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    Sent to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice, and the American way!

    How technological advanced was Krypton?

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    #1  Edited By Doctor_Vader

    I was wondering...

    Based on what we know of Krypton's progress on different scientifical fields, how Kryptonians (whitout the hax of gaining superpowers under the yellow sun) would fare in other sci fi universes, like the Star Wars universe, the Star Trek universe, or even the main DC universe

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    They'd fare much better than the Star Trek universe, that's for sure. Has for the Star Wars universe they'd still fare quite well, only problem being the Force.

    What do we know about the kryptonian race...

    - They possess incredibly advance technology, even tesseract tech, something that neither Star Wars or Star Trek has.

    - From a sole product, Sunstones. They can create, buildings, cities, machines, spaceships, weapons and high tech near indestructable armors. On both Star Wars/Trek the suit/armors they use are of little to no use. If you remember well episode 6 Return of Jedi the storm troopers armors were pierced by primitive arrows and spears which begs the question "WHY THE HELL ARE THEY USING THEM ON THE FIRST PLACE?" :) Even in ST the uniforms they use, doesn't protect them from weapon fire of any kind, they don't even protect them from knives, or even something simple as radiation.

    - Kryptonians can create ships with superluminal drives, that are able to travel to different galaxies. Both on SW and ST they're limited to their own galaxy.

    - Kryptonians also have an unlimited power suply. At first Sunstones could also be used to create a highly energetic liquid that was used to fuel kryptonian tech, but since the New 52 reboot DC chose to limit kryptonian sunstones abilities, and now even the sunstones need a powersource. In the form of kryptonite. By combining both sunstone ability to basically turn into anything and kryptonite extremely high levels of energy, kryptonians could do two things. They could create a sunstone/kryptonite reactor, in which the sunstone would safely extract the energy from the kryptonite while at the same time using part of the energy to generate more kryptonite to replace the one spent. Or they could create quantum energy crystals. Almost nothing is known about them, except these two things. Their power never runs out and even by kryptonian standards it was considered to be their most powerful source of energy.

    - Kryptonians also possess highly advance genetic engineering tech and medical treatments. Their very clothes were created to read and regulate their dna, and if that wasn't enough its material even by kryptonians standards was considered to be near indestructable. Their clothes can also change shape, color and who knows how much more...

    So yeah. Kryptonians even without their powers are on a level that surpasses both Star Trek and Star Wars universes, technologically speaking.

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    Depends on the version. Earth one was pretty advanced.

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