White Triangle Daxamites
56 years ago - Daxam is the largest Kryptonian colony world folded into the Phantom Zone by the Eradicator.
46 years ago - The Daxamite survivors are organized into survivalist colonies by Dru-Zod, Faora-Ul & Non-ek when they are sent into the Phantom Zone.
21 years ago - The Daxamites, not permitted to govern themselves as Dru-Zod maintains control of their colony, begin organizing a resistance.
10 years ago - The Daxamites reclaim their colony when Dru-Zod, Faora-Ul & Non-ek escape the Phantom Zone. They are imprisoned upon their return, but Zod loyalist factions start to gather.
2 years ago - The Daxamites are left in a state of civil unrest when Dru-Zod & Faora-Ul again escape the Phantom Zone. Their loyalists begin looking for ways to synthesize Kryptonian powers from within the Phantom Zone.
2994 - The White Triangle Daxamites, descendants of the Zod loyalists, are able to use the powers of Tinya Wazo to fold themselves out of the Phantom Zone and back into real space. Using artificially created Kryptonian powers they attempt to stage a coup against the United Planets, and are stopped by the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Long-time readers of our project can probably tell right away why the Daxamites, a species of human-like aliens in DC canon that are regularly referenced across a lot of their history, are not going to work in our timeline, at least as they're usually represented canonically.
We do have a particular story we're referencing in the Legion's future timeline that will use a pretty heavily changed version of the Daxamites unique to our project, and in creating their timeline, we get to lay out exactly how the events of our version differ from canon.
We do have a particular story we're referencing in the Legion's future timeline that will use a pretty heavily changed version of the Daxamites unique to our project, and in creating their timeline, we get to lay out exactly how the events of our version differ from canon.
The White Triangle Comic HistoryThe White Triangle was a very specific story element introduced during one of my favorite eras of the Legion, the 90s Mark Waid run. We learn that certain small groups of Daxamites are extremely xenophobic racists, and all view the United Planets as an abomination of race-mixing, and basically tear through the series for several issues behaving like extremely violent soccer hooligans with Superman-level power, beating up one of Triplicate Girl's bodies and committing wholesale genocide.
Reading these comics now, from 2024, as distasteful as these characters are, it's almost quaint to remember a time when you had to make your dangerous racist characters act like cartoonish supervillains because it was just understood that this was the only way a person could possibly have beliefs like this. Good times. |
Our White Triangle Daxamite StoryThe comic-canon Daxamites present a pretty sizeable problem for one of the core parts of our project; we want to be very careful how we distribute powers. We've done a lot to remove the idea of whole planetary populations where everyone has powers, or if they're necessary, we make sure that anyone who comes from such a population is the sole survivor. We simply can't, under any circumstances, allow for an entire planetary population of people with practically Kryptonian levels of power.
We are, however, including the Daxamites. They just work very differently in our timeline. Rather than being a whole separate species, Daxamites start off as actual Kryptonians. They are the largest of the Kryptonian colonies folded into the Phantom Zone. The survivors adapt to the Phantom Zone over the centuries, so when the White Triangle, the descendants of the Daxamites who followed General Zod, are able to escape into real space they actually don't have naturally occurring powers, instead using artificially created powers that allow them to fight the Legion. It's really just one story, but it allows us to lay out this part of our alternate version of this part of DC history. |