Colu

Colu is a planet that features in DC Comics.

History

Pre-Crisis

Years in the past, the green skinned humanoids formed a world of scientists that typically Sixth-Level effectors. As they advanced, they created powerful mobile master computers that were more intelligent with them being Tenth-Level effectors. As more were built, these computers eventually deemed themselves better than their creators and more fit to govern. They then sought to impose their rule and by this point had outfitted themselves with weapons where they eliminated anyone that opposed them. Thus, the Computer Tyrants formed when they enslaved the native humanoids and forced them into servitude as workers where a few organic beings that collaborated were provided privileges. In time, the mechanical minds sought to extend their rule to other worlds and sought to create a robotic spy to serve as a scout. Thus, they built a humanoid robot named Brainiac that was similar in appearance to their creators making others believe he was an organic being. Brainiac was built to be a Twelfth-Level effector who had the mental patterns of a dead scientist with him being more intelligent than his mechanical creators but he was wired to prevent rebellion and the nature of him being a machine was hidden from others. (Superman v1 #167) Brainiac claimed that his homeworld was the planet Bryak whose inhabitants had been nearly wiped out by a plague. (Superboy v1 #216)

At some point, a Great Revolution erupted on the planet which was responsible for destroying the Computer Tyrants with a monument made to their end. As a result, Brainiac was the last of the computer minds in existence though he had hidden his true nature as an artificial being. (Superman v1 #167)

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of history was created with a different series of events. On Yod-Colu, the brilliant scientist Vril Dox through his C.O.M.P.U.T.O. program had discovered the existence of the Fifth Dimension that was populated by entities with god-like powers. He initially sought to see if they could learn from them but discovered that a war had erupted in Dimension Five that brought a devastating force known as the Multitude into their dimension. This force had had consumed a hundred worlds and had headed towards Yod-Colu. Dox offered to save his fellow Coluans if they submitted to his upgrades but they refused and exiled him due to his criminal experiments on his own child. Vril Dox freed himself and used his ship to shrink a Coluan city that had his wife and child whereupon he escaped into space just as the Multitude destroyed Yod-Colu. (Superman v3 #23.2)

After a failure in government, seven corporations emerged that ruled and provided all amenities with their CEOs being called the Seven Sisters. The computer system known as Computo was created and served the corporations until it achieved sentience where it took over the planet. (Telos v1 #3)

Overview

Places on Colu included:

• Metaire :

Inhabitants

• Brainiac 5 :
• Vril Dox :
• Bron Wox : a male inhabitant of Yod-Colu who came to Earth to investigate the cause of universal instability and encountered the Justice League sometime after their battle with Darkseid. (Justice League v2 #51)

Notes

• Colu was created by Cary Bates, Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan where it made its first appearance in Superman v1 #167 (February, 1964).
• Originally, Brainiac's world was unnamed during his first appearance in Action Comics v1 #242 (1958).
• It was then referred to as Bryak in Superboy v1 #206 (1963).
• Brainiac 5's homeworld was then referred to as Yod in Adventure Comics v1 #356 (1967).
• After the Flashpoint, it was referred to as Yod-Colu in Action Comics v2 #7 (2012) with Bryak mentioned as a separate world where the Collector of Worlds was called Mind2.
• The Atlas of the DC Universe v1 (1980) had an entry on Colu that provided some background on the planet. According to the guide, it was situated on the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy near the approach of the Great Magellanic Cloud where it was the fourth planet from its sun. Its surface was 50% land and 50% water with a temperate climate with the exception of polar ice caps and a few desert areas.

In other media

Television

• In Supergirl, Colu was mentioned in the episode "Solitude" that was the homeworld of a race of supercomputers known as the Coluans.

Films

• In Superman: Unbound, Colu was mentioned in the animated film when Zor-El determined Brainiacs origin as a native of that world.

Video game

• In Injustice 2, Colu was mentioned by Brainiac as being his home world during the campaign setting of the video game.

Appearances

• Superman v1:

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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