Fortress of Solitude

The **Fortress of Solitude** is the former secret base of operations for Val-El's scientific research. It is located not far from Kandor City.

## History

After the Kryptonian council shut down Val-El's research on life outside of Krypton, he moved his work to the Fortress of Solitude. There, he learnt of Brainiac, the Collector of Worlds. He was, however, killed for this alleged treason.

Fourteen years later, Seg-El was taken to the Fortress by Charys-El, where he used a sunstone to enter. Seg returned, using his blood to unlock a hologram of his grandfather, discussing his knowledge of Brainiac.

Seg, Val-El, Strange and Kem brought the Brainiac probe in which Val-El explained that the probe contained the sentry and the parasite to infect the host. The sentry was missing since it was found by salvage worker Rhom and sold it on black market. Strange was able to pick it up, but was empty, since the parasite already entered the host. The brainwashed Rhom went to collect data in communication hub for him. Seg stopped this, but was too late as she relayed the data to him. Rhom was taken to Fortress under Val's care. Val noticed that the Brainiac's modifications kept her alive. He put the nubots to try to remove them in her cortex. Rhom awakened, and gaining herself, warned Val and Strange that her daugter Ona is infected and soon died. When the marshal law was declared by Voice of Rao due to its coup attempt by resistance members, Adam Strange begged Val-El to repair Zeta Ray device to return home. After repairing the device, when Val asked him about his reason to go home, Strange felt that he failed everything at saving the Krypton's future and Kal-El. After Val encouraged him to not lose a hope, Strange then erased his last conversation to him and took the repaired device, when he decided to kil General Zod and prevent Seg to save Kandor, hoping to become a true hero. The resistance movement members Seg, Lyta-Zod and Nyssa-Vex later came to the Fortress to bring alive, but semi-conscious Dev-Em who was controlled by Brainiac. They planned to sever the link between Brainiac and his unit Red Shard, also including Dev-Em so that he could shut down his unit. After Val hacked his neural network, the connection was disabled, allowing Black Zero to kill VOR/Brainiac in Genesis Chamber, also releasing Dev-Em from his control. Days later, Seg and Nyssa discussed about the dire situation, even Nyssa suggested to him to take the skimmer and go to Argo City, but he was reluctant to do so. When was Seg alone, being pessimistic about this situation, Val noticed the sig on the sunstone held by Seg and told him that it came from the ancient Kryptonian word for hope. His ancestors chose it and generations defined it, making a great accomplishments not by words, but by action, thus Val encouraged him that there is still the hope and the chance to save Krypton. Dru-Zod and Lyta entered the Fortress, revealing to Seg that his grandfather was alive. Activating the projector, The Phantom Zone is revealed within the Fortress, bringing Val here. Despite Seg being happy to see him again, Val shocked about the zero chance to win against Brainiac. Desperate, Zod attempted to sell him to their enemy, believing that he will spare the planet. As Seg and Val were in Fortress, Zod and Brainiac arrived. Brainiac was pleased to see him, but quickly deduced to be a hologram. Seg then activated the projector, banishing Brainiac, but also the latter taking Seg as well, while Val tried to save him but he couldn't. One month after the war, Val was in Fortress and saw Nyssa and Jax-Ur approaching, happy to see them again, but Fortress was caught in bleak situation, as Dru-Zod became the new ruler of Krypton. In addition, the sigil on Kal-El's cape from the future was changed from the House of El to House of Zod, supposedly erasing Kal-El from the timeline.

When Seg and Adam were in Colu, Brainiac took control of the former and showed a twisted version of the Fortress of Solitude in his mind.

Seg and Nyssa (with her son Cor-Vex) came to the Fortress because of Brainiac's intention to shut down Seg's mind. Holographic Val-El came to help them. Seg was put on a vertical table and Val found that Brainiac put a nanites in his brain stem. Brainiac repressed Seg's mind, forcing Val to restrain him. Val decided that Nyssa uses sound scalpel to remove them, but she had no experience in surgery. Afraid to hurt him, Seg encouraged her to do it. Nyssa removed them and the nanites in the claster were shut down. Seg was freed, but the nanites soon disappeared, only to be inside holographic Val, in which Brainiac showed up himself. He brought own ship and forced Seg to come with him, as well trying to concince him that he wanted to preserve Kandor and Krypton from self-destruction. Seg refused and Brainiac left, but also took his child (who was renamed as Jor-El) in his ship. Seg searched for hours the sectors in space to locate him, but found nothing. Nyssa then suggested to talk with his grandpa Val, due to his experience in the Phantom Zone and his observations at the possible futures, but the communication on Wegthor was already cut, instead finding another way to get him around. Jayna-Zod and Dev-Em came to the fortress as well, presumably using another skimmer to travel and tracking them from the Outpost. They came to warn that Zod's fleet of interstellar ships was complete and they were ready for a massive assault on Wegthor. Not able to communicate with Wegthor, Dev-Em suggested to break into Fort Rozz, which was fortified with security codes and patrol routes in every sector. Seg said that the only way to get through are the tunnels which were close to the base, 30 meters north, beneath the place where Zod made a shipyard. Jayna said that there was an armory, protected with security protocols and some Sagitari; Jayna knew how to disable them. All of them left the Fortress to begin operation.

## Appearances

### Season 1

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

### Season 2

* "Will To Power" (facsimile)
* "Zods and Monsters"
* "Mercy"

## Trivia

* In DC comics, the Fortress of Solitude is a fortress, functioning as a place of solace and headquarters for Superman. It is usually located in Arctic, but other versions placed the Fortress in other locations like Antarctic, the Andes, and the Amazon rainforest. Various characteristics and features were added over the time, in the comics and various media adaptations. The Fortress first appeared in *Action Comics* #241 (June 1958).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goldberg, Ian, Goyer, David S. (writers), Donnelly, Ciaran & McCarthy, Colm (directors) (March 21, 2018). "Pilot". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 1. Syfy.
2. ↑ Welsh, Cameron (writer) & Donnelly, Ciaran (director) (March 28, 2018). "House of El". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 2. 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. ↑ Francis, David Paul (writer), Hüseyin, Metin (director) (May 2, 2018). "Transformation". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 7. Syfy.
6. ↑ Kob, David (writer), Roskin, Marc (director) (May 9, 2018). "Savage Night". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 8. Syfy.
7. ↑ Fiveash, Chad and Stoteraux, James (writers), Ettlin, Lukas (director) (May 16, 2018). "Hope". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 9. Syfy.
8. ↑ Fiveash, Chad & Stoteraux, James & Welsh, Cameron (writers), Donnelly, Ciaran (director) (May 23, 2018). "The Phantom Zone". *Krypton*. Season 1. Episode 10. Syfy.
9. ↑ Patel, Lina (writer), Ramsay, Julius (director) (June 26, 2019). "Will To Power". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 3. Syfy.
10. ↑ Thompson, Joel Anderson (writer), Watson, Erica (director) (July 24, 2019). "Zods and Monsters". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 7. Syfy.
11. ↑ Aldrin, Katie (writer), Kilner, Clare (director) (July 31, 2019). "Mercy". *Krypton*. Season 2. Episode 8. Syfy.