Bismoll is a United Planets world on which every inhabitant is capable of eating all forms of matter, through a super-corrosive agent in their saliva. Tenzil Kem, the Legion of Super-Heroes' chef, hails from this planet (Legionnaires # 35).
One seventy-fifth century Bismollian is Nervosa, a member of Wildfire's Legion of Super-Heroes (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 7).
Bismoll (Pre-Boot)
Bismoll is a world which was settled by human beings without super-powers, but when deadly microbes infested all organic matter on the planet. Cut off from all outside contact, the Bismollians reached inside themselves to keep from starving to death...they engineered a genetic change in themseves that enabled them to eat inorganic materials. As the generations went by, natural selection favored those who were able to get the most efficiency out of their food, and those with extremely strong teeth and jaws, to the point where most Bismollians are capable of taking a bite out of anything, even objects which are normally indestructible, such as the Miracle Machine (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 251) and the Persuader's Atomic Axe ( Legionnaires # 6), both of which were destroyed by Matter-Eater Lad, who joined the Legion of Super-Heroes with his ability to eat matter in all forms. Unlike many other Legionnaires whose powers are present in all natives of their home planets, whose abilities are stronger or better-developed, his eating ability is typical, a fact that has aroused the jealousy of others, who have tried to take his place in the Legion, such as Calorie Queen, who could actually convert her food energy into super-strength ( Superboy (1st series) # 212), and his own brother Renkil (Superboy (1st series) # 184). Bismoll tries to encourage tourism, but the local cuisine tends to chase potential tourists away.
The political system of Bismoll is a strange one, in which a person gets drafted for political service, much in the way that governments at war draft people into their armies. Matter-Eater Lad was drafted by his parents' party to run for parliament in 2981, for the sake of lending his popularity to the party's platform rather than for any ideas of his own. He ended up turning the tables on them, though, and quickly became so popular that he was able to pursue an independent agenda and his career has been one of the most productive of any politician in the United Planets. His only notable loss came in late 2985, when he voted against the installation of a new computer system for Bismoll, but the attack by Pulsar Stargrave that this brought about and his subsequent stopping of Stargrave with the help of the Legion of Substitute Heroes only increased his popularity (Legion of Substitute Heroes Special # 1). His political enemies were quick to vacate his parliament seat when he was believed dead in late 2994, but his replacement, Calorie Queen, has proved to be quite capable at advancing his former agenda.
The local fauna is quite varied, and includes the Puffer Fish that is very difficult to breed in captivity. The first specimen ever to be so bred was the object of an attempted theft soon after its birth by Garak of the Glow (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 51).
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Trom is a world on which every inhabitant is capable of transmuting substances from one element to another. Trommites led a very spiritually-oriented life, spending much of their day in prayer, and believing that all life...and death...is just a series of transmutations to another state, each of which is sacred in its own way. For a long time, the only outsider who knew of Trom's existence was R. J. Brande , who struck up a partnership with Tarn Arrah, its leader, for the creation of a new element, Tarnium, which could power Brande's Stargates. After prolonged contact with Brande, though, Tarn decided that his planet should join the United Planets federation. This would have gone smoothly if not for the treachery of Roxxas, the Daxamite ambassador to the United Planets who was secretly a member of the White Triangle cult, which felt threatened by the U. P. in general, and knew they'd never be able to destroy it if Trom joined. Therefore, during the very conference that was intended to discuss Trom's potential membership in the U. P., Roxxas sent twelve Daxamite White Trianglers to use their laser-vision powers to burn every living thing on Trom (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 71).
The only survivor of Trom is Jan Arrah, Tarn's son, who went off-planet with R. J. Brande shortly before the destruction in order to create Tarnium for Stargates to replace those that the White Triangle had destroyed. After helping stop the Trianglers from destroying Earth as well, Jan returned to Trom, where he was making monuments for the deceased Trommites until he was interrupted by President Chu ( Legionnaires # 29, 34, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 80). He stil occasionally returns there to continue that work (Legionnaires # 43, 45).
Trom was granted honorary U. P. membership in memory of the deceased Trommites (Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files # 2).
Trom (Pre-Boot)
Trom is a world that is highly radioactive, on which there is only one small valley that is at all inhabitable. It was settled by humaniods well before Earth had invented space travel, and the humans developed the ability to change one element to another. They built a highly spiritual society around this ability, and strongly discouraged the use of the ability off their world, for fear that they might kill with a whim. Even on Trom, self-control is one of the first things a Trommite baby learned. There had been a few rogues in Trom's history, most notably Dagon-Ra, a space pirate who terrorized the Alpha Centauri sector during the late twentieth century before being stopped by the L. E. G. I. O. N.
Trom had occasionally been approaced by pirates and profiteers who tried to induce them to use their Trommite powers for financial gain. None ever had any success. In 2974, Roxxas the Butcher threatened to wipe them all out if they wouldn't agree to help him, and when they refused, he attacked the valley in which they lived, not realizing that this was the only place on the planet that they lived. By the time he was done, there was only one survivor...a young boy named Jan Arrah, who fled the planet and eventually found refuge in the Legion of Super-Heroes as Element Lad. The Legion captured Roxxas and put him in prison for his crime of genocide (Adventure Comics # 307). However, he escaped several years later, and returned to the scene of the crime, using Trom as a hideout that no one would find. He was captured there by the Legion, though, who discovered he went mad from being haunted by the supposed spirits of dead Trom (Superboy (1st series) # 211).
Element Lad, as the sole survivor of Trom, is legally considered the planet's sovoreign, and has decided to leave the world unsettled. He has placed a Tsarin crystal to mark the resting place of every corpse, and caretaker robots supplied by the United Planets have kept them unmolested by weeds and predators. Element Lad returns there often for contemplation, and he once brought his girlfriend Shvaughn Erin along (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 27). It has been attacked by the Emerald Empress in 2989 (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 58) in a battle that led to the departure of Quislet for its home dimension. When the Legion broke up, Element Lad went there to meditate, and that is where he was found, in 2994, by Devlin O'Ryan, Celeste Rockfish and Bounty when they were on the trail of Roxxas (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 6-7). He was also there when Roxxas returned at Mordru's behest to raise the Trommite dead, and he was able to stop their destructive rampage on Pasnic only by turning their bodies into Tsarin crystal, an act which gave him a brain hemmorage (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 44-47). He has since recovered, but has yet to return, preferring to convalesce on New Earth.
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Hykraius is a world with a thick methane atmosphere, which the telepathic, telekinetic, yellow-skinned fish-like inhabitants call "Great Mother Ocean." The Hykraians were completely unaware of the existence of any other planet until they were visited by the Gil'Dishpan, a space-faring methane-breathing race. With the help of the Gil'Dishpan, the Hykraians reached the stars and Hykraius eventually became a member world of the United Planets (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 29).
Because methane atmospheres are not common on inhabited wotlds, most Hykraians don't leave their planet. But one youngster named Ganglios decided that he could do a lot of good with his telepathy and telekinesis and asked the Legion Academy to accommodate him. They did, first, with a special chamber, and later, with a helmet, and in 2986, he won Legion membership as Tellus. He brought other Legionnaires to his home planet later that year when the trail of some missing Science Police officers seemed to lead through there, actually, the reported sightings were a trap set by Universo, who had hypnotized a Hykraian to lead the Legionnaires into a trap in the Valley of Peaks, where Zymyr laid in wait for them, to teleport them to deathtraps that would wear them out defending themselves, and then to Universo's headquarters on Earth, where, in their tired state, they would fall to his hypnotism easily (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 30, 32-34).
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