STARFIRE: origins

1: Tamaran: its history

Tamaran had once been a beautiful planet. It had everything; beauty, minerals and of course; a civilization so advanced that they were considered to be just a fairytale. It was said that they could fly! How could someone believe that?
But alas, everything was never the same for them. Before the Great War, Tamaran was a beautiful planet, full of greenery and water. But the bombs ruined the planet to such extent that the ecosystem never recovered. The oceans dried up and all that was left was a desert. The population reduced to 10% of its initial and was primarily made up of old citizens and children, the young men and women had all died in the Great War.
Before the War, Tamaran was a peaceful planet. It had a source of clean energy, land which gave them various amounts of food, and water. But nothing was the same after the War.

The Great War started about 2000 years ago, when the Kryptonians felt threatened by the power that the Tamaraneans had. If only they had started making war machines, they would have surpassed and taken over Krypton in an instant. That was the reason The Great Houses of Krypton decided to finish a war before it even began. They dropped so many bombs that the Tamaranean species barely survived.
The next 10 years were even worse. People roamed around like rats for food, killing each other for a small piece of bread.
But then, as if the Gods had themselves interfered; the Tamaraneans found an idea of survival. The main issue was that they just didn't have enough people left to get help for survival. The children grew into teenagers and it was only with the guidance of the few elderly people still alive that they had survived. If the population was to increase naturally, it would take thousands of years. But they found one more planet which had intelligent life with physiology quite similar to them and Kryptonians.
Tamaraneans could not abduct people from Krypton,it was far to powerful then to control, so the discovery of such a planet was nothing less than a miracle. It was Earth.

They brought millions of people and the population was half of its initial value in 1-2 thousand years. By this time, a royal family had taken charge and everything was well. Tamaran was adamant it would never make the same mistake again. It had the most superior war machines in the galaxy. Other planets, out of the fear of being annihilated, used to send millions of quintals of produce for protection. Water was hard to come by, but once they had started to extract it from space, their life had become heaven.
The royal family had forced civilians to be polygamous so as the population would not decline. The citizens had abided beautifully. How could they miss something they never knew?
But the royal family themselves mated for life in order to prevent civil wars for the throne.

Kroton had met it's doom itself. No one had to do anything. Tamaraneans were glad they did not had to get their hands dirty.

But the rest of the universe, though in terror of Tamaran, could not respect them. They called them 'troy', as even with all these riches they had now, they were not a true species.