Kryptonian

Kryptonians are an endangered near-Human species from the now-destroyed planet Krypton. Superman is the last of the Kryptonians. They are the natural enemies of the Dheronian species as every 20 years they were at war for each other's treasures.

Powers & Abilities
Kryptonians, once outside their star sytem, acquire new abilities determined by the frequency of each sun's light and internal radiation. White stars, dwarf stars, and blue stars all give them different properties. Their cells are natural solor bataries that absorb and matabolize solar energy, giving them their various abilities.

Yellow Sun Abilities

 * Superhuman Strength: Kryptonians can bend steel in their bare hands, reduce a thick wooden door to splinters, as well as lift large military vehicles high over their heads and use them as crusher to demolish Dheronian droids.
 * Superhuman Speed: Kryptonians can move and fly so fast that they appear as blurs.
 * Superhuman Endurance: Kryptonians never get tired or back down from a physical fight.
 * Superhuman Senses: Kryptonians have heightned physical senses; able to hear far off sounds and see across countries on the other side of the world as well as at the molecular level.
 * Superhuman Mentality
 * Superhuman Agility: Kryptonians possess superhuman reflexes and reactions; allowing them to interact with the slowed-down world as if they were moving normally while moving at superhuman speed.
 * Invulnerability: Kryptonians are immune to heat and empervious to physical truma and injuries.
 * Healing Factor: Kryptonians heal from physical wounds such as cuts in less than momments. They are immune to mental and physical ailments and illnesses as well, unless exposed to green or silver Kryptonite.
 * Heat Vision: Kryptonians can burn objects with their gaze.
 * X-Ray Vision: Kryptonians can see through walls.
 * Vortex Breath: Kryptonians can stop rivers with the massive physical force of their breath.
 * Flight: Kryptonians can fly.

Pulsar & Quasar Abilities
Power beyond imagining.

Weaknesses

 * Kryptonite: Fragments of Krypton's radioactive core. The radiation affects Kryptonians and Humans in various ways depending on the color and radiation.
 * Black Holes: Black holes consume Kryptonians completelly.
 * Magic: Magical spells, powers, creatures, and afflictions affect Kryptonians just as they do Humans.
 * Red Stars: The frequincy of Kryptons red sun, real or synthetic, takes away a Kryptonian's powers.
 * Dheronian Metal
 * Kryptonian Metal
 * Alien Organisms

Technology
Kryptonian technology and architecture was mostly based on giant self-grown crystals which were very common on their planet and could be used to store information. These structures might have been natural or artificial, or a combination of both. Kryptonian technology was so advanced, that they had the potential to download inscriptions (including all of their knowlage) onto the very electrons of their ships and metals, which would in turn download into the cerebral cortex of any said creature. Superman's ship is the last of Krypton's technology.

Culture
The Kryptonians were a very culturally advanced race; with two primary culture traits: science and warriorism. The political powers on the planet were governed by a council of scientists and warriors (but mostly scientists). Each noble Kryptonian family (or "House") was symbolized by particular symbols which resemble Earth's alphabetical letters (such as "S" for El or "Z" for Zod). The red dwarf star, Rao of Krypton's planetary system was worshiped as a God, but in a more scientific manner than Earth's spiritual religions. Kryptonian Dogs were kept as pets by the Kryptonian people, much like Earth Dogs are kept as pets by Humans.

The Kryptonian people were a very xenophobic race that hardly ever left their homeworld, making Kal-El (a.k.a. Superman) the only Kryptonian left when the planet exploded.

Enemies
Kryptonians were somewhat of a self promoting and indulging race and were willing to utilize lethal force to take valuables from other worlds. The planet Dheron, the fifth planet from Krypton's red sun, was one such planet. Every twenty years, the planets were at war over each other's treasures. In an act of revenge, the two races disabled each other's star travel abilities. The Dheronians view theselves as the natural enemies of Kryptonians and are partially responsible both for the destruction of Krypton and the near-extermination of the Kryptonian race.

Kryptonian-Like Beings
There are 8 Kryptonian-like beings with powers and weaknesses similar to that of Kryptonians that have encountered Superman on many occasions:


 * Bizarro: Bizarro is a flawed superhuman life form created from genetic/magical experimentation funded by both Lex Luthor and other wealthy criminals with the entent of creating a being strong enough to stop Superman. He possesses all of Superman's natural physical and mental abilities (albeit with a childish reverse sense of logic) which are independent of any source; though he possesses heat breath, freeze vision, and vacume breath as apose to heat vision, freeze breath, and vortex breath. He is nourished when exposed to green Kryptonite while yellow sunlight and blue Kryptonite have the same weakening affects on Bizarro as green Kryptonite has on Superman.
 * Ultraman: Clark Kent was a suicidal Human megalomaniac withUltraman_dc_pictureboxart_.jpg a troubled past who worked as an Italian-American astronaut. During a mission into space; Kent's ship suffered an engine malfunction which caused the ship to explode; killing Kent and destroying most of his body and vital organs. His corpse was found by an unknown alien race who took him in and subjected his remains to genetic and mystical experimentation which not only brought him back to life; it made him reborn and endowed him with flight, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman vision, superhuman hearing, healing factor, heat vision, and invulnerability. With his new powers he killed his benefactors and made his way back to Earth where he founded The Crime Syndicate of America, becoming one of the most nutorious superhuman criminals.Power_Girl.jpg
 * Power Girl: A few years after Superman made his debute in Metropolis, a mysterious spaceship crashed a couple of miles from the Kansas capital containing a nude near-Human young adult female with blue eyes and blonde hair. Superman found and took her in. She stayed at his fortress for a while; during which time Superman discovered that she had no memory as she was placed in the ship as an infant and remained within the ship traveling through space for 20 years. He found that she was not Human as she possessed superhuman strength, superhuman speed, healing factor, invulnerability, and flight. He also discovered that she was not Kryptonian when she was exposed to green Kryptonite and was unaffected. He got her a job at The Dailly Planet and gave her the identity Kara Starr. She remains a close friend and ally of Superman. Her origins remain unkown.Nuclear_Man.jpg
 * Nuclear Man: Nuclear Man was created from Superman's DNA taken from a sample of his hair and that of nuclear organic matter. The union of these two genes created Nuclear Man. Nuclear Man possesses all of Superman's powers as well as his own ability to create and manipulate nuclear energy and the ability to grow razor-sharp claws capable of piercing and infecting Superman's skin. Nuclear Man is vulnerable to Kryptonite and red sunlight, but he is also rendered weak and powerless if exposed to shadows for prolonged periods of time, saparating him from yellow sunlight. Superman was able to imprison Nuclear Man in The Phantom Zone.
 * Supergirl: Lex Luthor, in his obssesive desire to kill Superman, yet again used his genius to create a superhuman life form to kill The Man of Steel. Unlike 82119-178044-supergirl_super.png first attemp with Bizarro, Luthor suceeded in creating a shapeless, genderless Humanoid being which he called "The Matrix". The Matrix possessed superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman hearing, healing factor, shapeshifting, flight, x-ray vision, and heat vision. Loyal to its creator and with no sense of right and wrong, The Matrix went on a crime spree killing hundreds in order to attract Superman so it could kill him. Superman managed to defeat The Matrix with moderate effort, forcing it to retreat back to Luthor. Luthor sent the Matrix to Smallville, Kansas in order to learn more about Superman's origins. During its stay, its was hit by a powerful beam of energy from an unkown source that was of such intensity that its invulnerability was only able to save the majority of its body mass. After the blast, it began to regenarate though its mind was mostlly damaged and much of its memories were shattered. Superman went to investagate and found the newlly regenareted Matrix standing whole in a cornfield. The Matrix sees Superman and begins to remember vauge flashes from its past. Superman takes The Matrix to his childhood home The Kent Farm. During its stay, The Matrix begins to learn about superman and his origins as well as about Human culture, particularlly in women's fashion and beauty. Out of respect and affection for its savior The Matrix took on the feminene form of a young blonde girl with blue eyes. She began wearing Superman's shield and took on the name Supergirl.
 * SuperBoy_by_duh184.jpgboy: After Superman's epic battlle with Doomsday, a group of scientists from Cabmus Labs took a sample of his blood from the scene and attempted to replicate it. Unsuccesful with natural genes, the team becan to synthasise his DNA which resulted in 15 failed clones. Only the 16th clone, Kr, survived and fully developed untill he burst from his tube a fully developed 16 year old. He escaped from Cabmus Labs and made his way to Metropolis. He possesses Kryptonian-like powers which are nourished by Earth's yellow sun thanks to his synthetic Kryptonian DNA; flight, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman hearing, healing factor, heat vision, and tactile-telekinesis (an ability exlusive to him alone). Superman met and took him under his wing. Superboy later joined The Teen Titans under the name of Conner Kent, during which time he began attending Smallville High School and came into possession of special indestructable round glasses capable of x-ray vision.