As the story opens on an unnamed planet in the year 3008, the planet's light violet skin colored humanoid race is in the midst of a civil war and one of the armies threatens to unleash a destructive weapon that could blow up the entire planet. To save their race from extinction, a scientist and his wife prepare to send their baby aboard a spaceship to Earth, inspired by how Superman was spared from Krypton's destruction over a thousand years ago. The spaceship leaves just as the planet explodes from the civil war's doomsday weapon. After traveling through space, the spaceship reaches Earth and lands on the outskirts of Smallville in front of a farming couple, but instead of taking in the baby alien as one of their own, the farmer takes out his rifle and kills it.