. In fact, while he was good, there were much better politicians than him, and they started blocking his every atempt when they realised he wanted to take power.
Had Krypton not been about to explode, he'd have only acted when he was certain, and he would have won.
It was not that Jor-El didn't have other plans, but he was blocked every time and, everything he did was sabotaged by people who thought they knew better, and who were better politicians than him once they realised what he was trying to do.
Once people figured out he had been trying to set things up so he could take over in the future, because he trully believed, (and he was right) that Krypton was in decline, every one of his actions were interpreted as trying to regain his power, not save Krypton.
When Zod atempted to force his hand and start the revolution, Jor-El had a decision to make, The fact was, Jor-El valued all life, including those of "aliens". He was perfectly aware of what kind of person Zod was, to his alies, Zod could be kind but, to his enemies, he was a monster. Unfortunately, Jor-El also knew that Zod saw Kryptonians as superior to every other race.
To support Zod's revolt would be to save Kryptonians, but also unleashe them into the wide galaxy, a race that naturaly believed themselves superior, under a leader that was willing to be as brutal as necessary, and only had the limits others imposed on him. As a general, Zod would only go as far as he was allowed to, as a leader, he would not have any limits.
Worse, from Jor-El's point of view, Zod was convinced that he was right, he would have made small changes to Kryptonian society, but they wouldn't have solved the issues that Jor-El believed to exist and, once he won, Zod could not be defeated, or convinced to step down. Once they were away from the Rao sistem, Zod would probably be exposed to yellow or blue sunlight, resulting on a nearly immortal emperor for the Kryptonian people, and the almost certain full stagnation of their society.
So, he didn't support Zod, and actually argued for sending them to the Phantom Zone, because that would mean Zod would be out of the way, but still alive after Krypton was destroyed. And Jor-El was convinced that his son could earn Zod's loyalty later.
After that, Jor-El continued to try and solve the issue with Krypton, and it was not that he was stupid, but he trully believed that the High Council would see the truth.
It was a combination of his conviction in his own capacity, and hope in his fellow Kryptonians. to the end, Jor-El believed he could suceed, but he wasn't completely blind to the possibility of failure. He planed to send both Kara and Kal away from Krypton before it's destruction and, since he trully believed that his son would be the greatest of them all, Jor-El believed that Kal WAS the future.
It was simple, Jor-El believed he could solve things but, if he couldn't, that would mean that Kryptonian society was even worse than he thought, and he accepted the risk of it's destruction, because he believed that Kryptonian future lay with his son.
It was not that he wanted Krypton to be gone, he did his absolute best to change that, and he believed, and hoped, that he would succed to the very end but, in the VERY, VERY unlikely case that he -GASP- failed? (It wouldn't happen.) He was willing to accept the results as long as Kal survived.
Quick question: Is Power Girl gonna make an appearance in this universe?
She was presented as a Kara from a different dimension, so her appearing in this one might make for some interesting scenarios...
You’ve probably already read the current stuff by now, so I’m posting this reply for people that like reading the comments as they go through a fic. Spoilers, but technically speaking our Kara, the protagonist Kara, is this universe’s powergirl. While it hasn’t been revealed yet how why or when she switched universes (although logically speaking the ‘when’ is between the explosion of her Krypton and when she got sold to this universe’s psions), it has been confirmed that this is indeed the case. With that in mind, the scene wherein Kara receives a powergirl outfit and Kori insists that it’s perfect for her counts as foreshadowing.
(quick disclaimer, I do not know much DC lore, I have basically watched a bit of JLU, and all of young justice, and that's kinda it)
I'm not 100% sure if this is what you are going for, but you seem to be foreshadowing Kara's future powers as being her boring Kryptonian ones PLUS the whole rainbow of "colors of power", basically the "red light of rage", "green light of will", "blue light of hope" and so on. (As a side note, I also noticed the potential connection of what you have had happen so far in the story in relation to what was hinted at by the Green Lanterns, with them not being able to enter the Vega system, my thoughts in spoiler)
It seems to me that you are going to set it up such that the green lanterns power/source was originally
created/discovered by some "progenitor" whether that is a group of beings, alien race, or singular being, I don't know. However, it would seem that some time after creating the lantern corps, the "progenitor" and the corps had some sort of falling out, with the "progenitor" retreating into the vega system, and making a deal with the corps that no lantern can enter, and they won't leave, or something like that. It could have also been this "progenitor" that originally halted the imperialist expansion of the kryptonians, as it wouldn't make sense for a space-faring race to just give up their exploration unless there was a need to, or threat to (even if they weren't in the same system).
Now it would also seem that over time this "progenitor" has declined in power, or died, leading to the problems the Vega system is now facing. In addition the 'psions' were able to somehow acquire an organ from either the corpse of the "progenitors" (if it was a single being), or from one of the "progenitors" (if it was a race of aliens). Then after experimenting on Kara and seeing her regenerate organs in her body each time they were 'scooped' out, they thought maybe they could use her body to 'heal' the organ they got from "progenitor". Then Kara escaped, and now is slowly developing the powers of a "progenitor" of the lantern corps, hence allowing her to eventually use all of them.
Now, taking all of that into consideration, (once again, these are just my thoughts of what could be happening, no real idea if this fits with any lore the author is trying to follow), I think I have an idea for a title. Before I get to the title idea though, I would say you should put the current title (the "reincarnated as supergirl") into the 'story description' so it is still there to be the super short explanation of the general premise of the story, just above the synopsis (if possible).
Now for the new title ideas, my first thought was "Radiant Dawn". 'Radiant', because her powers, both the colors and kryptonian, are based in light of some sort, and dawn because dawn can be thought of as the rise of the light in the morning after the darkness of night, in this case the 'night' being krypton exploding, followed by her being injured, and then captured, and then tortured/experimented on. However, maybe you want to go in a different direction, like 'Astral Kaleidoscope' Astral representing the kryptonian side, so 'from the stars(alien), and powered by stars(blue/yellow suns)', with kaleidoscope representing the main character's eventual rainbow powers, since a kaleidoscope is a weird multi-color viewing thingy. Or maybe just combine the words in a different way, like astral dawn, or astral radiance, or radiant astral kaleidoscope. Or it could be a combination of other words that are similar, like blazing empyrean, stellar radiance, celestial glow, astral ember.
Of course I would say those are weaker in imagery than radiant dawn, and need support for their imagery, like say... 'rising of the celestial ember', or 'understanding the stellar radiance' (the 'understanding' referring to her having to understand the colors to use them). Or, just a classic generic option like 'rising star' (personally I think that's kinda boring), or 'stellar rays of hope' (less boring, but might falsely, or correctly, idk, make people think you will focus on the 'blue light of hope'). Of course that said you can make infinite random explanations behind "Stellar Rays of Hope" with the whole line evoking the idea (theoretically) of someone who has had a rough/bad life rising from their despair with blinding power akin to 'stellar rays', or independent meanings like 'stellar' for alien from the stars powered by sun/star light, 'rays' for Kara's rainbow power, and 'hope' just cause house of El. lol. And lastly, one I don't like, but will still put down in case someone else can use it as inspiration for a better idea, 'rings of krypton' (since her power is basically the lantern's rings, and planets can have rings, and krypton was her home world).
Hopefully one of those or a derivative of them seems good, or hopefully I got someone's creative juices flowing, and we can see a better idea get dropped in the comment section soon. Or maybe something else comes up completely unrelated to those ideas that seems better. Up to you author.
Hmm that was a bit long-winded, oh well. TY for chapters.
That kind of depends on how much reborn affects the story compared to your idea.
Interesting theory you had on the whole Vega system thing, and it sounds very much like something DC would do, but it's simpler than you are thinking (assuming the situation with Vega system is like comics)
So IIRC the importance of the Vega system in DC comics in regards to the Green Lanterns is the fact that it's the home of the Orange Lantern, Larfleez. Orange, being the light of 'Avarice' is held only by one person because he is too greedy to share it, thus he is stupidly powerful since he has a monopoly on the power of the orange light and I think he uses it to make slave constructs of other beings (Been awhile since I read any comic with Larfleez, but I recall a picture of him with countless orange constructs). A long time ago the Guardians tried to defeat Larfleez and failed, and ultimately had to compromise with Larfleez, making Vega off-limits to the GL's so that they wouldn't be at war with him. The Guardians have always had a habit of hiding their failures and oversights to keep up the illusion that they are an omniscient force of good and order since people would lose faith in them if some of their screw-ups were common knowledge, i.e. the Manhunters who predated the Green Lantern Corps (and especially how that screw up gave birth to Atrocitus) and Larfleez. The Guardians especially hate to be reminded of any times they ever acted out of fear and the fact they abandoned a star system to a greedy maniac because he was strong is probably one of their greatest shames.
i remember reading in some version of the multiverse that krypton was destroyed by brainiac
This was really interesting to read, and I’m actually a little curious about future interactions with Zod with this version of Kara intermingling with events and knowing his personality.
Just call these sections, 'SuperLore', or something.
What's going to happen to Artemis Green arrow and Prentice please tell me that relationship with Wally still going to happen
mariage
Marriage.
Thanks for the chapter.
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