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Teall

Teall is a dimension accessible through a black hole in which energy is more stable than matter. It is the home of a group mind of non-sex-specific energy-beings who are capable of inhabiting and manipulating solid matter. In 2985, they conceived the possibility that their universe might contain other energy-planets with other energy-beings that could be assimilated into the group mind. They chose their most independent thinker as their "astronaut" for this mission of exploration, but instead of looking for new beings to include in the group mind, it went through a black hole and ended up in the dimension of matter. The astronaut didn't come back; instead, it decided it was having fun in the matter universe and joined the Legion of Super-Heroes under the name Quislet. Quislet was therefore labeled a thief and a traitor to Teall.

In 2987, the Teallians used a black hole to kidnap Quislet from its room in the Legion's headquarters, and by accident, they also broiught Wildfire, an energy-being who was being taught by Quislet to control his form. Wildfire escaped on his own, but Quislet remained captive until it bluffed the Teallians into letting it go by telling them that the ship, with which it was captured, was booby-trapped. They let Quislet go, but Quislet remained a criminal in their eyes (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 44).

Quislet's ship was destroyed by the Emerald Empress in early 2989, and this forced it to return to Teall (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 58). Quislet's fate since its return is unknown, but is suspected that Quislet had been punished somehow.

I can't believe I forgot Starhaven. Sorry Grey!

Starhaven

Starhaven is a world near the galactic core, which was settled in the 27th century by Native Americans looking for a more spiritually pure land than Earth was at that time. While the planet is technologically in tune with the rest of the United Planets, technological artifacts are limited to specific areas of the globe, leaving most of the natural areas pristine. Through genetic mutation and selective breeding, Starhaveners have become excellent trackers and navigators, with something of a sixth sense about their quarries, and some have developed wings, invulnerability and flight powers, which, after several generations, enabled the best of them to exceed the speed of light. Many natives of Starhaven earn livings as navigators and bounty-hunters, including Dawnstar, the most developed of them all, who eventually came to the notice of R. J. Brande and used these powers to join the Legion of Super-Heroes (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 240).

The Starhaveners continue to keep some traditions, some of them slightly modified, they brought with them from Earth, including taking a "grand tour of the galaxy" upon one's eighteenth birthday to discover the person who would become one's mate. Dawnstar did this in 2984, and was interrupted by Wildfire just when the face of the person was supposed to appear to her. She originally took this as a sign that Wildfire himself was the chosen one, but has since experienced doubts about that (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 306-311). They also have a trial for helping one confront his or her fears, involving some form of hallucinogenic herbal smoke, which Dawnstar went through after her recovery from possession by the Bounty entity (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 55).

Marzal

Marzal is an island that had been populated completely by Africans until the decimation of its inhabitants by the Dominators in 2994. It was discovered in the seventeenth century by African captives of European slavers who, led by their chieftain St'balla, rebelled and took over the ship on which they were held captive. The Africans steered the ship until discovering the island, which they named Marzal, a word which meant "New World" in their language. Soon after they settled it, the island disappeared into another dimension, which they took as a sign from the gods that they would be safe there from the "white devils" who had plagued them before.

In the late nineteenth century, Marzal re-emerged into Earth's dimension, whereupon the Marzallians understood that the island was dimensionally unstable, and it stayed in Earth's dimension for about thirty years out of every two hundred. Marzallian society progressed in approximately the same way that Earth technology did over the next thousand years.

In the thirtieth century, a mutant child was born on Marzal, who had the power to draw on the energy of the dimensional rift around the island to produce odd effects with his voice. Troy Stewart was given the name Tyroc, a Marzallian word meaning "scream of the devil," and appointed the island's protector. When Marzal reappeared on Earth late in the century, it was beset by difficulties, and the Marzallians had to deal with them on their own, a fact which led them to conclude that thirtieth-century Earth society was prejudiced against blacks. So when a satellite carrying stolen jewels crashed on Marzal in 2981, and the Legion tried to retrieve it and prevent the criminal Beta Gang from doing so, they were received coolly by the Marzallians, and chased away by Tyroc. However, when Tyroc was in deadly danger from poison radiation emissions from the stolen jewels, the Legionnaires rescued him and convinced him that they treated people of all races equally. Tyroc eventually joined the Legion (
Superboy (1st series) # 216).

Tyroc spent most of his Legion career on detached duty, though, since he was still responsible for defending Marzal. In late 2983, Marzal disappeared again, a bit earlier than usual, due to the effects of Tyroc's power. Tyroc went with his people, and Marzal was not expected to appear again for two centuries (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 265).

Those who did not expect to see Marzal again were mistaken, though. In early 2994, when the Dominators controlled Earthgov, they felt their popularity among the peoples of Earth slipping, and felt they needed a quick boost. In order to do that, they decided to fake an attack by the Khunds and claim victory, so they could convince the Earthmen that they were on their side in a common battle. Using recordings of Tyroc's voice, they managed to get Marzal to reappear in Earth's dimension, and then destroyed the city (which this time appeared in the middle of Africa rather than in the ocean like usual), claiming the Khunds had teleported in a city full of terrorists. Tyroc and the few other survivors made their way to the resistance movement led by Jacques Foccart, and have helped defeat the Dominators, getting, in small measure, their revenge for the destruction of their people.

Korbal (Post-Boot)

Korbal is a barren planetoid uninhabited by any sentient creature. The only significant beings that live there are lightning beasts, which absorb and discharge electrical energy such as is found in abundance flashing through Korbal's skies. Some months before the founding of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Garth, Ayla and Mekt Ranzz were stranded there and attempted to trick the lightning beasts into recharging their spaceship, but the beasts turned on them instead and they received powers similar to the beasts' own abilities (
Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 0, 64).

Mekt, who embarked on a life of crime as Lightning Lord, discovered that the lightning beasts, when killed, discharged their lightning and that he could absorb it, making him more powerful. When Garth, as Live Wire, came looking for him, Mekt brought him to Korbal and showed him this phenomenon, telling him that he would soon be the only lightning-powered creature alive...no more lightning beasts, or Garth or Ayla. Garth fought him, and with the arriving Ayla's help, defeated him, but at the cost of his right arm. The lightning beast herd has been decimated, but not completely wiped out, as Mekt had hoped (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 73, Legionnaires # 30).

Months later, after Ayla, a. k. a. Spark, had been to the twentieth century and had her power changed, she returned to Korbal in the hopes of getting them back. A lightning beast attacked her as she hoped it would, but it killed her rather than empowering her, and she was revived only through the delicate application of electricity gathered from Korbal's skies, which is full of lightning since the killing of most of the lightning beasts. The revival gave her back energy powers of some sort, but they appear to be somewhat different from her original lightning powers (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 101).

Korbal (Pre-Boot)

Korbal is the planetoid where lightning beasts come from; due to the constant electrical storms in its atmosphere, they are the only creatures that could possibly thrive there. In 2971, the siblings Garth, Ayla and Mekt Ranzz were forced to make an emergency landing there when their ship lost its power. They tried to get the lightning beasts to recharge the ship; instead, the creatures attacked the Ranzzes, empowering them and turning them into Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass and Lightning Lord, respectively (Adventure Comics # 308, Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 45). When Lightning Lad died in 2975, Lightning Lass brought his body there and took his place in his crypt to join the Legion and keep his memory alive (Adventure Comics # 308), and the Legion of Super-Heroes left his body there. When they found a Daxamite life-force transfer machine they could use to revive him, they set it up in Korbal, so that the selection of who would sacrifice his or her life for Lightning Lad's would be properly random, whoever was struck by the atmospheric lightning, which turned out to be Chameleon Boy's pet, Proty (Adventure Comics # 312).

The Science Police maintains a post on Korbal to prevent others from killing themselves trying to duplicate the Ranzzes' empowerment.

Dryad (Post-Boot)

Dryad is a world whose native population consists of rock-like beings. There were originally two distinct races of Dryadians, one of which lived on the surface of the planet, the females of which had a crystalline surface after the onset of sexual maturity. The last known member of this species was Strata, who was a founding member of the intergalactic police force L. E. G. I. O. N. in the late twentieth century. The other race has a rocky appearance, and they live under the surface (Trinity # 2). The members of this race are very reclusive, and the world came to be thought of as unpopulated.

Shortly before the origin of the Legion, lifeforms from the United Planets attempted to colonize the world, making it part of the U. P. Their attempts at transforming the terrain came to the attention of the native Dryads, who eventually accepted the colonists' peaceful intentions and signed a treaty with them. However, the natives were naive and expected the colonists to honor their traditions and needs even if they were not specified in that contract. This caused tension between the natives and the colonists, and led to some wary natives remaining awake at a time of year when most of them choose to hibernate. One of these wary natives was Brika. Her suspicions proved justified when the colonists attempted to start developing land under which many of her clan were hibernating. Brika pleaded with the colonists to hold off developing that region until the other Dryadians could be awakened and relocated, but the colonists, citing the treaty, refused (Legionnaires # 71).

The conflict came to a head when, during this stand-off, Brika was possessed by the Elemental Rrox. Rrox sensed Brika's disappointment over the treatment of her planet and, responding to what it perceived to be its host's desires, caused the planet to explode beneath its feet before taking off for JS-1967 in order to destroy Mordru (Legionnaires # 71-72). However, the Legion of Super-Heroes worked to stop them from inadvertantly awakening the powerful sorcerer, and during that fight, Brika's personality was re-asserted. Not being the violent type, Brika rejected the Elemental's possession, allowing it to be re-captured by the sorceress Mysa (
Legionnaires # 73). Then Brika, distraught over what she had done and feeling no reason to continue with life now that her beloved home planet no longer existed, committed suicide (Legionnaires # 74).

It is unknown if any other Dryadians survived the planet's destruction.

Dryad (Pre-Boot)

Dryad, also known as Korlon, has been inhabited by silicon-based rock-beings since before the twentieth century. There had apparently been two different species, the surface-dwellers, among whom the males are rock-like and the women crystalline, and the cave-dwellers, among whom all are like rock, but whose shapes of each sex look more similar to carbon-based humanoid lifeforms (Trinity # 2), though males go through a rather radical metamorphosis in their adolescent stage. The surface species apparently died out, but the greatest hero of Dryad until its destruction was Strata, a surface being who helped found the L. E. G. I. O. N. in the late twentieth century.

The absence of life on the surface led Dryad to be dropped from the planetary star maps, until it was "discovered" by colonizing humans in the thirtieth century. Not detecting any carbon-based lifeforms, the humans assumed the planet to be devoid of sentient life, and colonized it. Several years later, after determining their peaceful intent, the silicon-based Dryads revealed themselves to the humans, and the two species lived peacefully side-by-side for decades.

Then, in 2980, the planet's core was discovered to be unstable, and the Legion of Super-Heroes led a massive evacuation effort. It was mostly successful, but they failed to rescue six youths, five human and one silicon, who were instead taken by the Dark Man. He duped them into believing that the Legionnaires had actually destroyed the planet, and gave them super-powers. Titania, Lazon, Mist Master, Neutrax, Silver Slasher and Blok became the Dark Man's League of Super-Assassins and went to Earth in 2983 to fight the Legion, a fight which they lost (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 272, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 253-254). While the Dark Man had done a good job of brainwashing the humans, Blok was less susceptible to his psychic abilities, and when the Dark Man engaged in another scheme against the Legion, he joined the Legion against his former master (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 270-271).

Blok was believed to be the last silicon survivor of Dryad before his death at the hands of Roxxas the Butcher in 2994. It is possible, however, that others survived the planet's destruction. The humans all escaped the dying planet, including the Super-Assassins. Among the human colonists of Dryad are Doctor Hosono, who first set foot on the planet, and Jorj, Marta and Gretal, the family of three to whom the silicons first revealed themselves (Legion of Super-Heroes (1st series) # 272).

Bismoll (Post-Boot)

Bismoll is a United Planets world on which every inhabitant is capable of eating all forms of matter, through a super-corrosive agent in their saliva. Tenzil Kem, the Legion of Super-Heroes' chef, hails from this planet (Legionnaires # 35).

One seventy-fifth century Bismollian is Nervosa, a member of Wildfire's Legion of Super-Heroes (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) Annual # 7).

Bismoll (Pre-Boot)

Bismoll is a world which was settled by human beings without super-powers, but when deadly microbes infested all organic matter on the planet. Cut off from all outside contact, the Bismollians reached inside themselves to keep from starving to death...they engineered a genetic change in themseves that enabled them to eat inorganic materials. As the generations went by, natural selection favored those who were able to get the most efficiency out of their food, and those with extremely strong teeth and jaws, to the point where most Bismollians are capable of taking a bite out of anything, even objects which are normally indestructible, such as the Miracle Machine (Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes # 251) and the Persuader's Atomic Axe (
Legionnaires # 6), both of which were destroyed by Matter-Eater Lad, who joined the Legion of Super-Heroes with his ability to eat matter in all forms. Unlike many other Legionnaires whose powers are present in all natives of their home planets, whose abilities are stronger or better-developed, his eating ability is typical, a fact that has aroused the jealousy of others, who have tried to take his place in the Legion, such as Calorie Queen, who could actually convert her food energy into super-strength (
Superboy (1st series) # 212), and his own brother Renkil (Superboy (1st series) # 184). Bismoll tries to encourage tourism, but the local cuisine tends to chase potential tourists away.

The political system of Bismoll is a strange one, in which a person gets drafted for political service, much in the way that governments at war draft people into their armies. Matter-Eater Lad was drafted by his parents' party to run for parliament in 2981, for the sake of lending his popularity to the party's platform rather than for any ideas of his own. He ended up turning the tables on them, though, and quickly became so popular that he was able to pursue an independent agenda and his career has been one of the most productive of any politician in the United Planets. His only notable loss came in late 2985, when he voted against the installation of a new computer system for Bismoll, but the attack by Pulsar Stargrave that this brought about and his subsequent stopping of Stargrave with the help of the Legion of Substitute Heroes only increased his popularity (Legion of Substitute Heroes Special # 1). His political enemies were quick to vacate his parliament seat when he was believed dead in late 2994, but his replacement, Calorie Queen, has proved to be quite capable at advancing his former agenda.

The local fauna is quite varied, and includes the Puffer Fish that is very difficult to breed in captivity. The first specimen ever to be so bred was the object of an attempted theft soon after its birth by Garak of the Glow (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 51).

Trom (Post-Boot)

Trom is a world on which every inhabitant is capable of transmuting substances from one element to another. Trommites led a very spiritually-oriented life, spending much of their day in prayer, and believing that all life...and death...is just a series of transmutations to another state, each of which is sacred in its own way. For a long time, the only outsider who knew of Trom's existence was R. J. Brande
, who struck up a partnership with Tarn Arrah, its leader, for the creation of a new element, Tarnium, which could power Brande's Stargates. After prolonged contact with Brande, though, Tarn decided that his planet should join the United Planets federation. This would have gone smoothly if not for the treachery of Roxxas, the Daxamite ambassador to the United Planets who was secretly a member of the White Triangle cult, which felt threatened by the U. P. in general, and knew they'd never be able to destroy it if Trom joined. Therefore, during the very conference that was intended to discuss Trom's potential membership in the U. P., Roxxas sent twelve Daxamite White Trianglers to use their laser-vision powers to burn every living thing on Trom (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 71).

The only survivor of Trom is Jan Arrah, Tarn's son, who went off-planet with R. J. Brande shortly before the destruction in order to create Tarnium for Stargates to replace those that the White Triangle had destroyed. After helping stop the Trianglers from destroying Earth as well, Jan returned to Trom, where he was making monuments for the deceased Trommites until he was interrupted by President Chu (
Legionnaires # 29, 34, Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 80). He stil occasionally returns there to continue that work (Legionnaires # 43, 45).

Trom was granted honorary U. P. membership in memory of the deceased Trommites (Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files # 2).

Trom (Pre-Boot)

Trom is a world that is highly radioactive, on which there is only one small valley that is at all inhabitable. It was settled by humaniods well before Earth had invented space travel, and the humans developed the ability to change one element to another. They built a highly spiritual society around this ability, and strongly discouraged the use of the ability off their world, for fear that they might kill with a whim. Even on Trom, self-control is one of the first things a Trommite baby learned. There had been a few rogues in Trom's history, most notably Dagon-Ra, a space pirate who terrorized the Alpha Centauri sector during the late twentieth century before being stopped by the L. E. G. I. O. N.

Trom had occasionally been approaced by pirates and profiteers who tried to induce them to use their Trommite powers for financial gain. None ever had any success. In 2974, Roxxas the Butcher threatened to wipe them all out if they wouldn't agree to help him, and when they refused, he attacked the valley in which they lived, not realizing that this was the only place on the planet that they lived. By the time he was done, there was only one survivor...a young boy named Jan Arrah, who fled the planet and eventually found refuge in the Legion of Super-Heroes as Element Lad. The Legion captured Roxxas and put him in prison for his crime of genocide (Adventure Comics # 307). However, he escaped several years later, and returned to the scene of the crime, using Trom as a hideout that no one would find. He was captured there by the Legion, though, who discovered he went mad from being haunted by the supposed spirits of dead Trom (Superboy (1st series) # 211).

Element Lad, as the sole survivor of Trom, is legally considered the planet's sovoreign, and has decided to leave the world unsettled. He has placed a Tsarin crystal to mark the resting place of every corpse, and caretaker robots supplied by the United Planets have kept them unmolested by weeds and predators. Element Lad returns there often for contemplation, and he once brought his girlfriend Shvaughn Erin along (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 27). It has been attacked by the Emerald Empress in 2989 (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 58) in a battle that led to the departure of Quislet for its home dimension. When the Legion broke up, Element Lad went there to meditate, and that is where he was found, in 2994, by Devlin O'Ryan, Celeste Rockfish and Bounty when they were on the trail of Roxxas (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 6-7). He was also there when Roxxas returned at Mordru's behest to raise the Trommite dead, and he was able to stop their destructive rampage on Pasnic only by turning their bodies into Tsarin crystal, an act which gave him a brain hemmorage (Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 44-47). He has since recovered, but has yet to return, preferring to convalesce on New Earth.

Hykraius

Hykraius is a world with a thick methane atmosphere, which the telepathic, telekinetic, yellow-skinned fish-like inhabitants call "Great Mother Ocean." The Hykraians were completely unaware of the existence of any other planet until they were visited by the Gil'Dishpan, a space-faring methane-breathing race. With the help of the Gil'Dishpan, the Hykraians reached the stars and Hykraius eventually became a member world of the United Planets (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 29).

Because methane atmospheres are not common on inhabited wotlds, most Hykraians don't leave their planet. But one youngster named Ganglios decided that he could do a lot of good with his telepathy and telekinesis and asked the Legion Academy to accommodate him. They did, first, with a special chamber, and later, with a helmet, and in 2986, he won Legion membership as Tellus. He brought other Legionnaires to his home planet later that year when the trail of some missing Science Police officers seemed to lead through there, actually, the reported sightings were a trap set by Universo, who had hypnotized a Hykraian to lead the Legionnaires into a trap in the Valley of Peaks, where Zymyr laid in wait for them, to teleport them to deathtraps that would wear them out defending themselves, and then to Universo's headquarters on Earth, where, in their tired state, they would fall to his hypnotism easily (Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) # 30, 32-34).