Recaps

He-El developed plans to evolve his genes and assigned Olympus leaders to conquer new universes, but Zero’s discovery of Unicron’s multiverse threat led him to confront the Monitors. After capturing Kolon Novo and studying his memories and genes with Doctor Manhattan, He-El learned that the Monitors sought to become like him.

• He-El chose to pursue a fusion of the Doomsday Ultimate Form and Hyper-Adaptive Gene, while Ares, Izaya, Apollo, and Artemis selected systems and received assignments to lead conquests.
• He-El toured the Life Creation Chamber with Athena and learned how his children built bodies for the leaders, then Zero summoned him over the danger posed by Transformers parallel universes.
• He-El analyzed Unicron’s data, ordered the Mechanical Clan to withdraw from the Transformers universe, and left observation equipment behind.
• Grace secretly asked He-El to save her from Kolon Novo, and He-El lured Kolon Novo and the Grace Search Ship into the He-El Universe.
• He-El weakened Kolon Novo with his universe’s laws and questioned him about the Monitors, their hierarchy, Heavenly Blood, and their interest in Source Universes.
• He-El extracted Kolon Novo’s memories with Doctor Manhattan and learned that the Monitors were raised collectively and assigned roles such as cleaners, transporters, and collectors.
• He-El detected Kolon Novo’s plan to report his Source Universe, examined his genes, and twisted him into a knot, releasing blood that became a vast energy source.
• He-El and Doctor Manhattan spent two universal extinctions studying Kolon Novo’s genes, and Doctor Manhattan discovered that the Monitors aspired to become like He-El.

He-El used Kolon Novo to explore the Monitor Domain and steal a cruise ship, whose disappearance exposed a wild realm with many operational logics. The Monitors recognized it as a Lesser Omniverse, and Kolon Novo entered enhancement and testing as they prepared to locate it.

• He-El hid inside Kolon Novo’s Completion Gene and returned with him to the Monitor Domain, where Kolon Novo agreed to feed He-El information while keeping his place among the Monitors.
• Kolon Novo inspected Ruxiangüli Campos’s cruise ship, and He-El sent Doctor Manhattan through a Traversal Vortex to seize it and carry Ruxiangüli Campos and her assistants into the He-El Universe.
• Kolon Novo summoned Gladys Boye to investigate the vanished ship, and Gladys discovered strange operating logics that had altered Kolon Novo’s Completion Gene and made him a Level Three Source Universe candidate.
• Gladys Boye brought Kolon Novo into five-dimensional space, where he saw possible futures and learned that the Monitors aimed to separate the Source Universes.
• He-El studied the Monitor knowledge available to Kolon Novo and inferred that the Monitors used baby universes to build Shapeshifting Ships that could record and replace Source Universes.
• Gladys Boye presented Kolon Novo’s case to the Overseers, who concluded that the wild realm was a newly born Lesser Omniverse and decided to assemble and seize it.
• The Level Four Chief Administrator ordered Kolon Novo to prepare for testing and integration of his ability with his will and soul, and Kolon Novo entered the Gene Enhancement Vault as the Overseers began examining him.

He-El replaced Kolon Novo, used the Monitors’ pursuit of Doctor Manhattan to learn about the Lesser Omniverse and Mandrak, and built Zero into a Shapeshifting Ship. Mamadal Novo appointed He-El as Kolon Novo to take over Mandrak’s abandoned Source Universe and Monitoring Station.

• The Level Four Chief Overseer enhanced Kolon Novo, but He-El fused with his genes, killed him, and took his place.
• He-El impressed the Level Three Overseers with his simulator result and learned from Nix Wutan that Mandrak had been imprisoned after absorbing negative information and threatening the Source Universes.
• He-El and Mamadal Novo told Mandrak that Kolon Novo had encountered a newly born Omniverse, and Mamadal Novo later persuaded Mandrak to cooperate against beings from God’s Domain.
• He-El helped the Monitors lure Doctor Manhattan with a Blood-Cleansing Instrument, but the vortex led to the New Krypton Universe and the Overseers retreated after discovering its extraordinary weight.
• He-El returned to the He-El Universe with baby universes and data, canceled plans to fuse two forms, and assigned his allies to build Zero’s modular Shapeshifting Ship.
• He-El transformed Zero using the Soul King, genetic and technological components, mystical materials, and a baby universe, intending her to become the first consciousness of a Source Universe within the He-El Universe.
• Mamadal Novo freed Mandrak from the Fifth-Dimensional Prison and saw Lucifer emerge from its darkness.
• He-El built Zero’s Shapeshifting Ship at the Creation Dimension House, then Mamadal Novo appointed him Level Three Source Universe Overseer Kolon Novo and assigned him Mandrak’s former Source Universe and Monitoring Station.

He-El replaced his Source Universe counterpart and arrived on Earth, where he defeated the Justice League and declared Australia the New Krypton Continent. He left its residents to choose whether to flee or become citizens, and Robert chose to stay and work for the empire.

• He-El killed the Source Universe’s He-El, took his place, and traveled to Earth aboard a battered Kryptonian ship.
• The Justice League tried to intercept He-El, but he defeated its members and brought the ship to Earth.
• After He-El overcame the heroes and other defenders, Kara-El told him that Earth’s people should not suffer for Krypton, and he claimed Australia instead of conquering the planet.
• He-El renamed Australia the New Krypton Continent and gave its residents thirty days to leave or accept citizenship, while assistant machines killed people who caused disorder.
• Robert and Olivia questioned whether to leave Australia, and an assistant machine explained that residents who stayed could live ordinary lives under New Krypton’s laws.
• Robert chose to become a civilian of New Krypton and help people reach ships and airports, and an assistant machine killed a man who attacked him.