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The Crystal of Knowledge was a five-sided Kryptonian crystal used to create the Fortress of Solitude. It contained all the knowledge of the planet Krypton.

History[]

Creation[]

When humanoid Kryptonian's took dominance over Krypton, they began to evolutionise rapidly becoming one of the most advanced races in the universe and created a super crystal that would record all of their knowledge and technology in case of any attack on Krypton and could take it to another planet and start Krypton again. The House of El were entrusted with guarding the Crystal of Knowledge being the ones who would take the crystal if they had to evactuate Krypton and each generation kept watch over the crystal.

Brainiac's creation[]

When Jor-El created Brainiac to run all computer systems on the planet, he told the science council that they should keep the crystal of knowledge seperate from Brainiac in case that his systems would not be able to contain the many thousands of years of knowledge and technology. When alien terrorists attacked Brainiac, he contained a virus and when Jor-El fixed him, realised he was taking in considerable knowledge and decided to hide the crystal on a differing planet and replace it with a duplicate one. Jor-El took the crystal to earth and gave it and his spacesuit to Jonathan Kent and his wife Martha. He then returned to Krypton and found that Brainiac over the years would drain knowledge Krypton slowly and later when Krypton was near destruction due to the effects of the war with General Zod on the planet's core, Brainiac made his move on the crystal stripping the knowledge and leaving Krypton meaning that the gravity field around Krypton would cause the planet to explode without Brainiac balancing it. Brainiac realised he had been fooled by Jor-El and began searching the universe for it.

Building the Fortress[]

When Kal-El's ship landed on the Kent Farm, Jonathan and Martha couldn't open it and used the crytal given to them by Jor-El and it worked passing Jor-El's brain waves into the crystal. When Kal-El was 17, he found the crystal hidden away and confronted his parents who told him his origin and he travelled to the arctic under the guidance of Jor-El who telepathically spoke to Kal-El and he built the Fortress of Solitude. After building the Fortress, the crystal disapeared and all the knowledge it held was now in the Fortress was at Jor-El's disposal. Brainaic later arrived on earth looking for the crystal and attempted to drain the knowledge from the Fortress but Kal-El stopped him. He later rebooted himself after his defeat and eventually drained the knowledge from the Fortress killing Jor-El's programming but he was shortly perminantly destroyed soon after by a fully charged Kal-El who had been resurrected.

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