The different cities of Kandor are famous for their long and rich histories. On Krypton,-Two, while the physical metropolis and most of its residents were destroyed, a digital replica of both the people and the structures which composed it remained within the databank containment vessel of Zor-L's Symbioship. This ship preserved alive his and his wife Allura's daughter, Kara, through her decades long journey across the stars. Upon arriving on Earth-Two, where she finally met her cousin Kal-L, the woman who became known as Power Girl had already experienced life within the Kryptonian society. From this experience, she joined the Justice Society alongside Kal aka Superman, and this helped pull her away from the mental grasp of Symbioship which she destroyed. Effectively, that Kandor was no more.
About a year later, on Earth-One, Superman and Supergirl likewise destroyed the containment vessel that housed a minaturized version of another Kandor. This bottled city was originally a normal metropolis on Krypton-One, until the evil android known as Brainiac used his shrinking ray to steal Kandor from its homeworld... just as he had done with scores of other cities across the universe. When Brainiac later encountered Kal-El, aka Superman, his loss meant that all of Brainiac's hijacked cities could be restored to their original worlds. However, Kandor remained on Earth-One within Kal-El's Fortress of Solitude, as he was unable to restore it to normal size and it no longer had a homeworld to call its own.
Throughout the three decades of its diminutive existence, Kandor-One continued to prosper to the best of its ability. It would grow to between seven to ten million inhabitants, with many having been born during its captive state. It also had resident superheroes, in Van-Zee and Ak-Var as Nightwing and Flamebird... who were inspired by the exploits of Kal-El and Jimmy Olsen when they created these alter egos while briefly living in Kandor. Kara's parents Zor-El and Allura, who had survived the destruction of Argo City in a Survival Zone, moved there.
As for the electronic copy of Kandor-Two, it likewise had replicas of the existing Kandorians alive during its Krypton's destruction, including Zor-L and Allura, who raised their Kara into her teens. And Kara formed relationships with the "offspring" of these faux-adults, each given synthetic life by Zor-L's elaboriate dreamworld program. However, given the constraints of this artificial reality, Power Girl would initially struggle to form stable relationships with actual humans who displayed emotions she had not grown accustomed to within the Symbioship. This meant that her cousin Kal-L and his wife Lois became surrogate parents to her, assisting in this transition.
Years after, Kal-El and Kara Zor-El found the means to restore Kandor along with its people to its original size. The inhabitants of the city choice a world they named Rokyn. However, the device Superman used caused half of Kandor's buildings to disintegrate. Nevertheless, the Kandorians were able to rebuild their city on this new world, one they picked as it would distnace them from the El cousins. The residents of Rokyn wanted to no longer be dependent on the super-cousins, and so choose a world that shifts due to its cosmic axis between Earth-One's universe and that of another. But which universe?
On previous occasions, Kal-El and Kal-L, along with their teammates in the Justice League and Justice Society, discovered that the universes of Earths One and Two are intrinsically tied together. And during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, only five universes remained... these two along with Earths Four, X and S. Superman brought his cousin Supergirl’s lifeless body back to Rokyn during this period of time, following her fatal encounter with the evil Anti-Monitor. So this trans-universal world still existed when only five positive matter universes remained.
Thus, the likelihood as to which other universe Rokyn, and its millions of surviving Kandorians, reside at least part of the time is in the universe of Earth-Two. Poetic then, that the flesh and blood versions of the Kandorians... whose digital counterparts were lost with the Symbioship's destruction... now existed in both dimensional planes of existence. Perhaps one day, Power Girl and Kal-L might journey to Rokyn and experience life in Kandor, as had Supergirl and Kal-El.
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