Chapter 17, 18: Martians.

Back in the command chair, I stated, "Report!"

"My Lord, we managed to recover the unknown item, but ..." My subordinate clicked on some buttons on her arm; then, a hologram appeared in front of me. "This was not an item, it contained life."

I look at the hologram and saw a monster over two meters tall; it had white skin, long limbs, and a hump with spines.

The monster ripped open the egg it was in and started attacking the team I sent. As experienced soldiers, my subordinates soon contained the monster and imprisoned it in an energy field. I realize that they followed my order strictly, even though the situation was unexpected.

I raise my eyebrows when I see my subordinate screaming while holding his head; it looks like the monster attacked his mind somehow.

I search my memory for information about this strange creature, as I have the whole history of Krypton stored in my brain; It didn't take long to find something; I found records of something that happened in the past, a race that had the power of Telepathy. This was a dangerous power capable of completely changing a living being; the user who had this power can invade sentient beings' minds and completely change that being.

Yes, sentient beings, any living being with the least capacity to think, can be influenced by this power.

Races that have this power are classified as extremely dangerous special individuals. Usually, when Kryptonians encountered races with this type of power, they sent ships equipped with weapons of mass destruction and exterminated those races.

This was the story of when Krypton was a militaristic empire that ruled as a dictatorship.

I shake my head in disapproval; although Krypton was strong, we were portrayed as a race that was afraid of special individuals from other civilizations in the universe; that was pure nonsense.

"What is the status of the Kryptonian who suffered the attack?"

"My Lord, he was unconscious, we took him to the recovery chamber, the sensors indicate that he is 100% healthy, but he is not waking up."

I frowned a little when I heard that. "He won't wake up, he suffered a telepathic attack, the only one who can help this Kryptonian is this monster."

"..." My subordinate made a slightly annoyed expression, but soon that expression returned to the usual cold face; all of this happened in less than a second, but for me, it was as if time was moving slowly.

Seeing this, I smiled a little; it seems that the Kryptonians are starting to express emotions.

I explain a little about this situation; they don't seem to know what Telepathy is. Well, I can't blame them. After all, it's been a long time since Kryptonians found this kind of race.

"Telepathy is a dangerous power capable of changing the thoughts of sentient beings, with just one thought. The individual who has this power can change everything about a person, that same individual can also use that power to kill with just the thought, this is an extremely complicated power to deal with." I gave a basic summary of the situation.

The Kryptonians of the past created countermeasures for this power; it was called a psychic energy neutralizing helmet, the name was great, but it is useful.

Realizing that they all understood, I continue: "What happened to this monster? Do we know anything about it? "

My subordinate presses a few buttons, and the hologram image has changed. "We collected DNA samples from this monster, according to our findings, it appears to be a hybrid species of the inhabitants that lived on that planet."

I look at the hologram showing the monster's DNA. I realize that it has two different DNA systems in its body.

These systems conflict with each other, and at the same time, they conflict, they are also in harmony; it was a unique DNA.

This is interesting...

With Krypton's technology, we can identify how pure a breed is; this technology was developed to identify two different alien species' hybrids.

The purpose of this technology? Well, it's more of a dark story involving a Krypton 'brother' race called Daxamites.

As I can tell, the Kryptonians repudiate any 'hybrids.' We thought this mixture of DNA would diminish our race's potential; thus, we created this technology to identify the hybrids and exterminate them.

I sigh; my people were really silly in the past ...

But this machine was not only used for this. It was only used in the wrong way; this machine can be used to study the DNA of the species of the universe, it is very useful.

For example, My DNA has only one system. Still, within that system, my DNA contains all the genetic information of the Kryptonians. With the Codex merged into my DNA, that system became more robust and impossible to be classified even by Kryptonian technology.

Even though my DNA is chaotic, I am still a pure Kryptonian.

Now, this monster ... I'm going to call it a Martian ... Although this Martian is an offspring of two species on the same planet, the Kryptonian system identified it as a hybrid.

That only means one thing, Mars was inhabited by several similar races, but at the same time different. [01]

This is interesting. I can deduce that the race separated and developed differently at some point in the evolution of this planet; only this difference was so significant that they became different races.

I look at the hologram in front of me, I study the Martian genes a little bit, finishing memorizing all the information, I say as I move the hologram away with a hand gesture: "Are the expedition members all right?"

"Except for the Kryptonian who remains unconscious, they are all fine." My subordinate said while showing images of the Kryptonians that I sent resting.

"Good."after the field reporting, I ordered: "Prepare the terraforming machines, we are going to transform Mars into Krypton! I want all two machines ready in less than an hour! "

"Yes, My Lord!"

I look at General Zod, who entered the control room. "Anything I should know about?"

"My Lord, I threw Jor-El's body in the sun, and I deleted the entire existence of Jor-El from the House El family tree."

I nod my head. "General Zod, I want you to take charge of the Mars terraforming process."

"Your wish is an order, My Lord."

I nodded in satisfaction and looked at my subordinate. "I want robots to build equipment in bulk to prevent telepathic attacks, will you be in charge so that nothing goes wrong, was I clear?" With the resources that I currently have, I can easily build 2000 thousand units; I can assign this resource to the armor that I will create in the future.

I take the hologram and make a high-speed sketch of the helmet; I send this sketch to my subordinate.

"Yes, My Lord ..." Hmm? I realize that she has something more to say.

"I understand your curiosity, tell me."

Everyone in the cockpit looks at the subordinate.

"M-My Lord, I wouldn't dare question your authority." She spoke in a respectful tone as she stepped back a little.

"Just ask the question." I say in a neutral tone, I'm not angry. I'm curious, what will she say?

"..... I'm just curious about the production of these helmets, aren't they useless? After all, they are items from the old Krypton empire, aren't they obsolete? "

Instead of answering her question, I ask everyone: "Today, we have learned something important, someone tell me what it is?"

"..."

I realize that everyone was silent. A few minutes later, they still haven't answered my question, 'Is that it? It seems that I expected too much, they are still stuck in the old ways, it is as if they stop thinking for themselves and act only when I give an order, I don't want machines serving me. ' I thought of disappointment, I know it's only been a few weeks, and old customs are hard to change. I think Faora's changes have hastened me a little.

Sigh, it looks like this is going to be a long journey ...

Faora, who was by my side all the time, suddenly said: "Someone with the power of telepathy managed to put a Kryptonian in a coma ..."

Oh? I look at Faora with curious eyes. "Continue."

Everyone looks at Faora, waiting for her next words.

"According to what we learned today, someone with strong enough telepathic power can penetrate the defenses of Kryptonian armor and put one of our soldiers in a coma."

"What do we do to prevent this?" I ask, smiling.

"We built something to protect us from that power. If we did not have this equipment available, we must take precautions with the possible survivors of the race that inhabits the planet Mars, we must create contingency plans if these survivors are alive and decide to attack us. "

My smile grows. It is growing fast. I look at my subordinate. "This answer your question?"

"Yes, My Lord!"

I look at everyone again. "My subordinate called this helmet a useless and obsolete item." Everyone looked at me and waited for my next words.

"This helmet allows us to defend against a possible telepathic attack, from my point of view, this is an extremely important item ... Just because the item is old, it does not mean that it is useless."

"..."

I get up from the command chair and say: "Remember we must not think that we are invincible, we are living beings, therefore, we have weaknesses, it is my duty to understand this weakness and prepare countermeasures, it is my duty as an emperor to always think of future ... What if in the future an enemy appears that can kill us using Telepathy? What should we do? What plans should I make to protect my people from this enemy? Those were the first thoughts I had when I learned that a Kryptonian is in a coma because of a telepathic attack. "

I took a deep breath and say: "It is my duty to always be prepared, it is my duty to always think 100 steps in the future, if 100 steps are not enough, I must think 1000 steps in the future, because of that, I need information, because of this, I always tell you not to underestimate the barbaric races ... We are the remnants of a race, we are few in numbers, we have to take care of each other until we are strong again. " I say this while thinking about empires that can easily destroy us.

Kryptonian is strong in the yellow sunlight, that's a fact, but what if an empire with more than four digits of worlds under their command attacks me, what should I do? Alone, I am not enough.

I am strong, but I cannot fight an intergalactic empire alone ... Only Darkseid has more than 1000 planets under its command, and on these planets may contain races that can harm Kryptonians, Darkseid himself is a monster in itself, because of that, I need to be prepared ...

I leave the control room accompanied by Faora. "Keep up your work."

"Yes, My Lord!" Do all my subordinates say with a confident voice?

For a moment, I was surprised, I could clearly feel more emotions than normal in my subordinates' voices ...

I smile a little. 'Well, it looks like I won't have to wait that long.'

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General Zod was surprised, he didn't know that Rao thought so much about Krypton's future, this is the first time that he has heard Rao's thoughts about their current situation.

"... Your majesty is incredible, isn't it?" The same subordinate who questioned Rao spoke with a small smile on her face.

General Zod saw all the members present nodding his head with a small smile on his face, he was again shocked. 'Is that an effect of his charisma? In a few weeks, he managed to win the cold hearts of these Kryptonians. '

'He even got Faora Hu-Ul's respect ... Not just respect, he even managed to get that woman to bed with him.' General Zod contemplated.

Zod knows Faora Hu-Ul very well, after all, he was the one who recruited her to his squad. Through various missions, Zod realized that personality Faora's is very distorted. She likes to play with weaker enemies on the battlefield. He has witnessed Faora crippling weaker beings on the battlefield several times, if it were just that, he wouldn't bother so much.

But after crippling these beings, Faora dragged these beings into the torture chamber and spent a lot of time having fun torturing these beings. Zod still doesn't believe that Rao managed to tame this crazy woman.

'I recruited her because she supported my ideals, but she was very uncontrollable.' As an experienced warrior, he has seen a lot of bad things on the battlefield, but what Faora did to enemies still made him uncomfortable.

But despite all these peculiarities, she never cheated on Krypton or killed a Kryptonian. Because of that, he never said anything about what she did.

They were still at war, and despite having extreme methods, these methods were quite efficient ...

"We have orders, back to work!" General Zod said with a small smile on his face, he was not aware of the expression he was making.

"Yes, Sir!"

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01: [A / N: The explanation is a little confusing, but 'race' is different from ethnicity. For example: On Earth, there are Westerners and Easterners. From Krypton's point of view, Westerners and Orientals are not a different race. They are classified as beings of different ethnicity, but in the end, the DNA of these beings is still that of a human, so they are still classified as pure humans.]

[A / N: I realized that personality Faora's is very similar to Esdeath, but unlike Esdeath, Faora is very patriotic, while Esdeath only acted because she wanted to, and Esdeath had a twisted mentality about strength.]

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Edited by: WS Blvckrvse

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