Jax-Ur

**Jax-Ur** (born **Sela-Sonn**) is the leader of Black Zero and a former member of the Science Guild.

## Biography

### Prelude

Jax-Ur was a member of the Science Guild. She worked with Val-El and Daron-Vex and was a very good to friends with them. She left the guild when Daron sentenced Val to death and took away his family's ranks. After leaving the Science Guild, Jax formed a rebel group named Black Zero that aimed to unite the citizens of Kandor City and stop the oppression of the Rankless.

### Season 1

#### "Savage Night"

*Main article: Savage Night*

When Brainiac arrived at Kandor, Dru-Zod along with Jayna-Zod came to Jax to seek an alliance to help defeat Brainiac. Jax agreed, but on the condition that she got Daron-Vex.

#### "Hope"

*Main article: Hope*

Later, Daron-Vex was brought to her. She explained to him why she left the Science Guild and formed Black Zero, torturing him for information regarding the Genesis Chamber and her Codex project. After receiving the information, Daron eventually escaped in a skimmer. Becoming cognizant of this, Jax activated the torture device on Daron's neck, causing him to lose control of the skimmer and crash into the side of a mountain in the Outlands.

Jax was later broached by Seg-El for the aid of Black Zero in a joint task force with the Sagitari to take down the Voice of Rao, which she reluctantly provided. While the task force went into action, Jax went to the Genesis Chamber to confirm her suspicions about her Codex. Using a password given by Daron to access the interior of the Genesis Chamber, she revealed that her program had been used to produce clones for the wealthy so that they might live forever.

#### "The Phantom Zone"

*Main article: The Phantom Zone*

During the assault on Kandor City, Jax stayed behind to retrieve her Codex. Meeting Nyssa-Vex on the way, Jax sent her operative Mal with the Codex in Kriptonopolis, while revealing to Nyssa that she is in fact a clone produced using Jax's Codex. One month after Brainiac was banished to Phantom Zone by Seg-El, she and Nyssa came to Fortress where she was shocked and happy to see the real Val-El alive.

### Season 2

#### "Light-Years From Home"

*Main article: Light-Years From Home*

Sometime between the battle for Kandor and the time Adam Strange returned to Krypton, Jax's right eye has been gouged out by Lyta-Zod in Bokos. When Adam returned, Jax was sent by Mama Zed to get him off the street and to safety, which she did by knocking him out and escorting him to their secret hideout. She later tried to dissuade Nyssa-Vex from searching for her father Daron-Vex, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

When Sagitari arrived at Jax's hideout, brought there with information from Mama Zed, Jax grabbed the Codex before fleeing with Val-El down a secret passage concealed via hologram, leaving Adam Strange behind to cover their escape. She then headed with Val-El to the Hypersonic Orbital Tether leading to Wegthor.

#### "Ghost In The Fire"

*Main article: Ghost In The Fire*

Jax-Ur, now on Wegthor with Val-El, attended his rallying speech to the Resistance. When Nyssa-Vex returned however, Jax treated her with suspicion even after having taken Nyssa under her wing previously. Despite this, Jax assured Nyssa that they will get her son back from General Zod and that she'll be fed and cared for among the Resistance, although Jax put a guard on Nyssa to keep constant watch for possible treachery.

#### "Will To Power"

*Main article: Will To Power*

Using intelligence from Nyssa-Vex, Jax managed to successfully raid a Sagitari convoy, acquiring supplies and captives with zero casualties. Despite this victory, Jax continued to have Nyssa surveilled, and she pulled Val-El aside to talk. Jax again expressed her concern to Val that Nyssa's intel was far to fortuitous to be in good faith, that she suspected treachery, but Val insisted that the victory could not have happened without Nyssa and that she should go easy.

Jax later supplied Val-El with intelligence gleaned from the captured prisoners of war, using them to formulate a plan to retake the Space Elevator. She mobilized the Resistance for action.

#### "Danger Close"

*Main article: Danger Close*

Jax and Val-El gave a speech to the Resistance, saying that the war was not over yet. She formulated a plan with Val to finally march on the Space Elevator when Adam Strange suddenly arrived via his Zeta Beam. Later, she used her Codex to create a genetic bomb designed to wipe out every Sagitari on Wegthor, and gave it to Araame for detonation only at her command. She then oversaw the battle for the Space Elevator from the command room, but it quickly went awry, the code sequence failing and the stolen oxygenators being filled with poison that began to kill the entire attacking force. In response, she ordered Araame to detonate the "Codex Weapon", but Araame reported that the detonator has failed. Angry, Jax hurried to get her Codex only to notice that it was gone, and Val-El revealed that he stole it and gave it to Nyssa-Vex.

#### "A Better Yesterday"

*Main article: A Better Yesterday*

Jax-Ur was angry at Val-El over giving away her Codex. She insisted that they had been betrayed and needed the weapon to fight General Zod, making Val realize that Nyssa-Vex was a traitor. Araame later informed Jax that Primus Lyta-Zod requested a meeting, and Jax had Araame stand by. Val insisted to attend the meeting, but Jax objected on the basis that Lyta gouged out her eye the last time they met with Lyta in Bokos. Even so, Val managed to convince Jax to agree due to the possibility of using Lyta to expose General Zod.

At the summit, Jax laughed at Lyta's proposal of complete surrender, and began to become enraged as Lyta continued about the Rebels needing to work with Zod, that they will crush the Resistance if they refused. Jax's replacement eye begins to glow as she screamed "no deal", her eye turning into a laser beam that sliced through the enemy Sagitari. She then assaulted Lyta and took her captive, intending to use her as leverage against General Zod. When Zod, under Seg's orders, contacted Lyta, Jax showed up with Lyta as a hostage and ordered Zod to withdraw his troops from Wegthor within the hour, else she would kill Lyta.

Leaving Lyta under guard, Jax walked with Araame, glad that they had access to Kandor's broadcast system (using Lyta's identification codes) so that they could broadcast her execution if General Zod did not cooperate. She was interrupted by an angry Val-El, but Jax responded that this was exactly how to turn everyone against Zod. If Zod stopped the invasion to save his mother, he will lose the Sagitari, who value loyalty to Krypton above all else. If he allowed that his mother dies, he will look like another "Daron", a tyrant trying to stay in power, losing the people. Val still insisted that he won't support her, at which point Jax had several rebels taking him into custody. General Zod then contacted her and asked to see Lyta, which Jax allowed on the condition that they not use coded language, saying that Val's word ensured Lyta's safety (despite Val being in custody).

Halfway through their talk, Zod's communications cut out and Jax became concerned. Araame reported that the Sagitari have entered the Space Elevator, but Jax ordered Lyta to be taken back to her cell until they could hear back from Zod. Adam and Kem arrived however with news about a detachment of Sagitari lying in ambush in the tunnels, saying that the ones boarding the Space Elevator were decoys, and so she once again tapped into the Kandor broadcasting system to not only call Zod a liar and a betrayer, but to literally cut open Lyta's throat on screen.

#### "In Zod We Trust"

*Main article: In Zod We Trust*

Visibly shaken, Jax-Ur attempted to rally the rebels to take advantage of General Zod's weakened position but was interrupted by Val-El, accusing her of barbarism and of destroying any hope for peace. Jax justified herself, saying it was war, and that it had shown Zod to be weak. Jax asserted that when they win, the people of Krypton will thank her, but she began to lose the support of the rebels when Val explained her actions as a "tactical error", turning the people away from them when the rebels rely on the people for recruits and supplies. Val branded her as just another tyrant, and her own rebels turned against her, removing her from power and returning it to Val.

Jax, along with Araame, were then imprisoned. In prison, Araame said that Val treated Jax like a pupil, even taking her bionic eye, in response to which Jax angrily shoved Araame up against a wall and labeled Val as brilliant, only that he hasn't lived under the oppression of the Voice of Rao or Daron-Vex, and simply doesn't understand the world like she does. Jax revealed that she didn't start Black Zero because she wanted to, but because no one else would, and when Araame reaffirmed her faith in Jax, Jax began to pull a concealed weapon from the flesh of her arm.

She killed her guards and escaped. With Araame's help, they stole gravity bombs and placed them around the Space Elevator base station to destroy it. As they left however, Val, Adam Strange, and Kem arrived to intercept them, Val shooting and killing Araame. Val managed to convince Jax to stand down, and so Jax gave him the trigger to the bombs, leaving the choice to him for the first time. She said she never wanted Val to make the hard choices, that she always had, but not anymore; now it was his turn to make the difficult decisions.

Val eventually decided to detonate the bomb, and Jax watched on with a smile as Val took a stand against General Zod, detonating it right in front of Zod's face over video communication. After the explosion, Val banished Jax from the rebellion, but allowed her to go where she would.

#### "Blood Moon"

After rebels put the explosives in the tunnels, the explosion caused a wide chain reaction, resulting in the moon being destroyed. Because of this, it is unknown if she escaped from the planet or not.

## Personality

Despite her tough exterior, Jax is a kind woman who only wants what is best for those around her. She hates lies and betrayal and doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who betrays her. Her closeness to her mentor, Val-El, is seen to be as close as father and daughter. She also develops a maternal bond with Nyssa-Vex, the mother of Val's great-grandson, Cor-Vex [now Jor-El] as she is seen to take her former friend Daron-Vex's daughter under her wing after revealing Nyssa is a clone of the original Nyssa.

Six months after Seg's disappearance, Jax with Val, Nyssa, and Mama Zed are seen fighting back against Zod's forces. In this time, Jax has become close to Nyssa and her son. This bond runs so deep that Jax worries about the pair when Nyssa goes to find her father in Bokos and leaves the baby with Mama Zed. Nyssa was later captured by Lyta and her son was with Dru-Zod. As Nyssa comes to Jax and Val on Wegthor, she reveals to be a spy for Zod; this relationship between them began to crumble as Jax suspected on her, despite Nyssa wanting to work with them. After Nyssa left HQ with Codex, Jax thought of her being traitor, but she apparently still harbored some feelings to her and her son.

Her relationship with Dru-Zod in the beginning was met with some suspicion, but when Zod convinced her to aid in the fight against Brainiac, she trusted him. After Zod rose to power, she quickly began to hate him. This further antagonism came to the extreme when she killed his daughter Lyta on Wegthor, so that she could humiliate him and expose his treachery to Krypton, although she was unaware that she actually killed a clone, as the real Lyta was still alive in Dru's base.

Her relatioship with Daron-Vex was in the beginning respectful until he began to betray her due to his manipulations of Genesis Chamber and the Codex, as well his service with Voice of Rao. Jax desperately wanted to kill him because of his treachery. When Daron was captured by resistance movement and Black Zero, she wanted to humiliate him and forced him to confess his lies and deceit. She however did not want to kill him immediately, instead she allowed him to live, only to secretly kill him when Daron was in the skimmer and she activated a torture device in his neck, causing him to fall in Outlands, although he survived and was in Bokos, but was later killed by Lyta-Zod.

She also developed some respect to other people, like her comrades in Black Zero, other rebels such as Seg (despite knowing him very little) and to rebel soldier Araame who was faithful to Jax.

## Trivia

* This is the first version of Jax-Ur to be female. In the comics, Jax-Ur is a Kryptonian scientist and an adversary of Superman. He first appeared in *Adventure Comics* #289 (October 1961).

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "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"
* "Mercy" (mentioned)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fiveash, Chad and Stoteraux, James (writers), Ettlin, Lukas (director) (May 16, 2018). "Hope". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 9. Syfy.
2. ↑ Kob, David (writer), Roskin, Marc (director) (May 9, 2018). "Savage Night". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 8. Syfy.
3. ↑ Fiveash, Chad & Stoteraux, James & Welsh, Cameron (writers), Donnelly, Ciaran (director) (May 23, 2018). "The Phantom Zone". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 10. Syfy.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 David Kob (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (July 10, 2019). "A Better Yesterday". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 5. Syfy.
5. ↑ Goyer, David S. & Welsh, Cameron (writers), Roskin, Marc (director) (June 12, 2019). "Light-Years From Home". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 1. Syfy.
6. ↑ Horne, Kiersten Van (writer), Roskin, Marc (director) (June 19, 2019). "Ghost In The Fire". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 2. Syfy.
7. ↑ Patel, Lina (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (June 26, 2019). "Will To Power". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 3. Syfy.
8. ↑ Kalteux, Luke (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (July 3, 2019). "Danger Close". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 4. Syfy.
9. ↑ Tucker, Nadria (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (July 17, 2019). "In Zod We Trust". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 6. Syfy.
10. ↑ Francis, David Paul (writer), Welsh, Cameron (director) (August 7, 2019). "Blood Moon". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 9. Syfy.