Earth's first known contact with Durla was in the late twentieth century, when Durlans joined in the Dominion's twentieth-century invasion of Earth, with ships made up of hundreds of Durlans joined together. One Durlan was on the other side of that conflict. He had escaped Durla some time previously, and crash-landed on Colu, where he became the "pet" of a youngster, Vril Dox II. Dox was handed over by Colu's Computer Tyrants as a prisoner for the Dominion-led alliance, and the Durlan went along with him. He helped found Dox's L. E. G. I. O. N., but before long, disappeared. His fate is unknown.
A planet of xenophobic shape-changers, Durla was something of a surprise when it joined the United Planets under the theocratic rule of the somewhat liberal-thinking priestly class. Durlans are thoroughly unlike any other species in the United Planets, with a special sense that enables them to detect and remember the fundamental structures of other beings ( Legionnaires # 25), a mathematics system that uses base 9 (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 69), and a language unrelated to any linguistic developments among humanoid species. It was one of the members of this priestly caste that was sent to represent the planet in the Legion of Super-Heroes as Chameleon (Legionnaires # 0).
However, Durla's pre-priestly history continues to haunt the Durlans. Before the priests came to power, the secular Durlan government decided to engage in the creation of biological weapons, including using genetic engineering to create mutated Durlans who could mimic not only the forms of other creatures, but their properties as well. The priests considered this sacreligious, and when they came to power, they deactivated these living weapons by imprisoning them inside chemical crystals which would then be placed inside a volcano. The chemical, which deactivated their powers, had to be re-applied periodically, and at the most recent re-application ceremony, one of them broke loose and killed all the priests, who he justly blamed for his imprisonment. This creature, who later came to Earth to hunt down the remaining member of the priestly caste, Legionnaire Chameleon, became known as the Composite Man (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 68-69, Legionnaires # 25). Since the Composite Man's defeat at the hands of the Legion, a number of priests-in-training have been elevated to priesthood, and Chameleon, although off-planet serving as a Legionnaire, has become the de-facto spiritual leader of Durla (Legionnaires # 26). He has managed to resist attempts by other Durlans to make him leave the Legion and take the position actively (Legionnaires # 46), but was forced to return to Durla in response to reaction over a night spent with other Legionnaires in Paris (Legionnaires # 60). As part of his atonement, he had to turn over the spiritual leadership to Nyurt Roz and spend a long time meditating in a dark cave on Durla (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 104).
One other Durlan of note is a criminal who robbed a storekeeper in Paris on Earth and was arrested by several Legionnaires with the help of the mysterious heroine Ink (Legionnaires # 58). On his way to being sent out of the United Planets for his crimes, he escaped the Science Police escorting him with the help of Kono, who was working for the Dark Circle, setting off a new wave of anti-Durlan paranoia (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 104). The paranoia grew so severe, and the Dark Circle's theft of the living weapons was an emergency so dire, that a group of Durlans rebelled against the religious restrictions on contacting Chameleon during his period of penance and approached him to help combat the problem (Legionnaires # 62). Following the murder by the Composite Man of one of Winath's co-presidents, the Affiliated Planets organized a full-scale military blockade of Durla (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 106). Soon, however, the U. P. deduced that the A. P. was intentionally jamming all communication with Durla, and, after having Andromeda destroy the jamming devices, the U. P. managed to finally reach Durla in order to help the planet, where Chameleon and the rebels were in danger after trying to rescue survivors of the Dark Circle raid which freed the living weapons. With the help of several Legionnaires who "resigned" from the Legion to wear Science Police uniforms to enable them to diplomatically land on Durla, they found a single survivor who gave them coordinates of where the living weapons had been taken. They found one of the living weapons, who later took the name Leejah, on a planetoid around Durla, and, while she was not violent as the Composite Man was, she expressed anger at the Durlan culture which led to her imprisonment and inspired Chameleon to fight for change on Durla as well as against the A. P. (Legionnaires # 63). This had to be delayed, though, because before long, the A. P. declared all-out war on Durla. With the help of Chameleon and the other Legionnaires, the Durlans managed to defend themselves well, but true victory didn't come until an anomaly in space exploded, causing time to stop and giving the Legionnaires, who were not stopped along with everyone else, the opportunity to defeat the immobile Dark Circle soldiers (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 107, Legionnaires # 64). The Durlans thanked the Legion and released Chameleon from his priestly duties to resume his life as a Legionnaire (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 108). The spiritual leadership of the planet was taken over by Leejah, the peaceful former "living weapon," and she, as well as R. J. Brand and Orandan King Charlz addressed the galaxy from there for the first time ever in Durlan history (Legionnaires # 65).
One part of Durlan culture that is well-known amongst the United Planets is their music. The Durlan fleeglehorp takes three hands to play (Impulse # 12), and Durlan space-shanties are reknowned for their length (Legends of the Legion # 4).
In the seventy-fifth century, Durlans are very xenophobic and paranoid, and had been, for six centuries prior to that, engaging in the destruction of stars in order to prevent interstellar communications. This was finally stopped by the Legion of Super-Heroes led by Wildfire. Known Durlans from that time-period include the traitorous Legionnaires Graft, Shape and Shift (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 7).
Durlan xenophobia continued even farther into the future. While Durla maintained a membership in the United Planets cluster of planets in the 853rd century (known in that century as Chameleon World), it is completely cut off from all contact with outsiders. What outsiders know of Chameleon World is only that its champion, called Chameleon like his thirtieth-century counterpart, believes strongly in the Durlan taboo against using his shape-changing powers for any purpose other than camouflage. However, he is known to break with that taboo when the lives of his fellow members of Justice Legion L are in danger. When the citizens of Titan tried to cause the United Planets to break up, Durla's isolationism led some members of the JLL to suspect the Durlan of doing it, and Umbra even dared to visit the planet, but Chameleon convinced Umbra that Titan was causing the problem. In reaction to the suspicion, though, the Durlan leaders decided that it would be advantageous to open Durlan society more to the rest of the universe (Legionnaires # 1000000, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 1000000).
Durla (Pre-Boot)
Durla is the home of a race of shape-changers who seldom leave their home and even less often allow outsiders onto it. Once upon a time, the shape-changers were one of many Durlan races, but during the era that the Roman Empire was gaining dominance over a large part of Earth, there was a nuclear exchange known as the "six-minute war," which induced massive mutations in the world's flora and fauna, and left only the shape-changers capable of survival on the inhospitable wasteland the the planet became. The shape-changers are hermaphrodites (although a Durlan living among sexually seperate races will usually adopt a specific sexual identity), and a pair marries and mutually impregnates each other. The two children who are born are raised for several years, whereupon they are required to fight to the death, proving the winner deserving of survival. These savage ways, and the shape-changing nature of Durlans in general, have caused a great prejudice against Durlans on other worlds, which most Durlans don't care about.
Durlan physiology is a mystery to United Planets scientists, as no one knows what a Durlan's natural form is, and it's uncertain if even the Durlans themselves know anymore. What is known is that each Durlan has two organs, manifested as antennae when Durlans take on their United Planets-approved shape, which sense the internal structure of any object, living or unliving, and have a special memory bank which stores these shapes and formations, and enables them to recall a form to imitate as necessary. There are devices that can keep Durlans from changing shape that are clamped on a Durlan's antannae, and which can cause permanent loss of this capacity if left on too long. There is, however, a radiation fountain on Durla which can restore lost shape-changing abilities. Other things that can cause the loss of a Durlan's shape-changing abilities, either temporarily or permanently, are illnesses such as Yorggian Fever and the chemical solution cancellite. A Durlan can also be psychologically made to believe that his abilities have been lost if touched by a jinx-stone, which is extremely unlucky in Durlan tradition ( Adventure Comics # 343).
Earth's first known contact with Durlans was when a small group of shape-changers imitated the Greco-Roman gods and tried to build Greece as a base from which to take over the planet Earth. They encountered some time-lost Legionnaires, and fled the planet when Dream Girl told them about the impending six-minute war (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) Annual # 2).
Earth's next contact with Durlans was two thousand years later, when Durlans joined in the Dominion's twentieth-century invasion of Earth, with ships made up of hundreds of Durlans joined together. One Durlan was on the other side of that conflict. He had escaped Durla some time previously, and crash-landed on Colu, where he became the "pet" of a youngster, Vril Dox II. Dox was handed over by Colu's Computer Tyrants as a prisoner for the Dominion-led alliance, and the Durlan went along with him. He helped found Dox's L. E. G. I. O. N., but before long, was transported through time to the year 2949 by Glorith of Baaldur as part of a plot that led to the creation of the Legion of Super-Heroes. With the help of a young dock worker named Marla Latham and a Durlan smuggler named Theg, he was returned to Durla, and given the name Ren. He married and had children, but then contracted Yorggian Fever, which killed his spouse and would have killed him and Theg if they did not manage to get to the United Planets for treatment. The two of them took on human guise and became known as R. J. Brande and Doyle.
Durla has changed little in the intervening centuries, still being xenophobic to the point of killing all outsiders who set foot on the planet. The planet has seen many of its natives seek ways off in recent times, though, and some liberalization of its policies may soon occur. One known breach in the Durlan quarantine occurred in 2973, when a group of Durlans used a paralysis-gas on all members of the Legion of Super-Heroes except Saturn Girl, who they transported into the Bgztl Buffer Zone by surprise, as they were imitating the other Legionnaires. This group was defeated when Saturn Girl managed to use her telepathy across the dimensions to get an android built in the form of a Durlan, who would walk in on the unsuspecting group and free her. It is not known whether these so-called Chameleon Men had come to Earth with official sanction from the Durlan government or if they were rogues (Action Comics # 287). Meanwhile, the attitude toward Durlans in the United Planets has softened some, thanks in large part to the goodwill efforts of Chameleon Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He was forced to return to Durla in 2984 to restore his shape-changing abilities in the radiation fountain, and had to fight for the right to leave again. His victory has given the tribal leaders of Durla some pause to reconsider their isolation (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 301).
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Vyrga is a United Planets member planet to which Leviathan and Chameleon traveled to evaluate one of its inhabitants, Gates, regarding suitability for Legion membership. Gates, seeing the draft as a form of political oppression, refused to go with them that time (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 66), but eventually, Gates became a Legionnaire (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 76). While most Vyrgans are satisfied with their world's matriarchal government, some, including Gates, feel that this form of government is not properly representative of the peoples' will. While Gates, despite his grievances, is obedient toward the government, another such free thinker, Mantis Morlo, used his knowledge of chemistry to create an army for a violent revolution, which the Vyrgan matriarch called in the Legion to help put down (Legionnaires # 45).
The matriarch has since then had great gratitude for the Legion, and offered the use of Vyrga as a hospital and supply world in the battle against Mordru (Legionnaires # 49).
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Aleph is the home planet of Legionnaire Kinetix, to which Leviathan and Chameleon traveled in order to recruit her (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 66). It is one of the planets that had been served by a Stargate that the Blight passed through on their way to Earth (Legionnaires # 78).
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Talok VIII is the home world of Tasmia Mallor, the Legionnaire Umbra (Legionnaires # 43), who is a distant descendant of the Talokian members of L. E. G. I. O. N., Lyrissa Mallor and Lydea Mallor. The first-borns of the Mallor family have held the position of planetary champion for millenia, with the exception of a few periods in time, such as the mid-21st century, when all living Mallors were cowards. At that time, in the year 2021, Starman Mikaal Tomas, the last survivor of a thirteenth "lost" tribe of Taloks who had inhabited the world Talok III, came to Talok and became champion (Starman (2nd series) # 50). Generally, these champions tended to act as protectors from threats rather than as social policy advisors. When Tasmia became planetary champion, she was led by the spirits of her ancestors to believe that it was her duty to safeguard the cultures of Talok VIII's twelve tribes from being lost through outside influence, but every time she spoke out against such things, she was ignored. The last straw for the Talokians came when she tried to attack an envoy from the United Planets who was offering Talok VIII membership. The tribal leaders wanted it despite Tasmia's objections, and removed her from her position as planetary champion, whereupon she left Talok VIII and joined the Legion (Legends of the Legion # 3).
Talok VIII changed very little over the next eighty thousand years. The only thing that changed significantly was the planet's champion, who continually adapted himself or herself to the universe around Talok. Talok VIII was still part of the United Planets in the 853rd century, and its champion, a being of living darkness who, like his thirtieth-century predecessor, was called Umbra, was a member of the Justice Legion L (Legionnaires # 1000000, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 1000000).
Talok VIII (Pre-Boot)
Talok VIII is a world covered with sandy desert, on which, thousands of years in the past, the blue-skinned humanoid natives had all been worshippers of a diety called Makkas, whose rites included human sacrifice and necromancy. This was changed by an invasion from space, during which "Kings from beyond the Stars" subjugated the native Talokians through machines. The machines mined the world through their Talokian slaves, until a revolutionary movement gathered enough strength to raid the high-walled city the computers had built to safely rule the world from. The revolutionaries, led by a man named Mallor and his lieutenant Daran, stormed the city, losing a large number of their men, until Mallor himself found the machine that felt like it contained a lot of power. He stabbed the machine with his sword, shorting it out and killing the tyrranical Kings, who had been in the palace at the time, in the resulting explosion. This allowed the rebels their victory, and when Mallor, the hero, woke from being knocked out by the explosion, he found that he had absorbed the machine's strange energies, which gave him the power to project shadows. He encouraged his followers to make the city that the robots built their home, and to learn about its technologies, as it was much more comfortable than the mountains where they used to live before. Mallor became the protector of the city, and most Talokians moved into it, becoming cosmopolitans and interstellar merchants, such as Lustig, who helped the underground on Elia at the time Valor was liberating the planet (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 2). Many, however, remained true to the religion of their ancestors, and remained in the mountains. They became known as the Yakka-Mahor, and were, throughout Talokian history, often persecuted for their beliefs (Secret Origins (2nd series) # 8).
A member of the Mallor family has served as the city's protector since the time of that revolution. Family members are not born with the powers; rather, the power must be unleashed, which generally occurs in a ceremony in a cave on the outskirts of the city. Generally, the initiate desribes the experience as a meeting with his or her ancestors, who talk to him or her and then bestow upon him or her the power. Skeptics are of the opinion that the cave actually contains special gases which are hallucinogenic and which give the initiate the powers. Whatever the theory, there is no denying that the cave will do nothing for anyone not of the Mallor family, and there is something fearsome inside the cave that will be placated only by the unique darkness that Mallors produce (L. E. G. I. O. N. '93 # 52-55).
During the twentieth century, Talok's shadow-champion was Lyrissa Mallor, who was handed over to the Dominion-led Earth-invasion alliance as a hostage to ensure that the Talokians would not act against them. She was freed, with several other prisoners, by Vril Dox II of Colu, who used them to liberate his home planet from its tyrranical computer rulers, and then, to found the interplanetary law-enforcement corps L. E. G. I. O. N. (Invasion! # 1-2, L. E. G. I. O. N. '89 # 1-6). Lyrissa, seeing her duty with the group as a higher concern than just serving Talok, left her daughter Lydea with her husband, who was forced to hand her over to the priests of the city to prepare her to be shadow-champion, eventually, in her mother's absence. Unfortunately, the priest was actually Pulsar Stargrave, the bodily shell inhabited by the Computer Tyrants of Colu, who used his science to accelerate her growth to adulthood, unlock a harsher type of shadow-power within her, and instill in her a hatred for her mother. As revenge against the group that deposed him, he sent Lydea to the L. E. G. I. O. N.'s headquarters to kill her mother and any other members that she could. Lyrissa Mallor died at her hands (L. E. G. I. O. N. '90 # 14-22). Dox managed to deprogram Lydea and make her into a bona fide hero. She fell under the thrall of Dox's son, Lyrl, when he usurped his father's authority for a while, but when Lyrl's deeds were undone, Lydea Mallor became known far and wide as the greatest hero ever produced by Talok VIII. (Her genetic material was used by Darkseid to create a Servant of Darkness.)
In the late thirtieth century, the champion of Talok was Sarven Mallor, who died while the city was engaged in hostilities against the angry Yakka-Mahor. He left behind two grandchildren, Tasmia and Grev, who subjected themselves to the cave of shadows and came out Shadow Lass and Shadow Kid (Secret Origins (2nd series) # 8). The two of them helped the city-dwellers drive the mountain men away. Afterwards, Tasmia was chosen as champion because she was older, and Grev left the planet to find a place where he could be useful. In 2978, though, Tasmia had to leave the planet on a diplomatic mission, and the Fatal Five, trapped in another dimension, made contact with some people in the palace in Talok City, and promised them great rewars to build certain machines that would, eventually, allow the villains to free themselves. In order to hide their contact with Talok, the Five ordered that Talok close itself off to all outsiders and begin a massive armament program. Tasmia, unable to return home, called in the Legion of Super-Heroes for help. The Legion and Shadow Lass got onto Talok VIII, and fell into the Fatal Five's traps, freeing themselves, but expending a lot of energy to do so...just as the Five had intended. This energy was fed into the machines that would bridge dimensions, and the Fatal Five were freed. They made their way to Earth and attemoted to take over the United Planets by force, but the Legion, with Shadow Lass as its newest member, managed to stop them (Adventure Comics # 365-366).
In late 2983, the Legionnaires returned to Talok VIII to prevent the theft by Darkseid of a mystical atrifact called the Orb of Orthanax . Ironically, or perhaps intentionally, Darkseid sent his ervant based upon Lydea Mallor to Talok for this purpose (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 290).
Two years later, in 2985, the Yakka-Mahor geared up for another attack on the city, this time led by Lady Memory, the embodiment of Talok's racial memory, who had reached maturity after being raised for this purpose by the monks of Makkas. She hired the Persuader, at the time not working with other members of the Fatal Five, to lead her troops and act as her personal bodyguard. In this capacity, he caught Grev Mallor spying on their camp and captured him. Shadow Lass, who hadn't heard from Grev in a while, got worried and investigated with her boyfriend Valor, who was caught off-guard by Lady Memory's abilities to unlock old memories. This sent Valor on a rampage, which allowed Shadow Lass to get captured, too, a situation that much distressed Wervos Bommer , the 83rd and current Lord Mayor of Talok City. Fortunately, the other Legionnaires managed to sybdue Valor, make their way to Talok, protect the city and capture the Persuader. Lady Memory, on her own desire, fought Shadow Lass head-to-head, but lost. The situation restabilized, Tasmia and the Legionnaires left, leaving Grev as the city's new Champion (Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes # 318-319, Secret Origins (2nd series) # 8).
In 2993, Grev Mallor married Lady Memory in order to unify the planet. This diminished overt strife, but there was still a lot of animosity among the Yakka-Mahor, and when, in 2995, the Khunds volunteered to give them leadership of the planet if they'd attack the city at an advantageous time to draw the planetary defenses away, they agreed. The Yakka-Mahor danced their ritual Trimballa and began a battle against the city, but Shadow Kid and the city's army managed to drive them back while the United Planets fleet and the Legion of Super-Heroes held the Khunds at bay, with Brainiac 5 supplying the technology necessary to counteract the Khunds' weapons (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 15-17).
Among the fauna of Talok VIII are Death-birds, which nest in the mountains and will eat Talokians and humans if it sees them and is hungry (Adventure Comics # 365).
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Aarok is the home planet of Legionnaire XS, and of her father before her. It is home to a number of prestigious scientific institutions, one of which was studying XS when she was drafted into the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Aarok (Pre-Boot)
Aarok is a world with tropical jungles populated by scantily-clad, large-proportioned women (or, as Jamm prefers to think of them, "Amazon Babes") that a few Legionnnaires brought Jamm to at his super-powered request (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 4). Its planetary time had been kept on a clock in the first Legion headquarters (Adventure Comics # 312).
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The Kwai are a race of winged humanoids who have an armor-skin that can cover their body or can be retracted at will to reveal human-like flesh underneath. The evolution of their race was influenced by the appearance of the Progenitor, also knwon as Element Lad . Once upon a time, the Kwai were a warlike race, using their armor for protection in battle, but over time, they developed into a peaceful race of nomads, using this armor-skin only as protection against the rigors of outer space. Aggression is a trait found in only one out of a thousand Kwai, and those Kwai are considered primitive throwbacks, or, in the Kwai vernacular, "lone stars." The Kwai draw resources from the planets on which they land their "brief-homes," and collect water by catching comets.
The Kwai have developed an innate sense of navigation due to their many centuries of wandering, and most are born pathfinders, possessed of a tracking instinct that allows them to locate almost any object, even with only an abstract idea of what the actual object is. Their knowledge of the stars is unparallelled amongst the races in their part of the galaxy. As a result of their dependence on the constancy of the stars, they have developed a superstition around the behavior of meteors, or "feral stars" which are unknown to their maps and wander from place to place. They consider these to be good-luck signs and attempt to follow their path.
Currently, the matriarch of the Kwai tribe that has encountered several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes is Enkenet (Legion Lost # 3). This tribe followed the feral star that was actually the disembodied energy of Legionnaire ERG-1 that fell through a rift in space. This brought them into a sector of space that is dominated by the genocidal Progeny, which has forced the Kwai to constantly relocate their brief-homes in order to hide. However, the Progeny found a trio of Kwai, Kamlos, Reos and Shikari on a comet-hunt. They killed Kamlos and Reos, but Shikari escaped into the remains of the Legion Outpost, and the battle between her and the Progeny awakened the Legionnaires, who saved her (Legion Lost # 1). After escaping from a larger Progeny ship (Legion Lost # 2), Shikari led the Legion to the Kwai brief-home, where the Kwai helped the Legion fix their Outpost and convert it into a spaceworthy living environment and save the life of ERG-1, and supplied the Legionnaires with food, technology and navigational data. The Legion, in turn, bought the Kwai time to escape their brief-home before the Progeny caught up with them. Enkenet, at that time, assigned Shikari to remain with the Legionnaires until they find their way home (Legion Lost # 3).
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The United Planets is a confederation of planetary governments working together for the sake of mutual peace and prosperity. It sets policies among member worlds on matters of trade, settlement of new planets, and the rights of sentient species everywhere. It was founded in the late thirtieth century after the invention of the Stargate made transportation between planets much easier and faster. While there was much resistance to the idea of peaceful confederation at first, notably among Earthling xenophobes (Flash (2nd series) # 114), the general populace of the worlds eventually came around to support it. Its best-known achievement is the treaty it brokered between Braal and Titan, two eventual member worlds which had been at war for decades ( Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 0).
The official law-enforcement arm of the United Planets is the Science Police, which enforces U. P. law (but not local law unless specifically requested by the local authorities) on member planets. Every member planet has a Science Police base. The Legion of Super-Heroes is sanctioned as law-enforcement as well, handling cases too dangerous for ordinary S. P. officers and often handling problems on not-yet-member worlds, thus serving as de-facto ambassadors to show the outsiders what the unity of the U. P. is like. Despite some resistance to the Legion at first, the United Planets council, during the vote which made the confederation official, agreed to the idea once the original members saved the U. P. council chambers from a bomb planted by White Triangle terrorists, to whom the very idea of a union between different species was anathema (Legionnaires # 0).
The United Planets also maintains a fleet in case of war against outside powers. Two of the higher-ranking officials in the fleet are General Hol and Fleet Admiral Everett (Legionnaires # 49-51, 57, 63,74). Amongst the soldiers of this fleet are Rimmer, Reyep, Rios and Richards, who served in the campaign against Mordru (Legionnaires # 51) and Ryder and Merk, who stood guard over Mordru's prison after the Elementals attack (Legionnaires # 76)..
The U. P.'s headquarters are on Earth, and the organization employs a lot of staff to maintain the building and its annexes. The inert Composite Man had been kept in a U. P. warehouse, but he was freed during an attack by Sklarian Raiders (Legionnaires # 53), and he killed two U. P. employees who went to survey the damage, Muhr-Rey and Moort (Legionnaires # 55).
The United Planets Council, made up of ambassadors from every member world, meets on Earth and was headed by Earth's President Jean Chu before she confessed to a host of crimes. Her place was taken by Earthman R. J. Brande (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 80). Among the other members are Winema Wazzo, ambassador from Bgztl, whose daughter Tinya became the Legionnaire caled Apparition, Roxxas, the former ambassador from Daxam and his successor, Obin Der, Ambassador Dowal, the representative from Aleph (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 72), Representative Arn Kwin of Braal (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 72), Representative Xamuel Ivar of Titan (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 72 ), a long-necked delegate named Gollo (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 78), Ambassador Dao Ilbruct, who invited Talok VIII into the U. P. (Legends of the Legion # 3) and Ar'By of Gil'Dan, secretly a spy for the Dark Circle (Legionnaires # 62).
The United Planets is a very generous organization and often extend a helping hand to non-member planets or races which are suffering, with hopes that that race will join. The U. P. offered the Sklarians whose home planet was destroyed by Mordru a new planet on which to settle, but the Sklarians were not satified with it, and even attempted to kill President Brande over the perceived insult. (This was actually due to active manipulation of the Sklarians by the Dark Circle (Legionnaires # 57).
Recently, the Dark Circle-run Affiliated Planets has been actively competing with the U. P., and trying to steal away its member planets, such as Xanthu, by staging emergencies and "solving" the problem (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 101-103, Legionnaires # 58-59). The Dark Circle used a Durlan thief to scare other planets, such as Winath and Orando into leaving the U. P. and joining the A. P. (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 104). They then used the Composite Man as an agent of terror to induce Winath of the Affiliated Planets, to wage war against Durla and the United Planets. The Legion had already been investigating the A. P., and when total war broke out, the Legion managed to expose the Dark Circle and defeat them, thanks to the fortutous halt of the flow of time (Legionnaires # 62-64, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 106-108). Soon, Orando and Gil'D rejoined the United Planets, but other A. P. planets decided to keep the new federation, restructured to avoid the kind of tactics that the Dark Circle used to manipulated them (Legionnaires # 65).
A partial listing of members includes: Aarok, Aleph, Anatac, Alkoz (since left to join the Affiliated Planets), Angtu (before it was destroyed), Ardemo, Bgztl, Bismoll, Braal, Cargg, Chiron, Colu, Corvan IV, Cyranus, Daxam, Domar, Dryad (before it was destroyed) Durla, Earth, Enwa, Exor, Fandua, Fawcettworld, Gahhn, Ganz, Gil'D (before it was destroyed, and except for a brief period of Affilaited Planets dual-membership), Grxyor, Ikro, Imsk, J'ff'n (since left to join the Affiliated Planets), Jorna, Kathoon, Korr, Lallor, the Lycidian Hegemony, Lythyl (since left to join the Affiliated Planets), Manna-5, Mars, Mellorus-7, Mohado, Myar, Naltor, Nitwon, Orando (left to join the affiliated planets and then rejoined), Orsde, Pasnic, Phlon, Plevitz (since left to join the Affiliated Planets), Quarantine, Rann, Remor, RimborRIMBOR_NEW, Risijs, Rovann, Rygor, Schwar, Silvan, Swizzar, Syngtom, Talok VIII, Taltar, Tanvor, Tharr, Titan, Toonar, Tsuron, Vaalor-7, Venegar, Vyrga, Winath (since left to join the Affiliated Planets), Xanthu (since left to join the affiliated planets), Zadron and Zuun.
New planets are constantly applying for membership to the U. P., including Anthropologia, Mox and Sarccus, which are all still under consideration (Showcase '95 # 6), and Trom, which had its population completely killed (with the exception of Jan Arrah) during the conference to discuss its possible membership (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 71). (Trom was later awarded honorary membership in the U. P. (Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files # 2).
Four millenia after it was first founded, the United Planets was dissolved due to a lack of ability to maintain communications. This problem was brought about by Durlans, who distrusted other races and wished to sow dissention amongst them in order to keep themselves safe froma possibly hostile galaxy. The Durlans used a cannon to emit an energy-pulse which rendered interplanetary communications impossible. This was a process that they repeated every hundred years, until the seventy-fifth century, when Wildfire managed to organize a new Legion of Super-Heroes which stopped the Durlans before they could fire the cannon again, and this success spurred the re-creation of the United Planets (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 7).
Over the next eighty thousand years, United Planets citizens expanded their range to the point where they ended up forming United Galaxies as well. However, a few worlds of the original, thirtieth-century United Planets saw in themselves a special bond as part of humanity's constant cycle of expansion and contraction. Thus, in the 853rd century, the planets Braal, Titan, Cargg, Talok VIII, Durla, Colu-Bgztl and Daxam-Imsk joined themselves together through Braal's magnetism as the United Planets Cluster, and traveled throughout the galaxy broadening their diversity with the intention to return to Earth in the year 85271 to introduce their new races to Earth and to take on new pure-blooded Earthlings as anchors for their expansion, properly timed to co-incide with the emergence from Earth's sun of the prime Superman. However, as the United Planets Cluster headed for Earth, their champions, the Justice Legion L, received a warning of something dire that was to happen on Earth. The Titanians, who did not want their perfect society affected by such a disaster, built an engine to propel their planet free of the U. P., and their champion, Titangirl, attempted to sabotage the Justice Legion L's efforts to stop the disaster from occurring by mentally making the heroes think that the Cluster's magnetism was fading. Titangirl, however, was exposed by her teammates and Titan was expelled from the Cluster. Eventually, the remainder of the U. P. cluster reached Earth (Legionnaires # 1000000, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 1000000).
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The United Planets is a quasi-governmental body formed in the wake of the surge of colonization activity following World War VI in the late twenty-eighth century. At first, it served solely as a vehicle for diplomatic relations between Earth and its colony worlds; its mission, over the early decades of the twenty-ninth century, grew to include coordination of settlement policy, trade agreements, and inter-species relations, including arbitration of disputes. Its efficiency in handling these matters became widely publicized to the point where non-human planets joined and formed, in addition to the above, a massive defensive alliance against hostile races such as the Khunds and the Dominion. The U. P. runs a fleet and a Militia Academy to aid in the defense of its borders, and it also runs the central Science Police to coordinate law enforcement on member worlds.
Due to its origin as a meeting place for Earth's and its colonies' representatives, it maintained its headquarters on Earth for over a century. However, the space demands and inconvenient location made it necessary for the organization to leave Earth in the early thirtieth century, and the artificial planet Weber's World was built to be the new meeting place for the United Planets. Despite the fact that it has not been located on Earth for a long time, Earth has always been a player with great influence on the galactic scene, and the Dominion-inspired secession of Earth in late 2989 almost caused an organizational crisis. The leadership of other worlds and the encroaching Khunds kept the United Planets solidly together despite Earth's non-participation, and the organization managed to hold up, if not exactly thrive.
In 2994, former Earth Ambassador Anton Relnic, who severed his ties with Earth in order to remain in diplomacy, was named chairman of the U. P. Council. He came with an impressive resume, which included the negotiation of diplomatic accords with the Dominion (Superboy (and the Legion of Super-Heroes) # 225, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 241-245, Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 29, 32-34, Annual # 3) and attempts at such with the Khunds (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 307-310) and the rooting out of Dark Circle agents in the Science Police heirarchy (Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes # 314-315 ). He ranked so high that both Mordru and Universo, through impersonation (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 241-245 ) and hypnosis (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 29-34) respectively, found it advantageous to influence others using his image. It was he who was in charge of organizing the evacuation of Weber's World during the Magic Wars and keeping whatever would be necessary for the U. P.'s recovery afterward (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 62). He made recapture of Earth at earliest opportunity one of his highest priorities, and, when Earth President Tayla Wellington was murdered, he orchestrated the activity (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 30-36). Months later, he was again controlled by Universo, this time into believing the Legion guilty of conspiracy with the Khunds, even as he attempted to negotiate with them (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 50, 53-59).
Vice-chairperson of the United Planets Council is Aplynn Jeryl of Arcturus, who had some shady incidents in her past and was thus blackmailed in 2983 by a scoundrel named Giy Delor in a scheme undone with the help of Legionnaire Chameleon Boy ( Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 249). She dated him for a while, but they broke up after his ill-advised mission to Khundia later that year. She visited Naltor for the pre-game ceremonies of the batball championships in 2995 (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 37), and New Earth later that year to see what kind of assistance the U. P. could give it when she was attacked by the re-formed Fatal Five, and saved by the New Earth team of Legionnaires (Legionnaires # 5-6). She also serves as a regular member of the council, unlike Relnic (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 53).
Commander-in-Chief of the United Planets military forces is King Jonn of Pasnic, in exile due to the Khunds. Working under him is Admiral Darios, a Hykraian under whose command the U. P. Fleet recaptured Earth (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 30 -36), Captain Heiple, who captained one carrier in that fleet, the Kenrik (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 35), Braden, who helped defend the Militia Academy from th e Khunds (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 15), and Luornu and Chuck Taine, who run the Militia Academy. The main Fleet base is the planet Amadus (Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes # 324). H'Wann is one of the shipbuilders who customizes starships for the special needs of the United Planets (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 30). The Fleet supplied major assistance in the evacuation of Earth when the planet was destroyed; one crewman involved in the operation was Cotreau (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 39).
The Galactic Coordinator is the title held by the most senior official in the United Planets, which happens to be a being named **Q from the planet (CR)dx. His job is to appear at every official ceremony, including the signing of peace treaties, such as the one between the U. P. and the Dominion in 2982 (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 245) and the inauguration of Earth's Presidents, such as Mojai Desai's in 2985 (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 11).
The diplomatic corps includes Councillor Hathoir, who in 2973 got the Council to amend a law that would have otherwise prevented R. J. Brande from forming the Legion of Super-Heroes (Secret Origins (2nd series) # 25), Ambassador Yeasmir, a Gil'Dishpan whose powers of negotiation are highly respected, and who sat in on the Relnic-Khund negotiations of 2985 (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 307-310), Consul Gldran, who was attcked during the Earthwar and saved by the Legionnaires ( Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 242), Ambassador Sten, from Rimbor (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 55-56 ), Ambassador Kaye of Winath (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 56), and Ganet of Orando (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 54).
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Binderaan is a planet which, as of the thirtieth century, had never been inhabited by sentient beings. Centuries later, after Earth was destroyed, humans colonized it. At some point before the ninetieth century, it became home to a portal that led to the Rock of Eternity, the home of the wizard and former Earth hero Captain Marvel.
In the ninetieth century, in Binderaan's largest city, Schaffenburgh, a terrorist attacked a crowd of people including yound Cece Beck. The attack teleported Cece to the Rock of Eternity, where Captain Marvel endowed her with his powers, turning her into the heroine Thunder. Thunder later captured that terrorist and became a well-known hero on Binderaan (Power of Shazam Annual # 1).
Months later, Cece was traveling through time by using the Rock of Eternity when it exploded, leaving her stranded in the late thirtieth century. It was then that Cece visited Binderaan and discovered it to be uninhabited (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 110).
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Fawcettworld is a United Planets member planet inhabited by descendants of the inhabitants of the ancient Earth city Fawcett City, former home of the hero Captain Marvel and his family. It is home to both human beings and a race of humanoid tiger-like beings. The planet, for most of its history, ran on magic power derived from the Rock of Eternity and a magical ancient flame which channeled the power once wielded by Captain Marvel and his compatriots. This power also powered Fawcettworld's leader, a computer called S.H.A.Z.A.M. which, due to the flame's magic, exhibited extraordinary wisdom and worked with extraordinary speed.
This existence came to an end in the late thirtieth century when Doctor Savant, who had left Fawcettworld and learned science, went on a fanatical campaign to wipe out all magic. He succeeded in destroying the Rock of Eternity and shutting down the flame, which caused worldwide disasters on Fawcettworld. Fortunately, the Legion was there when the disasters occurred, as they were trying to track down the source of the rocks which had once been pieces of the Rock of Eternity. They saved most Fawcettworld residents from harm in the ensuing disasters, and Thunder, a future wielder of the Captain Marvel power, stopped Savant from sealing off the portal that leads to the Rock of Eternity's former location. Savant was imprisoned, but the damage had already been done, and Fawcettworld was forced to build power plants based on scientific principles (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 110).
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Teall is a dimension accessible through a black hole in which energy is more stable than matter. It is the home of a group mind of non-sex-specific energy-beings who are capable of inhabiting and manipulating solid matter. In 2985, they conceived the possibility that their universe might contain other energy-planets with other energy-beings that could be assimilated into the group mind. They chose their most independent thinker as their "astronaut" for this mission of exploration, but instead of looking for new beings to include in the group mind, it went through a black hole and ended up in the dimension of matter. The astronaut didn't come back; instead, it decided it was having fun in the matter universe and joined the Legion of Super-Heroes under the name Quislet. Quislet was therefore labeled a thief and a traitor to Teall.
In 2987, the Teallians used a black hole to kidnap Quislet from its room in the Legion's headquarters, and by accident, they also broiught Wildfire, an energy-being who was being taught by Quislet to control his form. Wildfire escaped on his own, but Quislet remained captive until it bluffed the Teallians into letting it go by telling them that the ship, with which it was captured, was booby-trapped. They let Quislet go, but Quislet remained a criminal in their eyes (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 44).
Quislet's ship was destroyed by the Emerald Empress in early 2989, and this forced it to return to Teall (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 58). Quislet's fate since its return is unknown, but is suspected that Quislet had been punished somehow.
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Starhaven
Starhaven is a world near the galactic core, which was settled in the 27th century by Native Americans looking for a more spiritually pure land than Earth was at that time. While the planet is technologically in tune with the rest of the United Planets, technological artifacts are limited to specific areas of the globe, leaving most of the natural areas pristine. Through genetic mutation and selective breeding, Starhaveners have become excellent trackers and navigators, with something of a sixth sense about their quarries, and some have developed wings, invulnerability and flight powers, which, after several generations, enabled the best of them to exceed the speed of light. Many natives of Starhaven earn livings as navigators and bounty-hunters, including Dawnstar, the most developed of them all, who eventually came to the notice of R. J. Brande and used these powers to join the Legion of Super-Heroes (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 240).
The Starhaveners continue to keep some traditions, some of them slightly modified, they brought with them from Earth, including taking a "grand tour of the galaxy" upon one's eighteenth birthday to discover the person who would become one's mate. Dawnstar did this in 2984, and was interrupted by Wildfire just when the face of the person was supposed to appear to her. She originally took this as a sign that Wildfire himself was the chosen one, but has since experienced doubts about that (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 306-311). They also have a trial for helping one confront his or her fears, involving some form of hallucinogenic herbal smoke, which Dawnstar went through after her recovery from possession by the Bounty entity (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 55).
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Marzal is an island that had been populated completely by Africans until the decimation of its inhabitants by the Dominators in 2994. It was discovered in the seventeenth century by African captives of European slavers who, led by their chieftain St'balla, rebelled and took over the ship on which they were held captive. The Africans steered the ship until discovering the island, which they named Marzal, a word which meant "New World" in their language. Soon after they settled it, the island disappeared into another dimension, which they took as a sign from the gods that they would be safe there from the "white devils" who had plagued them before.
In the late nineteenth century, Marzal re-emerged into Earth's dimension, whereupon the Marzallians understood that the island was dimensionally unstable, and it stayed in Earth's dimension for about thirty years out of every two hundred. Marzallian society progressed in approximately the same way that Earth technology did over the next thousand years.
In the thirtieth century, a mutant child was born on Marzal, who had the power to draw on the energy of the dimensional rift around the island to produce odd effects with his voice. Troy Stewart was given the name Tyroc, a Marzallian word meaning "scream of the devil," and appointed the island's protector. When Marzal reappeared on Earth late in the century, it was beset by difficulties, and the Marzallians had to deal with them on their own, a fact which led them to conclude that thirtieth-century Earth society was prejudiced against blacks. So when a satellite carrying stolen jewels crashed on Marzal in 2981, and the Legion tried to retrieve it and prevent the criminal Beta Gang from doing so, they were received coolly by the Marzallians, and chased away by Tyroc. However, when Tyroc was in deadly danger from poison radiation emissions from the stolen jewels, the Legionnaires rescued him and convinced him that they treated people of all races equally. Tyroc eventually joined the Legion ( Superboy (1st series) # 216).
Tyroc spent most of his Legion career on detached duty, though, since he was still responsible for defending Marzal. In late 2983, Marzal disappeared again, a bit earlier than usual, due to the effects of Tyroc's power. Tyroc went with his people, and Marzal was not expected to appear again for two centuries (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 265).
Those who did not expect to see Marzal again were mistaken, though. In early 2994, when the Dominators controlled Earthgov, they felt their popularity among the peoples of Earth slipping, and felt they needed a quick boost. In order to do that, they decided to fake an attack by the Khunds and claim victory, so they could convince the Earthmen that they were on their side in a common battle. Using recordings of Tyroc's voice, they managed to get Marzal to reappear in Earth's dimension, and then destroyed the city (which this time appeared in the middle of Africa rather than in the ocean like usual), claiming the Khunds had teleported in a city full of terrorists. Tyroc and the few other survivors made their way to the resistance movement led by Jacques Foccart, and have helped defeat the Dominators, getting, in small measure, their revenge for the destruction of their people.
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Korbal is a barren planetoid uninhabited by any sentient creature. The only significant beings that live there are lightning beasts, which absorb and discharge electrical energy such as is found in abundance flashing through Korbal's skies. Some months before the founding of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Garth, Ayla and Mekt Ranzz were stranded there and attempted to trick the lightning beasts into recharging their spaceship, but the beasts turned on them instead and they received powers similar to the beasts' own abilities ( Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 0, 64).
Mekt, who embarked on a life of crime as Lightning Lord, discovered that the lightning beasts, when killed, discharged their lightning and that he could absorb it, making him more powerful. When Garth, as Live Wire, came looking for him, Mekt brought him to Korbal and showed him this phenomenon, telling him that he would soon be the only lightning-powered creature alive...no more lightning beasts, or Garth or Ayla. Garth fought him, and with the arriving Ayla's help, defeated him, but at the cost of his right arm. The lightning beast herd has been decimated, but not completely wiped out, as Mekt had hoped (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 73, Legionnaires # 30).
Months later, after Ayla, a. k. a. Spark, had been to the twentieth century and had her power changed, she returned to Korbal in the hopes of getting them back. A lightning beast attacked her as she hoped it would, but it killed her rather than empowering her, and she was revived only through the delicate application of electricity gathered from Korbal's skies, which is full of lightning since the killing of most of the lightning beasts. The revival gave her back energy powers of some sort, but they appear to be somewhat different from her original lightning powers (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 101).
Korbal (Pre-Boot)
Korbal is the planetoid where lightning beasts come from; due to the constant electrical storms in its atmosphere, they are the only creatures that could possibly thrive there. In 2971, the siblings Garth, Ayla and Mekt Ranzz were forced to make an emergency landing there when their ship lost its power. They tried to get the lightning beasts to recharge the ship; instead, the creatures attacked the Ranzzes, empowering them and turning them into Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass and Lightning Lord, respectively (Adventure Comics # 308, Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 45). When Lightning Lad died in 2975, Lightning Lass brought his body there and took his place in his crypt to join the Legion and keep his memory alive (Adventure Comics # 308), and the Legion of Super-Heroes left his body there. When they found a Daxamite life-force transfer machine they could use to revive him, they set it up in Korbal, so that the selection of who would sacrifice his or her life for Lightning Lad's would be properly random, whoever was struck by the atmospheric lightning, which turned out to be Chameleon Boy's pet, Proty (Adventure Comics # 312).
The Science Police maintains a post on Korbal to prevent others from killing themselves trying to duplicate the Ranzzes' empowerment.
Dryad is a world whose native population consists of rock-like beings. There were originally two distinct races of Dryadians, one of which lived on the surface of the planet, the females of which had a crystalline surface after the onset of sexual maturity. The last known member of this species was Strata, who was a founding member of the intergalactic police force L. E. G. I. O. N. in the late twentieth century. The other race has a rocky appearance, and they live under the surface (Trinity # 2). The members of this race are very reclusive, and the world came to be thought of as unpopulated.
Shortly before the origin of the Legion, lifeforms from the United Planets attempted to colonize the world, making it part of the U. P. Their attempts at transforming the terrain came to the attention of the native Dryads, who eventually accepted the colonists' peaceful intentions and signed a treaty with them. However, the natives were naive and expected the colonists to honor their traditions and needs even if they were not specified in that contract. This caused tension between the natives and the colonists, and led to some wary natives remaining awake at a time of year when most of them choose to hibernate. One of these wary natives was Brika. Her suspicions proved justified when the colonists attempted to start developing land under which many of her clan were hibernating. Brika pleaded with the colonists to hold off developing that region until the other Dryadians could be awakened and relocated, but the colonists, citing the treaty, refused (Legionnaires # 71).
The conflict came to a head when, during this stand-off, Brika was possessed by the Elemental Rrox. Rrox sensed Brika's disappointment over the treatment of her planet and, responding to what it perceived to be its host's desires, caused the planet to explode beneath its feet before taking off for JS-1967 in order to destroy Mordru (Legionnaires # 71-72). However, the Legion of Super-Heroes worked to stop them from inadvertantly awakening the powerful sorcerer, and during that fight, Brika's personality was re-asserted. Not being the violent type, Brika rejected the Elemental's possession, allowing it to be re-captured by the sorceress Mysa ( Legionnaires # 73). Then Brika, distraught over what she had done and feeling no reason to continue with life now that her beloved home planet no longer existed, committed suicide (Legionnaires # 74).
It is unknown if any other Dryadians survived the planet's destruction.
Dryad (Pre-Boot)
Dryad, also known as Korlon, has been inhabited by silicon-based rock-beings since before the twentieth century. There had apparently been two different species, the surface-dwellers, among whom the males are rock-like and the women crystalline, and the cave-dwellers, among whom all are like rock, but whose shapes of each sex look more similar to carbon-based humanoid lifeforms (Trinity # 2), though males go through a rather radical metamorphosis in their adolescent stage. The surface species apparently died out, but the greatest hero of Dryad until its destruction was Strata, a surface being who helped found the L. E. G. I. O. N. in the late twentieth century.
The absence of life on the surface led Dryad to be dropped from the planetary star maps, until it was "discovered" by colonizing humans in the thirtieth century. Not detecting any carbon-based lifeforms, the humans assumed the planet to be devoid of sentient life, and colonized it. Several years later, after determining their peaceful intent, the silicon-based Dryads revealed themselves to the humans, and the two species lived peacefully side-by-side for decades.
Then, in 2980, the planet's core was discovered to be unstable, and the Legion of Super-Heroes led a massive evacuation effort. It was mostly successful, but they failed to rescue six youths, five human and one silicon, who were instead taken by the Dark Man. He duped them into believing that the Legionnaires had actually destroyed the planet, and gave them super-powers. Titania, Lazon, Mist Master, Neutrax, Silver Slasher and Blok became the Dark Man's League of Super-Assassins and went to Earth in 2983 to fight the Legion, a fight which they lost (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 272, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 253-254). While the Dark Man had done a good job of brainwashing the humans, Blok was less susceptible to his psychic abilities, and when the Dark Man engaged in another scheme against the Legion, he joined the Legion against his former master (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 270-271).
Blok was believed to be the last silicon survivor of Dryad before his death at the hands of Roxxas the Butcher in 2994. It is possible, however, that others survived the planet's destruction. The humans all escaped the dying planet, including the Super-Assassins. Among the human colonists of Dryad are Doctor Hosono, who first set foot on the planet, and Jorj, Marta and Gretal, the family of three to whom the silicons first revealed themselves (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 272).
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