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Kaiburr crystals are Force-attuned crystals that grow rarely but throughout the Galaxy, with some areas having a greater abundance than others. The crystals concentrate energy in a unique manner through the Force, resonating with it.

Internally, kaiburr crystals are composed of both organic and inorganic matter. They are stable at temperatures and pressures found in the cores of stars and gas giants, and are thus resistant to heat and physical stresses. The crystals grow in an organized way, adding to their prismatic structure one piece at a time, and thus can be found from sizes as small as a fingernail to gigantic proportions. All kaiburr crystals are attuned to the Force regardless of their size.

Kaiburr crystals are most notably found in the Adega system, though a fair amount of these crystals can also be found on the planets Ilum, Dantooine, Halm, and Mygeeto. They are a critical component in the construction of most lightsabers, generating the energy which forms the weapon's distinct laser blade. Force adepts travel to crystal deposits to harvest their own crystals, which they then use to build their lightsabers. Crystals lack colour before they are chosen by Force adepts. Once chosen, the crystals are meditated upon with the Force, upon which they attain hues influenced by the adepts' psyches or preferences.

The crystals are noted for their unmatched ability to channel energy and generate enormous returns. If a crystal's subjected to forceful attempts to harness its innate power, it will "flee" such attempts, hindering those that seek to use it against its will. Only Force adepts can easily harness the power of the kaiburr crystal. This is done either by the adept forming a rapport with the crystal or by using the Force to dominate the crystal, bending it to their will.

The ancient Sith made prodigious use of kaiburr crystals in the construction of their warblades, amulets, holocrons, and most other technology. During the Great Hyperspace War, superweapons were developed by the Dark Lord Naga Sadow that were powered by giant kaiburr crystals. These superweapons were capable of destroying whole stars by reaching into their depths and wrenching out their cores, destabilizing them, causing them to go supernova. The modern lightsaber was also an innovation of the Sith. While the lightsaber was invented by the Jedi after the Great Schism, leaving the Exiles who became the Sith ignorant of the technology, a number of laser swords came into the Sith's possession during the Great Hyperspace War. They were quick to modify the weapons to replace the cumbersome external power packs and restrictive power cords with internally set kaiburr crystals, considerably improving lightsaber ergonomics. The Jedi adapted the use of kaiburr crystals in the creation of their own lightsabers and holocrons following the war.

After the Proclamation of the New Order and the Great Jedi Purge, Emperor Palpatine and his Empire began construction of the Death Stars, twin battle stations capable of destroying entire planets. Kaiburr crystals were used as part of the Death Stars' superlasers, looted from lightsabers, holy sites, and worlds where they could be found.

c. 2,000,000 BCE

By this point in time, the people of Krypton have conquered disease and perfected cloning, making them effectively immortal.

98,000-97.000 BCE

The Kryptonian Clone Wars occur.

1881

Jonathan Kent is born to Hiram and Edith Kent.

1883

Kal-El is born on Krypton.
As Krypton enters the final phase of its destruction, the Kryptonian colonization fleet is launched. Only twelve of the 144,000 stasis matrices escape the cataclysm, whereupon they begin their voyage to Earth.

1884

The Daily Planet is founded in Metropolis.

1888

Martha Clark is born to Henry and Willa Clark.

1889

Perry White is born.
Alexei "Lex" Luthor is born to Leon & Liliya Luthor.

1902

Lex Luthor takes a large insurance policy out on his parents without their knowledge. Shortly thereafter, he causes a fire in their apartment which claims their lives. He uses the insurance payouts to kickstart his future.

1915

Bruce Wayne is born to Thomas and Martha Wayne.

1916

Pete Ross is born.
Nine Kryptonian stasis matrices arrive on Earth.
Kal-El's matrix lands in Smallville, Kansas, USA, where it is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Retrieving the infant from his pod, the Kents decide to pass him off as their own son, naming him Clark Joseph Kent.
Mala-Ur's matrix crashes into a Luthor Incorporated munitions factory, where it is found by Luthor's people. Retrieving the infant from her pod, they take her into captivity for further study, codenaming her "Subject One".
Dru-Zod's matrix lands in rural Pokolistan. It evades discovery, the infant remaining in hibernation.
Lana Lang is born to Lewis and Sarah Lang.
Lois Lane is born to Sam and Etta Lane.

1917

Selina Kyle is born.

1921

Enrolled in Smallville School, Kal-El befriends classmates Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Kenny Braverman.

1924

Kal-El develops invulnerability.
Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered by Joe Chill. Witness to their killing, their son, Bruce, vows to become a crimefighter in their memory.

1925

Kal-El develops super strength.

1927

Kal-El develops super speed.

1928

Richard "Dick" Grayson is born to John and Mary Grayson.

1930

Kal-El develops x-ray vision.

1932

Kal-El develops super leaping.

1933

Kal-El first encounters Mala-Ur and Lex Luthor.

1933-1937

Forced to leave Kansas to find work as the Great Depression worsens, Kal-El travels west towards California. Bearing witness to the gross social injustice besieging the nation, exposed to anarchist and Marxist writings, he embraces anarcho-communism.

1937-1938

Kal-El serves as an ambulance driver with the Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.

1938

Jonathan Kent dies.
Kal-El is seriously wounded when a shell hits the ambulance he is driving. He survives, but with impaired vision and partial paralysis, ending his time in the Spanish Civil War.
Kal returns to Smallville. After he recovers from his injuries, he decides to move east, settling in Metropolis, Delaware.
Kal becomes Superman.
Dru-Zod's stasis matrix is finally discovered by farmers. Retrieving the infant from his pod, they hand him over to Soviet authorities, who name him Avruskin.

1939

Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
Kal-El encounters Lex Luthor for the first time in his Superman identity.
Harvey Dent is elected district attorney of Gotham.
Batman first encounters Doctor Death.

1940

Batman first encounters Hugo Strange.
Batman builds the first Batmobile.
Jack "Red Hood" Napier becomes the Joker.
Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face.
Batman encounters the Mad Monk.
John and Mary Grayson are murdered by Tony Zucco. Adopting Dick Grayson as his ward, Bruce Wayne reveals his double identity to him and begins training him as his sidekick.
Selina Kyle becomes Catwoman.

1941

Following America's entry into World War II, Kal-El is assigned as war correspondant for the Daily Planet. In the week before he's shipped out, he reveals his double identity to his girlfriend, Lois Lane, and proposes marriage. She accepts, and they are wed the night before his departure.

1941-1945

Kal-El aids the Allies in Europe and the Pacific.

1942

Sentenced to death, Jack Napier is executed by electric chair.
Lex Luthor's correspondence with Nazi and Soviet scientists is disclosed to the US government. Disgraced, facing charges of treason, Luthor is forced into hiding.
Luthor constructs a mechanical warsuit. Powered by green kryptonite, the warsuit enables him to walk and engage Superman in physical combat.

1944

Kara-Re is born to Kala-Re and In-Ze on Wegthor.

1945

Bruce Wayne and Kal-El team up to battle Heinrich Melch, a kryptonite-enhanced Nazi super-soldier.

1946

Dick Grayson becomes Robin.

1947

Due to improper shielding, Lex Luthor has contracted radiation poisoning from the green kryptonite which powers his warsuit. His cancer malignant and untreatable, Luthor fully commits himself to defeating his hated enemy, the Man of Steel. Constructing an android simulacrum powered by black kryptonite, Luthor sets it against Kal-El. During the course of the battle, the Lexdroid self-destructs, bathing Kal in black K radiation, permanently splitting him into two separate individuals: an amoral Superman and a spineless Clark Kent.

1947-1961

Formally renouncing anarchism, Superman ingratiates himself to the US government. He eventually becomes their pawn, participating in the Korean & Vietnam Wars on their behalf.

1948

Martha Kent dies.

1950

Clark Kent and Lois Lane divorce.

1953

Clark Kent and Lana Lang are married.
Dru-Zod becomes the Red Son.

1954

Karen Kent is born to Clark and Lana Kent.

1955

Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are married. Shortly thereafter, Selina turns herself in to the police and serves time for her crimes as Catwoman.
Dru-Zod learns of his Kryptonian heritage. Discarding his Terran name, he vows to seize control of the Soviet Union and transform Earth into a new Krypton.

1956

Bruce Wayne retires as Batman. Dick Grayson takes up the role in his stead.
Joker II makes his debut.
Katherine "Kathy" Kane becomes Batwoman.

1957

Helena Wayne is born to Bruce and Selina Wayne.

1958

Superman first encounters BrainIAC.
Superman is transported to Universe 29, an inverted analogue of Universe 1 inhabited by silicon-based humanoids. There he encounters his "bizarre" counterpart and blue kryptonite, which has the effect of augmenting his powers.
Returning from Universe 29, Superman synthesizes blue kryptonite in the Fortress of Solitude and begins habitually bathing in its radiations. The blue K has a cumulative effect, enhancing his existing abilities and granting him additional ones with each exposure.

1959

Having had his brain transferred to an android body powered by green kryptonite, Lex Luthor re-emerges as "John Corben", director of the Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO).
Superman visits the Rao system. On Wegthor, in the city of Argo, he finds Kara-Re, the planet's last survivor. Releasing her from stasis, he brings her back with him to Earth.

1961

After three years of constant exposure to blue kryptonite radiation, Superman's cells are dangerously close to degenerating. The blue K having bestowed him a vast repertoire of godlike abilities, he decides he needs no more power and removes the crystal from the Fortress of Solitude, tossing it into the sun.
After a brief, bloodless war with the world's military might, Superman seizes command of the world's governments. Declaring himself High Councilor of Earth, he centralizes control under an authoritarian socialist Regime enforced by his Superman robots and deputized superheroes.

1962

Kara-Re becomes Supergirl.
The "Superman Revenge Squad", led by Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne, orchestrate a plan to assassinate Superman. The plan fails spectacularly. Wayne and most of the co-conspirators die in the scuffle, leaving only Luthor against the Man of Steel. He opens his chest plate, exposing Superman to his kryptonite heart. Superman plucks the kryptonite out and eats it, demonstrating his immunity to green K. Before Luthor can perish, Superman teleports him to STAR Labs, where he is equipped with a new power source before being taken into police custody.

1964

Joker II is captured and "rehabilitated" by the Regime.
Kathy Kane retires as Batwoman.

1965

Bruce Grayson is born to Dick Grayson and Kathy Kane.

1966

Helena Wayne learns of her father's past as the first Batman.
Pamela Isley becomes Poison Ivy.

1971

Having grown bored and listless in his role as High Councilor, Superman decides to leave Earth, seeking to find new and greater challenges amongst the stars. After transferring all power to Kara-Re, he departs.
Jason Todd is born to Joe and Trina Todd.
Dick Grayson first encounters Ra's al Ghul.

1971-1985

Kara-Re dissolves the Regime, granting the municipalities of Earth their autonomy. Some embrace libertarian socialism, others revert to capitalism.

1973

Carrie Kelley is born.

1976

Selina Wayne dies.
Karen Kent becomes Power Girl.

1977

Bruce Grayson becomes Robin.
Helena Wayne becomes the Huntress.
The Huntress joins the JLA.

1979

Kara-Re frees the Kandorians from their pocket universe, resettling them on an unihabited terrestrial planet orbiting a red giant. They name their new home "Rokyn".

1983

Jason Todd is adopted by Dick Grayson.
Kara-Re becomes Superwoman.

1984

Bruce Grayson becomes Nightwing.

1985

Clark Kent and Superman are merged back together. The reconstituted Kal-El is significantly depowered, though not to his pre-blue K levels.
Kara-Re dies in the Crisis.

1986

Lex Luthor founds LexCoop, an aerospace engineering worker cooperative.
Carrie Kelley becomes Batgirl.
Lana Kent dies.
In his final battle with Ra's al Ghul, Dick Grayson is rejuvenated by a Lazarus pit.
Dick Grayson and Talia al Ghul are married.
Joker III makes his debut.

1987

Holly Robinson becomes Catwoman.
Jason Todd becomes Robin.
Damien Grayson is born to Dick and Talia Grayson.

1988

Joker III cripples Carrie Kelley.
Joker III kills Jason Todd.

1989

Carrie Kelley becomes Oracle.

1992

Jean-Paul Valley becomes Dick Grayson's protege.

1993

Lois Lane dies.
Kal-El and BrainIAC "die" when they are combined into Kal-IAC.
John Henry Irons becomes Steel.
Kon-El is born, becomes Superboy.
Karen Kent becomes Superwoman.
Lex Luthor becomes Superman.
Bane cripples Dick Grayson.
Jean-Paul Valley becomes Batman.

1994

Jean-Paul Valley is defeated by Dick Grayson.
Dick Grayson retires as Batman.

1996

Magog kills Joker III.

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