When my abilities had finally matured that I thought I could take him on I began recruiting others of our race to aid me who also feared what zod would do if his powers were not brought into check. Zod learned of our plans from Brainiac, the Constructs goal was to have us wipe each other out and in a sense he was succesful, I stored my dna in his files hoping that should the planet fall to zod, my knowledge and memories might prove useful to someone else in putting an end to his actions. Zod also stored his genetic makeup in Brainiac as well, his goal was far more sinister than my own, he sought to make a genetic copy of himself to rule when he became too old, rather than have a rightful heir to his title.
As I told you my first ability to develop was seeing through objects, I found a hidden lab beneath the catacombs that the planets people had hidden away, they had discovered that our abilities came from the yellow sun, so they had created a hydrogen weapon that when launched at the sun would cause a drastic change, it would change the sun into what is known on your planet as a red dwarf star. I brought the weapon back to my lab with the intention of using it only as a weapon of last resort. If I was unable to talk sanity into the mad general.
I went to the general one final time and plead my case that if he did not stop his foolish quest for conquest he would bring about our own end and he laughed in my face. I realized that my plan had to be now because the people of the world had stopped viewing him as a tyrant and began viewing him as a war hero, this was due to brainiac's subtle manipulations with our history, editing out what made his ruler look bad and highlighting his many good deeds before he became power hungry.
Upon returning to my lab I hacked into brainiacs systems which had been converted into more than a records system it had also become our defense system, detecting any potential attacks on our planet, I managed to open a window to launch my weapon and did so. The Weapons strapped on one of my own custom built hyper engines made the journey to the sun over a couple of weeks. I waited and watched and when my weapons made contact with the sun the hydrogen and helium in it created the desired outcome, the suns outer core exploded causing severe solar flares, before it became what is refered to on your world as a red dwarf star.
The new Red sun returned us to what we once were, all of our amazing abilities were removed. Some discovered my involvement and sought to have me executed, but Zod stopped them, He still needed me to complete my weapon, that would simulate the yellow suns energies, but in case I was not succesful, he had his own scientist and researchers scowering the galaxy seeking a planet with another yellow sun, where he and his forces would move to. I discovered the planet earth many months before they did but kept it a secret even from your mother after we were married. It was not long after you were born that Brainiac informed me of a change in the suns gravitational pull. Our planet had been pulled out of its orbit and into the suns, over the weeks that followed I learned that we had only a short time until our planet would impact the sun.
You see my son, it was through my foolish actions to stop Zod that brought about our peoples destruction, I realized I did not have the time necessarry to construct a means of escape not for all of us, Zod put me to work on designing a weapon he thought would push us out of the suns orbit, but it was ineffective. Brainiac revealed our fate to the planet causing mass panic, I was given the task of creating a way of saving our race. I came up with one idea that would work in the time frame we had, I told our people of an interdimensional prison that the planets forebearers had designed to hold us, called the phantom zone that it had been used by their people to hold the most vile criminals, I told them that I had constructed a small ship, big enough for one person, and that person could free us from the zone. Our people the fools found this unnacceptable they were afraid, and would not be housed with the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy.
I prepared to put my plan into motion when the phantom zone cube was stolen from my lab by my assistant mala, she was a spy planted by Zod to keep an eye on my activites. After I caused the suns change. Knowing that I did not have time to build another ship, nor find another zone cube, I launched your ship with a copy of our knowledge stored on these discs. It was then that I learned of a small group of Zods followers outside our compound, they had begun to panic and they wanted me to pay for their deaths with my own before their end was even upon them. Your mother feared what the blood thirsty mob might do to you, they had betrayed zods will and gone off on their own seeking my death. I'm sorry my son this is the end of my journal, I hope it helps you make the right choices and how power can truly corrupt so be careful my son, goodbye Kal-EL
