Coluans

COLUANS

Class: Extraterrestrials

Known Representatives: Brainiac 6, Brainiac 8 (Indigo), Brainiac 13, Brainiac 417, Kajz Dox (Brainiac 4), Lyrl Dox (Brainiac 3), Querl Dox (Brainiac 5), Vril Dox (Brainiac), Vril Dox II, Karik Gaz, Zygan Lax, Pulsar Stargrave, Toz Varal, Brel Xog

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Colu

First Appearance: Action Comics I #216 (May, 1956)

Powers: Coluans lived for centuries, possessed superhuman eighth-level intelligence, and were master scientists.

History: (R.E.B.E.L.S. #18 (fb)) - The Coluans were among the most intelligent sentient beings in the universe, and their technological society enjoyed 9,000 years of peace and prosperity. Coluan Vril Dox was born with 12th-level intelligence, and received the nicname Brainiac for experimenting on himself to increase his brainpower. The planet was relieved when he left Colu, but news soon arrived that he was destroying entire solar systems. Fearing his return, they chose to punish his clone Vril Dox II, imprisoning him in a thought-cell, where his great mind lay fallow. They created an artificial intelligence network to ensure public safety, and suppress the rise of more superintelligent mutants. The AI became the Computer Tyrants, who mindslaved the entire population.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #6) - Starro The Conqueror usurped L.E.G.I.O.N. and conquered the Dominator homeworld. The Coluans and other extraterrestrial civilizations prepared for war with Starro.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #18-20) - Vril brought Brainiac to Colu as a prisoner, chest-thumping and playing to the media about being the man who brought a monster to justice. On Colu Brainiac was placed in a thought-cell, dampening his intelligence, and Vril enjoyed gloating over him. Brainiac said he never thought much about Vril, not seeing his inferior intellect as a threat, and Vril demanded he acknowledge that he'd been defeated. Lyrl Dox, who'd created Pulsar Stargrave, a Solaris class macroprocessor, attacked Colu, and told them Brainiac 3 was their new master. Brainiac broke from his restraints, said he acknowledged no heirs to share his knowledge or his name. Vril fled from Brainiac while Pulsar Stargrave rained fire down on Colu, and Lyrl demanded the ruling council give him their data-core. Vril told them to destroy the data core, and they despaired at losing 3,000 years of accumulated knowledge, but preferred that to Lyrl continuing his destruction. Brainiac had already taken command of the data-core, an easy enough feat since he'd build it, and shielded it from harm. He set off a nuclear strike that destroyed the ruling council and halted Stargrave. Her intended to delete his "offspring" and Vril and Lyrl agreed to a truce to deal with him. Lyrl held off Brainiac with Stargrave until Brainiac contained the weapon in a forcefield, and Vril went offworld to get his secret weapon. He found Lobo on Raggashoon, and after sharing a drink with him, convinced him to go after the hefty bounty on Brainiac's head. Vril returned to Colu with Lobo in tow, and Brainiac wanted to capture and study the last Czarnian, so he took control of Stargrave to subdue him. Their battle raged, but Solaris couldn't incinerate Lobo enough to subdue him. Lyrl and Vril sent holograms of themselves to the data-core to distract Brainiac, but he saw through their ruse, and entered the neural connection between them and their holograms, draining their brains. Vril's subconscious resisted him, but he pushed through and was overcome by traumatic and hateful emotions, suffering a breakdown. Vril said he shouldn't be surprised, he'd grown up in abject fear of his father while secretly hoping for just one kind word from him, and had buried his emotions deep inside. Brainiac fled the planet with Stargrave, taking the data-core with him, and Lyrl was impressed with his father's novel way of defeating the villain.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #22) - With the help of L.E.G.I.O.N. the Coluans began reconstructing their world.

Comments: Created by Bill Finger & Wayne Boring.