The Gap Between Reality and Fantasy (Revised)

Five years later.

Aeo Zod, who was Zhou Xiao, an ordinary, couldn't-be-more-ordinary unlucky guy who transmigrated after falling asleep—he swore he didn't encounter anything unusual. He just finished writing for the night as usual, and yes, you read that right, he was a nobody, a washed-up rookie writer on a certain website in 2017. That day, after spending a boring and dull day in front of the computer as usual, he tiredly lay down on his bed, only to open his eyes and find himself in the world of Krypton!

Several passing soldiers saw Aeo walking over with a grim expression and all saluted the heir of the Zod family, who was destined to succeed the empire as the next Military Leader.

Aeo nodded, returning the salute.

Unlike the Superman movies and comics Aeo had watched before transmigrating—General Zod had a son, but it was an embryo directly cultivated through biotechnology. Apart from taking General Zod's DNA, he didn't have a true father-son relationship with Zod!

But in the Fortier Empire, none of these were problems.

Because of genetic inheritance, Kryptonians' understanding of bloodlines was very different from Earth before his transmigration. In reality, as long as the genes were inherited from the individual, the newborn Kryptonian was naturally considered the descendant of the genetic source—in reality, Kryptonians' biotechnology was incredibly powerful, and their energy, military, and social structures were all more powerful and realistic than depicted in the movies and comics Aeo had seen.

Yes, realistic.

In the movies, the vast Kryptonian civilization only had one ship escape Krypton's destruction (Zod's ship). The highest governing body of Krypton was the Council of Truth. Krypton was destroyed by a core eruption—these were clearly simplified plots by comic artists and directors to save imagination and budget. In the real world, Kryptonians didn't call themselves Kryptonians; they called themselves Fortier (just like how Tauren in Warcraft don't call themselves Tauren, they often call themselves Shuharu). They were a powerful race with a complete civilization origin of 100,000 years. They had not only long ago left their home planet but also, through stargates, successfully established a powerful race spanning tens of light-years with over a hundred Colony Planets!

The Fortier Empire they established was a super-civilization so powerful that a backward civilization like Earth, which naively believed humans were the only life in the universe before his transmigration, could never imagine.

Furthermore, in the movies, Krypton was destroyed by a core eruption. But Kryptonians could travel through wormholes and modify planetary terrain and climate. How could they be wiped out due to insufficient planetary energy, causing the planet's self-destruction by depleting its core energy? This setting was too strange...

So, when he saw that in reality, Krypton was not only beautiful with mountains and clear waters, forests and lakes everywhere, and giant creatures commonly seen, but it was also a super-civilization's ecological rescue of a super-large green planet as it moved towards interstellar space, Aeo didn't know what to say...

Moreover, Krypton, which was one-third larger than Earth, had greater gravity than Earth. This resulted in Kryptonians being very strong even without solar radiation.

The life on the planet also mostly developed into super-large forms. Like the flying dragon ridden by Superman's father in "Superman: Steel Body" that Aeo had seen before transmigrating, in reality, there were tens of thousands of such creatures, if not all over Krypton.

And, as the movies said, Fortier life had indeed transitioned from natural birth to genetic manufacturing. But every newborn Fortier was born through strict Gene Modulation by the empire and inherited!

Every post-Fortier Empire citizen was strictly molded according to their inherited genes to become the talent they were destined to be. For example, the offspring of soldiers were inevitably soldiers, and the offspring of scientists were basically scientists, thus achieving the perfect and harmonious development of the entire Fortier Civilization. However, this didn't mean that a Kryptonian who inherited a scientist's genes couldn't sell fruit. Inheritance only determined your stronger advantages in a certain area, guiding you to become an excellent social talent. But if you really chose to sell fruit instead of working on Rockets, could I force you to go to space?

Furthermore, the Fortier Empire was a cosmic-level civilization, advanced not only in technology but also in its social structure.

Although called an empire, the Fortier government was decentralized among the Council of Truth, the Military, and the Science and Technology Institute; there was no such thing as an emperor.

The Council of Truth was naturally a similar organization to the one in the movies, responsible for internal affairs such as new citizens and planetary management. The Military was led by Aeo's cheap father in this life, General Zod, responsible for all external wars, colonization, and protection military operations. Its power was immense, not like in the movies where they were easily suppressed by a few small factions of the Council of Truth!

Finally, the Science and Technology Institute was headed by Jor-El, the biological father of Superman Clark Kent in the movies. This point was the same as what the movies said.

As a power institution that could contend with the Council of Truth and the Military, the Science and Technology Institute also possessed powerful means and strength. With countless scientists under its wing, all the empire's technological research, development, improvement, and maintenance were their reasons for strength and their domain.

Even the Stargate, the invention that marked the watershed of a cosmic-level civilization, was developed by the Science and Technology Institute to break out of the galaxy and colonize the universe.

Moreover, the empire had no shortage of small spacecraft capable of twisted flight, planetary terrain modification machines, and star warships. How could they be the idiotic race in the movies that couldn't even escape with a single spaceship after being wiped out?

Therefore, Kryptonian civilization was not only countless years ahead of Earth in technology, but the empire also had many achievements in humanities, society, education, and other aspects. In reality, Kryptonians were not only like Superman, but their society was also a synonym for stability, harmony, and order. Due to Gene Modulation, Kryptonian society basically had no group incidents like rebellion or betrayal.

For centuries, every newborn Kryptonian had been taught obedience and loyalty to the empire, dedicating their greatest strength to the empire's power and prosperity. Fortiers also naturally pursued order and tranquility, so Kryptonian civilization could be described as powerful and perfect—regardless of whether such a society had other fatal flaws, based on Aeo's five years after transmigrating, Kryptonian civilization had been developing steadily and orderly, and there was no mention of any extinction crisis.

In addition, in the movie, Superman's father clearly knew that extracting the Earth's Core would cause an explosion, but besides warning the Council of Truth once or twice, what else did he do? He only saved his own son, leaving the gene-babies of the entire Fortier nation to their destruction.

How cruel and selfish! (Sorry, but for the Superman father and son in Steel Body, I can't think of any other adjective besides selfish to describe them.)

In reality, Jor-El indeed had reservations about genetic inheritance, but he still chose to provide his genes to the Genesis Vault, ensuring that every outstanding Fortier would have descendants to continue serving the nation! This was written into the empire's supreme constitution, something even Jor-El could not resist...

Having said so much, Aeo just wants to say that movies are movies, and reality is reality. The two are worlds apart. One cannot arbitrarily bring the experiences and concepts from a past life into this one, otherwise, reality will teach you a lesson!