Kandor City

**Kandor City**, or simply **Kandor**, is a city on Krypton and the most prominent residence of the planet's population.

## History

Thousands of years ago, Kandor was involved in a civil war with Argo City. The war finally ended when Jo-Mon brought a peace and united the cities.

Two hundred years before the birth of Kal-El, Val-El was charged for commiting religious treason and was thrown out of Kandor to his death. Fourteen years later, after a terrorist attempted to bomb the Lawmakers Guild, Seg-El stopped him, allowing a member of the Sagitari to shoot his arm off, preventing an explosion. Because of this, the city was put on a terror alert and a curfew was put into effect. Charys-El was later tried for visiting Val-El's illegal Fortress of Solitude. Both Charys and her husband Ter-El were killed when they tried to steal a gun and and were shoot by Jayna-Zod. Kandor was the place where the religious ceremony, Nova Cycle, was held by Voice of Rao. The city was also under siege by Sagitari soldiers when checking Sector 19, as part of the operation "The Rankless Initiative" to find and eliminate terrorist group Black Zero, resulting in the death of innocent Rankless citizen. When more informations about VOR/Brainiac were revealed, Seg attempted to recruit more allies (Kem, Val-El programme, Lyta-Zod and Nyssa-Vex, including the time traveler Adam Strange) and former enemies (Jayna-Zod, Dev-Em and Dru-Zod) to fight against him and his allies. As the resistance was growing, Brainiac made a blow by brainwashing several Sagitari and gaining control of the Military Guild to patrol all streets in the city. Despite his tremendous measures, they managed to sever the link between him and his brainwashed unit in Genesis Chamber. VOR was soon killed, but he managed to survive; as an act of vengeance, he made her blind, naive follower Ona as a living bomb to destroy resistance HQ, but Adam Strange managed to save it by shielding them using Zeta Ray device, who was soon thought to be gone. Later on, the combined unit of Sagitari and Black Zero operatives went to the station's generator when VOR was sucking their energy. Whole unit was killed, except for Seg, but was soon rescued by Nyssa, who implanted sunstone into his head, killing him. Despite this, the real Brainiac and his ship arrived to "bottle" the town. The populace was shocked by his alien presence, triggering the massive panic. Seg and Dru-Zod began to evacuate them to the underground tunnels as possible, later taking care by Lyta and Dev. Seg defeated Brainiac when activating the Phantom Zone in the Fortress, stopping his ship to destroy the city.

Despite the victory, this resulted into a new, bleak order made by Dru-Zod as he militarised all Rankless to become Sagitari and crushed any resistance to it. Many areas such as Rankless District were demolished and rebuilt into a new areas for the citizens. Most of the Guilds were preserved, with the possible exceptions of the Lawmaker and Religious Guild which were cut. The resistance movement moved to their last stronghold on the moon Wegthor. Meanwhile, Seg managed to return to Krypton, with the help of Adam Strange. Jayna-Zod and Dev-Em returned to assist Seg and Nyssa in the fight against Zod's regime. They also found the real Lyta-Zod alive, as her clone was killed by Jax-Ur on Wegthor and was created by Zod as his mother was against his military space conquership.

## The Guilds

Kandor City was governed by guilds, each responsible for an aspect of society. These include the Lawmakers Guild, Military Guild and Science Guild.

## Known inhabitants

### Current inhabitants

* Seg-El
* Dev-Em
* Kem
* Nyssa-Vex
* Jayna-Zod
* Lyta-Zod

### Former inhabitants

* Charys-El (deceased)
* Ter-El (deceased)
* Tharb-El (deceased)
* Val-El (deceased)
* Ona (deceased)
* Rhom (deceased)
* Quex-Ul (deceased)
* Daron-Vex (deceased)
* Voice of Rao (deceased)

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "Pilot"
* "House of El"
* "The Rankless Initiative"
* "The Word of Rao"
* "House of Zod"
* "Civil Wars"
* "Transformation"
* "Savage Night"
* "Hope"
* "The Phantom Zone"

### Season 2

* "Light-Years From Home"
* "Ghost in the Fire"
* "Will To Power"
* "Danger Close"
* "A Better Yesterday"
* "In Zod We Trust"
* "Zods and Monsters"
* "Mercy"
* "Blood Moon"

## Trivia

* In DC comics, Kandor is a capital city of Krypton best known for being captured and bottled by Brainiac. Some other versions showed being destroyed by the terrorist organization Black Zero or being stolen by the alien wizard Tolos. Kandor first appeared in the story "The Super-Duel in Space" in *Action Comics* #242 (July 1958), written by Otto Binder and drawn by Al Plastino.

## References

1. ↑ Thompson, Joel Anderson (writer), Watson, Erica (director) (July 24, 2019). "Zods and Monsters". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 7. Syfy.
2. ↑ Goldberg, Ian, Goyer, David S. (writers), Donnelly, Ciaran & McCarthy, Colm (directors) (March 21, 2018). "Pilot". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 1. Syfy.
3. ↑ Tucker, Nadria (writer), Shill, Steve (director) (April 4, 2018). "The Rankless Initiative". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 3. Syfy.
4. ↑ Kalteux, Luke (writer), Boak, Keith (director) (April 11, 2018). "The Word of Rao". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 4. Syfy.
5. ↑ Patel, Lina (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (April 18, 2018). "House of Zod". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 5. Syfy.
6. ↑ Francis, David Paul (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (May 2, 2018). "Transformation". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 7. Syfy.
7. ↑ Kob, David (writer), Roskin, Marc (director) (May 9, 2018). "Savage Night". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 8. Syfy.
8. ↑ Fiveash, Chad and Stoteraux, James (writers), Ettlin, Lukas (director) (May 16, 2018). "Hope". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 9. Syfy.
9. ↑ Fiveash, Chad & Stoteraux, James & Welsh, Cameron (writers), Donnelly, Ciaran (director) (May 23, 2018). "The Phantom Zone". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 10. Syfy.
10. ↑ Goyer, David S. & Welsh, Cameron (writers), Roskin, Marc (director) (June 12, 2019). "Light-Years From Home". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 1. Syfy.
11. ↑ Horne, Kiersten Van (writer), Roskin, Marc (director) (June 19, 2019). "Ghost In The Fire". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 2. Syfy.
12. ↑ Patel, Lina (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (June 26, 2019). "Will To Power". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 3. Syfy.
13. ↑ Kalteux, Luke (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (July 3, 2019). "Danger Close". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 4. Syfy.
14. ↑ David Kob (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (July 10, 2019). "A Better Yesterday". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 5. Syfy.
15. ↑ Tucker, Nadria (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (July 17, 2019). "In Zod We Trust". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 6. Syfy.
16. ↑ Thompson, Joel Anderson (writer), Watson, Erica (director) (July 24, 2019). "Zods and Monsters". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 7. Syfy.
17. ↑ Aldrin, Katie (writer), Kilner, Clare (director) (July 31, 2019). "Mercy". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 8. Syfy.
18. ↑ Francis, David Paul (writer), Welsh, Cameron (director) (August 7, 2019). "Blood Moon". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 9. Syfy.