As simple as the title
Kyle has long since died. He didn't know how much time had passed as he sat in the endless dark. The last thing he remembered was being shot in the head after winning big at a casino. He had already guessed that this was the casinos way of avoiding a pay out.
Now he didn't know where he was or what was going to happen, but he was definitely afraid. He died and all he could see was darkness, was this all there was to death? Forever darkness? Was this hell? Kyle truly felt like crying, but every time he did the tears would vanish.
Fortunately for him a light soon appeared and eventually someone arrived. The person across from him was a man that looked to be old and a teenager at the same time, "Trippy" Kyle muttered.
The man smirked in response, "You seem rather confused so let me summarise the situation in a simple manner for you. 'After sky'". With those two words something clicked in the mind of Kyle, he had once written a story of dying and being reborn with wishes. It was called after sky.
Kyle wasn't the type to be vocal about his shock, he would usually freak out, but in silence. Seeing the recognition in his eyes the man continued. "It seems you have already grasped the situation rather well so I won't beat around the bush, it hasn't been decided where you'll end up just yet, and when it is decided we won't tell you. Now. Time for the gifts, what do you want then?"
Kyle who had been forced to calm himself by an outside force swiftly asked for unlimited wishes, but was immediately shut down. He then asked for more godly wishes only to be shut down over and over. "Give me the ability to absorb the energy of a sun, the body of superboy prime and kryptonian tech along with knowledge of anything pertaining to Krypton and an unlimited energy source." He knew this was asking a lot, but compared to his previously outrageous choices it was practically nothing. He was going with the, 'i got a girl pregnant. Just kidding only failed my test' method.
The man nodded his head as he thought of where to send the boy. Eventually he made his decision and with a wave of his hand Kyle had vanished.
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When he opened his eyes Kyle saw that he was on some kind of ship and was sitting by the front controls. Looking around he could see technology considerably more advanced than anything 21st century earth had to offer. He was wearing a outfit similar to superman's, but black and gold and more bulky.
Judging from the window view he was currently in vast expanse that was space, he realised that he instinctively knew how to use all the technology in his possession and along with this knowledge came the advanced math science and everything else he had never learnt.
Standing from his seat he flexed his muscles and felt he had practically limitless strength. This wasn't too much of a surprise as superboy prime could fly light years in seconds and is shown to move planets out of orbit, create small/big bangs - creating life or destruction through a clap. He was truly overpowered, with his only weakness being kryptonite, but only if it was from his universe and red suns.
Kyle had the computer systems scan for planets with a yellow sun and could sustain life. Whilst scanning he came across a large yellow sun, but no planet. Walking to the back of the ship he opened up the hatch and jumped out. Floating in space he decided to try and experiment and flew away from the ship towards the sun.
The closer he got to the start the stronger he felt, Kyle travelled deeper but after some time his body began to get burned.
Closing his eyes he tried using his first wishes ability and immediately began absorbing the excess energy. He continued moving further towards the sun and floated there, basking in its energy. Slowly the light from the sun began to dim as it was completely absorbed by Kyle, it took a few hours until all that was left was a brightly yellow glowing silhouette and a dead star.
After returning to his ship he continued this process whilst searching for a planet, every time he absorbed a sun his power increased by multiple times.
On his ship Kyle searched for his unlimited energy source and found a glowing gold box in one of the rooms. Placing his hand on it he felt that the energy he had received from the sun didn't even equal 000.1% of the power in this box. Looking to the side he saw schematics on how to harness the power for technology and the such.
After a little more searching he found the genesis Chamber along with the codex. He placed the codex in the chamber and began programming it just like the kryptonian council had. The children would be entirely loyal to him no matter what, it was now in their DNA. Kyle needed soldiers, civilians, business men, doctors, engineers, scientists and so many other kinds of people. Fortunately the genesis chamber only had the ability to house a many children in it at a time.
So he programmed the chamber to create 400 military warriors consisting of 200 female and 200 male, 350 female engineers and 350 male engineers. The growth process will take half a month. He also made sure that all of them would be as good looking as he could make them, because who didn't want a planet full of supermodels?
Eventually the system found a planet that was a practically a replica of earth, it also had its own yellow sun and a moon. The only difference was that it was significantly larger than earth, and subsequently the sun was much larger than earths sun. It was also extremely close to three other similar planets with their own suns, but smaller.
Kyle made a decision. He decided to recreate Krypton here, on this planet. He did not know where he was, but he would build Krypton fast and make it strong as fast as possible. Fortunately he had the codex and a genesis chamber.
Kyle flew his ship down to a the coast of a continent and set his drones to work mining. Most of the time he would follow the drones and help them. With his ridiculous strength and x-ray vision he could get 2 years worth of work done in minutes. As they mined more materials, they built more drones for different tasks.
They soon had everything prepared to build a automation factory for more drones. With the unlimited energy source the drones were literally working 24/7. They created the perfect landscape and began building what was needed, factory's, city's, satellites and ships.
After three weeks passed the first batch of children were born in the genesis chamber. They were immediately put under the care of medical droids for the next few years. Already a large complex has been built for the housing of children.
Within a year he had created more and more droids as well as more kryptonians. All of them saw Kyle as their father and creator, and loved him dearly. Under a yellow sun these kryptonians were the same as superman with all of the expected abilities.
Kyle had discovered a large batch of kryptonite hidden on his ship that didn't seem to effect him, but effected the others. He set the drones to work and they built a kryptonite prison for any future criminals.
Kyle had changed his name to Kai-El and had given his children Kryptonian names. The planets main language was Kryptonian, but he had taught them English and Italian which were the only two languages he learnt on earth.
Kai traveled to the other three planets and colonised them with his drones and also sent Kryptonians there when they were old enough. Civilisations were built on these planets and they were named "Italika" and "Engcard." Two names he had made up for the two other languages he knew. The last was named Daxum after the brother planet of Krypton in the DC universe.
Already a large number of Kryptonian children were being born. They also had to be given military training to control their powers. So Kai took the first batch and trained them himself.
Kai rewrote the history of Krypton and spun a thrilling tale about his birth when he was teaching the children.
"Now that you have an idea about the powers that are in your body I will explain how you got them or more correctly how I was born and you all came into existence." Kai said as his students listened with rapt attention
"I was not normally concieved. I took my birth from the sun that shines brightly in the sky. I was born on that star. I do not know how or why but I was born on that star we call Rao. Rao gave me many gifts. The radiation of the star strengthened me, its extreme temperatures energized and molded me. It gave me the ability of flight and to breathe in space. No other race has such powers like us from what I have come across so far, but after my birth I was alone. There was only lonliness as my companion. That is why I decided to create you. Just as Rao created me to allieviate his loneliness I created you to overcome mine. Krypton is the gift Rao gave to me and it will be where our people stand. Krypton, Daxum, Italika and Engcard will be the home of our people and it will be your duty to defend it. You will learn all that I have to offer and use it to build the Kryptonian Empire." he said passionately.
This new doctorine would enforce their loyalty to him further. It would be very difficult to manage a race of superpowered people like Kryptonians, so Kai needed something that set him apart. He already had the superior power, but he required something more.
Kai wrote many books and stuffed them with most of his knowledge before mass printing them and creating libraries. This was because his children would soon have their own offspring that wouldn't be genetically programmed for specific jobs. They were also spread across four different planets and he couldn't teach all of them after a certain number. Eventually there would be teachers, but for now books and drones would have to do.
Fifty years passed. It took Kai a lot of effort to manage the empire. But as the population steadily began to increase many of his responsibilities has been delegated to others. Eventually a schooling system was created and things began to progress smoothly from there.
The military of Krypton was one of the first things to be created by him. He is the supreme commander of the military force of Krypton. It was sub divided into mainly three forces.
The first force to be created was the armed forces obviously. They were equiped with the same weapons from the DC universe.
After completing buildings of shipyards and automobiles necessary the Naval force was created. They were forces assigned to the seas of Krypton. Their primary objective is to defend the planet from any invasions but they have also been tasked to map the seas of the three planets under their control.
The next force Kai created was the Kryptonian Air/ space force, and it took some time to build. Already much of the designs of battleships were already in his head or in the ship he arrived on. So as soon as there was enough trained officers and necessary constuction yards space flight was easily achieved.
Another thing he did was to discourage manual farming. Kai used a huge force of drones to do farming and this was under full governmental control. So food was free for the population of Krypton, he didn't want Krypton to be like earth, with a poverty problem.
He stopped the cloning process after 3 million population mark, and the rest of the population growth will be done via natural birth. Though this meant that people wouldn't have loyalty in their genes, but it didn't matter with amount of propaganda he had spread.
With the population growing steadily he needed to decide on a form of leadership, this hand many options such as a democracy, but in the end he decided to go with a mix of democracy and a Monarchy. Kai was pretty sure he would live for hundred of thousands of years, if not forever, so this seemed like a good path to take.
He first formed a Kriptonian civil service department. This organisation is responsible for the day to day governance of the empire, but only with civilian matters.
A representative in department must be elected by their planet, be a resident in their star system and he or she must have passed Kryptonian civil service test and should have served in any one of Kryptons three military forces for at least 10 years.
Half of the main parliament was filled with ex-civil service people while the other half were filled with well respected engineers, doctors, economists, artists, poets, writers, historians, scientists, military strategists, court judges etc . This half of Parlament was directly appointed by Kai.
His position in Krypton was that of the Emperor. As he was the progenitor of Kryptonian race he was seen as a god. But Kai actively suppressed any form of religion to form in the planet. He enforced this idea that when the all suns and Stars go out of light his life would be over. He encouraged Science and Rao as a religion instead.
Kai began regular trips towards his sun and found his body to be improving steadily. He made sure not to absorb the sun entirely and give it time to recover afterwards. These regular trips had caught the attention of some Kryptonians, so Kai informed that it was form of praying to Rao.
This encouraged others to visit the suns and pray to Rao, however something that Kai had overlooked was the increased lifespan all the Kryptonians would receive. He realised if the trips to the sun continued then the average lifespan would increase by thousands of years.
After a few more trips Kai had noticed that his body had become perfect and began to produce any energy it needed on its own now. Which meant he didn't need to eat or drink to survive.
With the home front stabilized he began the fortification and complete control of the space around them. For this multiple Satellites and space stations were built. The construction yards were relentlessly busy producing a vast space armada.
Much of the ships we made were manufactured in Engcard as it was the furthest from the sun and had the worst weather, this lead to a low population compared to the other planets.
They stationed much of the fleets on Italika, Engcard and the twin moons of Krypton. They also stopped further mining operations on Krypton. Instead Kai began to mine for resources in other planets, asteroid fields and moons but never straying to far out of his star system. Kai decided that more technological and military strength was needed before they made outside contact.
Another project which had begun were the Kryptonian teleportation portals, these devices were used all over the old Krypton and Kai had the knowledge of how to create them. In the Dc they were used to travel light years from Krypton to Earth.
A new calender system came in effect. The date when he was born has been the date set for the beginning of the year. Now 60 KC (Kai's Creation) has passed, already they had achieved wonders.